Learn French - Basic Phrases for Tourists
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Learn French online for free with Wolters World. Basic French phrases for travelers and beginning learners of French. Heading to Paris or Nice or the Normandy beaches you will need to speak at least a little French to get by. Here are some basic French phrases for everyone.
Filmed in Paris, France
Copyright Mark Wolters 2012
yeah, my pronunciation is not good, but I just wanted to get a few basic phrases out to help tourists because even if you can just speak a little French it makes france even better to visit.
thanks for watching and commenting! Merci!
Wolters World yeah I cringed LOL but then I speak NO German OR Portuguese so I can hardly criticize
@@susie9893 so your unasked for comment is completely pointless 🙄 bye!
As a non-French speaker, it sounded pretty good to me. I figured you were fluent or something. Not kidding.
to all the french people who complain about his accent, i would say that you should thank's him for promoting our beautiful language.
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But this guy is making no effort at all to speak the language. I have been in beginner classes where people that never heard French before could speak better than this after thirty minutes of class.That tells me he never even listened to one French person say these words. It seems like he just read the words--out of a guidebook maybe--and then he made some wild guess about how to pronounce them. Hmmm I'm thinking that is all this guy does. He reads a few things out a a guidebook to make each of his videos: "9 reasons you got robbed while traveling." Oh here they are in chapter three of my guidebook. I'll just ready them and I'll have another low quality click bait video! What a racket!
hsuclarku2 ok well help us then man. Make a video or show me a video
they are not complaining, they are trying to help him to improve his accent. French people will never says that something is good if they think the contrary. To you it might be rude, but to french people, being sincere is a way to be polite. Hiding your real thoughts is perceived as hypocrisis.
Watching this 1 hour before my train to Paris!
you are very welcome. sorry my accent isn't perfect but hey we are all tourists aren't we? :) have fun learning French and I hope you get to france soon!
Merci :) that is one thing I always say, you just have to speak... even if you are bad at it at least you are trying and people will appreciate it. Of course if you are over 20 and learning a language you will never be accent free and that is OK, it is about trying and using your language knowledge to get to know the people and culture better. merci for the support!
cool thanks for the heads up. I appreciate it!
Great piece of work! Merci! :)
I just come back from Paris. I can feel French People really feel proud of their country, culture, and language.
I think it will denifitely be cool to speak some French when visiting France. People there will appreciate that for sure.
Had a chance to look at this particular video just prior to a trip to Paris.... and then got inspired to learn more French after the grip..... all of these phrases were vital to know! We got French Lessons from Uber Drivers and Waistaff every day.... all of them were kind and helpful. Your phrases here, all 100% good to know!
Thank you...your the man!! Helpful information...first trip to Paris coming up soon. Thanks again!
my French is far from perfect so don't take me as the end all be all :) I am just trying to help people know some basics so they can enjoy france more. thanks for watching and commenting! hope you will like and subscribe! :)
You are teaching, sir, it makes a lot of sense. Thank you
Thanks so much this is perfect. Either your a really great teacher or French is really easy to learn.
Thanks for this! :) love your lively personality
WOW this is great! Thank you!! Leaving for France in two months, and I've found so many resources to learn French however most are not what travelers really need.
this is gold. thank you! all practical phrases. cant wait for my Paris trip in Nov!
Excellent, video, bravo on your accent! It's amazing how a few basic phrases can actually make people go a long way to help you out. Congrats on your channel btw!
Thank you :)
merci :)
Thank-you! Heading to Paris in @ 2 weeks and your video was quite helpful.Thanks!
Thank you for taking the time Walter I really appreciate it
This was a great video! Feel free to check out mine as well if you're interested in some more phrases! czcams.com/video/g6_-VZP7-qo/video.html
Thanks for sharing this video. You make learning French so much easier than other translators. Very helpful tips!😍 making a note.
So warm ... and such a sweet little boy !!
