I surprised my friend by learning her language
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- This has been a long time coming. I spent 30 days learning French, in an effort to surprise my french friend Louise when I visited her in Atlanta. Let me just say, it was so worth it.
I've never considered myself very good at languages, but I truly believe they are some of the most valuable things we can spend our time learning. Being able to understand the way that other people around the world speak and think is something of a superpower, and this video is a snapshot of what 30 days of learning can produce. If you don't know any other languages, consider this your catalyst to start learning - doesn't even have to be French.
Leave a like if you enjoyed, and let me know about your experiences in learning languages!
Merci d'avoir regardé
Zack
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Links
Notion Document - bottlenose-lark-918.notion.si...
Full Unedited Conversation with Louise - • Full French Conversati...
State of Mind Spanish Learning Video - • How Much Spanish Can I...
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:10 Learning Plan
3:01 Day 1
3:58 Day 14
6:11 Day 21
8:31 Conversation
16:47 Closing Thoughts
18:27 Outro
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What I use to make my videos (as of publish date):
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Editing - IMovie
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Stock Footage - Pexels
Stock Music - Pixabay
songs:
- Little French Song by saavane
- French Jazz Music by William King
- The way home by OYStudio
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Making his way out of the friend zone, one croissant at a time. Godspeed mon frère.
haven't learned how to make pastries yet but thats next on the list
@zackburkhardt we want to see a croissant baking video
This vid is 10 months old, I'd be surprised he's still in the friend zone, I thought he'd move on or some. Btw, this vid just randomly got recommended to me, prob just like you, so I know nothing about this guy and his channel
@@Qrispy_Qing I'll write it down
@@zackburkhardtlol , you're bad liar 💀
"and that's how I met your mother"
he hearted it 👀
@@MrSharkFIN He hearted everything ☠️
@@hyuaahaha this cracked me up:))
En français s'il vous plaît
@@k-town873 ?
finally a realistic video with someone who learns a language and continues to struggle instead of being fluent in a short time
yes!! it just shows the reality, that learning a new language is not just easily done in 30 days . You need so much more time to really be able to have a real conversation with sb thats talking in the language (:
@@bestgamtingIkr and then there is Xiaomanyc being like
“I learned Korean in 24 hours!” 😂
Xiaomanyc enters the chat.
@@theturquoiseball1255 bruh frrr
ong
As a native, you did an excellent job in only 30 days !
Thanks!
Can we be friends please, i need to find English native friend
@@zackburkhardt yeah and french is a really hard language you did a very good job
French is really easy. Hungarian is the definition of hard.
@@godemperormeow8591 It all depends on where you are coming from and which languages you know. If you only know english, I bet everything else looks hard.
she was cute she didn't talk fast to you to understand what she was talking, adorable
As a Native French, this is impressive, I like when strangers try our language because it's really rare!!
I find your comment to be quite interesting. I wonder if maybe I’m stuck in a real-world “search bubble”. Almost all of my friends and acquaintances who have studied a foreign language have studied French. (The rest having studied German or American Sign Language.) So, French language proficiency, or at least familiarity, feels like the the norm.
I’ve been lucky enough to have visited over 20 countries (on business) and always make a point to learn a minimum of 25-50 words used there*, such as those for courtesy and directions. To me, this is not only a matter of showing at least the most basic level of respect, but also very practical. Is this really something that most people visiting France, Quebec, etc. do not do? Are, for example, Ugly Americans even uglier (rude) than my personal experiences suggest?
* the exception being The Netherlands and, to a lesser extent, Germany, because locals all but demand to use/practice their English instead. ;) Still, basic respect is shown on both sides.
Because time marches on whether we like it or not, I’m now older than I’d prefer to admit. Is it possible that, even in a world where language learning resources are now _infinitely_ more plentiful, younger visitors to French-speaking countries/regions are actually showing _less_ respect? Respectfully, I’d be curious to learn what your experiences have been.
Thanks and be well.
@@a1nelson Allow me to answer as a native french and I'm not sure I understood your comment well, but if you're wondering if tourists who visits France make an effort to learn a few words or not, I personally don't find that most people do so, or they say very well-known words that they probably already know. (Most of my encounters with tourists have been in ski resorts or in Paris, where there are a lot of young people coming in groups, so my opinion may be biased.) But i don't find rude to not learn some French though and sometimes they've a friend who speaks french really well in their group.
