"Bon Courage" is an expression that i always want to use when speaking in English (because it's so commonly used in French), but there's nothing that truly has the same meaning in English. "Good luck" is the closest equivalent, but luck and courage aren't the same thing at all. "Be strong" could work in some rare situations, but "Bon courage" is much more casual than "Be strong".
"Empêchement" c'est LE mot passe-partout pour justifier un retard ou une absence. Je plains les pauvres anglo-saxons, qui sont du coup obligés de trouver une vraie excuse. 😂
@@LochNessax3 Empêchement c'est trop vague, c'est une formule quand tu veux dire je sais que je suis en retard et je ne vais pas m'attarder sur les raisons. En règle générale si tu es patron tu supportes pas trop le retard de tes employés. Donc si tu es l'employé il faut que tu sois plus précis : panne train, embouteillage, souci avec ton môme.... Eventuellement si tu es en retard à une réunion et si la raison est un peu trop personnelle ça peut passer, mais ensuite tu vas voir ton boss pour lui donner une bonne raison.
"A L'ouest" is a bit trickier to me because it has more negative than " joking positive connotations". The way you describe it is a bit more like " Dans la lune " : equivalent of daydreamer. "A l'ouest" means more to be "not grounded "; it has an impact on how people perceive you. Sometimes when you get bad news, you get affected and you disconnect, you go " A l'ouest ", or when you take drugs you are "A l'ouest "... It is often more impactful than just to be a daydreamer.
@@adrianjohnson7920 Depending on context it can be all three. If I'm lacking sleep and wasn't focusing on what someone was telling me I might say "sorry, I'm really "à l'ouest" today". If there's major drama happening in your friend group and Brian turns out to have been completely oblivious to it you might joke that he's "à l'ouest". If someone has a ridiculous take that's disconnected from reality you'll probably say he's completely "à l'ouest". It just mean someone is elsewhere, disconnected, either from themselves, reality or from the moment.
Un bricoleur du dimanche ou quoique ce soit du dimanche c'est à l'opposé d'un professionnel. C'est un mec qui fait ça juste le dimanche quand il a du temps libre, quelqu'un qui investi peu de temps dans quelque chose et qui n'y connait pas grand chose, un amateur quoi.
Pour moi sa définition est celle du bricoleur et le "du dimanche" signifie "maladroit" ou "peu efficace" c'est le gars qui contrairement au bricoleur doué et ingénieux entreprend un peu contraint (le dimanche) sans réelle efficacité. Le vrai bricoleur inspiré n'attend pas le dimanche pour réaliser son projet.
"Gueule" is not the mouth of an animal, it is the mouth of a carnivorous animal. Wolves, dogs, lions, crocodiles, sharks all have "Gueules". Cows, horses, camels, elephants or giraffes do not, they have "bouches", like us, humans. A "gueule", for a human is usually an ugly face, or an angry face. "Ta gueule", is like "Stop barking". It is of course very rude.
It's partially true, but not completely. Words can have more than one meaning, especially in context. "Gueule" can mean human face in argot, and is not even always negative, although it often is especially when talking about the sound level. "Les gueules cassées" are the soldiers wounded and possibly disfigured during the war, but it is not meant as an insult to them. "Une belle gueule", "ça a de la gueule ce truc" are exemples of positive - but vulgar - uses of the word and contain no reference to animals.
@@alestane2 The archaic English word "maw" would signify the mouth of a dangerous predator. = He was last seen being carried away in the maw of a tiger. . . .
Mon mot préféré est flâner! Un petit problème de prononciation pour Yaourt, tu oublies de son "a". Du coups tu dis yourt qui veut dire "tente mongole". C'est mignon 😉
@@NotEvenFrench non il ne faut pas t'excuser! Tu vas réussir très facilement. Yaourt a 2 syllabes! D'abord "Ya" (comme dans see YA) et "ourt" (que tu sais déjà prononcer). Donc il faut dire "Ya" - tu fais une petite pause puis - "ourt. Ya - Ourt ! Tu essaies de réduire la petite pause pour dire Yaourt! Voilà tu as réussi! 👏👏👏
@krusty le clown Not the same although it's used in the same context : a trip in a country which is very different from yours. Homesick means you miss your home right ? Like you miss what you like about your own country, may be the food, the way shops or transports works, the people etc. "Dépaysement" means that you learn a new culture and you like it. Kind of the opposite of home sick if I'm right. French people who travell a lot (like me) do try to be "dépaysé" when they go to another country. The thing that we mostly look for is the landscape and the things related to nature in the country. For example, when I went to Norway, I went for walks in nature to be "dépaysé" to see what kind of flowers or trees are common there, the weather (I live a country where it's so hot in summer and I'm really sick of hot weather like 40 degrees). It really is a positive way of seeing travel. When you want to say it in in a negative way (for example I went to India and we really saw the difference about poverty in a bad way) so we could have said that we had a "choc culturel" which is literally "cultural shock", don't know if this exists in English.
@krusty le clown dépayser, dépaysement is nearly always used in a positive way, it's something that people look for when they travel… discovering a place that is quite different from what they are used to, being amazed by it, going from surprise to surprise, learning a new way of living…
@krusty le clown Ah oui il y a ce sens également mais je pensais par exemple une bande d'annonce de filme ça serait du teasing : en montrer un peu pour susciter l'intérêt, qui n'a rien à voir avec de la taquinerie, Le plus proche ça doit être titiller mais je trouve pas que ça corresponde bien.
@@francesatty7022 a hug would be "une étreinte" or "un câlin". The former is usually with no emotion, might apply to everything. The later is reserved for boyfriend and girlfriend. It actually means cuddles but it is used as hugs.
Another French word I couldn't find in English is "frileux" (which means "who can feel the cold"). I've noticed few words like that I wanted to use and then figured out they actually don't exist in English 😅 But it's the same in English, there are words we don't have in French. It'd be very interesting to make a video about that 😁 Great video btw, as always! Keep safe (I'm in NZ, hopefully the lockdown will be over soon)
Omg "chanter en yaourt" is literally me! My husband and kids laugh at me all the time because I always make up my own lyrics. So cool that it has its name! Singing in yoghurt haha. My fave phrase of all time.
haha this is interesting, the french expression "chanter en yaourt" has the same meaning for the tongan phrase "hiva loi" which directly translates to 'sing lie' in english. so cool how languages do that lol
The difference between "Se plaindre" (complaining) et "Râler" is the purpose, not the action. "Râler" is for lessen the burden of the topic you're complaining about, not to find any solution. Ex: you may "râler" about bad weather or queu time even of somebody who is clumsy or often forget things.
Très français de France comme choix de mots. Beaucoup d'entre eux sont nullement utilisé au Québec, Ca. Par exemple, "À l'ouest", c'était la première fois de ma vie que j'entendais cette expression. Je seconde que terroir et flâner sont de merveilleux mots
La seule fois où j'ai entendu "à l'ouest" dans ma vie c'est dans l'expression "passer à l'Ouest", que certains utilisaient pour décrire quelqu'un qu se sauvait de L'URSS communiste dans les années 80 et avant. Chanter en yaourt.., jamais entendu ça de ma vie 😁 Râler a toujours une connotation négative au Québec (y'a des chiâleux partout 😉) Je pense que les anglophones utilisent le mot "losange" pour parler de pastilles pour la toux.
Lozenge is a term in English heraldry, meaning a device or charge in a diamond-shape, which is used (as on stationery) by a single woman or a widow using the charge on her late husband's coat of arms. .
Hello Rosie, may I suggest something ? You should precise to your english spoken audience which register each word belongs to. When "flâner " is very élégant, "gueule " is slang . Do you see what I mean ?
I agree, and to precise, "gueule" isn't slang when it is used to speak of an animal. It becomes slang word when one uses to speak about human being (gueule d'amour, gueule d'ange, sale gueule, gueule d'empeigne, gueule de l'emploi, vos gueules ...les mouettes, etc.)
Pour moi chanter en yaourt c'est plus chanter avec la phonétique des paroles, quand tu ne connais pas les paroles d'une chanson tu inventes à partir de ce que tu te souviens et de ce qui te viens. C'est tout un art !! 😂
C'est aussi ce que font les pros quand ils répètent une chanson mais n'ont pas appris le texte. Il y a une version de Mack the knife où Ella Fitzgerald improvise des paroles parce que la chanson est nouvelle, mais c'est la First lady of swing, et évidemment, elle s'en sort merveilleusement. C'est Ella in Berlin, je crois. Ella qui était la reine du scat, et qui pouvait improviser après Lester Young sans être en dessous.
