When the FRENCH ACCENT isn't SEXY

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  • čas přidán 10. 01. 2020
  • An interview with a French job candidate becomes a game about his pronunciation mistakes.
    Writer-Director : Krishna Bagadiya
    / krishnabagadiya
    Sponsor : University Paris Saclay
    Actors :
    Tom Morton
    / itstommorton
    Olivier Raynal
    / olivier_raynal_actor
    Elspeth Graty
    / elslostinfrance
    Yohan Lévy
    / yohanlevy
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Komentáře • 7K

  • @hildaelson4203
    @hildaelson4203 Před 2 lety +51905

    As a girl, I now realise why I’m unhappy.

    • @sal2241
      @sal2241 Před 2 lety +2726

      this joke😭😭😭

    • @yesemiii
      @yesemiii Před 2 lety +760

      💀💀💀🖐

    • @zeros3345
      @zeros3345 Před 2 lety +2357

      Is it because you don't have 'a... Ohh

    • @ulin__nm
      @ulin__nm Před 2 lety +289

      Help 😂

    • @manav1051
      @manav1051 Před 2 lety +759

      The guy in the video would probably tell you
      " 'Ang in t'ere ' ilda."

  • @HerculeDevantrien
    @HerculeDevantrien Před 2 lety +22865

    As a french guy, I watched this video and immediately decided to stop using the word "happiness" in conversations.

    • @donjulioanejo
      @donjulioanejo Před rokem +3079

      So you no longer have 'apines?

    • @appleman2590
      @appleman2590 Před rokem +1651

      @@donjulioanejo he no longer uses ‘apines, which is kinda sad for him I guess

    • @leolechien007
      @leolechien007 Před rokem +196

      T'as qu'a coller un H anglais sur appiness et ça passe. Really not that difficult.

    • @StarboyXL9
      @StarboyXL9 Před rokem +2

      😆 🤣 But why not? Don't you want 'apenis?

    • @appleman2590
      @appleman2590 Před rokem +47

      @@leolechien007 I know right

  • @charlottemabury1164
    @charlottemabury1164 Před 8 měsíci +1212

    As a French person, I’m laughing so hard right now, but I’m never saying happiness again

    • @lolwutt
      @lolwutt Před 5 měsíci +7

      Lmao

    • @VikaGoose
      @VikaGoose Před 5 měsíci +5

      или научись произносить это слово правильно, наверное в ютубе или где-нибудь в интернете можно найти видео для этого

    • @charlottemabury1164
      @charlottemabury1164 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@VikaGoose (Don't worry, I live in America lol I was just kidding 🙃)

    • @pasdpasse439
      @pasdpasse439 Před 4 měsíci +13

      why do russians always write in their language even if the video itself is in English and they MUST know English to understand anything @@VikaGoose

    • @VikaGoose
      @VikaGoose Před 4 měsíci +12

      @@pasdpasse439 я научилась понимать, но не самой писать. В школе особенно не учат самим писать и говорить на английском

  • @redbaron07
    @redbaron07 Před 7 měsíci +360

    My French Canadian coworker brought lasagna to a break room meeting. It looked good when she took the saran wrap off. We were about to start the discussion when she said "I have to eat it first". OK, I guess you didn't have time for lunch, we thought. We said "go ahead" and everyone just looked at her. After some back-and-forth we realized she meant HEAT it in the microwave before she cut it up to share!

  • @anassabidar3453
    @anassabidar3453 Před 3 lety +26084

    "I 'ave 'apenis" legends say he found it in India

    • @adultishgambino8713
      @adultishgambino8713 Před 3 lety +120

      bruv

    • @askmewho9469
      @askmewho9469 Před 3 lety +96

      What did he mean in the video about the 'apenis?

    • @TimeNeverSleeps1090
      @TimeNeverSleeps1090 Před 3 lety +479

      @@askmewho9469 I believe he meant "happiness".

