Your conversational english is awesome! I feel like when people learn languages the old fashioned way, they speak so formally and people dont speak formally when they're talking with each other. How you say "ya know what i mean" and "aaanyway" between sentences is so natural! It gives me hope that I will be like that using your tips.
You people in the comments commenting about her body need to quit, I mean maybe she likes the attention, but seriously?? She's wearing a BLACK MUSCLE TEE like really? she barely has cleavage and she's not like shimmying everywhere. Disgusting, you're all looking for something to be inappropriate about.
KiLLED5639 90% of the people in the Netherlands speak English well. That's a MASSIVE amount considering the 95% in the GB. And yes, it's a second language. The primary language is dutch. Quite a lot of European countries have high percentage English speakers. France CLEARLY lagging behind.
MrQwerty2524 There seems to be a competition between anglophones and French people to see who has the higher percentage of monolinguals. I was in France last summer and because I am an English man who speaks French I was told that I am really exotic - which made me laugh as I have never been described as exotic before.
I'm french too, and like you I started learning English by myself through movies, Songs ect.. and now I'm taking English courses to learn the grammar and all that stuffs, and turns out that really made big progress in English , I'm not saying that I'm fluent, but since then English became a language that I really love learning, sometimes I even dream in English or often when I wanna say something in French, I have the sentence in English in my head and I completely forget to say it in French (it's annoying for people around me) but I can't help it, I'm pretty sure You know what I'm talking about :) because yeah the stereotype is true French people are very lazy when it comes to learn a foreign language I'm not one of them though lol and for me there's on thing that really really annoys me ... when you SOOOO want to speak English with people that you come across the street but you can't, because you know that they will not understand a word of what you're gonna say, it's kinda frustrating. Also I can't spend a day without using English, it's really addictive. ho yeah!! one last thing, sounds weird but since I'm learning English my spelling in French becomes awful, "I kinda lose my French" if I may say so
RandyClose69 Thank you! I re-read myself and noticed the grammar mistakes I've made that's because I wrote things down too fast I think. But when I read a comment like yours I think to myself "that all this hard work finally pays off" so again thank you :)
You speak English very well and being able to speak three languages is a big accomplishment, good job I'm a student I'm yr 9 now and I've been learning French for around two years and I'm finding it hard but thank you for your motivation
Thanks a lot young lady! I wished I would have learned more during my visit to Marseilles, France back in the mid 1990's! What you are doing for the people is great!! Keep 'em coming!! Good Stuff! Have you ever visited the U.S.?
Or practicing singing the songs of language which you're learning can be beneficial if you can't go to the country that you are trying to learn to language.
hey ,if anyone else wants to uncover learn speak french phrases try *Banfan Fast French Frenzy* (should be on google have a look)? Ive heard some super things about it and my brother in law got amazing success with it.
Japanese is more elegant and beautiful. Chinese is more useful on a global scale. So really depends what you like and what you are up to... Also, in my opinion, Japanese folks are much nicer and obviously more polite than the Chinese... In my opinion my more pleasant to be around them
It is ! If I ever do an update of this video I will mention it ! It helps to translate songs you like, because when you hear them, then you remember their translation and it helps you to know more vocabulary
Thanks for the video, pouce vert I really need to spent time with the French language, I was learn and stopped some months ago with a lot of excuses. You're already fluent in English, I'm not an English native speaker but, I can tell you some words you could improve: whole (you should pronounce like hole), focused (fooucoussed (FR)), basic (beyssik). try forvo . com au revoir!
Your English is good! Keep it up! I'm currently learning your native language of French. I take classes and study so I think it's cool for you to do this! Good luck!
You English is very very good.I am learning spanish and find that it helps to find short videos on youtube to listen to. England is also quite bad for language learning in school. I did 7 years of french lessons and know almost nothing.
I live in USA and speak only English and am wanting to learn more languages. I think your hard work has paid off because your English is great! Even most Americans make English mistakes and I believe most Americans would agree your accent is actually beautiful. You have inspired me to continue to try and learn more languages. Thank you!
What about Chinese, Japanese, Arabic? Ever thought of those? English is one of the easiest language for us French folks so I get your point and you're mainly right but please give me a Chinese magazine I'm not gonna have a hard time reading since I know well only 500 characters. There aren't any! So don't be too naive young lady cuz knowing only english and some spanish doesn't give much expertise about how to deal with other much harder languages I'm afraid. I'm just saying... And sorry also but speaking english doesn't make you any special, hope you know that
Don't be a hater my friend. She has made tremendous progress. Light years ahead of many other people. Why not encourage her instead of throwing stones. God bless you
Brion Martin Don't be a fool my friend. Since obviously you have no idea about what either of us is talking about. And being monolingual couldn't help you less. Therefore: Good luck and go save the world by your ignorance. Might get opposite results though....
