I surprised my friend by learning her language
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มิ.ย. 2024
- This has been a long time coming. I spent 30 days learning French, in an effort to surprise my french friend Louise when I visited her in Atlanta. Let me just say, it was so worth it.
I've never considered myself very good at languages, but I truly believe they are some of the most valuable things we can spend our time learning. Being able to understand the way that other people around the world speak and think is something of a superpower, and this video is a snapshot of what 30 days of learning can produce. If you don't know any other languages, consider this your catalyst to start learning - doesn't even have to be French.
Leave a like if you enjoyed, and let me know about your experiences in learning languages!
Merci d'avoir regardé
Zack
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Links
Notion Document - bottlenose-lark-918.notion.si...
Full Unedited Conversation with Louise - • Full French Conversati...
State of Mind Spanish Learning Video - • How Much Spanish Can I...
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:10 Learning Plan
3:01 Day 1
3:58 Day 14
6:11 Day 21
8:31 Conversation
16:47 Closing Thoughts
18:27 Outro
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songs:
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- French Jazz Music by William King
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Making his way out of the friend zone, one croissant at a time. Godspeed mon frère.
haven't learned how to make pastries yet but thats next on the list
@zackburkhardt we want to see a croissant baking video
This vid is 10 months old, I'd be surprised he's still in the friend zone, I thought he'd move on or some. Btw, this vid just randomly got recommended to me, prob just like you, so I know nothing about this guy and his channel
@@Qrispy_Qing I'll write it down
@@zackburkhardtlol , you're bad liar 💀
"and that's how I met your mother"
he hearted it 👀
@@MrSharkFIN He hearted everything ☠️
@@hyuaahaha this cracked me up:))
En français s'il vous plaît
@@k-town873 ?
finally a realistic video with someone who learns a language and continues to struggle instead of being fluent in a short time
yes!! it just shows the reality, that learning a new language is not just easily done in 30 days . You need so much more time to really be able to have a real conversation with sb thats talking in the language (:
@@bestgamtingIkr and then there is Xiaomanyc being like
“I learned Korean in 24 hours!” 😂
Xiaomanyc enters the chat.
@@theturquoiseball1255 bruh frrr
ong
As a native, you did an excellent job in only 30 days !
Thanks!
Can we be friends please, i need to find English native friend
@@zackburkhardt yeah and french is a really hard language you did a very good job
French is really easy. Hungarian is the definition of hard.
@@godemperormeow8591 It all depends on where you are coming from and which languages you know. If you only know english, I bet everything else looks hard.
she was cute she didn't talk fast to you to understand what she was talking, adorable
That look on her face when you started talking to her in her native language... So Cool and so awesome.
the best part fr
As a Native French, this is impressive, I like when strangers try our language because it's really rare!!
I find your comment to be quite interesting. I wonder if maybe I’m stuck in a real-world “search bubble”. Almost all of my friends and acquaintances who have studied a foreign language have studied French. (The rest having studied German or American Sign Language.) So, French language proficiency, or at least familiarity, feels like the the norm.
I’ve been lucky enough to have visited over 20 countries (on business) and always make a point to learn a minimum of 25-50 words used there*, such as those for courtesy and directions. To me, this is not only a matter of showing at least the most basic level of respect, but also very practical. Is this really something that most people visiting France, Quebec, etc. do not do? Are, for example, Ugly Americans even uglier (rude) than my personal experiences suggest?
* the exception being The Netherlands and, to a lesser extent, Germany, because locals all but demand to use/practice their English instead. ;) Still, basic respect is shown on both sides.
Because time marches on whether we like it or not, I’m now older than I’d prefer to admit. Is it possible that, even in a world where language learning resources are now _infinitely_ more plentiful, younger visitors to French-speaking countries/regions are actually showing _less_ respect? Respectfully, I’d be curious to learn what your experiences have been.
Thanks and be well.
