Basic French Lesson 1: Learn basic French

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[PYTHONX47X]

Your English accent is pretty clear and understandable. I don't understand any of those other french lesson videos because of their horrible accents.

[jefrench10]

Merci!

[tamara ns.ns.II.]

Good lesson but I have one question.

Why do you put "On" where should be "It"? It is very confusing for a beginner.

I, you, he, she, IT (not "We")

Group "On" with "Nous" and explain the difference.

I know "It" is a bit complicated in French so you should explain that instead of just putting "On" in its place.

[jefrench10]

French people use On instead of we all the time. On never means it but one as in "One should never talk bad about others." or it very often means We as we use it in place of We all the time.

[Thomas Torr]

Why do you use an apostrophe for j' aime and not tu aime?

[jefrench10]

Because we never write it that way.  Although we do use that shortcut when talking. But that's a big no no when writing it.

[Lily64007]

Je suis française et je ne sais même pas pourquoi j'ai cliqué sur cette vidéo... Mais bon, cette leçon est très bien faite pour les gens qui veulent apprendre :)

[jefrench10]

Nous is we. On can be one like one never sleeps... on ne dort jamais. But most of the time, french people use it in place of nous (we). So the most common translation for on is we.

[Valerie Price]

Wat did he just say lol just kiding good lesson

[ouagadougou62]

The reason for the difference between aimer et manger is that without the "e" after "g" it would be a different sound. We say a hard sound as opposed to soft sound. ga, gu, go are considered hard sounds. On the other hand ge and gi are soft sounds, so by adding "e" it has the same sound. When we say mange, we want to keep the same sound and add a "e" to achieve that same sound. It's he same reason that in English we use "an" before words starting with a,e,i,o.u

[mpalin11]

"On" in the meaning of "us/we" is when you're looking at that group from within - when you're actually within the group. For example, you could say "On a faim" = "We are (all) hungry".

"Nous", however, is "us/we" when you're looking at the group from an outside point of view. For example : "Nous sommes là = we are there" (when in a restaurant etc.)... I'm not a native but I think sometimes they can be interchangeable!

[SyAn Suze]

jeez SLOW down in these videos!!! im also writing it down to help remember!! rewind rewind pfffffffffft lol

[jefrench10]

Non je suis Français de la métropole.