I Learned to Speak French in 12 Hours
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- This is my challenge to learn to speak French in 12 hours on a livestream. I am a complete beginner and have never studied any French before. I have set up back-to-back conversations with French tutors from around the world (including from France, Canada, Cameroon, and Senegal) and I’m going to do my best to try and learn as much French as possible in one continuous 12 hour livestream, which is the longest RUclips allows you to stream and save it as a video afterwards. This video will showcase my raw process of language learning. I’m curious to see how much I can learn to speak conversationally by the end of this video, but I also think this will be a useful 12-hour long French class if you’re looking to learn French from scratch! So come study with me!
If you would like to get in touch with the French tutors I learned with today, here is their contact information in order of when they appeared in the video. Most of them have Italki pages where you can directly book time to learn languages.
Elisa: www.italki.com... and / @frenchmorningswithelisa
Marine: www.italki.com...
Kevin: www.italki.com...
Aurélie: www.italki.com...
Rox: www.italki.com...
Samuel: / samuelberubexan
Kevin Abroad: / kevinabroad
Alexandre Laprise: www.italki.com...
Lexi: www.italki.com...
Mesumbe: www.italki.com...
Alexandre Champagne: www.italki.com...
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I paused the video when he closed his eyes to give him some rest
lmao
What a hero 🥺
lmao the reply you added and then deleted was hilarious smh why did u get rid of it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
@@acehardware492 ... I thought it was too much, you know
Feel free to post it here lool
GIB CREDIT PLZ
@@windroid_user your weird
This guy really just gave us all 12 hours of french tutoring for free
Right! This is super helpful for people who want to learn French.
Because of chinese communist values.
Exactement, merci beaucoup
Lol
thats what i thought!
I watched this in 2x speed and learned French in 6 hours... Your move
😂
What!! Ok. Ok. Trying at 1.5x playback speed. 😵💫
That’s incredible, and in return you got 1/2 the learning quality.
Ok donc là tu comprend exactement ce que je dis sans traduction donc vas me conjuguer le verbe être au présent parfait
HAHAHAHAH
He : learning french in 12 hrs.
Me: forgets the names of people I just met.
I feel you bro :'v
He just took 1 day of French lessons, at the end of the lesson he is far from being bilingual lol
@@nromzful He speaks like 12 languages
Same:)
Qu'on me coupe une couille s'il parle français après 12 heures...
Dude really did a French speedrun
Yeah and being a native french speaker, I can say that this dude is killing it!
Sped. . .Sped. . .SPEED RUN!
- Corpse
@@sarahlamar430 Corpse Husband?
@@GabrielSimp sorry nerd speaking.
@@sarahlamar430 wut?
I love how he repeats everything like 5 times to get a feel for the word.
I mean repetition is extremely extremely important in learning a language so it’s not just getting a feel for it. You literally need to do that in order to learn effectively.
@@HearMeLearn No you don´t, repetition in language acquisition means establishing the usage of the word in different contexts not repeating it like an idiot.
@@Dionysiandreams pretty sure you misunderstood what we're talking about go ahead and go off for no reason
this dude is soon gonna start speaking enchantment table language
probably already does
hahahaha lol
Bonjour
Rip Sasha🥺😭 she didn’t deserve to die
@First Name Last Name its the person in my profile pic, shes from an anime. Big RIP
As a french person I'm aware of the difficulty of learning french... And DUDE you did a HUGE progress in your very first day ! I'm amazed
Par contre il m'a stressé avec sa prononciation
@@MaestroSangurasu t'es fou frère c'est incroyable c'était sa première leçon et il prend l'accent comme ça sur certains mots/syllabes c'était impressionnant imo
Bro, french is not hard at all, but the vocals are tricky tho, other than that its easy to learn, and that's an advantage actually since it boosts tourism in French
@@abdullahahmed1673 all languages are hard from different perspectives. english might not be a very hard language but for asians its pretty hard, for poles spanish is pretty easy but french is like german but 10 times worse
@@novy1198 True perspective plays a role in this, but not in a huuuge way, still, french is the a good language to learn from many perspectives, its difficulty is normal and most of today's people already can speak English so that helps them ALOT because of the writing and all that, but bruh, german is so much harder than french, i tried both and if i had to choose i would take french in a heartbeat, and that's not just my opinion, everyone who has ever tried to learn french knows it, but the "r" sound can be a little annoying to English speakers
Lexi is a good teacher. She talks very clearly and a little slower for beginners and corrects almost every mistake explaining to Xiaoma. She encourages and doesn't let him get stuck when he doesn't know. Xiaoma is already tired after that many hours and I'm sure he learned more from that teacher. Also, the fact to having a neutral French accent is good for learners. Nothing against other French-speaking countries or accents, I lived in Quebec and in Africa. Even for French, if you learn with a NOrthern or Southern accent of Marseille, it will be a bit more complicated to switch to neutral French
Agreed!
Thanks a lot your comment really makes me happy :D
@@Lexi-ht4yy do you have Instagram?
@@ep5036 Yes I do but it's a travel account not sur that it's very interesting (and most of time I don't post anything). It's Lexietsully :)
his french is horrible, he didn't learn to speak french at all
It’s impressive how quickly he learns. It’s weird though, sometimes he will be corrected the same thing over and over and still get it wrong, but sometimes he just hears it once and remembers immediately.
I'm kinda the same way, some words just stand out to you when you learn them and others don't register at all
Aussi ;)
My guess is be knows Spanish and the languages are both Latin so he may catch a similarity and get it quickly. But some don’t follow that and so he has a hard time.
