6 EVERYDAY FRENCH THINGS THAT AMERICANS FIND ODD
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France, with its rich history, stunning architecture, and undeniable je ne sais quoi, is a dream destination for many of you out there. But before you pack your beret and practice your “bonjour,” there might be a few normal French things you encounter that’ll leave you scratching your head. Let’s get into a bunch of French cultural differences that might not only lead to a sense of wonder but often seem odd or strange to Americans as well.
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It's the law in France, sorry.
Well I think Americans and French should agree on one thing : at least when you’re all sweaty at the gym, you avoid both hugs and cheek kisses.
Agreed. Being french, i know that you can simply say: "no way, don't touch me when you are all sweaty". If it is your friend, no problem. The french speaks his mind, and so, no reason not to.
English friends who had a house in France caused hilarity at the local M. Bricolage by confusing the words “volet” and “vélo”, switching syllables. Puzzled looks until it dawned on one of the staff who said, in halting English, “Sorry to laugh Madame, but you do not have “bicycles” on your windows.”
I had a similar incident in San Francisco with a tall friend who had the look and accent of a skinhead... but is a really nice guy. He was towering a short Hispanic dude in the paint department of a hardware shop...Asking him if he had White Spirit. The pour dude bewildered look made me realize than we were not saying the right thing. He meant paint thinner. In French we use the English words for it...
Had the same misunderstanding when I 1st went to Great Britain as a highschool student, between "soap" and "soup" ...pronunciation
@@christianjambou8208 Oh mon dieu... mdr.
@@valtranslator
Outch !
Well, how about the Norwegian student thanking her English hostess ;
"No more soup please, I'm "fed up" ! 🤪
(meaning full). 😂
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Older homes in the US often have a bread drawer built in the cabinetry. We use a bread box.
Very handy!
How old? I’m familiar with houses well over 100 years old when I grew up that did t have them. That said, as a southerner we normally ate our breads the same day we baked it.
LOL. Beta Carotene turns the skin orange.
It seems those cars are basically the French equivalent of golf carts in a Florida retirement community.
My parents house was built around 1960 and had a bread drawer in the kitchen. It had a sliding metal lid that you opened when you pulled out the drawer. It was under the silverware and cutlery drawers.
Interesting point about French bread storage. My husband’s family is all in France. I’ve only seen baskets for storing bread. Bread is kept in a paper bag & stored in a basket. We’ve been married forever & that’s all I’ve ever seen from Paris, to the Loire Valley, to Provence & Toulouse.
Probably because you weren't realizing the other thing wasn't a garbage can! Hahha, but jokes aside bread bags/drawers are very common but not all homes use/have them.
@@OuiInFranceJust happy I didn’t put a used you know for my periods 🩸 in that bag…! 😳
Paper bags are fine ! Traditionnaly la "huche à pain" (bread hutch) is made of wood or metal. The bread can also be wrapped in a clean cloth or towel. As long as it is not air proof it's OK. It's done to slow down the drying inside while keeping the outside crusty. Otherwise the bread tend to be soft and rubbery before being completely dry.
I find that when I leave my bread from a very good bakery in a paper bag gets very hard. I know I can Use my white hands to cover the bread in water and put it in the oven and it will turn out like new I slice my bread and keep it in the freezer.
We have a bread bag from Carrefour. V stylish 😊
Excellent video, once again. I used to sing in a community choir here in Tours and we began every 8 PM rehearsal with bisous for each and every one, meaning we didn't sing a note until at least 8:30. Rehearsals let out very late!
I can totally picture that. Hope you had fun ;-)
and very often you end up the rehearsal with something to eat and/or drink😂😂French qualité of lire!
That is very French.
La bise at work can be quite unpleasant for women who feel obliged to endure it. I have the impression that post-COVID social conventions have made it disappear a little.