@@a1nelson Allow me to answer as a native french and I'm not sure I understood your comment well, but if you're wondering if tourists who visits France make an effort to learn a few words or not, I personally don't find that most people do so, or they say very well-known words that they probably already know. (Most of my encounters with tourists have been in ski resorts or in Paris, where there are a lot of young people coming in groups, so my opinion may be biased.) But i don't find rude to not learn some French though and sometimes they've a friend who speaks french really well in their group.
Tell me if i'm wrong on what you asked ;)
@@a1nelson Well I'm from The Mediterannean Side of France, and this a really touristic site, and when I see all of cultures and tourist from the World, None of them will try our language, they will constantly speak english even for the most easy things to ask, Be well too!
mais de ou
What? People learning French is rare?According to Google even just Germany got 1.6 million students learning it in school
I met my wife at school and since she’s Italian, I learned Italian in secret to surprise her. I first tried during the evenings and weekends with a language course book (this was the 1980s), but it bored me. Since I already learned French at school and was quite good at it, and the similarities between French and Italian are quite extensive, I got myself an Italian novel instead and worked my way through it over a three week summer holiday that I spent away from her with my parents.
Whenever I came across a word I couldn’t guess exactly, I wrote it down, and every few dozen words collected I looked them up one by one in a dictionary. By the end of the holiday there wasn’t a word in that 180 page novel I didn’t know, and I could have told the story by heart, in Italian. It was a full immersion and a bloody hard piece of work, but young love is powerful.
We’ve raised three bilingual kids together, and I took the Italian part of that, by the way.
Thats crazy actually👏🏼
Wow what a story. Thats awesome!
Grandissimo , bel lavoro!
I have never learned Italian language just English, German, French but in one day I had to translate Italian Albanian language pair. She is speaking very slowly.
When I was in third grade high school, it was almost 2 and half school years I had started learning French I had to interpret Albanian French language pair. You should continue learning French, for example the news cast in French language. Then watch movies in French language
Love how you didn't edit out the awkward silences. Makes the video more authentic. I like authentic 👍🏾👍🏾
Glad you enjoyed! Thats definitely part of the goal - that's how life actually is.
@@zackburkhardt as someone who is learning a language and also struggles to think of words sometimes, (and is also planning to go to georgia tech funnily enough lol) i appreciated this aspect a TONNN because it really helped me know that im not the only one who struggles with this. Great video, and i hope youve found more success in this and your other challenges! :D
"If you speak to a man in a language he understands, that goes to the head. If. you talk to him in his language, that goes to the heart."
- Nelson Mandela
And this is very true! 😊
he was on to something fr
the rubbing of his hands to soothe himself as he is nervous, is SO UNREALISTICALLY authentic and adorable
I'm quite impressed for how good your pronunciation and even accent is for such little time.
thanks! I honestly think learning German has helped a lot. They're not the most similar but just having learned a different language from english made it a lot easier to adapt to another one.
French pronunciation has rules, which is much easier than English
As a self-taught french learner myself, his lack of understanding what she’s saying is so relatable. Speaking is so much easier than listening at first! Ive been at it for 18 months now, so understanding her was pretty easy, but i wouldve been just like him at the 30 day mark. Hang in there bro it gets easier with practice!
thanks! wish I'd have been able to keep it up more tbh
bro why dont you just tell her you love her???
never learned how to say it...
@@zackburkhardt you do. this is how
@@zackburkhardt HAHA you do you bro
@@zackburkhardt bro never say a girl i love you. Just let it flow with time everything will fall into place. I ve been there before too.
@@zackburkhardt "Je t'aime!" 😜
if I knew this was for a video, tutti would probably not have been on my lap the entire time
it shows your innocence
is that you????????????????????????????????????????
marry him
@@IndiaDuniya real
I like tutti.
as a french person, the day 21 is FUCKING impressive !!! glad you are learning my langage ! i really hope u will continue this way
Preciate it!
Right?? In my 21st day of learning Italian I just cried all day and couldn't speak, and he's already able to form sentences!