@@iv3995 that’s a nice theory
I’m the same exact way dude legit some things just click with em and others literally one ear out the other and into the abyss
First lesson: 7:54
Second lesson: 1:12:06
Third lesson: 2:16:18
Fourth lesson: 3:16:30
Fifth lesson: 4:14:30
Sixth lesson: 6:04:23
Seventh lesson: 6:45:08
Eighth lesson: 7:44:30 (I had too)
Ninth lesson: 9:15:14
Tenth lesson: 9:44:42
Eleventh lesson: 10:17:38
Twelfth and final lesson: 11:15:11
Not all heroes wear capes
Thank you!!
You need to be hearted
Thank you!
Merci beau gosse
As a western Canadian, I learned French in school but my comprehension isn't great and my speaking is poor. Tried to be better at it via DuoLingo etc but just not having much success. Listening to this video is turning out to be a GREAT way to brush up on my French! I'm playing it in the background while I work, and it is so helpful! I'm going to have to see if there are other videos like this on RUclips where new French speakers converse with a fluent French speaker. I can see why Xiaoma chooses this method for learning a new language fast.
Hello fellow western Canadian! I just started the video, and I'm hoping to brush up on mine as well!
Hi fellow western canadians! Also trying to dig deep in my brain for years worth of high school french lessons :)
Go to Quebec. You will get an immersion there !
FrenchPod101, or French In Action.
If you have the money, because I think it's rather expensive (last I checked), the Pimsleur method.
But those first two are fantastic!
I live in BC and learning French is a nightmare. I know all my grammar and have done many university courses but until I can spend some time in a French speaking place I'll be lost
He learned French better in 12 hours than me in 7 years
You so Bad lol
@@sanssucreajoute6554 thanks
Honestly, same. Gonna change that though
some poeple just have the talent for learning lanuages easily like someone has a talent for reading and writing
@@EduardoGonzalez-tc2dg I learn a lot of other languages and have talent for that, I just stopped paying attention in French class so
As a french speaker who teaches french to my girlfriend. I have to say, I'm impressed. You killed it.
@@celticpeace1781 no, korean native speaker but speaks english.
@@maxrdhw c complexe tou ça
@@maxrdhw moi je c parlé italien et anglais aussi 😁
Ouais euh... attends, c’est pareil que n’importe quel élève au bout de 10 cours de LV3, il baragouine 3 sons et 2 syllabes y a rien de fou😂
@@vab120 Ouai 10 cours... ici on parle d'une journée. Il fait bien plus que baragouiner 3 sons et deux syllabes.. J'aimerais bien voir où tu serais après une journée d'apprentissage de Coréen.
Well, I'm french, I've watched all the video (for several days), and I could see how much it was hard for you. Congratulations ! You did it. Amazing to hear the effort you put in each sentence. Bravo !
Il met beaucoup d'efforts et c'est super.
That’s a brutal challenge dude. But well done for throwing yourself right in. I gotta say though, booking different styles of French speakers was a mistake. I speak fluent French (French French) and some of the Canadian, Cameroon, Senegal accents were even hard for me to understand perfectly! I can only imagine for you trying to learn from scratch.
Well done dude!! I’m impressed. Love your content and channel.
The number of accents this guy went through during the challenge made it....
You guessed it: Harder
The right idea after learning the basics was to re-enforce their pronunciations I think, which some tutors definitely did although I didn't watch too well.
I'm pretty sure he's going to be speaking multiple pronunciations in one sentence tomorrow lol.
He clearly dived in head-first though, do I need to say I'm impressed?
Absolute madness, man is a savage
Il y a en plus des accents et termes propres aux régions qui compliquent encore plus la compréhension entre français, ça peut mener à des débats interminable alors qu’on connaît tous la réponse (on dit pain au chocolat sauf dans le sud où c’est chocolatine)
@@jacques-kevintea6607 CHOCOLATINE??? C'EST QUOI CETTE MADNESS??
I think it would be a mistake if he did it repetitively--but for the first day, it's not too important. It could be a good way to figure out which dialect he prefers before his accent is ingrained through repetition.
why did u learn more in 12 hours than me in 4 years of French
Literally 🥲🥲
Because in school, you get taught for what’s on the exam paper, not what you actually neeed
Anticonstitutionnellement
I have learnt French for 8 years and I still got an E on my exam, but in my own time have learnt Mandarin for the past month as that is the language I wanted to learn but my school didn’t have it and I have learnt more in that month than my school time. With no drive, you just won’t learn as much. I can speak in French, not fluently but good enough for long conversations, my other aspects brought me down where you had to revise a speech or something so I literally couldn’t do it XD. I know no one cares so I’m going to stop talking XD
Wdym
Amazing man. As a French speaker myself I think you made things way more challenging by having teachers with many different accents and varied ways of pronouncing words.
He was mixing his French and Spanish at one point toward the end lol
I guess when your level is not high interference happens from your other languages
At the beginning too.
I've been learning French all my life and now im learning Spanish and i confuse the two languages a bit
French and Spanish are very similar. It's hard to switch your brain to "french mode" when you're already learning spanish :)
What you find over time especially when one speaks two languages well (I am a Shona native and was fluent in English at 5 years of age) when one language is stronger than the other, the brain will look for words in the stronger language hence the mixing of languages. Olly Richards spoke about this in one of his videos (Spanish and Portuguese) and he remedied this having actual language exchanges or conversations with natives where he forced himself to switch between Spanish and Portuguese until his brain got comfortable and this took a while but his brain managed to adjust. Which is why they always encourage people to get to a high level in a language (C1) before starting another one
My dude, you don't know how much you are helping posting this. I really must learn French for a job but was completely lost on where and how to start. Thank you.
That's so cool!