You assume a lot, and that's ok. I love you regardless. It's ok to give healthy and constructive criticism. What I don't appreciate is trying to invalidate someone's progress or opinion as if you are the paragon of the craft. She is in progress and moving along rather well I might add. Gods grace and love be with you
you video was very helpful and inspiring. I am taking an advance conversational spanish class because i have to move up in the level. I can understand very well but I can not form my own sentences well at all I am very nervous and self couscous that I am going to do well but I am trying to prepare myself to do well and work hard.
Year that's true, there are so many different ways to say something, countless expressions, sayings and all that stuff. But in general it's not very hard to obtain sufficient language skills to get along.
Hi! I am a native english speaker who is learning spanish and french. These tips are helping me learn the languages faster, especially the tip about watching a movie in the language you don't know with the same language in the subtitles. I just wanted to say thank you! (And I will use your channel to begin to learn french!)
What you said about not stopping to look up words you don't know is something I always try to do but I always give in to the temptation. I wonder how long it will take before I don't have to do that anymore. lol.. Many of the things you said in this video I have thought myself, especially the part about studying on your own. It was nice to hear those thoughts echoed by someone else.
your tips were very helpful.i learnt the basics of french in high school but that was it.i want to learn french so bad and you have motivated me again.thanks for sharing and you look absolutely gorgeous as usual.
9:30 What about regions of my home country where the target language is commonly spoken? (For example, here in the United States, there are some regions where over a quarter of the population is Spanish-speaking.)
Oh my goodness I was always obsessed with languages too. But my obsession started at 15. I ended up going very far with Spanish but now at 32 I am going back to start Portuguese again. English is my native language, I think you speak it just fine. No one seems to notice English mistakes anyway, not even I do and I used to be a grammar snob.
Appreciate the help, I am beginning to learn French and I want to learn Spanish as well. I guess determination is the main thing more than anything else.
Thanks for the tips. As a language learner this really helps. I have been doing what you mentioned for my targeted language(French), that is watching films with subtitles. It did distract me a little to be honest, so I watched a comedy French show without subtitles and it worked, understood a little, learnt new words and got the gist of things haha. But I believe watching with subtitles, at least the first time, is okay as it helps with the understanding of the story. I'm from London, England :)
3:43 It is better to watch the movie in the other language so that you can know how to pronounce it and say it properly, and so that you will get used to hearing and "translating" the language. When you were growing up you learned how to talk more by listening to others, not really by reading.
I'm American and I absolutely love your accent. Your English is great. I'm currently trying to learn Spanish so thanx for the tips. I have a little French under my belt but I plan on improving in that too.
I think your English is great. I understood you just fine. My husband and I want to learn spanish. We bought the rosetta stone stuff and I'm kinda dissappointed. I'm going to take some of your tips and try them thank you:)
Awesome work girl! I'm going to share that with my students, and parents! My first language is french, but I now live in the USA and I teach french to students in a middle school in NJ! If I'm able to inspire my students to speak french as well as you speak English in this video, I'll be so happy! Continue the great work!
I literally love your accent and obviously you are speaking a perfect English . people spend ages and ages in the UK but they don't know even how to speak. you did it on just three months. wow that's a notch well done .I would love to see more videos On English.
just throwing it out there, I know a few people who went on student exchange to places like Italy and came away with B2 level in the language- total immersion rocks for learning! :))
I thought I would try what you suggested, and turned on the Sub-Titles, on your video while you were giving your tips, and the translation was not very good at all (I could understand what you were saying, but the English sub-titles did not match what you were saying), I am not sure how they create the sub-titles, but this would really confuse me if I was trying to learn another language and the sub-titles were wrong. You have some good tips, thank you for doing this video.
I hope my explanation made sense. Remember that "true" adjectives as in "The happy man" are not working in the same way as when you use an adjective as a predicate as in "The man is so happy". E.g "I saw such a happy man today" or "Today I saw a man who was so happy!". "We're having such good weather" or "The weather we're having is so good!". Rule of thumb, only use "so" this way if you've already introduced the noun that is "so" whatever, otherwise use "such".
"I make myself be understood" I agree with you by saying that and in wordreference website there is a topic about that sentence. I understood you so that's cool and yeah I'm bilingual in Spanish and English as well. Thanks for the advices.
I speak English and a little French. I know the basics: how to greet people, ask how they're doing, and basic "tourist-type" questions. I would like to know how long it'd take before I could have a decent conversation in French? I'm very comfortable with the basics & some more difficult aspects like ordering in restaurants, talking about myself etc etc. I'm going to Paris in Sep & would love to be able to speak the language a little better. Any websites or info anybody could give me in my quest
That is what I am learning now.....how to communicate in a casual way. You are right, you can't just learn a language from books and classrooms. That is a great way to learn the basics and correct grammar but then you need to surround yourself by native speakers and not be afraid to make mistakes!
