I think he does a great job being understood by people who speak French every day. His accent is also very good. Considering that he speaks English most of the time, he does a great job.
I think he is so charming. It does not matter that he hunts for words in French. Anyone who speaks more than one language has been in that situation. His French accent sounds amazing btw.
Tim speaks the same way in english. He is very shy and and the way he speaks is more than an informal way. I would say is some kind of millennial way of speaking I think.... his shyness makes him sound insecure using the way he speak. Anyway he is lovely !
he sure is ☺️. I do find that the way he speaks both in French and in English comes off as a bit more mature in his newest interviews, as you’ll be able yo see in my newest & upcoming videos about him. I think he’s evolving very beautifully.
He reminds me of myself speaking French. I grew up learning from my Swiss mother and her family on summer vacations. He seems to understand everyday conversation instantly but when speaking you can see his pauses as he hunts words from his vocabulary. It's going to get harder for him as he grows older unless he uses it regularly.
I agree. it’s not so much an age issue as it is about keeping one’s brain immersed in the language. If we don’t, then the brain reuses the neural pathways for more “useful” (read: frequent) things.
@@frenchfluency By that I meant further away from the summer vacations he spent with his grandparents in France as a kid/teen which was his and my primary immersion. As adults in the US it probably won't remain regular. Thirty years on I find myself knowing the perfect Swiss-French pronunciation in my head but often having forgotten the way to actually produce those sounds, especially when speaking quickly.
I have a similar problem with German sometimes. It sounds good in my head but it often comes out wrong. It’s because the muscles also lose their ability to produce the sounds precisely if we don’t use them.
I could relate to a lot of the criticisms you had for Timothee as a foreign born Korean. I, too, admit that my Korean speaking is on the childish side and I'm trying to expand my vocabulary to overcome this
yes, I think this is bound to happen if you are a foreign born native of any language. Unless you somehow find yourself doing some "adult things" (like having a job) in that language, you are likely to keep a more child-like speak, like Thimothee. This emphasizes the importance of using a thing like the Roadmap to Fluency (or at least the fluency worksheet) to identify precisely the skills you need to develop for your personal goals.
I enjoyed this a lot, it was good listening practice, plus your commentary is something I wouldn't otherwise learn. When someone speaks better French than me, I just sort of assume it's good French.
Thanks :) I'm happy you enjoyed it and you could learn something. Don't get me wrong, he speaks good French - just not the kind of French that a French adult in his situation would speak.
@@frenchfluency Yes, I understand. I mean that if I were just listening to him I'd think, wow his French is great! I have no way to know if it is inappropriate in the context. So it is even more interesting to hear the commentary. I would like more videos like this.
really enjoyed your analysis great stuff Angel! Kindly do an analysis video of Kristin Scott Thomas, a British actress who lives in Paris for 30 years and she considers herself more French than British! By the way, she speaks AMAZING French !!
The problem with French people is that they choose to spend more energy mocking the efforts of non-French people than they do helping people get it right. Just obnoxious.
Exactly. I'm American and I would never dream of correcting the pronunciation of someone who has bothered to learn English, unless they ask me how to say something.
I really appreciated to rewatch this interview with your supervision, I studied French for 8 years but clearly I didn't notice much that his vocabulary wasn't well updated, I liked that you focused on the grammar and the context (formal/informal) but I wanted to know what do you think about his pronunciation? for what I hear is pretty good, especially his R and the - en sound, am I right? Anyway, let me know and thank you!
Thanks :) I'm very happy that you liked the interview. True, I could have commented more on the pronunciation. Like his grammar, his pronunciation is very close to that of a young native. So, no sound is difficult for him, the R and nasals are as easy as any other sound since he learned them as a child. What makes those sounds difficult for English natives is that they don't exist in English, so, as babies they gradually lose the ability to make those sounds. Babies can originally make all the sounds that exists in all languages, and then learn to give up on the sounds which "don't exist" in their native language. Their parents don't make those sounds so they learn to also not make them. Eventually their muscles are only trained to make the sounds that exist in their language, and making sounds like the R and nasals when they learn French requires them to commit to some serious muscle training. Not a problem for Thimothee Chalamet, who kept all the sounds of his two languages from birth onwards.
@@frenchfluency I watched a clip with his older sister Pauline Chalamet and she seems to be fluent in French. She even acted and directed in a short film called: *Angèle et Millane* !
