Hello, I am 15 years old and live in America ^.^ I've been learning French for about 5 months now. I didn't really have any desire whatsoever to affiliate with French lifestyle until I started taking my French class. Lately, I've fallen in love looking at all of your videos and others of Paris, and France in general :3 I especially want to do something like you did where you taught little French children English! I thought it was SO adorable xD My question is: How can I follow your footsteps?
@JaimeLouNET No, I am American who was privileged to be able to study abroad in Lyon, France for a semester. :) You can check out a crazy protest where I get teargassed, called Lyon Is Burning as well, it's pretty eventful. I managed to get a photo I took of that protest on CNN WORLD's main page for about a day.
@drefhill Yes, it's French but more Rhineland- and German-style. My inlaws' relatives in Brittany were farmers and didn't know what corn was when served to them vinaigrette! My mother in law said, um, you GROW this stuff, it's CORN! That was funny. Many Mediterranean countries do not consider corn a fit food for humans.
@drefhill France still counts as a Mediterranean country. My husband's family are peasants -- most of them only have 8th grade educations. Many wore wooden shoes only until the 1980s and had no indoor plumbing. They truly did not know that corn can be eaten by humans. In Italian, there isn't even a word for "corn cob." None of my husband's family have been outside of France except a few of the men fought in wars abroad. None of the women drive. No one has been on a plane.
@slobomotion Maybe but the things have changed since that time. And now we can find corn in metal boxes in every grocery (i live at the end of britany my town only have 600 cityzens). If they don't have indoor plumbing (what is hard to believe because where i live even the very old houses have at least cold water) they probably don't speak french but only "brezhoneg".
@drefhill Yes, I am alone here except for a French spouse so can only report what I have seen directly, and it is wrong to generalize, of course. I teach in France and have had trainees and students my age (I am in my 50s now) who are from Normandy and such, and they never used a telephone until they moved to Paris and got their first jobs. My family in Brittany only got a phone about ten years ago.
@drefhill My French father in law is dying so my husband's family has closed me out in the past couple of years but I hope to get back out to Brittany to make some clips. I have been in France nearly 20 years and know most of the neighbors out there in the country and enjoy chatting with them and visiting and hearing their life stories. I hope to do some clips out there but who knows when it will happen. For now, I am in Saint-Denis near Paris, only.
@drefhill It's more like a German culinary exportation into France vis-a-vis Alsace. This would make sense since Alsace-Lorraine had been German territory from 1871-1918 and of course from 1940-1945. But even before then, large sections of Alsace had been more culturally German than French with many residents bilingual in both tongues.
@theone1087 Peoples are flaging your message as a spam
It's not because of it use to be "German" but just because of it's close to the borders and like everywhere in the world the cultures/languages are mixed on the borders sides.
Between 1940 and 1945 i would better say it was Nazy not German.
As a teenager I lived in Germany and as a family we sat around the dinner table for quite a while. Those are memories I'll always cherish. It looks like a wonderful group of friends.
You're so lucky, I'm french, my grandparents are cooks but I've only eaten something en croute once in my life.
BaudelairianBeauty 1 day ago
Hello, I am 15 years old and live in America ^.^ I've been learning French for about 5 months now. I didn't really have any desire whatsoever to affiliate with French lifestyle until I started taking my French class. Lately, I've fallen in love looking at all of your videos and others of Paris, and France in general :3 I especially want to do something like you did where you taught little French children English! I thought it was SO adorable xD My question is: How can I follow your footsteps?
Whaley191 3 weeks ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Delightful! I'm planning a trip for the Fall this year, bye now.
patrickedundon 3 weeks ago
Nice video !! Thanks to come in France and discover our culture. I hope it was a good moment and a good experience !
Best regards
albal90 3 weeks ago
did you take any study abroad program?
lucgxd 3 weeks ago
only white people play with their food,if they knew the hunger in the world -.-
sadiel1 3 weeks ago
Interesting video.I would love to see Lyon.