@colorfulLala yes ! But in the beginning, dont, because u might mix things up ! Wait to be confident in one language before starting to learn another one :)
It's quite incredible actually. I mean as long as she can be understood and she understands what we say to her, then she speaks it well. That's my way of determining how well somebody speaks a language. What is your first language? I'm getting the idea that English is your first language, and that you don't speak anything else. Now I don't know that for sure, but if that is true, you have no right to tell someone their ability in a language.
I really want to become the fluent in French, and as u say what they teach at school is simply not enough. Thanks for the video! Definitely helped me out :)
Great and very inspiring video thank you. I'm planning on visiting Belgium in December (6months) so I really want to learn French where I cant understand people around me and hopefully have a basic conversation. My level of French is very basic, I did maybe two years of beginner French in High School but then stopped for like 8 years. I really hope that I can manage to reach my goal in six months. TH-cam is a great resource for learning and im also planing to listen to French podcasts.
I'm British and I think your English is very good. You shared some great tips that I'd never have considered and I'm eager to try them out (I'm learning French, with difficulty!), so thanks so much! :) I do agree with spending time in the country, as I lived in Tunisia when very young (English mother, Tunisian father) and my mum picked up Arabic much quicker living out there. On moving back to the UK very young, I however forgot my Arabic :( (was fluent), any tips on recovering a lost language?
Yes, it's legend that Parisians are proud of their own language and culture. That's why they become opened when the foreigners try to learn their language and culture because that means those are valuable to learn. This is what I heard from my French teacher from my school who has been in France quite a few times (with her students)
WHat really helped me out with spanish is that i love latin music, translating songs helps so much ! I started spanish at age 14 and by the time I was 17 I was very good in spanish (but not "fluent", and I still don't consider myself fluent)
"So the exceptions are...." This is the first exception, when "so" is used as an interjection, in this case it means only "well" or "right" or "see here", no need to worry too much about this usage. The second exception is more complicated and not used very often in normal spoken English so don't worry about it too much.. "So great a man as he, will surely protect the farm", notice here that the rule that says [so] must be followed by an adjective has NOT been broken!
It was very nice of you to make this video to help people learn English with all your tips. I'm sorry there are people that sticks to the bad sides of the form you took to do so. It was very nice to see how corageous you are to try to motivate people to learn English although you're still learning it. I mean, I beleive it's very important to speak and not to be shy so that we practise the language we are trying to learn. To see the humble you are just can inspire other people to dare so. See U!
Thank you so much for this, you video is very inspiring and you have given me the motivation to the learn even more. I only wish I could thank you in person.
thank you! you gave me motivation an helpful tips! i have famiky in costa rica, an i plan on going there when i get past the first stages of learning spanish :)
Awww Im danish, and im glad to hear that you believe that we, (danish people) are good at learning other languages :D Btw. You are definitely the best french person i've ever heard to speak so well english! ;)
Your English is awesome. You're very inspiring to me my mother language is English and J'ai parle francias un peu aussi mais n'est parfait pas. I'm trying to learn Spanish now too and I'd like to become more fluent in French. You're super helpful!
Your English is very simple and easy to understand, of course you have very little mistakes but the points you shared is very useful for the language learners. Keep it.
Your English is great. Don't worry about accent.....your vocab is great and so is your sentence structure. I am an anglophone from Canada and my husband is from France. I studied French all my life through to the university level and was also a French teacher but I struggle with casual conversation
Way to go ! In fact, if you can find an entertaining way to use the language you are trying to learn, then you will learn fast. My case : I played video games in english, and I got a quite good level in the language. What did I do to get better ? I read english (original in fact) version of fantasy books I already read in french (my native language). What to do next ? well, I'm aiming for another language for now, but maybe songs or series are a good way to improve your knowledge in a language.
I always say that I am "fluent", meaning that I can say what I have to say easily in english. I never say I'm bilingual, which would mean my english is perfect. I mentioned very clearly in the video that my english is NOT perfect !! Yet, it's fluent (to me, fluent means "effortless", not flawless)
Comment a tu fait pour mélanger les mot genre pour faire une phrase avec je parle des mots difficile et je me demander si tu avais facebook parce que j'ai besoin d'aide en anglais s'il te plait mon brevet et dans 1 ans 😭😭
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! YOUR ENGLISH IS PERFECT! AND I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU SAID. I'M TRYING TO LEARNING TO SPEAK SPANISH. PLEASE, GIVE ME MORE TIPS. THANKS!!!
