Salut YouTube welcome back to my channel and back to the second part of
April's Q&A where you guys can send me questions and I answer them
funnily enough so if you guys want to send me questions you can use my ask me
anything form that I leave in the description box of my videos otherwise
follow me on instagram @ underscore not even French and I will often post
ask me anything posts where you can comment your questions down below and I
take them from there as well but as this video is all about answering questions
let's get into it the first question is from Mathieu who's asking me which
regions of France are next on my hit list in terms of travelling and
discovering France and if there are any regions of France that I'm a little bit
curious about but I'm a bit worried about going to because there may not be
anything there so the regions are on my hit list for the moment I really want to
go back to Corsica I absolutely loved Corsica I love the heat I love the Sun
of the beach I found it beautiful the water was crystal clear and I also want
to do is La cote d'Azur or the French Riviera
so between Marseille and the Italian border because I've seen a bit around
the Marseille region - Marseille, Aubagne, Cassis, the calanques but I've never
actually gone completely east towards Nice and Monaco all of that kind of
thing. In terms of curious but not sure whether to go I've got a big question
mark around the middle of France the center of France because people kind of
joke like oh there's nothing to see in the middle of France well there's
nothing you haven't missed anything by not going to the middle of France and
I don't know if it's really true or not I have been to Clermont Ferand, I
don't know if that counts as the center of France I've got people kind of
convincing me to go to these other beautiful regions but I never hear
people saying come to the center of France! Related to this I have Elise
asking me if I'll ever come to the north of France I've actually driven around
quite a lot of the north of France I was actually visiting
war cemeteries up there, there were a lot of New Zealander's involved in the
world wars first and second world wars and we lost a lot of New Zealand
soldiers over here in France. I actually have a great-uncle buried in one of the
war cemeteries in France. So I went to the region around Amiens, Arras, I went
to a little town which was called Le Quesnoy and it's here where it was actually
the New Zealand troops that came in and kind of liberated the French and saved
the French when they were under German siege and ever since we've had this
really great relationship apparently between this town and New Zealand and
it's funny you actually you go there and the streets are called like rue Nouvelle Zelande
rue Helen Clarke which was our former Prime Minister, rue Aoteoroa which
is the Maori way of saying New Zealand it's amazing. The next question is from
Kim who's saying that she's in Paris and right now at the moment are there any
things that you should see or do? Kim at the moment at springtime go to Sceaux
so that is S C E A U X it's so beautiful at the moment covered and beautiful
cherry blossom trees lots of flowers you really feel like it's springtime it is
45 minutes away from the center of Paris but you hop on the RER B train and
it's well worth the trip the next question is from Cristinaxfe
asking me more about my master's program how I got my apprentissage how I got my
job because he's gotten into the master's program that I did so I think
I've already covered most of those but basically finding an apprenticeship in
France is is relatively easy especially in Paris the school helps you a lot they
send you so many offers hundreds of offers and look yourself on the Internet
there's plenty of opportunity available so don't worry too much about that and
the one tip I would give you for getting a job afterwards and getting into the human
resources market in France is really network network network so use your
promotion at school and get to know them get to ask them about the companies are
working in be very sociable when you are doing your internship get to meet a
lot of people I mean because the thing in France is that if you can be recommended
by someone for a job that's very very powerful so just keep that in mind
The next question is from acherry who is asking if I actually know any expats over
here who are doing like professional jobs related to their qualifications or
are they all doing the kinds of jobs like babysitting teaching English
working the bar etc so most of my expect friends I know have full professional
careers over here I think that's studying here and do your master's
degree here either in French or in English is a really good way to get into
the professional track because you've kind of got that French stamp of
approval otherwise you know I do see expats you know working for big companies
in the English speaking roles and the corporate environments like that
definitely happens but of course the more you speak French the more
opportunities you have because if you're just speaking English for example
you're pretty much only targeting the headquarters of huge companies who have
jobs purely in English and even then they like you to speak French for the
social side of things. The next question is from Missydo who's asking me if my
family have come to France and did they like it so both my mum and my dad have
come to France they're divorced so they they each came on separate trips and
they loved it they were very very impressed with France I found it
absolutely beautiful the only thing is that I think the size of the city of
Paris was a little bit overwhelming for them you know coming from New Zealand so
going onto the metro and and things like that was very confusing and quite
overwhelming for than I think but I mean aside from that they absolutely loved it
so we did Paris we went to the Alps we went down south to Avignon to Marseille
