This is why French is so HARD to learn! Everyday French words with completely different meanings.. 🤯

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  • Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
  • Do you often struggle with French or particular French words and French vocabulary? French can sometimes be quite tricky as one word can have multiple meanings. In this video, I run through some of the common French mistakes people make and explain all of the meanings of some of these everyday French words!
    00:00-00:39 - Intro to words and their different meanings
    00:40-2:30 - Using PLUS in French
    2:31-6:40 - ENCORE and all of its meanings
    6:41-9:30 - Personne = Nobody + Somebody?
    9:31-10:05 - A brief summary
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Комментарии • 210

  • @SarahLikesHorses
    @SarahLikesHorses 2 года назад +39

    Wow! This blows my mind. Thank you. I will need to re-watch this a few times to learn it well! 💕

    • @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv
      @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv 2 года назад

      Vous veux apprendez encore ou de 'plus' 'encore'!
      Go to 'French with Lya' and see my repeated comments to her, sil vous plait.
      (SHAKEEL)

    • @farahtulsunehri395
      @farahtulsunehri395 2 года назад

      Q1à¹

  • @FIVEsenses_art
    @FIVEsenses_art 2 года назад +48

    I have been watching you from my 6th grade and now I am in 8th grade! Ur channel has helped me so much with my grades and now I am scoring my best in French. Merci alex!

  • @oceane_chin
    @oceane_chin 2 года назад +45

    Teacher Alexa is so helpful and humorous at the same time. Thank you!

    • @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv
      @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv 2 года назад +2

      She may be, yet she is quite aged for making gestures like Lya of 'French with Lya'.... Lya is Lya the only Lya!

    • @umorfaruk1709
      @umorfaruk1709 2 года назад +1

      How are you?

  • @sanhowie9007
    @sanhowie9007 Год назад +4

    I use your audiobooks, RUclips videos to supplement my Duolingo app. You are such a great teacher and have clarified so much for me. Thank you for being so helpful for me.

  • @strongieestandswithpalestine
    @strongieestandswithpalestine 2 года назад +8

    You're such an amazing French teacher. You really helped me learning French! Merci beaucoup!

  • @Blinful
    @Blinful Год назад +2

    You are absolutely brilliant! Your lessons are the best on RUclips, I’m so glad I’ve stumbled on your channel! Thanks a lot! Your explanations are awesome

  • @Press2GetTheCookie
    @Press2GetTheCookie 2 года назад +2

    You’re such a good teacher. Thank you!

  • @CouchPolyglot
    @CouchPolyglot 2 года назад +6

    I think I have been using "plus" wrong for a long time 😂😂😂. Thanks for this video!! :)

    • @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv
      @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv 2 года назад

      Yes, I was using plus or de plus only to mean 'in addition' or moreover.

  • @szu-hsuanlee7809
    @szu-hsuanlee7809 2 года назад +2

    Thank you so much for this helpful video. I have lived in France for several years and today you just clear up my mind 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @modernpatriotism93
    @modernpatriotism93 2 года назад

    You deserve great respect! What a vivid explanation you have made on the french language.

  • @arese-
    @arese- 2 года назад

    Loved this one! Merci!

  • @briefcreativity
    @briefcreativity Год назад +1

    I have always been confused about the pronunciation of plus and this really helped! Thank you so much for your videos ❤

  • @chezbiti
    @chezbiti 2 года назад +2

    I enjoy your tutorial videos. I have been inspired to start my own channel out of this. BRAVO

  • @sunban1111
    @sunban1111 2 года назад +3

    Thank you so much, very helpful

  • @ynaves6575
    @ynaves6575 2 года назад +1

    Teacher Alexa is the best french teacher.

  • @essam2311
    @essam2311 2 года назад +1

    Mille merci. C’est fantastique. Je le trouve très utile.

  • @hi-rr5ho
    @hi-rr5ho 2 года назад +2

    thank for the video and explanation Alexa it help me a lot!!😍😍

    • @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv
      @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv 2 года назад +1

      Aller a' la 'French with Lya' et voir moi douzaine comments a' elle, sil vous plait.
      (SHAKEEL)

  • @arnavgupta5364
    @arnavgupta5364 2 года назад +5

    Bravo madame! Vos videos me plait beaucoup. C'est seulment grace a vous, que je peux typer en francais, sans transleteurs.