Tell me if i'm wrong on what you asked ;)
@@a1nelson Well I'm from The Mediterannean Side of France, and this a really touristic site, and when I see all of cultures and tourist from the World, None of them will try our language, they will constantly speak english even for the most easy things to ask, Be well too!
mais de ou
What? People learning French is rare?According to Google even just Germany got 1.6 million students learning it in school
Love how you didn't edit out the awkward silences. Makes the video more authentic. I like authentic 👍🏾👍🏾
Glad you enjoyed! Thats definitely part of the goal - that's how life actually is.
@@zackburkhardt as someone who is learning a language and also struggles to think of words sometimes, (and is also planning to go to georgia tech funnily enough lol) i appreciated this aspect a TONNN because it really helped me know that im not the only one who struggles with this. Great video, and i hope youve found more success in this and your other challenges! :D
I met my wife at school and since she’s Italian, I learned Italian in secret to surprise her. I first tried during the evenings and weekends with a language course book (this was the 1980s), but it bored me. Since I already learned French at school and was quite good at it, and the similarities between French and Italian are quite extensive, I got myself an Italian novel instead and worked my way through it over a three week summer holiday that I spent away from her with my parents.
Whenever I came across a word I couldn’t guess exactly, I wrote it down, and every few dozen words collected I looked them up one by one in a dictionary. By the end of the holiday there wasn’t a word in that 180 page novel I didn’t know, and I could have told the story by heart, in Italian. It was a full immersion and a bloody hard piece of work, but young love is powerful.
We’ve raised three bilingual kids together, and I took the Italian part of that, by the way.
Thats crazy actually👏🏼
Wow what a story. Thats awesome!
Grandissimo , bel lavoro!
I have never learned Italian language just English, German, French but in one day I had to translate Italian Albanian language pair. She is speaking very slowly.
When I was in third grade high school, it was almost 2 and half school years I had started learning French I had to interpret Albanian French language pair. You should continue learning French, for example the news cast in French language. Then watch movies in French language
the rubbing of his hands to soothe himself as he is nervous, is SO UNREALISTICALLY authentic and adorable
That look on her face when you started talking to her in her native language... So Cool and so awesome.
the best part fr
I'm quite impressed for how good your pronunciation and even accent is for such little time.
thanks! I honestly think learning German has helped a lot. They're not the most similar but just having learned a different language from english made it a lot easier to adapt to another one.
French pronunciation has rules, which is much easier than English
bro why dont you just tell her you love her???
never learned how to say it...
@@zackburkhardt you do. this is how
@@zackburkhardt HAHA you do you bro
@@zackburkhardt bro never say a girl i love you. Just let it flow with time everything will fall into place. I ve been there before too.
@@zackburkhardt "Je t'aime!" 😜
if I knew this was for a video, tutti would probably not have been on my lap the entire time
it shows your innocence
is that you????????????????????????????????????????
marry him
@@IndiaDuniya real
I like tutti.
Your pronunciation is actually pretty impressive 👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks!
Congratulations! I also learned a language fluently to surprise my friend but he broke the friendship up before the surprise. :(
Man that sucks, I'm sorry. At least you've got the language out of it though
Sorry to hear. Create new and fun memories with the language; new and fresh connections. Peace and strength papa.
😂
Wow, I imagine the lack of closure in a situation like that must've weighed a lot on you. How did you manage?
Who tf breaks up a friendship!?
I always enjoy hearing a native French pronounce words. It's so hard to imitate that accent. But you did a damn good job in such a short time. I took French in high school for 3 YEARS and I can only say bonjour! and baguette. Lol
Thanks! yeah it sounds so nice when they speak it
Je suis tombé sur ta vidéo par hasard avec l'algorithme et franchement bravo pour les efforts que tu as fait pour apprendre notre langue pas si évidente! Bonne continuation 😊
Merci!
nice job my friend,
I am very impressed by your ease after such a short time. you are amazing. kisses from France.
a lot of people say that languages are the keys to unlocking new cultures and cultural experiences and I could def see that with your german story! cool video zack!
