-Ok English, how do you want to pronounce this combination of letters: ea? -Well I was thinking of ee, like in beat -ok -or in heat -good -head -wait what? --a tear, I tear, I read, I've read -what are you doing? -heard, heart, great -stop it! -idea, caveat, ocean, real, create -ok English, you're drunk
Think of the evolution and diversification of the -ea- sound in the same way how the eis sound in Old French evolved. This evolved and changed spelling in modern French to be ais and ois. In standard Metropolitan French these are realized as [ɛ] and [wɑ], yet certain dialects have retained earlier pronunciations before ois became pronounced as [wɑ] and may say [we], [wɛ], [wɛ:], [wa:] [wɒː], or [wɔː], or even may have gone even further to give us Quebecois French [waɪ̯], [wɛɪ̯], [wei̯] through diphthongization of the long oi of Middle and Early Modern French whose distinction from short oi is extinct in Metropolitan French. Even in different French dialects what becomes [ɛ] and what becomes [wɑ] is inconsistent. Like some French speakers will pronounce droit and froid as [dʁɛ] and [fʁɛ] as examples. Unlike English, French schools for the past 150 years have worked their damnedest to uniform speech in schools (particularly in urban areas which of course have seen greater immigration from rural France with urbanization) and have weeded out the sundry of vowel variations traditionally spoken in Northern France. They have also worked to endanger and even exterminate various dialects of different languages spoken throughout France including Brezhoneg and Occitan. We've seen very similar processes be carried out in Northern Germany over the same period after German Unification while deeply conservative Southern Germany has pushed back against it and continue to clearly speak their local dialects, even though in urban areas High German has had a large influence on speech. English on the other hand has been a more voluntary situation of people standardizing speech to fit in and to associate with higher socioeconomic classes (something that German and French speakers also experienced but with greater state involvement via education to push uniformity back in the late 1800s-early 1900s). And in the Americas, as you move further west and away from the longly and diversely settled Eastern Maritimes and Seaboard, one merely sees more assimilated speech due to those regions being settled for much shorter periods of time and by people of a more unified background.
@@hoathanatos6179 accents and regional dialects or language are a different issue. This was an example of different pronounciations for the same sequence of letter in the *same* language spoken with the same accent.
Oh I DOOO know French is so confusing! Had to learn it for 13 years, thank God I hadn't known all of this back than, I just thought "this all makes sense eventually" - it doesn't.
Ok, the conjugating he did was actually pretty impressive. I used to have notebooks filled with conjugations homework because French has so many damn tenses. Lol
Yeah, we have tenses but we also have the modes (used according to the sentence's point of view), and all of them contain several tenses (2 to 8), kinda like english modals but way more complicated 😂 this is so confusing
yes you are so right! English is much easier. For exemple, when you want to put your verb in future mode, you just have to add "will" But in French is a whole new way of saying and spelling the word. And the verb "Faire" is one of the hardest one. In english it's so simple, for exemple in the present tense it is : I DO, You DO, He DOES, We DO, You DO, They DO. In french, its : Je FAIS, Tu FAIS, Il FAIT, Nous FAISONS, Vous FAITES, Ils FONT. In english the futur tense is I WILL DO, you WILL DO, he WILL DO, etc...But in french it is JE FERAI, TU FERAS, IL FERA, NOUS FERONS, VOUS FEREZ, ILS FERONT. Insane!!!
As someone trying to learn french, this is just absoultely hillarious. The fact so many words are absoulutely not spoken the way they are written or combinations of words don't always make sense, if you translate them, the make NO SENSE AT ALL This is just pure comedy perfectionist GOLD!!!!
Haha, as a fellow French learner, I can relate. But I think you'll find that French spelling is actually very consistent, especially in comparison with English. You get a feel for the logic after a while.
Naw mate, ut actually makes sense. The writing part of the language is not done for the purpose of pronouncing it (Yes I know, weird flex, but once you understand that, you get it), written French gives details that get lost in spoken French, now that you have this secret, I still wish you good luck 'cause it's hall to learn x)
I saw one guy post it in another comment, he's proud of his language, and he should be. But I've never been scared of how many ways there is to say a verb. There's so many
The scene with French determining the gender of the table is pure comedy gold. That being said it's funny that English speakers always make fun of French for being gendered like it's some sort of grammatical quirk no one else shares. You looked at basically ANY OTHER EUROPEAN LANGUAGE?
Universal Language: Alright so did everyone do their conjugating homework? The Romance Languages: Yes! *turn in entire novels* English: Uh, yeah... *turns in five pages*
When learning German I always wondered about utensils' genders. Because if I remember correctly it's: spoon -Der Löffel - masculine fork - Die Gabel - feminine knife - Das Messer - neutral. And in Polish we have: spoon - łyżka - feminine fork - widelec - masc. knife - nóż - masc. So nearly complete opposite :)
This actually makes sense. Sun gives life = Feminine Moon does nothing but just reflects the sun = Masculine Girl can be pregnant but should not be = Neutral
@@da96103 I don’t get the pregnant part. Mädchen ends on the diminutive chen. Therefore it’s neutral as everything ending on chen is neutral but as it is a diminutive it also still sounds kinda feminine and cute.
When he translates all the words that sound the same then puts them together I literally tear up with laughter. This guy is so smart and funny. I'd love to meet him, seems like one of the greatest friends to have.
@@camillehocde8195 there are? I'm German and I've never really noticed a specific rule for genders. like the sun and the moon- in most cultures, the moon is female and the sun is male, but in German it’s the opposite. (ok that was a bad example) an insect is neutral, which kind of makes sense, but a mushroom is male? idk, if you know a rule I would genuinely like to hear it
French is my first language ( I’m fluent ) and I didn’t realize how messed up the grammar was until I grew up lol. Good luck to all the non French speaker who are trying to learn it .
It actually isn't messed up, it just has a lot of rules. The gendering is a hard deal and after all those years I am still guessing a lot, but that usually doesn't make me less understandable :) The english language has a whole lot of exceptions (especially in pronunciation) so I personally found it harder to learn english (since I am old enough to use yt as much as I want my english ofc improved way more than my french).