So update please. How did it go?
just picking up a small dictionary an learning those words while learning grammar is a good way to learn a language for me
Avez-vous appris le français pour son travail? Il y a deux ans que vous avez écrit ça et j’étais curieux. C’est très difficile d’apprendre une langue…
Du nouveau beau gosse ?
French basics are simple enough, once you get the gymnastics to get the sounds right. But there are so many bloody exceptions; contextualization and tricky spelling (not to mention things have a gender in French) that it discourages a lot of people ^^
There's this english native singer woman that settled in france many decades ago, Jane Birkin. She still makes mistakes with the genre of objects. So don't be too hard on yourself. ^^
Yea the masculine and feminine words is what lost me I gave up 😂😂
This is common for every romance language (Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian and Portuguese)
Romanian has genders too, and each gender gas a case like a case system good luck with that!
This guy has a more absorbent brain than most people....
facts! I'm here like " what the hell!"
his dedication is also impeccable, I usually give up a new language after an hour but he keeps on going for 12 hours lol
Not true he already has multiple languages under his belt you can’t compare yourself with him or others thats like you comparing yourself to a trained athlete when you may just work out a few times a week . Sure peoples ability will differ thats just a biological fact but this is a relatively small factor. Anyone can do this if they put in the work. The brain is really like a muscle in reality if you don’t push it it won’t grow.
Fun fact, anybody is capable of this. This man is just determined and loves learning. Two things most of us don’t have.
@@angelo7732 facts
The problem with having so many people teaching you French is that they will tell you slightly different things haha. I had it with my german teachers. I had 3 german teachers and it was hard work
Learn Schwytzertüütsch!
@@kaewakoyangi8071 chuchichäschtli
@@dfpww can you share advice about reaching the fluency of a language?
@@dfpww paying for a language school really helps with it?
do you understand german so far?
Verstehst du Deutsch so weit ?
Bravo Jean-Claude, je suis impressionné par la rapidité de votre apprentissage du français. Bonne continuité!
What are you saying
@@vinz_23 2:21:00
Bonne continuation plutôt, non?
@@vinz_23 He is impressed because xiaoma learn French fast
@@fandelapin2971on peut dire les deux
God imagine if the camera wasn’t recording what a NIGHTMARE
Haha!!! Imagine!
I mean it was a live stream so..
Honestly... how doesn’t he know french already?😂 he can literally speak ANCIENT MAYAN bruh hahaha
😂😂😂
I mean, he just memorized some words and phrases, learning a language obviously can't take too little, but it's still impressive how he retains words and knowledge
@Andrea Wylie Absolutely, I feel like the average person does and will not learn language as fast and accurately as him..
He's big into polyglotism and I think its cool as fuck ✌🏽
@@razoredu8351 well yes. But tbh, I watched around 4 hrs of this video and learned for “useful” French than in 3 semesters. I could tell you the parts of the house, the colors, sizes, etc. But they never taught me french that I could use in a regular spontaneous conversation. I’m saying this cause I feel Xioma tends to “memorize” (maybe some people wouldn’t consider to call it learn) “practical” fragments of the language
The problem is, you learned with both french, canadian and african people and the accents are really different. But you're impressive dude, as usual.
Exactly,as French from Québec and the accent is different with French accent from France
I think that it’s a good thing for listening conprehention and varities of speech
@@thelias91 Not on your first day
@@thelias91 the differences are too great for someone just starting to learn, best to start with mainland french then do quebec and african french as theyre much harder in my opinion.
Loooool @@Zultzify
Fuck man. I’m learning more watching this than actually going to French class
I feel youuu bud 😂
Legit 5 years of French class (grade 4,5,6,7,8) and this has more info in it. No joke!
Right?!?!??!?!??!!!
Damon Dominique is super helpful
true I'm french and I learned English way easier with internet and English content instead of my pointless english lessons
I just realize how peculiar is the French language... And I'm French...
Hahahha même chose pour moi homie😂😂😂😂
Homies latin, romantic languages
(I'm latam)
That's what I've been feeling like with English - I've been tutoring some Koreans in English, and at least once a lesson I just shake my head and go on about English being such a complicated language.
Bro , it's a nightmare to learn for me .
J’ai réalisé ça aussi quand j’ai commencé à écrire des phrases “simples” avec des mots clefs pour les débutants. 😂
It bothered me so much that none of the teachers tried to teach Xiaoma the basic sounds of French until Samuel!! It is the most basic stuff to learn, and you'll only be able to communicate if your pronunciation is good enough. He was one of the best ones, correcting the pronunciation and translating new sentences word for word, very didactic.
But besides that, awesome livestream!! Really interesting to watch your progress after each class throughout the TWELVE hours hahah French is an incredible language.
Yes I noticed that as well, It was a relief when Samuel came in and brought that up. Wish he had gone through all of the sounds. Not that it really seemed to make a difference for Xiaoma, no offense lol. I am brand new learning French too but I was thinking if he says que as “KAY” instead of “KUH” after being corrected for the 6000th time i’m going to pull my hair out…
EDIT: I’m now at the end with the word “famille” and I actually think he may have a learning disability.
Haha I mean I wouldn’t say that😂 it took him a while but the sounds in French are super hard and it’s his first time seeing it so I’m sure he improved after this video
regardless of topic, unsure how one concentrates for 12 hours straight.
He was having trouble, but you have to make sure your hierarchy of needs stays full, so he starts to lose focus as he tires, picking it up slower.
@@mandowarrior123 i cant even focus on reading for 1 hour. this guy is amazing
@@hockysa there is a disposition, particularly if you are more autistic for example sometimes means hyper focus/obsessiveness. If you are particularly hyperactive or kinesthetic you are more likely to struggle to keep focus. To me it doesn't seem that bad, the focussing part, but taking all that in would be exhausting. Like trying to cram for an exam!
study medicine hehe you get use to read and study even asleep hehe
@@MD-rw6uh That's not true, Don't need more than 2-3 hours apart from the school.
