WEIRD SOUNDS FRENCH PEOPLE MAKE | French Language Noises, Sounds and Gestures to Sound More French
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- Let's explore some of the strange and delightful sounds and noises that French People Make! It's all part of learning the French language & culture!
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Let's talk some of those French Sounds & Gestures that help make the French language so unique. This is a collection of some of my favourite French language sounds and noises, which is great intel for anyone wondering how to sound more natural in french, how to sound more fluent in French, or simply wanting to sound more french.
Have you ever listened to French people talking and heard those French pfft noises? The French fart noise with their mouth? The bah ouais? The fast gasp oui? All of these noises French people make will be discussed!
And not only will we cover off some of the sounds french people make, but some french gestures and body language too. So strap on in for some French noises, French sounds, French hand gestures and tricks to sound more French in this video!
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Have you notices any other unique sounds in French? Any question about French gestures and their meanings? Let me know down below!
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WEIRD SOUNDS FRENCH PEOPLE MAKE | French Language Noises, Sounds and Gestures to Sound More French: • WEIRD SOUNDS FRENCH PE...
As soon as you said "I thought my boss was having an asthma attack" I knew exactly what you were going to say! 😂
🤣🤣🤣 .... I never laughed so much watching a video about French sounds. I’m French and everything you said is so true!
Ouais! Je plussoie ;-)
Same here ! 😅
Le premier son de la vidéo « bahhh », est en fait « ben...» ou plus exactement « eh bien » je pense à l’origine.
@@isabelleyab oui, on dit ‘ben’ si souvent que ca fais parti de notre vocabulaire normal 😂
noises french noises.....why does that sound real sus
Moi aussi quand elle a cru que son manager faisait une crise d’asthme 😂😂😂
I'm surprised you didn't mentioned the "euuuuuuh" we make when we hesitate or search for our words. I use it all the time ! There's also "mouais" or "mouaif" as a synonym of "bof", or a not really convinced "yes". But all the others examples you mentionned are true too ^^ Good video, it's funny to watch as a French person ^^
I agreed its pretty funny to watch as a french 😂
Another one I really noticed in France is that French people tend to whisper/aspirate the word merci if it's just for a small thing, for example when someone says "merci" when you hold the door for them a lot of times just sounds like a really aspirated "cihhh", sometimes you even only hear a bit of air coming out of their mouth and it actually means thank you.
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As a french myself i'd like to add that if you said "bah oui" and the "bah" is shorth and brief it's more like "obviously" but in a kindia haughty way
About the "hop" sound, there is another slightly different alternative when you say "hop hop hop" in a very quick way. It is more used when you want someone to perform an action, but you want it to be rather fast. For example, if you're late and you want your kids to hurry, you might say "allez hop hop hop, on y va !"
Allez hophophop on s'abonne on met la cloche !!
As a kid in Scotland I heard allez oop a lot when lifting a kid, must have come from French.
Hop la !
yes, when it's a high sound "hop hop hop" means "go, quickly", but when it is a low sound, "hop hop hop" means "stop!" or "slow down"... XD
The chop chop equivalent :)
Our "Merde doooh" would be spelled "Merdeuh" in french :D It's actually simply the final E who is strongly prononced when we usualy skip it. ;) (It's not the same as "merdeux" who's mean "little shit" and is an insult xp). "Tak" would be spelled "Tac" (thanks the french comics for writting all our weird little words :D) and "Hop" means a little step, jump so for a child it would be the little jumps he has to make to walk up the stairs :) You can add " la" behind like "hop la" to make the word stronger. In general, adding "la" behind is making the expression stronger like "hop la", "houla" (or "houlala"), "hey la" or "Nan mais c'était nul là !" (work also with "oh") ;)
Je n'aurait pas dis mieux 👍 bonnes précisions :)
aurélie pour ressembler a un français mettez vous en grêve et prenez vos anti-dépresseurs avec du vin rosé
@@louisecorchevolle9241 je suis belge mais je ne vois quand même pas le rapport ;)
@@novart9230 vous avez un sens aiguisé de l'humour peut être parce que vous êtes belge
@@louisecorchevolle9241 Ou pas :) je ne vois toujours pas le lien entre les explications que j'ai donné sur les mots évoqués dans la vidéo et les stéréotypes débiles sur les français ;)
I heard a lot of pfffffs on the airplane when a kid was crying.