Nice family dinner.
Good luck in your future.
compassn 4 weeks ago
Are u french?
JaimeLouNET 1 month ago
@JaimeLouNET No, I am American who was privileged to be able to study abroad in Lyon, France for a semester. :) You can check out a crazy protest where I get teargassed, called Lyon Is Burning as well, it's pretty eventful. I managed to get a photo I took of that protest on CNN WORLD's main page for about a day.
elisampenner 1 month ago
@elisampenner What do u study?
JaimeLouNET 1 month ago
great vid
StopTheMusicThen 1 month ago
I do two YT channels and also Dailymotion on my expat life in France. This is a good video, thank you!
slobomotion 1 month ago
i'm french and i've never ate that kind of ham.
drefhill 2 months ago
@drefhill I am in Paris and that is well known in Alsace. My Parisian spouse and his family in Brittany didn't know what it was, either.
slobomotion 1 month ago
@slobomotion I live in Britany to, about a thousand kilometers away from Alsace that's probably why i don't know that.
drefhill 1 month ago
@drefhill Yes, it's French but more Rhineland- and German-style. My inlaws' relatives in Brittany were farmers and didn't know what corn was when served to them vinaigrette! My mother in law said, um, you GROW this stuff, it's CORN! That was funny. Many Mediterranean countries do not consider corn a fit food for humans.
slobomotion 1 month ago
@slobomotion I d'on't understand you, you're saying that in France we don't know that humans can eat corn ?
Brittany is far away from the mediteranean sea.
drefhill 1 month ago
@drefhill France still counts as a Mediterranean country. My husband's family are peasants -- most of them only have 8th grade educations. Many wore wooden shoes only until the 1980s and had no indoor plumbing. They truly did not know that corn can be eaten by humans. In Italian, there isn't even a word for "corn cob." None of my husband's family have been outside of France except a few of the men fought in wars abroad. None of the women drive. No one has been on a plane.
slobomotion 1 month ago
@slobomotion Maybe but the things have changed since that time. And now we can find corn in metal boxes in every grocery (i live at the end of britany my town only have 600 cityzens). If they don't have indoor plumbing (what is hard to believe because where i live even the very old houses have at least cold water) they probably don't speak french but only "brezhoneg".
drefhill 1 month ago
@drefhill Yes, I am alone here except for a French spouse so can only report what I have seen directly, and it is wrong to generalize, of course. I teach in France and have had trainees and students my age (I am in my 50s now) who are from Normandy and such, and they never used a telephone until they moved to Paris and got their first jobs. My family in Brittany only got a phone about ten years ago.
slobomotion 1 month ago
@drefhill My French father in law is dying so my husband's family has closed me out in the past couple of years but I hope to get back out to Brittany to make some clips. I have been in France nearly 20 years and know most of the neighbors out there in the country and enjoy chatting with them and visiting and hearing their life stories. I hope to do some clips out there but who knows when it will happen. For now, I am in Saint-Denis near Paris, only.
slobomotion 1 month ago
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theone1087 1 month ago
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@drefhill It's more like a German culinary exportation into France vis-a-vis Alsace. This would make sense since Alsace-Lorraine had been German territory from 1871-1918 and of course from 1940-1945. But even before then, large sections of Alsace had been more culturally German than French with many residents bilingual in both tongues.
theone1087 1 month ago
@theone1087 Peoples are flaging your message as a spam
It's not because of it use to be "German" but just because of it's close to the borders and like everywhere in the world the cultures/languages are mixed on the borders sides.
Between 1940 and 1945 i would better say it was Nazy not German.
drefhill 1 month ago
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nicopsq4 2 months ago
As a teenager I lived in Germany and as a family we sat around the dinner table for quite a while. Those are memories I'll always cherish. It looks like a wonderful group of friends.
amyburns1999 9 months ago
That's a great synopsis of the pieces of your life in France! Thanks babe.
kevdipenner 1 year ago