with them and it was amazing they had a great time. The next question is from
Rosa who's asking me if paris is safe or not because she's seen videos and there
seems to be a lot of pickpockets and a lot of scammers and we say you know in
the touristy areas there are quite a few you know pickpockets and scammers to
look out for people trying to sell you you know little junky items
and things like that I think in the Metro you've got to be quite
careful with your bag you gonna keep your hand bag or backpack kind of close
to you it's just kind of about exerting common sense you know it's about that
street-smartness. I've been living here for almost five years nothing has ever
happened to me I've never had my phone stolen or anything like that but yeah
you've got to have your wits about you differently you kind of
got to be on high alert outside of the metro outside of the
touristy areas you never really encounter scammers and
that kind of thing if people approach you asking you to sign something or
people approach you asking to play some kind of street game with them or
whatever just refuse and and move on and they're the more touristy areas and you're not
really gonna get any of that in the non touristy areas one thing I will say is
they're not necessarily unsafe but you can be made to feel unsafe because
there's quite a lot of creepy guys here so those that can't call you that
comment on you. You may walk past them and they'll be like mmm, ouais, bonsoir mademoiselle
Have your wits about you you know if you're a female traveling alone or even
just two females you know don't go out by yourselves late at night walking
around areas that you don't know obviously like any big city there's more
dodgy areas and others like around the train stations and stuff it's usually a
bit dodgy so yeah I just have your wits about you and you'll be absolutely fine.
The next question is from Soph B who's asking me what my favorite thing to do
is in the city and it's to be a flanneuse. Flanner is the verb to just wander around
aimlessly with no specific goal or purpose but just for the pleasure of it
and really I love doing this in Paris and all of my friends too as well it's
like what did you do on the weekend we just went for a walk we went to a park
we walked around we discovered the neighborhood this is a beautiful city it
feels like you're walking around an outdoor museum that's my favorite thing
to do in Paris. The next question I got both from Avy Lia and Kayley Goes asking
me about whether I ever feel homesick and if so how do I deal with my
homesickness oh yes I have felt homesick many many times and there's so many
different ways you can deal with it so I like to write lists so I often write
lists about you know all the things that I'm so grateful for about living in
Paris you know what are the things that I can get here that I can't get anywhere
else another cool thing to do is actually speak to the people from home
they reassure you and it's the people who you would expect who say yes
please come home come home they're like we miss you but keep doing what you're
doing because we see you learning we see you growing we know that it's the best
for you so it's also a really good idea to talk to those kind of people another
idea is to start a project really linked to where you're living so you may set
yourself you know a really ambitious goal around the local language like I
want to become fluent and local language of my new country in six months or for
me a project that I started related to my life here was my YouTube channel and
it's something that really connects me to living here because it's talking
about everything that I notice all the things that I've learned it's really
really linked to my expat identity so you may want to learn a language start a
blog start a YouTube channel join a club for example if you're in France you may
want to learn how to do French patisserie I mean whatever it is but
find a project that's linked to where you are and is unique to where you are
so that you feel really attached. The next question is from Lilymirfin who's
asking me why did the French strike so much I think I mean just off the top of
my head I would say that you know this country has a history of rebellion it's
got a history I mean look at the French Revolution you're looking at a country
where the people stood up to the royal family and said it's not okay actually
it's not okay you have all this luxury and this wealth
and it's held by just so few people while millions of people here the the
real people here in France are starving and as you know they stormed to the
Bastille prison they stormed the castle gates and they ended up chopping off the heads off of
their kings and queens but my point is is that they've got a history of
rebellion and a history of sticking up to the big man and speaking for the
little guy and I think the strikes it's really around using that collective
power of okay we're the weakest you know maybe we're not really well recognized
or maybe we're not really well rewarded we're down here at the bottom of the
food chain it's usually you know the workers the
train workers the airline workers taxi drivers people who are doing like the
hard work collectively let's stand up because the way we're getting treated
actually isn't okay and we want to voice that and we want to voice that we have
rights and we have power if we stand together that's why we've got really
great employment protection it's very very difficult to get fired in France
legally speaking we've got great healthcare really nice
benefits a very generous paid leave we are working in France compared to most
countries in the world it really has paid off it's making sure that the most
vulnerable are heard and looked after I think that's a little bit from what I
understand the mentality behind just striking all the time
The next question was from Lewis who's asking me if I've ever been to Quebec
and if I'm interested in going and hearing a new French dialect and this is