Bilingual ppl do switch between languages in conversations but in this circumstance Ig he does it for lack of words since it’s just him speaking the English
Bonjour Angel, j’ai tellement appréciée cette vidéo, tes remarques sont très utile, merci !!!! Je pense que moi aussi, je parle comme un enfant, même après 9 ans d’apprentissage 🤦♀️ 😊
I wish I could speak French! I feel like I should’ve been born in France because I LOVE the culture, language, land, food, history and people! I feel like it’s too late for me to learn because I SO want to be fluent! 😩
Welcome to the channel. It's definitely not too late to learn French. The oldest people I've taught were in their 80s, so you've got plenty of time! Have you downloaded the French Fluency Starter Kit yet? it's free and it's a great way to boost your study or start it on the right foot. www.frenchfluency.net/starterkit
@@frenchfluency His older sister Pauline Chalamet seems to be fluent in French because I heard her speak before. She even directed a short film called *Agnès et Milane* !
@@jordanabeaulieu2530 sorry I missed these comments before (TH-cam doesn't notify me of replies, only new comments) Is there a link where we can listen to the interview with his sister? Maybe a reaction to that video would be valuable too.
Bonjour Angel. J’aimerais voir plus de vidéo comme celle-ci. Tes commentaires sur le français de Timothée sont très utiles et cela m’aident beaucoup à améliorer mon propre français. Merci d’avoir enregistré cette vidéo pour nous. 🙏🇫🇷
@@frenchfluency C'est intéressant que vous ayez accepté le tutoiement là malgré le milieu professionnel pour vous, contrairement à la réponse du présentateur.
These are variants I’m not very familiar with. Is there anything specific you’d like me to cover? For example do you know a video in these variants I should react to?
@@frenchfluency The French in the US is similar to Canada because these are their descendants who were fleeing the British persecution. I can always tell the French in Canada from the French in France. Canada use so many different words and old French. I’ll find a video for you of Louisiana French and how they had to fight in the US to preserve their language and way of life
Thank you for this video. It is the first one that I have seen that cogently discusses the different registers of French! Also appreciate the safe space. J'adore votre chaine. Would love to see a similar video of your reacting to Jody Foster speaking French, FYI: Chalamet's mom, Nicole Flender is fluent in French as well. She majored in French as an undergraduate at Yale University.
@@frenchfluency I literally found your channel like 20 minutes ago and I'm so glad to read you're gonna react to Jodie Foster because I'm obsessed with her french and I'm so looking forward to see your in depth take on her speaking! I hear a lot of french people saying she sounds very elegant and refined and I'm hoping you're gonna bring that up. Now let me watch the rest of this amazing video. Thank you!
@@LuizSilva-ht3mn Hey welcome to the channel :) Glad you're hear. yes Jodie Foster's French is very elegant and elaborate, with hardly any grammatical mistakes to comment on. Rather than just react to her French with simple comments like I did with Bradley Cooper and Timothee Chalamet, I'm thinking of doing something like "French sentence structure with Jodie Foster" where I point out some of the great structures she uses. And I'll also comment on cultural elements if they come up.
As far as "chepas" for "je sais pas"; I have heard that in business meetings as well, even in hospitals, whenever the conversation is fast paced.I don't particularly find it "childlike". It is rather "courant" than familiar in French in my opinion.
I think this is due to the natural evolution of the language. Popular / childlike / slang-y expressions, if everyone understands them, will eventually become standard, no matter how much policing is done against them. I have been living outside of France for the past ten years, so it's possible that "chepas" has made a lot of progress in that time, without me witnessing it. When I was younger we'd have been heavily policed for saying something like that in any formal setting. Note that not all business meetings are formal either, mine certainly aren't.
People seem to forget that Timothee father is a ethnic French himself, Marc Chalamet originally from Nimes, Provence. So he was brought up in a bilingual environment.
yes. I do mention this several times in this video series. Timothée is a native French speaker. French is his secondary language (and not a second language) because he uses it less than English.
What is the point of pointing out the mistakes he made ? He is not applying for a job or working in a business setting. He speaks like someone who learned French as a child and does not have the opportunity to practice very often. Your very critical analysis is a turn-off. Incidentally, you could work on YOUR English accent.