Congratulations! I also learned a language fluently to surprise my friend but he broke the friendship up before the surprise. :(
Man that sucks, I'm sorry. At least you've got the language out of it though
Sorry to hear. Create new and fun memories with the language; new and fresh connections. Peace and strength papa.
😂
Wow, I imagine the lack of closure in a situation like that must've weighed a lot on you. How did you manage?
Who tf breaks up a friendship!?
Your pronunciation is actually pretty impressive 👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks!
Bro u can see a crush igniting in her eyes😭😭😭 she has so much appreciation
He totally went from friend to crush really fast lol.
I always enjoy hearing a native French pronounce words. It's so hard to imitate that accent. But you did a damn good job in such a short time. I took French in high school for 3 YEARS and I can only say bonjour! and baguette. Lol
Thanks! yeah it sounds so nice when they speak it
I appreciate the unfiltered and unedited conversation. Good luck with learning further!
Thanks! Glad you appreciated it haha
Thank you for not faking the experience of learning a language. I believe many big youtubers fake progress for views.
Je suis tombé sur ta vidéo par hasard avec l'algorithme et franchement bravo pour les efforts que tu as fait pour apprendre notre langue pas si évidente! Bonne continuation 😊
Merci!
Its crazy to think we are so blessed to have the internet to be able to share these experiences with random people around the world! This was so genuine bro!! You red as a tomato had me dying lol keep it up!
Haha glad you liked it!
a lot of people say that languages are the keys to unlocking new cultures and cultural experiences and I could def see that with your german story! cool video zack!
Preciate it Govind!
One of the cutest and realistic language learning videos I've seen yet. Don't worry mate, the other videos are pretty unrealistic.
There's that special bond between you. Hope it goes well between you two, you both seriously have that really special look when staring at each other.
Bon courage dude
Even though you did not understand much of what she said, you did AMAZING considering the short amount of time spent. I think you may have just needed to talk to different native speakers in the meantime maybe on learning apps but that might not be possible and I think it’s great you learned something new!
Thank you! Keeping it a secret was definitely fun but yeah, it would definitely be easier to learn if I'd been talking to her the whole time
I was moved and entertained by your video. What matters most was your cute intention, your courage and your willingness to try. It was an honor watching your 30 days! Thank you for sharing this with us!
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!
Exactly my thoughts!
I'm a native french and in 30 days your french is pretty good
That's so cool. And I really liked that she didn't try quickly to correct you. And the notepads are best and also conversation to improve your french. At least, it worked for me to improve my english
yeah she took it easy on me thankfully haha. good idea!
I think you did well for 30 days just keep at it, don’t stress. French is not easy, I grew up speaking and learning French in Senegal, once I moved to the US I realized how difficult they made the French language. Like what! So many verb tenses and prepositions!
It's easy to memorize phrases, but when I started learning Japanese it was so hard to understand what people would say back to me. I had to study a lot of examples of conversations in TH-cam videos or TV shows to get a better grasp on common vocabulary used in responses to the phrases I knew.
Yeah totally! it was a different beast going from learning online to actually trying to speak and communicate with someone
Use ChatGPT so you will be surprised but not with an actual person!
Hi, I'm french and I'm very happy to see someone learn my language. I've been trying to improve my English for several years now (more than ten years) and I'm still making mistakes. So don't worry if you make mistakes, the important thing is to make the effort to learn and to be proud of your progress. I read my first book in English a few months ago now and I was proud to be able to understand 70/80% of its content.
Thanks! Thats great, keep it up
She's cute and very encouraging and understanding and patient. Marry this one. Trust me.
Great to see people like you encouraging people to learn new things, languages, cultures, sports, etc :)
This was super commendable for the short amount of time you had to learn it! And the fact is she understood your questions almost perfectly
Thanks! She definitely knew what I was saying, not so much the other way around though haha
nice job my friend,
I am very impressed by your ease after such a short time. you are amazing. kisses from France.