12:35 i just love the fact how english actually took shampoo from the hindi word chiampoo which means head message with essential oils,( shampoos originated in india or more precisely chiampoos)
Just so you guys know : I'm a french native, and on a daily basis, to make sure I spell words right, I Google them. Yes I'm doing that for english and other languages I'm learning, but I do that even more often for french... So, if you're looking to learn french; don't be so hard on yourselves; even french people don't get it right 😂
I dont speak a word of French, and I struggle pronouncing nuances in any language, but now I want to learn because this French personification seems funny, silly and sweet and I want a conversation! Really though, Im impressed how easy to understand the jokes are even if you dont know the language - thats impressive writing!
He kills me 😂😂😂 French toast we say pain perdu, the bread becomes too hard after two days so we use eggs, milk and sugar and we cook it in a pan. Make sens no?? 😂
In French, it’s the losts as food leftovers. So it’s called lost bread because we used food leftovers for create “French toast”. We take the stale bread and cook it with milk and eggs... why did I juste see a piece of brioche in this vidéo ? By the way, French fries are Belgium, it’s not fair for them 🇧🇪💕
This is the most hysterical video I've watched on RUclips. At 56, I am trying to relearn French from my younger days of failing to grasp the language from when I went to grade school. Not only am I laughing to tears but now I have a real reason why I found learning French so darn hard.
The gendering of Covid is legit a way of testing who is following the official discourse. Everybody was saying Le Covid (as in Le virus), but suddenly the Académie Française made the recommendation to use La Covid (as in La maladie). Just by listening to who switched to the new gender (bombarded by mainstream media) you could tell right away if they still had independent thoughts or were just NPC drones.
@@TheZapan99 Well it seems uite logic to me. The virus is the coronavirus which is "le coronavirus" on french, while Covid means "coronavirus' disease" so it's the disease, that's why saying "la covid" (for saying "la maladie à coronavirus") seems more logical.
@@fili3907 You totally missed the point of my comment. French people organically decided that this new word was masculine, but authorities had to impose a different choice, because it allowed them to check their level of mind-control on the population. They don't understand it works both way, and people are also making lists.
@@TheZapan99 Well... The thing is that the people deciding whether a noun is masculine or feminine aren't the autorites. That's why in the past there have been conflits between the government, who wanted to change some grammar rules to be easier and more logical to be taught, and the "Académie Française" that disagreed. Turns out that the Académie Française won. Cause they are the ones in charge of grammar rules and orthograph. So... No "testing of their mind control" from our authorities. By the way I think that, for the most part, they were also saying "Le covid" before.
So, you are a French who somehow speaks English without a French accent, while simultaneously speaks his native language with an added funny accent?! I'm confused, but... Kudos!
Oh my gods, this is freaking hilarious! I don't know if being French makes a difference but I can so identify our people in this and especially the one from l'Académie française, and remember at the same time all the pointless explanation I gave to non-native speakers that I can't stop laughing, seriously crying now! Hahaaaaaa
I really think being french makes a difference 😂 I'm french and for example, masculin or feminin is something we don't think, it's natural for us to know what is the gender because we learn this since we are baby (when the gender is false it feels reaallyyyyy weird) (Sorry for mistakes, I didn't use Google 😭👉👈)
@@koyanie9022 I didn't get the google thing but for the rest, yeah I feel you. And I think that when you have to explain it, it's even more odd and that guy came up with hilarious explanation that are so reflective of the French stereotypes, yet in a very accurate way! Very good observational skills that man! 😹 And I can't tell because I'm neither a Spanish nor English native speaker, but that's very much how I pictured my native Spanish/English speaker buddies at uni 😂😂
As an avid follower of Loïc language toks. I just want to say I'm waiting for the deeper layer of this sketch to come out. When French, Spanish, and English finally ask universal how he says it. Then universal uses the Esperanto. That is truly the dream.
Languages characterization perfectly performed with comedian style that goes straight to the heart ❤️😂😍😂❤️ you made my day everyday I watched your videos 🙏🏻
This is soo cathartic for six years of French studies. It's a wonderful language in many ways, but boy it has weird logic for a nordic boy.. French as a character is a new favorite too
In dutch "cotton candy" is hella weird too 😂 We call it a "suikerspin". Suiker means sugar, and the "spin" comes from spinning (like making thread on a spinning wheel). But here's the kicker: spin is also the Dutch word for spider. 🤣 So yeah, litterally translated cotton candy could be sugarspider.
In Chinese cotton candy is “mianhua tang,” but ancient China had its own candy similar to cotton candy called “Dragon’s Beard candy,” which I always thought was a pretty cool name! Kinda similar to the French “Dad’s beard” I guess, although they are different foods. 😆
I think I will have to download Tik Tok just to see your videos! Never hit that subscribe button so fast before! Lots of love from Prague, Czech Republic!
LOL I ROFLing every time I watch these. I can't count how many times I have watched these already. I think I almost have them memorised, but I'm still not tired of it yet.
It is even better than that. "Universal language's" English is in a fairly neutral accent, but sometimes his "English language" accent is noticiably American mid-west.
2:05 Works in German too. We have three gender articles - masculine, feminine and neuter - and the catch is, just because it's an inanimate object, doesn't mean that it'll automatically be neuter. Example(s): „Das Sofa“ (“the sofa”) is neuter, while “die Couch” (“the couch”) is feminine, and “der Tisch” (“the table”) is masculine.
You're awsome man, thank you for these great videos! Maybe you could use that one : we say "filer à l'anglaise" Where I believe you say "to take a french leave" 😉
There's those huge fridges with two doors: in French, they're called "Frigo Américain", and in English: "French door/style refrigerator". It's almost like these are so indecently huge that nobody wants to claim the invention 😹
@@thafff Could we also talk about the "toilettes turques" ? And the food "un grec"... I know that Turkish and Greek people use another word for both, that's terrible x)
@@akitokutikabanae7010 AFAIK, "un grec" is a Parisian regionalism. The rest of France calls it "un kébab", except in Alsace & Lorraine, where they call it "un dönner", most probably because of their proximity to Germany. IIRC, "un grec" comes from the recipe being historically introduced in Paris by a Greek restaurant, in the Quartier Latin. About the "Toilettes à la Turque", it's call like this, but I have no idea of why.
@@thafff Damn, as i dont even eat this, i didnt even remembered that all of theses were the same. But I was pretty sure that the toilett thing had other names in other countries !