@@raycortopassi4030 it's not criticism, it's constructive criticism which is helpful for people who want to learn and understand how to speak like a native French person. It's helpful for anyone who can't pick up on these details since they're not native French speakers. Calm down.
Really interesting to hear these comments, I have learnt a lot from watching the video. I find it so hard to remember if words are masculine or feminine and it seems strange to me that it would be la marijuana but le cannabis, when they are the same thing. Why do they have a different gender?
great question! The gender pertains to the word, not to the object. it’s not infrequent for an object to be designated by two words with different genders. Other examples: the chair can be la chaise or le fauteuil, the mug can be le mug or la tasse etc. Objects themselves have no gender, only the words do. Sometimes the gender of a word can be explained with a rule or with etymology, but not always. See my videos on how to tell noun genders and on the French names of US states for more on this topic.
I speak both english and french (the Québecois kind ) and I really don't think ''overdose'' is a french word but one the french borrowed from english? This is an interesting video with great pointers for stepping up your formal french game although I think you are at times a little bit harsh on Timothee. But then again, the Canadian french being a lot more relaxed than the French french might explain why his using slang and the informal 'tu' doesn't bother me at all ( and it might make him even more sympathetic to my ears anyway!). Merci!
@@frenchfluency Timothee Chalamet has remained with the French language at the level of his teenage spent in France, he speaks as he was used with his entourage sice then, consisting of "mecs"or"gosses".
I don't think that when Yann says "piger" he lowers his level of language because he aligns himself on Timothee's level. I think that he says "piger" and immediately realises that maybe Thimothee may not understand because it is slang and not classical vocabulary. That's what I would think if I was in Yann's situation.
Thank you Roxane for sharing your thoughts. That's an interesting take. I hadn't thought of that. It would be interesting to watch other interviews by Yann Barthes to see if he uses slang with French guests. I've never noticed it but I have also not watched that many.
Knowing Spanish will help for sure. You can refer to this video. It's about learning French and Spanish as an English speaker but you can easily extrapolate how easy it will be if you already have the Spanish half covered: th-cam.com/video/vgEIY0wZ23Q/w-d-xo.html Please let me know if that's helpful :)
I think this is a reminder that you should not despair at having learnt French at school as a foreign language no matter how badly as long as it does not put you off, and Hollywood FLE is not what most of us can get away with. Briiliiant commentary (enabling us to learn things) and cool interviewee. I did watch it in two chunks though. By the way there have been quite a few foreign players playing Rugby in France eg th-cam.com/video/-D8pTyLKEsc/w-d-xo.html
Hey! good to see you here again. Happy you liked the video and could learn a thing or two :) And thanks for the tip. Jonny Wilkinson's French is impressive.
No, most French people will love that you're trying and will be very happy to help you. The point I was making in the video is that you don't want to be doing this constantly in a professional context like he does, because it can make you come off as unprofessional. This is the reason why I always teach my 1-1 client the specific vocabulary and turn of phrases they'll need if they have a goal to speak French at work. If you aren't using French professionally, it's all good. You won't have any problem with this.
Thanks :) This kind of mistakes are typical for French speakers, even when their English is very good, because in French we only have one verb (chercher) for "search" and "look for". This situation is very frequent, as there are a lot less words in French than in English due to historical reasons. So, French speakers will often pick the wrong word in English.
Great job he speaks French but, he does not speak proper French. As, we have to speak proper Spanish when you are speaking to elders or people you are not related to. Still great 👍 job.
yes, his French is really good (see also the other videos I made about him), certainly good enough to do what he needs to do. However other people might need higher skills, especially for professional use.
interesting because there is a black french woman who does these reaction videos on youtube who watched timmy speak and was impressed and said he speaks like a native but i guess it’s cool to hate on timmy so congrats
He definitely speaks like a native, because he is a native, a thing I point out several times. I am absolutely not hating on him - have you actually watched the video?
This video’s purpose is to help French learners improve their French, and it is very helpful in doing so. It doesn’t reflect badly on the actor whatsoever, but if you are looking for a fan video then this is obviously not the video.
Harsh criticism in my opinion from someone who speaks English at least 5 times worst than his French… coming from someone who speaks both. Practice what you preach 🙃
My dear, over 2000 people have subscribed to listen to my shitty English on this channel. By leaving a comment, you encourage the algorithm to show it to even more people who will subscribe too. Thank you ❤️
I think he does a great job being understood by people who speak French every day. His accent is also very good. Considering that he speaks English most of the time, he does a great job.