    • @saert8715
      @saert8715 2 года назад

      That's pretty good, some mistakes but still good GG

  • @kuldipkauldar7259
    @kuldipkauldar7259 2 года назад

    Amazing good and clear teaching. Thank you Alexa keep up the good work

  • @dorcaseyong46
    @dorcaseyong46 2 года назад

    Bravo ! Merci pour la lesson

  • @sweetdoncor-cor-cor3940
    @sweetdoncor-cor-cor3940 2 года назад +1

    Alexa you are a fantastic teacher mercibeacoup encore,I have really leaned from your online studies since 2019 thanks

  • @Ommbye
    @Ommbye Год назад

    Thanks for the video you are really helpful

  • @Enelralene21920
    @Enelralene21920 2 года назад +1

    Une autre leçon intéressante. Merci!

  • @rogerioteixeira83
    @rogerioteixeira83 2 года назад

    just love your vdeos, bc I learn french and english at the same time,thanks!

  • @tenzinkalsang2644
    @tenzinkalsang2644 2 года назад +1

    Thank you🙏🙏🙏.
    Very useful 👌

  • @ayselrzayeva9466
    @ayselrzayeva9466 2 года назад

    Thank you so much for all your videos

  • @cczhang382
    @cczhang382 Год назад

    Merci beaucoup Alexa! Cette leçon est très importante et utile.

  • @hermongerie3076
    @hermongerie3076 Год назад

    Thank You Alexa. I appreciate your free French classes ❤🙏🏽

  • @kesalyakarunanayake3929
    @kesalyakarunanayake3929 2 года назад +4

    Merci Beaucoup Madame.
    C'est très très utile. 😍

    • @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv
      @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv 2 года назад

      Merci, aller a' la 'French with Lya' et voir moi douzaine comments a' elle, sil vous plait.
      (SHAKEEL)

  • @mairaali6833
    @mairaali6833 2 года назад +1

    A new subscriber to your channel...
    Amazing and thank you so much Alexa

    • @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv
      @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv 2 года назад +1

      Mahira, aller a' la 'French with Lya' et voir moi douzaine comments a' elle, et apprendre plus French, sil vous plait.
      (SHAKEEL)

  • @terryarrow702
    @terryarrow702 Месяц назад

    Genial lecon 👏🏼 une j’espere encore regarder 💞

  • @arih1980
    @arih1980 2 года назад

    You are the best!!! Love your classes.

    • @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv
      @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv 2 года назад

      Non plus, Lya is the best in 'French with Lya', vrai.

  • @yoshira6032
    @yoshira6032 Год назад

    Merci, Alexa! ❤️

  • @pengkampat2196
    @pengkampat2196 11 месяцев назад

    Merci , j’ai appris deux langues en même temps , c’est vraiment très satisfaisant pour moi surtout pour ma langue anglaise et j’ai fait attentivement écouter votre prononciation .

  • @mebrie466
    @mebrie466 2 года назад +2

    Merci beaucoup

  • @sadbsata
    @sadbsata 2 года назад

    Both
    Useful
    And interesting

  • @RaviKumar-ws8su
    @RaviKumar-ws8su 2 года назад

    Thank you very much Alexa 💟🥰

  • @faizaalaraji1120
    @faizaalaraji1120 2 года назад +2

    Thank you Alexa. That was very helpful. Regards from Canada ❤❤

    • @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv
      @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv 2 года назад

      Aller a' la 'French with Lya' et ecrire moi douzaine comments a' la elle, sil vous plait.
      (SHAKEEL)

    • @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv
      @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv 2 года назад

      Sorry, by 'ecrire' I mean 'voir', please.

  • @sukritikalra4379
    @sukritikalra4379 2 года назад

    Can’t thank you enough, merci beaucoup

  • @lillyrocks2011
    @lillyrocks2011 2 года назад

    Thank you!!

  • @MrAbhijitBarua
    @MrAbhijitBarua 2 года назад

    Merci encore .c'était très interessant . Je veux que le video soit plus longue avec plus des mots de même genre .