The « oui » gasp made me laugh so hard !! I am Moroccan and literally spoke French my whole life, I’ve been living in France for more than 13 years, and I never got used to this one. I mean, can’t you just say oui and breathe after ? Do you really need to multitask in this context ? 😂
C'est vrai qu'en tant que français, on ne se rend pas compte de tous ces bruits que l'on fait ! 😂
On a l'air un peu bête quand elle nous imite 😅
@@theosez j'avais jamais fait gaff au "tak tak tak" xD
Oui moi c'est le "hweeeé!" aspiré que j'avais pas remarqué, mais c'est bien vu ;-)
My host dad would say “aller/allez go” to the kids.
Is this something other people have heard or was it just him using French and English together?
@@kaylaharden6593 ça peut m'arriver aussi de mélanger français et anglais !
What an astute observer you are! This was so much fun. You are an excellent communicator in either language.
This video is like 10 times funnier when you're French 😂 😂
We must look ridiculous to others 😂 😂
Yes. You do 🤷🏼♂️
@@jnewmark41 Our country is so perfect compared to others , we MUST have 1 or 2 flaws
@@lilosurmer4466 And there we have it..... YUCK
Non, c'est très mignon!
the english have their own onomatopeias
I’m French. I laughed a lot watching this video. I hadn’t realised all these strange sounds we regularly use. Everything is true.
Common combo : "Roohh" "Merde" "Dohh" "pffff" 🤣
When you are very pissed but also disenchanted 😅
For example if your cat just broke your flower pot or someone dropped the flour in the kitchen
Oui 😂
Awesome!!! Yes. So good!
The second one is really annoying for French people too xD
Yeah I confirm, I really hate when people do that x')
@@NotEvenFrench sometimes we use it when we make fun of someone !
I caught myself doing it when I was very tired and annoyed by my son... I think it is mainly a way of saying yes but I’m so tired I can’t do it properly or sometimes when you feel sad for someone and as if you were saying yes but that would have been better if it didn’t happen, yes but this is unfortunate... For me, it does express a kind of regret... think it’s more used by women... And I think if you mock someone using it, it must be someone who think to much of him or herself taking himself too seriously, the kind that would think he or she is ’un artiste ou intellectuel incompris’... Du genre, houi jsais bien la vie est trop dure...
I can imagine. Some of these sounds are horrible to the ear.
Yeah, the second one is really "upperclass" style.
Rhooo is rather a way to disapprove something but in a gentle way. eg : A: I apologize for offering you such a ridiculous diner but I my fridge was empty !
B : Rhoooo no, it's is really good !
Didn't read all comment s below. Sorry if it was mentioned before XD
"Hein" at the end of an interrogative sentence replaces the "Question Tag" in English. Example:
Tu comprends, hein? ===> You understand, don't you?
Je découvre ma langue ! Je n'avais jamais remarqué que c'était si français 😄 Très bonne observation !! Tes vidéos sont super et on les comprend bien. A bientôt 😉
The "rhooo" is also very much used to show disapproval (usually with more R and less O)
The breath/intake “yes” happens in Ireland and Iceland, too
and Norway & Sweden
The gaspy "oui" is also a way to say yes like an arrogant person. When you say "oui oui oui" gaspy it's really arrogant or a joke
Yeah, you've got your point. This gaspy "oui" isn't an irreplaceable sound, you can just say oui on a normal way. I'm French and personnally I never do this noise, because it's arrogant as you said it. You definitely have other ways to express agreement ! 😂
I do it sometimes but not on purpose and it's never arrogant! It's just when I talk while I inhale 😂
Mélanie B Same here ! I kind of like it though haha
Thé "gaspy oui" sounds weird to french people too!
@@zazaboubie Nobody told me something about it! And it's not always so.. I think "du coup" or "genre" are more annoying than that 😅
I never thought of all the sounds we, french people, naturally make, but I now admit it can be disturbing for strangers :D But it's part of the charm, hahaha !
I have had so many people look at me weird 😂
Dated a Belgian, a French, and a Swiss; it could be a Francophone thing but they definitely do that "pfft" or "farty sound" or "cheek-popping sound" very naturally -- mid-convo, even!
(I'd ask them what that was, and they would say "what sound?")
I'm french and for the "mmm" when you wanna say yes it's like a long "mmm" and when you wanna say no it's two little "mmm". I don't know if it's really useful for you to know...
So happy you'll be uploading more often here. Love your insights! Also I'm really in awe of how much you've hustled on your second channel 🚀
I'm Norwegian and we also have the "gasping" sound when we say yes ("ja"). We also have the "m" sound for agreeing, but we double it up, like m-m. And last, where I come from we have the French "R" and we also use the "rohhh" sound when we're somewhat annoyed/irritated.
