What NOT TO DO in France, FRENCH ETIQUETTE and FAUX-PAS | Social and Table Manners
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- Faux-pas can be common when visiting France or Paris, but if you want to learn more about French etiquette and the right way to interact with French people to be polite, this video is made for you. From table manners to social rules, you will learn the best way to behave in France. Next time you attend a social gathering with French people make sure to apply those rules to avoid looking like a tourist in Paris! You will know what to do at the restaurant in France, as well as what to bring to a French dinner and the best way to shop in small boutique.
▶️ What to watch next:
- My Parisian Apartment: • PARIS APARTMENT TOUR (...
- 10 Hidden Gems in Montmartre: • Hidden Gems of Montmar...
- Versailles Market and cheese haul: • Versailles Market and ...
▶️ FOLLOW ME:
- Instagram: / lola_thehungryparisian
- Pinterest: www.pinterest.fr/thehungrypar...
▶️ CONTACT ME:
lolathehungryparisian@gmail.com
▶️ ABOUT ME:
My name is Lola and I am a French tour guide living in Paris, specialized in French gastronomy.
With this channel, I want to bring Paris and France to you! We will test French recipes, do French food challenges, browse Parisian markets… So if you’d like to explore France and French food with me, make sure to subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications so you never miss a video!
![[Vowel]물고기는 물에서 살아야 해🐟🤣Fish have to live in the water #funny](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/3G9MH063Cx4/mqdefault.jpg)
Merci for watching this video! If you want, you can know head to my blog: thehungryparisian.com
Thank you for this video! ❤
I would like to add:
It's very important to keep your back straight, both physically and figuratively. Especially at the table.
I've heard French parents telling their children:
" Les animaux descendent leur gueule à la bouffe,
Mais les humains l è v e n t la n o u r r i t u r e à la bouche ! "
if they slush.
" La bise "
I would compare it to hugs rather than sharing hands. (Still unfriendly to back away from a hug.)
I live in Stockholm. When I was in school and my French group did an exchange with a French school, the called us baboons for hugging as a greating. That's what they thought we looked like.
A trick if you don't want to do it, that French people has told me they use, is to quickly reach out your hand to shake hands. (If you shake hands, you don't also do "la bise".)
Also that "Bonjour!" is ONCE A DAY. I have gotten many annoyed / confused "RE - Bonjour!"
I wish I had watched this about 20 years before TH-cam even existed!!!
❤❤❤
Bravo Lola , I’m just abonnés and all videos are greats . I would add : don’t hug anyone when you meet us , is not the tradition in France, even if we do « la bise » we never take somebody we don’t know in our arms . You risk to have a person very surprised and confused in front of you😂
In our modern busy lives, we have lost the courtesy of greeting. When we visited France. As an Australian, my sentence began Bonjour, je ne parles pas Francaise et je habité en Australie. So that they knew I wasnt a French speaker. I was always brought up to not place my elbows on the table.
She speaks both English and French very well. And she s correct on everything. Everything
Excellent advice all. And I always add Madame, Mademoiselle, mesdames, monsieur ou messieurs to my Bonjour on entering a shop.
Très bonne vidéo et pouvez-vous vous en faire une sur comment se servir et tenir ses couverts pour manger ?
Very nice! All just good manners and common sense, which people in my country don't often use. As a result, we have few rules of consequence, which is very sad. I enjoyed your video very much.
very useful. I work next to a suburb called Frenchs Forest in Sydney, and indeed there are more French there. Knowing a bit more would certainly help.
Merci for this video! We are about to go on our first Europe trip and I want to make sure I am being polite & mindful that I am a guest! Merci for all the tips!! 🎉
Bonjour Lola, your videos are great! I can't wait to visit France, next year. I love all of your etiquette lessons...Merci! I'm really trying to learn some basic French words and phrases so, I can at least start a conversation. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Laurie from Southern California
Very helpful. Merci!
So true! I used to work in a souvenir shop in Montmartre during 5 years. Some of my colleagues were so aggressive with tourists. I travelled a lot so I could understand what it is to be lost in another culture. But most of sellers are less open minded.
Definitely! But also I think there are rude people everywhere but they are not always representative of their culture and their country 😁
I’m starting to think I might be culturally french after watching this lol
Are you French??? Your English is GREAT!
Thank you so much for this informative video! The style is so distinctive as I am used to British etiquette. I feel like this is relaxed yet very elegant. I feel like a wild animal in France haha.
Great advise
I loved this so much. I need to go to france!!!
you could be a great language teacher , great explaining skills and personality 👌
That’s so sweet! Merci!
Bravo Lola !!
I love your videos Lola!!
Merci, it so lovely to know you enjoy them!
Your videos are great! Please do more etiquette content, its so helpful! Thank you.
Thank you! Will do!
I enjoy watching and listening to your advice. Merci
Thank you so much, I am happy you enjoyed it!
Great vidéo Lola !
Thanks for reminding everyone about the quart d'heure de politesse and cutting the cheese properly ! Close to my heart haha
It's the best time to finish prepping everything 😜Merci for watching!