Man, I come back to watch your videos everyday! They are inspiring, funny, amusing and intelligent. I LOVE the French character. Please make more videos with this French character! I love it, I love him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
U cant imagine how hard it to study from kindergarten all the way high school in my native language then moving to study in french at college and especially their medical terms , oh mon dieu
Je pensais de faire ça. J'apprenais le français il y a un an et demi maintenant. Mais je ne peux pas imaginer d'étudier l'agriculture (je voudrais étudier l'agriculture) en français !!!!
@@lyopdalyop2831 why not? you are good at it, you just need to be more confident in your capacity ^^ You wrote a prefectly understandable sentence using some harder construction than what is commonly used by non-French speakers. Here is the correct version: Je pensais faire ça. (Never put "de" or "d' " or "du" between two verbs) J'apprend le français depuis un an et demi maintenant. (If you are familiar with english, in english you would use "present perfect", something which began into the past and has continued till now and will continue in the futur, in french you just use present) Mais je ne peux pas imaginer étudier l'agriculture (je voudrais étudier l'agriculture) en français ! (Same mistake that the first with "d' " this time) See? That was very good, the mistakes are easily overlooked by a french speaker, you use the "conditionnel" like a champ, and you are willing to progress. Mate, if you have a hobby or something you find interesting in french then you'll learn it in no time!
@@mickaelsiveret1091 the Terms are easy what bothers me is that i often dont understand the questions which leads me to get wrong answers especially with the way french language is and the way the teacher construct the question and the trap questions too , which made me stuck at average marks like 50% to 65% Thanks for passing by
@@diogodavid3557 Yep, put harder on it. There are some things that make much more sense in Spanish and that we could apply in Portuguese, but NAH, why easy things when you can make them worse?
You just couldn't pronounce your letters, Right? It's as if a french looked at Spanish and said: no, no, no, no, no, no, that's too easy. Let's just blur everything a little bit.
@@alejandroojeda1572 "You just couldn't pronounce your letters, Right?" Well, yes and no, the Brazilian portuguese pronounce all the letters, but the European portuguese don't pronounce the letters. So depending of the variant the portuguese can be completely different.
But English is a pastural/peasant language. It’s not meant to be sophisticated. It’s meant so that anyone can use it to communicate effectively. French prides itself as a cultured, sophisticated, romantic language. But in reality it’s a vulgar, convoluted mess.
La langue française est compliqué mais elle a évolué avec l’histoire... Et encore l’ancien français c’est autre chose... En tout cas c’était très drôle merci !😂
Dude is brilliant! I had to find (I'm hoping) his channel here, instead of watching his content on other peoples' "compilation" videos. I want him to get the metrics instead of someone basically copy/pasting his work. Because, I'm not downloading TikTok, *another* app that records *more* of my personal data. As I get older-ish, I feel more and more squicked out about it all.
He's literally wearing the same clothes in all of these but his acting is so good that it looks like different people.
Exactly, it really feels like a different person.
The t-shirt change depending on the langage wich help the transitions. But I agree, the acting is on point !
His cartoon logo is in the same clothes too! 😄
Exactly
Yessss
.... "caoutchouc" ... a final silent "c" ... for symmetry ... i died 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Caoutchouc...
C ... 1, 2, 3, 4 T 1,2,3,4 C
Yup it’s symmetrical
Why ? 🤷
Caoutchouteux has the same root and the final c is gone xD
@@ColonelLucario but but but.... CaouTchouC is NOT C 1234 T 1234 C, it's C 123 T 1234 C
@@jlammetje crêpe you are right
I was been fooled
@@ColonelLucario crêpe 😂
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-Ok English, how do you want to pronounce this combination of letters: ea?
-Well I was thinking of ee, like in beat
-ok
-or in heat
-good
-head
-wait what?
--a tear, I tear, I read, I've read
-what are you doing?
-heard, heart, great
-stop it!
-idea, caveat, ocean, real, create
-ok English, you're drunk
I need to copy-past this somewhere
@@hirencorn2313 i sent it to all my friends, so I can mock them😂😂😂
Think of the evolution and diversification of the -ea- sound in the same way how the eis sound in Old French evolved. This evolved and changed spelling in modern French to be ais and ois. In standard Metropolitan French these are realized as [ɛ] and [wɑ], yet certain dialects have retained earlier pronunciations before ois became pronounced as [wɑ] and may say [we], [wɛ], [wɛ:], [wa:] [wɒː], or [wɔː], or even may have gone even further to give us Quebecois French [waɪ̯], [wɛɪ̯], [wei̯] through diphthongization of the long oi of Middle and Early Modern French whose distinction from short oi is extinct in Metropolitan French. Even in different French dialects what becomes [ɛ] and what becomes [wɑ] is inconsistent. Like some French speakers will pronounce droit and froid as [dʁɛ] and [fʁɛ] as examples.
Unlike English, French schools for the past 150 years have worked their damnedest to uniform speech in schools (particularly in urban areas which of course have seen greater immigration from rural France with urbanization) and have weeded out the sundry of vowel variations traditionally spoken in Northern France. They have also worked to endanger and even exterminate various dialects of different languages spoken throughout France including Brezhoneg and Occitan.
We've seen very similar processes be carried out in Northern Germany over the same period after German Unification while deeply conservative Southern Germany has pushed back against it and continue to clearly speak their local dialects, even though in urban areas High German has had a large influence on speech.
English on the other hand has been a more voluntary situation of people standardizing speech to fit in and to associate with higher socioeconomic classes (something that German and French speakers also experienced but with greater state involvement via education to push uniformity back in the late 1800s-early 1900s). And in the Americas, as you move further west and away from the longly and diversely settled Eastern Maritimes and Seaboard, one merely sees more assimilated speech due to those regions being settled for much shorter periods of time and by people of a more unified background.
Oh man, wait till you hear about what English did with "gh". Or "ou".
@@hoathanatos6179 accents and regional dialects or language are a different issue. This was an example of different pronounciations for the same sequence of letter in the *same* language spoken with the same accent.
Describe the French language in one meme: "He a little confused but he got the spirit."
IndianWargamer.
Of course te has The Spirit.
French language is rich........like The tailor.
@@ac8907 Mostly only French people will get that joke, since it's from a english teaching book that only french people used xD
P. Miniggio.
Oui et ?
@@ac8907 I don't know this reference but I still agree. Vive la France.
Lol
Being French I had no idea my language could be so confusing. This is hilarious, thanks for the laugh.