Preciate it Govind!
for 30 days his memory of those complex and long words is crazy, being able to hold a conversation like that is really good, he only forgot some of little words in between and she managed to understand everything he said. bien joué frérot !
I'm a native french and in 30 days your french is pretty good
I think you did well for 30 days just keep at it, don’t stress. French is not easy, I grew up speaking and learning French in Senegal, once I moved to the US I realized how difficult they made the French language. Like what! So many verb tenses and prepositions!
Thank you for not faking the experience of learning a language. I believe many big youtubers fake progress for views.
as a french person, the day 21 is FUCKING impressive !!! glad you are learning my langage ! i really hope u will continue this way
Preciate it!
It's easy to memorize phrases, but when I started learning Japanese it was so hard to understand what people would say back to me. I had to study a lot of examples of conversations in CZcams videos or TV shows to get a better grasp on common vocabulary used in responses to the phrases I knew.
Yeah totally! it was a different beast going from learning online to actually trying to speak and communicate with someone
Use ChatGPT so you will be surprised but not with an actual person!
Even though you did not understand much of what she said, you did AMAZING considering the short amount of time spent. I think you may have just needed to talk to different native speakers in the meantime maybe on learning apps but that might not be possible and I think it’s great you learned something new!
Thank you! Keeping it a secret was definitely fun but yeah, it would definitely be easier to learn if I'd been talking to her the whole time
I was moved and entertained by your video. What matters most was your cute intention, your courage and your willingness to try. It was an honor watching your 30 days! Thank you for sharing this with us!
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!
I love your humility but you did a great job in such a short time! And you two are so cute and heartwarming.
Great to see people like you encouraging people to learn new things, languages, cultures, sports, etc :)
This is so wholesome. Merci pour votre efforts
What a wonderful friendship :)
I like to get you put yourself out there, sometimes expectations are bigger than our results loll, but that’s awesome and it’s human
Good effort. Well done. It gets better all the time.
One of the cutest and realistic language learning videos I've seen yet. Don't worry mate, the other videos are pretty unrealistic.
That's so sweet.I wanna friend like you
Its crazy to think we are so blessed to have the internet to be able to share these experiences with random people around the world! This was so genuine bro!! You red as a tomato had me dying lol keep it up!
Haha glad you liked it!
You did so well!!!
I just saw your CZcams video and I must say that I am very impressed as much by the quality of the language in just 30 days as by your investment during this month, you can be proud of yourself!
BRAVO !!
I appreciate the unfiltered and unedited conversation. Good luck with learning further!
Thanks! Glad you appreciated it haha
C'est impressionnant! Je suis tombé sur cette vidéo par hasard, c'est une très belle vidéo ^^
I've just discovered your channel and somehow I find myself in you. All love bro>>
this video is amazing, and i remember having seeing a similar expression on the french exchange student's face when i walked up to her and said that i was learning french, and that i would really appreciate her help. plus this video gave me some great motication to study again, merci !
That’s awesome! get back to it 😤
You are very brave bro, your effort was amazing. Congrats!
Thank you!
Incredible video!!! enjoyed watching so much
Thanks!
Insane video, I'm so happy to someone have the courage to share a real 30 days learning challenge.
Your level is really good for 30 days only and for me is better than most of people would do in 30 days.
CZcamsrs wants ppl to dream of what they could do in 30 days even if they never will because it's most of times scam or simply very talented gifted hardworking people which isn't the average :)
it's actually great that your learning french and got so good like in a month I had an american accent for like 3 months
I've heard the French love to hear an American twang when speaking french so maybe an accent isn't too bad...
that's so cool, congratulations on your progress
Thanks!
It's still a pleasure to see a foreigner learning our native language :)
I appreciated this video!
Dude that's some AMAZING content! I love how real and simple your content is! It was nice watching it. Subscribed!
Preciate it! glad to have ya
Omg amazing video!! I'm so happy to see how much you were able to improve in 30 days, made me inspired.
It gets easier when you balance the practice with someone and the grammar study. But since the beginning your pronunciation was incredible! please make more videos about language learning
Thank you! I'm glad, I hope it inspires you to work on languages yourself! I definitely plan to make one or two this summer while I'm in Germany, so be on the lookout!
I will!!😁😁 Have a good week.