@@wberckmann Et ce n'est pas correct non plus de dire "mais plutôt de dire". Il conviendrait d'écrire "il faudrait plutôt dire". Maintenant que cette remarque est faite, est-ce vraiment nécessaire de corriger une faute syntaxique sur le commentaire d'une personne inconnue sur youtube ? Que cela vous apporte-t-il ?
Hi Rosie ! Hope you're doing good in those times ! First, I wanted to say that I love your videos. I have to tell you your french is really good, and the understanding of french culture you show in so many videos tends to prove that you became quite french yourself ! So, thanks for that and for all your amazing work ! I just wanted to tell you two things about that video, not to criticize, just to let you improve your french even more (as i'm french you know it is well intentioned, besides you speak french far better than I can speak english) : - "Yaourt" pronouces /ja.uʁt/ with a phonetic A (or sometimes [ja.uʁ], with a silent T in a few regions like Bretagne and some parts of the North near Belgium where we tend to turn silent many final consonants that are usually not silent). - You wrote "il est vraiment à l'ouest touS leS temps" in the subtitle of one of your examples, and there's a little mistake here : the word "temps" with the meaning "time" rarely occurs to be used in a plural form, except in expressions like "les temps anciens" (ancient times) or "ces temps-ci" (those times). Basically, when it's not plural in english, it's not in french either. So here, the right form was "il est vraiment à l'ouest tout le temps". Don't worry about your "r" pronouciation in french, it's really good, and what's more impressive for a non-native french speaker, your "u" (/y/) is perfect ! Will you do a reverse video of this one ? I know, for me, that when I speak english I often happen to think "that word has no equivalent in french", and maybe it could be fun to see some english words and expressions with no translation in french, cause languages says a bit about their speakers culture. Hope I'll see you soon on YT ! Bye, and thanks again for your work and the great image of France you give to the world !
I remember years ago when I was in high school, I was watching a late night talk show, where I believe the guest star was Isabella Rossellini. I remember she was talking about a French word that describes the essence of when someone is wearing a pleasant smell, a beautiful perfume or something, and then they move on, but you walk into the space where the person was and you smell the scent they left behind. Do you know what that word could be? I took French in high school and it really interested me that the French thought to assign words to experiences we all experience, but have no words for. This was a great video idea!
Could it be the word "effluve"? That's the odour you smell off someone or something that is not directly in front of you, like a passer-by wearing perfume, or a some sweet-smelling food in a kitchen that you can smell from another part of the house for example. It can be for something that does not smell good too. The verb would be "embaumer" (but this one has a positive connotation).
Maybe enivrant. you would say "un parfum enivrant". The french definition says of enivrant "something that provokes an exaltation of sens/feeling". A smell that would almost put you in a trance, a little bit like if you were drunk.
great video Rosie!!! I think you could have added "assumer" to your list! My students keep asking me how to translate "tu t'es trompé, maintenant, assume" and it's so complicated to translate that verb in English! Sometimes we can use "take responsibility" but also " admit" in some other cases.
And that one is very confusing for french people as well because of the verb to assume in english. Whenever I need to translate a sentece with Assume in it it takes me quite a while to find the proper word in french
@@benjidu78440 that's true, the other way around is complicated as well! In many cases " assume" in English will be translated by "penser que" or "supposer que". You can also translate "I assume" by "je pars du principe que" or "je suppose que"
In a positive meaning it could be "to own", like when you're proud of something, like "she really owns her frizzy hair" : "elle assume ses cheveux frisés". Maybe also "to rock sthg" but I'm not sure for this one.
I would rather say, for a "Bon vivant", it a way of living, where you usually enjoy life, and yes indulge in it. It mostly goes also for the food, indeed, but it can also be the pleasure of sexual relation. I guess it heavily depend on the context and who says it, but i'm not sure it used as much as my variant.
@@surimiii Définition du Larousse pour le mot épicurien : Qui recherche les plaisirs que la vie peut lui apporter. Exemple : Etre épicurien, c'est profiter des plaisirs simples de la vie ! Synonymes : jouisseur, BON VIVANT Contraires : ascétique, stoïcien Voilà, voilà ...la prochaine fois vérifiez avant de polémiquer et surtout faire une remarque désobligeante en fin de commentaire ...vous vous rendrez plus sympathique. :)
Flâner is like wandering around with a positive connotation, a pleasant wandering around. There's a relaxing quality about it. I was wandering around the town, or around the centre : J'étais en train flâner dans la ville or Je flânais en ville (better option). Something we say as well about shopping, like flâner dans les magasins (similar to what we also say "faire du lèche-vitrines") is like wandering around the shops, having a look around.
I would love to see you talk more about the “sous-entendu” or le double sens. How can I exercise my brain as an anglo-saxon to interpret important messages by my french colleagues?
Hahaha I teach French and I had never heard _chanter en yaourt_ 😂 I like the expression "si jamais" because when you think about it, it doesn't make any sense! :-P
@@FrenchComprehensibleInput Yes it's true, it's one of the difficult concept of french language, double negation, for example "un magasin où il n'y a jamais personne" means literally "a shop where there's never nobody" so if there's never nobody there's always someone :) but in fact it means where there's always no customer
@@NotEvenFrench Concerning "si jamais", I think it's short fort "Si jamais on en a besoin" or something like that. It suggest that you take something with you somewhere else, but you're not really sure you're going to need it. In place of " si jamais", "Au cas où" can be used too :)
On "empêchement". Would be used to say something came up that prevented me from arriving on time, without getting into details. The idea is: don't ask, that's all I'm going to say.
"Bricoleur du dimanche" I think that the untranslatable experssion is in fact "du dimanche", like "un bricoleur du dimanche" or "un conducteur du dimanche" (sunday driver). It feels like the person in question only practise this activity on sundays, in his/her free time, meaning he/she has no experience about it and is very bad at it. For exemple, a "conducteur du dimanche" is a person that has no driving skills and is potentially dangerous.
Hi "A l'ouest" means also "être à côté de la plaque". You pronounced "terroir" very well. Double "r" doesn't affect pronunciation as it does in Spanish.
@@daniellegagne6403 oui, je trouve ça rigolo l'orthographe que la personne a utilisé, c'est tout 😁 Au début j'avais pas compris, j'ai du le prononcer à voix haute, comme quoi à deux lettres près mon cerveau est perdu
Oui pour moi aussi à l'ouest c'est plutôt "avoir la tête dans les nuages" être distrait. Mais être a côté de la plaque c'est plutôt quand quelqu'un n'a rien compris genre quand il est hors sujet dans une conversation par exemple. Pour moi ça n'a pas du tout le même sens.
Terroir is really a very important concept in french culture and way of thinking. In France there's a lot of differences, and the way we define ourselves, is very often related to a "terroir". It's used to define food, agriculture, climate and géology, human culture but not only. The History is also a part of it, and also the way you've been grown when a child. it can be use for a large area, as Provence, Bourgogne, Aquitaine, but also for small part of these, as a smaller "terroir", part of the larger one, with more specific criteria. The smaller it is, the more restrictive it is, the closer it is for the people who actually leave there for long period, and generations, and who think they are related, in this, like the roots of their being. Of course it's more a country concept. Big cities have less marked "terroir", usually only regional one. Well, that's my opinion.
@@NotEvenFrench this is basically a specific location with decade of experience on some specific agriculture product. I mean this is the common sense used.
I really liked this video! I live in Australia so I have to speak English, and there are a lot of french expressions/words that I really miss from french! One particular expression is "se régaler", really enjoying some food, sometimes I would like to say "oh je me régale" but I feel like there is no real way to say it in English! Also the saying "être gourmand" as in "ah lui c'est un vrai gourmand!", I feel like it doesn't exactly have the same meaning if I use the word "greedy" in English.
Hahaha reminds me of my french cousin once tried to flirt with a lady in English by translating "ma petite gourmande" to "my little glutton". 😂😂😂😂 Needless to say... It didn't go over well.
bonjour rosie, je suis impressionner et flater lorsque une personne, qui n'est pas francophone de naissance , parle aussi bien que toi ma langue, continue.