Ofccc it is 😩😂 as a persian who speaks 4 languages fluently and learning spanish i still didn’t finish french😐😂coz its so difficult and confusing
Oh I DOOO know French is so confusing! Had to learn it for 13 years, thank God I hadn't known all of this back than, I just thought "this all makes sense eventually" - it doesn't.
Wait till you find out what cotton candy is called in Hindi 😂😂😂😂
In Hindi -> "Budhiya k Baal"
literal translation-> "Old lady's hair"
I was searching for this comment😂😂 I thought exactly the same
well that makes even more sense. But, yeah, not appetizing.
That makes since!
lol
another comment is the same, except they said in Indonesia they call it "granny's hair"
That actually makes so much more sense!
3:29 I would be that student to put “chiotte” in my essay thinking it was the feminine of “chiot”
Ah yes, I've adopted a t o i l e t
Ahh yes, my dog gave birth to 5 toilets
@@Wren796 chiotte means poop, chiottes with an s means toilet, both of them is an extremely familiar way
@@Jay_D_Ashe doesn't make it better lol
@@Jay_D_Ashe errr... I have never heard "chiotte" used as poop.
Daddy's beard lol..
Btw in Indonesian, one name for cotton candy is "granny's hair"
Yeah weirdo language buddy!! - some French person
In Arabic(in Iraq) we call it "girls hair" cuz it's sweet like girls...I guess
I'll tickle your fancy, in Dutch it's called 'sugar spider'
@@pancakeeating4969 the best by far! 😍
Since it became an Islamic republic long face hair started to grow all around in Indonesia.
French looks so innocent and enthusiastic. i understand why everyone wants to be his friend :)
SilpheedTandy.
Heu...
Tell us what is your nationality, just for fun.....
as a belgian guy, you lie, YOU LIIII-
Ummm, actually no, not at all
(If you mean the language itself)
French: *I miss my Papa!*
*runs past picture of French empire
Ok, the conjugating he did was actually pretty impressive. I used to have notebooks filled with conjugations homework because French has so many damn tenses. Lol
Yeah, we have tenses but we also have the modes (used according to the sentence's point of view), and all of them contain several tenses (2 to 8), kinda like english modals but way more complicated 😂 this is so confusing
The worst part is the groups and the exceptions like that shit never really got into my head
yes you are so right! English is much easier. For exemple, when you want to put your verb in future mode, you just have to add "will" But in French is a whole new way of saying and spelling the word. And the verb "Faire" is one of the hardest one. In english it's so simple, for exemple in the present tense it is : I DO, You DO, He DOES, We DO, You DO, They DO. In french, its : Je FAIS, Tu FAIS, Il FAIT, Nous FAISONS, Vous FAITES, Ils FONT. In english the futur tense is I WILL DO, you WILL DO, he WILL DO, etc...But in french it is JE FERAI, TU FERAS, IL FERA, NOUS FERONS, VOUS FEREZ, ILS FERONT. Insane!!!
As a french i've never laugh so much xDDD this is really good
damn, i didnt know french people laughed!! lol JK
@@sourabhsmarty of course they laugh. They just go "hoi hoi hoi hoi mais oui madame hoi hoi hoi!"
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@@NotSocuriousGeorge-uq5im what are you trying to prove?
@Renee McPhail I had a seizure reading this
As someone trying to learn french, this is just absoultely hillarious. The fact so many words are absoulutely not spoken the way they are written or combinations of words don't always make sense, if you translate them, the make NO SENSE AT ALL
This is just pure comedy perfectionist GOLD!!!!
To be fair you could say the same about english, at least we can have fun learning your language too 😜
French easy to read hard to write. easy to speak hard to understand.
Haha, as a fellow French learner, I can relate. But I think you'll find that French spelling is actually very consistent, especially in comparison with English. You get a feel for the logic after a while.
Naw mate, ut actually makes sense. The writing part of the language is not done for the purpose of pronouncing it (Yes I know, weird flex, but once you understand that, you get it), written French gives details that get lost in spoken French, now that you have this secret, I still wish you good luck 'cause it's hall to learn x)
@@lilmrmagoo Not that hard to read or write, I think its easier to understand than it is to speak. ;)
That wasn't all AT ALL for the verb "faire", he didn't even do half of all the forms
Well you know either stories or Tik Tok post have a limited time.
Seriously 🤷♀️😆
I saw one guy post it in another comment, he's proud of his language, and he should be. But I've never been scared of how many ways there is to say a verb. There's so many
The most of French people don't know the half of the forms.
@@diopshonen because it's dumb
OMG Loic needs a TV show where he plays all the universal characters experiencing a new country/food and culture !
I love how Spanish misinterpreted "rubber" lmaoooo and the accent, the pronunciations....top tier perfection
The scene with French determining the gender of the table is pure comedy gold.
That being said it's funny that English speakers always make fun of French for being gendered like it's some sort of grammatical quirk no one else shares. You looked at basically ANY OTHER EUROPEAN LANGUAGE?
German...der, die, das
Laughs in Finnish
same with Arabic
@@keiths2902 haha ok this one’s different I admit
European? Look at hindi bruh
Universal Language: Alright so did everyone do their conjugating homework?
The Romance Languages: Yes! *turn in entire novels*
English: Uh, yeah... *turns in five pages*
Papiamentu: Looks down at his postcard
ASL: well f-
Hindi: *hands over sheet of paper*
This is a well known joke about the Finnish language. Finnish has 15 noun cases (English only has 3), meaning each noun can have over 2000 forms.
English: A dog.
Swedish: What?
English: The dog.
English: Two dogs.
Swedish: Okay. We have: En hund, hunden, Två hundar, hundarna.
German: Wait, I wan’t to try it too!
English: No, go away.
Swedish: No one invited you.
German: Der Hund.
English: I said go away.
German: Ein Hund, zwei Hunde.
Swedish: Stop it!
German: Den Hund, einen Hund, dem Hund, einem Hund, des Hundes, eines Hundes, den Hunden, der Hunden.
Finnish: Sup.
English: NO.
Swedish: NO.
German: NO. Finn, you go away!!
Finnish: Koira, koiran, koiraa, koiran again, koirassa, koirasta, koiraan, koiralla, koiralta, koiralle, koirana, koiraksi, koiratta, koirineen, koirin.