Authentic and motivational forreal 🙏🏾
thank you!
This was super commendable for the short amount of time you had to learn it! And the fact is she understood your questions almost perfectly
Thanks! She definitely knew what I was saying, not so much the other way around though haha
i appreciate your efforts to learn a new language and making a good video with high quality.
Thanks!
It's sooooo cute and nice, congrats! Really amazing you pulled out long words like "amical" (friendly) early. That's really cool! You diserved your baguette and wine and reach the next level of "raclette" :D It would be so cool to see how you grew on French language and culture through the last months. Félicitations et bravo d'un savoyard (French people from Savoie region) !
Thanks so much! I haven't kept it up unfortunately but I will definitely get back to it eventually
bro no cap thanks for the notion document. ur a life saver fr
yessir hope it helps!
There's that special bond between you. Hope it goes well between you two, you both seriously have that really special look when staring at each other.
Bon courage dude
I was just scrolling through the videos until i came across this one. And i really loved it.
Ur dedication to learn French just to surprise and communicate with ur friend makes me feel that you're a kind and lovely person. Keep up the Good work❤❤❤.
Also you deserve a family so i am ur subscriber now, yay🎉🎉
Thank you! glad you enjoyed it and that you're sticking around!
having you as a friend is the best gift that she can imagine.!
you're so right
Je suis très impressionée. Bravo !
I had to subscribe to your channel, your videos look like good old days of youtube, where you dont change yourself for the algorithm sake, keep it up bro!
Thanks! glad to have ya
Love how you showed the reality of learning and how it isn't always this fast line 100% convo after the first 30 days. Just followed and makes me want to give it a try I think with Spanish or who knows many French.
Thanks! You can definitely do it, give it a shot
i’ve been learning french on and off for a few years and finally starting to take it seriously. props to you because it’s nerve wracking!
It is for sure. Keep it up!
Thanks for being relatable
of course
Keep going ! There is a lot to learn, but you’re on the right path. Impressive in only 30 days !
Thank you!
Tes progrès sont impressionants, continue d'apprendre le français mec !
Great video bro! I went to Paris twice and I appreciate you learning French!
Thanks! What'd you think of Paris?
@@zackburkhardt I thought it was too fancy lol. I also went to Frankfurt and Munich. Would love to go there again!
@@RabanyMedo haha yeah they definitely take the classiness up a notch. Munich is awesome!
Hey just got here on your video, congrats mate, 30 days of learning a language without being in the country or living with a French person, that’s pretty impressive the skills you got.
Love from France 🇫🇷💪
Thanks man!
Ton geste est trop mimi haha ! et franchement avoir tout ça en 30 jours c'est vraiment bien, j'espère que tu vas continuer !
Merci!
I just stumbled across this channel as I'm currently learning a language (swedish). I got to say I thought you would've had at least 500k subs judging from the video quality. The overall pacing and editing is really good!! Keep up the good hard work. I hope you make it big on youtube. You just earned a sub from me ❤
Thanks man, means a lot! Glad you're sticking around
Hi, I'm french and I'm very happy to see someone learn my language. I've been trying to improve my English for several years now (more than ten years) and I'm still making mistakes. So don't worry if you make mistakes, the important thing is to make the effort to learn and to be proud of your progress. I read my first book in English a few months ago now and I was proud to be able to understand 70/80% of its content.
Thanks! Thats great, keep it up
First of all I want to say that this is a really good video! I really appreciated seeing you show your level of French after learning it for about 30 days. I've been interested in learning languages for a few years and my experiences match up well with yours in this video. You did get off to a really good start and I hope that you continue with French. I'm definitely subscribing to your channel so I can see more of your videos.
Thanks man! Glad you enjoyed it and glad you're sticking around
Girl honestly you ate. Im a frenchie, and for 30 days.... you clearly have learned a lot ! im proud!
left no crumbs fr
27 days is really short, but you remind me learning alanguages is fantastic !
Bravo pour tout t'es efforts !
Wow….I studied French for several years in school and still struggled to communicate with a native speaker, so you did amazingly well in only 30 days!! I can’t imagine how anyone could possibly be critical of your results. Is this what the world has come to, that people really think you can become fluent in a language in only a month?! I’m 47, and there was no such expectation “back in my day.” Anyway, great job! You made your friend so happy!
thank you!
