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It's funny how all the don'ts you mentioned in the video are actually taught in textbooks, in French classes. I guess it's another example of theory vs practical

You guys should make a podcast of you just talking about different subjects like innerfrench does. That would help so much.

It would be awesome if you guys did a whole video on when to use and when to avoid la liason. I found this video very helpful, thank you!

I like the meaning of j'aimerais over je voudrais anyway, so that's really nice to know. "Chai pas" sounds really cute. That reminds me of when I was helping people with their English, and the younger generation in America would say "I'ma", which is a contraction of "I'm gonna", which is a contraction of "I'm going to", and is yet a contraction of "I am going to", lol. It's really cool learning the different levels of contraction in another language, 'cause you almost always hear "I'ma" or "I'm gonna", or even "I'm gon'", but you don't really ever hear "I'm going to", or "I am going to". That's something that you'd write in an email, or read in a novel or article, or hear in a more formal context. People that speak using standard or formal language are generally in their 40s and older, but I guess it's different for us in America, because it doesn't sound wrong or weird. If a young person speaks like that, it's like, wow, that person is so mature, *lol*. At least for me and my friends, we'd be impressed by their maturity, as opposed to seeing it as something strange and out of place.

We definitely used n’est-ce pas when I was a kid in Lyon in the late 1970’s, early 1980’s. Sometimes “non” instead. I don’t think you become more formal as you get older; you just stay with the way you’ve always spoken, and the younger people develop newer usages.

You have cancelled on so much of the french I learned in school, here in the USA. 😅 But, thank you for giving me the more commonly used words/expressions. 🙏🏻

J'aimerais.. a part two! 😂❤️

So they're still teaching 50s French in English schools. I had my suspicions, having been subjected to it in the 60s. By the way, as regards "puis-je", in English English, "may I?" is generally correct, whereas "can I?" is considered rather low brow and common - at least, among those of us with an overabundance of 'hauteur'. ;)

This is by far the most fun and enjoyable French learning channel I came across, everytime I watch it somehow I smile a lot and my mood gets elevated too. I love the duo and the interactions, feel like I'm in this conversation with you guys!! So thanks! Keep up the good work!!

Wow i am amazed. I'm from Mexico and we are encouraged to speak formal to people that we don't really know. I'm 23 years old and I speak formally to people the same age as me..... but most importantly to my elders. It shows that we have good manners and that our parents have done a good job by raising us. I truly enjoyed this video because I get to learn the culture of France when it comes to the French language ❤ Thankyou

As a Brit who speaks French at a B2 level, what is missing from podcasts and videos are examples of speech in day to day situations, such as in the kitchen, driving a car, basic DIY, dealing with the heating, gardening and so on. So many people cover the same material.

I LOVE the fact that you guys are not overenthusiastic, it kills my mood to learn. Thank you for being so chill :)

You two are really making the best videos out there. I like how you combine your knowledge in your respective native language. You always keep an open mind, which is in my opinion quite important for videos about language. And most importantly, you're not over scripting them. I like seeing both of you actualy learning things of each other through the video. I'm really enjoying your content so far!

You guys are awesome - really helpful videos for newbies to French like me. MERCI xx

Please make a part 2 to this! Greetings from Los Angeles!

Also where was this video before I used almost all of these expressions for a whole semester in France last fall? 😂

I love the way you guys are explaining all these goooood tips to upgrade your French skills, so it helps to get to the point right away! I’m keep on learning French in Montreal, Qc, Ca. so I used to live and work with French native speakers and they’re showing me exactly the way you guys doing it here. Congrats! #Magnifique

So true how many of these we were taught in French class! I assume that it's like our large use of contractions in spoken English.

I took French lessons when I got out of college around 2004, and my French tutor taught me literally every no that you guys said, lol. Completely bizarre and formal. I have so much to un-learn.

Thanks for the video ❤ Fortunately, our teacher taught us to use the more modern options from the beginning and I don't have to relearn these expressions 🙏

Just when I thought I couldn't find a better video about how to sound more French, I find your video! I love it! You two are fantastic. What a great couple! I'm a new subscriber of your channel. I really enjoy your videos. Keep it up your work! It's amazing! I sincerely appreciate it. Thank you a lot!

Excellent - vous m'avez aidé beaucoup! Merci!

Something to consider is that most languages in the world have a formal standard and an informal standard. These formal and informal standards usually depend on class, hierarchy, organization, etc. What is usually taught in schools is the French language that is approved by the French Academy which one can consider as a formal standard.

Oh NO I used most of these phrases with my French tutor just today! Ahhh! Thank you for the video.

Pour "enjoy" on peut aussi dire "profite" "profite bien!" Etc 🤗

Thank you! It's so helpful!

Excellent advise

Very helpful video. I was taught to never say “puis-je” in French class fifty years ago, but there was no mention of “je voudrais.” Everything you talked about is so suited for an intermediate French speaker like me. Thank you!

I feel like I need to forget everything I worked so hard to learn 😭😭😭 I do love your videos keep up the awesome work ❣️

Your videos are so educational thank you 💕💕

I used to hear "petit ami" or "petite amie" when I was a kid. I read "comme ci comme ça" in a book set in WWII (and even then, it was spoken by a German, who presumably learned it at school). So I guess what is taught is what was current decades ago.