I agree! His French is excellent for someone who speaks English most of the time!
I think he is so charming. It does not matter that he hunts for words in French. Anyone who speaks more than one language has been in that situation. His French accent sounds amazing btw.
I agree 😊
The point of the video is more to help my students learn French than to pick on him 😉
because he is an Capricorn , this is what a true Capricorn normally does
Tim speaks the same way in english. He is very shy and and the way he speaks is more than an informal way. I would say is some kind of millennial way of speaking I think.... his shyness makes him sound insecure using the way he speak. Anyway he is lovely !
he sure is ☺️. I do find that the way he speaks both in French and in English comes off as a bit more mature in his newest interviews, as you’ll be able yo see in my newest & upcoming videos about him. I think he’s evolving very beautifully.
Yes indeed, I totally agree with you!
Très bon analyse de son français et excellents astuce pour nous tout au long de l’entretien.
He learned French as a child !
Beautiful french boy ❤️
This was great!! Thank you for this video!!
welcome :)
He reminds me of myself speaking French. I grew up learning from my Swiss mother and her family on summer vacations. He seems to understand everyday conversation instantly but when speaking you can see his pauses as he hunts words from his vocabulary. It's going to get harder for him as he grows older unless he uses it regularly.
I agree. it’s not so much an age issue as it is about keeping one’s brain immersed in the language. If we don’t, then the brain reuses the neural pathways for more “useful” (read: frequent) things.
@@frenchfluency By that I meant further away from the summer vacations he spent with his grandparents in France as a kid/teen which was his and my primary immersion. As adults in the US it probably won't remain regular. Thirty years on I find myself knowing the perfect Swiss-French pronunciation in my head but often having forgotten the way to actually produce those sounds, especially when speaking quickly.
I have a similar problem with German sometimes. It sounds good in my head but it often comes out wrong. It’s because the muscles also lose their ability to produce the sounds precisely if we don’t use them.
So far I've only had time to watch the first 5 minutes of this video but this is REALLY good advice! Looking forward to hearing some more gems later 🙂
Thanks 🙂 I hope you'll find the time to watch the res, and also check out the other videos on this channel - there's more where that came from 😉
I could relate to a lot of the criticisms you had for Timothee as a foreign born Korean. I, too, admit that my Korean speaking is on the childish side and I'm trying to expand my vocabulary to overcome this
yes, I think this is bound to happen if you are a foreign born native of any language. Unless you somehow find yourself doing some "adult things" (like having a job) in that language, you are likely to keep a more child-like speak, like Thimothee.
This emphasizes the importance of using a thing like the Roadmap to Fluency (or at least the fluency worksheet) to identify precisely the skills you need to develop for your personal goals.
Much more interesting observations than I've seen from others. Well done!
Thank you 😊
I agree
Really An Interesting Video To Come Across.
Awaiting For Watching Such Many More🤗
Thanks Aakanksha :) I'm working on the next ones.
@@frenchfluency Awaiting for them:)
I enjoyed this a lot, it was good listening practice, plus your commentary is something I wouldn't otherwise learn. When someone speaks better French than me, I just sort of assume it's good French.
Thanks :) I'm happy you enjoyed it and you could learn something.
Don't get me wrong, he speaks good French - just not the kind of French that a French adult in his situation would speak.
@@frenchfluency Yes, I understand. I mean that if I were just listening to him I'd think, wow his French is great! I have no way to know if it is inappropriate in the context. So it is even more interesting to hear the commentary. I would like more videos like this.
@@lindaunger5178 awesome :) I'll definitely make more!
really enjoyed your analysis great stuff Angel! Kindly do an analysis video of Kristin Scott Thomas, a British actress who lives in Paris for 30 years and she considers herself more French than British! By the way, she speaks AMAZING French !!
Thanks :) I'm happy you liked the analysis. And Thanks for pointing me to Kristin Scott Thomas, I didn't know about her speaking French :)
The problem with French people is that they choose to spend more energy mocking the efforts of non-French people than they do helping people get it right. Just obnoxious.
Unfortunately I have to agree 😂
agreed.