Starting with 1000 most common words is a great idea. You learned rly fast and you have a great pronunciations for a 30 days learning challenge!
thank you!
Great video, nice to see your progress. Super entertaining :-)
Thank you so much! glad you enjoyed
Well this lad gave me a motivation boost to learn like 3 new languages 🤘🏻😎🔥
get after it!
good job bro, super well-made video! J'espère que vous continuerez à apprendre le français!
Merci!
Un grand bravo continue comme ça, en tant que français je sais que c'est pas facile d'apprendre cette langue. Pour 30 jours je trouve que tu as un super niveau. Encore bravo ❤
Merci!
Amazing! you deserve more subscribers!
Preesh!
Overcoming the stress, putting the time and efforts into it + makin it work = unforgettable memories. Bien joué frérot !
Thanks!
Bro, I have to say thank you. I have been struggling with French for like 3 years and this video was quite motivating to me. I understand French properly but I struggle a lot with writing and speaking so I am kind of restarting my studies. Thanks for motivation, pal
Awesome, glad it's helping!
This video caused youtube algorithm to go crazy after 10 month
I enjoyed watching your video the progress and result
Thanks! Yeah it's crazy, it's just been blowing up the past few days
keep pushing zack,as an italiaj that speaks english, french and german (kinda), I'm very proud of you,it's a great way to show love to your friends
you gained my respect
Thanks!
Thanks for the notion sample.
Your pronunciation was really close from the get-go. Bravo! And it seems to be a meme here that you're trying to get awau from her friend-zone and into her heart. But whatever it is, this is a love letter about opening yourself to a new culture. I applaud you for that.
Thanks! yeah the latter part maybe
I’m an American who’s been fascinated by La langue française for many years. I never took a formal class; I learned it all on CZcams and through music. My progress was nowhere near as fast as yours. This video simply blew me away that you could put together decently complex sentences after just two weeks. I’m very proud of you brother.
Thanks man!
The comprehension part of learning a language is definitely the most difficult. I've been learning Greek for six months and just came back from a two week holiday in Greece. I could say things to people but as soon as the natives started to speak to me, I just couldn't comprehend what was going on. I'll get there one day, I'm sure.
for sure, just gotta keep it up!
Amazing job Zack ! French is a freaking difficult language and having this level in only 30 days is really good. Continue comme ça Zack, tu vas vite devenir bon ! Amitiés de Suisse 🙂
Merci!
This is awesome. Your English has gotten to be very good! Keep up the good work, Zack
He's from USA...
Thank you Alex.
Respect mec !
HONEST video. Love it. Don't belive those fake youtubers out there man. I liked this video a lot
Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it
Ive been learning German for a little over a year. It was feeling like I hadn't learned anything because of how little I understand native movies. Then I know some words and phrases in Spanish and was in a situation where I needed to communicate with Spanish speakers. Obviously I couldn't because I know almost nothing. Most of what I wanted to say I couldve said in German though at least enough to get my point across. Sometimes it feels like we went no where but we have to remember how much more we have actually learned.
This was realistic, and really awesome to see! Thank you for making this!
so true haha, I felt that when i lived in france and wanted to say things in German but just couldn't communicate. Thanks man, glad you enjoyed!
Two cuties. I can see you like a wonderful couple. There are something amazing between you. If you're just friends, oka, anyway you did great job 💯🔥
Thanks!
As a polyglot myself, The best advice I can give to ANYONE learning a language is immersion. Find music that you like in the language or movies or anything of the like. You hear how the words are pronounced and it keeps you focused on what each word means in it's context! Honestly impressive and amazing for notecards and dedication!
Thanks! i tried listening to music frequently but it was a pretty busy time of my life so I wasn't able to add a whole lot else. Probably would agree though, so much easier to speak when you know what sounds natural and what doesn't
even as someone who's been learning french since i was six (i'm nearly 21!) i still really struggle with remembering the correct grammar & words, and i also still struggle with comprehension when people are talking to me! you doing this well after 27 days is so so impressive, keep up the incredible work!
Thanks!
Love is powerful ❤️
ı feel like they liking each other and ı think this is that kind of friendship that going to end up together