Me: I think my french learning is going well This video: We actually slur the words to completely different pronunciation Me: oooooooook maybe not haha
@@gordonhall752 not really. A liaison would be Les amis (the friends) and you pronouce the s with the a and it sounds like a z to make it more fluid. We slur because we speak fast. Like she said C'est ce qu'on dit becomes C'est c'qu'on dit.
Jarps Art The only problem with that group is that their sample videos are probably from their own channel and a lot of people write scripts and practice what they are going to say. You would need a real, third party interview to do a good assessment.
just to let u know timothee is nervous in interviews anyway like even in english so i dont think its the french that causes him to stutter, thats just how he speaks in all interviews
Jose Cabaltera he puts me in a state of maddening sexual frustration! Every single thing about him is absolute perfection! He’s like the physical manifestation of Eros.
Backintime Alwyn i agree 😂😂 I really don’t understand all the fuss about him. His face looks so pale and gaunt he always looks ill. And his physique also looks very rickety and petite. But to each their own I suppose.
He speaks kitchen-table french because that's probably how he learned it with his dad so it sounds natural and kind of fluent but it doesn't sound as intricate as what a french person would say in such a setting.
OK, I took French all through Middle School, High School and College and I always did well with reading and writing; however, my conversational French is abysmal! I could never touch Timothee’s French... My wife and I went to Paris for our 30th Anniversary and we could read the signs and menus, but we were somewhat embarrassed to speak it. When we did, we found Parisians grateful that we tried and they were much more helpful and sympathetic to our pathetic French. I would love to live to France and fully immerse myself in the language and the culture!
As a bilingual who grew up in the UK with French-speaking parents, I can confirm that this is pretty much what we sound like! Some Frenglish sneaks in every now and then, there's the slight accent, trouble with masc and fem words and fillers such as "okay" and "alright" are common. His mannerisms are near-identical to mine as well it's nearly creepy! The one thing I can't do that he does well is the quick switch from French to English pronunciation like when he says the name of an American actor mid-sentence. I would stick with the French pronunciation because, otherwise, I would get a headache or I would pause mid-sentence.
What’s the challenge in second language learning after you’ve reached a level of abundant vocabulary is then structure phrases or sentences in a way that native speakers would. Often times I’ll ask myself "how would a native say it?" Because many times we transliterate our thoughts from our native language into our target language and the result comes out sounding incorrect. But thanks for this video I’ve been looking forward to it!
Byron Vasquez Jr. Yes it’s hard to make that step from being understandable to speaking in a way that sounds natural. Still if people can understand you that’s huge.
It is so helpful the way you pick out small points of pronunciation to help us understand the way French speakers really speak. I love your focus on the fine points. There is a lot of French instruction on TH-cam, but no one is teaching this real everyday spoken French the way you and Charlie are.
@@liveyourlife8283 yeah Lily's not only fluent (you don't a hint of foreign accent in her voice) but she has such typical parisian teenager vocabulary she's 100% french
When you are bilingual, it depends on which language has been the last on you heard, how nervous you are etc. If you dont really live steadily in one place, both languages mix, exactly the way it happens here. If he stayed for six month straight in France, he wouldnt be american on certain words, ... and would sound french on certain words back in the States. It depends on which language you are thinkind in, dreaming in at that time...
Thank you for explaining the slurring! I used ti get so frustrated practicing sentences and then listening to the french part and trying to pick out the words. Now I know why it was so difficult.
I don't know about French learning, from my experience, I'd listen to 2-3 hours of English news, talk show and comedy without subtitles on a daily basis even when I was still in high school and only like 20% of contents made sense to me. At first, it's so excruciating, but later on, all efforts paid off.
I'm currently learning French and one of the few ways I've been immersing myself in the language is with the handful of french radio stations I have here. They're all news channels too but I'm starting to understand them way better than when I started five months ago!
@@YanniBanani And it helps with your pronunciation as well, since my English teachers back then were all Chinese... Came up with some sources to be surrounded by natives speakers was the first step I took towards language learning.
@@Street_French and maybe his youtuber friend, Purple Palace. She is american who also lives in Paris and married to a French man. Sometimes she speaks only french in the video.
good, a current interview....he's clearly bilingual as you say. And slurring words is perhaps one of the reasons I find watching films or listening to French speakers so challenging. "genre" as" like"...never knew that, je te conseille...thanks, never knew how to say recommend. I think it's fun how you say "way better" in colloquial English because I would never have accepted that in a formal essay.
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Merci beaucoup ,Mademoiselle ! Quelle inspiratrice! The accent (or is it vowel placement?) of Tim is amazing - that makes him sound really French ! I was just wondering if you could also do a video of Queen Elizabeth II (or the royal family)'s French ? I think her majesty does sound professional but still has quite a strong British tone . I've heard that the Queen's English is rather 'forward' in terms of enunciation , and does one need to speak even more 'frontly' in French ?