    • @anassabidar3453
      @anassabidar3453 Před 3 lety +276

      @@askmewho9469 he meant happiness but he pronounced it 'apenis because in french the "H" in the beginning of the word is silent so it results in "apenis"

    • @askmewho9469
      @askmewho9469 Před 3 lety +17

      Oh thank you for the answers

  • @GoUnique234
    @GoUnique234 Před 2 lety +38663

    "I realised I have 'apenis'. "
    "Of course."
    😅😅😅😅😅😅

  • @roxtrox7
    @roxtrox7 Před 2 lety +571

    I attended a French immersion school in the states for elementary and middle school. Most of the teachers were from various francophone counties. It was totally normal for us native English speakers to pick up a lot of their ESL quirks like dropping sounds or just saying a word we didn’t know in French as it were English. Because we had teachers from lots of different regions we had a wild international accent and vocabulary that was incomprehensible to some french speakers. I wouldn’t have had it any other way.

  • @sagzbebou1069
    @sagzbebou1069 Před rokem +317

    It reminds me of a talk I once gave. I was rehearsing with a native irish colleague, hoping she would correct and help me.
    At some point, I wanted to emphasise a point, so I went: "I would like to focus on... blablabla".
    My colleague just drew the largest smile I ever saw, and a tiny tear drop appeared... but I went on.
    She, as well, let me going on and, when we started to review everything that was wrong, and it was a lot, she began with:
    "Well, Ben, you pronounced 'focus' like 'fuck us'!"
    Since that day, I gave up the accent, but focused... on pronunciation!!!🤣

    • @lonelyguyofficial8335
      @lonelyguyofficial8335 Před 8 měsíci +11

      I feel left out....All I ever did as a teen with my early English, was pronounce 'December' as 'This Summer'. 😳 😒'

    • @sanic3400
      @sanic3400 Před 8 měsíci +1

      ok, but after all, did you guys focus? Did you get the focusing?

    • @olgashymanskaya6600
      @olgashymanskaya6600 Před měsícem

      Yep! Exactly I struggled with this word.

    • @dejavu2752
      @dejavu2752 Před 18 dny +2

      I cam into the comments to say that one 'focus' at the end of the interview would have totally sealed the deal! haha

  • @depressionanimations5662
    @depressionanimations5662 Před 3 lety +49832

    "We'll agree money can't buy 'apenis"
    Me: *stares in confusion*

    • @vinissues4634
      @vinissues4634 Před 3 lety +417

      He said the truth

    • @RioMuc
      @RioMuc Před 3 lety +706

      @@vinissues4634 He didn't. You cannot imagine how money can buy apenis. Lots of it, to be honest. 😉

    • @slashroar
      @slashroar Před 3 lety +475

      I'm french, and I was as confused as you

    • @MilkyShu
      @MilkyShu Před 3 lety +139

      @@slashroar i still don’t understand what that means ? Can u explain pls?😭

    • @slashroar
      @slashroar Před 3 lety +960

      @@MilkyShu It was supposed to be "happiness", but since a lot of french people don't pronounce the "h", it became "a penis" i guess :V
      Money can't buy happiness is what he said

  • @dhepermana
    @dhepermana Před 2 lety +25549

    I'm French and this is 'ilarious

    • @assessmentincharge
      @assessmentincharge Před 2 lety +497

      Bingo

    • @legm5298
      @legm5298 Před 2 lety +230

      Bien joué 😂

    • @waterandomelets6540
      @waterandomelets6540 Před 2 lety +311

      'ilariou

    • @aceiam4370
      @aceiam4370 Před 2 lety +108

      U ain't a French if you put s in the end of ilariou

    • @dhepermana
      @dhepermana Před 2 lety +286

      @@aceiam4370 It's only the S of the plurals that we drop, cause they are silent in French. But we do pronounce the S of singular names or adjectives like "albatros", "hystérésis", or "ton anus"

  • @ekaterinasergeyeva453
    @ekaterinasergeyeva453 Před 2 měsíci +8

    French people don't only drop H, they also add it in surprising places, so arm becomes harm and add becomes had. As a conference interpreter I find the French accent particularly challenging

  • @Maya_Ruinz
    @Maya_Ruinz Před rokem +47

    Love this, as a native speaker of English you dont start to appreciate your own language until you start to learn another, learning French really made me appreciate my mother tongue.