German: WHAT?
Swedish: You must be kidding us!
English: This must be a joke…
Finnish: Aaaand… koirasi, koirani, koiransa, koiramme, koiranne, koiraani, koiraasi, koiraansa, koiraamme, koiraanne, koirassani, koirassasi, koirassansa, koirassamme, koirassanne, koirastani, koirastasi, koirastansa, koirastamme, koirastanne, koirallani, koirallasi, koirallansa, koirallamme, koirallanne, koiranani, koiranasi, koiranansa, koiranamme, koirananne, koirakseni, koiraksesi, koiraksensa, koiraksemme, koiraksenne, koirattani, koirattasi, koirattansa, koirattamme, koirattanne, koirineni, koirinesi, koirinensa, koirinemme, koirinenne.
English: Those are words for a dog???
Finnish: Wait! I didn’t stop yet. There is still: koirakaan, koirankaan, koiraakaan, koirassakaan, koirastakaan, koiraankaan, koirallakaan, koiraltakaan, koirallekaan, koiranakaan, koiraksikaan, koirattakaan, koirineenkaan, koirinkaan, koirako, koiranko, koiraako, koirassako, koirastako, koiraanko, koirallako, koiraltako, koiralleko, koiranako, koiraksiko, koirattako, koirineenko, koirinko, koirasikaan, koiranikaan, koiransakaan, koirammekaan, koirannekaan, koiraanikaan, koiraasikaan, koiraansakaan, koiraammekaan, koiraannekaan, koirassanikaan, koirassasikaan, koirassansakaan, koirassammekaan, koirassannekaan, koirastanikaan, koirastasikaan, koirastansakaan, koirastammekaan, koirastannekaan, koirallanikaan, koirallasikaan, koirallansakaan, koirallammekaan, koirallannekaan, koirananikaan, koiranasikaan, koiranansakaan, koiranammekaan, koiranannekaan, koiraksenikaan, koiraksesikaan, koiraksensakaan, koiraksemmekaan, koiraksennekaan, koirattanikaan, koirattasikaan, koirattansakaan, koirattammekaan, koirattannekaan, koirinenikaan, koirinesikaan, koirinensakaan, koirinemmekaan, koirinennekaan, koirasiko, koiraniko, koiransako, koirammeko, koiranneko, koiraaniko, koiraasiko, koiraansako, koiraammeko, koiraanneko, koirassaniko, koirassasiko, koirassansako, koirassammeko, koirassanneko, koirastaniko, koirastasiko, koirastansako, koirastammeko, koirastanneko, koirallaniko, koirallasiko, koirallansako, koirallammeko, koirallanneko, koirananiko, koiranasiko, koiranansako, koiranammeko, koirananneko, koirakseniko, koiraksesiko, koiraksensako, koiraksemmeko, koiraksenneko, koirattaniko, koirattasiko, koirattansako, koirattammeko, koirattanneko, koirineniko, koirinesiko, koirinensako, koirinemmeko, koirinenneko, koirasikaanko, koiranikaanko, koiransakaanko, koirammekaanko, koirannekaanko, koiraanikaanko, koiraasikaanko, koiraansakaanko, koiraammekaanko, koiraannekaanko, koirassanikaanko, koirassasikaanko, koirassansakaanko, koirassammekaanko, koirassannekaanko, koirastanikaanko, koirastasikaanko, koirastansakaanko, koirastammekaanko, koirastannekaanko, koirallanikaanko, koirallasikaanko, koirallansakaanko, koirallammekaanko, koirallannekaanko, koirananikaanko, koiranasikaanko, koiranansakaanko, koiranammekaanko, koiranannekaanko, koiraksenikaanko, koiraksesikaanko, koiraksensakaanko, koiraksemmekaanko, koiraksennekaanko, koirattanikaanko, koirattasikaanko, koirattansakaanko, koirattammekaanko, koirattannekaanko, koirinenikaanko, koirinesikaanko, koirinensakaanko, koirinemmekaanko, koirinennekaanko, koirasikokaan, koiranikokaan, koiransakokaan, koirammekokaan, koirannekokaan, koiraanikokaan, koiraasikokaan, koiraansakokaan, koiraammekokaan, koiraannekokaan, koirassanikokaan, koirassasikokaan, koirassansakokaan, koirassammekokaan, koirassannekokaan, koirastanikokaan, koirastasikokaan, koirastansakokaan, koirastammekokaan, koirastannekokaan, koirallanikokaan, koirallasikokaan, koirallansakokaan, koirallammekokaan, koirallannekokaan, koirananikokaan, koiranasikokaan, koiranansakokaan, koiranammekokaan, koiranannekokaan, koiraksenikokaan, koiraksesikokaan, koiraksensakokaan, koiraksemmekokaan, koiraksennekokaan, koirattanikokaan, koirattasikokaan, koirattansakokaan, koirattammekokaan, koirattannekokaan, koirinenikokaan, koirinesikokaan, koirinensakokaan, koirinemmekokaan, koirinennekokaan.
Swedish: Breath!!
German: Whattaaa?
English: Okay, now you’re just making things up!
Finnish: And now the plural forms…..
English: WHAT?!?!
@@-Anjel this can’t be real 😂😂😂 how thick are their dictionaries???
Meanwhile in German:
Sonne (Sun) -> Feminine
Mund (Moon) -> Masculine
Mädchen (Girl) -> Neutral
Warte so "Halt Mund" mean "Hold Moon"?
mund means mouth, Mond is moon
When learning German I always wondered about utensils' genders. Because if I remember correctly it's: spoon -Der Löffel - masculine
fork - Die Gabel - feminine
knife - Das Messer - neutral.
And in Polish we have:
spoon - łyżka - feminine
fork - widelec - masc.
knife - nóż - masc.
So nearly complete opposite :)
This actually makes sense.
Sun gives life = Feminine
Moon does nothing but just reflects the sun = Masculine
Girl can be pregnant but should not be = Neutral
@@da96103 I don’t get the pregnant part. Mädchen ends on the diminutive chen. Therefore it’s neutral as everything ending on chen is neutral but as it is a diminutive it also still sounds kinda feminine and cute.
French is my favorite!!! LOL. He's like the lovable sneaky child of the group who doesn't mean to be sneaky
When he translates all the words that sound the same then puts them together I literally tear up with laughter. This guy is so smart and funny. I'd love to meet him, seems like one of the greatest friends to have.