C'est très joli quand tu dis "terroir" et ta manière de l'expliquer fait ressortir une certaine poésie dont je n'avais pas conscience avant. Tes vidéos sont très instructives pour moi en tant que française 😉 Merci
Salut! J'adore vos vidéos et je les regarde toute la journée tous les jours! Cette vidéo en particulier est l'une de mes préférées! Restez en sécurité! Je t'aime!
Salut! J'adore vos vidéos et je les regarde toute la journée tous les jours! Cette vidéo particulière est l'une de mes préférées! Celui que j'entends le plus est "Gueule". Restez en sécurité! Je t'aime!
i'll add the fact that "à l'ouest" to France there is nothing exept the atlantic ocean( here the root of this expression). Just a fun way to say "head in the cloud" or doesn't have feet on the ground" (avoir les pieds sur terre)
Do you know that "dépaysement" also has a specific legal meaning ? when the Court decides to change the scnenery of a process from a region to another, usually so as to inhibit local effect on the process (example : so that members of the jury are (less) biased) OR in the case of Cassation, change of region after an initial decision was overturned.
Super vidéo! Perhaps "dépaysement" is a bit akin to "culture shock". "A l'ouest" might be translated in English as "spacey". I love some of these words: l'empêchement, retrouvailles, flâner, râler. These are great! Of course, "terroir", but I knew that. Thanks for making this!
dépaysement is akin to culture shock but it depend on the context. Un petit (a little bit of) dépaysement for example is having some differences but still have more in common which in this case is not a culture shock. It different enough to be noted, but close enough to feel at home and enjoy it. I've never heard the word dépaysement use négatively either. Which is not the case with culture shock.
Nice pink hair! :-) Another word I can't translate in English is "gourmand". Same as "bon vivant", it's quite positive in French but all the English equivalents I could find are actually quite negative (aaah, the French and their food...) Oh and by the way, as some of the comments mentionned, "bon vivant" isn't only about food or drinks, it's also about enjoying life in general. So it's also someone who likes to laugh, to be the heart of the party, to share connections with people and so on. If someone loves enjoying great food or great wine on their own, I don't think they would be qualified as "bon vivant" (maybe more as "gourmand" or "gourmet").
Hey ! I haven't been watching your channel in a while, funny to realise that I understand your English so much better now that I'm living in NZ ! (I'm French) About the words, I never found a good translation for "bon appétit" but most people know what is mean, there is also "bon courage" which I found impossible to translate and explain ! Great vidéo anyway !
Haha je suis en NZ aussi, l'autre jour je voulais dire "bon courage" à mon coloc qui partait au travail, je savais pas comment le dire donc je lui ai juste souhaité une bonne journée 😂 si quelqu'un a une traduction je suis preneur
@@benb5948 Break a leg ?... Mais je suis pas sûre que ce soit totalement appropriée pour une situation si "commune" si ton coloc va au travail et qu'il a une présentation importante à faire peut être ce serait plus approprié...
@@benb5948 En vrai j'ai abandonné ! Je dis juste "good luck", ou "have a good shift" mais les deux ont une connotation beaucoup plus positive que "bon courage" :/
Bravo pour ces vidéos autour de la langue française. C'est bien de la partager et de montrer la richesse aux anglos saxon. Sur le terme "bon vivant", tu as un synonyme qui est "épicurien" et là, tu dois avoir la traduction anglaise. Hâte de voir d'autres exemples :)
Flâner could be interpreted as bumming around (American English). Terroir: a french excuse to add 10% to the price of an agricultural product. Râler is definitely: French National pastime (j’ose le dire, j’suis Alsacien frasch ;-) ). L’accent Kiwi est vraiment charmant en français!
melendu29 I know, I’m french. ;-) I was just joking about the fact that the designation in France seems to have become more of a marketing tool- like everything sporting the ‘gluten free’ label in the US- even that quintessential source of gluten: bottled water.
Hi Rosie! The English equivalent for "chanter en yaourt" could be "sing in cod English" (or whichever language) - "cod" describing something that is not genuine but is intended to deceive or amuse people by sounding like the real thing.
OK donc à Montpellier ils disent "chanter en yaourth" but I've never heard this as a native living in Paris for 30 years!! You teach me a French expression!
Super vidéo j’ai beaucoup rit, entendre des expressions françaises prononcées avec un accent anglais c’est beaucoup trop drôle et trop mignon à la fois
Hey Rosie I would just add a little bit of nuance on the "à l'ouest" that you mostly described as a "crazy-ish" kind of a person but it's commonly used to say that someone was "à côté de la plaque" (there's another funny one :p), that someone was just not paying attention or is not talking about the right topic at the moment something like that, it's not really negative most of the time. Love those videos and don't worry about your "r"s they sounded pretty good on Terroir actually ! x)
Hey rosie! I love the french culture and all the french singers of the 60s (especially Françoise Hardy), this made me want to learn French, I just had my trial lesson with Aurelie! Booking some more lessons now!
We have better singers, Françoise Hardy would be the first to say that. Claude Nougaro, Georges Brassens, Barbara, Gilbert Bécaud, Jean Ferrat, Bernard Lavilliers, Catherine Ringer. These guys had (have, for Bernard or Catherine, as they still sing) a voice and wrote great lyrics. My favorite is Nougaro. Great showman, and a genius for words. Brassens is a great poet, his lyrics are incredible, but he's tough. We played him in jazz as his music was also good. th-cam.com/video/CwpTK7kRMxo/w-d-xo.html I forgot France Gall (who sang Ella elle l'a, best hommage to the first lady of swing I've heard). And Véronique Sanson. Johnny Halliday. Eddy Mitchell. Michel Sardou. Michel Fugain. Singers with a voice.
I really enjoyed the video. I think it would be cool if you did a collaboration with a native French speaker All in French. An interview or conversation sketch/ scripted conversation Whatever you like the best. I am thinking someone interesting who is not primarily a French teacher That is my thoughts! Thanks
Thanks for the video. Gueule is not only negative. When you say « ça a de la gueule! », you admire or praise an attitude, or someone’s choice, move. Or even something bigger. Let’s imagine a beautiful wedding, you could say « ça avait de la gueule! »
Faudrait faire la différence entre des EXPRESSIONS qui n'ont pas d'équivalent en anglais versus des MOTS qui n'ont pas d'équivalent. "Chanter en yahourt" par exemple, on peut traduire chacun des mots, mais ça ne veut rien dire du tout en anglais. Un exemple anglais que j'aime bien est "shallow". Il n'y a pas vraiment de mot français pour le traduire. On peu dire parfois "superficiel" dans certains contextes, mais rarement. Ceci dit, j'aime beaucoup les anglophones qui font l'effort de prononcer les r correctement en français, au lieu de les remplacer par des w ou des ou ! Chapeau pour ça! 😁
Chanter en Yaourt : You are saying Yourt > YA - OURT you must slash the word, we must heard the A. Good french anyway, love your video style. Love from France. :)
@@NotEvenFrench I think so, too, given our reputation as effective hard workers with no noticeable sense of humour or savoir- vivre. ;-) Also, we have more gallicisms than I thought: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Gallizismen
@@joeacrobat4243 Thank you! :-) I think there ARE Germans who act according to the clichés. Germany is pretty diverse, most countries are, and people in general are. Senses of humour differ enormously in Germany between north and south, east and west, old and young etc. So does the general approach towards life, work, religion, etc. So, as with every cliché, if you want it to be true you will find evidence. Meilleurs salutations á France! :-) (ist that a viable phrase?)
there's also many english words who don't have a french equivalent. Sometimes it looks like english speaking people just invent words by gluing 2 words with each other : "people person", "dog person", "animal lover", "mind blowing", "time worthy"... Those are hard to translate in short french words you can use in casual sentence, we often gotta make a sentence to translate those.