Right ! Especially at the begening of the year, when every man feels authorized to kiss you to wish a happy New Year 😕
Haha, about doing la bise with glasses, this past week I saw my boss and a visitor both remove their glasses before greeting each other - I'd actually never seen that, but it makes sense! :)
Yup very commun with the oldest generation
"the recoil from an agressive approach of an incoming bise" - LOL
I feel like the Germans should have a special word for this
I'm from Belgium and always used a "Breadbox" (Boîte à pain). For whoever is interested, look into it, I'm sure you'll be able to find very cute ones and even Diy one! I've definitely noticed bread bags at some of my friends in Paris, hanging behind the kitchen door, but for whatever reason I thought it was just a them thing 😂
My grandma had a bread drawer, but she isn't French. She always had yummy things in there ❤️ My mom I keep our bread in the cupboard 😊
3:20 NOT all people do la bise when they're sweaty lol! 😂
Nobody that I know do it in this situation.
In Britain we have a special box made of metal, plastic or wood called a bread bin. Some have a lift off lid, some a tambour type roll front and others a lift up or drop down flap.
We also have this in France, sometimes it is built in kitchen cabinet …
We always had a tin (I guess) lined drawer for bread in the houses I lived in in Northern California in the 1950's. The houses were Victorian. They were awesome at keeping baked anything fresh.
The bread drawer faux pas!! 🤣
As a french woman, even living in another european country, I always have my bred bad hanging at the kitchen door.... It's something I can't help using😜
I admit, they are VERY handy!!
I never know which side to start the bise. And my favorite thing to see in France is people walking down the street with a baguette completely bare. A bit of French air to make it extra delicious.
I've got the same problem with la bise, given that I'm a lefty. And I'm French ! I only kiss family, though.
I thought it was turn left so right cheeks touch, then turn right so left cheeks touch.
There's no hard and fast rule that I know of but most people go to their left first
Being french, this is true for everyone. You end up using your finger at times. Like here, there? Which side first? There is nothing embarrassing about this.
By law You should have a paper around your baguette…
New Yorker here and I confess I don't like hugs and I hate handshakes. I've observed la bise in plenty of French movies and it actually seems nicer to me than the American greetings--as long as sweat isn't involved!
Handshakes can be so tricky. I always get the wet fish or the hard squeezer -- nothing in between! A firm handshake is perfect, not too weak or too strong.
Even with some sweat, I prefer la bise. Done right, you barely touch, the kiss is in the air. I think hugging is more of a Southern thing. You're from NY, my sister-in-law is from the Northwest, I'm from the upper Midwest...not huggers.
@@maryjackson1194 Being french, i can tell you that "la bise" to a sweety person is a no go. I refuse bluntly. It is not like rules weren't meant to be broken when necessary.
In Switzerland it's three bises, and in Belgium only one. This leads to constant misunderstanding during international greetings since there is no agreed convention on whether the host or the visitor's preference should be used.
And 4 in Northern France like in Picardy (part of Hauts de France) ;)
here in Italy it's two, normally. Sometimes just one, but it's a rare thing.
In Northern France,especially in my little corner: 4 bises !💋
I was at a friend's apartment in Paris a few years back, and when I went to leave, I fell back into my American ways, and started hugging people goodbye. They did not react well. I had to apologize and go for la bise. They looked at me like I was so weird--I'm not saying they're wrong...
The shutters... OMG! I love them! Our sleep-clocks are completely off the whole time we're there. We're often up at 3:00am and won't go back to sleep until 7:00am. However, those shutters can block out all the light, so I can sleep without being blinded by the morning light. The con of that, is that we've often overslept and woke up at 1:00pm! (His mom is SO nice and let's us sleep, but I wish she'd get us up so the day isn't gone).
Thanks for another fun-learning post!
One nice thing about the bread bag too, is you can go to the baker with it, gives it to the baker, so you don't get the paper sheet around your bread. One less thing to throw away.
I think bread drawyer is something you will more find in older houses. Recent one are not build with a bread drawyer
13:16 It's quite interesting you mention speech noises. As a French native speaker (but not French, Belgian), I had never realized that French uses such noises so extensively. It's also worth pointing out that exclamations are different between languages; for instance "hush" becomes "chut" in French, "yum" become "miam" and so on.
The house my parents owned when I was a kid had a bread drawer. The house was built around 1960.