You really speak english well, I'm french also from Quebec, I now live in British-Columbia and I have to speak english at work, in the street, plus my boyfriend who's from B-C speaks only english(and portuguese) Yeah it is tough when you start to learn a language but once you pratice every day, it gets better and better, your advices are really good, nice video ;) And keep up the great work !
Ya eh hecho más o menos el mismo video en francés! Espero que te sirva esta corrección. Mi lengua materna es el castellano,(soy argentino) y me encanta ayudar a los que aprenden esta lengua.
Hey ! I'm french too, and I loooove english. I mean, if I could speak english everyday as a mother language and use it everyday in France, it would be so cool ! But I've lost a lot of my level in this tongue. The fact is I entered University and the courses sucked so badly I've lost all my level and all the class did. Fortunatly there's a language lab' in my Uni, where you can really improve your english or whatever language you want. Please continue your vids, you're doing a really great job !
Next - not looking up words may be fatal as you may end up getting the wrong idea or not get the sense at all. besides, looking up the words "right now" helps to memorise them. chances are, that you will find that word you dont know more often in the following sentences anyway
@madlenox The sad truth is that there's not much good french series :-S "Foudre" is the only one I can think of, but it might not be the easier to understand. In France, "Plus belle la vie" is very popular, maybe u should give it a shot !!
your english is very good i hope my french is half as good as your english and you have a slight accent but its really beautiful i love it . your accent makes you charming and more interesting & i also would like to learn spanish hopefully next year ill get the opportunity to do it with french but good work!
totally agree with tip #2, how long have you been speaking english when the video was made? your english is exTREMEly good and you speak it quite fluidly, and though you have a bit of an accent, it's actually quite adorable
Not sure how I got here, but what a wonderful video that came from the heart!!! I liked it! I'm trying to learn espanol and french at the moment.... i'm some what good at espanol but no bueno at french!!! lol.
Hello, Thank you for your video! it has some great advice. I am going to Paris for the month of august. I am studying a lot. But I appreciate what you have to say. Thank you!
@cookies943 French is not THAT difficult, I swear ! Once you get the basis it's a rather easy ride :) And you have to believe in your dreams, everything is possible !
Your conversational english is awesome! I feel like when people learn languages the old fashioned way, they speak so formally and people dont speak formally when they're talking with each other. How you say "ya know what i mean" and "aaanyway" between sentences is so natural! It gives me hope that I will be like that using your tips.
That's because I've learned a lot through movies, magazines etc... instead of school books :)
excellent tip on watching movies in the language you are trying to learn and also having the subtitles in that language.
You people in the comments commenting about her body need to quit, I mean maybe she likes the attention, but seriously??
She's wearing a BLACK MUSCLE TEE like really? she barely has cleavage and she's not like shimmying everywhere. Disgusting, you're all looking for something to be inappropriate about.
Thank you ! And nope, I don't really like the attention
Girls don't have to be naked to get attention. They just got to be good looking; clearly she is. Unfortunately, this is the internet.
ChulyDarlyn you are beautiful
KiLLED5639 Unfortunately, Your dumb. The first part of your statement is obviously false :P
Lol. Mad bro?
I think that you are wonderfully inspiring. Such a lovely person.
I'm just starting to learn Italian now and I'm enjoying it, learning a language is great :)
+Hayley Amanda if you need to practice your Italian, I can help you because I want to practice my English skills
Thank you that would be helpful :)
I commend your video and the advice you give. As a lifelong language learner, I believe the points you stress are truly key. Well said.
Your english is so amazing!!
Thank you :)
Oh!Really
You just inspired me. You're amazing
Your english is really good considering you are French... most french people don't even bother to learn any other language, let alone speak it well...
***** Wich is from where exactly?
Thank you :) MrQwerty2524
That's true for every country. It seems that only a few people out of every 500 or so people want to learn a foreign language.
KiLLED5639 90% of the people in the Netherlands speak English well. That's a MASSIVE amount considering the 95% in the GB. And yes, it's a second language. The primary language is dutch. Quite a lot of European countries have high percentage English speakers. France CLEARLY lagging behind.
MrQwerty2524 There seems to be a competition between anglophones and French people to see who has the higher percentage of monolinguals.
I was in France last summer and because I am an English man who speaks French I was told that I am really exotic - which made me laugh as I have never been described as exotic before.
@WhereYaBoss that's great ! I'm sure your french will increase fast !!