I tried to learn french by myself since the high school, I love this country, this culture, Paris est si beau Non j'déconne, mais ceci dit, ça m'a fait plaisir d'entendre cette petite analyse. Ca fait plusieurs années que j'essaye d'avoir un vocabulaire plus riche et des prononciations plus justes Learning english has always been hard for me, because in my schools, we learned the words on the books but never really encouraged to speak it directly. Since I entered to the university, I got an english teacher which was speaking english with very bad pronounciations, but it was all on purpose. She was doing it to encourage us to speak without being embarassed by the pronounciations. After beating the embarassment, you speak more freely and train it more easely. Don't be embarassed. Also with a bad accent, we can understand you and like your efforts
I would love to see a video analyzing Romy Schneiders French. I know she is long gone but she was originally from Germany and made a career in France. I would really love to hear what you think of her French. Thank you for your videos!
Her french was perfect with a perfect diction and a very light accent which gave her voice a superb musicality...like jane fonda...charlotte rampling...kristin scott thomas.
French is such a difficult language 😄 I remember when visiting Paris in 2018 and we were on the Metro and about to get off in Montparnasse. This one lady asked us where we were going and seemed really nice. As soon as I said Montparnasse in a way I would say it she corrected me. ”You have to say it like this...” 😅 Anyway, it’s a beautiful language.
ah that's a nice experience :)) yeah about the correcting your pronunciation part, in France we like to help and correct because if we don't and you ask someone else later who might not understand you, you can have some trouble. it's just like when someone has something stuck in their teeth, we always tell the person discreetly because for us it's rude to not say something and help them when we can, you know? :)
It's the same with Tagalog. "Anong oras na?" becomes "Noras na?" or even " Nors na?" We also say words backwards as the French do sometimes. I am learning French so I count in French when working out. 🙂
This is great - somehow reassuring that even people who've been speaking French since childhood trip a bit when under pressure! Have you considered doing one of these videos about Kristin Scott-Thomas? As far as I know, she didn't grow up speaking French, but learned it in school then moved to Paris to work as an au pair when she was 19, and ended up more or less staying. I think she has dual citizenship now, and I know she's done some French language movies, so I'd be interested to see what you think about her accent and how obviously not-French it is :)
J'ai vu toujours l'excellent prononciation de Timothee Chalamet donc... c'est très intéressant de te voir finalement parler de lui. Merci beaucoup 😊 excellente vidéo 👏👏
I am currently learning french, as well as Latvian. The reason for Latvian is my dad was originally from Latvia, having who is of a different language, it doesn't mean that the children will know the other parent's language.
Insults on French TV are always welcome if nobody abuses of them (otherwise it becomes rude at some point), like, makes people laugh and makes everyone more comfortable, especially the speaker. You can use them strategically to emphasize something you're speaking about or an emotion.
You should do a video on Mika. I think that would be interesting because he seems to be fluent (released french music, does french interviews) but when he was on the voice other judges like Zazie use to mock his french. I was wondering if you could take us through that.
I imagine you think these kind of videos are not so useful for learning French. For someone like me it’s really useful. In theory I speak French fluently (like Chalamet’s level) but because I haven’t been living there for three years I can easily see myself making these kind of mistakes. It’s interesting to see you go into such depth.
3:29 Je crois qu'il a dit "C'est ça que j'aime comme FAN des films" il a donc traduit "That's what I like AS a film fan" mais il a dit "comme fan" plutôt que "en temps que fan"
I think French is one of his first languages (learned from a parent or both parents) he just didn't spend enough time in France to make it his primary (this is the reason for his sometimes not adopting lingos/phases/vocabs that are local to France and maybe inventing some or using inappropriate language registers). This is the case with other kids who moved from overseas to the US -- their vocabs tend to be limited though they maintain certain fluency to communicate in their mother tongue. Had a friend from Texas whose parents are both Mexican but he never learned how to write properly in Spanish because the school curriculum at the time he grew up did not include Spanish. He can speak it only by picking it up from family and, as it turns out, he's not very confident about his skills though he does it as well as Timothee speaking French here.
Omg I just happened to find your channel. I would watch Timothée's French interviews to try to practice my French listening, but I couldn't catch some things and especially the use of slang. Very helpful video! :))
ow cool glad to see our video helped you ! :) :) if you want, I made other videos in the same concept reacting to keanu reeves, bradley cooper, joseph gordon levitt and jodie foster :)
Moi aussi je suis bilingue ne en France d'un pere Americain. Et j'ai remarque que souvent ca depend de quelle langue on a parle recemment. Par example si je suis en France et ne parle que Francais je n'ai aucun probleme avec mon Francais, aucun accent. Et l'inverse si je vis aux USA et ne parle que de l'anglais, pareil! Les 2 accents sont tellement different que c'est assez difficile de changer rapidement d'une langue a l'autre. Ca doit etre evident que je tape sur un clavier anglophone vu le manque d'accents
ah ouais je vois tout à fait de quoi vous parlez :) je suis bilingue Français et Croate. et vu que j'habite à Paris je parle pas croate tous les jours donc quand je vais en Croatie ça va mais il y a des mots que j'ai un peu oublié etc... mais au bout de quelques semaines sur place je suis plus à l'aise pour m'exprimer :)
I like your reactions! I took French in college. When I went to France, I could read signs and museum labels very well, and that was fun. Creating sentences was very hard, but especially when I was on my own, I just jumped in, admitted I was not very good, and people were so helpful! Timothee Chalamet's sister lives in Paris and acts in French films. I'd guess that is where he picks up how younger people speak!
parkviewmo Greetings. I am from Toronto, Canada and learned French in elementary and high school. I could always read and write in French but my oral language skills was average. Then I signed up for Rocket Languages in 2012 , similar to Rosetta Stone and I found it very helpful to brush up on my conversational skills. I was in Paris in 2013 and I spoke French half the time. I understood the Parisians and they said my French was good!
this is interesting, because i saw another french native review him and she said his french is perfect and she couldn't hear any mistakes, except for like once or twice. she said he isn't just fluent, she would consider him native with how well he speaks.