Funny story. The people who built the house moved out when the main employer in the area transferred a lot of their executives to other areas. It caused a little housing bust in our area. My parents had seen that house and my mom wanted it badly, but it was outside their budget. So they waited, and nearly two years later it was still for sale, so the price csme down to what they could afford.
When we moved in, Mom opened the bread drawer and found that the old homeowners had moved out without cleaning that drawer. It was full of onions, now thoroughly rotten. It took her a while but eventually she was able to get rid of the smell so that we could use the drawer again.
I grew up in NJ. We had a metal-lined drawer in the kitchen for storing bread.
It seems like those cars are basically the French equivalent of golf carts in a Florida retirement community.
I love the light hearted approach and that one is not better than the other. Also, I'm glad to know about bread storage. I would have assumed the bag in the cabinet was a trash bag too. OOPSIE! LOL
I am French but I don't like "la bise" I don't have a bread bag and don't eat that much bread... maybe 3 breads per month... (btw, I don't like wine either 😅) There are many french habits that I personnaly don't have... Maybe I was not made to live in France 😅 (forgive my mistakes I'm not fluent in english...) I really like your videos. It's interesting to see how french life could be seen by other people 🙂 I can understand everything you say on your videos because you speak very clearly and it helps me a lot to learn english by myself... Thank you Diane !
Your English is good. Much better than my French!
Hi Diane. Great video as always ❤
Thanks so much!
Another great video from the Amazing Diane!
You're too kind, so glad you enjoyed it! ;-)
It's definately gross and impolite (not "normal") to do "la bise" if you're sweating. In that case we usualy just say "je ne te fais pas la bise…" (reason unspoken but obvious for both persons invoved) ou "Je te fais la bise de loin !" (and then we do it not to close or just send a kiss by hand). The same in case of disease. Everyone will understand.
I grew up in France for about eight years during the 80s, and spent the next thirty years in the States and other places. When I returned to France, and began living here, it took me quite some time to get used to la bise. It's quite the intrusion into personal space, which made me uncomfortable. Back when I was a kid, I didn't have a problem with it because I was a kid.
Agree that it's definitely something to get used to!
@@OuiInFrance My friends and neighbors here understand, thankfully. They know how screwed up I am. 😀
It’s funny because for me the hug is more an intrusion into my personal space than la bise. Don’t get me wrong, I have never liked la bise, especially as a kid I would try to escape whenever possible, but as an adult when I lived in the USA, hugs felt so wrong and uncomfortable! I am half French half Spanish by the way, presently living in France.
Despite being French, I have never liked 'la bise'. Always disliked it very much in fact.
But the idea of hugging someone to say 'hi' is just purely terrifying for me. If someone tried it on me I would instinctively consider it as an aggressive thing. Personal space is important for me.
Same for me ! And I only respond to my kids need of bise and cuddling, as a respect of their personal space. "We don't need to kiss to show we love each other" said my youngest !
At work I told everyone that I don't do la bise and if someone insists I ask him if he wants my microbes and cough a bit. Replay of the scene in the lift in Ghost ! 😂
Since COVID la bise is even less done between my relatives as lot of then are working in contact of public ( teachers, shops, ...)
I'm American and I would say hugging is not a typical greeting unless it is with someone you are close to. If you have a really good friend you haven't seen in months and you are delighted to see her, you might hug. Or you might hug a relative. Definitely not mandatory.
We never hugged nor did I ever see hugging done, as a common greeting practice prior to 1980 in my lifelong experience as an American (Southern Californian).
I grew up in South Carolina, and hugs were common. They have become more common in other parts of the country in recent years.
We've always had a bread box kept on our counter. It would have been in a drawer if I had enough drawers to accommodate that. I love your content and appreciate you reminding us that differences are only that - differences.
It's uncomfortable for men too, it's a good thing that it has mostly disappeared :)
I do love that wall color by the way, nice choice
Très intéressant et sympa comme d’hab et en plus vous êtes encore plus belle Diane! Merci d’une de vos fans en Suède 🇸🇪 !
I have also noticed that personal space (i.e. the comfortable space between you and someone you are talking to) is smaller in France, about 12" whereas in the US it is more like 18". That take a little getting used to.
