Beginners French: video lesson 1 for beginners in French

[NBear927]

J'aime cette lecon. I hope I got that right! Merci!

[hpgirl1207]

this video is so helpful. THANK YOU!

[musicismymotive]

Haha I may have only taken three years of French but this is a little too simple, think I'll try the next video. It is good for review though :)

[MIR0PPA]

After 8 years if french, this is simple stuff for me o.o Tres Bien! Je parle petit francais~

[adslghf]

France is my favorite place on earth, even though i've never been there.... but one day i hopefully will :) thank you for this

[Sweet13lb]

Good luck guys! :)

[brainysnaeha]

Spanish is so much easier than French but both were equally fun to learn.

Might be come in handy in Belgium...oh well i need to learn german and and dutch too!

[mdiana007]

Great tutorial! i like this approach! very easy to learn

[MrMarkshannan]

I am just starting to learn and was wondering about tu aimes is U a vowel as my wife texted me Je t'aime. So if it is j'aime would it not be t'aime, what am I not understanding?

[Abdulmalik773]

Im fond of French,Some day i will speak this language

[WhiteKestrell]

He is il... laughed to death.

[Frenchlessons4you]

Hi guys. Please check out my French videos :D Merci!

[Videolistful]

French is so cool and easy. Thank You!

[cutecupkait]

Awesome, even some really expensive language software doesn't go over conjugation, which is def a must. Love this!!! <3

[Liradu2]

Courir on 6:35 have only one r

[TheEverythingYoville]

Guys, they're working really hard on their videos to teach us dumbo's how to speak. If you don't like it don't watch it, and baiser off!

[vLinko777]

In paris, soooooo sexy

[98mrs]

in my opinion learning arabic is harder i have been learning it for 8 years and i am finally fluent!

[Rimma1522rus]

Круто! И понятно ! Понравилось!

[Rigmarollee]

French grammar is like Urdu/Arabic.

[Rigmarollee]

I think English & German are similar and easy to learn , their grammar is same.

[elabd12]

i like it it is very nice

[zoelovescalifornia]

luv this site. just want to find someone to practice with

[galenlynore]

Most people that come here already know english. you don't need to go so slowly in the english parts as if we couldn't understand you

[dackala]

@galenlynore there are lots of people who don't speak English so well believe me it's not intended just for you!

[galenlynore]

@dackala read my comment again, bud. We people are not as disapointing =)

[DashaMc]

I love it. never thought that it sounds so beautiful

[munbaba]

I AM FROM INDIA . I KNOW HINDI,PUNJABI,URDU .FRENCH LANGUAGE IN SOME SOME ASPECTS SIMILAR TO HINDI AND URDU TAKING FEMININE AND MASCULINE GENDER DIFFERENCES PERTAINING TO VERBS AND THE SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION AND SIMILARLY PHONETIC SYNTAX ARE DIFFERENT FROM GENDER POINT OF VIEW



[musicloverec]

@munbaba m a french student and just passed in exams lol yea iget confused abt feminine and masculine u need to learn heck load of things in french thatz what i hate rest aol i loveeeeee to pronounce words itz just so damn classy !!!! <3

[HoustonWeHaveLiftOff]

Wow, I never realized how close to Spanish French is. I've been surrounded by Spanish all my life so this is almost familiar sounding.

[Mirokism]

@HoustonWeHaveLiftOff French sounds a lot more elegant and high class than Spanish lol

[HoustonWeHaveLiftOff]

@Mirokism If you feel that way.

[JeagerGray]

a shitload of english words are french-based. (some people say 40%) i'm not bullshiting. english speakers already got a good french vocabulary without even knowing it

[MeganMakeupForever]

I love the french lang, but right now all the words sound exactly alike to me XD

[Anarchyprophet]

french language is difficult but interesting !! i loveeeeeeeee it...

[Liradu2]

@Anarchyprophet I hate it!

[Gifty019]

au revior or bounjour!

[johannaariz]

I need an advise!! Im in college and one of my requirements is to take a lenguage course. My first language is spanish and I had to learn english when I moved to New York. Now Im not sure if I should just take the exeption exam and just took an advance level class into spanish or I should learn a different language like french. Would I get confused between the 3 languages. What should I do.

