Yeah, same with me. If you don't know the street vocabulary (e.g. «Verlan»), you won't understand nothing at all. But it's big fun to learn this stuff and to understand a french movie so much better. Bonne chance, Kaitlin ! Ça marche ! Salut d'Allemagne ‹‹›› Martin

Even if you’re just understanding the big picture, my advise would be “bon courage”, don’t give up, keep giving it your best. I studied French 4 years in high school, 4 years in college, and I spent a semester in France my junior year in college. When I returned from my semester in France, I was fluent. After college, I worked for a French company for about a year and used the language a lot. Then, at 23, I decided to study to become a priest. My life moved in a whole different direction and I hardly used French at all for 40 years. Then, about 1 1/2 yr. ago, I discovered these French channels online. I began brushing up on my French, and I know it has come back somewhat already. In all honesty, to become or remain completely fluent, I think one has to be immersed in a French speaking environment for a significant amount of time. I live in the States and can’t spend long periods of time in France, Québec, or another French speaking part of the world, but I have 4 or 5 French channels I follow now, and I’m improving. I also plan to spend about a week in Paris next summer. That will help with speaking French, not just listening to or writing it. Of course, what you do is up to you, but if you enjoy learning and speaking French, don’t get discouraged. If you’re basically understanding the big picture, you’re doing pretty well already. That’s sometimes what I have to do now, because when listening to spoken French, if I try to remember the translation of a particular word, I miss the next two sentences. Again, “bon courage”!

No, not because of slang words. This is french language for ya in general

@@michaelcrummy8397 i m immersed in french - live there for more than 7 years, noone speaks english. I speak all right, still do not understand anything, especially on tv

Oui, c'est bien ça !

@@Commeunefrancaise Merci!

ce mec fait vachement gaffe means this guy is very/extremely careful 🤓 You need an article if you want to say "make a blunder or blunders" ce mec fait une gaffe ce mec fait des gaffes ce mec fait beaucoup de gaffes

It means , very , a lot, much etc.

Only masculine, though, right? If it's a female owl it's une chouette, I believe.

​@@dereknolin5986 They are actually different, and chouette can be male or female. It's the same as the differentiation in english as that between True Owls and Barn Owls. Smooth head, hibou, head plumage/tufts, chouette. It's not hard to find people/sites where they will use hibou as the general catch-all however.

@@ericmills9839 Ah, I see. Sorry, which is the barn owl? I didn't follow.

@@dereknolin5986 the chouette is the barn owl type. Any species that has a super smooth head with no plumage sticking out is an hibou.

@@ericmills9839 Wait a sec, barn owls are the ones with smooth heads. The other family, called true owls, have tufts of feathers on their heads, like Great Horned Owls.