    • @lsmat
      @lsmat Před 5 měsíci +7

      German speaking makes me appreciate french speaking and french speaking makes me appreciate english speaking.
      Writing in english makes me appreciate writing in french and writing in french makes me appreciate writing in german :)

  • @comicsandanimation5531
    @comicsandanimation5531 Před 2 lety +104435

    As an Indian Im proud that he found apines in my country

  • @Darockam
    @Darockam Před 2 lety +23252

    The funny thing is that "bonheur" which sounds like "boner" is the french word for happiness.

  • @luxetveritas9196
    @luxetveritas9196 Před 2 lety +178

    This accent is so beautiful. Please, never change it when you speak English, it is perfect.

    • @ludiehmulher
      @ludiehmulher Před rokem +22

      Isn't the accent, it's the pronounce that needs get better.

    • @Nic-xf6or
      @Nic-xf6or Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@ludiehmulher totally agree, sometime by praising and say it is perfect, it doesn't help the other person and if anything it is putting the person into more embarrassing situation

    • @ELMUNDODETONY-ir1jd
      @ELMUNDODETONY-ir1jd Před 8 měsíci

      @@ludiehmulher Pronunciation*

    • @999Xn7
      @999Xn7 Před 6 měsíci +4

      Please no ! I'm French, and I hate when French people speak English with that strong accent.. It's just horrible.

    • @luxetveritas9196
      @luxetveritas9196 Před 6 měsíci

      @@Nic-xf6or there's nothing embarrassing about it or about accents in general. I do think it's perfect. I don't mean perfect as I n he pronounces English perfectly. He obviously doesn't. But the accent is so much more than that.

  • @getme2morenow565
    @getme2morenow565 Před 11 měsíci +14

    I am now in pain, I have been laughing so hard!!!!!!!!!!!!
    This french guy acts and sounds so perfect for this skit. Love him!!!

  • @user-ro2ug1bv9r
    @user-ro2ug1bv9r Před 3 lety +21858

    are we all just getting this recommended now
    (guys you can stop replying with yes now, it's been 5* months since i posted this comment)

  • @greyever7820
    @greyever7820 Před 3 lety +11583

    If only France had won the seven years war, we would all be laughing at english speakers trying to sound french.

    • @Neion8
      @Neion8 Před 2 lety +1038

      Yeah, but expecting France to win an important war is kinda...
      ...
      Just to clarify, yes that is a joke and no I'm not actually ignorant enough of French millitary history to think it's true. But it is kinda fun to poke the bear.

    • @MK_ULTRA420
      @MK_ULTRA420 Před 2 lety +252

      @@Neion8 The French Army needed Napoleon to win battles...even during the Napoleonic Wars.

    • @argentik7294
      @argentik7294 Před 2 lety +306

      Winning the Seven years War wouldn't change anything. The main problem is that France unlike Britain had a very low population in North America, around 70,000 against 1,500 000 in the Thirteen colonies. So the main problem of New france was the low populattion and it's dependance toward France unlike the thirteen colonies

    • @forestia3
      @forestia3 Před 2 lety +145

      @@argentik7294 winning the seven years war would change a lot of things because then France wouldn't have lost its territories in North America, so a lot more people nowadays would speak French, not English

    • @argentik7294
      @argentik7294 Před 2 lety +55

      @@forestia3 Like i said before the demographic difference was the problem , how can you're language be hegemonic if only 70,000 persons speak it (in contrast with 1,500 000 million that speak english in the east coast). What France should have done from the beginning is leading a settlement policy to New France

  • @gehtniemandenwasan8171
    @gehtniemandenwasan8171 Před 11 měsíci +7

    Okay but nobody is gonna talk how smooth the women pronounced his name? My hats off to you.