  • @Samosam-cm1pr
    @Samosam-cm1pr 2 года назад +1

    Merci beaucoup madame , maintenant c'est claire pour moi 🙂💐

  • @mohammadashraf9806
    @mohammadashraf9806 2 года назад +1

    You are a good teacher

  • @andrewlikestrains4138
    @andrewlikestrains4138 2 года назад +1

    This reminds me of how the word “minute” can mean a unit of time or a very small amount depending on how it’s pronounced.

  • @mamenfernandez9480
    @mamenfernandez9480 2 года назад

    Cette vidéo est très intéressant.. Merci beaucoup.. Tu est une super prof.. Bisous de jerez 😜

  • @janethcarballo9720
    @janethcarballo9720 2 года назад

    Thank you!

  • @pasini31
    @pasini31 2 года назад +3

    Vous êtes le pilier géant derrière mon succès😍merci beaucoup 💝 bisous bisous😘

  • @retiefryke
    @retiefryke 2 года назад +3

    Thanks so much! I want to ask, with the example of ‘Tu veux encore un croissant?’ can you replace encore in that sentence with ‘un autre’? Or will ‘encore’ mostly be used in cases like that?

    • @lucicahuette
      @lucicahuette 2 года назад +3

      Les deux se disent :) both are correct !

  • @neil.dhyani
    @neil.dhyani Год назад +1

    these lessons are so helpful
    love from India

  • @ashnas7897
    @ashnas7897 2 года назад +1

    merci beaucoup Alexa

  • @arpad2188
    @arpad2188 2 года назад +1

    Bonjour Alexa
    I'm watching Inhuman Resources on Netflix with Éric Cantona (haha I did not know he became an actor!) and I thought about this lesson I just watched a few days ago. The protagonist's wife says, according to the subtitles:
    - J'habiterai plus ici. Je supporte plus.
    She didn't even use any negation but since she did not pronounce "S" I understood she did not want to stay. But when it's written only, it can be confusing :)

  • @erkankutlu9726
    @erkankutlu9726 2 года назад

    Thanks Alexa 🥰

  • @abdiosman4770
    @abdiosman4770 2 года назад

    Thanks teacher

  • @surkisunar3094
    @surkisunar3094 2 года назад

    Merci beaucoup.

  • @miashobbies4739
    @miashobbies4739 2 года назад +1

    Thanks again 💖💖💖💖

  • @tashidolma7197
    @tashidolma7197 2 года назад

    Thank you so much madam

  • @aygunkhudiyeva9408
    @aygunkhudiyeva9408 2 года назад

    Useful♥️

  • @mraarone
    @mraarone 2 года назад

    Vous êtes absolument la meilleure enseignante de français surtout pour pratiquer le français standard contre mes habitudes louisianaises. J'aimerais pouvoir faire quelque chose pour que tu te sentes apprécié!

    • @mraarone
      @mraarone 2 года назад

      @@uff3f in Cajun French or Louisiana French, we blend it together or drop words altogether. In Creole French or Louisiana Creole, dropping words and sometimes blending them is the rule. I would assume in Standard French, a clear speaker would separate.

    • @JL-qt1nb
      @JL-qt1nb 2 года назад

      Merci de perpétuer notre langue aux USA malgré les siècles passés. :)

    • @mraarone
      @mraarone 2 года назад

      @@uff3f it’s both and depends where you are. There’s lots of administrative areas in France. In standard French they do not drop it. In regional French, in France, they may.

  • @michellebeatty8079
    @michellebeatty8079 2 года назад

    Merci!

  • @eleonarddelphin6091
    @eleonarddelphin6091 2 года назад

    I have one month watching Your video Alexia. Your chanel is very helpful to me thank you.

  • @user-ze2zl3bv4q
    @user-ze2zl3bv4q 2 года назад

    Thank you Alexa.

  • @ridgmont61
    @ridgmont61 2 года назад

    So can you think of Personne as always being Somebody and the rest of the sentence determines whether it is “somebody” or “not somebody’ which is therefore nobody?

