I have to say this is becoming my favorite channel to learn French. Merci beaucoup 👍🏻

"C'est pas terrible", to me, as a French, is a level above being awful. That is, it's not good, but there's (much) worse.

Bravo. The thoughts of a ringard: "la flemme," as in "j'ai la flemme," is actually "phlegm", "I'm phlegmatic." "galérer," as in "je galère!" comes from Greek galleons (galère) and invokes being sentenced to hard rowing. Bonne continuation.

Thanks so much guys. I always love watching these short videos and learn something new each time.

Thanks so much guys for sharing your knowledge with us. I do appreciate it. I enjoy watching your videos it's a bit of fresh air.

This is very helpful! First time on your channel and I've learned so much. It gives me confidence when learning how to speak french. I will definitely check out more of your vids. Merci beaucoup.

"Se renseigner" seems pretty standard to me. At least it's in the A2 textbook I used back then.

This is awesome guys! Exactly what I’ve been looking for

7:54 same with "sick" in English as in "This song is so sick!". It actually means it's very good.

I enjoy seeing the chemistry between you two. I can sense a lot of love and respect there.

I get so nervous about actually speaking French because my mother was a French teacher. She was a great teacher. Of 1950's schoolbook French :D. I am practically having to relearn everything I thought I knew about the language because I have so frequently received blank looks for my efforts or been told that you can't say that.

Je suis Américaine, j’habitais en France il y’avait 20 ans, mais j’ai complément oublié cettes verbes et cettes expressions!!! Merci! J’adore votre Channel. This is really so great for helping me to not lose my grasp on the French language. Merci!!!

on 1:51, the expression you are searching for is "mnemonic device," [the "m" is silent] meaning something that assists the memory.

“Squaring” a workpiece is making sides parallel to each other. In stone masonry for example if blocks are not square the building will not be straight. So “square” carries this precision/perfection notion in it. I wonder “carrément” has the same.

I definitely never learned these words or phrases in school. Thanks for the information. Merci.

Guys, I totally agree with you and this was a great idea you to make a video about it . I didn't t hear about any of these words / expressions until I moved to France and they are extremely useful on daily basis ! bravo

#StreetFrench20k I love your channel! And I have been learning academic French, but I want to learn how to talk like people actually do in France. My sisters and I have been learning French together and some of our favorite phrases we have learned from you 😊

2:27 That's basically the word "assume" in English. It doesn't mean the same thing, but you can use it in almost the exact same way. Example: "I assume responsibility for my actions."

Wow guys get a room - the looks you are giving each other!

I'm a French speaker but that didn't prevent me from watching your video till the very end. It was really interesting. I'll make sure to recommend your channel to my English native buddies.

Thank you! You guys are pretty cool and educational 😊

Speaking of raccourcis/mnemonics, the verb “décoller” always stuck out to me (no pun intended). I imagine an airplane glued to the tarmac, having to rip itself off like Velcro in order to take off into the sky!

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In English- young people use opposites for slang as well... for amazing- you can use "sick"... it used to be "wicked" but "sick" has taken over.

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The french word I use very much is "taf". At the beginning it's an acronym meaning "work to do" ( Travail A Faire) but now it replaces both words "job" (métier) and "work" (travail). People say "j'ai du taf" meaning I've very much work to do.

Nice. It's been a while since I've had the opportunity to speak French. Et cette vidéo m'amène beaucoup de bons souvenirs. Je bossais dans une boite (enterprise, factory) en Deux-Sèvres.

1:32 en anglais: A trick to remember something is called a mnemonic. The m is silent; it is pronounced "ne-MON-ic." 1:48 You could say, "to re-teach, that is the mnemonic I use." En français, mnémonique, mais en anglais it is a noun. Une mnémonique. Maybe, > A way to remember something? I am not sure if the word is the same in French.

When I heard the verb "je galere", I knew immediately that the struggle was the same as the **galley** slaves in the Roman galleys. In the United States the most famous movie that shows this is Ben-Hur with Charlton Heston, when he's a galley slave. I'm analytical about language.

You are gorgeous, loved that combination of your classes and you hair band. ❤

Il y a aussi "une tuerie " pour quelque chose qui est très bon, délicieux. Du coup, ce plat est une tuerie. C'est vachement bon.

Excellent, thanks....

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In English English I know saying something is ‘sick’ can mean it’s really really good - teenagers typically use that expression. In the same way ‘pas terrible’ looks like it means the opposite of what it dies.

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you were right, carrément comes from carré (square).

Ca m'aide, carrement!

