So, you want to learn French, huh?
Alors comme ça, vous voulez apprendre le français?
And you even think of using Duolingo
to achieve your goal?
I think it's a fantastic tool,
and I'm going to add some extra info
as well as pronunciation tips
that will take you to the next level,
and some more facts about French culture.
And even if you just want to learn French on your own,
this channel is still for you.
Je m'appelle Jean-Yves et je vais être votre coach.
I know you froze here. "Jean-what"???
I know, my name is always a big trouble for foreigners.
My wife, who is an American,
called me "honey" for many years,
she didn't want to pronounce my name.
I know most of the tricks that will annoy you,
because I know what annoyed her...
and although she's not around right now,
I know she's plotting something,
I wouldn't be surprised if there was some unexpected actions in some lessons...
I will make one video for each Duolingo course,
and I will explain both the basics
and more advanced questions as well.
I will try to make 5 to 10 minutes videos, not more.
Don't worry if you don't remember everything.
You can always watch the video again,
and I will sometimes repeat the most important things in further lessons.
And remember, you can make it!
But for that you need daily practice,
even if it's just 5 or 10 minutes.
The most important is to practice,
which is why I'm going to speak French,
but with both subtitles so that you can understand me,
and I will speak slowly.
I will also try to use terms (termes)
that are similar (similaires) in French and in English
whenever it is possible (possible).
You won't understand everything, it's normal!
Just listen to my voice and
at first to locate the words.
You will already understand some words
that are identical in French and in English.
Like "identical", « identique »,
when you get used to it
you will easily know how to switch from the English word to the French one.
I will use the formal "vous" form for now:
we don't know eachother yet,
and it is the form that is used
when we meet with someone for the first time.
Let me tell you a secret.
They all say that French is difficult,
but it's not true because you already speak English,
and French is very similar to English!
In some cases, the effort is quite minimal.
For instance: La personne (The person)
est capable (is capable)
de comprendre (to comprehend)
le français (the French language).
Grammatical structures
are almost the same,
but are sometimes inverted (inversé en français).
Note that it is not the French people's mistake,
the British are the ones always doing everything backwards:
they drive on the left hand side of the road,
they use strange units like miles, feet and inches,
it is 77 degrees outside when it's 25,
they don't want to use the Euro
and don't even want to stay in the European Union!
So, everything is their fault,
remember that the French language is in the correct order,
and as the English language is in the wrong order,
you have to put things back in their rightful place when you speak French.
Genders are another challenge that scare foreigners.
In French, all nouns,
even those representing inanimate objects or concepts,
have a gender,
and to speak correctly, you have to know them.
It is not always very intuitive,
machine-gun (mitrailleuse) is feminine,
romanticism (romantisme) is masculine.
But first you will learn the words directly with their genders,
and second even if you do some mistakes with the genders,
it is not a big deal, people will understand you.
Pronunciation is another aspect that puts off foreigners.
It is not that difficult,
and I will give you some techniques
to learn how to pronounce the sounds as accurately as possible.
Pronunciation is sometimes critical for people to understand you,
and the best is to learn how to pronounce correctly right away,
and develop good habits.
The other aspect is reading a text:
it is sometimes difficult to know how to pronounce a written word,
but it is not worse than in English!
One other fear is that French people speak fast.
But we all speak fast in our mother tongue...
at least that's what all foreigners learning a new language say.
The first time an American told me about "I-ly",
I had to make him repeat the word three times
before I could understand he was speaking about "Italy".
So, French people don't speak faster than the others,
but it is a little difficult at the beginning, and that's normal!
Another hot topic is verb conjugation,
but it is not more difficult than in English,
except maybe if you want to write literature,
but let's calm down for now.
Finally, as you may have noticed,
there is a lot of common vocabulary (vocabulaire commun).
You may have even understood some words as I was speaking.
There are a couple of false friends,
but you can already thank the Romans and the Normans who,
besides conquering England,
have brought Latin into the English language to make it easier for you to learn French.
As for the keyboard,
the accents and the special characters that cannot be typed directly in the Qwerty keyboard
can be typed by changing your keyboard layout,
there is no need to change your computer's physical keyboard!
In France, the Azerty keyboard is the one most widely used,
it is very close to the Qwerty keyboard
but doesn't allow typing all the characters easily,
such as accents on capital letters, which are mandatory
but often skipped in low quality documents.
Anyway, it is widely used in France, and it is likely
that you will be confronted to one of those if you come to France.
If you don't want to learn the Azerty keyboard,
you can use the International Qwerty keyboard which allows to type accents.
And if you're adventurous,
you can learn the excellent Bépo keyboard
which is especially made for the French language,
and allows to type all French characters easily,
although it is still rarely used in France.
In the worst case, within Duolingo you can use the inline help on the page
and not change your keyboard for now,
although the earlier you take good habits, the better.
Finally, to learn the vocabulary
and avoid forgetting everything after a week,
I don't really like Duolingo's space repetition learning system,
which doesn't exist on the mobile version for now.
I advise you to install the free program Anki
or if you don't want to install anything on your computer,
you can go for Memrise or a similar site.
I'll put the links in the description of the video.
Well, that's it for now,
let's meet again soon in the video of the first lesson!
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