I have a few other Learn French videos, one is Top 10 French words tourists should know, 4 French phrases all tourists should know, the verb to be in French and personal pronouns and question words in French. Just a few. hope they will help. glad I could be helpful
Thank you so much for doing this video! We leave for Paris in 4 weeks and all I keep hearing is that you should know some basic phrases in French and it will go a long way with the people there.... I'm super nervous because I don't speak any French, so I really appreciate the tips!
Thank you ,you video helpful as usual ,Merci
I really like your videos keep it up buddy (as a french canadian, I can tell you that you've got a pretty good vocabulary for a beginner, at least to show around that you've made an effort in order to show respect to their culture)
this is a good start.....nice presentation.
Thanks Mark! That helped a lot !! Good job!☺☺☺
Thanks for a great video!
Good job! This is for people who would otherwise not have any words to say in French. Definitely better than nothing. Going to another country can be very intimidating, so it's helpful to make people more comfortable. I've never met a French person who put someone down for their bad pronunciation, when they tried to speak French on vacation. Sure, they may laugh when you've passed by, but they'll appreciate the effort.
Merci. i will use these words on my trip to paris.
you are very welcome
Merci beaucoup. 😊
Really helpful thanks
GREAT VIDEO, THANK A LOT.
Merci beaucoup
very helpful thank you
Great video mark. Very helpful!
Great video Wolter!
Merci!
Thank you for sharing!!!
This was a great video! Feel free to check out mine as well if you're interested in some more phrases! czcams.com/video/g6_-VZP7-qo/video.html
God bless!!! I can't wait to visit Paris🙏🤩🙏!
Love this video, very helpful :) I love when videos where you learn a phrases about new language are made in that country :) Keep up the good work ! :)
Merci !!
Hi, I'm an American who's been living in France for over 25 years. First of all, bravo -in general- for your videos on Paris and France. The ones I've seen so far convey very good, useful and true information. That said, I have to take exception with the present video .. Please don't take this wrong, but as a constructive comment to help those who depend upon your help -and of course, it's just my opinion: Your accent -while charming- contains far too many faults to be useful as a "first lesson" to beginners .. (for example, "wine" in French, is pronounced closer to "van" than "von"). I think that your video is more helpful to those who already speak a bit of French as a reminder of WHAT to say . . . but not really HOW to say it.
And a second, important point: One absolutely does NOT say "Salut" (instead of "Bonjour") to a person they don't know, such as a salesperson in a shop. "Salut" is reserved for family members, friends or co-workers.
Sorry if this comes across as being too frank. I hope you receive it in the positive spirit in which it's intended. Keep up the good work!
Good tips! I hear that a lot of people (specifcally in Paris) get somewhat offended when you don't have a very good accent. Is this true?
Tyler Werbenjagermanjenson Yes, that's certainly what I've found.
naw, I don't think Parisians are offended by a bad accent ... on the contrary, they would probably appreciate any effort .. and, nowaways, more and more Parisians speak some English, so rather than suffer through hearing a tourist's bad accent -or in a genuine spirit of actually trying to help you out because they might think, because of your bad accent, that YOU are the one suffering- they might actually try speaking English with you (especially younger, internet savvy French people who have been exposed to lots of English). Any by the way, "gare" (train station) is pronounced, "GAHR", not GAH. And your son has a GREAT accent!// Cheers!
@TheRenaissanceman65 How can someone get offended when people don't speak their language, then turn around and get offended when they make an effort to learn it? Or are they supposed to go from beginner to perfect fluency before actually talking to anyone?
It's wonderful.
Thanks a lot. Your awesome.
Rohit Prasad you are very welcome!
great video
Watched a couple of your vids now we're helpful to.
Merci
I really like your video than to other. Its very common, that im now here in paris. Thanks
Thanks so much I can understand french a lot more
DO you have any other videos teaching french phrases? I found this video very helpful!
Awesome video. Thank you so much.
-Nadia from Denmark :)
Thnx for making this video
Many thanks buddy
Omg 😫 thank youu for this upload. I'll see how i handle myself in paris
This helped me out alot thanks a million
Mark Ring Thanks for watching and have a great time using your fun French!
very useful! thanks!
you are very welcome :)
Merci beaucoup!