About gender, french isn't an exception, most of the languages uses gender. English is an exception !!
thank you
though honestly, it does not make much sense to assign inanimate objects a gender
edit: guys, I get it, please don’t reply to me anymore
Yeah but for example in German they don't put genders to words randomly, there's rules
@@camillehocde8195 there are? I'm German and I've never really noticed a specific rule for genders. like the sun and the moon- in most cultures, the moon is female and the sun is male, but in German it’s the opposite.
(ok that was a bad example) an insect is neutral, which kind of makes sense, but a mushroom is male? idk, if you know a rule I would genuinely like to hear it
@@camillehocde8195 ein mann, eine frau, ein mädchen... Wait what
He’s so talented give this man an Oscar!
He's already an actor
@@arn3107 You mean he's on the way? Because not even 0.1% of actors have an Oscar.
@@AtotehZ that might be true but i was just saying he's an actor
French is my first language ( I’m fluent ) and I didn’t realize how messed up the grammar was until I grew up lol. Good luck to all the non French speaker who are trying to learn it .
I am dying . While learning 😂😂😂
@@shreyosheeislam4093 good luck
@@shreyosheeislam4093 you can ask me some question in French if you want I may be able to help you
It actually isn't messed up, it just has a lot of rules. The gendering is a hard deal and after all those years I am still guessing a lot, but that usually doesn't make me less understandable :) The english language has a whole lot of exceptions (especially in pronunciation) so I personally found it harder to learn english (since I am old enough to use yt as much as I want my english ofc improved way more than my french).
Nope.
A very wise person once stated that the French only added so many silent vowels to their words to make sure they always win at scrabble.
you can't use two different languages in one scrabble game though
12:35 i just love the fact how english actually took shampoo from the hindi word chiampoo which means head message with essential oils,( shampoos originated in india or more precisely chiampoos)
" le vagin ressemble à un petit bonhomme avec une moustache , ahahah monsieur vagin "mdrr ça m'a tué
j'ai jamais rien entendu d'aussi cursed que "monsieur vagin" avec sa vieille tête de psychopathe en plus jpp xd
Voilà quelqu’un qui assume de parler français
But why is a beard, a moustache feminine? 😂
@@kimalida because its end with a "e"
🤣🤣🤣 moi aussi
Just so you guys know : I'm a french native, and on a daily basis, to make sure I spell words right, I Google them.
Yes I'm doing that for english and other languages I'm learning, but I do that even more often for french...
So, if you're looking to learn french; don't be so hard on yourselves; even french people don't get it right 😂
I dont speak a word of French, and I struggle pronouncing nuances in any language, but now I want to learn because this French personification seems funny, silly and sweet and I want a conversation!
Really though, Im impressed how easy to understand the jokes are even if you dont know the language - thats impressive writing!
I'm trilingual (spanish/french/english) and I laughed so much!!!!!!
much *
I'm bilingual (spanish and english) and learning french, and yeah, it was pretty funny.
Same here trilingual and this is pure gold
The etimology of French Toast HAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😂😂😂😂
He kills me 😂😂😂
French toast we say pain perdu, the bread becomes too hard after two days so we use eggs, milk and sugar and we cook it in a pan. Make sens no?? 😂
In French, it’s the losts as food leftovers. So it’s called lost bread because we used food leftovers for create “French toast”. We take the stale bread and cook it with milk and eggs... why did I juste see a piece of brioche in this vidéo ?
By the way, French fries are Belgium, it’s not fair for them 🇧🇪💕
I'm French and i am very ubset by la vidéo. Yes vidéo is a girl that makes sense
@@Link-vk8nv frenche fries are not from belgium they are from flanders france and belgium🤝
in Québec, French Toast is « pain doré » and bread pudding is « pain perdu » :o
This is the most hysterical video I've watched on RUclips. At 56, I am trying to relearn French from my younger days of failing to grasp the language from when I went to grade school. Not only am I laughing to tears but now I have a real reason why I found learning French so darn hard.
I just discovered your channel and as a polyglot I absolutely love it, I could spend all my day watching those videos. Keep it going💗
07:50 the french toast was so original!! 10/10
I agree
- Ok, English, how do you pronounce "u"?
- Use, cup, turn, juice, true, pure, queen, put, bury, four!
This happens with most languages, where a combination of u with another letter will make a different sound lmao
@@CaoNiMaBi Eh. . . not necessarily this much variable, I think, though.
@@wahrebeobachter
Well they *are* just as bad as English in this matter.
@@CaoNiMaBi il a insulté ton daron ou quoi
@@CaoNiMaBi désolé de t'avoir offensé mon reuf
a man with a little mustache?! LMFAO so good
I lost it at that I am laughing uncontrollably at work! 😂
MONSIEUR VAGIN
Funny enough mustache is a feminine word
I was laughing my head of the whole time😂😂. My dad is a French teacher and his reaction was hilarious😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Please never stop making videos! Your creativity and humour is undeniably the best I've ever encountered! :)
So... le covid, or la covid ? xD The table sketch just happened for real
La... I think 🤔 I have heard both so I am not sure.
The gendering of Covid is legit a way of testing who is following the official discourse.
Everybody was saying Le Covid (as in Le virus), but suddenly the Académie Française made the recommendation to use La Covid (as in La maladie).
Just by listening to who switched to the new gender (bombarded by mainstream media) you could tell right away if they still had independent thoughts or were just NPC drones.
@@TheZapan99 Well it seems uite logic to me. The virus is the coronavirus which is "le coronavirus" on french, while Covid means "coronavirus' disease" so it's the disease, that's why saying "la covid" (for saying "la maladie à coronavirus") seems more logical.
@@fili3907 You totally missed the point of my comment. French people organically decided that this new word was masculine, but authorities had to impose a different choice, because it allowed them to check their level of mind-control on the population. They don't understand it works both way, and people are also making lists.
@@TheZapan99 Well... The thing is that the people deciding whether a noun is masculine or feminine aren't the autorites. That's why in the past there have been conflits between the government, who wanted to change some grammar rules to be easier and more logical to be taught, and the "Académie Française" that disagreed. Turns out that the Académie Française won. Cause they are the ones in charge of grammar rules and orthograph.
So... No "testing of their mind control" from our authorities.
