Basic French Lesson 2

[xsmotherxmexx]

thank you!!! your so nice to make these videos absolutely free for people!!! and your a wonderful teacher :)

[jdaniels161]

Thanks for posting i have a penpal in France near paris and we always speak english so i want to learn french so we can speak to each other in french

[riquelmestheshit]

Thank You this is very helpful =).. beautiful language

[footballplyer73]

THANK YOU

how come theres so many ways to say are

[jefrench10]

@footballplyer73 There are only 2 ways. "Tu es" and "vous êtes". The first one is the singular when addressing 1 person. The second one is the plural when addressing a group of people. It is also used in the formal way when talking to someone you just met or a person in a position of authority.

[gemerx]

@jefrench10

wait doesn't vous êtes is a plural,

but isn't it true that you can say

it also to an older person if you want

to show your respect?

please reply!

and greate video im subing!

[ixcaliber]

@jefrench10 So vous or "you" would be used in a translated sentance to: "You guys are people"? and then Tu would be "You are a person"?

So would that be: "Vous êtes un humain" and "Tu es un himain"

Seriously, I have absolutely no idea, but If you could correct me that would be nice :)

[jefrench10]

@ixcaliber Humain in French means human as in a human being. I am not sure that's what you're trying to say. A person is une personne. Tu would be used in the singular and vous in the plural form. You can also use vous when addressing someone in a position of authority or someone you just met.

[iloveroxasaxeldemyx]

Thanks for the lessons! This is really cool.

I'm having trouble remembering how each word is pronounced, though! I took Spanish for four years (actually, this year is my fourth), and pretty much every letter makes its own sound, so learning all these ways of combining letters in French, especially since a lot of them are silent, is really confusing. :3 But I've just gotta practice, eh? :D

[fmfhlahz]

for spanish speaker people is kinda easy learn french cause it's very close to spanish, but the "R" sound is very different, but i like it.

para los hablantes de español es un poco facil aprender frances porque es bastante parecido al español, pero el sonido de la "R" es diferente, pero me gusta.!

[senudesilva]

awesome..is 'on' is for masculine??coz nous sommes end with -es????french is hard..

[jefrench10]

@senudesilva On is gender neutral. The "es" ending is a conjugation ending. It is not gender related. Only nouns, pronouns and adjectives will change based on gender, not verb endings.

[RyuOkamiOni14]

I've been wondering, what is the difference between 'on' and 'nous'?

[bobladu]

@RyuOkamiOni14 'on' is more familiar, whereas when you want to be polite you say 'nous'. Thats would be the main difference

[CeatcodeDelta32]

to anyone planning on learning from these videos, i recommend on your first time watching one of these videos to right down every word learned in the video (format it anyway you like, i usually put all the translations for each individual word at the beginning, and then adding the phrases (in french) to the bottom, leaving the space beside it blank. the next day, watch the video again, then go to your paper or word document and solve the phrases on your own. repeat as necessary. hope this helps

[jefrench10]

@CeatcodeDelta32 Thats' one way to do it.  Personally, I recommend you just watch the videos and have fun with it. The actual transcript of the videos is available on the site as well as other similar videos. Keep it fun and enjoyable and you will make progress.

[2455HannerdMusic]

why is it 'i like you well' and not just 'i like you'?

[jefrench10]

@2455HannerdMusic Je t'aime means I love you.  So to bring it down a notch, we add bien (well). Je t'aime bien. I like you. :)

[terry4088]

i enjoy the lesons--i sublimet what my tutor says--yepp-

[mermaidstar7]

and I nvr get those signs on top of the letters. Like letter "e"

Do u put those there to know how to pronounce it? ANd how do we know how to pronounce it??

like at 3:38

I know there's like 5 of those

[jefrench10]

@mermaidstar7 We have a video on the main site that explains the French accents.

[mermaidstar7]

I always get confused with this. Sometimes "pas" is in the end, sometimes it's b4 the verb. Y is it like this???