C'est très intéressant que vous ayez ce point de vue parce que ce n'est pas du tout mon vécu, du moins tant que je m'échappe de la capitale.
Ils se moquent des autres français aussi!
Exactly. I'm American and I would never dream of correcting the pronunciation of someone who has bothered to learn English, unless they ask me how to say something.
Your videos are mesmerizing … I wish you had been my French tutor in school!
aww thanks 😊
As a French speaker and the things he says about chui pas and chais pas, why do I feel attacked. 😂😂 mdrr
#sorrynotsorry 😂😂
@@frenchfluency Weshhh 😂😂
I really appreciated to rewatch this interview with your supervision, I studied French for 8 years but clearly I didn't notice much that his vocabulary wasn't well updated, I liked that you focused on the grammar and the context (formal/informal) but I wanted to know what do you think about his pronunciation? for what I hear is pretty good, especially his R and the - en sound, am I right?
Anyway, let me know and thank you!
Thanks :) I'm very happy that you liked the interview.
True, I could have commented more on the pronunciation. Like his grammar, his pronunciation is very close to that of a young native. So, no sound is difficult for him, the R and nasals are as easy as any other sound since he learned them as a child.
What makes those sounds difficult for English natives is that they don't exist in English, so, as babies they gradually lose the ability to make those sounds. Babies can originally make all the sounds that exists in all languages, and then learn to give up on the sounds which "don't exist" in their native language. Their parents don't make those sounds so they learn to also not make them. Eventually their muscles are only trained to make the sounds that exist in their language, and making sounds like the R and nasals when they learn French requires them to commit to some serious muscle training. Not a problem for Thimothee Chalamet, who kept all the sounds of his two languages from birth onwards.
@@frenchfluency I watched a clip with his older sister Pauline Chalamet and she seems to be fluent in French. She even acted and directed in a short film called: *Angèle et Millane* !
There are several videos of Bradley Cooper speaking French. I think he was on this same show.
yup 😊 Bradley Cooper is definitely on my radar 😉
I love him i love france i love french 🖤
aww thanks for your comment @bubble butt
Bilingual ppl do switch between languages in conversations but in this circumstance Ig he does it for lack of words since it’s just him speaking the English
Bonjour Angel, j’ai tellement appréciée cette vidéo, tes remarques sont très utile, merci !!!!
Je pense que moi aussi, je parle comme un enfant, même après 9 ans d’apprentissage 🤦♀️ 😊
I wish I could speak French! I feel like I should’ve been born in France because I LOVE the culture, language, land, food, history and people! I feel like it’s too late for me to learn because I SO want to be fluent! 😩
Welcome to the channel. It's definitely not too late to learn French. The oldest people I've taught were in their 80s, so you've got plenty of time!
Have you downloaded the French Fluency Starter Kit yet? it's free and it's a great way to boost your study or start it on the right foot. www.frenchfluency.net/starterkit
Merci, Angel! I will definitely download it, thank you so much! 🙏❤️
@@frenchfluency His older sister Pauline Chalamet seems to be fluent in French because I heard her speak before. She even directed a short film called *Agnès et Milane* !
@@jordanabeaulieu2530 sorry I missed these comments before (TH-cam doesn't notify me of replies, only new comments) Is there a link where we can listen to the interview with his sister? Maybe a reaction to that video would be valuable too.
I feel the same way Jacquie. I am though currently learning French on my own, so it's never too late to start learning. You can do it.
Bonjour Angel. J’aimerais voir plus de vidéo comme celle-ci. Tes commentaires sur le français de Timothée sont très utiles et cela m’aident beaucoup à améliorer mon propre français. Merci d’avoir enregistré cette vidéo pour nous. 🙏🇫🇷
Merci pour ton commentaire :) J'ai prévu de faire plus de vidéos comme celle-là, en effet.
@@frenchfluency C'est intéressant que vous ayez accepté le tutoiement là malgré le milieu professionnel pour vous, contrairement à la réponse du présentateur.
Please do a video on New Orleans, Maine, New Hampshire, Saint Pierre e Miquelon and Quebec French. Thanks
These are variants I’m not very familiar with. Is there anything specific you’d like me to cover? For example do you know a video in these variants I should react to?