By the way I think that, for the most part, they were also saying "Le covid" before.
Daddy's beard lol. Well it's makes sense even in Arabic one of the names of cotton candy is * girl's hair *
"Lost Bread"
That had me hysterically laughing for 2 minutes
So, you are a French who somehow speaks English without a French accent, while simultaneously speaks his native language with an added funny accent?! I'm confused, but... Kudos!
I’m fairly sure he’s an American
Maybe he's simply binational. One parent French, one parent English or American?
@@cestmoiletuncay7157 His mom is French and he lived in Mexico before settling in the United States.
Maybe he is Canadian, Where both English And French are official languages.....
@@Limmosee Then what about his Spanish chracter?
These are the best 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 literally THE funniest 💯
Oh my gods, this is freaking hilarious! I don't know if being French makes a difference but I can so identify our people in this and especially the one from l'Académie française, and remember at the same time all the pointless explanation I gave to non-native speakers that I can't stop laughing, seriously crying now! Hahaaaaaa
I really think being french makes a difference 😂 I'm french and for example, masculin or feminin is something we don't think, it's natural for us to know what is the gender because we learn this since we are baby (when the gender is false it feels reaallyyyyy weird)
(Sorry for mistakes, I didn't use Google 😭👉👈)
@@koyanie9022 I didn't get the google thing but for the rest, yeah I feel you. And I think that when you have to explain it, it's even more odd and that guy came up with hilarious explanation that are so reflective of the French stereotypes, yet in a very accurate way! Very good observational skills that man! 😹
And I can't tell because I'm neither a Spanish nor English native speaker, but that's very much how I pictured my native Spanish/English speaker buddies at uni 😂😂
HAHAHAHAHA!
so funny your acting & accent is ammmaaazing!
thumbs up!
I would love to see him actually try to create a universal language. I'd try to learn it.
As an avid follower of Loïc language toks. I just want to say I'm waiting for the deeper layer of this sketch to come out. When French, Spanish, and English finally ask universal how he says it. Then universal uses the Esperanto. That is truly the dream.
Languages characterization perfectly performed with comedian style that goes straight to the heart ❤️😂😍😂❤️ you made my day everyday I watched your videos 🙏🏻
You make being polyglot a whole lot more interesting than I thought it would
This is soo cathartic for six years of French studies. It's a wonderful language in many ways, but boy it has weird logic for a nordic boy..
French as a character is a new favorite too
😂😂 and now i understand why French it's so difficult to learn (and i am French), it doesn't make sense 😂
No
It really doesn't 😅
Cries in exams
Yeah, I really like the verb "Biffler" 😂
Mélodie Travel.
Soyez fière de votre langue.
Le francais est une langue infiniment artistique......et riche.
7:58 - its French's toast 🤣🤣🤣
EGOT fer sure. The direction and editing are extraordinarily. 😄👍👏
French is my first language and this had me tearing up lmao
Hi moomo 🤭
In dutch "cotton candy" is hella weird too 😂 We call it a "suikerspin". Suiker means sugar, and the "spin" comes from spinning (like making thread on a spinning wheel). But here's the kicker: spin is also the Dutch word for spider. 🤣 So yeah, litterally translated cotton candy could be sugarspider.
In off-brand dutch, aka afrikaans, it’s called “spook asem”, which can be translated to “ghost breath”.
But that is what a spider does: weaving webs 🕸
There are so many weird literal translations from Dutch to English, it's not okay.
In Hindi we call it "Budhiya ke Baal" which translates to "Old woman's hair".
As a Spanish speaker and someone who loves languages in general, I love your channel. Keep it up. ✨
Found this channel somehow, and now I'm addicted. But I really wish you have more asian languages too. Anyhow, awesome work and great talent!
Is it bad that I’m actually learning more French from this than my French class
Cotton candy is an American term as i found when i moved there but us Aussies call it fairy floss
Here we call it "old lady's hair"
Μαλλί της γριάς
in french we call it "dad's beard" ! *barbe à papa* :)
In Chinese cotton candy is “mianhua tang,” but ancient China had its own candy similar to cotton candy called “Dragon’s Beard candy,” which I always thought was a pretty cool name! Kinda similar to the French “Dad’s beard” I guess, although they are different foods. 😆
In Britain it's candy floss, I looked it up on Wikipedia and fairy floss is the original name, invented by a dentist!
in spanish we call it cotton sugar
im learning more multilingual words from him than 10 years in school
Your sense of humor is amazing. I love it. The French kiss bit is hilarious 😂
Most amazing, creative and hilarious way of being a multi-linguist 🤩🤣👍🏻
I'm so lucky to speak English French and Spanish so I can understand his videos
You know I’m kinda thankful that my schools taught us english instead of what I’ve heard my friends learn if its this complicated
Here in India people(at least kids do in hindi) call cotton candy "buddhi ke Baal" which means old woman's hair. XD
Haan par bade log kya kehete hai
It's the hindi version..in malayalam it's simply the translation of cotton candy - "panji mittayi"
@@vandana8142 yes true it's only the Hindi version.
😹
Telegu (and other Indian languages): maybe I just don't exist
You're extremely good, loved the skits. I was laughing my ass off at the word for rubber. Spanish and French men are so on point. Keep them coming
I love this man. ❤️ He has made it very clear to me how much of an addictive personality I have.
I think I will have to download Tik Tok just to see your videos! Never hit that subscribe button so fast before! Lots of love from Prague, Czech Republic!
You are by far the best and the funniest!!!
I absolutely love Loic
There is no one like him
I totally adore him look up to him
He is my inspiration
Excellent !!! Les français sont compliqués n'est-il pas ? 🤣 Et merci pour les rappels de cours d'espagnol 😁
Wait till you hear about all the ways you can conjugate verbs in Polish
How many do you have? We have 10. At least we're more regular than french...
@C. C. Wow, we only have 3 "modes". Btw, we also have 7 compound times. I forgot about them. So we're at 17
French: dad let me eat your beard it's so delicious
Universal language: french are you good?
I laughed so hard at that part
6:29
C'est super d'avoir une compilation !! 🙌🙌🙌
LOL I ROFLing every time I watch these. I can't count how many times I have watched these already. I think I almost have them memorised, but I'm still not tired of it yet.