I speak both french and english. Watching him learn french is so impressive and cute at the same time LOL. Good on you man! French is not an easy language.
i feel like french is the easiest language to learn, i think italian is the hardest
@@Cam-wo3mu don't really know, as a native French speaker, I feel like all romance languages are on the same level of difficulty as they share a lot of common features. Maybe Spanish is a tiny bit easier as it's read as it's written.
@@Cam-wo3mu NOT AT ALL, French is for a long time harder than Italian because in the French language the words are more complicated to write and pronounce in certain words some letters are silent at times and others not, there are a LOT of exceptions, there are words that look the same in writing and that don't sound the same, and there are words that look so similar that we can be wrong even we French have problems with our own languages sometimes. In addition there are different words to express a feeling, there are different registers of the language: current, colloquial sustained and the “Verlan” French slangs which consists of inverting the syllables of one word to form another like ( crazy become zy-cray or zee-cray) and he has the language of young people. And Italian is easier because all the letters in the word are pronounced, there are no silent letters and it's just easier to understand.
@@elsasvenski1566 okay none of tht is rlly hard lol have you been to america 😂😂
@@RDCQ59 english has like 10 different pronunciations for a letter
This is really entertaining to watch when you’re native French and fluent in English, I just wanna help him with the French too when I hear him try to find his words! Really great job on the French
on the opposite for me it's a similar but distinctly different because i feel like im relearning along the way and remembering what it's like to start out
I like how the live stream brought some variety of speakers together, including those who not only speak French, thoroughly enjoyed it.
Yes! I loved that too!
Elisa is such a great teacher. I was truly impressed. Plus, she taught you the real spoken french. edit: There is no "real" french, read before rage, I was talking about SPOKEN french vs written. + fixed teached -> taught after MANY comments.
What's her timestamp?
@@chrisreimer she is the first one.
Thank you so much ! I really appreciate that :)
Real spoken french? You know i live in Canada (Quebec) and my native language is french. There is no normal french.
@@Nope0823 I really meant spoken french. I do think the spoken vs written rules are mostly common in all french speaking world. We are not on Twitter, please dont try too hard to be offended.
Je suis français de base, mais ce que tu fais est juste incroyable. On passe 15 ans de notre vie à apprendre le français, et en 12 heures tu as appris toutes les bases. Well done dude !
I don't understand French but i know spanish and i could understand weirdly the idea of the paragraph
@@thehipsterhamster1929 lol im the opposite with kind of being able to read spanish because i know french. these latin based languages man
Nan, chui peruvien et je parle le fr je peux te dire mec qu’apprendre une langue en 12 heure c’est justement impossible.
@@countryballspredicciones5184 t'as appris le français comment?
@@portemanteau3802 Tu dois aimer ce que tu fait. Je suis tomber amoureux de la langue française pour Maitre GIMS. Pour moi c était tres facile, mon français est genre C2 je pense, je peux parler de n importe quoi et je connais meme de mots comme k_n. D ailleurs j ai 15 ans, j ai pas d'argent.
You made ur task harder, You had several people having different dialect (québec, france, congo) and different accent. Big respect on you
NO big deal here just a matter of memorizing some catch phrases.
@@tomjoad1363 it actually is a big deal especially with France vs Quebec, France had been influence by other European country’s and the sound has changed and sounds so much better. Quebec basically still has the 1700-1800 French thats rougher and the accent is harder to understand
@@Pookiebearhungry
Sometimes, I explain it to my friends like, "Imagine you just learned BBC English, pass out, and when you wake up, you're in some remote Scottish village and have to ask a nearby elderly farmer for directions home." To be fair, some people have much thicker accents than others - my native language is French, and even I often had trouble understanding my great uncle's combination of thick Gaspé accent and mumbling.
The other part is that while non-Québecois French speakers usually understand formal Québec French without too much difficulty, casual Québec French likes to drop a significant number of syllables, and sometimes modify the remaining ones a bit. So you'll start with something they'll teach FSL speakers, like 'Je ne le sais pas,' and then right off the bat the locals will drop 'Je ne le' and then pronounce the remaining 'sais pas' as 'shaypa.'
@@Pookiebearhungry That's incorrect, both have evolved at the same time and academic French is the same as academic French from France. I personally prefer the way Quebec French sounds, but I also prefer American English to British for the same reasons, it sounds less pretentious (no offence😬)
This was really cool Xiaoma ! I'm very impressed by your learning skills and dedication ! I can't wait to see which new crazy challenges you'll come up with next ! A bientôt !
i think you did the best job of all in terms of focusing on true conversational french! i would have preferred to learn french that way when i started! instead i got a lot of corrections from people insisting that i add 'ne' into spoken phrases when i knew it wasnt necessary !
@@_Shadbolt_ Thanks ! Yes I also think it's better to learn it the way it is actually spoken. It also helps understanding native speakers !
Hey, j'ai regardé 2h pour le moment. J'adore comment tu lui enseigne, tu fait une job incroyable!! Rien a redire
you were the best out of all the teachers you seem like the only one that really enjoyed teaching i bet if he spent the whole 12 hours learning from you he would have been a lot better in the end you are a great teacher
This is inspiring. This dude speaks really well many languages BUT he strugles every single one to learn. And this is it. You can do it as well!
I honestly thought I was gonna skip around, but I've been watching the whole thing and am extremely intrigued. Well done!
To add on to this, I was talking to my mom about this video and now she won't stop speaking in French.