Same. I was surprised by those things, specially the annoyed sound, as I thought everyone did it. Where in Norway are you from? I'm in the south
I think I heard the "ja" in the TV show SKAM. I'm so surprised by how reserved Norwegians are when they speak their language but how loud they can get when they party lol. Definitely such an interesting culture (almost too perfect to be true) & most beautiful country in Europe after France ! I sound so patriotic haha
Oh that's so cool to know! Hehe. I'll definitely watch out if I go to Norway
Maybe the Vikings brought back home some of the French sounds in their Drakkar after their sanguinary cruise ;-)
@@elisagyn3646 I would very much love to visit Norway (in July 😂)!
I am totally guilty of the gaspy oui. I also use it when I am bored or annoyed by the person I am answering to. And the pfffff and the rooooh, the longer the better LOL. I realize we have a lot of sounds to sound annoyed 😂
6:50 You forgot "HOP LAAA!" when you pick something up or when you give (throw) something to somebody.
5:10 As a francophone it's very interesting to hear your explanation about this sound! 😃
Love the explanation, I guess it could also be that one wants to confirm what has just been said but at the same time, they don't want to interrupt the person speaking so the weird sound "ouai" comes out 😂😅
Have a good day! :-)
Great video. When I was an exchange student in the US I once did a "Tsk-rhhhh" combo because I was annoyed at something, and my host family looked at me like I was coming from mars - I realised then that they had absolutely no idea what I was doing/expressing. It was so hilarious (especially for them) that I still remember it 35 years later :0)
Omg Rosie ! Congrats on you French. You could almost pass as one of us now. Trully a Frenchwoman 😭💞 I'm so proud
I can’t wait for the next Lingoda marathon! It would be perfect since I’m at home so much these days
In Canada, french canadians don't make most of these sounds.
And for those we use, the meaning differs a little.
For example, the sound "aie" could be translated as "hey!" in english or "enough" depending on the context.
Same goes for "Allez Hop". Here, it's more like "Allez Up" meaning "Get up" it's time to go.
Ta vision de la langue française est si intéressante ! Merci de la partager, et de t'y investir autant :).
I'm French and it's very interesting to me :)
This unusual content proves you do care about us, who we are, how we sound !
Thanks !
Do you know about the skeptical "mouais" ?
It means "yes" but in a very unconvinced mood.
So it's more like a "maybe... you're probably wrong
but I don't want to disagree". Conflict avoidance
skeptikal word and sound :)
xD I'm french, and I never really realized how weird our sounds or expressions may be to non french speakers. It's very funny ! Another sound we always make is "euuuh"... Like "euuuuh... je (ne) sais pas".
My French teacher tried to get us to use this instead of "um" when we were thinking of the correct word, to at least keep our mouths and brains in French! It does help!
I LOVE the french « hop » like when you’re out to dinner and the waiter/waitress is serving the food or clearing the plates, the hop is just so cute!! I’ve always thought about this but I just don’t think there’s an equivalent as widely used in English!
As a Frenchman, this is funny to hear all those sounds out of their context... ^^ Nevertheless, they're perfeclty true. For the "Tak" thing, usually, it's when you are doing something quick with a pencil or your finger (draw a line on paper, draw a check mark on a list or cross a word on a list, follow a road on a map, do fast clicks on a computer(like when you are in a hurry)) and the length of the "tak" sound will follow the length of each actions like "taaaak-tak-tak-taak-tak-taaaak". ^^
I really enjoyed this video. I love hearing these sounds because I had never heard anything quite like them before moving to France. Thanks for making this video
Well observed & explained, Rosie! My French friends (from near Reims) would often say, “Oh la la la la!” with emphasis on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th syllables. Typical reaction to discovering what the 2 1/2 year old had managed to get up to 😂
You're adorable doing all those little sounds. The video was hilarious, love it
Well done ! I didn’t imagine we had so many weird sounds ....
You know that you've really added the hands gestures towards the end of this video?? Haha super cute and definitely worked with the language!
I will never stop loving your French videos. You and Justine Le Conte are the first two that really got me into France, 3 years ago.
Le "oui aspiré", je l'avais pas entendu depuis une éternité. Ca ne se fait pas partout je pense. Hormis, comme tu l'as souligné, quand on fume^^
You look very funny when you imitate French people, it's SO acurate^^
As an expat living in Paris, I can vouch for all this sounds!! Especially the inspired "oui", hahahaha.
As a french person I need to thank you for this funny moment 😄
Those was spot on ! Merci pour cette chouette vidéo ^^
Olala t'es trop forte Rosy ! 😁 Vidéo drolissime !
That's the best teaching that I so enjoyed it. Thank you.