  • @rbbb6657
    @rbbb6657 2 года назад

    tu es the best prof Alexaaa

  • @rickmarcotte2386
    @rickmarcotte2386 2 года назад

    Merci encore

  • @vikuse222
    @vikuse222 2 года назад

    That’s super helpful! Thank you! Also, I think ,,Quand même’’ has way too much meanings as well 😂😂

  • @simplyways133
    @simplyways133 2 года назад

    Best french learning for New beginners... Like me..

  • @aneskaguitar
    @aneskaguitar 2 года назад

    You are awesome!

  • @bren4681
    @bren4681 2 года назад +1

    Il y a une estudiante tres heureuse avec la leçon!

  • @motunrayod5625
    @motunrayod5625 2 года назад

    Vous êtes incroyable, Alexia ❤️

  • @michmicha82
    @michmicha82 2 года назад

    Merci infiniment❤️

  • @boluwatifebisola8866
    @boluwatifebisola8866 2 года назад

    Merci Beaucoup Alex. Je t'aime

  • @alac9814
    @alac9814 2 года назад

    Thanks

  • @estevaocoragemjacinto3250
    @estevaocoragemjacinto3250 2 года назад

    I always knew that it wasn´t going to be easy. kkkk
    Je regarderai cet video encore une fois pour apprendre better.

  • @dieuhangtrinh290
    @dieuhangtrinh290 2 года назад

    Parfait , Alexa!!

  • @marisfranciscaokoli6216
    @marisfranciscaokoli6216 2 года назад

    Merci beaucoup ma professeur

  • @dohahassan3501
    @dohahassan3501 2 года назад +2

    Je veux pleurer 🥲😢😭💔
    Merci beaucoup madam Alexa

  • @LabGecko
    @LabGecko Год назад

    Merci Alexa ! Mais, j'ai encore un petite problème - How do I ask someone to repeat what they just said? Is there a single word like _"Encore, s'il vous plait"_ that could be used? I doubt that is it since using that always gets people confused.

  • @sharonjessica5069
    @sharonjessica5069 2 года назад

    Thank you Alexa..

    • @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv
      @ShakeelAhmad-vh7iv 2 года назад

      Please go to 'French with Lya' and see my dozen of comments to her, and know how I have learnt French.
      (SHAKEEL)

  • @yousufhassan1206
    @yousufhassan1206 2 года назад

    Merci,

  • @premjyoti4398
    @premjyoti4398 2 года назад +1

    u r really a sweet teacher you look like my mother alexa ma'am I really want a heart from you plsssssssssssss love from India

  • @ARNABOSS
    @ARNABOSS 2 года назад

    most beautifully explained, but is the S used in a plus tard?

    • @saert8715
      @saert8715 2 года назад

      You don't pronounce it

  • @samo_sibela
    @samo_sibela 2 года назад

    Alexa, you are amazing :)

  • @parvezmiah1138
    @parvezmiah1138 2 года назад

    Merci alexa pour cett vedio

  • @foxbatst
    @foxbatst 2 года назад

    Bonjour Alexa, great video ... but question on the use of 'de' and 'du' with 'plus' & 'encore', SVP.
    why do you say 'Je veux plus DE cafe' but on other sidewe say 'Je veux encore DU cafe'.... thank you

    • @eunosnurb4123
      @eunosnurb4123 2 года назад +3

      DU (or DE LA) mean SOME in english
      Je veux plus DE café = I want more coffee
      Je veux encore DU cafe = I still want SOME coffee

  • @idonthavealoginname
    @idonthavealoginname 2 года назад +2

    I've been in France for 10 months and am finding learning the language super difficult!

    • @GentlemanH
      @GentlemanH 2 года назад

      Me too. I am from South Africa and have purchased a "petite maison" in the French countryside. Struggling with the language but slowly getting there !

    • @hamanamanama2263
      @hamanamanama2263 Год назад

      Im in Québec and ready to give up

  • @rbbb6657
    @rbbb6657 2 года назад

    geniale!!

  • @Jatindersingh-my8tj
    @Jatindersingh-my8tj 2 года назад

    🌹🌹Bravo 🌹🌹🙏 Madam Alexa 👏

  • @tvthanhtruc3458
    @tvthanhtruc3458 2 года назад

    Very useful. I’d like 1 question. In case of “tu veux encore un croissant?”, can it be replaced “ tu veux un autre croissant?”.Thanks.