[BlanFan2O]

I'm confused with one thing: the grave accent. I know Spanish so I know about regular accents but what does the grave do? Actually, do accents work the same in French(probably a bad question but better to ask a bad question than to not know)?

[Wikkiter]

One thing that confuses me is context. For example I could say (In English)

Statement "You are into sports"

Question "You are into sports?"

With the tone with which you say it being key. Does the same apply in French, or does the sentence have to be restructured?

[jefrench10]

@Wikkiter Yes you can turn a sentence into a question with the tone just like in English. The other way to do it is to use "Est-ce que...". For example: Est-ce que tu es sportif? Est-ce que tu as faim? Are you hungry?

[mermaidstar7]

@jefrench10 do we have to say est-ce que b4 the question Cuz in our class, we just cut straight to "tu as faim?"

[jefrench10]

@mermaidstar7 You don't have to. You can ask a question both ways. If you don't use est-ce que, the question is made clear with the intonation. Like in English, you can say: Are you hungry? or You're hungry? In the second example, it's the way you say it that makes it a question.

[beermademesmart]

@jefrench10 So if I wanted to ask "Are you sad" I would say "est-ce que tu es triste"?

[jefrench10]

@beermademesmart Yes that's correct.

[Roboy30]

To learn to speak an other Latin language helps a lot to speak French

[Ashly780]

lol i have a hard time pronouncing this stuff. i had to watch each sentence three times till i culd anounce it

[NUTAC555]

Surprisingly, french is not hard at all if you:

-are mexican

-speak english

-take etymologies at school

-have randomly heard strangers talking french

[BlanFan2O]

@NUTAC555 Well, my family's is mostly French. I used to hear it a lot. Where would that go in there?

[CeatcodeDelta32]

Je t'aime bien tu francais beacoup!

i hope that doesn't end up sounding weird...

[jefrench10]

@CeatcodeDelta32 It sounded great all the way to "Je t'aime bien". :) Let me know what you meant to say after that and I will help you out.

[CeatcodeDelta32]

@jefrench10 i was wanting to say "i like these french lessons"

but because i haven't learned how to say lessons, i tried to say "i like your french very much"

now that i look back at it, it looks like it translate to "i like you very much you french very much"

[caryl42]

Bravo pour le travail "Jefrench10", j'ai toujours été curieux de savoir comment les anglophones arrivaient à assimiler le français (notamment a cause du genre féminin ou masculin entre autre), en tout cas bravo encore

[jefrench10]

@caryl42 Thank you friend.

[nolabush25]

to say i love you. you don't need to put vous in there? it's simply je t'aime? is " je vois aime" incorrect?

[jefrench10]

@nolabush25 Usually, if you say to someone you love them, you are close enough to that person to not use the formal vous. I can't really think of an example where we would say je vous aime. In the old days, people used vous more often. In some very traditional families, the husband and wife address each other with vous. It is more and more rare. So je vous aime is not incorrect. It's just not used.

[MyPayano]

French is one of the hardest language for me because of its pronunciation , when i started learning english, i found english easier to learn.

[Oldirocks]

Have you heard of Je t'amie beaucoup and I go Ko-Ko? Just kidding....

I appreciate your French lessons.

[Christine80921950975]

O.M.G I lOVE FRENCH im in year 10 i start doing french in year 8 and i did it in year 9 and 10 and i'm going to coninue it in year 11 and 12 and i'm very happy and these site jefrench.com help me alots with my french pronouciation alots for school. We learnt about clothing,foods,drinks,weather,­numbers , giving directions,times,house chorce and many more.

Bonjour je m'appelle Christine et ma prof de francias est Madame Smith, MOI J'ADORE LE FRANCIAS.

[bellevanessa]

Now I can talk to my mom in French. hehe Merci!

[lenongarcia]

merci beaucoup pour le vidéo :D

[alistis99]

je t'aime beaucoup.merci tres!

[ZackPomerleau]

I was curious, are there any books or anything you could recommend? I'd like a way of practicing my writing and speaking and sometimes a book or CD or something always helps. Maybe you sell something? Anyways, thanks, these are really great lessons!