I would love to find out more of your top/favourite French films/TV shows to watch for those learning French and wanting to absorb the language in that way! Thanks for your wonderful videos! ☺️❤️
Very interesting video! I'm French and even in French I find it difficult to explain the meaning of the word "terroir" :) other suggestions for French words or phrases that do not have a litteral translation in English : "viennoiserie" and "être ou avoir 2 de tension" when you're slow to do things :) if you could do the same kind of video with English words or even New Zealand phrases that do not have a direct translation in French that would be awesome :)
you have understood really well our French culture and the idea of those words. Chanter en yaourt ou Faire du yaourt actually means singing as you can (almost what you said) so we can sing with the lalala or with a really bad prononciation Just to let you know it is ".... tout le temps" it is singular as it is always. everytime Your prononciation is really cute
@@hegoney5841 Pourtant, je l'ai déjà entendue plusieurs fois quand j'habitais en région parisienne. On disait plutôt "faire du yaourt" que "chanter en yaourt", mais ça exprimait la même idée de chanter à peu près ( ...N'est-ce pas Jean-Michel ?) n'importe quoi pourvu que ça sonne anglais et que ça ressemble un peu au truc original ...ou pas ! lol. Parce que c'est une expression qui est plus couramment employée à propos d'un(e) français(e) qui essaye de chanter une chanson anglaise entendue plusieurs fois à la radio mais dont il ou elle ne connait pas vraiment les paroles. On peut aussi l'employer pour une personne qui chante sous la douche et avale à moitié l'eau en même temps qu'elle chante (un chanteur de salle de bain). :)
As a French person, I'm always stuck when I want to say "la flemme" in English. La flemme is the feeling that leads you to procrastination. The "I-don't-wanna-do-it" feeling. The "I'm-never-leaving-this-couch-ever-again" feeling lol Like when all you have to do is move ONE ARM to get the remote control to change the tv channel but the sheer idea of moving is just.... ughhhhhhhhh.............. can't! I would also add our very dear "Bof!" lol
Chanter comme une casserole ! 😂 Tu as oublié : Voilà ! Bravo ! Voici ! Vachement ! Ça marche ! Dur de trouver l’équivalent en anglais en un seul mot. Le verbe « Râler » est un peu différent du verbe « Se plaindre » Effectivement. Tu parles très bien le français ! Bravo ! Ton accent est adorable. J’adore comment tu t’intéresses à la culture et langue française (les différents angles de vues, les petits détails qui nous échappent etc...). Me concernant, j’ai appris récemment que le mot « qualificatif populaire pour désigner les new-zélandais » kiwi est le nom d’un oiseau typique de la nouvelle Zélande, alors que j’ai toujours pensé qu’il s’agissait du fruit le kiwi 🥝 🤦🏻♂️😂
Salut !! Il y a un mec qui matte a la fenêtre a 1:12 .. un admirateur .... Peut être .... En tout cas merci pour vos vidéos que je trouve géniales Continuez !!
Nice... I had fun listening to your prononciation of some french words (in particular "yaourt"). It is kind of cute though. Good job anyway and keep safe.
Râler is a great word ...In the Uk now your simply not allowed to complain or else you are labelled "negative" or a "hater" or something stupid like that, in fact even if you have complete justification to complain you're made to feel like you're out of order or the one with the problem, it's a really toxic occurrence that's happening now.... I love that the french embrace complaining and in fact encourage it sometimes because they understand its importance for bringing about change for the better... at least they don't take things lying down!
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You forgot "la flemme" which is the most frustrating thing since I can't complain to have la flemme in english
Lazyness mais c'est pas vraiment ça
To be lazy, c'est pas mal la même chose.
I always go with "can't be arsed" 😂
@@juicylucygoosey Merci! je cherchais une expression pour ça
oh god that's soooo true
"Bon Courage" is an expression that i always want to use when speaking in English (because it's so commonly used in French), but there's nothing that truly has the same meaning in English. "Good luck" is the closest equivalent, but luck and courage aren't the same thing at all. "Be strong" could work in some rare situations, but "Bon courage" is much more casual than "Be strong".
"Be Brave" Peut-être?
Or Kia Kaha for kiwi English 😅
@@Mecabricks never heard this one, but I love it! Short and sweet, just like Bon courage! :)
sometimes, "keep going" works quite well (depending on the context of course)
Same here! I so much need something for "bon courage"!
"Empêchement" c'est LE mot passe-partout pour justifier un retard ou une absence. Je plains les pauvres anglo-saxons, qui sont du coup obligés de trouver une vraie excuse. 😂
ça marche avec tes potes, tes collègues ou tes subordonnés si tu en as, mais pas avec ton patron, sinon il va avoir un empêchement pour te garder
Impeachment also exist in English. But only for the President of United states
@@mich_rene9378 Merci! Alors que pouvez-vous dire à votre patron?
@@LochNessax3 Empêchement c'est trop vague, c'est une formule quand tu veux dire je sais que je suis en retard et je ne vais pas m'attarder sur les raisons. En règle générale si tu es patron tu supportes pas trop le retard de tes employés. Donc si tu es l'employé il faut que tu sois plus précis : panne train, embouteillage, souci avec ton môme....
Eventuellement si tu es en retard à une réunion et si la raison est un peu trop personnelle ça peut passer, mais ensuite tu vas voir ton boss pour lui donner une bonne raison.
@@gengis737 empêchement has nothing to do with impeachment.
De bons vivants râleurs et flâneurs!!! Love you my French neighbours!! Greetings from zurich
;) i really found myself in this definition, and strong related to a terroir.
"A L'ouest" is a bit trickier to me because it has more negative than " joking positive connotations". The way you describe it is a bit more like " Dans la lune " : equivalent of daydreamer. "A l'ouest" means more to be "not grounded "; it has an impact on how people perceive you. Sometimes when you get bad news, you get affected and you disconnect, you go " A l'ouest ", or when you take drugs you are "A l'ouest "... It is often more impactful than just to be a daydreamer.
C'est vrai
Yeah, I think a close translation would be "out of it". But "à l'ouest" can be used a bit more casually/lightly sometimes.
@@MocaLykke
Wool-gathering; "Spaced - out," or "Spacey"?
@@adrianjohnson7920 Depending on context it can be all three. If I'm lacking sleep and wasn't focusing on what someone was telling me I might say "sorry, I'm really "à l'ouest" today". If there's major drama happening in your friend group and Brian turns out to have been completely oblivious to it you might joke that he's "à l'ouest". If someone has a ridiculous take that's disconnected from reality you'll probably say he's completely "à l'ouest". It just mean someone is elsewhere, disconnected, either from themselves, reality or from the moment.
For me, “chanter en yaourt” is just not knowing the lyrics of a foreign song and singing gibberish
That's exactly what I do at each concert 😂
Never heard that in France, lived there for 15 years, technically French but I guess I don't know everything
@@thhanh1003 In what area do you live ?
City, Banlieu, countryside, ... ?
@@maten146 I lived in Paris' suburbia
@@thhanh1003 Which one?
North or South
Un bricoleur du dimanche ou quoique ce soit du dimanche c'est à l'opposé d'un professionnel. C'est un mec qui fait ça juste le dimanche quand il a du temps libre, quelqu'un qui investi peu de temps dans quelque chose et qui n'y connait pas grand chose, un amateur quoi.
Pour moi sa définition est celle du bricoleur et le "du dimanche" signifie "maladroit" ou "peu efficace" c'est le gars qui contrairement au bricoleur doué et ingénieux entreprend un peu contraint (le dimanche) sans réelle efficacité. Le vrai bricoleur inspiré n'attend pas le dimanche pour réaliser son projet.
Je pense qu'on peut dire "casual"
Je pense que tous ces mots résument bien la France ! XD
"Gueule" is not the mouth of an animal, it is the mouth of a carnivorous animal. Wolves, dogs, lions, crocodiles, sharks all have "Gueules". Cows, horses, camels, elephants or giraffes do not, they have "bouches", like us, humans.
A "gueule", for a human is usually an ugly face, or an angry face. "Ta gueule", is like "Stop barking". It is of course very rude.
Techniquement, Ta gueule est juste une abbreviation de Ferme ta gueule! (Shut your mouth!)
It's partially true, but not completely. Words can have more than one meaning, especially in context. "Gueule" can mean human face in argot, and is not even always negative, although it often is especially when talking about the sound level. "Les gueules cassées" are the soldiers wounded and possibly disfigured during the war, but it is not meant as an insult to them. "Une belle gueule", "ça a de la gueule ce truc" are exemples of positive - but vulgar - uses of the word and contain no reference to animals.
@@alestane2 The archaic English word "maw" would signify the mouth of a dangerous predator. = He was last seen being carried away in the maw of a tiger. . . .
Mon mot préféré est flâner!
Un petit problème de prononciation pour Yaourt, tu oublies de son "a". Du coups tu dis yourt qui veut dire "tente mongole". C'est mignon 😉
@@NotEvenFrench non il ne faut pas t'excuser! Tu vas réussir très facilement. Yaourt a 2 syllabes! D'abord "Ya" (comme dans see YA) et "ourt" (que tu sais déjà prononcer).