Well done Xiaoma (or should I say Jean-Claude 😂) ! I'm so happy to have been able to teach you some French. You did wonderfully. Now get some well deserved rest! 😂
À bientôt !
What program or app do you teach French on?
@@t4health527 Hey! I don't actually teach French online (I mean I do but only because we work online in England right now). I did this class with Xiaoma because he asked me so nicely that I couldn't say no :D
Hi Kevin, thank you. But what program or platform did you guys use?
@@KevinAbroad Vous seriez un très bon prof, j'aimerais prendre des cours avec vous!
Tu étais le meilleur professeur, Kevin!
As a French Native my self, i couldn't have this motivation either, great great works
Oof. Devenez bon, frotter!
@@godemperormeow8591 désolée j'ai pas compris haha
this is an incredibly thorough analysis of foreign language acquisition as well as how the brain adjusts to extreme differences in interpretation. absolutely love this idea! hope to see more of it :)
And as a side note, a harrowing insight into the adverse effects of fatigue
Bravo 👏
Big up the fraudsters!
Yes
Omg the Lord of the frauds follows xiamaync. Respect to your mother!
Fraudulent scenes in the comments...
This is legit the most random comment OAT. Was not expecting to see you here
Good for him showing this publicly too it’s very inspiring.
Mind-numbing marathon. French was my first formal language till I was 11, so I applaud your incredible effort - you are a beast, Xiaoma!
Hello, I want to learn english, only know something about, how can I improve more fast?, if you can answer I will be very happy
@@whatsocutee Hello! I would say listen to conversations by native speakers with translation. And try to say the words like they say them until it sounds similar and then find a partner for conversation. Have fun!
I just made the decision to re-learn French (my fiance is from Lousiana, and he speaks French). I took classes, but that was during middle school- in the 90s. This video was suggested to me, and I am taking it as a sign LOL
Good luck, Xiaoma! Thank you for the great content.
Avez-vous appris un peu plus de la langue française?
Very helpful way to learn French. Impressed with you being such a quick study. Would be helpful if we, as viewers, could also see the phrases in writing. Thank you!
French from France is so different than us Canadian french that even they struggle to understand us at some point. You shouldn't mix when trying to learn because its gonna be a pain in the a$*
French in France: “et ici, nous pouvons voir le mer...”
French here in Québec: *CÂLICE*
Does that mean French in Madagascar is different from the French in France AND Canada ?
@@FeverFo Yes, it sounds different and there are a lot of different words
@@louisgarcia777 and I'm over here learning French thinking I'd be able to communicate with people from different countries..
@@FeverFo It depends on how deep you learn it. It isn’t a completely other language, they talk in a different accent. Even a native french has sometimes problems to understand 100%. Continue learning, I know speaking it pretty well and even if I didn’t understand the accents in every single word I understood what the person is talking about.
This is a really difficult challenge, French is indeed a Romance language - and has some similarities with Spanish or Italian - but with a more complex grammar - and spelling words is also a complete nightmare, even for most of French people. Learning French only with oral conversation is really difficult, especially if you choose teachers from various regions of the world. I would not recommend this at all for a beginner: the pronunciation is different and also sometimes the grammar. For example Alexandre started his questions with "As-tu...", which is completely common in oral conversations in Quebec, but a speaker from Europe would rather say "Est-ce que tu as...", even if both are grammatically correct in France ("As-tu" is more frequently used in written standard French). So if you learn French with teachers from different areas, the risk is mixing local grammar and pronunciation rules. So I would not recommend that until you reached at least level B1. For beginners, the best is to stay with teachers from France, Belgium or Switzerland - Belgian and Swiss French are very close to standard French so that wouldn't be an issue - or with teachers from Canada if you're from NA and plan to interact mostly with French Canadian speakers.
He's from NYC and talked a bunch about wanting to order poutine in Montreal, so I'd definitely recommend a teacher from Quebec.
@Luke Perret @Luke Perret I agree that French is among the easiest for an English speaker, but so is Swedish (I don't know why you put that among the harder languages?), and German isn't much harder, comparatively speaking. Completely unrelated languages like Japanese, Arabic etc. are much, much harder.
We will all die!
Je suis d'accord avec toi le français est vraiment pas facile
@@DeltaInsanity For Americans the French Canadian is easier since when they speak French they have an American accent. But if you want to go to Europe in a French-speaking country, it would be better to learn standard French otherwise you will have a little trouble making yourself understood.
Seeing that this was a twelve hour lesson seemed ridiculous to me but after watching this video for the first two hours and seeing your eagerness and activeness it motivated me to continue learning french but in a different way 😊😊
Thanks Xiaoma
Maintenant ça fait 11 mois est ce que ta pu au moins apprendre plus que xioma en 12h 🤣
This guy’s always on beast mode
This video made night-watchers feel like time-travelers
I still can’t speak french after studying for 2 years at 🏫 🤦♀️
I understand you as a native 😂
I still can't speak French well after studying 20 years in France. Yes I'm 20
@@user-im5sl6xe7u force 😭
Force à toi bro c'est pas difficile le français pourtant 🤔 après le mieux c'est de partir dans le pays pour apprendre réellement la langue tu verras c'est pas la même langue que à l'école
Me neither, ive been studying for 12 years. Im 15 and canadian.
Can we talk about how the last guys name was Alexandre Champagne... Thats HIGH tier baller name. I expect this guy at every club in Ibiza with 10+ lovers crewed up... meanwhile im stuck with Timothy. ok mom.
LOL thx dude, I wish 🤣
Lmao underrated comment
Oh that actually is his last name... I thought it was a joke for the video lol.
People will make fun of you actually
@@Siberius- It's a common last name in Québec.