@@frenchfluency The French in the US is similar to Canada because these are their descendants who were fleeing the British persecution. I can always tell the French in Canada from the French in France. Canada use so many different words and old French. I’ll find a video for you of Louisiana French and how they had to fight in the US to preserve their language and way of life
Thank you for this video. It is the first one that I have seen that cogently discusses the different registers of French! Also appreciate the safe space. J'adore votre chaine. Would love to see a similar video of your reacting to Jody Foster speaking French,
FYI: Chalamet's mom, Nicole Flender is fluent in French as well. She majored in French as an undergraduate at Yale University.
thanks for your feedback :) Really happy you like the channel.
Jody Foster is on my list for my future video. She'll be coming up soon.
@@frenchfluency I literally found your channel like 20 minutes ago and I'm so glad to read you're gonna react to Jodie Foster because I'm obsessed with her french and I'm so looking forward to see your in depth take on her speaking! I hear a lot of french people saying she sounds very elegant and refined and I'm hoping you're gonna bring that up. Now let me watch the rest of this amazing video. Thank you!
@@LuizSilva-ht3mn Hey welcome to the channel :) Glad you're hear.
yes Jodie Foster's French is very elegant and elaborate, with hardly any grammatical mistakes to comment on. Rather than just react to her French with simple comments like I did with Bradley Cooper and Timothee Chalamet, I'm thinking of doing something like "French sentence structure with Jodie Foster" where I point out some of the great structures she uses. And I'll also comment on cultural elements if they come up.
@@frenchfluency That would be amazing!!! I cannot wait. ^^
@@LuizSilva-ht3mn I'll work on it asap :)
30:01 Sounds like it derives from the same root as the English word "verruca", which is also a type of wart in English.
yes, you are correct! it’s the same root
You are hilarious.
🙏
As far as "chepas" for "je sais pas"; I have heard that in business meetings as well, even in hospitals, whenever the conversation is fast paced.I don't particularly find it "childlike". It is rather "courant" than familiar in French in my opinion.
I think this is due to the natural evolution of the language. Popular / childlike / slang-y expressions, if everyone understands them, will eventually become standard, no matter how much policing is done against them. I have been living outside of France for the past ten years, so it's possible that "chepas" has made a lot of progress in that time, without me witnessing it. When I was younger we'd have been heavily policed for saying something like that in any formal setting. Note that not all business meetings are formal either, mine certainly aren't.
@@frenchfluency ouais, si ça se trouve. En tout cas, c’était bien la vidéo !
People seem to forget that Timothee father is a ethnic French himself, Marc Chalamet originally from Nimes, Provence. So he was brought up in a bilingual environment.
yes. I do mention this several times in this video series. Timothée is a native French speaker. French is his secondary language (and not a second language) because he uses it less than English.
What is the point of pointing out the mistakes he made ? He is not applying for a job or working in a business setting. He speaks like someone who learned French as a child and does not have the opportunity to practice very often.
Your very critical analysis is a turn-off. Incidentally, you could work on YOUR English accent.
@@raycortopassi4030 it's not criticism, it's constructive criticism which is helpful for people who want to learn and understand how to speak like a native French person. It's helpful for anyone who can't pick up on these details since they're not native French speakers. Calm down.
Really interesting to hear these comments, I have learnt a lot from watching the video. I find it so hard to remember if words are masculine or feminine and it seems strange to me that it would be la marijuana but le cannabis, when they are the same thing. Why do they have a different gender?
great question! The gender pertains to the word, not to the object. it’s not infrequent for an object to be designated by two words with different genders. Other examples: the chair can be la chaise or le fauteuil, the mug can be le mug or la tasse etc. Objects themselves have no gender, only the words do. Sometimes the gender of a word can be explained with a rule or with etymology, but not always. See my videos on how to tell noun genders and on the French names of US states for more on this topic.
I speak both english and french (the Québecois kind ) and I really don't think ''overdose'' is a french word but one the french borrowed from english?
This is an interesting video with great pointers for stepping up your formal french game although I think you are at times a little bit harsh on Timothee. But then again, the Canadian french being a lot more relaxed than the French french might explain why his using slang and the informal 'tu' doesn't bother me at all ( and it might make him even more sympathetic to my ears anyway!). Merci!
You’re right, “overdose” was borrowed from English. We don’t really have an equivalent in French, so we borrowed it.