[jerman1960]

@johannaariz

I'm a native English speaker, a teacher, & I also speak German fluently & some Spanish. I now live in France. I'd say take French. My Spanish-speaking students found Spanish classes both too easy AND too hard, so they didn't get much from Spanish classes. French is close to Spanish, so learning rules in French, you'll be able to see some application & similarity to Spanish. You'll learn more about Spanish & English by taking a related language you don't already know. Bonne chance!

[Hannah01Banana]

Bonjour!jemapple Hannah Co moss a voir

[coolbax]

french is difficult, even native french people make spelling mistakes (i'm french and sometimes, i don't know how to write a word correctly). If french wasn't my 1st language, i don't know if i had the gut to learn it. English is so easy compared to french and i love english !

[EmoGirlCupcakes]

i have been trying to learn all (if not, most) of my Ethnic back round languages and this is helping me a lot with my french! Merci :D

[HULLOHULLO15]

IS the plural the same as the singular? If so, why?

[AstridAnfindsen]

I`m norwegian, I learn french:)

[aliyevization]

that was real good

[Tamito777]

I am from Georgia and i think i can cope with it :))))

[kindator]

You are doing a wonderful job! Thank you very much. It is helpful for us.

[sparrowgirl26]

I loved this helped me out alot merci

[GhostofDerG]

Fuuuuck.... i need this in German^^

[LightningGodBen]

I love this video. I have a background in both English and Spanish and French comes rather naturally. This video really helps me build my vocabulary! Merci!

[san1543]

Very good videos hope you post more soon :)

[rkhaaa2]

thank you

[sizzorgirl67]

soo is you "tu" or "vous"

[liamthefrenchy]

@sizzorgirl67

The both of two ! "tu" and "vous" are "you". It depends of the context :

TU is for your familly ; your friends your boyfriend ; an animal ...

VOUS is for someone you don't know, over all an adult or a teacher ; your boss ... Or several persons that you know or not.

[liamthefrenchy]

@sizzorgirl67

The both of two ! "tu" and "vous" are "you". It depends of the context :

TU is for your familly ; your friends your boyfriend ; an animal ...

VOUS is for someone you don't know, over all an adult or a teacher ; your boss ... Or several persons that you know or not.

[olliebugANDallebana]

Ahh, I am trying to learn French on the computer because I cannot find any other way at the moment... will someone please explain why the verbs change? And why they change spelling but it seems they don't change the way you say them most of the time??? HELP!

[liamthefrenchy]

@olliebugANDallebana

English in a germanic language, so the grammar is " pronoun + infinitive verb" ... French is a LATIN language !!

In french it is "pronoun+ CONJUGATED verb"

And if the seplling changes but not their pronounciation it's because we have a lot of "mute letters" and "nasal sounds".

4 example : Je tiens (I hold) the "s" won't be pronounced and the sound will be very nasal because it is a verb with a pronounciation very weird.

[ashusethi72]

I am 38 and have just started learning french yesterday, and i think this video will help me in the pronunciation. Thanks...i will be here more often :-) 

[gabbysowavy]

je mange aimer

[OhNoThanks]

Woe 0x28 rather cocky in my opinion. Perhaps challenge yourself by learning to speak Arabic.

[pt10028]

Thanks!

[tmmy773]

Good video :) thanks i'm only starting to learn but i like french :) that is a good idea about French radio...but that will take a while i'm afraid.

[beatsbooze]

Wow, 'degrees in French'. 'Bachelor's of' whatever, basket weaving.................

Get over it, my high powered fellow poster intelligentsia. It's basic stuff & sure Jack and Jill are having fun with it. Give it a try.

[0x28]

I think if you want to say "I like you", you say: "Tu me plait" (I'm not sure).

[Breizhomaniak]

@0x28 You say "Tu me plaît" for a person you love but I don't know acutally if the real translation is "I like you", however "I like you" means "je t'aime bien", which is usually used for a friend.

[0x28]

@Breizhomaniak I am taking French at university. :P wordreference(.)com/fren/plair­e "aime bien" = fond of person. wordreference(.)com/fren/aimer

[Breizhomaniak]

@0x28 I'm French :) and the translation is false, in my opinion. If you want to show your love to someone, you use "Je t'aime", "Tu me plaît", etc.