My favorite was the puffing the cheek and "popping" it. So funny! I was expecting to hear "euh" for thinking, but maybe it's not weird enough XD
🤣🤣🤣 at first i thought your video tittle was weird but it is actually spot on. The " asthma wai" is something that surprised me too.
The "Oh lala la" is a super Parisian think. No one does it outside of Paris.
Hi! I am French and I have to say, the inhaled yes I feel like is more used by parisians, I personally never use it except to mock it a little haha it makes me feel like I can’t breath.
breathe*
Je suis bretonne et je le fais mais sans faire exprès, quand je respire et parle à la fois aha. Mais je savais pas que certaines personnes le faisaient car ils fument ou de manière non chalante 😅
J'ai littéralement jamais vu quelqu'un faire ça, ou alors je ne le remarque pas mais bon ._.
Alzahel b ça doit dépendre des régions je pense
Hmm Je crois pas, en tant que nantais je l'entend souvent je crois que c'est répandu dans toute la France
Another great video! 💗😀
@@NotEvenFrench 😁😁😁🙌💕 I'm mexican, and in Mexico when someone has the same name as you they call each other "Tocayo" if male, "Tocaya" if female.. You're my Tocaya😁 just thought I'd share that .. love your channel 💕
my mom does the ouais gasp for no specific reasons… my boyfriend mocks her so much about it, and sometimes I do it without even realizing it ! Sorry can't help you with it!
This was really good!
Très juste! :D There's also the "beinnnn..." which shows hesitation and thinking
As a French guy, hearing you recreate these so perfectly is hilarious, you go from New Zealander to French girl so easily it's crazy
Ton accent français est parfait ! Et tes vidéos sont toujours drôles et véridiques, même pour un Français ^^
You made me laugh so much 😂😂Thank you !
I'm French, and I certify this is true! But I didn't realize we did that so often.
The same, it is so natural for us that we don't even notice these sounds are weird ahah !
nice selection. you were a good observer of our sounds. I had the familier way to say 'oui' : 'ouais' (sound 'ou-è') as in english the 'yeah' for 'yes'.
Ouais is prononced like w-è
The "baahh" sound is actually "et bien", equivalent to the English "um well".
Omg this is soooo true ! I think you’ve said it all 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I'm french Canadiens and we also use that kind of expression sometimes, but the tak and the gaspy sounds 😳 I never hear that before.
Même chose pour l'espèce de oui aspiré! Même pas de la part d'un ami.e français.e.
excellente video, tellement vrai!
Super video 😛 My french friend used to pronounce mm mmm mmm when listening to me. I didn’t get at first. Though Russians took a lot sounds after French as we used to speak fluent French couple of centuries ago :) Allez hop we do still use!
I'm from New Zealand too and I am learning french! I love your channel!
Loved it!
Love it! You could’ve mentioned the sucking sound they make in between words
Ooooo love the purple bits in your hair.
Love your new hair!!!
Le français est une suite d onomatopées 🤣🤣🤣
I realised i was doing those sounds with you during mid video 😂
The gasping "ouais ouais ouais" is the woooooorst !!!!!!!
So French this "rrrh" 😂 I also use the "rrrhhh" with a raising eyes to heaven when someone tells me a sassy joke inappropiatly
Very interesting. I note that at 10:14, the «MMM» is more in a repetition like «MMM-MMM», meaning I agree to what you are saying. I also note this approval «MMM» in Japanese
culture. And usually they will nod their heads while saying «MMM». (I’m note specialized in Japanese, I juste noted that in films, interviews, etc). I think you missed a sound like
the «Paf !» or «Éh paf !» when you want to emphasis an action or event, for exemple; I was going for a walk without my humbrella, then «paf» it started to rain!
Thanks a lot for this very interesting video!
I'd say my favourite one is "eh ben dis donc", even tho it is not really a sound.
Nice video, my wife is a native english speaker and because of you now she noticed all those little sounds I do , she mocks me now, thanks a lot^^
Omg I am French 🇫🇷 I live in Chicago now. Your video was amazing!!! Yes we love growling lol 😆 pfff yes mmm yes I am things that I completely forgot about hein tak thank you for this video
Some of these may be explained rationally.
- Bah < ben < hé bien (it’s already been explained elsewhere)
- Rho là là : it’s actually an hyper emphatic version of ho là là
- The "growl" is just about the same: an hyper emphatic sigh, just to show we’re annoyed
- The prrt thing is, in my opinion, just the same. One usually makes a pout to show their ignorance about a matter, the prrt just emphacises it (hey! I’m making a pout!). Same with the cheek sound, which is a fancy version.