honestly just a dream of mine to go to Quebec I'd love to go to some of the
french-speaking populations around the world like Quebec New Caledonia La Réunion
Tahiti to hear the different French that exists
around any kind of local regional accents or dialects that would be
awesome and the accent in french-speaking Canada is so fascinating
to me I'm really really loving actually at the
moment these videos on YouTube called Jokes de Papa and the competition to be
like who can not laugh at this really bad dad joke so I'll link that down
below because I'm really really funny and you can hear the Quebecois accent
The next question is from Rachel who asked me how long it took me to become
fluent in French and if it was a gradual thing or if there was some kind of
tipping point so um I think about it both so it took me about a year to start
speaking French and maybe a year and a half to be at ease in general
conversation and took a long time because I was studying and working in
English I had mostly expat friends and had my relationship with my boyfriend
fully in English so I didn't have a lot of exposure to the French language
I think the tipping point came where the feeling of frustration I had from not
being able to express myself or not being able to get what I wanted or not
being able to I don't have a personality in French like that frustration I felt
was greater than the embarrassment I felt of speaking French and making lots
of mistakes so that was my tipping point it was like when I I was just like you
know what the embarrassment is actually worth it because this frustration was
starting to really annoy me now so that was the kind of tipping point for me
after around a year living here. Next question is from BriannaMae who's
asked me which are the best cities to study in in France so I really know
because I've only studied in Paris but I actually found an interesting article
for you listing out the top cities to study abroad so I'll link that down
below in the description box but if I could choose again and if I could find a
city to go study in I think I would love to study somewhere like Bordeaux or
Montpellier or Aix en Provence or Grenoble I think those would be my choices the
Next question is from Jinger Lily and she's asking me if I had a problem with
small talk in France because in England for example you talk a lot about the
weather and an easy go-to topic for small talk for
this one with the worx in France as well definitely where there is definitely a
thing here I think that you're forgetting is that you can play the
foreigner card and the foreigner card is you're not from France so you're
instantly interesting so you can prepare things about where you come from while
you're in France you can ask the other person where they're from but you'll
find I don't think the French are very hard to talk to
they like talking and and they they chat a lot and they they're kind of they're
very good at making small talk actually they'll probably ask lots of
questions so I don't stress about that at all. The next question is from Lisa
and she's asking me if I kind of like struggle with general references pop
culture references movies art cinema I guess my answer to this is that you've
just got to stay really curious so if someone makes a reference or a joke and
you don't give it just you can always attend a home like oh is that like from
a movie or something can you explain that to me and the other thing is to ask
you know French friends what are the classic like the reference movies and
you'll find that there's kind of a core list of about 10 that you can start with
then though it's a little bit late and you didn't grow up with it and it's not
really the same but if people kind of quote things or make jokes at least you're
going to be able to get the reference. The next question is from FrenchFancy14
and she's asking me what I miss the most about New Zealand and I've actually
done a whole video on this so I'll link it up here but I have to say it's the
really friendly optimistic attitude of people they're really yes people let's get
on with it let's do it kind of people in New Zealand and of course the nature I
really miss walking swimming going to the beach just the access to the sea I
think that I miss a lot. I have a question from both Katie and Alice who
asked me how long I formally studied French before I could speak French at
the level that I do now or you know did I study it at high school in New
Zealand and the answer is no unfortunately it's not compulsory to
study languages in New Zealand until the end of high school so I didn't study
French at all I did eight weeks at
Alliance Francaise in New Zealand to kind of get the basics of grammar down
but otherwise apart from a few weeks here and there you know maybe once a
year I'll take a French tutor for maybe four to six sessions or something like
that but other than that I'm fully self-taught. The question is from musicspeakstome
and she's asking if my colleagues know about my YouTube videos and if
anyone wants to kind of jump into my YouTube videos of how they react to that
so all of my colleagues know about my YouTube videos a lot of them watch them
so hi colleagues and so that yeah I was really open about there you can't really
hide it once you put yourself on the Internet and they're all super
supportive but I have to admit that I'm always asking them to come in my videos
people feel a little bit uncomfortable on video so which is completely natural
I did too at the beginning yeah I mean when I asked them usually people are
like oh okay I mean if you think I'd be alright you know. Cool guys so that's it
for part 2 of the April Q&A I hope you guys liked it, if you have any questions
for me don't hesitate to a use that asking me anything form in the
description box below and otherwise I'm gonna see you guys for next video
Wednesday! A bientôt!
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