When you say "je t'aime bien", it seems like you like the person just as a friend and not as your girl(boy)friend.

[0x28]

@Breizhomaniak I do not want to go by vague assumptions when it comes to languages. You cannot just go and 'feel' the language. That is the first step where one goes wrong in a language. Language is exact - it has rules. You cannot say 'it seems like'. No, it has to be a fact. It has to be a written rule. So, please provide me an etymological explanation for your reasoning. :P

[0x28]

Maaaan this guys teaches so slooooow.

[0x28]

This was pretty easy. I come from a bachelor's degree. I do not understand how people can think this is hard. This is the most basic French there is. Without it, you cannot speak French. I am going to study the following tenses: indicatif présent, impératif, imparfait, passé composé, passé récent, plusqueparfait, future proche, futur simple, conditionnel présent, conditionnel passé, futur antérieur. I assume the average person here is under 18 years old and with an IQ of 86. rofl

[kridkid95]

alot of the english speak the french language the way they see it (ex : they pronounce the "e" )

[killerplaya000]

i french class

and im failing that class

so yea

[awesomefreek12]

i guess thats all that matters thou

[awesomefreek12]

the only words i remember are j'aimer tu

[kampit100]

lol why u talking that is very hard?

i think u have to feel the French and it will be very easy

[iarussi30]

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[xoxoParissss]

i love french. i took french 1 in 8th grade, now this year im taking french 2. hopefully i get to become fluent in this wonderful language. :)

[3bestfriends4eva33]

Must study O.O j' aime manger that says I love/like to eat right

[shy222s]

@3bestfriends4eva33 yup....your ritee!!

[spidereine]

this is very good for revising french ^^

[mengzai1198]

why can have 2 you i not undesstand

[logan16wol]

Oh my God! When I learned English (as a second language) it was so easy maybe because I listened to it my whole life and was familiar with it but I think French is going to be a bit hard :-(

[xoxoParissss]

@logan16wol what was your first language??

[ToniiMarshmallow]

France is next to England but no way do the language(s) sound alike o.o

[ikhsanahmad]

thanks for your videos...it's really help me and many other people :)

[kulada1]

This was hard as crap! ill see if there is any kids versins that speak slower!

[bangkotanz]

i cant help to watch this completely

[TotallyLubable]

Im going to be starting secondary school after summer, and Im taking french. Its Actually not hard, after the second time playing this video I got it, and I played it a third time to perfect it, if hes going to fast pause and rewind, because thats what there for,

[Sarah1627]

is this the first lesson ??! its sooo hard

[ChristineBells]

ur going to fast...

[cedieWWE10]

its hard 

[whostheboss1983]

why is he using 'nous aimons la musique' and 'on aime la guitare'? if it's "we like music" and "we like the guitar" when do you differentiate the different pronouns of we? what makes either one plural or singular?

[MellyBell910]

im doing french in highschool and i think they learn this way.

I see people who speak fluent french say this is different so im questioning wether i should be watching this or not to get a bit ahead...-.-

[Breizhomania]

I'm french, I think a have a medium english level (is there another way to say it ?), and it's so pleasant to see who english people learn french :)

The french language you learn is so far away with the french I speak every day, obviously I don't speak about this lesson, because we use these words. But if you would like to understand native French speaking, you have to, in my opinion listen french radios stations like RTL or France Inter (I think they speak as fast as on the BBC).

[Shadowsilas]

@Breizhomania Thats a huge problem alot of people learning french have, the french spoken is so hard to understand. Even if you know the vocabulary it doesnt mean you can speak with natives. But I guess its no different then English, people learn it, but when we speak it we dont pay any attention to grammar.

[kridkid95]

@Breizhomania moi je suis une anglaise vivant dans la france mais l'anglais qu'on nous apprends au college n'est pas le meme qu'on parle au quotidienne et pareil pour les cours de francais en angleterre.

[Breizhomaniak]

@kridkid95 C'est vrai, dans mon ancien lycée on apprenait l'anglais de manière assez "simpliste", enfin si l'on veut vraiment parler comme les locaux, et les comprendre, le mieux reste d'aller faire un séjour dans leur pays.