[oscaarsx]

Merci, Gracias, thanks; the lessons are pretty good, Salut! from Mexico

[Omgxnimmy]

The second way to pronounce happy i cldnr even pronounce .I was like ima stick content..lol..Very guud lesson tho Thnxsss!

[Rodiguez83]

Merci beaucoup, mon ami.

[TheLMfaOSHO]

I'm using this for class

[eraklara08]

very helpfull lessons....

Thanks

[TheSupernatasha]

this is fun!!

[OmarBukhariev91]

is this correct: "ils ne sont pas contents."

[jefrench10]

@OmarBukhariev91 Yes.

[borgduck]

Fab French! I will check this out more intently later, but I'm too busy watching a documentary about the Normans, ironically.

[palmeralatina]

this is like spanish!!!

[Fireblazer5]

dude im only 10 n in the first lesson i know 22 sentnces ( includin the 1s u put on) dude ur really helping me thnx i appreciat it !!!!

[xxMrKynxx]

" t' "? what does it mean?

[jefrench10]

@xxMrKynxx "t'" is a contraction of "te" which stands for you.

[TheArgoniq]

thank you very much!!!

[73omar]

Lessons are very helpful, you do a great job, thank you

las lecciones ayudan mucho, haces muy buen trabajo, gracias

[mohaninperson]

I really liked this! Je t' aime:)

[PersonOfBook]

Je serai content si je suis cette fille à 2:10!

[giantsunshine]

fabulous!

[missmex]

Heureux is sooo difficult :s

[airamaras]

b.b Thank you a looooooot (:

[moorednc]

These lessons are great! Thank you, or should I say Merci beaucoup :-)

[thebirrrdlady]

Is there only one word for "to be"? I know that in Spanish there are 2, depending on whether you talk about where you are or who you are. In French is there just the one word for every case?

[thetrales]

if it only was Swedish to French!! :(

[navalatanjjnn]

Merci beau coup! This will really help me in my French classes. :D

[044930]

These lessons helped me in my prenonciation in french. I'm very new to this language.

[jellybelly1011]

this is really helpfull i know de meaning of french word as starter but my pronounciation is horrible......i hope you continue this

thanks

[cutemusicbear]

thanks so mucho more these lessons, they are so good

[lalakers1984]

merci beacoup! i have learned allot from you!!

[MrJoseph2046]

Great and Easy Lessons. Thanks. Joseph

[Crochet091]

oh WOW this is coming very easy to me! I've been learning spanish for a year and it's literally identicle! I just have to memorize the articles:)

[ucantmakeme]

I really like the way you do these. It's excellent! I'm brushing up to get a head start for when I begin French in the Fall, and this is excellent!

[lxpvanaa]

je t'aime francais beaucoup...

phew that was such a spelling :D

i like it but it's pretty confusing when it comes to gender

merci

[MyDylan97]

je t'aime de lesson de francoise bien!

thank you!! you are really great and your lessons too!!

[edomilies]

thank you very much .. im looking forward for the next lesson..

[ariessangel19]

i've been meaning to refresh my french skills or what i have left^o^ and this makes it easy thanks jefrench10.

[IcarusShadow]

I'm currently taking French 2 in highschool, and the only problem I really have is all the verbs and the conjugations.

[thedespiritu]

you're a great teacher! thanks!

[SuperDjsani]

this is awsome =)

[caefle]

thank u so much this r great!

[00chicken101]

Wow Latin helps with this so much

[1kingconan]

je t'aime jefrench10  :D ty for the videos!

[doctordonnanoble]

The French are brilliant for solving the ever so terrifying relationship dilemma:

girl: "Je t'aime"

boy: *freaks out*

girl: "...bien?"

[bbphnix]

@doctordonnanoble well said well said LOL :))

[coporocco]

great video.. now i like french language but i have to watch this video alot so i don`t forget what i just learned.. :)

[limbdarkening]

Not the most logical of languages, so many letters you don't even pronounce! It's going to take me awhile to get this.