Donc il faut dire "Ya" - tu fais une petite pause puis - "ourt.
Ya - Ourt !
Tu essaies de réduire la petite pause pour dire Yaourt!
Voilà tu as réussi! 👏👏👏
Y a à peu près 3% de la population qui utilise le mot flâner.
@@azelarustroth5637 c'est surtout qu'il y a une traduction, que les gens utilisent en angleterre de la même manière: wander
@krusty le clown Not the same although it's used in the same context : a trip in a country which is very different from yours. Homesick means you miss your home right ? Like you miss what you like about your own country, may be the food, the way shops or transports works, the people etc. "Dépaysement" means that you learn a new culture and you like it. Kind of the opposite of home sick if I'm right. French people who travell a lot (like me) do try to be "dépaysé" when they go to another country. The thing that we mostly look for is the landscape and the things related to nature in the country. For example, when I went to Norway, I went for walks in nature to be "dépaysé" to see what kind of flowers or trees are common there, the weather (I live a country where it's so hot in summer and I'm really sick of hot weather like 40 degrees). It really is a positive way of seeing travel. When you want to say it in in a negative way (for example I went to India and we really saw the difference about poverty in a bad way) so we could have said that we had a "choc culturel" which is literally "cultural shock", don't know if this exists in English.
@krusty le clown dépayser, dépaysement is nearly always used in a positive way, it's something that people look for when they travel… discovering a place that is quite different from what they are used to, being amazed by it, going from surprise to surprise, learning a new way of living…
This video was a great idea! And I would be really interested in the opposite: words in english which don't exist in french!
Teasing doesn't exist in French I think...
@krusty le clown Ah oui il y a ce sens également mais je pensais par exemple une bande d'annonce de filme ça serait du teasing : en montrer un peu pour susciter l'intérêt, qui n'a rien à voir avec de la taquinerie, Le plus proche ça doit être titiller mais je trouve pas que ça corresponde bien.
“chewy” doesn’t exist in french as a word but u can say the sentence “c’est dur à mâcher”.
they don't have the word "hug"
@@francesatty7022 a hug would be "une étreinte" or "un câlin". The former is usually with no emotion, might apply to everything. The later is reserved for boyfriend and girlfriend. It actually means cuddles but it is used as hugs.
Another French word I couldn't find in English is "frileux" (which means "who can feel the cold"). I've noticed few words like that I wanted to use and then figured out they actually don't exist in English 😅
But it's the same in English, there are words we don't have in French. It'd be very interesting to make a video about that 😁
Great video btw, as always!
Keep safe (I'm in NZ, hopefully the lockdown will be over soon)
Charachouette Frileux can also be used to describe someone who is cautious in doing something.
In the sense of temperature, you can use "sensitive to cold", which I agree is not as precise and specific as "frileu.x.se".
Frileux means to be really sensitive to cold.
Frileux means also being afraid to do something like giving our opinion to someone we admire or fear or perform an extreme sport, etc.
@@daniellegagne6403 en neerlandais afwachtend
Omg "chanter en yaourt" is literally me! My husband and kids laugh at me all the time because I always make up my own lyrics. So cool that it has its name! Singing in yoghurt haha. My fave phrase of all time.
haha this is interesting, the french expression "chanter en yaourt" has the same meaning for the tongan phrase "hiva loi" which directly translates to 'sing lie' in english. so cool how languages do that lol
The difference between "Se plaindre" (complaining) et "Râler" is the purpose, not the action. "Râler" is for lessen the burden of the topic you're complaining about, not to find any solution. Ex: you may "râler" about bad weather or queu time even of somebody who is clumsy or often forget things.
Très français de France comme choix de mots. Beaucoup d'entre eux sont nullement utilisé au Québec, Ca. Par exemple, "À l'ouest", c'était la première fois de ma vie que j'entendais cette expression.
Je seconde que terroir et flâner sont de merveilleux mots
La seule fois où j'ai entendu "à l'ouest" dans ma vie c'est dans l'expression "passer à l'Ouest", que certains utilisaient pour décrire quelqu'un qu se sauvait de L'URSS communiste dans les années 80 et avant. Chanter en yaourt.., jamais entendu ça de ma vie 😁 Râler a toujours une connotation négative au Québec (y'a des chiâleux partout 😉) Je pense que les anglophones utilisent le mot "losange" pour parler de pastilles pour la toux.
Lozenge is a term in English heraldry, meaning a device or charge in a diamond-shape, which is used (as on stationery) by a single woman or a widow using the charge on her late husband's coat of arms. .
Hello Rosie, may I suggest something ?
You should precise to your english spoken audience which register each word belongs to. When "flâner " is very élégant, "gueule " is slang . Do you see what I mean ?
I agree, and to precise, "gueule" isn't slang when it is used to speak of an animal. It becomes slang word when one uses to speak about human being (gueule d'amour, gueule d'ange, sale gueule, gueule d'empeigne, gueule de l'emploi, vos gueules ...les mouettes, etc.)
@@j-loosenfout67 Indeed. And when speaking of humans it can mean "face" or "general appearance" rather than just mouth.
The best exemple of a bon vivant : Gérard Depardieu
oui depardieu est un bon vivant mais un mauvais payeur d impots lol
@@valbat627 ce qui en fait encore un meilleur vivant
''Bon vivant'' : qui aime la vie, aime boire, manger faire des activités agréables.
@@valbat627 plus d'argent ==> plus de vin et de cochonnaille
@@bernardtapie1092 😂 "Bernard Tapie"
Cette réponse, c'est beau
Pour moi chanter en yaourt c'est plus chanter avec la phonétique des paroles, quand tu ne connais pas les paroles d'une chanson tu inventes à partir de ce que tu te souviens et de ce qui te viens. C'est tout un art !! 😂
Un art que je maitrise parfaitement 😅
Tout à fait. "La-la-la" c'est fredonner: *Danse mon quai" par ce qu'on ne comprend "Dance Monkey" c'est du yaourt.
C'est aussi ce que font les pros quand ils répètent une chanson mais n'ont pas appris le texte.
Il y a une version de Mack the knife où Ella Fitzgerald improvise des paroles parce que la chanson est nouvelle,
mais c'est la First lady of swing, et évidemment, elle s'en sort merveilleusement. C'est Ella in Berlin, je crois.
Ella qui était la reine du scat, et qui pouvait improviser après Lester Young sans être en dessous.
Ce n'est pas correcte de dire «ce que tu te souviens», mais plutôt de dire « ce dont tu te souviens».
@@wberckmann Et ce n'est pas correct non plus de dire "mais plutôt de dire". Il conviendrait d'écrire "il faudrait plutôt dire". Maintenant que cette remarque est faite, est-ce vraiment nécessaire de corriger une faute syntaxique sur le commentaire d'une personne inconnue sur youtube ? Que cela vous apporte-t-il ?
Hi Rosie ! Hope you're doing good in those times ! First, I wanted to say that I love your videos. I have to tell you your french is really good, and the understanding of french culture you show in so many videos tends to prove that you became quite french yourself ! So, thanks for that and for all your amazing work !
I just wanted to tell you two things about that video, not to criticize, just to let you improve your french even more (as i'm french you know it is well intentioned, besides you speak french far better than I can speak english) :
- "Yaourt" pronouces /ja.uʁt/ with a phonetic A (or sometimes [ja.uʁ], with a silent T in a few regions like Bretagne and some parts of the North near Belgium where we tend to turn silent many final consonants that are usually not silent).
- You wrote "il est vraiment à l'ouest touS leS temps" in the subtitle of one of your examples, and there's a little mistake here : the word "temps" with the meaning "time" rarely occurs to be used in a plural form, except in expressions like "les temps anciens" (ancient times) or "ces temps-ci" (those times). Basically, when it's not plural in english, it's not in french either. So here, the right form was "il est vraiment à l'ouest tout le temps".
Don't worry about your "r" pronouciation in french, it's really good, and what's more impressive for a non-native french speaker, your "u" (/y/) is perfect !
Will you do a reverse video of this one ? I know, for me, that when I speak english I often happen to think "that word has no equivalent in french", and maybe it could be fun to see some english words and expressions with no translation in french, cause languages says a bit about their speakers culture.
Hope I'll see you soon on YT ! Bye, and thanks again for your work and the great image of France you give to the world !