Parce que le plus dur pour une personne dont la langue maternelle n'est pas le français, c'est de comprendre les français et en particulier ceux de la région parisienne, qui utilisent régulièrement de l'argot et d'autres mots sans réelle traduction comme "genre" :)

[spydagirl77]

great!!

[thejojo2702]

this is so hard!!~!!!

[lidiyalatvia]

Well its easier than German..

[twihard1518]

im gonna totally learn french with this lesson haha nah but i wish

[TheChrrust]

Lol, go french exam tomorrow :s

[PInk77W1]

how do u say...... i am lost. .... in french. I am riding my bicycle across france July 2-Aug 6....... thx

[drizett]

@PInk77W1 i am lost in french is "je suis perdu"

[conrad2004a]

if J'aime you drop the "e" then why don' tyou drop the :"u" in "tu aimes"?

[Breizhomania]

@conrad2004a Well, in french it's rare to pronounce the "e" at the end of word, while the "u" is more common. It's the only thing I can explain to you. Ask to another french native ;)

[footballking1122]

I'm taking this next year, (french one) do you have any information for me? Is this language easy? I took Spanish already, and I've heard that these two language are some-what alike. Should I go with Frech, I really like the language and want to give it a go, but I don't want it to ruin by GPA if it's to hard.

[phuong0504]

what is different between il and ils, and alle and alles. i can't hear how it pronoun differently.

and what is different between ils and alles in meaning, i couldn't get that part.

thank you!

[mckelroy88]

wait, if vowels aren't supposed to follow one another, then how come they dont change "Tu aimes"? Is the letter 'u' not a vowel in the French Language?

[molyvenson]

@mckelroy88 I don't think there is such grammatical rule in French lol

[mckelroy88]

@molyvenson yeah there is. he said it in the video

[molyvenson]

@mckelroy88 oh anything in the video is 100% correct I forgot. lol

[DropkickBE1]

@molyvenson

That's supposed to be the point of an instructional video, the fact that everything is correct to start off with.

[molyvenson]

@DropkickBE1 If I were you I wouldn't trust my french learning with a 7 minutes long video. after all he is just teaching you pronouns,not the grammatical rules of the language. It's not going to help that much.

[SuperAnimelover001]

this is so easy!!!

It's easy for me because i can speak spanish

and french words are pretty much similar to those in spanish

[DelishaDeluxe]

i'm so glad i learned french at school xD but actually i forgot a lotta things since i haven't been at school for 10 months -.-

[aldossary4ever]

thank you ... i want to learn another language :)

[MrKiddieland]

On all of the pictures where you are to say it in French and then in English I said everything before you said it and got it all right, and I just started watching videos yesterday! I even got the one about running right since I know that in Spanish running is pronounced correr and so I got it right. On the picture at 5:36 I did not even have to look at the words because I already knew it, hehe.

[Battlescar2]

i love french, the way it just glides together and rolls off the tounge

[pklinh97]

My tounge....0_o

[lollipopsalexia]

@pklinh97 What your tounge ?

[pklinh97]

@lollipopsalexia srrr...I'm bad at English grammar:)) My tongue is hurt:D

[lollipopsalexia]

@pklinh97 don't panic me too. The harder sound is "th" i can't do it :/

hey , do you really live in vietnam ?

[pklinh97]

@lollipopsalexia oh,yes:)

[lollipopsalexia]

@pklinh97 woow that's cool !!!!

[pklinh97]

@lollipopsalexia Why???

[lollipopsalexia]

@pklinh97 because i've never seen someone from Vietnam !

[EmoShortStackLover]

Japanese is eaiser!

[xXPurpleLoliTranceXx]

Ooooh, so when using the plural use of 'vous' (just to make sure I got this right) he means like, for an example: "I like hanging with you." The 'vous' is used in there, right?:p I don't get that use of plural.