Bonjour Diane. My favorite French speech word is "Ben." Ben, oui. Ben, non. Je l'utilise, moi. 🇺🇸🤝🇫🇷
Ha, that one and "beh", like, "bon, behhhhh". 😄
Ben, oui, hein!
It is the short for « eh bien »… eh ben… ben.
Ah ben ouais... carrément.
I love my volets! My husband says I’m really good on temp control in the summer. We don’t have a bread drawer, but we bought our house from a British couple who had done all the Reno. I love my bread bag!
To keep bread fresh and crusty a coton bag is a good solution. A good baguette is still crusty the next morning. Be careful it is now difficult to find a good bakery . No way for industrial bread in supermarket or chain stores with additives in flour . Only organic flour, sourdough and water, and time and night work ,no less, no more.
I always use a VPN when traveling in Europe. It was really hot when I was in Paris last year. Thankfully, the flat I rented stayed pretty cool
Makes sense these days... especially for getting around country restrictions on streaming services. Lots of Netflix's US shows aren't available in France unless you're using a VPN.
Glad you had a cool place to stay! Hoping it's not crazy hot this year for the Olympics.
@@OuiInFrance I will be back in Paris in July and I hope the heat isn't bad LOL. I'm working on learning French as well
I’m French I’ve lived in France of my life it’s not very common at all about French storing bread or basket , most French people will just buy the bread daily in the morning and leave it in the paper that comes in that’s what the French person would do , minority of people would do what you’re talking about ..
Depends on the size of your household and how often you shop. Not everyone finishes their bread in a day and not everyone has a bakery around the corner.
As for cars, yes, there are teenagers who need to have transportation but in my rural area they all have motors scooters or motorcycles. It strikes me as odd, backwards even, to have the most inexperienced drivers driving the most dangerous vehicles.
Right?!?!
We do 4 in the Vendee, takes ages when you arrive and leave a party.
I don't know what I'd prefer. A sweaty bise or a sweaty hug.
As long as they aren't at the same time....
@@OuiInFrance I mean, then that means you're getting sweaty for another reason 😂😂
We had a bread drawer in our home in the 50's. It was tin lined walls and lid to be opened after you opened the drawer.
Never used tanning pills. I am whiter than you :). Under the sun, i burn, but don't tan. I know no one who uses or used these pills. Despite living rather close to the sea (SW France). Actually, in France, there are "beach people" and "mountain people". I guess no one i ever knew (except my great uncle?) was a beach person.
Ah, and the so-called "bread drawer" is called a "huche à pain".
I live in the U.S. I don't use a VPN at the moment. I have heard Estonia has the l best selection of TV shows and movies on certain streaming services, thus a lot of people use a VPN to access it.
Diane. I have been watching your videos for several years. I've been a Francophile since grade school French lessons. A recent side benefit is my French parentage next door neighbor. We have become great friends. Some of it is because of what I have learned from your videos.
Oh wow, thank you for telling me. It's so nice to know that my content has helped people out there. Means a lot!
Bonjour from Cuenca, Ecuador.
Bonjour !! Or I should say hola ;-)
Nobody is desperate to greet you with la bise in France. It's only done in very special occasions and depending on the context.
Seems that way after COVID!
When it comes to bread, we personally just set it on the table, it has its space, and that's all. The rest of the bread that we won't be able to eat right away is cut and stored in the freezer in plastic bags, serial killer style 😂 never seen or heard about a bread bag before!
But, most importantly, you talked about the shutters! That's the first thing that struck me in the US: first night, I was expecting the shutters to go down because, normal, right? And nope, nothing happened, to my amazement! I later realised the house I was living in didn't have any, and so was it for the neighbours, the whole neighborhood, and... Beyond! Never seen anything but decorative shutters in the US. At the beginning it was kinda hard when I understood I'd have to sleep with the light coming from the street: I had always been used to sleeping in pitch darkness and find trouble falling asleep if there is even a little bit of light in my room! I eventually spent a year sleeping with a pillow on my face to block the light out, which decreased the time it would take me to fall asleep. I even had a friend, in California, who had a little set-up in her bedroom window with a big piece of cardboard blocking the light. I guess it's just a question of habits! I am personally very glad to have shutters again and still prefer sleeping in pitch darkness, even though I got used to the no-shutters situation!