    • @JL-qt1nb
      @JL-qt1nb 2 года назад +1

      Yes absolutely. :) And "Tu veux un autre croissant" can be translated in the same way than in english "Tu veux un autre croissant ? Puisque celui-ci n'est pas bon." "Do you want another croissant ? As this on is not good ?"

    • @tvthanhtruc3458
      @tvthanhtruc3458 2 года назад

      Thanks

  • @mulugetagmichael1745
    @mulugetagmichael1745 2 года назад

    its great to learn foreign language with you

  • @sundayalexander4769
    @sundayalexander4769 2 года назад

    je t''aime beaucoup madam alexa ce lecons tres utile

  • @BliitzPint
    @BliitzPint 2 года назад

    Haha, it's so fascinating how similar this is to the German "noch" :)

  • @julianfernan8041
    @julianfernan8041 2 года назад +1

    Merci beaucoup, Mme.
    What's the meaning of "en train de" in the sentence, please? Don't get how it works.

    • @DMC888
      @DMC888 2 года назад +2

      Je suis en train de manger = I’m in the middle/process of eating.

    • @julianfernan8041
      @julianfernan8041 2 года назад +1

      @@DMC888 Thousand thanks! :) So "Je suis en train de boire du lait" means "I'm drinking milk (right now)", right?

    • @DMC888
      @DMC888 2 года назад

      @@julianfernan8041 yep. Very useful in open restaurants when someone interrupts you to sell you roses, DVDs etc.

    • @julianfernan8041
      @julianfernan8041 2 года назад +1

      @@DMC888 Great! Merci beaucoup !

    • @JL-qt1nb
      @JL-qt1nb 2 года назад +1

      @@julianfernan8041 "être en train de" en frances es igual de "estar + gerundio" ^^

  • @vijayskarvandemanager-acad4077
    @vijayskarvandemanager-acad4077 2 года назад

    Why there is no liaison between veux and encore, ? (ie, why the letter x in veux is not pronounced, even after the next letter starts with a vowel e)

    • @duckyduke954
      @duckyduke954 2 года назад +1

      Some people from the older generation do make the liaison, it happens in songs sometimes also but the liaisons tend to disappear more and more so that's why we don't say veuZencore

    • @IRACEMABABU
      @IRACEMABABU 2 года назад +1

      @@duckyduke954 Yes, the liaisons were making french sound more fluid. Without them it sounds more brutal.

  • @childericoalencastro
    @childericoalencastro 2 года назад +1

    Dans ce cas, il peut également être traduit par STILL. Avez-vous encore un croissant? Voulez-vous toujours un croissant? Do you still want a croissant?

  • @chromium7745
    @chromium7745 Год назад

    Alexa thank you for it all

  • @quicktours5744
    @quicktours5744 2 года назад

    Good

  • @pmcnamara1954
    @pmcnamara1954 2 года назад

    In the context demonstrated, personne means "body." So there is either a (some random) body in the house, or there is no body in the house.

  • @Gary-pe4ce
    @Gary-pe4ce 2 года назад

    J'ai une question pour la négation "plus".
    Que se passe-t-il si la négation est une liaison? Pour l'exemple. "Je n'aime plus écouter de la musique rock ".

    • @saert8715
      @saert8715 2 года назад

      On ne prononce pas le s dans la liaison

    • @Gary-pe4ce
      @Gary-pe4ce Год назад

      ​@@saert8715 vraiment? J'ai pensé que la lettre S prononce comme Z quand il y a une liaison. Ou c'est faux?

    • @saert8715
      @saert8715 Год назад

      @@Gary-pe4ce On peut logiquement la prononcer comme un z, mais je n'ai jamais entendu personne le faire

    • @Gary-pe4ce
      @Gary-pe4ce Год назад

      @@saert8715 d'accord, merci.

    • @saert8715
      @saert8715 Год назад

      @@Gary-pe4ce ;)

  • @umorfaruk1709
    @umorfaruk1709 2 года назад

    Nice 🥰🥰🥰vidio 🥰🥰🥰merci

  • @ahmedsheikh4405
    @ahmedsheikh4405 2 года назад

    Merci mon ensegnion