[grandmaster579]

@xXPurpleLoliTranceXx Actually "vous" can be used to one person to speak formally and tu is meant to say with your friends and family.  "vous" can also be used when addressing a group of people. An example on the net I found is "vous êtes tous présents : you all are present"

[saiyh12]

i need to learn french

[lokeradekadente81]

Okay so 'tu' is you and 'vous' is you too? Makes sense, smh

[shanonbananan765]

@lokeradekadente81 vous is you plural

[casualtyofloveee]

@lokeradekadente81 'tu' is meant for just one person. 'vous' is for many people.

[GenevieveG76]

@babytheory "Tu" is singular and "vous" is plural. The only way we use "vous" in singular is when you talk to an older person, or your boss or an unknown person. "Vous" is just more polite than "tu" in the singular use...

[GVEX1]

I just want the french accent. Thats it. :P

[Xxrockerchic229xX]

and yeah do both vous and tu mean you?

how do you know which one to use?

[Xxrockerchic229xX]

ohh and also, whats the diffenece between "nous" and "on"

dont they both mean we?

so "on mange" and "nous mangeons" both mean we eat?

[l0veureyes]

@Xxrockerchic229xX

Yesss both mean we :)

[lollipopsalexia]

@Xxrockerchic229xX  yes "nous" and "on" are exactly the same. But people say more "on" and it's the easier ;)

[Xxrockerchic229xX]

is the "s" always silent?

[GenevieveG76]

@Xxrockerchic229xX with these three words"nous, vous and ils", yes!



[dape7]

What is a good learning program or French course to learn? I dont know nothing at all. but i want to learn.

[MeSayingHello124]

this is just like spanish

[nomibells31]

cette video est tellement bizarre

[dape7]

@nomibells31 totalement d'accord, est très rare. Je veux apprendre le français.

[Zamriasra]

le gare = train not la train... just pointing that out. 

[marcluc1988]

@Zamriasra It's LA gare. Since la gare is feminine. LE train (masculine) is the actual train.

[Zamriasra]

@marcluc1988 le and la are just place holders and therefore don't matter at all like this sentence je le mange gare. The train ate it. They can be changed the only ones you can not change for place holders are des and les, because they are showing if it's plural or no, so fuck off :D.

[marcluc1988]

@Zamriasra I'm sorry but I have a degree in French and wasn't meaning to put you down. The sentence you've given is very incorrect so is your translation. I thought people came to this video to learn and teach. Not to be offended. After all, we all start somewhere. I promise it was not to intentionally piss you off.

[Zamriasra]

@marcluc1988 I'm trying to find a program, to improve on my basics. I need words like in a cafe sigh. right now i have been doing insults and family vocab and need to review some old stuff.

[skullreaper38]

@marcluc1988 So you have a degree in french. You can have all the degrees you can have but it still is polite to listen to all people and not be a stereotypical person.

[natzobsioma]

magnefique!

[puglover412]

la colere

[xtinex]

This is a very good way of teaching French. I find this very easy to learn! Thank you very much!

[unilange]

This is a great video. It really helps someone get used to the French language. Thanks for posting it! C'est un vidéo que j'aime pour apprendre les languages!

[MTRB87]

So in what instance is on used instead on nous as for We?

[mikej941126]

What about the difference between aimer and adore? Which shows a stronger love?

[lollipopsalexia]

@mikej941126 The difference is that aimer is like " I like" and adorer is like "i love" or" i adore" simply

[arlet101]

this is harder than japanisse o_____o

[1pikachupachirisu]

@arlet101 i know im learning Japanese at the same time as French... dont forget Coration

[LaUnica1330]

@arlet101 French and Japanese are definitely two different things! The confusing thing about French is that when we (as americans) look at it we want to say it how its SPELLED but with the French language we can't just do that :) Unlike the Japanese, most of their things, the way its is spelled is the way it is said. :)

[SueC5715]

@arlet101 no ots not

[HeartLockk]

@arlet101 i hated learning japanese but i agree this is harder

[hebrewgit]

@arlet101

what do u mean harder than japanises so do u think i should learn japanises instead of french

becz i have to learn a second langage

[sunshineashley123]

GRATI BONSORI

THANKS GOODBYE

[ValgeirBragi]

This is exactly what i need to learn for my test tomorrow :P

[iamnotcynical]

is elles the same pronunciation for elle (also for ils and il)?

[mikej941126]

@iamnotcynical Yes.