French speaking learning dutch here, i really struggle with noun genders in dutch (there is a neutral Het and a masculin/feminine/plural De in dutch and even though there are rules to it i always fall on an exception and i always get it wrong) and to me using genders properly just comes up with practice and it's one way you can really see if that person is using the language on a regular basis or not because it's just so hard to get right when you're not native to the language and so hard to get wrong when you are
Avec le film Dune qui est sorti il a fait plusieurs entrevues en français avec le réalisateur Denis Villeneuve. Ils parlaient du fait que sur le plateau ils pouvaient parler français ensemble. Je crois que son français s'est pas mal amélioré depuis. C'est sur le même talk-show en plus donc on voit l'amélioration.
I really enjoy this kind of series with celebrities speaking French. But I laughed out loud when Maiya said "He's SO young..." !!! Maiya... YOU'RE so young, too!! 😎
I'm a Scot and I live in France. I speak French every day with my workmates. Even French people say things like "les femmes...ils". French people make mistakes with language just as British and Americans but probably much less as French is a very organised language, unlike English which is very loose. In French, you may get an error of gender of a noun or not using the subjunctive when required but you will never come across an error like "I would of" instead of "I would have".
english is not my native language, but I'd like to say that I'm pretty fluent. but when I have to speak with a native english speaker or in an english-speaking country I get really nervous. I'm learning french for over a year now and I still struggle a lot but it's a really interesting language!
ow glad to hear that you try even when it can be hard. you know even though I'm "fluent" in English, I still get nervous sometimes when I speak the language. I love speaking English but I get selfconscious and start making crazy mistakes lol so it's part of the process I guess, especially if you don't practice speaking the language that you're learning with other people regularly.
Merci pour tes analyses elles sont pertinentes. Ça m'a permis de comprendre pas mal de choses. Je suis bilingue mais ma langue maternelle je ne la connais que grâce à mes parents. Je ne l'ai pas étudiée. Ils sont mes seuls référents et quand je vois le vocabulaire qu'utilise cet acteur je me dis qu'il doit sûrement parler français comme il l'a entendu parler par son parent français et (ses cousins, cousines et famille...). Ceci expliquant cela😉
Just stumbled on this and it was lovely. I am just starting to study French (way too late in life) and I am a big fan of Timothée Chalamet. Je serai donc de retour pour regarder plus. (don't applaud, just Google translate :) )
Great video, as always. I'm surprised that his french is that good with only one French parent and living in America. His high school was not French or even bilingual, unlike Jodie Foster's school.
There are a lot of celebrities who were raised by french parents (or at least one french parent) who don't speak a word of french. Did you ever checked out Avril Lavigne's french? She doesn't speak more than a "Ça va" and she's canadian and her dad is french.
ah yeah I guess she's canadian, but also a lot of Canadians are not necesseraly bilingual. I'll check out if there are any vids of her speaking french ^^
@@Street_French I'd say the majority of canadians aren't bilingual. Only quebeckers are bilingual (most of them), and the rest of the country speaks english, and a few study in "french immersion) schools but don't actually speak French.
I don't know if you said it but Timothée's accent sounds pretty French to me even if he has grammatical mistakes which it's obvious because French is his second language, I think he is completely fluent.
Damn, your English is top turkey! Thank you, Great vid. You should teach pronunciation guides for French people to English 'cause your English pronunciation is absolutely perfect.
@2:31-@2:32 quand on va dire 'cette' à l'argot, ça sonne comme si l'on disait [stek] (IPA), c'est à dire que ça sonne comme si l'on disait steak comme de steak et frites, est-ce que c'est ça?
C’est intéressant comme analyse. Très bien analysé je trouve. C’est clairement quelqu’un qui a appris le français à l’oral en France, il a des automatismes et un accent français qu’on ne peut connaître qu’en ayant vécu en France, mais qui fait de petites erreurs ou hésitations parce qu’il ne pratique pas tous les jours et qu’il est sous l’influence quotidienne de l’anglais. S’il restait trois mois à vivre en France, je pense que personne ne pourrait dire qu’il n’est pas complètement français. En plus il a un nom et un prénom tellement français 😂 Après, il a la confiance en soi d’un jeune américain je trouve. Sinon le basculement entre français et anglais, c’est quelque chose de quotidien dans les milieux bilingues, comme à Montréal par exemple. C’est le problème de la double culture. Ça rend toujours un peu double. 😂 Il serait très à l’aise au Canada je pense. Au Québec le tutoiement au lieu du vouvoiement est très courant.