You are very brave bro, your effort was amazing. Congrats!
Thank you!
I love your humility but you did a great job in such a short time! And you two are so cute and heartwarming.
This is so wholesome. Merci pour votre efforts
good job bro, super well-made video! J'espère que vous continuerez à apprendre le français!
Merci!
As a native French, you're being too strict with yourself! You did well in only 27 days, your pronunciation was on point for a beginner! You definitely can learn the language without struggling too much :)
thanks! I'd definitely like to one day honestly
What a wonderful friendship :)
That's so sweet.I wanna friend like you
Ton geste est trop mimi haha ! et franchement avoir tout ça en 30 jours c'est vraiment bien, j'espère que tu vas continuer !
Merci!
having you as a friend is the best gift that she can imagine.!
you're so right
Thats so cool! To see, that you arent "perfect" makes this whole thing so much better, bc its natural. Good Job!
Authentic and motivational forreal 🙏🏾
thank you!
I was just scrolling through the videos until i came across this one. And i really loved it.
Ur dedication to learn French just to surprise and communicate with ur friend makes me feel that you're a kind and lovely person. Keep up the Good work❤❤❤.
Also you deserve a family so i am ur subscriber now, yay🎉🎉
Thank you! glad you enjoyed it and that you're sticking around!
Insane video, I'm so happy to someone have the courage to share a real 30 days learning challenge.
Your level is really good for 30 days only and for me is better than most of people would do in 30 days.
TH-camrs wants ppl to dream of what they could do in 30 days even if they never will because it's most of times scam or simply very talented gifted hardworking people which isn't the average :)
Good effort. Well done. It gets better all the time.
Incredible video!!! enjoyed watching so much
Thanks!
it's actually great that your learning french and got so good like in a month I had an american accent for like 3 months
I've heard the French love to hear an American twang when speaking french so maybe an accent isn't too bad...
Thats so pure, i love it
I liked it.
It was a very real way to look at the processing of learning a language in 30 days. Not everyone picks it up that fast. Props on ya for getting as far as you did.
Seeing her eyes light up was incredible.
preciate it
It's still a pleasure to see a foreigner learning our native language :)
this video is amazing, and i remember having seeing a similar expression on the french exchange student's face when i walked up to her and said that i was learning french, and that i would really appreciate her help. plus this video gave me some great motication to study again, merci !
That’s awesome! get back to it 😤
What makes a LOT of new learners of a language quit within the first year or so is the realization of just how much work it actually is t get to *actual* fluency and how progress actually seems really fast at first but the further in you go, the more you realize you DON'T know, and the steeper the slope gets to get to the next level. I've been learning Chinese 15 years, and I STILL have a long way to go. That's how it is. My goal is native level fluency in two language I have been learning for years off and on, and I've even LIVED in China - it's STILL not there. This video provides a more realistic look at what it's like to start out -and mind you, French is considered a category 1 language, which means it's the lowest difficulty and least study time for an english speaker along with Spanish, Swedish, etc, while Chinese is a category 4 or 5, the hardest, but even a category 1 IS a huge challenge to go from 0 to fluency in. NO language is easy to learn. That's the secret. There are no shortcuts, there's no magic bullet, no easy button - just hard work, time, practice, repetition and consistency with feedback from native speakers. MOST people will have a thick foreign accent in any second anguage and getting PAST that is the hardest thing because you need to focus SUPER hard on exact pronuciation and flow, not just "close enough". I guess for people who are OK with a foreign accent, "close enough" is fine, but for perfectionists, it can be excruciating.
But I always say, always remember one thing: native speakers have spoken the language every day of their life since they were a year or so old. That's countless thousands of hours of full immersion. To compare, you need the same, but if you DO immerse 24/7, you WILL make huge strides.
You did so well!!!
BRAVO !!
HONEST video. Love it. Don't belive those fake youtubers out there man. I liked this video a lot
Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it
You did a great job !! Well done !
she is stunning, good luck bro
Tes progrès sont impressionants, continue d'apprendre le français mec !