  • @tangchankien7134
    @tangchankien7134 Před 2 lety +7809

    I like how the company's name is just "very big company".

  • @oldtimebooks5378
    @oldtimebooks5378 Před 3 lety +5746

    One Indian man who got vexed up with "funny Indian accents" decided to roast the hell out of "sexiest accent" and he nailed it.

    • @154_shweta7
      @154_shweta7 Před 3 lety +56

      And you nailed this comment 😂

    • @canand696
      @canand696 Před 3 lety +17

      Why just only a comment ?

    • @aishwarya5663
      @aishwarya5663 Před 3 lety +23

      @@canand696 five other people liked your comment and decided not to comment lmao

    • @canand696
      @canand696 Před 3 lety +10

      @@aishwarya5663 yeah

    • @anneeeev
      @anneeeev Před 2 lety +3

      THIS 😂

  • @chrisgrad9004
    @chrisgrad9004 Před rokem +15

    As a person who was raised speaking French when I moved to an English speaking country people always got confused when I said air instead hair 🤣🤣 it has been many years but this video just reminded me of it 🤣🤣

  • @56ur4
    @56ur4 Před 8 měsíci +3

    The guy with the "h" card asked the 'apenis question, he played dirty

  • @archer7199
    @archer7199 Před 3 lety +8850

    He he, but I liked his accent. He will do wonders in HR.

    • @yasminrei
      @yasminrei Před 3 lety +232

      ‘e ‘e, but I liked ‘i’ accent. ‘e will do wonder’ in ‘R.

    • @photographealyforet8151
      @photographealyforet8151 Před 3 lety +63

      Trust me, not all french people speak like that...

    • @archer7199
      @archer7199 Před 3 lety +35

      @@photographealyforet8151 je le sais tres bien.

    • @xanderbriggs2794
      @xanderbriggs2794 Před 3 lety +15

      Don't you mean r

    • @yasminrei
      @yasminrei Před 3 lety +5

      @@photographealyforet8151 ouais moi aussi, on est pas bête

  • @astarius4381
    @astarius4381 Před 3 lety +7425

    Even me who is french, I've never listen people talking like that, but "apines" is real thing said in english classroom.

    • @Itsukazutrap
      @Itsukazutrap Před 3 lety +166

      J'ai entendu plein de gens parler comme ça... Sauf le "apines" justement...
      En général on le prononce bien excessif : AH π nès (comme Ness le personnage ou la console)

    • @astarius4381
      @astarius4381 Před 3 lety +57

      @@Itsukazutrap bah personnellement dans ma scolarité j' avais que des gens qui n'expiraient pas les h, le pi ce prononçait sans problème et ness, le e je l'entend très rarement

    • @leonzhu1301
      @leonzhu1301 Před 3 lety +10

      @@Itsukazutrap oui

    • @evelring2366
      @evelring2366 Před 3 lety +232

      @@leonzhu1301 oui oui baguette

    • @gabrielbrunet7150
      @gabrielbrunet7150 Před 3 lety +84

      @@astarius4381 le seul truc qui m'a marqué c'est une prof d'anglais qui pro onçait focus comme Fuck us...

  • @salma5356
    @salma5356 Před 2 lety +17

    No matter how many times I watch this it always makes me laugh 🤣🤣

  • @neetaarjun5019
    @neetaarjun5019 Před rokem +1

    This is hilarious...had a great laugh - thank you!

  • @tomato497
    @tomato497 Před 2 lety +31351

    my French teacher sent the class this and I'm not sure if he's trying to get us to improve our accents or if he just found it funny

    • @cliffbramlett4131
      @cliffbramlett4131 Před 2 lety +731

      Probablement ? Les deux.