You misheard Chalomet at around 3.30. He was using an Anglicism-"comme 'fan' de film"-whereas he should have used the French slang "comme fana (< fanatique) du film."
Merci. C'était vraiment intéressant. J'attenderai la seconde partie. La prochaine personne que je voudrais voir est Alex Lawther. Il a appris français uniquement pour une série.
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Me: I think my french learning is going well
This video: We actually slur the words to completely different pronunciation
Me: oooooooook maybe not haha
hahaha ^^
that "slur" is called a liaison
Found something Australians have in common with the French. We slur words as well. Have a good weekend is avagoodweekend 😬
@@gordonhall752 not really. A liaison would be Les amis (the friends) and you pronouce the s with the a and it sounds like a z to make it more fluid. We slur because we speak fast. Like she said C'est ce qu'on dit becomes C'est c'qu'on dit.
C'est dificile apprendre ça ... il te faut passer au moyen six mois ... pour moi en faites
You should review these polyglots who speak French and learnt it as an adult.
yeah definitely :)
Jarps Art The only problem with that group is that their sample videos are probably from their own channel and a lot of people write scripts and practice what they are going to say. You would need a real, third party interview to do a good assessment.
@@susie2251 hi, well it's possible that they are scripted.
just to let u know timothee is nervous in interviews anyway like even in english so i dont think its the french that causes him to stutter, thats just how he speaks in all interviews
ah ok good to know :)
Zehra F i noticed this too. he stutters a lot in his english interviews. i think he's just a nervous person when put on the spot.
And the fact that he seems so confident while acting shows how great of an actor he is
Timothée Chalamet doing anything is worth a view and like. 😍
:):)
Jose Cabaltera he puts me in a state of maddening sexual frustration! Every single thing about him is absolute perfection! He’s like the physical manifestation of Eros.
He knows how to take all the positive aspects of each of his two cultures.
oh my god he creeps me out. He looks like my ex girlfriend. He's such the epitomy of the 'french bourgeois" it's indecent. I can't.
Backintime Alwyn i agree 😂😂 I really don’t understand all the fuss about him. His face looks so pale and gaunt he always looks ill. And his physique also looks very rickety and petite. But to each their own I suppose.
He speaks kitchen-table french because that's probably how he learned it with his dad so it sounds natural and kind of fluent but it doesn't sound as intricate as what a french person would say in such a setting.
True, but he also used the word "spontané", so he has all my respect!!
“Kitchen-table French” is the perfect phrase for it
I think he said « comme fan des films » but he pronounces “fan” almost as English.
I was just about to post exactly the same thing
Same here... I thought he meant fan
ah yeah maybe, it didn't make sense when I first watched lol
I hadnʼt understood that either
I heard and immediately wondered why the host did not but she was right about .
OK, I took French all through Middle School, High School and College and I always did well with reading and writing; however, my conversational French is abysmal! I could never touch Timothee’s French... My wife and I went to Paris for our 30th Anniversary and we could read the signs and menus, but we were somewhat embarrassed to speak it. When we did, we found Parisians grateful that we tried and they were much more helpful and sympathetic to our pathetic French. I would love to live to France and fully immerse myself in the language and the culture!
ow thanks for sharing your experience :)) don't feel embarrassed to speak, treat it like an exercice. you need to practice speaking to get better ^^
As a bilingual who grew up in the UK with French-speaking parents, I can confirm that this is pretty much what we sound like! Some Frenglish sneaks in every now and then, there's the slight accent, trouble with masc and fem words and fillers such as "okay" and "alright" are common. His mannerisms are near-identical to mine as well it's nearly creepy! The one thing I can't do that he does well is the quick switch from French to English pronunciation like when he says the name of an American actor mid-sentence. I would stick with the French pronunciation because, otherwise, I would get a headache or I would pause mid-sentence.
Me: French Canadian
Also me: why am i watching this.
Also me: wow their french is so clean LMAO
haha :):)
Canadian french sounds so weird tho
What’s the challenge in second language learning after you’ve reached a level of abundant vocabulary is then structure phrases or sentences in a way that native speakers would. Often times I’ll ask myself "how would a native say it?" Because many times we transliterate our thoughts from our native language into our target language and the result comes out sounding incorrect.
But thanks for this video I’ve been looking forward to it!
Byron Vasquez Jr. Yes it’s hard to make that step from being understandable to speaking in a way that sounds natural. Still if people can understand you that’s huge.
Idiomes. The only real way to sound like a part of a community or a culture, even with a foreign accent.
Much talk of French, but your English is absolutely amazing! You are a great inspiration for learning a new language.
Thank you! 😃 it's definitely as good as his French though lol
StreetFrench.org I only hope someday I can speak French as well as you speak English 😅
It is so helpful the way you pick out small points of pronunciation to help us understand the way French speakers really speak. I love your focus on the fine points. There is a lot of French instruction on TH-cam, but no one is teaching this real everyday spoken French the way you and Charlie are.
Do Lily Rose Depp next !
great idea ! :):)
@@Street_French YES!!!