I'm french too, and like you I started learning English by myself through movies, Songs ect.. and now I'm taking English courses to learn the grammar and all that stuffs, and turns out that really made big progress in English , I'm not saying that I'm fluent, but since then English became a language that I really love learning, sometimes I even dream in English or often when I wanna say something in French, I have the sentence in English in my head and I completely forget to say it in French (it's annoying for people around me) but I can't help it, I'm pretty sure You know what I'm talking about :) because yeah the stereotype is true French people are very lazy when it comes to learn a foreign language I'm not one of them though lol and for me there's on thing that really really annoys me ... when you SOOOO want to speak English with people that you come across the street but you can't, because you know that they will not understand a word of what you're gonna say, it's kinda frustrating. Also I can't spend a day without using English, it's really addictive. ho yeah!! one last thing, sounds weird but since I'm learning English my spelling in French becomes awful, "I kinda lose my French" if I may say so
These comments you wrote are in excellent English. There may be some minor grammar issues, but I read it and think you are from the United States.
RandyClose69
Thank you! I re-read myself and noticed the grammar mistakes I've made that's because I wrote things down too fast I think. But when I read a comment like yours I think to myself "that all this hard work finally pays off" so again thank you :)
M9714 I can relate to a lot of things you said, actually :)
ChulyDarlyn good to know that I'm not the only one then ^^
Your English is awesome! Id consider you very fluent! Muy bien!
You speak English very well and being able to speak three languages is a big accomplishment, good job
I'm a student I'm yr 9 now and I've been learning French for around two years and I'm finding it hard but thank you for your motivation
Yo se decir quiero café con leche en 200 idiomas diferentes
Impresionante!
Detta är bullshit
Thanks a lot young lady! I wished I would have learned more during my visit to Marseilles, France back in the mid 1990's! What you are doing for the people is great!! Keep 'em coming!! Good Stuff! Have you ever visited the U.S.?
This woman is gorgeous.
Or practicing singing the songs of language which you're learning can be beneficial if you can't go to the country that you are trying to learn to language.
I'm dying able to speak french fluently.... somebody helps me :)
Sure... that would be perfect. How we can do that?
Siti Faizah omg i hope you guys do that!^^^ have fun xx
cool beans join with us. We can co multiple conference. Sounds cool right?
Get the app. duolingo c'est un très bien application!
i have that too! its great and free
It's definitely getting better. I have been practising everyday now & it's becoming easier. Thank you
I wanna learn fluent french
tu sais lire cette phrase au moins ? mdr
Michel Thomas french course is awesome
Thank you for the tips! I'm just starting Spanish and this helps. I agree with you on these. Your English is great too!
Gonna learn Japanese or Mandarin. What one do you guys/gals suggest and do you have any tips on this language?
Japanese.
hey ,if anyone else wants to uncover
learn speak french phrases try *Banfan Fast French Frenzy* (should be on google have a look)? Ive heard some super things about it and my brother in law got amazing success with it.
Japanese is more elegant and beautiful. Chinese is more useful on a global scale. So really depends what you like and what you are up to... Also, in my opinion, Japanese folks are much nicer and obviously more polite than the Chinese... In my opinion my more pleasant to be around them
Japanese is VERY easy especially if you aren't worried about having to write it. No gender nouns or plurals to worry about!
Frank A That was MY experience learning it. I'm sorry if you struggled with learning Japanese or just couldn't do it.
It is ! If I ever do an update of this video I will mention it ! It helps to translate songs you like, because when you hear them, then you remember their translation and it helps you to know more vocabulary
Thanks for the video, pouce vert I really need to spent time with the French language, I was learn and stopped some months ago with a lot of excuses. You're already fluent in English, I'm not an English native speaker but, I can tell you some words you could improve: whole (you should pronounce like hole), focused (fooucoussed (FR)), basic (beyssik).
try forvo . com
au revoir!
I looove learning new languages! Good ideas! I have a few of my own on my channel as well!!!
Your English is good! Keep it up! I'm currently learning your native language of French. I take classes and study so I think it's cool for you to do this! Good luck!
You English is very very good.I am learning spanish and find that it helps to find short videos on youtube to listen to. England is also quite bad for language learning in school. I did 7 years of french lessons and know almost nothing.
I'm sorry I wanted language tips, but you're good looking
LOL Ikr ... I came for the language but stayed for her
ANZACJugger0 it took me about a minute before I realized she wasn't gonna help me out, but I watched the rest anyway.
I live in USA and speak only English and am wanting to learn more languages. I think your hard work has paid off because your English is great! Even most Americans make English mistakes and I believe most Americans would agree your accent is actually beautiful. You have inspired me to continue to try and learn more languages. Thank you!
