This is such a brilliantly clever sketch, but only truly appreciated by either French speakers or those who know pretentious people like that main character! 😂
Was just about to comment that. French reflexive verbs are sometimes hard to get your head around, and it’s nice to see that they actually made it sound like a direct French-English translation.
It's a bit exaggerated though, I think-comment vous appelez-vous is just how do you call yourselves, there's not really a "to yourself" there. But there are plenty of times in French you would throw in an extra "à vous" at the end. I'm just not sure if it would fit in this specific context.
Whenever any of my friends or I need to borrow money off each other, we always say 'Can you lend me 20 euros', like this. We are just some wild crazy people.
The second video on the channel where they've got the left and right channels out of phase. Try listening through headphones, you should be able to hear the dialogue then.
Expats to a T. I worked in France and ran into a Brit like this, so entrenched in his own ego and boasting about his life, it completely escaped him that I might also live in France and speak better French than him.
I am an expat and today I dealt with another expat from my own country, my own city even, and it was just like this.
This is so subtle, clever and funny.
Until we see each other.
Of nothing!
This is such a brilliantly clever sketch, but only truly appreciated by either French speakers or those who know pretentious people like that main character! 😂
My French lecturer WAS THIS MAN I SWEAR
"How do you call yourself to yourself" is a transliteration of "Comment vous appelez-vous" - Nice little detail
Was just about to comment that. French reflexive verbs are sometimes hard to get your head around, and it’s nice to see that they actually made it sound like a direct French-English translation.
I see you have the thirst!
It's a bit exaggerated though, I think-comment vous appelez-vous is just how do you call yourselves, there's not really a "to yourself" there. But there are plenty of times in French you would throw in an extra "à vous" at the end. I'm just not sure if it would fit in this specific context.
Similarly at 2:26. That sounds like something along the lines of Qu’est-ce que c’est
Reading - a great place to leave.
Simply Brilliant!
Whenever any of my friends or I need to borrow money off each other, we always say 'Can you lend me 20 euros', like this.
We are just some wild crazy people.
Reading mentioned!!
Lol I saw myself in the mirror as soon as I heard the Germglish grammar!
Is that the musical intro from 'Allo, Allo'?
Is that gerrard from peep show
Yes
Gerrard's dead.
@@IngaFrid Bullshiiiit!
As a former student of French the grammar is giving me flashbacks.
Can you lend me twenty Euros?
💶
There you go.
@@juillotine Did he ever pay you back?
@@Glumpsy no :(
Sound problem on second sketch. Why didn’t they get a real French actor in the third sketch?
The second video on the channel where they've got the left and right channels out of phase. Try listening through headphones, you should be able to hear the dialogue then.
They did you pretentious twerp
Woman at 3:39 kinda looks like emma stone doesn't she? Can you lend me 20 euros?
Fabulous
No wonder Ben Miller ran away to the Caribbean...
Expats to a T. I worked in France and ran into a Brit like this, so entrenched in his own ego and boasting about his life, it completely escaped him that I might also live in France and speak better French than him.
Hilarious
Gerard's dead
This guy sounds about as French as Jean Luc Picard.
That's the whole point, he thinks he can....Must be a lot that goes over your head.
The whole joke: French directly transliterated into English and delivered with an English voice.
I really don't get the 'can you lend me 20 euros' ending.. ruins the whole sketch tbh
They're known to be cheapskates
actually sorry that was my poor english, it's been 6 months
They aren't CHEAPSKATES...they're broke expats
The phrase subtly emphasises the universality of the English language.
How you say, brilliant sketch, very much funny, can you lend me 20 euros?