How to Ride the Paris Metro

[CommeUnFrancais]

You blew out my speakers.

[leothedirilo]

i lost my way there cuz of this vid.

[bastardfingers]

Oh my christ! I'm off to Paris for the weekend so thought I'd see if I could be polite enough to buy my metro tickets in French. Nothing could be more awful in any language than speaking with that intonation. Why is she barking like a nasty little dog?

[Lakshmii88]

thank you for your help despite the criticisms of "perfect" people in here. I appreciate it.

[robotosensai]

How thick do you have to be not understand how to buy a ticket or use the metro....or american. :D

[deaconkris]

She sounds like Janice from Friends lol

[rawmark]

omg, i had to turn this off after ten seconds. She sounds like a hen pecking wife from NJ or upstate NY. Aye yi yi.

[turkishdisco2]

or you can change the language to english on the Vente machines

[Ankha38]

few minutes walk to go at the station IF you know where is the entry hihihi

[TodayHi1953]

Sortie =

sor-tayy

[javogreen07]

awful french pronunciation, so american...

[Alpebea1]

Ridicoulous for sure all the explanation!!!

[EJES2000]

let me guess... you have been to paris once... therefore you believe you are a cultured expert in europe?

[mariadeluxegmail]

Thank you



[mightyflux]

Metro for dummies. "the thief will snatch your purse if you are standing by the doors, then jump of the train in the last second"

[cmngvlsc]

This video is great information!

[TodayHi1953]

You don't pronounce french very properly...

[antonio337777]

I'm American, and her voice STILL annoys me.

[zombiesecurity]

Helpful. Too bad everyone is flipping the fuck out about the accent.

[cartmanland91]

stupid american accent

[miscpurpo]

you do know that at the screen at 2:03 you can choose different languages? scroll to the bottom smarty

[noigraud]

americans love paris, i don't know why, i'm not sayin i don't like it u know i don't really care, like i don't see what's great about it that's all, if i ever go there i wouln'd know what to do after i get off the airport

[amg4330]

I ride it all the time!

[moviefreak91]

Oh mon dieu, son accent est drole! Terrible! Je voudrais aller a Paris, et je vais utiliser la metro. Je suis americaine, mais, je trouve les americains tres ennuyeux seulement. Je suis desolee!

Je ne parle pas le francais tres bien, desolee.

[superflynapoleon]

@CODYJUNEJUNE then stop watching the video! goodness sake! if you have nothing nice to say then don't say anything at all, please!

[belluscreatons]

very informative, thanks for posting this video....

i am visiting paris this september, most of the time we will be in disneyland but we also wanna see eiffel tower, please tell me how can we get to eiffel tower from disneyland... should we buy one day visite 1-5 zone pass or mobilis one day pass...plz also tell me whats the difference between them..

thanks and waiting for ur reply, please please please reply me soon

[AttackOFTHEPIE]

LOL when I went to Paris some of the tickets we used didn't work so we had to jump the gates to get in. xD

[Quentin77170]

@AttackOFTHEPIE because you had already used them or because you didn't know how to use them...

I live in Paris and I've always lived there and I've NEVER EVER had any trouble with metro tickets!

[AttackOFTHEPIE]

@Quentin77170 I doubt that because we were with a professional tour guide, I'm sure he knew how to use them. But at the same time, I live in Toronto and here all you do is drop a ticket into a little slot instead of having your tickets have that barcode stuff so maybe. Lol

[swarlock]

Thank you for the tips.

[mystikr]

Why does she select french language to use the tickets machine, there are other available languages, first of them english.

[andreskind]

ur voice is noiyng

[lapopofighting]

@andreskind that's what I was thinking right when this started.

[tooeyotoole1]

anything

[Camarale]

It's you, the absolute crap, ASSHOLE.

[liverpoolkidreece]

You french is absolutly crap!!!!!!!!

[priestpilot]

Il fait beau dans l'métro!

(regarde à cette annonce du métro de Montréal)

(look up that commercial from the Montréal Métro)

[starman1695]

There are 14 lines on the métro.

[interiapl1]

Would it lacerate her trap if she tried to pronounce the French words properly?

[djdogjuam]

lacerate her trap???? wot the fuck r u trying to say? and wot kind of random, shit shit comment is that? dickhead. ill lacerate your mum

[wimpie25]

It's not like you guy's are doing an effort to pronounce foreign names properly.

[interiapl1]

Yeah, right... "Nyoow Yoark-euh" is how I'd say it. Yeah... Point is that this chick here is pronouncing everything in a making-everybody's-ears-bleed kind of way.

Personally, I totally strain myself to say everything the right way. But I guess that didn't occur to your broad-brush mind.

By the way: No apostrophe in the plural of "guy", bimbo

[wimpie25]

Jeezes, I started to like you guy's but apparently you're no different than you were ten years ago.

[interiapl1]

What are you so pissed off about anyway? Well, SOMEone could start doing all right.

And I don't feel like arguing about languages with someone who, obviously, is an outsider to that matter.

And after all, it's not really about being liked by others who don't behave any different.

[wimpie25]

What do you know about me to call me an outsider?

[interiapl1]

What is this? "Who laughs last, laughs longest"? I daresay, I'm able to tell from the way avail yourself of English.