Bonjour Diane. Some things are strange but not others. My grandparents, my parents, and now I all have breadboxes on the counter for bread (albeit not a bread drawer). My grandparents also had a pie safe for baked goods (I have it in my kitchen but use it for general storage). Humm, tanning pills. While I'm not familiar with them, I find it interesting that the US FDA says that they aren't healthy but there are many food additives/chemicals allowed in the US that are illegal in the EU.
Re the Bise. I came to France at the age of 57 and in the first couple years, enjoyed the familiar experience of being cheek kiss by more attractive females than in the rest of my life. Vive La France.
Baguettes; Buy, cut in half, wrap in cling film, freeze. 5 mins in the oven and you have a fresh crusty baguette whenever you want one. Delicious. Otherwise, after a day they can be used for breadcrumbs, toasted, fence posts.
Wow that is very interesting to know 🤯🤓🤓🧐🤯I really enjoy watching your youtube channel 💛💛💛🤓
My first time in France I studied in Avignon where 3 bises is the norm. Threw me off when someone did only two!
The cars with out license are referred to around the city of Le mans "voiturette".
10:25 Pronounced "Enobiol" (E-nobiol).
Vive la diffe'rence! Vive Diane! ❤🎉😊
:-)))))))))
You may not be aware but Citroen makes a monAMI that is ENTIRELY electric and can be charge by the same plug house plug that you use for your lamp or washing machine. It seat 2 people and can be driven at 14 provide you have taken a course of a few hours, passing a test, and voila!, you can drive around for a grand distance of 72 kilometer at 45 kph ( 44.7 miles distance at 27.9 mph ). Boohoo, I can't drive at 30 kph whichin is the speedlimit in every town, village or city. I did not lose my licence. I haven't cause a problem. Best yet, I have had my Citron monAMI going on 3 years now with zero problem with over 3,000 Kilometers and less than 5 Euro's per year in electricity. I do my all my errands in it. And it cost just a bit more than 6,000 Euros. And finally, you know how you must search for a parking place trying to find one that won't get your 25-65 Euro dings and pinged, I don't have that problem because I can easily park between to suvs and still have adequent room. But if it makes any driver feel special to drive a car that cost anywhere from 45-150 Euros to travel back and forth, struggle to find a safe place to park, well I am happy for you. Neither my garage, nor my vehicle nor my hands and shoes ever smell of diesel or gasoline anymore. If it makes other drivers feel superior to pay 10 of thousands of car so that stand in the rain filling them with fuel so that they can go do the same errands well more power to you. Just know that an all Electric Citroen monEMI EV does in now way that you are a better driver nor more law abiding than I am and many of us.... Oh! did I tell you it is quiet also?)
The Citroen Ami is also sold as byOpel as Rock and by Fiat as Topolino (with slightly different body panels).
Vous êtes une belle personne, très vivante et pétillante. Bisou du Québec.
Bise is common with French Canadians, I wonder if Cajuns practice this as well.
Yes, it is common in Quebec, but not every time friends or family meet. People do it after a long time of not seeing each other, when it's a celebration or a birthday, or just to say hello or goodbye, but rarely for both. Contrary to Mexico, where we give one kiss to eeeveryone to say hello AND goodbye, every single time 😅
for the french legislation, cars without permis are motobikes, so they don't requite permit. The speed is limited and you can't use highways with them.
- 3 kisses in south east - sometimes 4 in parisian region.
And I do it every day at work with my collegueas.
- Been in France since 40 years... I dont know anybody who take taning pills.
I store my bread in a vintage meat safe. I wish I had shutters,I get so much light pollution from outside.
I am curious about one thing I didn't find in your videos. As an american, how did you get used to metric system? If you ever did.
Hi, I've done videos on things that are calculated differently and honestly, you just learn what you need to learn and commit it to memory. It's more intuitive than what a French person in the US goes through since measurements are usually a multiple of 10 for metric. I learned temperature, distance and weight first since they're the most used in everyday life. ;-)
@@OuiInFrance Merci!