This is awesome. Your English has gotten to be very good! Keep up the good work, Zack
He's from USA...
Thank you Alex.
that's so cool, congratulations on your progress
Thanks!
I like to get you put yourself out there, sometimes expectations are bigger than our results loll, but that’s awesome and it’s human
Really good job with the French! I'd be nervous too hahahaha...she speaks English really really well as well! Usually the accent from a French person is thick but it's like she had grown up in the US!
Thank you so much! Yeah, you'd never know she was French when she speaks English
This video caused youtube algorithm to go crazy after 10 month
I enjoyed watching your video the progress and result
Thanks! Yeah it's crazy, it's just been blowing up the past few days
Wow….I studied French for several years in school and still struggled to communicate with a native speaker, so you did amazingly well in only 30 days!! I can’t imagine how anyone could possibly be critical of your results. Is this what the world has come to, that people really think you can become fluent in a language in only a month?! I’m 47, and there was no such expectation “back in my day.” Anyway, great job! You made your friend so happy!
thank you!
i’ve been learning french on and off for a few years and finally starting to take it seriously. props to you because it’s nerve wracking!
It is for sure. Keep it up!
You guys so cute. Hope you're dating.
Dudes brain shut off the second he was near her. Forgot 90% of the french he learned
same thing happens w german
@@zackburkhardt Yeah, because you automatically fall back into your innate patterns.
B2/C1 level would be when you manage to "turn that off" and actually think in the language you're speaking.
Dude that's some AMAZING content! I love how real and simple your content is! It was nice watching it. Subscribed!
Preciate it! glad to have ya
Bravo chef !
Why no one mention the thing that he's friend who knows french very well does not used difficult constructions and speak veery slowly. If you know french i think you know what i mean. She literally speak as a french learner not as a native speaker. And i found it very cute.
Sorry for my mistakes, i'm only learning english
She definitely took it easy on me haha. Best of luck, you're doing great!
@@zackburkhardt thanks😊
Elle a juste adapté son discours pour l'aider à comprendre.
How is your french going now? Did you continue learning? If you continued, it would be so nice to hear you speak it now :D
I haven't kept at it unfortunately, been moving on to other things. But I plan to work on it again in the future and will definitely have an update!
@@zackburkhardt Continue. Tu vas y arriver ;)
for 30 days his memory of those complex and long words is crazy, being able to hold a conversation like that is really good, he only forgot some of little words in between and she managed to understand everything he said. bien joué frérot !
i appreciate your efforts to learn a new language and making a good video with high quality.
Thanks!
Actually in the south of France the pronunciation is more Spanish. Only in the north/Paris they talk with those R's
Ah see maybe I just need to go to the south.
Not at all
Je suis désolée mais vous dites n’importe quoi😅! La prononciation du sud de la France n’a rien avoir avec l’espagnol ! Renseignez-vous !
@@mendelmurphy5016 Dans le sud de la France, les gens qui habitent près des Pyrénées prononcent les R de manière plus latine, tandis qu'au nord les R sont plus allemands.
You did well but thirty days is an extremely short (and unrealistic) amount of time to learn any language you've never spoken before let alone French (which is objectively the most difficult Romance language for foreigners and anglophones specifically). You should have given yourself a little more time. French, the ultimate gendered language, has one of the most elaborate grammar rules verbs, adjectives and determiners have to agree with gender and number with its subject.
Yeah absolutely. I didn't expect to become decent at the language by any means, I just wanted to show what was possible in such a small amount of time. I'd like to learn more and I know it'll take a lot more work to get to a decent level. However, even making as much progress as I did in thirty days was encouraging and just showed how much better one could be with even more time.
@@zackburkhardt Yes, I knew you weren't trying to get great and just challenged yourself and you did very good in such a short time. I hope you stick with learning French because it's a very beautiful, rich and useful language to master. It was brave of you to teach yourself French. If I didn't learn French in school I don't even think I'd be audacious enough to learn it by myself.😂Thank you for making this and I wish you the best!