Thank you for posting this 小马, I've wanted to learn French for a while, and this video not only is perfect for getting started but it gives me insight into how you go about tackling languages when you first encounter them. Merci!!
So grateful you did this. I'm trying to learn French by myself, and this has been helping me. Merci beaucoup, Xiaoma et Bonne chance
Et maintenant ? Parles-tu couramment ?
42:34 First appearance of Owen Wilson. Many more to come.
42:49 A long one.
3:36:51 A silent Owen.
3:38:55 A short one.
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Incroyable j'aime trop tes vidéos et quel détermination pour apprendre notre language qui n'est pas des plus simple ! Vraiment bravo !
Im learning french for 7 years now and the only thing i can say is: "en anglais?"
Edit:apparently its anglais and not englais.
@@seagawl come on dude, how can you not get the joke lmfao
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lmao you were planning on using french to communicate in french speaking countries but in the end you preferred learning to say "en anglais" so that people would talk to you in english ? 😂
@@vieuxchene4782 we start learning it in school in the 5th grade basic school and i am in the 5th grade high school right now, i didn't choose to learn it.(I can speak 3 languages fluently tho and french a little.)(not trying to brag, just explaining i didn't choose french)
@@Raveio-hr3zr Yeah lmao, I was just kidding right, because it felt like that was what you were saying through your comment. But the way, what's 5th grade ? In terms of age ? 3 languages ! That's cool 👌 I'm a French native. First language we learn in most schools here is english obviously, I don't know why so many french students struggle with it, it's a pretty easy one compared to so many others, especially the ones with a different alphabet. Except for english, I know basic Spanish but can understand many situations. I don't know why, it's crazy how we can understand so many things but when it comes to saying them, it's so much harder. I know I'm not fluent in English, I've spent probably ten years learning it, and I know that by the end of highschool my English level was that of my teachers but I still can't consider myself fluent. I don't know, when you listen and observe someone in a language you're good at, but you still discover so many new words. Really, the extent of some people's vocabulary just amazes me. The worst thing is when I see children from english countries speaking such a good english when it took me years to master it as much as them 😂 I'm starting to learn German too. So, GG for speaking fluently 3 languages !!
Me with 3 years of French: "Taisez-vous"
(that was the main thing my teacher would say to us)
😆😆😆
The same thing in France, the 1st thing we learn in english is "Shut up" because the teacher say that so often
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@@evanbaudin7752 Nous c'était " BE QUIET !!! "
Ma prof nous a dit plus poliment "fermez les bouches" 🤭
Tu es vraiment impressionnant.
J’ai adoré cette vidéo. Moi je suis en train d’apprendre le Khmer.
Ce n’est vraiment pas facile d’apprendre une langue aussi différente. Ton contenu est vraiment génial. Merci beaucoup 😊
❤❤
This is literally incredible. Beau travail, Xiaoma! Je suis vraiment impressionné!
I clicked like button after 13 seconds when I saw he really recorded those 12 hours. Great idea, hats from heads.
You were struggling so much until Kevin Abroad and all of sudden almost instantly you started putting it all together. That was pretty crazy
I can't believe how much of this video I've watched 😂😂
As a French Canadian....I want to see more French videos!
You understand that pronounciation of that french, on your Canadian french Evelyne?
@@randallaxel4111 Yes I do Randall. I have a Quebecois accent. But I understand all French accents, minus each country's slang :-0
@@randallaxel4111 same for french people, we can understand the québécois accent even if there’s some words that are EXTREMELY weird for us to hear :p
@@randallaxel4111 Quebecers understand the French of France, it is the French who sometimes do not understand Canadian French since Quebecers have a fairly American accent and they have their own expressions. Some words in French do not have the same meaning in Canadian French. And some Canadian French people mix French and English when they speak. But otherwise the French don't necessarily have trouble understanding.
@@elsasvenski1566 ça va de même aussi pour la France qui ne traduit rien et qui emprûnte plusieurs expressions anglaises :) Bon weekend
I first started learning French at school over 40 years ago. You learned more in an hour than I did in a year. :)
Bravo Xiaoma! Assez impressionnant de réussir à apprendre des bases en français comme ça. There were many discreprancies between people speaking French. I'm native French and I've been leaving in Montreal for 20 years and there are people here who don't even speak French.
You have been living not leaving 😉
Maudit Westmount
Pas juste Westmount , NDG ,Mont royal ,et le reste de l'ouest de l'île ,DDO etc @@TheNmecod
Va...va...va..te...te...te@@docman-ih1in
@JeremyBouchez
Portez-vous le même jugement sur les francophones belges qui sont Bruxellois mais qui ne savent aucunement parler néerlandais?
I would love to see you do a world tour travel series where you have to use public transport to get around the world learning any language you need along the way.
I just watched the window getting darker and darker.
This was such a great learning experience to have the full 12 hours! I had no interest in learning French but this is such a unique video I had to follow along. Merci!
You can learn French, it's so helpful, that it will open you so many ways in life. It's your choice but it's a beautiful language even if it looks difficult to learn 😂😅
He sounds like Remy from ratatouille
And now he’s learning French
🐸🐀🥖
They so sound the same.
Actually, watching (or even just listening) along to these videos is a really great way of learning French. Does anyone know of any other similar videos where someone has perhaps uploaded all their French lessons onto RUclips? (Yes there are a lot of "how to speak French" tutorials already, but not many with a beginner learning from a more experienced person in a very natural, unstructured, conversational sort of way)
I don't think they have. It would be good if someone did it in slightly more manageable chunks with a speaker of a consistent accent and teaching style. Elisa was my favourite, she taught french in a modern and honest way regarding spoken vs written french.