Brit here. You just have to use the metric system. It's only counting in 10s, so much easier. Better not to try and convert unless you really need to.
I still find it hard to think in metric but that's because I've not bothered to learn the system properly.
Speaking of la bise, it seems to me that it has disappeared since the covid.
Before the covid we used to make la bise between coworkers.
A month before the covid craze, new job, I was making la bise to old colleagues I'd met again in this new work. And boom! Barrier gestures, masks and all.
It's been 4 years, I've changed jobs again, but I haven't made la bise to anyone since. I don't miss it, especially when I used to make la bise to people I didn't like, but I have the impression that it's changed relationships between colleagues.
La "bise" is a mark of equality consideration between citizens and it's a legacy of the revolution.
I find the American hug way more intrusive. Full body to body contact vs a simple cheek tap. Don't like much.
A full body hug is almost always for more intimate contacts, for example with partners or close family. In casual social encounters a hug is generally just a simple lean-in, kind of like la bise but just once, to one side... no full body contact.
I’ve lived in France for about 24 years and there used to be other strange tablets in the pharmacies - treatment for what they called heavy legs. I don’t see them anymore and that could be because I moved to a different area of France or maybe they just went out of style.
I've seen the boxes!! The jambes lourdes stuff
@@OuiInFrance ahah! I used to see them when I lived in the Aude but now I live in the Dordogne and the pharmacy I go to doesn’t have them.
Those are EU privacy laws. American companies that operate in Europe or employ EU citizens are required to comply with them. I wish we had them here.
I lived in Hawaii for 5 years and a lot of them did the cheek kiss when meeting. Took me off guard at first because I’m a hand shaker but got used to it.
Voiture sans permis, alias "suppositoire à camion" 😬
😲😲😲
My wife is driving an Aixam car.
It is good for shopping an czn do a lot of Km's on the diesel. Not cheap to buy but she gas no driver license.
In my country only from 16 years with a driver license for a mopet, if you are born before 1961 you do not need a driver license
The way I am with bread, I must have some French DNA... lol
Agree, la bise is not really easy for Americans to get used to. It feels too intimate! Definitely have seen two men do la bise often in France. In marseilles 4 kisses per person oy!
What you say is true, all cultures are different and were doing the best we can. However, tanning pills sre like smoking in France, just because they are popular in France, doesnt make it OK. They obsess with these 'habits' and take it too far regardless of health consequences. I've lived here 13 years
C'est marrant, je suis français et je ne connaissais pas les pilules pour le bronzage mdr
You don’t kiss the cheek. It’s a cheek to cheek touch with an air kiss.
I can’t find the link to the French speech sounds. Help!
Ahhhh think I forgot to add it. Thank you and sorry about that. It's in the description box now ;)
BONJOUR ❤
Bonjour !!
Here in the South of France it is normal for men to do the bise also, if they know each other. I find this quite nice, no fear of contact between men. I absolutely HATE handshakes, because I do not know if this person just sneezed into her/his hand, or worse. Hugs are too intimate for me. It is like the start of a French kiss. But la bise is just a fresh flow of air hardly touching your cheeks. I love it.
Being French born I rather hug lightly people than doing la bise not only to close friends and relative but even strangers sometimes and do it every time.
I'm an American, my mother's family was German, and they all did the cheek kisses. I don't like the American hug -- I'd rather touch cheeks than rub bodies.
I feel like there are lots of levels of hugs. I don't want to rub bodies either! A casual one-armed "hey" is good though
Hello Diane.
The paragraph about french noise is good.
Have you ever done one ahout hand movement?
I m French and never realized them as they were taught instinctively.
Reading "A year in Provence " by Peter Mayle made understand some situations I got into....lol
Keep up the good work.
Hi Christian, no I've never done a video on hand movements/signals or anything like that. Thank you for the suggestion and so glad you enjoy my videos.
Trois fois en Bretagne avec la bise.