2ndchildhood you are very welcome :)
Aww this is very good! Thank you. I am going to Paris on April 2013 :D
it's useful. Thank you :)
I like this video.
This is very helpful in terms of useful phrases (I'm heading to France for the first time at the end of this month for a few days in Paris and have been learning in prep). Just a few notes on pronunciation that I know from listening to native speakers: "Billets" is pronounced like "bi-yay" (the double 'll' is pronounced like 'y'). And 'r' is often a phlegmy 'h' sound. A lot of 'a' sounds more like 'o' such as "chambre" is "shombre". "Je" is "zhah" whereas "j'ai" is "zhay". XD
How was France? I mean it was 9 years ago
Thank youuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!
VERY COOL
Great video to teach French. Thanks Mark, you've done an excellent job. I'll use it next week with students. It's much better than any other pedagogical document you may find from officials publishers and we'll have a lot a fun practicing "je suis un idiot" !!! (in the other film in Paris).
Hey man ur videos helped so much thank u and keep it up...
saif rashed you are very welcome. My accent is not perfect but it is OK for tourist French. hope you have a great trip! Mark
thanks for the help. my grammar is horrible and it means a lot to actually get some helpful comments on here too. Merci! :)
Nice work but the accent in french is different like Vin.. Bien
Just in time for my next visit to Paris 😁😁😁
When do you head to Paris?
Merci! ^^
I thought this was helpful. My accent isn't perfect yet either. Thanks!!
Excellent video - thank you. Most of the videos I have viewed so far, they rush the French pronunciation and I can't make out what they're trying to say. This is a welcome relief. From Carey in Perth Western Australia
+Rob M you ate welcome. I do have an accent but as we are all tourists we most likely won't sound like we are native french :) but we can have fun trying to speak it and the locals appreciate it
Great! Hey, How many language do you speak?
merci beacoup
This was a great video! Feel free to check out mine as well if you're interested in some more phrases! czcams.com/video/g6_-VZP7-qo/video.html
Since it's been a few years since I took French in school, I did learn a few phrases slightly different than how you said them, but they have the same jist of things. Like I learned for Ca va, I learned how to say it 'sa va' and you said it 'se va'
Would be very nice if you post a video teaching us to pronounce or to make our pronunciation better, I would be very thankful
Merici :)
Thank you! This is fantastic for the beginner.
Thank you for this! I'm very nervous to visit Paris for the first time without speaking French. This will really help : )
+Randi Dash Don't worry too much. In Paris you won't have any problem finding someone who speaks English. That's very true in hotels, restaurants, museums and other touristic places. After a couple of days, you will learn how to decode signage and even read menus in restaurants. Just relax and that will come quickly.
+YanikCrepeau1 Thank you!! :)
Your much better than my french teacher!
It's more mastering your french than getting basic phrases imho :-) . People speaking French like you do are high class tourists ;-)
A warm "hello" and "thank you" are perfectly ok. Don't cancel your flight because you can't say "s'il vous plait"
Thanks for the upload. Helping me a lot :o)
Anthony Mann glad I can help :) I am not the best accented person but the phrases will help
woltersworld helping me too! thank you!
Thanks again for this video, as I told you in the previous video, I'm french and your accent is very nice to hear. Remember at reading the french words in this video that usually, ending consonants in french aren't pronounced, e.g. we don't pronounce the plurals visible by the ending -s or some others consonants.
Also, usually french people understand the very basic english like : Yes/No, Okay, Hello/Hi, (Good)Bye, I don't understand, I speak English/I don't speak French, Thanks you, I'm lost, I'm late.. and kind of other basic phrases.