Le quart d'heure de politesse plus personne le marque, c'est plus un truc années 30 à 70 ^^
Very good info. Merci beaucoup!
Merci!
Great video! Merci ☺️
Merci beaucoup! Happy you enjoyed it!
Very useful and funny video !
Thank you ☺️
Very cool video Lola :)
Merci 😀
Great video. Just thought I would mention that there is a reflection of two green circles on your glasses in your video. Maybe a reflection of something on the wall opposite where you are sitting?
Merci! I am happy you enjoyed it! Yes the reflection comes from my ring light, I am still trying to get the hang of my lightning 😅
Keep going 👍👍👍
Merci!
Merci beaucoup
You’re welcome 😉
Your videos are sweet and informative. I adore lyour glasses. Where did you get them?
Merci! The glasses are from Jimmy Fairly :)
The friendliness thing is not true, especially outside Paris, In the southwest where I come from they are very friendly and they are also very friendly in Britanny.
Same rules in Denmark!
Those rules are the rules our parents teach us. We know them
Not everywhere, it seems
This is so similar to how things are in Guatemala. I have forgotten a lot of those manners since I’ve been here in the US (20 years). I’ve become “rude” according to other countries, but here in the US they would look at me funny if I was overdoing my manners and people hardly ever do things like welcome you into a store etc lol so I’ve gotten used to that. Next month I’ll be going to France to meet my husband’s family for the first time and I’m stressing out 😂 I don’t want to be rude! I have to remember to always say “Bonjour!” La bis, my hands/ elbows during eating oh my 😂 I’m so glad I watched your video to be aware! Thank you!
I am sure you will be perfectly fine when coming to France, especially if those are rules that you already used! It’s going to be just like riding a bicycle!
I like your customs…. Love to be in France….. I regret that I cannot speak French….
No worries, with just a few words we will already be very happy!
You are too cute🐻💯. I have noticed the French are shocked when l tip sometimes lol. I live in Genève
Merci! Yes it is not a big part of our culture :)
👍👍👍👍👍
😍😍😍
🥰
Half video about eating 😆but yes so we are
Keeping your hands above the table also assured everyone that you weren't engaging in some dalliance with the person next to you, under the table.
Enjoyed the video...one question...is it considered rude to say Bonjour to someone twice in the one day ??
It can seems a bit rude, cause the person face to you can think "hey, i'm so transparent that he didn't recognize me ?" If you're stranger, it'll be forgive, the better thing to do in my opinion, is to say with a smile, "re-bonjour". From a french, sorry for his poor english's level
@@tfjdfhozs3s849so maybe say salut and smile the second time?
I’m about to finish a French, M.A., I’ve lived in France twice, and I’m just *now* learning about le quart d’heure de politesse. Please excuse me while I go shamefully reflect upon each and every time I showed up on-time while living in France, afraid it would be extremely rude to do otherwise. *facepalm
Oh congrats on the M.A.! And don't worry we find it endearing 😉 also some people like their guests to be on time so I am sure your hosts didn't mind, it is more of a general rule rather than an absolute
I made it to level 3 French in Uni and we never covered any of the cultural aspects. Fortunately, I was brought up in an Italian household so I know the rules which are similar. I was taught to use my cutlery and put a hand in my lap like an American but once I went to Europe as an 11 year old, I abandoned those rules. I'm graceful in most ways but manual dexterity isn't one of them so I found it liberating to not have to switch hands or rigidly keep my left in my lap. The only thing that is good for is to anchor one's napkin and keep it from sliding to the floor. 😄
It's so good to know that if I just say "Bonjour!" at the right time, then all of the Parisians will suddenly become friendly and polite!
In u.s. all paying customers are worthy of some effort. In France, they use a different algorithm. We were always very polite and considerate and spoke French. Women were nice and helpful most of the time. Men were something else, super rude. Overall, sorry to say, French people were by far the most rude in the service industry.
Look if you have ever been to the south use that same etiquette in france except the south loves strangers more
Ah ah I am sure they do! ;) But we love feeding good food to people just as much as you guys do!
the south of what?
@@cleleoleo United states
Are you French irl? Your dna is french too?
You make French people sound like The Plastics from Mean Girls.
Except you have to be on time.
A bit aggressive 😅.
It's so sad that someone from France has to teach people things that should be just common sense etiquette everywhere. Don't touch unwrapped food in a store with your hands. Do you really need to tell people that? Say thank you. Don't put your elbows on the table. These are things I was taught when I was five years old. It's so sad to see that adults need a video to learn them.
I can't believe people have to be told to greet people when entering a small shop or whatever.
I'm sorry you've had to deal with socially deranged Americans etc.
Ah ah most of my guests were lovely people, I just think sometimes we get used to big corporation shop and it is hard to remember that not all shops are like that ;)
22 years ago I was a guest in a French family's home and every time I saw the lady of the house I'd greet her with, " bonjour madame". They treated me like thier own son. I was there for over a week and she asked me if I wanted any of my clothes washed, scared I said no, one son said go ahead and give her everything. She washed my shirts, pants and underwear - hung them up to dry on a drying rack with her three sons and husband's. 🩲 😏