Je t'aime......bien!

[redzmida]

so easy to learn french... i like it very much!!!!

[xHoleintheWallx]

THIS ROCKZ!! im only 11 and im piking this up rele fast!!!! it rocks!! 5 stars!!! yeshhhhhhh!

[thetacos1]

same here

but im 13

[VidOou]

Bonne leçon pour apprendre le français, moi je suis français et j'essaye d'apprendre l'anglais.

Good lesson for learn french, me, i'm french and i try to learn english :)

[h3lblad3]

You are trying to learn English and yet you are watching a video teach French?

Hm...

Trying to learn a language by listening to someone teach with it? INGENIOUS!

I had never thought of that. :D

[billiecorpse91]

man this language is almost identical to spanish

[1kingconan]

no espanol es casi identico al italiano. french isn't almost identical to spanish.  italian is closer to spanish than this.

[chenbaosen]

@1kingconan french is very much like spanish though

[angierox365]

@1kingconan french and spanish only have one similar thing.....they use their grammar the same way

[flyaninnocentlife]

this is great, thank you so much! i haven't learn french since GCSE's but still try to think setences in my head for practise. watching these i already understand it so much better than i ever did at school!

[bbKristjan]

5 stars, good job

[samwarp8]

thank you from doing these lessons my french grade's picking up! Je suis heureux!

[DeathlyMetalX]

im trying to learn how to say i love you in french cause my girlfreind knows it and i want to surprise her and say it sometime

[FluffyKoalaGirl]

omg this is like so very basic and i have no idea how to do it... maybe because im 11, idk...lol

[r4u1lg]

these lessons are very helpful. I have a doubt though. If I love You means Je t'aime, and I like you well= Je t'aime bien

How can I say " I love you so much?

[r4u1lg]

these lessons are very helpful. I have a doubt though. If I love You means Je t'aime, and I like you well= Je t'aime bien

How can I say " I love you so much?

[beautifulmess72]

haha i know all of this but i dont know the pronounciation due to my shitty french teacher :P

[xBeingNEONx]

i'm confused. doesn't j'adore mean i love?

[jefrench10]

@xBeingNEONx J'adore can mean I adore, I love. It depends on the context.

[brainiacbelle]

Merci!

[Jayhawkblue]

THANKS i AM LEARNING ALOT

[kalondo]

"...but in good shape." lol.

These videos are awesome. Thanks for providing them.

[Jkushgirl]

then what If I wanna say "I love you so much"? can't I still say Je t'aime beaucoup??

[jefrench10]

@Jkushgirl Je t'aime tant.  Tant is so much.

[modemwoody]

thanks for the great lessons!

[ekydami]

I am very grateful to you for structuring such fine lessons and making them available here, merci.

[LadySelina1000011]

J'aime ces vidéos. Je l'apprentissage le français depuis 3 ans et peux développer avec ces vidéos mon savoir et =) (pour des erreurs excuse je rénove moi xD)

I love these videos. I learn French for 3 years and can develop and refurbish my knowledge with these videos=) ( For errors I apologize xD)

It is heavily to learn a language over another language (I live in Germany and train my French over the English;) )

[mnxmnx07]

J'aime apprendre le francais. Merci beaucoup!!!!

[dustcantrell]

thanks! trying to learn some french so i can understand my french girlfriend.

[nazar1964]

AWESOME!!!!!

[tans1985]

cool

[HelenDiazOfficial]

I think you are fantastic, i love the videos, and have found them very easy and pleassant to listen to. My partner is french and im visiting his family for the first time in 3 years, this christmas!I know very basic french and your lessons have already helped me greatly. Merci xx

[Asalazarllamas]

any one french?? i wanna tlk to a french person!! theyr soo cute !

[CabbageKitty]

The picture it shows of the girl when it says "Je t'aime" is really pretty.

[flaggedyou]

thank you

[lfyong]

These are very good lessons. They are very interesting and easy to learn. I'm looking forward to learn more from you. Merci beaucoup!