What about Chinese, Japanese, Arabic? Ever thought of those? English is one of the easiest language for us French folks so I get your point and you're mainly right but please give me a Chinese magazine I'm not gonna have a hard time reading since I know well only 500 characters. There aren't any! So don't be too naive young lady cuz knowing only english and some spanish doesn't give much expertise about how to deal with other much harder languages I'm afraid. I'm just saying... And sorry also but speaking english doesn't make you any special, hope you know that
Don't be a hater my friend. She has made tremendous progress. Light years ahead of many other people. Why not encourage her instead of throwing stones. God bless you
Brion Martin Don't be a fool my friend. Since obviously you have no idea about what either of us is talking about. And being monolingual couldn't help you less. Therefore: Good luck and go save the world by your ignorance. Might get opposite results though....
You assume a lot, and that's ok. I love you regardless. It's ok to give healthy and constructive criticism. What I don't appreciate is trying to invalidate someone's progress or opinion as if you are the paragon of the craft. She is in progress and moving along rather well I might add. Gods grace and love be with you
Brion Martin blablabla
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you video was very helpful and inspiring. I am taking an advance conversational spanish class because i have to move up in the level. I can understand very well but I can not form my own sentences well at all I am very nervous and self couscous that I am going to do well but I am trying to prepare myself to do well and work hard.
English is one of the hardest languages to learn
Totally not :D
Roman74750 I think it's just that we have a lot of ways of talking about things.
Year that's true, there are so many different ways to say something, countless expressions, sayings and all that stuff.
But in general it's not very hard to obtain sufficient language skills to get along.
im Dutch. i challenge you
I guess as I am a native german speaker that's not too hard :D
Without knowing a word of dutch I can allready understand simple texts
Hi! I am a native english speaker who is learning spanish and french. These tips are helping me learn the languages faster, especially the tip about watching a movie in the language you don't know with the same language in the subtitles. I just wanted to say thank you! (And I will use your channel to begin to learn french!)
What you said about not stopping to look up words you don't know is something I always try to do but I always give in to the temptation. I wonder how long it will take before I don't have to do that anymore. lol.. Many of the things you said in this video I have thought myself, especially the part about studying on your own. It was nice to hear those thoughts echoed by someone else.
I salute your courage. Do keep it up girl. Thanks for the tip. Much love
hi
Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Interest is very important but finding people to practice with is probably the best approach.
Thanks.
your tips were very helpful.i learnt the basics of french in high school but that was it.i want to learn french so bad and you have motivated me again.thanks for sharing and you look absolutely gorgeous as usual.
Your English is beatiful, so are you. Keep trying! and practicing with passion!
Thanks :)
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What about regions of my home country where the target language is commonly spoken? (For example, here in the United States, there are some regions where over a quarter of the population is Spanish-speaking.)
we already know these steps. thank you for sharing.
Oh my goodness I was always obsessed with languages too. But my obsession started at 15. I ended up going very far with Spanish but now at 32 I am going back to start Portuguese again. English is my native language, I think you speak it just fine. No one seems to notice English mistakes anyway, not even I do and I used to be a grammar snob.
Appreciate the help, I am beginning to learn French and I want to learn Spanish as well. I guess determination is the main thing more than anything else.
Thanks for the tips. As a language learner this really helps. I have been doing what you mentioned for my targeted language(French), that is watching films with subtitles. It did distract me a little to be honest, so I watched a comedy French show without subtitles and it worked, understood a little, learnt new words and got the gist of things haha. But I believe watching with subtitles, at least the first time, is okay as it helps with the understanding of the story. I'm from London, England :)
Bonjour! Comment tallez vous? Je m'appelle Danny! I'm learning french and going to learn Spanish. Votre anglais est parfait!
3:43 It is better to watch the movie in the other language so that you can know how to pronounce it and say it properly, and so that you will get used to hearing and "translating" the language. When you were growing up you learned how to talk more by listening to others, not really by reading.
I'm American and I absolutely love your accent. Your English is great. I'm currently trying to learn Spanish so thanx for the tips. I have a little French under my belt but I plan on improving in that too.
I think your English is great. I understood you just fine. My husband and I want to learn spanish. We bought the rosetta stone stuff and I'm kinda dissappointed. I'm going to take some of your tips and try them thank you:)
Yeah!!!! Ur doing great! Keep it up my friend...
Awesome work girl! I'm going to share that with my students, and parents! My first language is french, but I now live in the USA and I teach french to students in a middle school in NJ! If I'm able to inspire my students to speak french as well as you speak English in this video, I'll be so happy! Continue the great work!
That's awesome ! Thank you :)
I literally love your accent and obviously you are speaking a perfect English . people spend ages and ages in the UK but they don't know even how to speak. you did it on just three months. wow that's a notch well done .I would love to see more videos On English.