So keep in your minds that if you can't remember the phrases given in the video you can use your basic english and people should understand you - but try to not use tranlating apps which usually translate to a terrible french often impossible to understand. :) Cheers
I have tried using Yandex and Google to translate text into Russian. I have found Yandex better, but I admit it is still not a perfect substitute for knowing the grammar of the Slavic language. My French is so much better, although I admit it will take me awhile to get my Russian-speaking ability up to where my French-speaking ability is (without using online translators).
Thanks! Great Video. Husband and I are hoping to make our first trip next year for 10th anniversary and I'm worried about the language. This was very helpful.
AndreaMarieO My accent is not perfect but for a tourist these phrases will really help out as the French are really helpful when you try to speak a little French. all the best and congrats on 10 years!!!
Nice video Mr :D
at 3:07 you can just say "ok" , even in France it's often used
A little off topic but there's a Parish(like a county) in Louisiana, USA called Terrebonne which means "Good Earth". Apparently they have extremely fertile land. OK back to the video. LOL!
This is literally going to save my life on staurday! Thank you! lol
+Jhonny Skills glad we could help :)
I know that people are bashing the pronunciations, but it doesn't have to be perfect. Tourists will rarely be fluent in French. That being said, I am definitely glad that I found this. Next summer I am going to spend 5 weeks doing an internship in Marseille, France. This is a great place to start. I'm definitly going to save this video and check out some of your others.
Keep searching youtube. There are hundreds of videos you could watch on youtube with correct pronunciation of the same words. The advice is good in a way. In French culture it is super rude if you don't say bonjour when you meet someone; so learning even this one word will help a whole lot. But, why not use a video made by someone that actually know how to pronounce the word?
I just typed bonjour into the youtube search box and came up with a couple of good ones:
(1) This one is good for an easy lesson:
czcams.com/video/TblszzYQF2o/video.html
(2) If you want spend a few more minutes to pronounce the words correctly use this one. It is less than four minutes long and you will be able to pronounce the words perfectly if you pay attention to the whole video. This lady even explains where to put your tongue to make the correct sound for each letter.
czcams.com/video/F_ntt57qrI4/video.html
hsuclarku2 I've been looking up videos a lot. Thank you for the links. I'll look at them after classes. I've been learning as much as possible. I'm very excited.
Cher/Chère Zafire Shadows
Here's is something for you to learn in French. "To do an internship" is "faire un stage." So "je vais aller à Marseille et je vais faire un stage." "To" a city is always "à." Saying "to" a country takes a whole youtube lesson on it's own; so just say "à Marseille." For pronunciation just paste that whole phrase into google translate; make sure French is selected for the language; press the speaker button and the robot voice will say it correctly. There are other ways to say "I will go" but this form of future tense is really easy for beginners like us. Use "Je vais" and the infinitive form of the verb. Keep talking this way and you only have one verb to conjugate--"to go" in present tense. Vous allez vous bien amusé à Marseille. (I'm calling you "vous" because I don't know you but that's another lesson as well.)
www.vatefaireconjuguer.com/search?verb=aller
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Bonne soirée
hsuclarku2 Wow, thanks. I'll definitely learn that one. My French isn't that good yet, but I love to learn.
nice video and your son is very cute!
Mrcsi
Yes you must ask for the bill when at a restaurant. It's not because the service is worse than ours, but because their customs are different. Different does not automatically mean poor.
You can replace "de rien" by "Je vous en prie" in case you'd want to be formal.
I misspelled that phrase while entering it in Google Translate. So I got "Kidney". So I learned that "de rien = your welcome" and "de rein= kidney".
bonjour also means good morning, fight?
When i'm asked for help in english i'm not bothered at all but it is nice when foreigners try to speak a little french.
Hello, just found your video on help with some basic french words. I need a little help with pronunciating: bainwhen I hear it I am not cleary understanding. Im going to spell it as I hear it: I hear it as: bon, bone, bocould you possible spelling an english wording for me so I can properly pronounce. thank you.
Bon = Good
Bien = Well
+ydela1961 well, "I'm good" would be translated in "je vais bien" though
My friend (who speaks French) said, if you want the restaurant bill, you would say " La Note s'il vous plait".