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Very good, thank you!

C’est dommage que le vidéo serais en anglais

Salut Géraldine,salut de la Nouvelle-Zélande 👋. Ça va? C'est intéressant quand tu as dit que français peuvent être 'une galère ' même pour les Français.

Je vais parler a mon chat - il est un tonkinois tres amiable.

Merci beaucoup d' enseigner cette nouvelle thème

J'aime l'idee de parler avec un faux ami. (Je pense que ma vraie amie demande ce video pour moi. ha ha J'ai besoin de cette information.) J'essaie de ecouter a francais plus maintenant pour ameliorer ma comprehension.

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I recently spent about 6 months of doing some pretty intense “refreshing” my 1980s high school French before going on vacation there in May. I plowed through about just about every method-Duolingo, the entire set of Fluent Forever flashcards, working through an entire book of grammar exercises, watching lots of YT, a few sessions with an in-person French tutor, etc. These were all useful in their own ways once I got to France. However, watching all of Lupin and Call My Agent was especially helpful! First, my ear was more attuned to normal speech, so I picked up bits of conversation all around me-on public transport, in shops, etc.-I felt a little less like an outsider. Second, when there were phrases in the shows that I thought could be useful (like ordering a beverage or greeting people, etc.) I rewatched them and mimicked their pronunciation/inflection. I think this really helped me be less tongue-tied. So I would say practice talking with the characters on French shows! 😊

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This exercise is absolutely the best of the best! It helps me so much as I pursue my French studies to listen while you read it slowly and read the French subtitles (I never looked at the English but tried to derive meaning just by reading French), then you allowed me to read along with you -- c'est merveilleux! I stumbled a lot and fell behind in some places, but I'll come back to this again and again until I can do it well. This is a perfect learning tool for me -- merci beaucoup !

Great video, Geraldine, and so practical. I've lived here in France for 22 years and still struggle but these and other "spoken French tricks" you've taught have improved my confidence.

In her book Merde Encore! More of the Real French You Were Never Taught in School, the author "Genevieve" writes of what she calls "la nouvelle conjugaison," "pronoun, on" followed by the verb in the third person. Is anyone familiar with this?

Je vais parler français à ma chat 😂

J'aime apprendre le française. Merci beaucoup❤

Merci beaucoup,

Salut Geraldine, I've changed the language settings on my Amazon Echo smart speaker to French, so now all my interactions with Alexa have to be in French, From turning the radio on (Alexa, démarre RFM...) to ordering stuff online, and from checking the day's weather through to asking where and when Anne Sila is next "en concert" !!

All of this so so much! It is batty that here in Europe, in francophone countries, they insist we learn French and we take their classes to pass their tests BUT even those classes don’t want to teach us to communicate in common spoken French like all our neighbors but these teachers insist we drill and drill the same bookish rules over and over then get frustrated we don’t just pick the entire language right up overnight and run with it. When I point it out to any teacher their autoresponse is, well it’s best to learn it right, like we should just know qu’on should become que l’on eventhough it’s never taught in any book and no teacher can ever give a good answer when asked, what is that. The vocab of our books is not the same as what our friends and neighbors use! That is cruel!

Geraldine’s content is some of the best for learners of French. Her material is practical, extremely useful, informative and very, very clear. Merci Geraldine 👍👍

Love the use of Hiroshima, Mon Amour. Such a wonderful movie! Great advice; especially about French being a living language that changes every week.

I have lived in France for 18 years. I arrived with better than schoolboy French. I expected to improve quickly, listening to French people talking, and being part of normal conversations. But, no. Every other person wanted to practise their English. I would just continue with my French. It was, and still is, incredibly rare for a French person to correct my French. If they did, I thanked them. Now, I can converse quite well. But, I get annoyed, that French people haven't got the sense and kindness to speak more slowly than usual. It must be plainly obvious to them that I am not a French native, but they make no allowance for that. The attitude seems to be so often, "Not my problem. You are the one at fault, because you can't speak fluent French!" Social courtesy and conscience seems absent. Why? Do the French really hate us that much?

Madame Geraldine Lepère, the exercises you have recommended require an AI interface to check colloquially spoken french pronounciation and grammar ... because people from different first language backgounds will naturally deploy the phonology of their first language if they are not repeatedly corrected by a human being or by an AI platform multiple times until it sticks ... sometimes hundreds of times! Remember that we use speech recognition AI patforms nowadays which rigorously enforce correct formal spoken french grammer and pronounciation. This is one trillion times better than not having speech recognition AI platforms at all as was the situation prior to this development as french pronounciation is known to be one of the most difficult if not the most difficult amongst the romanesque languages. Even if we try to religiously practice what you are telling us to do ... when we get back onto our AI interfaces which have taught us everything we kmow about correct formal french grammar and pronounciation ... and pronounce what you have told us to pronounce - we will immediately be failed mercilessy by the AI platforms ...

