Finally! After
one long year, The Daily French Girl is back! I hope that you guys are still determined
to learn French with me J I also want to take advantage of this blog post to
thank everyone who subscribed and waited for my return. Your patience will be recompensed!
As you
can see, this new video is for beginners. This is because I listen to you, and
you told me I was over-rating your French level. That’s why it’s important to
give me feedback!
So in
this video, I tried to explain everything, while trying to keep the video short
and entertaining. Hopefully you’ll like this format. Whether you do or you don’t,
please let me know, it’s important in order for me to make videos that suit you
and really help you! I will never stress this enough!
You can
also ask for a specific subject, and maybe I’ll make a video about it! And
remember, my channel is not all about language; it’s also about culture. Why? Because
I think that all cultural facts are always interesting and enlightening to
learn. And also because I can say from experience that learning about a culture
really expands your motivation to learn more about the country, and of course that
includes its language! So if you have any request at all, as long as it’s
related to France/French, just let me know =)
Before I give the video’s transcription, I would like point
out two little things :
First thing is that, no, this is not a complete lesson
about how to introduce yourself in French. For instance, I don’t mention how to
say where you live, or how to talk about your family or activities. But as this
video is for REAL beginners, I give quite a good amount of explanations, way
more than I normally would. So if you are a real beginner, that’s already a lot
of information to take in, for a first lesson. I think that this video is a
good compromise in terms of length and content. Hopefully you do too!
Secondly, I say that I explain everything in this
video, but you can see that I did not explain literally everything. But if you
pay attention, I give really big “clues” for you to understand effortlessly. This
is for 2 reasons. First one is, again, to keep the video short! But my second
reason is all about method: when you understand something by yourself, you
memorize it way easier than if you’re just told how it works. This is what I
would call active learning! That’s something I had already intended to do in my
first videos, but the clues weren’t big enough. This time I think they are.
And now, here comes the video’s transcription :
Hi guys ! Bonjour à tous !
I’ve noticed in your comments that a lot of you guys
were starting French with me, from scratch! Thus, it has been requested that I
do a video for real beginners… Here it is!
I am going to put out there my best acting skills to
enact a short dialog between two girls who meet for the first time. This will
allow you to learn how to introduce yourself!
As always in this channel, I’m only going to use real
French expressions that French people really use, which may differ a little bit
from the one in your schoolbooks!
This dialog is at normal speed and with French
subtitles. I will explain everything throughout the video and you will see the
same dialog but with English subtitles at the end of the video. C’est parti !
[dialog with French subtitles]
“ Bonjour, je m’appelle
Darlyn !”
Bonjour
literally translates as good day, so in the evening you should rather say Bonsoir, good evening.
With time, you will see that the French way of
thinking is different than the English one when it comes to building sentences.
We have an example of this with “Je m’appelle”,
which means “My name is” but literally translates as “I call
myself” !
“Salut,
moi c’est Chuly !”
This sentence
is a more laid back version of the previous sentence.
Salut is a casual greeting that can
be used with friends and family, but not too much with strangers. It’s quite a
convenient greeting, because it can be used any time of the day, whether you’re
arriving or leaving.
Then, you may
know Moi from the
famous “Voulez-vous coucher avec
moi ?” !
And try to
remember c’est as it’s
quite common in daily life. It means it’s.
“Enchantée, t’as quel âge ?”
Enchanté is what you say after someone
got introduced to you.
And we have
our first question: “T’as quel âge ?”. Note
again the different formulation us French have, as this literally translates as
“You have which age?” Also, this sentence is very unformal, because t’as is a contraction of tu as, of
bit like you’ve and you have. Moreover, although it’s not really
respected in daily conversations, the rule when asking a question is to inverse
the subject and the verb. Sounds complicated? It’s not! Actually it’s exactly
the same as it is in English: you have becomes have you?, and tu as becomes as-tu ?
“J’ai
25 ans. Et toi ?”
In English,
you say that you ARE 25 years OLD. In French, you say that you HAVE 25 years.
You already
know the meaning of moi, me.
Can you guess the meaning of toi? Yes,
you,
it means you !
“Ah
ben moi aussi !”
Ah
ben is one of those expressions that make you sound
instantly like a native French speaker. And it doesn’t really mean anything
actually, it’s like saying well.
“Cool ! Je dois y
aller… A+ !”
Cool comes from the English word cool.
It has pretty much the same meaning, except that we don’t use it in French to
mean cold. As you’ll learn French you will notice that we use quite a few
English words in our daily conversations. Isn’t that cool?!
You should
learn to say “Je dois y aller”
as it comes handy anytime you’ve got to go!
“A plus” is often written A+ and it means “See ya”.
Exactly like “See ya” comes from “See you later”,
“A plus” comes from “A plus tard”.
“Ciao
!”
Ciao is one of the many ways to say
Bye in French,
and YES, we stole this one to Italians! If you’d like a more French way to say goodbye,
you can also say Au revoir.
So now, if you say it slowly you say “au-re-voir”. But if you say it fast like
most people do, you say aur-voir.
And that’s if for explanations!
Now, I’m going to show you the dialog again, but with
English subtitles this time! But you had all the needed information to understand
this dialog without those subtitles, so try to rely on them only when needed.
[Dialog with English subtitles]
And that’s it for today’s lesson !
For your homeworks: go back to the video with French
subtitles, at the beginning of the video. Then, after every sentence, pause the
video, translate it in English, then repeat it aloud in French trying to get
the right pronunciation.
For more infos on this video and to get its
transcription, check the related blog post on my blogspot.
To see what’s behing the teacher, check my main channel, Chuly Darlyn, for Vlogs and beauty videos in English and French.
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video!
Bon, ben je dois y aller. A+ !