Please react to Lily Rose Depp speaking French! :)
good idea :)
In the west part of French, we do speak like eating some words.
yes, we do it in the east too, but people typically don't do it on TV. It's a sign of familiarity.
@@frenchfluency Timothee Chalamet has remained with the French language at the level of his teenage spent in France, he speaks as he was used with his entourage sice then, consisting of "mecs"or"gosses".
I don't think that when Yann says "piger" he lowers his level of language because he aligns himself on Timothee's level. I think that he says "piger" and immediately realises that maybe Thimothee may not understand because it is slang and not classical vocabulary. That's what I would think if I was in Yann's situation.
Thank you Roxane for sharing your thoughts. That's an interesting take. I hadn't thought of that. It would be interesting to watch other interviews by Yann Barthes to see if he uses slang with French guests. I've never noticed it but I have also not watched that many.
T’es dure dude!
I’m a fluent Spanish speaker. Will France be easy for me to learn?
Knowing Spanish will help for sure. You can refer to this video. It's about learning French and Spanish as an English speaker but you can easily extrapolate how easy it will be if you already have the Spanish half covered: th-cam.com/video/vgEIY0wZ23Q/w-d-xo.html
Please let me know if that's helpful :)
I think this is a reminder that you should not despair at having learnt French at school as a foreign language no matter how badly as long as it does not put you off, and Hollywood FLE is not what most of us can get away with. Briiliiant commentary (enabling us to learn things) and cool interviewee. I did watch it in two chunks though.
By the way there have been quite a few foreign players playing Rugby in France eg th-cam.com/video/-D8pTyLKEsc/w-d-xo.html
Hey! good to see you here again. Happy you liked the video and could learn a thing or two :)
And thanks for the tip. Jonny Wilkinson's French is impressive.
@@frenchfluency - And the other good things you reminded us - is to feel good about communicating and how to prepare
@@wannabeactuary01 yes, those are super important :)
Ok, but is French speaking people hostile when it comes to asking them about an unknown word? I got lost there haha.
No, most French people will love that you're trying and will be very happy to help you.
The point I was making in the video is that you don't want to be doing this constantly in a professional context like he does, because it can make you come off as unprofessional. This is the reason why I always teach my 1-1 client the specific vocabulary and turn of phrases they'll need if they have a goal to speak French at work.
If you aren't using French professionally, it's all good. You won't have any problem with this.
But these details make him interesting or special.
of course :)
He could also just do the American thing and say you for everything as an automatic reflex! A carry over. It happens lol 😅
In English, we say "searching for his words", not "looking". It is great seeing a French person learning to speak another language! Great effort!!
Thanks :)
This kind of mistakes are typical for French speakers, even when their English is very good, because in French we only have one verb (chercher) for "search" and "look for". This situation is very frequent, as there are a lot less words in French than in English due to historical reasons. So, French speakers will often pick the wrong word in English.
No we say looking for his words as well...
The thumb nail is mean though
ever so slightly. Have you seen the newest one, for the video that's coming out on Tuesday? I think I overdid it a bit 😅
Great job he speaks French but, he does not speak proper French. As, we have to speak proper Spanish when you are speaking to elders or people you are not related to. Still great 👍 job.
yes, his French is really good (see also the other videos I made about him), certainly good enough to do what he needs to do. However other people might need higher skills, especially for professional use.
interesting because there is a black french woman who does these reaction videos on youtube who watched timmy speak and was impressed and said he speaks like a native but i guess it’s cool to hate on timmy so congrats
He definitely speaks like a native, because he is a native, a thing I point out several times. I am absolutely not hating on him - have you actually watched the video?
do you speak french?
@@kellly4982 Is this question for me? If so, yes, I'm a French native and a French learning coach.
This video’s purpose is to help French learners improve their French, and it is very helpful in doing so. It doesn’t reflect badly on the actor whatsoever, but if you are looking for a fan video then this is obviously not the video.
Harsh criticism in my opinion from someone who speaks English at least 5 times worst than his French… coming from someone who speaks both. Practice what you preach 🙃
My dear, over 2000 people have subscribed to listen to my shitty English on this channel. By leaving a comment, you encourage the algorithm to show it to even more people who will subscribe too. Thank you ❤️
@@frenchfluency Je vois vos vidéo, et vous parlez incroyablement bien anglais.
@@jpeyton62 merci :)