I remember years ago when I was in high school, I was watching a late night talk show, where I believe the guest star was Isabella Rossellini. I remember she was talking about a French word that describes the essence of when someone is wearing a pleasant smell, a beautiful perfume or something, and then they move on, but you walk into the space where the person was and you smell the scent they left behind. Do you know what that word could be? I took French in high school and it really interested me that the French thought to assign words to experiences we all experience, but have no words for. This was a great video idea!
"Sillage" i guess ? Pronounced see-yaj. It means wake (like boat wake). That's the technical term for this in perfumery anyway.
Could it be the word "effluve"? That's the odour you smell off someone or something that is not directly in front of you, like a passer-by wearing perfume, or a some sweet-smelling food in a kitchen that you can smell from another part of the house for example. It can be for something that does not smell good too. The verb would be "embaumer" (but this one has a positive connotation).
Maybe enivrant. you would say "un parfum enivrant". The french definition says of enivrant "something that provokes an exaltation of sens/feeling". A smell that would almost put you in a trance, a little bit like if you were drunk.
"chanter en yaourt" well, it's a french who want to sing in english but he didn't know le language, it's an imitation.
great video Rosie!!! I think you could have added "assumer" to your list! My students keep asking me how to translate "tu t'es trompé, maintenant, assume" and it's so complicated to translate that verb in English! Sometimes we can use "take responsibility" but also " admit" in some other cases.
And that one is very confusing for french people as well because of the verb to assume in english. Whenever I need to translate a sentece with Assume in it it takes me quite a while to find the proper word in french
@@benjidu78440 that's true, the other way around is complicated as well! In many cases " assume" in English will be translated by "penser que" or "supposer que". You can also translate "I assume" by "je pars du principe que" or "je suppose que"
@@NotEvenFrench i usually say that too! or "take responsibility"
In a positive meaning it could be "to own", like when you're proud of something, like "she really owns her frizzy hair" : "elle assume ses cheveux frisés". Maybe also "to rock sthg" but I'm not sure for this one.
“Accept it” may also work in some cases..?
Pourquoi est-ce que j'aime tellement les anglais qui parlent français ?
Moi aussi j'adore ce petit accent qu'ont les anglophones quand ils parlent francais
Coucou, 😏😘 haha! Moi, j'aime les francophones qui parlent en anglais 🥰
@@krisofthegroove comme quoi , tout est relative 😉
I would rather say, for a "Bon vivant", it a way of living, where you usually enjoy life, and yes indulge in it. It mostly goes also for the food, indeed, but it can also be the pleasure of sexual relation. I guess it heavily depend on the context and who says it, but i'm not sure it used as much as my variant.
It can also pair with the fact of being likely to laugh, or party maybe. As you said, it is really depending on the context ^^
Le bon vivant va aussi être assez expressif, joueur, voir même farceur, taquineur, ou attentioné.
@@NotEvenFrench In fact "Bon vivant" could be traduced by epicurean ;)
Pas du tout, jamais on emploie ça sur la sexualité, ce n'est pas épicurien du coup. Dites pas des bêtises
@@surimiii Définition du Larousse pour le mot épicurien : Qui recherche les plaisirs que la vie peut lui apporter.
Exemple : Etre épicurien, c'est profiter des plaisirs simples de la vie !
Synonymes : jouisseur, BON VIVANT
Contraires : ascétique, stoïcien
Voilà, voilà ...la prochaine fois vérifiez avant de polémiquer et surtout faire une remarque désobligeante en fin de commentaire ...vous vous rendrez plus sympathique. :)
Flâner is like wandering around with a positive connotation, a pleasant wandering around. There's a relaxing quality about it. I was wandering around the town, or around the centre : J'étais en train flâner dans la ville or Je flânais en ville (better option). Something we say as well about shopping, like flâner dans les magasins (similar to what we also say "faire du lèche-vitrines") is like wandering around the shops, having a look around.
I would love to see you talk more about the “sous-entendu” or le double sens. How can I exercise my brain as an anglo-saxon to interpret important messages by my french colleagues?
As a french I was asking myself the same question.. ! Excellent question !
Hahaha I teach French and I had never heard _chanter en yaourt_ 😂
I like the expression "si jamais" because when you think about it, it doesn't make any sense! :-P
« Si jamais » actually means « if ever ». So it makes sense, doesn’t it?
@@xouxoful Yes I know but it also literally means "if never" so I reckon _Prends tes clés si jamais_ can sound funny
@@FrenchComprehensibleInput Yes it's true, it's one of the difficult concept of french language, double negation, for example "un magasin où il n'y a jamais personne" means literally "a shop where there's never nobody" so if there's never nobody there's always someone :) but in fact it means where there's always no customer
@@Alban_Gaultier True! :-P
@@NotEvenFrench Concerning "si jamais", I think it's short fort "Si jamais on en a besoin" or something like that. It suggest that you take something with you somewhere else, but you're not really sure you're going to need it.
In place of " si jamais", "Au cas où" can be used too :)
On "empêchement". Would be used to say something came up that prevented me from arriving on time, without getting into details. The idea is: don't ask, that's all I'm going to say.
= "complications" or "it's complicated" -- meaning I haven't got time to talk about it.
"Bricoleur du dimanche" I think that the untranslatable experssion is in fact "du dimanche", like "un bricoleur du dimanche" or "un conducteur du dimanche" (sunday driver). It feels like the person in question only practise this activity on sundays, in his/her free time, meaning he/she has no experience about it and is very bad at it. For exemple, a "conducteur du dimanche" is a person that has no driving skills and is potentially dangerous.
un pêcheur du dimanche.... almost every profession can be practise as a "dilettant", without any skills
@@thierryf67 Sure, but this expression has a real pejorative meaning
@@thierryf67 Attention aux médecins du Dimanche quand même!
@@NotEvenFrench That means this person s a terrible driver. You don't want to get in his/her car...
@@NotEvenFrench Yes, it means that the person is only driving on Sundays, so they are "clueless drivers".
Hi
"A l'ouest" means also "être à côté de la plaque".
You pronounced "terroir" very well. Double "r" doesn't affect pronunciation as it does in Spanish.
"À l'ouest" signifie surtout "distrait", c'est plus un mélange de "être à côté de la plaque" et "être dans les nuages"
@@yukokitsune414 distret?
@@claiir3bonn3l1709 Ça s'écrit ''distrait''
@@daniellegagne6403 oui, je trouve ça rigolo l'orthographe que la personne a utilisé, c'est tout 😁 Au début j'avais pas compris, j'ai du le prononcer à voix haute, comme quoi à deux lettres près mon cerveau est perdu
Oui pour moi aussi à l'ouest c'est plutôt "avoir la tête dans les nuages" être distrait. Mais être a côté de la plaque c'est plutôt quand quelqu'un n'a rien compris genre quand il est hors sujet dans une conversation par exemple. Pour moi ça n'a pas du tout le même sens.
Terroir is really a very important concept in french culture and way of thinking. In France there's a lot of differences, and the way we define ourselves, is very often related to a "terroir". It's used to define food, agriculture, climate and géology, human culture but not only. The History is also a part of it, and also the way you've been grown when a child. it can be use for a large area, as Provence, Bourgogne, Aquitaine, but also for small part of these, as a smaller "terroir", part of the larger one, with more specific criteria. The smaller it is, the more restrictive it is, the closer it is for the people who actually leave there for long period, and generations, and who think they are related, in this, like the roots of their being. Of course it's more a country concept. Big cities have less marked "terroir", usually only regional one. Well, that's my opinion.
@@NotEvenFrench Yes excellent idea to bring in this word in this video
@@NotEvenFrench this is basically a specific location with decade of experience on some specific agriculture product. I mean this is the common sense used.
I really liked this video! I live in Australia so I have to speak English, and there are a lot of french expressions/words that I really miss from french! One particular expression is "se régaler", really enjoying some food, sometimes I would like to say "oh je me régale" but I feel like there is no real way to say it in English! Also the saying "être gourmand" as in "ah lui c'est un vrai gourmand!", I feel like it doesn't exactly have the same meaning if I use the word "greedy" in English.
You can say "food lover" for "gourmand" it works well :)
Mathilde : "se régaler" is not possible for an Englishman in his own country... ahah.... sorry..
Edouard ESK haha I guess there must be a reason why it doesn’t exist 😂
Shan Fée Armor yes it’s true, it works too but I still feel like it doesn’t resonate the same way in my head 🙄
Hahaha reminds me of my french cousin once tried to flirt with a lady in English by translating "ma petite gourmande" to "my little glutton". 😂😂😂😂 Needless to say... It didn't go over well.