Can we have a moment of appreciation for this guys mastering of languages. Afaik he is french but his english is without any accent. Great actor too
It is even better than that. "Universal language's" English is in a fairly neutral accent, but sometimes his "English language" accent is noticiably American mid-west.
We need a sound bite of Loic just screaming "NO MORE COWS!" 🐮🐮🐮
I always liked the Afrikaans word for cotton candy, "spookasem", which means ghost's breathe
Apart from his contents are absolutely hilarious, who else agrees that he is a tremendous actor, literally.
You are the BEST! 😂❤️
0:32
French: fre freh frv fruh
The French Narrator from Spongebob : 10 hours later
Best part is the yellow claire-fontaine notebook. Really adds character to Universal Languages lol
The one of the reasons that made Sh*tTok watchable....Thank you Loic.
6:23 in arabic its شعر بنات (girls hair)🙂
2:05 Works in German too. We have three gender articles - masculine, feminine and neuter - and the catch is, just because it's an inanimate object, doesn't mean that it'll automatically be neuter.
Example(s):
„Das Sofa“ (“the sofa”) is neuter, while “die Couch” (“the couch”) is feminine, and “der Tisch” (“the table”) is masculine.
Hindi too determine gender of inanimate objects
Yeah im trying to learn german AND THIS SHIT IS SO CONFUSING- we do it in my language to, but thb it makes it even harder
Somehow I always end up doing my French homework while watching your tik toks
You make my day, as a fellow polyglot I've noticed all these things as well, which confuses me.
Well, this made my entire day. And possibly also the week.
You're awsome man, thank you for these great videos!
Maybe you could use that one : we say "filer à l'anglaise" Where I believe you say "to take a french leave" 😉
There's those huge fridges with two doors: in French, they're called "Frigo Américain", and in English: "French door/style refrigerator". It's almost like these are so indecently huge that nobody wants to claim the invention 😹
@@thafff Could we also talk about the "toilettes turques" ? And the food "un grec"... I know that Turkish and Greek people use another word for both, that's terrible x)
@@akitokutikabanae7010 AFAIK, "un grec" is a Parisian regionalism. The rest of France calls it "un kébab", except in Alsace & Lorraine, where they call it "un dönner", most probably because of their proximity to Germany. IIRC, "un grec" comes from the recipe being historically introduced in Paris by a Greek restaurant, in the Quartier Latin.
About the "Toilettes à la Turque", it's call like this, but I have no idea of why.
@@thafff Damn, as i dont even eat this, i didnt even remembered that all of theses were the same. But I was pretty sure that the toilett thing had other names in other countries !
You take "learning is fun" to a whole new level, no universe.
Man, I come back to watch your videos everyday! They are inspiring, funny, amusing and intelligent. I LOVE the French character. Please make more videos with this French character! I love it, I love him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
U cant imagine how hard it to study from kindergarten all the way high school in my native language then moving to study in french at college and especially their medical terms , oh mon dieu
Isn't medical stuff everywhere kinda the same?
Je pensais de faire ça. J'apprenais le français il y a un an et demi maintenant. Mais je ne peux pas imaginer d'étudier l'agriculture (je voudrais étudier l'agriculture) en français !!!!
@@lyopdalyop2831 why not? you are good at it, you just need to be more confident in your capacity ^^
You wrote a prefectly understandable sentence using some harder construction than what is commonly used by non-French speakers.
Here is the correct version:
Je pensais faire ça. (Never put "de" or "d' " or "du" between two verbs)
J'apprend le français depuis un an et demi maintenant. (If you are familiar with english, in english you would use "present perfect", something which began into the past and has continued till now and will continue in the futur, in french you just use present)
Mais je ne peux pas imaginer étudier l'agriculture (je voudrais étudier l'agriculture) en français ! (Same mistake that the first with "d' " this time)
See? That was very good, the mistakes are easily overlooked by a french speaker, you use the "conditionnel" like a champ, and you are willing to progress.
Mate, if you have a hobby or something you find interesting in french then you'll learn it in no time!
@@mickaelsiveret1091 Thank you💖🤍💖
@@mickaelsiveret1091 the Terms are easy what bothers me is that i often dont understand the questions which leads me to get wrong answers especially with the way french language is and the way the teacher construct the question and the trap questions too , which made me stuck at average marks like 50% to 65%
Thanks for passing by
My teacher - Why are you laughing
Me - Nothing
My brain - (Insert this video here)
8:23 Oh my god, I actually had to stop the video at 8:29 from laughter, LMFAO.
Wait until they find about Portuguese...
Portuguese is just harder spanish
@@diogodavid3557 Yep, put harder on it. There are some things that make much more sense in Spanish and that we could apply in Portuguese, but NAH, why easy things when you can make them worse?
You just couldn't pronounce your letters, Right? It's as if a french looked at Spanish and said: no, no, no, no, no, no, that's too easy. Let's just blur everything a little bit.
@@alejandroojeda1572 "You just couldn't pronounce your letters, Right?" Well, yes and no, the Brazilian portuguese pronounce all the letters, but the European portuguese don't pronounce the letters. So depending of the variant the portuguese can be completely different.
@@emonlevircni4617 the only letters that european portuguese doesnt pronounce are H, some E and some I.
Okay but like i kinda wanna see a reverse of these tiktoks. Like french thinking english dont make sense lmao
But English is a pastural/peasant language. It’s not meant to be sophisticated. It’s meant so that anyone can use it to communicate effectively.
French prides itself as a cultured, sophisticated, romantic language. But in reality it’s a vulgar, convoluted mess.
@@TheChristianNomad example biffler
He did one, where French says English doesn't make sense
ruclips.net/video/S1ja7apgzQI/видео.html
@@otterflipsnorock yes i already saw it the other day and its gold lmao🤣
La langue française est compliqué mais elle a évolué avec l’histoire... Et encore l’ancien français c’est autre chose... En tout cas c’était très drôle merci !😂
Dude is brilliant! I had to find (I'm hoping) his channel here, instead of watching his content on other peoples' "compilation" videos. I want him to get the metrics instead of someone basically copy/pasting his work. Because, I'm not downloading TikTok, *another* app that records *more* of my personal data. As I get older-ish, I feel more and more squicked out about it all.
the lost bread/ french toast scenario is actually genius.
13:39
My brain: How does he knows what it looks like...
0:22 even i (as a french) cant remember all of the conjugaison xD
Who can tho?