@@roxannew.9349 Lily Rose Depp was born in Paris and french was her mother language so I think she speaks it perfectly
J'allais justement le proposer.
@@liveyourlife8283 yeah Lily's not only fluent (you don't a hint of foreign accent in her voice) but she has such typical parisian teenager vocabulary she's 100% french
When you are bilingual, it depends on which language has been the last on you heard, how nervous you are etc. If you dont really live steadily in one place, both languages mix, exactly the way it happens here. If he stayed for six month straight in France, he wouldnt be american on certain words, ... and would sound french on certain words back in the States. It depends on which language you are thinkind in, dreaming in at that time...
Preach 🧐😥
Thank you for explaining the slurring! I used ti get so frustrated practicing sentences and then listening to the french part and trying to pick out the words. Now I know why it was so difficult.
you're welcome! ☺️
I don't know about French learning, from my experience, I'd listen to 2-3 hours of English news, talk show and comedy without subtitles on a daily basis even when I was still in high school and only like 20% of contents made sense to me. At first, it's so excruciating, but later on, all efforts paid off.
:):):)
I'm currently learning French and one of the few ways I've been immersing myself in the language is with the handful of french radio stations I have here. They're all news channels too but I'm starting to understand them way better than when I started five months ago!
@@YanniBanani And it helps with your pronunciation as well, since my English teachers back then were all Chinese... Came up with some sources to be surrounded by natives speakers was the first step I took towards language learning.
Can you react to Damon Dominique? He's an American TH-camr living in Paris and he speaks french quite well!!! at least to me he seems to
ah great idea thanks :) a lot of you are asking that we do that video so we really need to haha ^^
@@Street_French and maybe his youtuber friend, Purple Palace. She is american who also lives in Paris and married to a French man. Sometimes she speaks only french in the video.
Timothée Chalamet is worth of all forgiveness when he make a mistake
true! :)
good, a current interview....he's clearly bilingual as you say. And slurring words is perhaps one of the reasons I find watching films or listening to French speakers so challenging. "genre" as" like"...never knew that, je te conseille...thanks, never knew how to say recommend. I think it's fun how you say "way better" in colloquial English because I would never have accepted that in a formal essay.
:):)
I'm joking about the hosts use of "way better." that's all. nothing he says.
I love this!This is so lovely for me to know as a fan of Timothee!
:)
4:17 he said "un (fan) de film "he used the word fan as in English
2:56 I say that too and I'm French-Canadian. As long as people understand it's fine IMO.
i’m literally learning french bc of him
ah cool :):)
Pleaseeee make a part 2 it’s so interesting I watched it twice even though I don’t speak french
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StreetFrench.org did you do it.
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Merci beaucoup ,Mademoiselle ! Quelle inspiratrice! The accent (or is it vowel placement?) of Tim is amazing - that makes him sound really French !
I was just wondering if you could also do a video of Queen Elizabeth II (or the royal family)'s French ? I think her majesty does sound professional but still has quite a strong British tone . I've heard that the Queen's English is rather 'forward' in terms of enunciation , and does one need to speak even more 'frontly' in French ?
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I think her French is better when she's younger XD
I guess she sort of has her own accent
This is the best lesson for advanced French-speakers. So great. Learn the Slurs!
Great Video!!
Thank you.
Glad you think so! :)
I tried to learn french by myself since the high school, I love this country, this culture, Paris est si beau
Non j'déconne, mais ceci dit, ça m'a fait plaisir d'entendre cette petite analyse. Ca fait plusieurs années que j'essaye d'avoir un vocabulaire plus riche et des prononciations plus justes
Learning english has always been hard for me, because in my schools, we learned the words on the books but never really encouraged to speak it directly.
Since I entered to the university, I got an english teacher which was speaking english with very bad pronounciations, but it was all on purpose. She was doing it to encourage us to speak without being embarassed by the pronounciations. After beating the embarassment, you speak more freely and train it more easely. Don't be embarassed. Also with a bad accent, we can understand you and like your efforts
I would love to see a video analyzing Romy Schneiders French. I know she is long gone but she was originally from Germany and made a career in France. I would really love to hear what you think of her French.
Thank you for your videos!
ah yeah great idea :):)
Her french was perfect with a perfect diction and a very light accent which gave her voice a superb musicality...like jane fonda...charlotte rampling...kristin scott thomas.
French is such a difficult language 😄 I remember when visiting Paris in 2018 and we were on the Metro and about to get off in Montparnasse. This one lady asked us where we were going and seemed really nice. As soon as I said Montparnasse in a way I would say it she corrected me. ”You have to say it like this...” 😅
Anyway, it’s a beautiful language.
ah that's a nice experience :)) yeah about the correcting your pronunciation part, in France we like to help and correct because if we don't and you ask someone else later who might not understand you, you can have some trouble. it's just like when someone has something stuck in their teeth, we always tell the person discreetly because for us it's rude to not say something and help them when we can, you know? :)
He didn’t say “fin” he said the English word “fan” des films which is someone who likes moves. And that’s why he pronounced the N.
ah yeah we use that word too but in the sentence it didn't make sense. It's possible I misunderstood though ^^
StreetFrench.org I think he said, “Comme “fan” des films, je prefère ...” As a fan (audience member) I’d rather see...