Salut, c'est pour te dire que j'aime beaucoup regarder tes vidéos même si je suis un français natif. Continue comme ça !
bonjour rosie, je suis impressionner et flater lorsque une personne, qui n'est pas francophone de naissance , parle aussi bien que toi ma langue, continue.
C'est très joli quand tu dis "terroir" et ta manière de l'expliquer fait ressortir une certaine poésie dont je n'avais pas conscience avant. Tes vidéos sont très instructives pour moi en tant que française 😉 Merci
Salut! J'adore vos vidéos et je les regarde toute la journée tous les jours! Cette vidéo en particulier est l'une de mes préférées! Restez en sécurité! Je t'aime!
Salut! J'adore vos vidéos et je les regarde toute la journée tous les jours! Cette vidéo particulière est l'une de mes préférées! Celui que j'entends le plus est "Gueule". Restez en sécurité! Je t'aime!
For « à l’ouest », in the US (Midwest/Michigan) we always used to say “out to lunch” or even OTL. Great video!
i'll add the fact that "à l'ouest" to France there is nothing exept the atlantic ocean( here the root of this expression). Just a fun way to say "head in the cloud" or doesn't have feet on the ground" (avoir les pieds sur terre)
Love that you use them in a sentence! Learning so much!
J'ai découvert des expressions que je connaissais même pas😅😅😅
Gueule - approximates to “mug” (UK)
Narguer - to gloat
Râler - to whine or winge
Flâner - to wander
A l’Ouest - ponderous, dreamer
To wander = errer
Who was looking through the window? 😂
Yeah wtf
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Do you know that "dépaysement" also has a specific legal meaning ? when the Court decides to change the scnenery of a process from a region to another, usually so as to inhibit local effect on the process (example : so that members of the jury are (less) biased) OR in the case of Cassation, change of region after an initial decision was overturned.
In English, this legal concept is called "change of venue."
Super vidéo! Perhaps "dépaysement" is a bit akin to "culture shock". "A l'ouest" might be translated in English as "spacey". I love some of these words: l'empêchement, retrouvailles, flâner, râler. These are great! Of course, "terroir", but I knew that. Thanks for making this!
dépaysement is akin to culture shock but it depend on the context. Un petit (a little bit of) dépaysement for example is having some differences but still have more in common which in this case is not a culture shock. It different enough to be noted, but close enough to feel at home and enjoy it.
I've never heard the word dépaysement use négatively either. Which is not the case with culture shock.
I really love the way you explain French concepts. It would be interesting to do the same video with intranslationable english concepts
This was so fun!! I just added the video to my "Watch Later" playlist so that I can take notes on the second round 😂!
I think narguer is translatable to "to taunt".
Or to tease..
Nice pink hair! :-)
Another word I can't translate in English is "gourmand". Same as "bon vivant", it's quite positive in French but all the English equivalents I could find are actually quite negative (aaah, the French and their food...)
Oh and by the way, as some of the comments mentionned, "bon vivant" isn't only about food or drinks, it's also about enjoying life in general. So it's also someone who likes to laugh, to be the heart of the party, to share connections with people and so on. If someone loves enjoying great food or great wine on their own, I don't think they would be qualified as "bon vivant" (maybe more as "gourmand" or "gourmet").
Hey ! I haven't been watching your channel in a while, funny to realise that I understand your English so much better now that I'm living in NZ ! (I'm French) About the words, I never found a good translation for "bon appétit" but most people know what is mean, there is also "bon courage" which I found impossible to translate and explain !
Great vidéo anyway !
Haha je suis en NZ aussi, l'autre jour je voulais dire "bon courage" à mon coloc qui partait au travail, je savais pas comment le dire donc je lui ai juste souhaité une bonne journée 😂 si quelqu'un a une traduction je suis preneur
@@benb5948 Break a leg ?... Mais je suis pas sûre que ce soit totalement appropriée pour une situation si "commune" si ton coloc va au travail et qu'il a une présentation importante à faire peut être ce serait plus approprié...
@@benb5948 En vrai j'ai abandonné ! Je dis juste "good luck", ou "have a good shift" mais les deux ont une connotation beaucoup plus positive que "bon courage" :/
@@laurie0721 "Good luck... you'll need some" pourrait etre une traduction mais ça sonne peut etre trop pessimiste
Bon appétit : enjoy, ou enjoy your meal;
Bravo pour ces vidéos autour de la langue française. C'est bien de la partager et de montrer la richesse aux anglos saxon.
Sur le terme "bon vivant", tu as un synonyme qui est "épicurien" et là, tu dois avoir la traduction anglaise.
Hâte de voir d'autres exemples :)
wow this is so interesting
Flâner could be interpreted as bumming around (American English).
Terroir: a french excuse to add 10% to the price of an agricultural product.
Râler is definitely: French National pastime (j’ose le dire, j’suis Alsacien frasch ;-) ).
L’accent Kiwi est vraiment charmant en français!
Vl1253 Terroir? The real meaning (not the joke above) is rural , rural origin (from terre which is land)
melendu29 I know, I’m french. ;-)
I was just joking about the fact that the designation in France seems to have become more of a marketing tool- like everything sporting the ‘gluten free’ label in the US- even that quintessential source of gluten: bottled water.
Hi Rosie! The English equivalent for "chanter en yaourt" could be "sing in cod English" (or whichever language) - "cod" describing something that is not genuine but is intended to deceive or amuse people by sounding like the real thing.
Unfortunately, "la mauvaise foi" is missing ^^
This one is literally "bad faith" in English:
www.google.com/amp/s/dictionary.cambridge.org/fr/amp/anglais/bad-faith
@@ddsbread5673 "mauvaise foi" can be used in both situations in French. But I see what you mean.
OK donc à Montpellier ils disent "chanter en yaourth" but I've never heard this as a native living in Paris for 30 years!! You teach me a French expression!
Chaque region a ses termes
Je parie que ta pas entendu parler de "gaver" ,"pigne" (pomme de pain), poche (genre les sac de course) x)
Super vidéo j’ai beaucoup rit, entendre des expressions françaises prononcées avec un accent anglais c’est beaucoup trop drôle et trop mignon à la fois
Hey Rosie I would just add a little bit of nuance on the "à l'ouest" that you mostly described as a "crazy-ish" kind of a person but it's commonly used to say that someone was "à côté de la plaque" (there's another funny one :p), that someone was just not paying attention or is not talking about the right topic at the moment something like that, it's not really negative most of the time. Love those videos and don't worry about your "r"s they sounded pretty good on Terroir actually ! x)
Bravo tu maîtrises très bien les expressions Française
dépaysement is like homesick but in a good way
I discovered your channel very recently and I absolutely love it ❤
As a french, I think "l'appel de la grande terre" is actually "l'appel de la nature" :)
and in fact it was '"l'appel du grand air" :)
You can say the both. L'appel à la nature can be for a longer time than l'appel du grand air
@@dgege314 yes both are correct but she was definitely aiming for "grand air".
@@OlivierDufour j'etais juste troublé par sa référence à l'expression "l'appel du grande terre"..."l'appel du grand air". Trop mignon :)
Love this!! Thank you!
Not Even French my husband suggested meander for flâneur??
Je n’avais jamais entendu l’expression « chanter en yaourt ». Merci de m’avoir appris quelque chose sur ma propre langue 😉
Pareil. 🤔 🤣
On l'utilise peut-être que dans la région parisienne. Je l'ai souvent entendu mais plus par les générations 50+
ImKweeZy C’est une expression amusante en tout cas.
Oui c'est un peu daté maintenant, bien que pas si vieux.
Rosie I think you just made a masterpiece on the internet with your channel. You accelarated the sound great lol hugs from France.
Very interesting Rosie. The French language can sound wonderful to an English speaking guy like me. Thank you.
Hey rosie! I love the french culture and all the french singers of the 60s (especially Françoise Hardy), this made me want to learn French, I just had my trial lesson with Aurelie! Booking some more lessons now!
We have better singers, Françoise Hardy would be the first to say that. Claude Nougaro, Georges Brassens, Barbara, Gilbert Bécaud, Jean Ferrat, Bernard Lavilliers, Catherine Ringer. These guys had (have, for Bernard or Catherine, as they still sing) a voice and wrote great lyrics. My favorite is Nougaro. Great showman, and a genius for words.