[wimpie25]

I'm raised with English, contrary to you guy's, someway you found a way to ruin every single movie by translating it into your shitty language.

[engrish2006]

@interiapl1 Je suis d'accord avec toi. :)

[Cath198127]

A bit stating the obvious, but still fun to watch! Thanks!

[flaforge]

We (Canadian) had trouble using our credit cards in the automatic distributors as well, but it eventually worked. Be patient and try your Visa, MasterCard or Amex several times before giving up.

I've written to Visa on several occasions asking what's the delay in getting the microchips in North America.

[plougasnous]

I know that this is heresy, but I almost always drive in Paris. The subway is for poor schmuck tourists who are afraid of driving. I have used the subway extensively, but driving is quicker - yes, far more expensive but more convienient than all that walking to make connections. I have been driving in Paris since 1968.

[svartmetall48]

For poor people? The 4.5 million journeys that occur on the Parisian metro every day hint at a rather large poor population then don't they?

Seriously, the walking is half the fun. I'd pay extra so that I could ride the metro instead of driving (I loathe driving).

[plougasnous]

As I said, I used the Metro extensively in the 1970s and 80s, just as they were converting to rubber wheels. It was really cheap then. Now, as I am in Paris only a day or two at a time, I lease a car and drive off into the sunset to Brittany. As far as taking a train anywhere in France, that is another time consuming, expensive waste. A car gives maximum flexibilty. Trains and subways suck! You are on their schedules and their routes.

[svartmetall48]

Only metro lines 1,4,6,11 and 14 are ruber tyred, the rest are steel wheel.

It is a typical American attitude to have towards cars - that they are faster. The Paris metro is frequent enough to make "schedules" non-existant as trains arrive every few minutes for most of the day. Most TGV lines operate every hour to every two hours and as well as getting you to your destination pretty quickly.

Why come to a video about the Paris Metro simply to badmouth public transport?

[plougasnous]

Because I was just there last week and I actually filmed video about walking to the subway (Bir Hakim), entering, getting on the cars, walking through the passages, and making the connections. I may actually upload what I did. My first ride on the Metro in 20 years! T can still get around Paris in a car at 2:00AM. Try using the Metro at that hour. The public transport that you like so much is extremely expensive: the subsidies for the Metro are huge.

[svartmetall48]

One could argue that car users also get subsidies too as funds for roads do not necessarily equal all charges levvied against road users. I know that 22% of my local council rates go towards roads in Auckland, a greater share than healthcare (5%) and policing (4%) for example.

Also, you shouldn't be moaning about the subsidies as they keep people off the roads for you to use them more. Imagine how bad congestion would be with 1.4 billion extra journeys on roads each year.

[plougasnous]

Every single American I have ever talked to about driving in Paris says: "You drive in Paris?" Not a one that has gone there or that I might meet in France drives a car. The French have a saying: "Paris and the French desert." Paris sucks the life out of the rest of France. Over centralization of France is the cause of Paris being crowded and thus very expensive. Ever take a train from Strasbourg to Brest? You have to get out at Gare de l'Est, take the Metro to Gare Montparnasse to get to Brest.

[svartmetall48]

This has little to do with refuting my points regarding transit subsidisation and the benefits attached to this practice.

I agree that France, very much like my home country of the UK, is overcentralised, however, France also has other cities of note such as Lyon, Marseilles, Bordeaux etc.

I'm also fully aware of the difficulty with taking trains cross country - ever been to London and used trains there? I did frequently and it involved cross city travel to transfer too, it's not that bad

[plougasnous]

Quite frankly, all subsidies suck. They cause massive distortions, whether in the farm market, steel market, or in the area of transportation. Prices in France (and Europe) are out of whack due to the heavy level of gov't intervention in so many areas of commerce.

The same thing happens here in the USA: price distortions, surpluses, or just plain collapse as you now see in the housing market. Housing loans were subsidized and now we have a full blown banking panic.

[svartmetall48]

Yet the European GINI coefficient of equality shows that Europe on the whole manages better in terms of income equality than more capitalist nations such as the USA. Prices are high in Europe due to high levels of VAT and high rates of taxation more than anything else, but this is an argument inappropriate to the video.

To be honest, I've lived in a more capitalist society (NZ) and a more socialist society and I'm returning to the more socially minded one.

[wimpie25]

Honestly? I was in New York and it wasn't very cheaper than in for example London.

[gottagothatsme]

You do realise that you can change the language on the green machines to English?

[kiqw]

I recommend buying the "Paris Visite" 7 day pass. This can be purchased from station personnel in either the Metro or RER stations and is good on both systems. It allows for unlimited number of rides for the duration of the ticket and is much better than buying a group of individual tickets.

[svartmetall48]

I personally recommend buying a "Carte Orange" for a tourist. For a weeks ticket in zones 1-2 it costs €16.30 for a week. This covers most of the central area of Paris and is most useful for most tourists.

[flaforge]

Agreed. We organized our trip to visit Euro Disney and Versailles in the same week so we purchased a 1-5 zone orange card and saved about 20 euros.

[bleuBird835]

I just came back from Paris and I miss the Paris Metro the best one I've been on.

[tonygg2002]

Very Helpful. Thanks!