Watch the movie and then you will change your mind. 😂😂😂
@@Street_French yeah i think he meant "en tant que fan" but he used "comme" instead of "en tant que" which doesn't really work
OMG MASSIVE OWNAGE
It's the same with Tagalog. "Anong oras na?" becomes "Noras na?" or even " Nors na?" We also say words backwards as the French do sometimes. I am learning French so I count in French when working out. 🙂
ow so cool ! really interesting! :) :)
Same learning french as well from ph
Exactly even us filipino we slur our own words
This is great - somehow reassuring that even people who've been speaking French since childhood trip a bit when under pressure!
Have you considered doing one of these videos about Kristin Scott-Thomas? As far as I know, she didn't grow up speaking French, but learned it in school then moved to Paris to work as an au pair when she was 19, and ended up more or less staying. I think she has dual citizenship now, and I know she's done some French language movies, so I'd be interested to see what you think about her accent and how obviously not-French it is :)
ah cool yeah I'll check her out :):)
Yes ! The same goes for Charlotte Rampling !
At 3:30 I think he is saying he is a "fan" of film. Inserting the English word.
oui c'est vrai je pense que vous avez raison merci :)
timothée speaking french is honestly one of the reasons why im trying to improve my french lol
oh cool it's great to find motivation anywhere where you can haha ^^
Omg I’ve been waiting for this!!!
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Hello! Your English is so good! Just discovered your channel and I love it!
Oh thank you! glad you enjoy what we do :)
A 3:30 j'crois qu'il dit «Comme fan de films» mais il ne prononce pas assez le n dans «fan».
ah oui merci :)
I’d love a part 2! This was so interesting :)
ow cool ok I'll do that :) until then check out other videos of this series. I react to Jodie Foster, keanu reeves etc... :)
J'ai vu toujours l'excellent prononciation de Timothee Chalamet donc... c'est très intéressant de te voir finalement parler de lui. Merci beaucoup 😊 excellente vidéo 👏👏
ah cool merci :):)
I am currently learning french, as well as Latvian. The reason for Latvian is my dad was originally from Latvia, having who is of a different language, it doesn't mean that the children will know the other parent's language.
Insults on French TV are always welcome if nobody abuses of them (otherwise it becomes rude at some point), like, makes people laugh and makes everyone more comfortable, especially the speaker. You can use them strategically to emphasize something you're speaking about or an emotion.
yeah exactly that's a good point^^
“Hes clearly bilingual” can both be an offense and a compliment
he learned italian, guitar, and piano for cmbyn AND now i learned he knows french! isnt he like 20 years old haha
haha ah yeah he speaks French because he's half French. I guess he learned with his family ^^
He’s 24 yrs old
Bonjour! En effet je crois qu'il a dit C'est ça que j'aime bien comme fan (as an english word fan) de film. (3:31)
Bravo, Maïa, you are my revelation of the year! Very useful advises and examples. Keep going. Greetings from Croatia.
Love these ''comparison'' videos. I learn so much. Thanks.
ow cool I'm glad you enjoy them!
You should do a video on Mika. I think that would be interesting because he seems to be fluent (released french music, does french interviews) but when he was on the voice other judges like Zazie use to mock his french. I was wondering if you could take us through that.
aw so interesting, I'll add him to the list :)
funny, he sounds like Thimothé...
Your channel is amazing! So glad I came across it one random evening looking up French videos (like we all do when we're bored ;))
Thank you so much!! Glad you like what we do :))
I love your channel. I learn a lot!
Awesome, thank you! :)
I imagine you think these kind of videos are not so useful for learning French. For someone like me it’s really useful. In theory I speak French fluently (like Chalamet’s level) but because I haven’t been living there for three years I can easily see myself making these kind of mistakes. It’s interesting to see you go into such depth.
ah yeah thanks! :)
3:29 Je crois qu'il a dit "C'est ça que j'aime comme FAN des films" il a donc traduit "That's what I like AS a film fan" mais il a dit "comme fan" plutôt que "en temps que fan"
ah oui oui c'est vrai je me suis trompé, je sais pas pourquoi j'ai pas compris ça en écoutant la première fois.
I think French is one of his first languages (learned from a parent or both parents) he just didn't spend enough time in France to make it his primary (this is the reason for his sometimes not adopting lingos/phases/vocabs that are local to France and maybe inventing some or using inappropriate language registers). This is the case with other kids who moved from overseas to the US -- their vocabs tend to be limited though they maintain certain fluency to communicate in their mother tongue. Had a friend from Texas whose parents are both Mexican but he never learned how to write properly in Spanish because the school curriculum at the time he grew up did not include Spanish. He can speak it only by picking it up from family and, as it turns out, he's not very confident about his skills though he does it as well as Timothee speaking French here.