About "hein", I feel like its purpose is similar to what we call "question tags" in English class (such as "isn’t it?")
About "merde", it’s actually the "e" that is stressed, same with "aïe", so we’ll see such things as "merdeuh", "aïeuh". Also works with "mais", mainly in child speech when one is annoyed "mais arrête de m’embêter" becomes "maiiiis" and finally "méheu!" (often used jokingly by the way).
You may be interested with the word "quoi" often used in the end of declarative sentences, and may become a language tic to some people. "C’est moi, quoi!"
Rholala!!!! 🤣 Love your videos, French here 💖
So are super cute!!!!! Loved this video so much thank you
I THOUGHT ONLY MY HOST MOM DID THE GASP im actually shook :O I thought she had some weird respiratory problem lol
As a French dude I can guarantee that ''bof'' is the equivalent of ''meh''.
"Hop" is the french word/sound I like the most 😊
Speaking french is about how to sound perfectly bored 😂
You're describing their sounds very well. I experienced the same thing. Hahaha Thank you
I use all of them lol my fave is the popping noise with a wave over the shoulder lol
I laughed until I almost cried when you started talking about the gasp yes
i love how your brain works this is absolutely accurate
The growl is perfect
Thanks for this compilatioin. Loved it. The 'inbreath -yes' is actually a thing in the norther parts of Sweden as well. It is a dialect thing, saying 'Yoo' on inbreath (meaning yes), I hadn't noticed the French does it as well.
We do it in England a bit too x
Oh yes! You remind me. I learned rebirthing with Swedes and they did this.
"allez hop!" is like 'let's go/let's jump in", you might have seen Air France planes with "Hop!" written on the side, mostly those used for short distance flights.
It's like they're doing "small jumps". It''s like a sound you'd make(dont ask me why) when jumping.
Coucou, je dois dire que ta video etait vraiment divertissante ! En tant que francais, on en oublie facilement que l'on fait tant de bruits étranges , haha
Really funny video. The gaspy ouais made me laugh soooo much. It’s true that it’s absolutely weird and we even laugh about it usually. Thanks for the work!
About the “hein”, a lot of people has been taught to not use it when we didn’t hear something because it is seen as rude or at best very informal. I would rarely say this to my parents or any person that is not a close friend.
In the north of France where I'm from, we say 'hein' a lot. I never knew it was considered rude until I used it with a brand new maths teacher while I was at the board. She came from the south and she had a huge go at me, and I almost got a colle for being rude. I had no idea. She didn't know either that for us it was pretty standard... Big shock!
@@theronckster7796 Wow interesting. I would never have guessed that you could get into so much trouble using it though. I do come from the south of France so maybe that's just something there.
@@hanaerateau1332 I'm not sure. She was young and I think she'd been "mutée" there for her first year and probably nervous, which can't have helped (I'm a teacher in England now and my first year was definitely a brand new experience of terror lol). It's only when she got to the staff room and told colleagues that they explained to her that A. I wasn't a rude brat at all, and B. 'hein' was not trained out of us. So I didn't get punished, but I made sure I never said 'hein' to this teacher. We started off on the wrong foot but once I got past the initial dislike - I felt terrible being bollocked in front of the whole class - I really liked her. We learnt loads with her.
If you head way south and rural, where the dialect changes - and the 'Ooh la la' changes to 'oooh loo loo loooh' with perfect round pursed pout (if you can even imagine that!😅) First, time I heard it I burst out laughing.
hello,
"hein? " can also be use as a " stop dont go further in the subject or rephrase it "
and " tsss" "t t t t t " or a smirk are use for desabrobation
the french joy of arguing/debating
Hey I'm French and you should add the "ntt" we make when someone does or says something we don't agree with. We do it to show our disagreement without to say it.
are you talking about the click sound with the tongue ? its more like "tchik"
Not only do we say those all the time, but I definitely write them when I text too! So important to the french language 😀 "pfffff" "rrrrrrr" "rohhhh" "holala" "bah" "euh" (and now I realize that the previous are all used more or less to express annoyance... the French love to complain, even as a joke)
Wow, you are a very mpressive observer, I never realized we were making so much "noises"! :-D For few of them, I guess it may depends of what region you are from, for example I hardly ever heard the gaspy yes in north of France, and rarely the "tak" (but we have a lot of strange sounds that are weird for other french in north of France though :-D). For the "cheek sound", it doesn't mean "I don't know" but rather "that's bullshit".
This is hilarious. As a daughter to a French mother (I live in Israel) many of these sounds are really natural to me but I had now idea that some might identify them with being French. Now that I think about it most of them are not common among my homeland friends :)