[jefrench10]

@lfyong De rien. You're welcome.

[JaynaRox]

hehe haha wow...

[gelion1987]

anyone french that can help me with french please?

[CabbageKitty]

What is it that you need help with?

[katrina1234x]

i like yooouuuuuu

[drewskione]

You are good at instructing.

[iso10line]

awesome lessons...merci :)

[Shika511]

wow, I almost told a girl I loved her. Thanks for these lessons, merci. I still can't make the 'r' sound in au revoir

[mlester014]

"on est" means one is. "nous est" means we are.

[kimberley008]

Merci beaucoup! I'm learning fast!

[longusername576]

i love this lessons they're so easy but i wonder if they're done correctly

im a fluent english and spanish speaker and i've seen lessons on both languages that don't get anything write so im hoping this one is:)

[Xcokedav096]

I do this with such an american/russian accent -.- haha

[nellee123]

i like you well??

so would we say this to a nice friend or to a boy?(physicaly like?)

thanks for the vids!

[templje]

heureux is tough to pronounce!

[eellvvaannaa]

thanks a lot

[NavB00]

Parce que cette lesson, j'aime francais maintenant. Cette lesson aiders moi. Merci pour cette lesson.

[googlefaxx]

whats the diference between "on est" and "nous sommes"???

[florsbzh]

Pas vraiment de différence, on utilise le + souvent "on est".

[sofista86]

when we use "on est", it´s smt like "people are..." on est tres contente, people are very content; and nous sommes means WE

[cynthoy]

"on est" et "nous sommes" = we are

"on est" is more personal. Talks with friends, family ... (or even teacher ...)

"nous sommes" is a very respectfull way to talk with a mayor for example. The president say "nous sommes ici" and not "on est ici". But both can be said ... it's not false.

[wuhkarma]

its we are.

but on could be lets, so lets be lalala

and nous its just we.

[AlorsLuigi]

The difference between 'on est' and 'nous sommes' is that 'on' can mean many things not just we. It can mean the formal word: 'one' it can mean us or the people or everyone or it can also just mean we in the informal sense. Nous however, always means we/us.

[nexamax]

Hi googlefaxx:

Good question: 'on est' is used to express a group of friends or people we know well (usually). 'nous sommes' is used if the group includes people that are more formal, business guests for example.

On est ici: we are here

--- Friends and family

Nous sommes ici: we are here

--- Formal way due to formal company

This is the best way I would describe this question. I hope this helps.

[1shinedark1]

I think in the first lesson he said "on" was "we" or "lets" e.g lets eat, refering a group including the speaker. I don't know if i'm right, but i hope i helped you.

[saraisavampire]

Well, 'est' means is and 'Nous Sommes' means "we are"

[Luke680]

Merci!

[clarrisekim]

its so hard but thank you so much

[tiaralunar]

Well Done!!

[SXM0]

agreed. very helpful. thankyou

[Shewib]

Je t'aime ........... bien. -Tricked you!

[ibraham27]

thank u very much .that's helpful

[lXxrawrxXl]

so beaucoup means very much?

nd content nd heureux means happy?

[cynthoy]

content means happy but less strong ...

exemple : - je suis content (contente) d'avoir un chat / i'm glad to have a cat - je suis heureux (heureuse) d'avoir un travail / i'm happy to have a job

[twuggygotgame]

oui, bien :)

[lXxrawrxXl]

content means happy?

[twuggygotgame]

yes :)

[twuggygotgame]

yes :)

[AkumaXKami]

These are very helpful lessons. Merci!

[gavinlayman]

amazing lessons thanks alot

[Ancientlordx]

hello to you too at 4:45 lol

[franziskashui]

Very helpful, merci!

[BlueFkingCrash]

awesomenesss

[poshpescatarian]

Merci beaucoup!

~ Posh Pescatarian

[kutieboo]

merci!!

J'appendre beaucoup!!

[devikumac]

tu es tres bien, je t'aime!!