Thanks for the motivation. And great job!
just throwing it out there, I know a few people who went on student exchange to places like Italy and came away with B2 level in the language- total immersion rocks for learning! :))
I thought I would try what you suggested, and turned on the Sub-Titles, on your video while you were giving your tips, and the translation was not very good at all (I could understand what you were saying, but the English sub-titles did not match what you were saying), I am not sure how they create the sub-titles, but this would really confuse me if I was trying to learn another language and the sub-titles were wrong.
You have some good tips, thank you for doing this video.
I hope my explanation made sense. Remember that "true" adjectives as in "The happy man" are not working in the same way as when you use an adjective as a predicate as in "The man is so happy". E.g "I saw such a happy man today" or "Today I saw a man who was so happy!". "We're having such good weather" or "The weather we're having is so good!". Rule of thumb, only use "so" this way if you've already introduced the noun that is "so" whatever, otherwise use "such".
Very good English, very impressed!
"I make myself be understood" I agree with you by saying that and in wordreference website there is a topic about that sentence. I understood you so that's cool and yeah I'm bilingual in Spanish and English as well. Thanks for the advices.
I speak English and a little French. I know the basics: how to greet people, ask how they're doing, and basic "tourist-type" questions. I would like to know how long it'd take before I could have a decent conversation in French? I'm very comfortable with the basics & some more difficult aspects like ordering in restaurants, talking about myself etc etc. I'm going to Paris in Sep & would love to be able to speak the language a little better. Any websites or info anybody could give me in my quest
I think you have some good tips y cuando apprender espanol mas mejor Iwould like to try frances contigo..gracias otra vez!
That is what I am learning now.....how to communicate in a casual way. You are right, you can't just learn a language from books and classrooms. That is a great way to learn the basics and correct grammar but then you need to surround yourself by native speakers and not be afraid to make mistakes!
@colorfulLala yes ! But in the beginning, dont, because u might mix things up ! Wait to be confident in one language before starting to learn another one :)
It's quite incredible actually. I mean as long as she can be understood and she understands what we say to her, then she speaks it well. That's my way of determining how well somebody speaks a language. What is your first language? I'm getting the idea that English is your first language, and that you don't speak anything else. Now I don't know that for sure, but if that is true, you have no right to tell someone their ability in a language.
I really want to become the fluent in French, and as u say what they teach at school is simply not enough. Thanks for the video! Definitely helped me out :)
Great and very inspiring video thank you.
I'm planning on visiting Belgium in December (6months) so I really want to learn French where I cant understand people around me and hopefully have a basic conversation.
My level of French is very basic, I did maybe two years of beginner French in High School but then stopped for like 8 years.
I really hope that I can manage to reach my goal in six months.
TH-cam is a great resource for learning and im also planing to listen to French podcasts.
I'm British and I think your English is very good. You shared some great tips that I'd never have considered and I'm eager to try them out (I'm learning French, with difficulty!), so thanks so much! :)
I do agree with spending time in the country, as I lived in Tunisia when very young (English mother, Tunisian father) and my mum picked up Arabic much quicker living out there.
On moving back to the UK very young, I however forgot my Arabic :( (was fluent), any tips on recovering a lost language?
You are absolutely stunning! I'm a 22 year old American learning Spanish right now and would love some more tips if you have the time:)
Great job learning English. I m in the process of learning Chinese. I would love to chat with you sometime in English.
Yes, it's legend that Parisians are proud of their own language and culture. That's why they become opened when the foreigners try to learn their language and culture because that means those are valuable to learn. This is what I heard from my French teacher from my school who has been in France quite a few times (with her students)
WHat really helped me out with spanish is that i love latin music, translating songs helps so much ! I started spanish at age 14 and by the time I was 17 I was very good in spanish (but not "fluent", and I still don't consider myself fluent)
"So the exceptions are...." This is the first exception, when "so" is used as an interjection, in this case it means only "well" or "right" or "see here", no need to worry too much about this usage. The second exception is more complicated and not used very often in normal spoken English so don't worry about it too much.. "So great a man as he, will surely protect the farm", notice here that the rule that says [so] must be followed by an adjective has NOT been broken!
I started at school when I was 11. But I decided to really learn it and put myself into it when I was 16
It was very nice of you to make this video to help people learn English with all your tips. I'm sorry there are people that sticks to the bad sides of the form you took to do so. It was very nice to see how corageous you are to try to motivate people to learn English although you're still learning it. I mean, I beleive it's very important to speak and not to be shy so that we practise the language we are trying to learn. To see the humble you are just can inspire other people to dare so. See U!
Thank you so much for this, you video is very inspiring and you have given me the motivation to the learn even more. I only wish I could thank you in person.
thank you! you gave me motivation an helpful tips! i have famiky in costa rica, an i plan on going there when i get past the first stages of learning spanish :)
You Go girl! English is not easy and there are so many ways to pronouns words. Keep it up, you are inspiring to all language learners!