I looooove this kind of videos! Specifically this type of videos. I watch and rewatch them. You speak about specific mistakes IN context
ow cool thanks for your comment ! yeah I feel lessons are more effective when it's in context :)))
Je crois qu’il s’est amélioré en 2 ans et qu’il est meilleur aujourd’hui 👍🏼✌🏼
Keep doing like these kind of videos
we will ^^
we have a lot more in that series if you want to check them out :)
Omg I just happened to find your channel. I would watch Timothée's French interviews to try to practice my French listening, but I couldn't catch some things and especially the use of slang. Very helpful video! :))
ow cool glad to see our video helped you ! :) :) if you want, I made other videos in the same concept reacting to keanu reeves, bradley cooper, joseph gordon levitt and jodie foster :)
Moi aussi je suis bilingue ne en France d'un pere Americain. Et j'ai remarque que souvent ca depend de quelle langue on a parle recemment. Par example si je suis en France et ne parle que Francais je n'ai aucun probleme avec mon Francais, aucun accent. Et l'inverse si je vis aux USA et ne parle que de l'anglais, pareil! Les 2 accents sont tellement different que c'est assez difficile de changer rapidement d'une langue a l'autre. Ca doit etre evident que je tape sur un clavier anglophone vu le manque d'accents
ah ouais je vois tout à fait de quoi vous parlez :)
je suis bilingue Français et Croate. et vu que j'habite à Paris je parle pas croate tous les jours donc quand je vais en Croatie ça va mais il y a des mots que j'ai un peu oublié etc... mais au bout de quelques semaines sur place je suis plus à l'aise pour m'exprimer :)
I like your reactions! I took French in college. When I went to France, I could read signs and museum labels very well, and that was fun. Creating sentences was very hard, but especially when I was on my own, I just jumped in, admitted I was not very good, and people were so helpful! Timothee Chalamet's sister lives in Paris and acts in French films. I'd guess that is where he picks up how younger people speak!
parkviewmo Greetings. I am from Toronto, Canada and learned French in elementary and high school. I could always read and write in French but my oral language skills was average. Then I signed up for Rocket Languages in 2012 , similar to Rosetta Stone and I found it very helpful to brush up on my conversational skills. I was in Paris in 2013 and I spoke French half the time. I understood the Parisians and they said my French was good!
this is interesting, because i saw another french native review him and she said his french is perfect and she couldn't hear any mistakes, except for like once or twice. she said he isn't just fluent, she would consider him native with how well he speaks.
ah yeah he's definitely native, I didn't know much about him when I filmed the video I guess :)
French speaking learning dutch here, i really struggle with noun genders in dutch (there is a neutral Het and a masculin/feminine/plural De in dutch and even though there are rules to it i always fall on an exception and i always get it wrong) and to me using genders properly just comes up with practice and it's one way you can really see if that person is using the language on a regular basis or not because it's just so hard to get right when you're not native to the language and so hard to get wrong when you are
I love his french accent!!!
yeah he's great :))
@@Street_French
That was so interesting! Thanks!
you're welcome :):)
We would like to see him in French movies...
true ☺
Avec le film Dune qui est sorti il a fait plusieurs entrevues en français avec le réalisateur Denis Villeneuve. Ils parlaient du fait que sur le plateau ils pouvaient parler français ensemble. Je crois que son français s'est pas mal amélioré depuis. C'est sur le même talk-show en plus donc on voit l'amélioration.
ah cool très bonne idée, je pourrais faire une update :)
I really enjoy this kind of series with celebrities speaking French. But I laughed out loud when Maiya said "He's SO young..." !!! Maiya... YOU'RE so young, too!! 😎
hahaha yeah I guess I though he was 10 years younger that me but his not that much younger that me actually haha
Il a dit peut être, qu'il est "fan" (le mot anglais) de film? Donc "Comme fan, j'aime bien ça".
I'm a Scot and I live in France. I speak French every day with my workmates. Even French people say things like "les femmes...ils". French people make mistakes with language just as British and Americans but probably much less as French is a very organised language, unlike English which is very loose. In French, you may get an error of gender of a noun or not using the subjunctive when required but you will never come across an error like "I would of" instead of "I would have".
english is not my native language, but I'd like to say that I'm pretty fluent. but when I have to speak with a native english speaker or in an english-speaking country I get really nervous. I'm learning french for over a year now and I still struggle a lot but it's a really interesting language!
ow glad to hear that you try even when it can be hard. you know even though I'm "fluent" in English, I still get nervous sometimes when I speak the language. I love speaking English but I get selfconscious and start making crazy mistakes lol so it's part of the process I guess, especially if you don't practice speaking the language that you're learning with other people regularly.
I'd love to see you react to Lily Rose Depp speaking French!
great idea! :))
Spoiler : She speaks French perfectly and has no accent. (I think French is her first language)
Mother tongue
You should do a video on Ikenna’s French. He’s a polyglot who can speak 13 languages . He has a TH-cam under that name, without the ‘s of course
ah gerat idea :)
I switch to English very often and I am born and raised and have always lived in Sweden
yes!!! part 2 s'il vous plaît!!
ok !! :):)
La prochaine devrait être sur Tom Hiddleston 🙏🏻
ah great idea ! :)
I love him so much.