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My french teacher taught me “pas mal” and “checker” like je vais checker/aller checker

Thanks for the engaging, intriguing, and pertinent video! "Assumer" can often be translated as, "man up," or--if the person concerned is female--"woman up." In Québecois, it's not uncommon, in response to, "Comment vas-tu?" for someone to answer, "Pas mal pire,. It means, basically, "not so bad." Also, in Québecois, "écoeurant" is usually stark praise. In a restaurant, one time, someone said to me, "Faut que tu goûtes à cette sauce. Elle est écoeurante!" Similarly, "malade" can have a very positive connotation: "Pour le dîner, j'ai acheté un poulet rôti à la portugaise -- et c'était malade!" Rarely do I hear Québécois say "bosser"; it's probably more distinctly French. Lastly, fwiw: Never in a French class did I hear "vachement," and I hear it much less often now than I used to.

You guys are great- it's like sitting in yr living room chatting with mates. Perhaps you should do a clip on direct translations that are amusing... J'ai trop la flemme would be "I have too much the lazy" lol

Merci 😅

I was watching the movie "L'amour et Turbulences" on UKposts and at minute 40:58 there is a perfect use of se renseigner.

You guys make really good videos.

I've been watching Plan Coeur (The Hook Up plan ) on Netflix. This series has all these expressions continuously, so thanks for explaining them as Google struggles with a few of them. I thought Galere meant "hassle" as in it's a hassle.

J'ai toujours panse que carrement vaut dire avec plaisire !

Nice, I'm trying to increase my vocabulary capacity now

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I assume "la flemme" comes from "phlegm" or French "flegme," as in a phlegmatic person. Similar meaning, at least. This is a really good, really excellent video.

1:41 "Pourquoi tu rigoles ?"👀 I really like these improvised side comments in French, plz try do more frequently in the upcoming videos :) They're amazing 😍, not tought in textbooks and they stick in my mind easier too

Another word that works a bit like terrible is t'inquiète. If you have a test the next day, it seemed to me, like you were more likely to hear from your friends, "ah t'inquiète" without the pas to mean "don't worry"

I really love the way the guy stares at her when she speaks. Like she was saying horrific things in Nunavut language.

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You remind me of the couple in Breathless. Belmondo & the American Girl. Old movies are a great way to learn French. I’m on Alain Delon films now.

We need more french examples guys!! Thanks

Another common mistake is the word 'Support' (eng) et 'supporter' (fr).. Two opposite meanings... Support(eng) translates to 'promouvoir/soutenir" and Supporter(fr) translates to 'tolerate'.

I thought I was the only one coming up with funny ways to remember stuff! : P

For assumer I would say take responsibility or take ownership. The glasses and the scarf and bow in your hair are cute. Did you ever mention the distinction between je t'aime and je t'aime bien or j'ai réalisé vs je me suis rendu compte (which many people get wrong in the sense that réaliser only is correct of referring to one pièce de théâtre for example ) or the difference between once bitten twice shy and chat échaudé craint l'eau froide? The former suggest une distortion temporelle, the latter one distortion cognitive plus large.

Haha Charlie's thought process is interesting

Je dis toujour "C'est dommage", mais maintenant j'ai augmenté mon vocab :D

Carrement ! I am a Belgian french speaker. That is how we spot French people :) we never use "carrement" in Belgian french.

Fantastic. As if I didn’t feel like enough of an idiot already trying to grope my way through conversation in a foreign language...

Feels weird to watch this as a french. But well, internet is a place where poeple mostly don't know what they're doing nor why they're doing it i guess. By the way, have you ever covered some incoherences in the way something is said in the opposite way depending on if it is said in french or english ? The way i'm saying this is rather confusing i know, so here's an exemple : "I don't care" is translated as "je m'en fous" in french. And the thing that feel wrong here is that some form of negation is used when it is said in english, but not in french. I've never seen english textbooks covering this, so i guess that french textbooks might not mention this. Anyway, thanks for the content. From a random french guy that somehow watched your video instead of sleeping.

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Le mot moche c'est super! Je kiffe ce mot! hahah

What about using "au top" for saying cool or dope

Hey there! Do you think “check it out” is a good translation for “Se renseigner” or is it more “formal”? E.g., “You should see that exhibit at the museum” ... “Yea, I’m gonna check it out.” / “Ouais, je vais me renseigner.”

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J'adore tes vidéos! Merci! J'ai entendu quelqu'un dire Ça veut dire "really cool"? C'est populaire?

For me, it was "du coup". When I went to Lyon for a student exchange, I was quite surprised: how could I have never heard someone saying this expression after eight years studying french?! I don't about other regions in France, but in Lyon they use it definetely all the time.

Interesting French words and expressions. Very American translations though. Thank you for your videos.

My French professor compared “pas terrible” to “sick” en anglais. Sick can either mean good or bad depending on context!