Bonjour, more like this please. Yes yes to a 'part 2' Merci

Wow this was so helpful! I was taking notes 🤓 All of those formal/awkward phrases were things I learned in my middle school textbooks 😂 would love to see more content like this!

guys, you're great! keep it up! merci

These videos are so useful. Thank you.

I would love to watch part 2 pls❤️❤️

Great video! I love all of your tips! I didn't know that it's more natural sounding to drop the liaison with the verb etre! You guys are great! By the way, I studied French for a summer at Middlebury in 1985! It was awesome and I learned so much! I want to go back someday!

Great video! I moved to France 7 months ago still helpful for me!

Thank u so much guys, I'm new in France and I was looking for some good phrases on informal way👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️

I just found out about this videos and this channel, thank you very much for this, this is very helpful for people who are learning French and we haven been to Paris, but we will some day. merci.

Great video! Thanks!

Thanks guys. I always look for such phrases when learnin foreign languages cos it makes us sound like a native speaker or at least sound more natural not like that in formal settings. Im lookin forward to more vids from you guys. Btw, your channel is one of my fav youtube channels for learnin french. Although I can hardly find people who can speak french here in Malaysia but Ill keep on learnin untill I get fluent in french. Keep it up!

This video is great. Like others, I’d love to see more of these. Thanks!

Omg je suis Turque mais le premier fois j’étends ça ! C’est super d’avoir conversation comme ça. Merci beaucoup 😊

I love your channel!!! So entertaining and educating at the same time!

Hi guys. I bought your two ebooks and I am really enjoying it. I feel like a Parisien now. Lol. Bon courage les deux. Salut. 😘

Omg, stumbled upon this by accident and so glad I did cuz it’s super helpful!

thank you! I'm going to school in Paris later this month and I don't want to embarrass myself!

Merci pour ce genre de vidéo! Très pratique. Pour moi, l’info sur l’inversion était surprenante parce j’ai toujours pensé que puis-je… serait mieux que “est-ce que “ . Merci!

That was fun and interesting. I knew some of these more colloquial forms but not about the liaisons!! It cuts out the headache of remembering the rule. Like any language, the spoken 'street' form is different. I teach ESL and I struggle to get my students out of the 'formal English' trap. Thanks, both of you.

Love your videos. Sometimes we (Americans) try too hard and end up tripping over ourselves when speaking French. These videos are very helpful in finding the right way to converse.

Wow! So helpful! Thank you!

I found this video very useful! Would you consider making a part 2?

Je suis dans ma 2ème année d'étude de français. Mais après avoir regardé beaucoup de tes vidéos, je me sens plus confiant. Maintenant, j'ai l'intention de continuer mes études de francais et apprendre à parler français comme un natif français. Merci pour l'aide!

Mmmh. Interesting. Y'all should definitely make a part two. Greetings from Kenya.

love it.........

Merci beaucoup, this was a great video. I realised I learned all the "too formal" school taught french. I really want to sound more native, especially Parisian french. So thanks I am going to apply everything you said here to my french!

Very helpful

Thank you for answering back !!! What do you guys like eating for breakfast traditionally?? I love crepe !! What are some French holidays that are very unique and interesting and what festivities are there? Coq au vin is my favorite French dinner!! what do you guys like having for dinner in Paris

Love your channel

This was a great lesson!

Omg. I sometimes say je voudrais but also j’aimerais so thanks for that tip.

Merci beaucoup à vous 🥺😍 your videos are so useful 😍

mind blown! No idea this stuff was all formal or out of touch. I was taught in school, french immersion. Now looking to brush up and finding your videos helpful! Hello from a new subscriber. :)

very helpful.. thank u so much

Merci beaucoup, you guys. J'aimé bien ce vidéo !

Wish I knew this before I went to Paris, my favorite city.

I love your channel. Merci beaucoup :-)

I’d really love a video where you look at each region of France and do their accents.

I took French courses in France and I feel like walking out of text book when I speak. It sounds weird and at first I found it’s very difficult to catch up what French people say. And finally I found your channel, very helpful! ❤️

Good tips. I was unaware of those! I'm an English teacher and try to teach the same although I think it''s helpful to learn the 'correct' way before learning to sound more 'natural.' It's a slow process and some people pick it up faster than others...and that's okay!

Merci les gars 🤩 C'était ouf.

Bonjour!! Very nice video!! Merci beaucoup!!

I learned all these expressions in school and from my mother who lived in Southern France in the 70s! It was only when my son started learning from a Parisien a few years ago that I realized how outdated the expressions were.

I had no idea until now that I was making these mistakes! Thank you!

Thank you, this is helpful to know what things are no longer useful for everyday French from what we were taught in school years ago. Poor Montaigne: "Que sais-je?"