:):)
Merci pour tes analyses elles sont pertinentes. Ça m'a permis de comprendre pas mal de choses. Je suis bilingue mais ma langue maternelle je ne la connais que grâce à mes parents. Je ne l'ai pas étudiée. Ils sont mes seuls référents et quand je vois le vocabulaire qu'utilise cet acteur je me dis qu'il doit sûrement parler français comme il l'a entendu parler par son parent français et (ses cousins, cousines et famille...). Ceci expliquant cela😉
ah cool, contente que ça t'ai aidé à comprendre des choses :)))
Just stumbled on this and it was lovely. I am just starting to study French (way too late in life) and I am a big fan of Timothée Chalamet. Je serai donc de retour pour regarder plus. (don't applaud, just Google translate :) )
aw cool glad you enjoyed it :):)
"... pour en regarder davantage !"
Slt depuis le sud-est de la France☺️
Great video, as always. I'm surprised that his french is that good with only one French parent and living in America. His high school was not French or even bilingual, unlike Jodie Foster's school.
:):)
Oh, I thougt he went to the Lycée Français, like Jodie Foster to be that good... She is like him...
do The Purple Palace ! she's learned French as an adult and now lives in Paris
What a great video. I didn't know it would be so useful. Thank you so much. It helps a lot and it's really entertaining.
English is my first language but i struggle to speak it anyways, especially in social context and definitely will if i ever do a talk show...
There are a lot of celebrities who were raised by french parents (or at least one french parent) who don't speak a word of french. Did you ever checked out Avril Lavigne's french? She doesn't speak more than a "Ça va" and she's canadian and her dad is french.
ah yeah I guess she's canadian, but also a lot of Canadians are not necesseraly bilingual. I'll check out if there are any vids of her speaking french ^^
@@Street_French I'd say the majority of canadians aren't bilingual. Only quebeckers are bilingual (most of them), and the rest of the country speaks english, and a few study in "french immersion) schools but don't actually speak French.
I don't know if you said it but Timothée's accent sounds pretty French to me even if he has grammatical mistakes which it's obvious because French is his second language, I think he is completely fluent.
I am a student in a college who learn about french language, wish i could speak french fluently
I love these!
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Damn, your English is top turkey!
Thank you,
Great vid.
You should teach pronunciation guides for French people to English 'cause your English pronunciation is absolutely perfect.
PLEASE do Jean Seberg!!! I think this would be SO interesting!!! thank you both for all you do! :)
ow cool thanks for the suggestion and you're comment :):)
Votre chaîne est super intéressante ! I’m French and love your videos! A new subscriber here haha 😂
ah cool merci ☺☺
@2:31-@2:32 quand on va dire 'cette' à l'argot, ça sonne comme si l'on disait [stek] (IPA), c'est à dire que ça sonne comme si l'on disait steak comme de steak et frites, est-ce que c'est ça?
Merci beaucoup. C’est très intéressant comme article.
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I think he said fan des films, as in fan in english
ah yeah I think so too after listening to it again :)
This was a great video! I would be curious to know what you think of Bradley Cooper's french. I think he learned in college but to me, he seems fluent
ah great suggestion, I actually already made a video on his French check it out here :
th-cam.com/video/98f5oVYbToc/w-d-xo.html
Super interesting and useful videos, keep it up!
ah thanks! :):)
"ce que l'on voulait faire " became "ce qu'on voulait faire'" which become "c'qu'on voulait faire"
yeah exactly ☺️
C’est intéressant comme analyse. Très bien analysé je trouve.
C’est clairement quelqu’un qui a appris le français à l’oral en France, il a des automatismes et un accent français qu’on ne peut connaître qu’en ayant vécu en France, mais qui fait de petites erreurs ou hésitations parce qu’il ne pratique pas tous les jours et qu’il est sous l’influence quotidienne de l’anglais. S’il restait trois mois à vivre en France, je pense que personne ne pourrait dire qu’il n’est pas complètement français. En plus il a un nom et un prénom tellement français 😂 Après, il a la confiance en soi d’un jeune américain je trouve.
Sinon le basculement entre français et anglais, c’est quelque chose de quotidien dans les milieux bilingues, comme à Montréal par exemple. C’est le problème de la double culture. Ça rend toujours un peu double. 😂 Il serait très à l’aise au Canada je pense. Au Québec le tutoiement au lieu du vouvoiement est très courant.
ah merci et oui c'est vrai une immersion et hop ni vue ni connu ^^ haha
You misheard Chalomet at around 3.30. He was using an Anglicism-"comme 'fan' de film"-whereas he should have used the French slang "comme fana (< fanatique) du film."
yeah true, it didn't make sense the first time I heard it but that's probably what he meant :) my bad!
Why is it so fascinating to hear a frenchman speak French?
haha people asked in the comments that I react to him ^^ and his bilingual and mainly speaks English so no he's not totally French ^^
I love how she corrects her little English mistakes with those notes on screen. She's clearly a perfectionist like me hahaha... :)
hahaha yeah I see all the mistakes I make when I edit the videos haha
We went to the same school❤❤❤
ah nice! :))
Merci. C'était vraiment intéressant. J'attenderai la seconde partie. La prochaine personne que je voudrais voir est Alex Lawther. Il a appris français uniquement pour une série.
ok merci ! :):)