Madame Géraldine Lepère, is it possible to develop a discerning ear for colloquially spoken french through actually studying it seriously without having to all of sudden try to replicate this in one's own speach as some people have spent decades learning from sources such as FSI French Audio, BBC Talk French Audio, Duolingo Speech Recognition AI, Rocket Languages Speech Recontion AI, Teach Yourself French Audio, Pimsleur French Audio, etc., and can easily cut back on the breadth of the grammatical structures they would use in a conversation but no so easily cut back on their by now ingrained formal spoken french ... as compared to someone who has spent a long time getting used to both forms of speech in France or Switzerland for example ... We may may appear very formal in speach even with a slimmed down grammer set but won't we be understood? I also believe that their are multiple forms of colloquially spoken french depending on region, country, social class, etc. How many forms of colloquially spoken french would we have to learn in order to sound authentic?

This was probably one of the most important videos a French learner needs to watch.

Didn’t come for the language lesson. Had to ff a lot but great ideas

This is so helpful, merci beaucoup ❤

This problem of stilted formal vocabulary and pronunciation occurs with all language learners. 40 years ago I tried (not very successfully) to help Japanese businessmen improve their spoken English. My worst failure was the man who would not accept that he should stop saying "I return to my residence" and should simply say "I go home".

I didn't know about J'sais or T'es, T'as, etc... Thank you for that. ce qu into c'qu is also new to me.

I believe you, but this seems like advice you'd give to a B1 or B2 level student. I don't know how a beginner or low intermediate puts this into action. It still seems like you have to learn the textbook version of French before you can transition to the informal, everyday version. How would you guide a beginner thru this process? Please address this question, because I'm honestly stalled and quite discouraged.

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Thank you for roasting us Comme une Française. We really needed it😂

Another worth practising is the contraction of words like 'mettre' and 'rendre' to 'mett...' and 'rend...' e.g. 'Elle va met(tre) son vélo au garage...' This is really common.

Merci! J'parle avec mes chiens presque tous les jours. Mais t'as raison. C'est difficile à supprimer les mots et les lettres, lorsqu'on a appris le français "correct" au lycée.

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Your tip of trying out conversations in your own day-to-day life is great. It'll help me build my vocabulary in the areas which will help me the most. Thanks.

Besides dropping the "ne" in negative constructions, what are the other grammar differences between written and spoken French?

Thank you so very much for sharing this wonderful video❤. This is one of the best eposodes. You did a great job finding and editing all the wonderful images. Wishing you a happy week ahead. Looking forward to your next video

Si vous plait parlez en la different entre voici voila et il y a

C’est simple, un thé SVP … LOL😂

Contenu de qualité - et tout à fait charmant.

This video reminds me of the times when one either pronounces the final S in ananas, Dumas, jus, pas, invers and other words ending in S both in the plural and also in the singular versions. I believe many francophones dispute, whether one should pronounce the final S or not. In Quebec, we don't pronounce the final S in jus, pas (step/pace), ananas and the surname Dumas, invers or in the name of Anvers in Belgium. However, we hear debates by French citizens who pronounce these final Ss. Of course, in Anvers, the Belgians pronounce the S, so it would be incorrect to pronounce the city's name without the S sound at the end.

Merci encore, tres utile!

Can anyone tell me exactly what pigé (or piger?) means? Google Translate says "cottoned", and then "caught", but has piger as draw.

j´ ai bien l'idee que ma grandmere trouve ce lecon un cauchemare, on s'exprime pas comme ca! followed with a lengthy diatribe about manners, but despite all that actually j'ai pige presque tout.

On a volé ma voiture. This feels more natural to me… (l’)on m’a volé la voiture. Is this wrong?

Ok Vous aimez ça. Mais, quant à nous…. How to use “on” with this construction? …. Ok. Explained. Never mind.

Merci Geraldine for inviting Geraldine to talk about phonetics etc. in learning pronunciation. I have discovered so much from watching this video, about paying attention to my mouth when practising spoken French. Not only was this very helpful, but also very interesting ❤

Just what I need!

Merci pour les leçons. J'ai appris beaucoup aujourd'hui ❤

I want to learn French language I'm beiner

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