"Trop pas" "c'est grave ça"

Don't you think.... The term "slang words" works for an American but that's not how I think of French, or what I was taught. I would say (spoken) French has two "levels", of "standard French" and familiar French (loosely separate). And there are also words and expressions that are popular as kind of a separate category. Emmanuel Macron would never in a speech use Je galère. Much like when to tutoyer .vs. vouvoyer. It's a feature we don't really have here. (in the USA). And it sounds very odd to mix different levels in a conversation.

Bonjour tout le monde, je m'appelle Maryse et je vis a Maurice, je suis bilingue mais je ne suis pas AU TOP, ni en français et encore moins en anglais. Suis ici ,comme vous pour apprendre. Oh la vache, j'ai oublié mon sac a main a la maison où il y a mes tunes dedans.......,je voulais carrément finir mon shopping aujourd'hui et ensuite aller dans ce restaurant au bout de la 5ème rue pour goûter ses plats qui sont une tuerie. Malheureusement, pour aujourd'hui, c'est tombé a l'eau, lol

Y'all look perfect together . I like

It’s very interesting

Bonjour! Do you have a list version of ces mots? Merci de NY.

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A term I heard a lot many years ago was " le je-m''en-foutisme". I rarely hear it these days. It seems people prefer just to use the verb "je m'en fous" or "je n'en ai rien à cirer". There are several terms which I have seen or heard in French sports articles or on television which are horrendous. "Knockouter" - to knock out in boxing. "Scorer un but" - to score a goal "Le goal" - President Mitterand used this on TV to say he used to be "gardien de but" - goalkeeper.

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Je rajouterais « T'inquiètes » qui est quand même très ambigu, et peut faire peur. C'est comme pour « terrible », en langage courant, on utilise cette expression dans son sens inverse. Si un ami vous dit « T'inquiètes », ça signifie « ne t'inquiète pas ». Oui, c'est absolument illogique ahah ! Bonus : par SMS ou sur internet, les gens écrivent le « T'inquiètes » ainsi : « tkt ».

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When I studied abroad in France, we wanted some weed, but they don't teach you how to buy drugs in French class. So a french guy helping our group taught us a phrase, if i remember correctly, something like "est-ce que vous pouvez nous depanner un bout". He said go to the park on the school's campus, find some hippy-looking person and use the phrase.. So we went to the park, went up to the first hippy looking person we saw, used the phrase and ended up buying from the guy for the rest of the year. He had good stuff. Sometimes the bags were a bit light, but we figured there's a bit of a foreigner tax going on, so we were fine with it, the guy was helping us out!

I assume that most French learners won't learn these by watching the news on TV5/France 24 or listening to RFI because their work environment would require them to speak formal French.

What about „s‘informer“?

Words we don't get taught in school? We get taught to NOT use "sacres". But we still do anyway since everyone uses them: "Câlice", "Osti", "Ciboire" and our famous one that French people have so muche trouble saying is "Tabarnak!". Lesson to everyone out there, it's Tabarnak, not Tabernacle. Guess where I'm from now ;)

Tout à fait, d’ailleurs, franchement ....these are some of the words I hear

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Bonjour, I was wondering if when writing a sentence you conjugate the second verb in your sentence? Ex Je vais manger un poisson Or like this Je vais mange un poisson This question has been bugging me all weekend, if you could please help me? thank you!! :)

Assumer en français n'a pas le même sens que 'assume' en anglais. En français c'est formellement 'prendre ses responsabilités' mais est aussi utilisé dans le sens 'présumer' which is closer to its English meaning and when you do so you make an 'ass (of) U (and) me'. 'La flemme' focusses more on the lack of energy or interest instead of the 'inaction' going with 'laziness'. Le sens de louche a bien changé avec les années, les décennies passant du sens 'il a l'air de valoir un doute sur ses activités' à 'mal dégrossi' qui est aussi le sens porté par 'chelou' aujourd'hui. Le sens original de 'ses activités sont difficiles sinon impossibles à comprendre, à percer et il semble qu'il pourrait être dangereux' est encore un peu sous-entendu aujourd'hui mais passe au second rang plutôt vers le sens 'bizarre'. Bosser aussi dans tous les sens où on doit mettre un effort soutenu pour accomplir une tâche même si ce n'est pas un 'travail rémunéré'. On peut donc aller bosser quand on retourne avancer les travaux de jardinage, de rénovations... Je crois qu'on peut rapprocher 'carrément' de l'expression anglaise 'right and square'. They seem to carry the same kind of divergence from the math origin. C'est pas top = it could be better

I remember when I took French in high school, we learned the word for trashcan (la poubelle). A friend of mine told me that people just say le trash

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assumer / to handle 🤔🤔🤔

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Alors j’ai une question, j’ai vu des français utiliser « T’as » ou « T’es » pour dire tu as ou tu es. Aussi est-c’est normal d’ajouter two mots pour être deux? Example: j’vais, j’veut, j’suis, d’parking etc?... merci je suis américain