@@_Shadbolt_ actually since writing this comment I’ve done a bit more research on this. I would highly recommend “language transfer”. It is audio lessons that are taught with a teacher and a student (totally free). If you want something similar but a bit more structured I couldn’t recommend this enough. However, I will say that what I enjoyed about this video was exactly how UNSTRUCTURED it was. Just people chatting and learning french in whatever natural way takes their fancy. I still haven’t found anything exactly like this, however I have had the idea to - if I ever decide to do french lessons on italki myself - record the conversations and then listen back to them like podcasts. I think this will be invaluable as a learning tool.
@@_Shadbolt_ oh and Elisa has her own channel now, in case you didn’t know. It’s called french mornings with Elisa. It’s great.
maybe "learn french with pod 101" chanel
There is a really good one her name is "Francais avec nelly"
This is a great way to learn language. All the benefit of getting a tutor with out the feelings of embarressment and pressure to perform
You are gonna learn all the languages in the whole world at this point.......
Edit: wow can’t believe I actually got about 200 likes on my comment..... yea that’s all I gotta say
Edit: about 500 likes thanks!
@Spottie Lee Lee gotta admit he smart asf tho
@Spottie Lee Lee how do you know?
@Spottie Lee Lee even if that were true, it doesn't negate the fact that he's a highly talented polyglot
@Huf P. lol like I'm jealous but imagine being as jealous as this loser
Over 500
This is so cute to watch when you know how to speak french😄
Literally what I said lmao
It is so interesting to watch this as a french speaking person, you concentrate more on the teaching aspect of it because you don’t try to remember and learn in the mean time. Also it is so impressive to be able to talk this much after one day wow
I speak French well and I'm currently learning Chinese, which he speaks fluently. He's struggling with French the same way I'm struggling with Chinese. So I understand the pain.
wo ke yi jiao ni zhong wen
T'habite aussi en Chine? Je suis a Shanghai perso
@@keanus6873 Non, j'habite en Bulgarie d'où je viens.
@@lechatnoir6798 ahh ok
我是法国人，我也学中文可是音调很难的。
As a Québécois, that was amazing! You did in 12 hours what most Canadians can't do in a lifetime! What a legend! 🍻
Quebecois gang
C'est quand même vrai et triste.😅
Ouin
La plupart du monde, surtout que je connaisse, veulent pas apprendre le français parce qu'ils ont peur de se faire rire d'eux quand ils vont essayer de le parler. D'un autre point de vue par contre, eux n'hésite pas à ce moquer de nous quand on parle l'anglais avec un gros accent 😂.
Bonsoir, merci beaucoup
I just watched the very beginning, but i got to say, i'm impressed by how fast he learns sounds. He hears the word once and pronounces it very accurately right away.
amazing how much he can learn in 12 hours 😮
You mean 11h:59m:25s
If so, yes it was😂
not to he mean but I don't think that he even remember anything or even Much
@@claudiablaj8864 Nope, he said he would want to achieve a "conversational" level of French, where he can be kidnapped and thrown off the canal and still communicate in such emergencies as if his "survival" depended on it.
Now we just gotta hire a hitman I suppose, any volunteers?
He didn't actually learn that much. Also, his sentence structure and pronunciation need a hell lot of work. Even the tutors often had a hard time understanding what he meant. The only things he seems to be saying fairly correctly are basic things such as My name is X, I'm from X, I want to learn X, I speak a little X. But that can be learned for free on RUclips in about an hour.
@@claudiablaj8864 To clarify, I'm just "quoting" what he said (conversational & survival) and expressing it through an (albeit unrealistic) scenario of what I think HE means.
I don't think anyone here thinks that it's easy to learn a language to a fluent level as you've said without hard work in the form of dedication and actual learning lol.
Not cramming an unorganized 12-hour shift (heck working shifts must be easier than what he just did) of individual tutors and almost no frcking break let alone zero sleep...
No one will think that if they attempt to learn a language right now and go use it lol
French is a hard language to learn, I know this cause I've got some american friends learning this language, they're always saying it's difficult. As a french guy, I have mad respect for people who are trying to learn this language. MAD. RESPECT.
I’ve been learning French for 4 years now in school and I love the language but the amount of things you gotta remember 💀, conjugations, verb genders, etc it’s definitely a language you learn the more you speak it instead of overnight
I don't think the language is hard, it's more the proper accent. The mouth shape is very foreign to English speakers.
@@SeraphsWitness grammar is also hard for english speakers to learn and remember. that and the gendered words.
@@Zultzify yea, as an English speaker I've just learned some of the rules for remembering genders. That gets you like 80% there.
As a teacher myself, I think the first tutor was excellent. She met him at his level, didn't overcorrect or overexplain, but managed to cover the basics of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. It's important not to overteach a beginner, but to dose knowledge carefully according to your student's capacity to truly absorb it. Learning a language is like eating a meal... you don't need to swallow all the steak and potatoes in one mouthful... you can have a little of each until gradually your plate is empty!
Everyone says french is the easiest language to understand if you know spanish but I've been speaking spanish since i was a kid and i went to France, italy, and Portugal. And honestly i could not understand French or Portuguese, but i couls understand Italian almost perfectly.
Entiendo un poco de portugués y italiano pero aprendía un poco francés en mi escuela :/
I'm Brazilian I can understand Spanish and French
@bull shit i couldn't understand Portuguese. I understood some words and maybe a sentance here and there but other than that nothing.
I think its easier for portugese speakers to understand spanish than it is for spanish to understand portugese
Yes Italian and Spanish are closer, one of my French friends was able to understand a lot of Italian (but he studied some Latin, so it may have helped).