@@Sidek0 Absolutely. Thank you, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
First of all I want to say that this is a really good video! I really appreciated seeing you show your level of French after learning it for about 30 days. I've been interested in learning languages for a few years and my experiences match up well with yours in this video. You did get off to a really good start and I hope that you continue with French. I'm definitely subscribing to your channel so I can see more of your videos.
Thanks man! Glad you enjoyed it and glad you're sticking around
"I'm gonna treasure that memory forever" - this is actually very strong dude. Props to you, you did a really good job and put a real effort into this. Be proud of urself mate.
thank you!
Now I feel like I want to learn a new language 🥲
Give it a shot!
the meaning she described for "on ne change pas une équipe qui gagne" is not correct ^^
it's a rough equivalent of "if something ain't broke don't fix it"
Smh I'll see what she has to say for herself
Omg amazing video!! I'm so happy to see how much you were able to improve in 30 days, made me inspired.
It gets easier when you balance the practice with someone and the grammar study. But since the beginning your pronunciation was incredible! please make more videos about language learning
Thank you! I'm glad, I hope it inspires you to work on languages yourself! I definitely plan to make one or two this summer while I'm in Germany, so be on the lookout!
I will!!😁😁 Have a good week.
Love how you showed the reality of learning and how it isn't always this fast line 100% convo after the first 30 days. Just followed and makes me want to give it a try I think with Spanish or who knows many French.
Thanks! You can definitely do it, give it a shot
I would not be so harsh. You choose one of the most complicated languages, in my opinion, and you did well.
In fact you did better in a few days than some people, in months. Yes, you had a hard time to understand but that a vocabulary problem. It takes time and a lot of reading of French novels, articles, etc and talking with others in French to be able to fluently understand someone.
Thanks for the kind words! Looking back, I'm definitely proud of where I was at, and I'm honestly just excited to hopefully get even better.
most complicated languages? I appreciate his effort, but French is so easy to learn from English compared to most languages out there.
This is so nice 🥺 Kannst du ein Video auf Deutsch machen?
Auf jeden Fall! Ich werde dieses Sommer in Deutschland leben und ich werde mindestens eine Deutsche Video machen.
Bro, I have to say thank you. I have been struggling with French for like 3 years and this video was quite motivating to me. I understand French properly but I struggle a lot with writing and speaking so I am kind of restarting my studies. Thanks for motivation, pal
Awesome, glad it's helping!
Okay this was so cute. Language is truly beautiful
You cannot learn a new language in just 30 days. What you did is best as a person can in 30 days. Regarding other videos where people learn in 30 days or one week, they already have past experience with language. For example, Nathanial Drew TH-camr already had past experience with language such as school, and also knew languages from same family which really eases new language acquisition. And that's why they are able to talk on so many topics easily compared to you.
Wait, this didn't land you a kiss? Sure she's french? 😮
She's french but shes not THAT french...
I’m an American who’s been fascinated by La langue française for many years. I never took a formal class; I learned it all on TH-cam and through music. My progress was nowhere near as fast as yours. This video simply blew me away that you could put together decently complex sentences after just two weeks. I’m very proud of you brother.
Thanks man!
Bravo, Impressionant pour 30 jours ! Keep learning, you'll be fluent soon !
Bro just ask her out, move on if she say no
7:10 Glad you got this. A lot of non francophones think french people pretend to not understand them when they speak french. The fact is french is phonetically very "narrow" in the sense it doesn't have maybe different sounds and they are very close to each other in terms of prononciation. Say "on" instead of "an" or miss a letter for another and we won't be able to understand you.
Kudos for your efforts, amazing what you did in only 30 days!
Nice work man!
Overcoming the stress, putting the time and efforts into it + makin it work = unforgettable memories. Bien joué frérot !
Thanks!