Awww Im danish, and im glad to hear that you believe that we, (danish people) are good at learning other languages :D
Btw. You are definitely the best french person i've ever heard to speak so well english! ;)
Ahora estoy aprendiendo el español y puedo decir que he aprendido mucho en los años pasados :)
Your English is awesome. You're very inspiring to me my mother language is English and J'ai parle francias un peu aussi mais n'est parfait pas. I'm trying to learn Spanish now too and I'd like to become more fluent in French. You're super helpful!
I am from Montreal...I grew up with French and English and yes I do agree that knowing another language is fun.
I'm a Native English Speaker from the US, and you speak very well.
Excellent tips and I know I will do great if I follow them. Thanks.
Your English is very simple and easy to understand, of course you have very little mistakes but the points you shared is very useful for the language learners. Keep it.
I love the accent myself. Thanks for the tips.
Your English is great. Don't worry about accent.....your vocab is great and so is your sentence structure. I am an anglophone from Canada and my husband is from France. I studied French all my life through to the university level and was also a French teacher but I struggle with casual conversation
Way to go !
In fact, if you can find an entertaining way to use the language you are trying to learn, then you will learn fast. My case : I played video games in english, and I got a quite good level in the language. What did I do to get better ? I read english (original in fact) version of fantasy books I already read in french (my native language). What to do next ? well, I'm aiming for another language for now, but maybe songs or series are a good way to improve your knowledge in a language.
I always say that I am "fluent", meaning that I can say what I have to say easily in english. I never say I'm bilingual, which would mean my english is perfect. I mentioned very clearly in the video that my english is NOT perfect !! Yet, it's fluent (to me, fluent means "effortless", not flawless)
Comment a tu fait pour mélanger les mot genre pour faire une phrase avec je parle des mots difficile et je me demander si tu avais facebook parce que j'ai besoin d'aide en anglais s'il te plait mon brevet et dans 1 ans 😭😭
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! YOUR ENGLISH IS PERFECT! AND I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU SAID. I'M TRYING TO LEARNING TO SPEAK SPANISH. PLEASE, GIVE ME MORE TIPS.
THANKS!!!
You really speak english well, I'm french also from Quebec, I now live in British-Columbia and I have to speak english at work, in the street, plus my boyfriend who's from B-C speaks only english(and portuguese) Yeah it is tough when you start to learn a language but once you pratice every day, it gets better and better, your advices are really good, nice video ;) And keep up the great work !
Ya eh hecho más o menos el mismo video en francés!
Espero que te sirva esta corrección. Mi lengua materna es el castellano,(soy argentino) y me encanta ayudar a los que aprenden esta lengua.
Hey ! I'm french too, and I loooove english. I mean, if I could speak english everyday as a mother language and use it everyday in France, it would be so cool ! But I've lost a lot of my level in this tongue. The fact is I entered University and the courses sucked so badly I've lost all my level and all the class did. Fortunatly there's a language lab' in my Uni, where you can really improve your english or whatever language you want. Please continue your vids, you're doing a really great job !
If you want to learn the basis of spanish fast and by yourself, I would recommend the Assimil books, it's pretty good and efficient !
Next - not looking up words may be fatal as you may end up getting the wrong idea or not get the sense at all. besides, looking up the words "right now" helps to memorise them. chances are, that you will find that word you dont know more often in the following sentences anyway
You inspire me to keep learning Italian. Thank you!
This is awesome. I'm currently learning Spanish and I'm kinda of at your level in french. Your accent is cute, and your a beautiful girl. Keep it up!
@madlenox The sad truth is that there's not much good french series :-S
"Foudre" is the only one I can think of, but it might not be the easier to understand. In France, "Plus belle la vie" is very popular, maybe u should give it a shot !!
@ChulyDarlyn I am a french speaking. As I live in the US now, I speak english. I would like to have you for my spanish teacher
your english is very good i hope my french is half as good as your english and you have a slight accent but its really beautiful i love it . your accent makes you charming and more interesting & i also would like to learn spanish hopefully next year ill get the opportunity to do it with french but good work!
totally agree with tip #2, how long have you been speaking english when the video was made? your english is exTREMEly good and you speak it quite fluidly, and though you have a bit of an accent, it's actually quite adorable
Not sure how I got here, but what a wonderful video that came from the heart!!! I liked it! I'm trying to learn espanol and french at the moment.... i'm some what good at espanol but no bueno at french!!! lol.
Hello, Thank you for your video! it has some great advice. I am going to Paris for the month of august. I am studying a lot. But I appreciate what you have to say. Thank you!
@cookies943 French is not THAT difficult, I swear ! Once you get the basis it's a rather easy ride :) And you have to believe in your dreams, everything is possible !