Vers Béziers et Montpellier et dans le Poitou également
Four bises in my region - but I only do 2, that's enough - and I step aside to move on to the next person 😇
@@IAmFat1968 Je suis d'accord pour Montpellier mais je suis à Niort et ici on n'en fait que deux. Peut-être ailleurs dans le Poitou ?
The question I have is which cheek first?!
There's no hard and fast rule but most people go to their left first (so right cheeks touch)
I agree : I hate those "voitures sans permis".I'm French (living in Picardy-Hauts de France).I can't stand them!Too risky! We often call them "pots de yaourts",lol! Fragile pots! My cousin owns one and I'm scared for him to drive with it. (THOSE DRIVERS often drive without even having had lessons in the highway code).He doesn't understand all the signs.He tried to get his driver's license, but never succeeded.Bah...
These non license cars are a real nuiseance on the French roads especially when the roads turn as you can't paas them by. In Belgium we use them in a city environment, but on routes nationales, grrr.
La bise, funny how this changes a lot depending from where you are in France. The same in Belgium. Wallonia and Brussels kiss a lot, even between men and men co-workers. In Flanders, .. nope, allmost nothing, except between family members. One thing is the same in the whole of Belgium, 1 bise (kus, beis, pieper, in the north) to greet when you are used to see eatch other a lot. Three bises if it has been a while or in special occasions.
I actually fake bise everyone i just come close cheek to cheek but dont touch skin or kiss, because i have sensitive skin lol XD Also if you want to escape the agressive bise,just grab their arms when they come in so you can control impact 😂😂😂
How did you and Tom meet?
NYC when he was there on vacation
Oh, no! I couldn't even listen to the end of your bread bag story! I had to skip ahead! I feel for you and the embarrassment 😱
I’ve only experienced the cheek kissing twice since I moved to France. One was from an American, and the other was from an Australian.
French speech noises are rather amusing
I have noticed that some women have an unusually colored tan. It’s more like an orange bronze and I wondered if they were using tanning beds. I’ll bet they’re using these tanning pills that you mentioned.
I learned from another Vlogger that in most home insurance contracts, it states that if you leave your house for more than 48 hours, did not close your shutters and your home got broken into they do not have to cover the theft and damage. To me when I see a house with all its shutters closed it looks like a giant sign that says we’re not home. I need to wake up to natural light as well, and I have yet to close my shutters unless there is a room in my house that is facing the heat of the day, then I will close them partway. I refuse to live in a cave. 😄 I did put curtains up as soon as I moved in, that’s where I get my privacy.
La bise is becoming a cliché.
For the shutters, you don't need to shut them full closed, there is a way to half closed the 2 parts one, that's what we do to avoid the sun in the Sommer and the rollerblades aren't blocking all the light if you don't roll them all the way and block them. It's not full light, but that too make you fill fresher.
For the "orange" look, some people are taking those pills not to tan but to avoid a kind of allergie to the sun "lucite", skin red with lots of very small spots, very hitching.
We have big health program before the summer to remind the sun precautions. In my town they give hats and tie shirt in primary school. We had before for very young a free distribution of the combo hats-tshirt- sun glasses ( real one from opticians) to learn the good sun behaviour from the earliest adge.
I think Voitures sans permis are not even allowed on autoroutes
Yeah, they don't go fast enough!
Where have you been girl
Oh no, are my videos not showing up in your subscriptions feed? 😢 I publish every 2.5-3 weeks and my last video was 14 days ago…
My mom still has her breadbox.
La bise: trois fois pour la campagne
The Paris Metro is impossible for a foreigners to avoid fines. Hard pass.
Never heard of oenobiol, and I am French.
Oenobiol is well known in FR (I am french also).
@@earlyNova F de French au majuscule !
It's actually very common and an old brand; I remember it's invasion of the pharmacy shelves in the 80's. In beginning of jun a good half of my girls friends was use it at the time, I don't know if it's still popular but I notice every summer it's return on the shelves.
@@feraudyh Thanks for the correction.
Nevertheless, I find your written French a bit odd for a French guy.
@@earlyNova I have lived overseas!
I hate "la bise", I never know whom I am supposed to do it, and I find it disgusting to kiss anyone apart from my son and very close family. La bise is a nightmare for me. I am french.