Being able to speak French, Italian and Spanish, I can't understand Portuguese.
Considering you started 12h ago that's a pretty good development. French canadian here.
Is French the most spoken in Canada?
Watching this man learn more French in 12 hours than I've managed in 30 years 😅
why am i watching this i already know french
me too I don't even know why a native like me is watching this but ok
moi aussi mais c'est interessant de voir combien de la langue il a appris à la fin.
@@kevinpaul6054 yeah agreed, but a lot of European languages like Spanish have similarities so it makes it slightly easier to learn i guess. but knowing spanish, english, and chinese very well is pretty impressive because all those languages r very different.
moi aussi mdr (me too lol)
Même chose pour moi Ahah ! Je suis Français! Mais j'était curieux!
Elisa can teach me anyday. 😌
I'm French and a history teacher. It's impressive how you can understand the key points in a new language in such a litlle but intensive lesson. I can say it's impressive because all the native French people can't speak or write correctly their language. To me it's important to learn our language but others too. Words are ideas, represent a vision of society, of human nature and culture and allow to shorten the distance between people. Cosmopolitism isn't a threat for whatever nation but an opportunity to better understand what it means to be an human. Peace and continue your actions, it's inspirating. ✌️✌️👍
His brain is like a sponge, he's pretty good at retaining information, that's very useful to learn new languages. Most of the stuff I learn I end up forgetting a matter of days, unless I apply exuberant amounts of repetition.
That's just not how you do it. It must be fun, you have to immerse yourself in the language, the culture and the people. If you're passionate about it, that's when you're successful. For example I sometimes watch Kdramas in Korean with English subtitles/Russian RUclips videos yet I can neither speak Korean nor Russian and can't read kyrillyc letters either. But you can search for subs/CC in your language. Find out what you're really curious about and look for information about that topic, like music (Spotify), videos (RUclips), context (Wikipedia). For epressions you're absolutely unfamiliar with try image search on Google, it will often give you a hint. Find out how those people date, if the girls would like to date foreigners, how they spoil their pets - get creative in the research. Find out how it would be to live in their county or what challenges they have when they come to yours, how binational couples fare... They're tons of videos out there and multitudes of YT channels. I encourage you: Just make the most out of it! (Remember: your parents didn't have this giant chance - internet was non-existent back then (*1964).
Also don't rely mainly on YT recommendations (click on the YT logo above left in your browser for this) but the YT search function. Type in something like "remotest place on earth" and you'll probably find something about Pitcairn (the island of the Bounty mutineers), Rapanui, Tristan da Cunha... Then follow the links to find the related videos. Watch some of them, this will make it more lively. Point is you don't wanna waste your precious time by CONSUMING pre-configured content but you wanna CHOOSE what's relevant/useful for you. Makes perfect sense, right? (Otherwise you could just watch TV...) =8(
Once you observe you dream, curse, write down your shopping list + notes and you're able to have a fluent conversation in English then you've achieved the level of street-wise proficiency you aim for. Everything goes smooth then, it's no effort any more but plain fun. It's about communication, curiosity and consciousness I'd daresay.
Btw, I'm a 56-year-old German but I've immersed myself in English ever since I first learned it in 5th grade of primary school. Unlike others i've been subscribing to English newsletters, mailing lists and forums and streamed films and online concerts. My first English books was Lord of the Rings trilogy. Granted I didn't understand that much back then (about one third of the content i guess but that added to the magick - everything I didn't understand would add to the dark, sinister mystery; what more could you wish for in a fantasy saga?) Then I would cherish Terry Brooks' Shannara series followed by Terry Pratchett's Discworld tales. I also absolutely love Yasmin Galenorn, Sarah Douglass, Juliet Marillier or Anne Bishop; just to name a few. When I can get a grip of an English book I hold onto it like a treasure; I'd never go for the German version if I can get the OV!
@@indiecarmayne so to summarise its about your passion to learn the language?
Im French, and you’re doing so well. I watch your video for 45 minutes now and can’t stop watch it 😆
Avec une prof aussi belle qu’Elisa, j’apprends toutes les langues du monde
This legend learned more French in 12 hours than I did 3 years of my school life
"Never studied French" : pronunces "Bonjour" and "Croissant" almost perfectly in 2 tries each. 🤣
Probably because everyone in America knows those words, kind of like hola and jalapeño
@@austindavid1862 Maybe, but if you don't practice with the phonology of the language, you most likely won't be able to say it properly, which he does here.
normally bonjour is pronounced like this in phonetics: bɔ̃ʒuʁ but often I will hear it prononced like this: boʒuʁ. I think ɔ̃ is much harder to pronounce than phonetic "o" because the mandible is kind of backing up from the the plane of the face and the mouth opens a bit more which is hard to do for anglophones.
Do you want to borrow my hearing aid?
it's hypnotic to look a fast learner like him, hope you'll put other video in future in which you talk French
Bonjour Xiaoma, je suis français d’origine asiatique et j’espère que tu vas réussir à apprendre le français ( je viens de commencer la vidéo)
i feel like with yannick you were really putting everything you learned and making good sentences for a conversation
I love Elisa’s voice.
We say “ciao” in Portuguese as well, but we write it a little different: tchau (:
obrigada
okay, good to know... tbh i can just know 1 language and stay in the U.S
i can literally order from Panda Express in english because they know perfect english. no need for cultural thingy.
we say Tschau in Viennese and Eastern Austria
@@pieflower6419 in Japanese "thanks" is "arigatou". That came from Portuguese "obrigada" as you can see
That word in Argentina is the same as saying good bay, and it's written chau .
Damn this one kicked your ass. Can't lie, that's a relief to see.
@Italian LOL
@Italian in mandarin though?