Brassens is a great poet, his lyrics are incredible, but he's tough. We played him in jazz as his music was also good.
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I forgot France Gall (who sang Ella elle l'a, best hommage to the first lady of swing I've heard).
And Véronique Sanson. Johnny Halliday. Eddy Mitchell. Michel Sardou. Michel Fugain. Singers with a voice.
I really enjoyed the video.
I think it would be cool if you did a collaboration with a native French speaker
All in French.
An interview or conversation
sketch/ scripted conversation
Whatever you like the best.
I am thinking someone interesting who is not primarily a French teacher
That is my thoughts!
Thanks
Thanks for the video.
Gueule is not only negative. When you say « ça a de la gueule! », you admire or praise an attitude, or someone’s choice, move. Or even something bigger. Let’s imagine a beautiful wedding, you could say « ça avait de la gueule! »
"Stylish"? "Classy"?
Faudrait faire la différence entre des EXPRESSIONS qui n'ont pas d'équivalent en anglais versus des MOTS qui n'ont pas d'équivalent. "Chanter en yahourt" par exemple, on peut traduire chacun des mots, mais ça ne veut rien dire du tout en anglais. Un exemple anglais que j'aime bien est "shallow". Il n'y a pas vraiment de mot français pour le traduire. On peu dire parfois "superficiel" dans certains contextes, mais rarement.
Ceci dit, j'aime beaucoup les anglophones qui font l'effort de prononcer les r correctement en français, au lieu de les remplacer par des w ou des ou ! Chapeau pour ça! 😁
Chanter en Yaourt : You are saying Yourt > YA - OURT you must slash the word, we must heard the A.
Good french anyway, love your video style. Love from France. :)
Oh, we have "flâner" with the exact same meaning in German, too: "flanieren". Probably borrowed from French in Napoleon times.
@@NotEvenFrench I think so, too, given our reputation as effective hard workers with no noticeable sense of humour or savoir- vivre. ;-) Also, we have more gallicisms than I thought: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Gallizismen
@@BlackAdder665 As french I only met german with sense of humor and sympathy. Even if we make joke about clichés sometimes, we know that it is false.
@@joeacrobat4243 Thank you! :-) I think there ARE Germans who act according to the clichés. Germany is pretty diverse, most countries are, and people in general are. Senses of humour differ enormously in Germany between north and south, east and west, old and young etc. So does the general approach towards life, work, religion, etc. So, as with every cliché, if you want it to be true you will find evidence. Meilleurs salutations á France! :-) (ist that a viable phrase?)
there's also many english words who don't have a french equivalent. Sometimes it looks like english speaking people just invent words by gluing 2 words with each other : "people person", "dog person", "animal lover", "mind blowing", "time worthy"... Those are hard to translate in short french words you can use in casual sentence, we often gotta make a sentence to translate those.
Love this so much! :)
Excellent 🤗🤗🤗 tank you
your French accent Is so cute
I would love to find out more of your top/favourite French films/TV shows to watch for those learning French and wanting to absorb the language in that way! Thanks for your wonderful videos! ☺️❤️
Very interesting video! I'm French and even in French I find it difficult to explain the meaning of the word "terroir" :) other suggestions for French words or phrases that do not have a litteral translation in English : "viennoiserie" and "être ou avoir 2 de tension" when you're slow to do things :) if you could do the same kind of video with English words or even New Zealand phrases that do not have a direct translation in French that would be awesome :)
bon vivant: what about pleasure-seeking (epicurean)
Assez d'accord. I'd say pleasure seeking in a social way. Not a selfish way.
You can be "bon vivant" living a simple life. A "bon vivant" is someone who is enjoying life no matter how.
Définition du Larousse: Bon vivant, qui prend la vie du bon côté, qui aime les plaisirs, en particulier ceux de la table.
@@hugobourgon198 bon vivant = epicure?
You said perfectly "tout le temps" but you wrote "tous les temps" there's always an 's' at temps but there's only one :)
I think that you should add, "chez" which has meanings in various contexts which are not truly translatable but it is frequently used in French.
Râler is our national sport! World champions without any real competition!
Are you going to introduce us to your French hubby on one of the videos? 😊. Love your vlogs!
you have understood really well our French culture and the idea of those words.
Chanter en yaourt ou Faire du yaourt actually means singing as you can (almost what you said) so we can sing with the lalala or with a really bad prononciation
Just to let you know it is ".... tout le temps" it is singular as it is always. everytime
Your prononciation is really cute
This is so interesting
Thank you for your video and work ! :D
Fun video ! Good luck in mastering the Rrrrrrrs !! You seem to struggle so much XD. Love from France
Je viens d'apprendre une nouvelle expression et pourtant je suis française 😄 "chanter en yaourt" je ne connaissais pas 👍
Jean-Michel Apeupré :))) Mais il est vrai que c'est une expression qui est beaucoup plus employée en Île de France qu'ailleurs...
@@j-loosenfout67 Ah bon ? Pas à Paris en tout cas ! Première fois que je l'entends en 30 ans !
@@hegoney5841 Pourtant, je l'ai déjà entendue plusieurs fois quand j'habitais en région parisienne. On disait plutôt "faire du yaourt" que "chanter en yaourt", mais ça exprimait la même idée de chanter à peu près ( ...N'est-ce pas Jean-Michel ?) n'importe quoi pourvu que ça sonne anglais et que ça ressemble un peu au truc original ...ou pas ! lol. Parce que c'est une expression qui est plus couramment employée à propos d'un(e) français(e) qui essaye de chanter une chanson anglaise entendue plusieurs fois à la radio mais dont il ou elle ne connait pas vraiment les paroles. On peut aussi l'employer pour une personne qui chante sous la douche et avale à moitié l'eau en même temps qu'elle chante (un chanteur de salle de bain). :)
As a French person, I'm always stuck when I want to say "la flemme" in English. La flemme is the feeling that leads you to procrastination. The "I-don't-wanna-do-it" feeling.
The "I'm-never-leaving-this-couch-ever-again" feeling lol
Like when all you have to do is move ONE ARM to get the remote control to change the tv channel but the sheer idea of moving is just.... ughhhhhhhhh.............. can't!
I would also add our very dear "Bof!" lol
you can say "i can't be bothered"or " i don't feel like it " :)
Or, in British English, “can’t be arsed” 😛 (not to be used in polite company 😄)
Try "indolent" or "lethargic". 😏
Hi Rosie! I would to see a video about some of your favorite French films and music / artists! 😁
Very interesting video Rosie! I will have to show that one to my British husband!
👍 véri goude explanications ove ze friendche oueurds & idioms.
1:16 il love the guy at the window
Chanter comme une casserole ! 😂
Tu as oublié : Voilà ! Bravo ! Voici ! Vachement ! Ça marche ! Dur de trouver l’équivalent en anglais en un seul mot.
Le verbe « Râler » est un peu différent du verbe « Se plaindre » Effectivement.
Tu parles très bien le français ! Bravo ! Ton accent est adorable. J’adore comment tu t’intéresses à la culture et langue française (les différents angles de vues, les petits détails qui nous échappent etc...).
Me concernant, j’ai appris récemment que le mot « qualificatif populaire pour désigner les new-zélandais » kiwi est le nom d’un oiseau typique de la nouvelle Zélande, alors que j’ai toujours pensé qu’il s’agissait du fruit le kiwi 🥝 🤦🏻♂️😂
*10:40** "touT LE temps* 😘
Omg you have such a cheerful personality! Perfect for youtube vlogging have thought of opening a french vlog?!
Salut !!
Il y a un mec qui matte a la fenêtre a 1:12 .. un admirateur .... Peut être ....
En tout cas merci pour vos vidéos que je trouve géniales
Continuez !!
😂😂 sa petite tête qui depasse dans l'angle
Nice... I had fun listening to your prononciation of some french words (in particular "yaourt"). It is kind of cute though. Good job anyway and keep safe.
Râler is a great word ...In the Uk now your simply not allowed to complain or else you are labelled "negative" or a "hater" or something stupid like that, in fact even if you have complete justification to complain you're made to feel like you're out of order or the one with the problem, it's a really toxic occurrence that's happening now.... I love that the french embrace complaining and in fact encourage it sometimes because they understand its importance for bringing about change for the better... at least they don't take things lying down!
I'm so proud of being french, Spanish and other languages. 😍👏🙏
Bravo pour ton français parfait !!
Ton accent est adorable :D "chanter en yourt"