Merci :)

I actually learned from my first teacher about how the "ne" was being dropped. For the sake of the class it stayed of course (it was introductory) but it was nice to get some reality of what the common speak would be like. Also had a teacher from Africa who would speak much more formal French. She said she was surprised when going to Paris how fast it all was in comparison. There could be cultural variations but I never confirmed it truly. It was funny when she would pull out the Parisian French since it was so out of character.

i really love your videos, truly! i love all that you do and you really are helping so many people! but i have to say that it would be good to point out that this is how we learn french in our french classes. everyone who learns french as a foreign language will go through this stage. the way Charlie describes all of these "mistakes" is like he is above that. i'm sure he has been at that stage at some point while learning french, so i don't think the sense of arrogance is warranted.

Je suis en Master FLE et j'aime beaucoup regarder des vidéos comme les vôtres pour me rendre compte de petites subtilités auxquelles c'est difficile de faire gaffe quand on est natif et qui pourraient être intéressantes à connaître en classe de FLE. C'est pratique pour conscientiser un peu tout ça. Merci ^^

Hi there, I really enjoy your videos. You guys are pretty helpful. Any suggestions on teaching material for beginners like myself? please thank you!

This was a great video. Please do another video on french words and expressions to avoid using, and what should be said instead!

Hi! I am a student learning French at Midd!!

Learning the local lingo is important, however the accent and pronunciation is most important.

Is it me or When she speaks English, She sounds like Hila from H3H3 Podcast

Hey, great video as always! Can you comment on the use of "nous" in normal french? I've heard from a few places that most french people just use "on", but I haven't seen you talk about it much. Is this common, and is there any situation where you still use "nous"? Thanks!

I've just discovered your channel few days ago. I find your videos about slang very useful and well explained. However, there is one small thing I do not like about this channel: the number of subscribers. You deserve way more!

I love what you teach, thank you! So, what I would also enjoy is to hear you say something, the way your mom and dad would say it, then say it, as you would. That would also be Much appreciated. (BTW (in English) my mom cannot understand the way my daughter speaks, because my daughter speaks very fast and slurs words together, with no punctuation/pauses used.)

I wish everyone spoke super formally. It reminds me of like old French movies or something. You guys should watch the movie “Allied” and talk about the pronunciation they use in the movie.

Love this video. Really informative about how we SHOULD be speaking, as opposed to "text book" French. However, I'm finding that between the liasons, verlan, dropping the "ne", slang, slurring and speaking at indecipherable speeds, its maddening trying to learn it all! I'm still a total beginner, but if I'm going to learn, I don't want to learn a style of French that would be equated to Victorian English. Being from Brooklyn, I want to speak like I speak in BK, but in French, ie, super informal, every day speak, slang and all. As it would sound walking around Paris. But as a beginner, these two things butt heads completely. I'm technically learning "textbook" French, but everything in this video, and many others I've watched on YT say DON'T speak like that...What is the best way to incorporate the two? Do I need a "textbook" base and learn the liasons, verlan, dropping the "ne" and slang separately? Or is that twice the work and I should be doing it that way from jump? Its incredibly frustrating at times. Every time I feel like I made some progress, I see a video like this and realize what I've learned is really formal or outdated and not at all how I want to sound. I think I might be the ideal Street French customer, haha! Thanks again for this. Keep it up.

I like older French better... it sounds classier and nicer :-))

Thanks, this will help in my relearning .If not for this video, numbers 1,2,4,5,8,10and 11 would have still been in my French speech.I haven't learned the language in years , but I remembered enough to get by .

thx a lot guys this video helped me in my examen oral a la alliance francaise de lima

Salut les deux. Merci pour tous les astuces. Très utile surtout pour mon voyage en France. En revanche je me trouve que les Parisiens aussi très formel, c’est vrai peut-être dans un resto, bistrot, etc... bon continuation. Bises 😘👍

I learnt French for a few semesters (quite a few years ago). As it was classroom learning, everything I learnt was formal (e.g. we learnt "Comment-allez vous?" and "Je ne sais pas."). Found this video interesting and useful as daily conversations are so different from textbook conversations. Talking about "enjoy", can I say that basically the verb "enjoy" in English could be kinda like replaced with "bon(ne)" (good as adjective) in French in a lot of cases (e.g. enjoy your holiday, enjoy the meal)? And seems that the expressions are for casual talking, what if when I meet another young person for the first time, say at a hostel, is it natural to say "vous" or shall I address him/her as "tu"?

I think it depends a lot on the region. Personnally, I often heard "je voudrais" and even sometimes "comme-ci, comme-ça" in the region where I grew up. Nevertheless, I never heard that in Alsace (where I studied). About "puis-je" it's indeed extremely formal (even in my native region) and I think it's as formal as "may I".

Briilant help !! Teach me!!/

I like how your girlfriend behave as a real human being. Probably is an European/French thing... Here in the Americas we try to be very cheerful and "fake" in terms of behave. My two French friends at the University used to have the same vibe. I love it!

I'm very much enjoying your videos you guys. It's cool to see that a couple thought to do this together. My best friend is half French and I'm trying to learn the language not only for that reason but I like French culture in general and I would love to visit Paris one day I've dreamt of it for 10 years. So your tips on blending in in Paris and knowing what phrases are common is very helpful. Thank you guys !!! What do young people do in France for pleasure? I imagine there's some similarities to American leisure but I am curious :)