    • @tomato497
      @tomato497 Před 2 lety +462

      @@cliffbramlett4131 oui tu as probablement raison (sorry if my french is shit honestly i don't do my homework)

    • @cliffbramlett4131
      @cliffbramlett4131 Před 2 lety +259

      @@tomato497 Haha no worries, I live in France and often can't find the words. I only said "Probably? Both."

    • @atlas4733
      @atlas4733 Před 2 lety +149

      @@cliffbramlett4131 the mandatory "Not *Le* deux, it's *Les* deux!"

    • @tomato497
      @tomato497 Před 2 lety +21

      @@cliffbramlett4131 yeah I got that it was just my reply I was shaky on 😅 thanks for the translation tho

  • @user-ez3iv6ji5c
    @user-ez3iv6ji5c Před 2 lety +2895

    Now every Frenchman abroad, that still retained their accent, is paranoid that the interviewer is playing accent bingo during their interview.

    • @Humanophage
      @Humanophage Před 2 lety +25

      "That still retained", as if it's easy to lose.

    • @user-ez3iv6ji5c
      @user-ez3iv6ji5c Před 2 lety +80

      @@Humanophage did I give any damned indication as to whether or not it’s easy to lose an accent? I’m just saying those who still have their accent probably will be paranoid after this video.

    • @Vysair
      @Vysair Před 2 lety +30

      @@Humanophage you underestimate how adaptable human is. Live abroad longer and you will for sure get influenced by the said environment and pick up the local accent.

    • @Humanophage
      @Humanophage Před 2 lety +13

      ​@@Vysair Not in my experience. You get long-term migrants and they speak with an accent. Hell, you get people born in an English-speaking country with plenty of natives like in Canada, and people still have a French accent and they're sad about it.
      The only people who do lose an accent are generally those who were children in an English-speaking country and who made a major effort about it (e.g., Maria Sharapova moved to the US when she was 8 and appears to have no accent).

    • @sandroselladore3506
      @sandroselladore3506 Před 2 lety +1

      @@Humanophage they probably mean still as in to this day, not nevertheless

  • @holeycheese9429
    @holeycheese9429 Před 8 měsíci +5

    I have fallen in love with the French guy 😍😍

  • @TheReal_happy40
    @TheReal_happy40 Před 9 měsíci +1

    That’s why when people tell me i don’t sound french when speaking, i get extremely relieved

  • @jorgealbertoop7952
    @jorgealbertoop7952 Před 2 lety +5000

    “We’ll all agree money can’t buy ‘apenis.”
    Transgender people: 😭😭😭😭😭

  • @lovemash
    @lovemash Před 2 lety +14572

    I live with a Frenchman and he was making fun of people with strong French accent until the moment he heard his own English speaking on record. He realized why people didn't laugh at his french accent "imitations" - coz they weren't seeing the difference!!! :)

    • @revanruler6404
      @revanruler6404 Před 2 lety +374

      i started learning english as soon as i could speak and i still feel i have a horrible french accent, it's very hard to get rid of it

    • @Alison-dt5wo
      @Alison-dt5wo Před 2 lety +275

      I asked a Polish friend what a Polish accent sounds like and she went for it with zero hesitation, which is when I remembered she always speaks with a Polish accent but she didn't even realise it herself

    • @sebastiang7394
      @sebastiang7394 Před 2 lety +84

      Well knowing how it is supposed to sound and doing it right are two completely different things. I known how a th is suppose to sound and because of this in my head it sounds correct but I usually speak them as d.

    • @JustWantToFly_
      @JustWantToFly_ Před 2 lety +33

      Just a question : how do you prononce « th » ? Some people said that we should not prononce it as « z ». Do it’s true ?
      If it isn’t like that, so how do we should prononce it ?

    • @Dee-yy1vb
      @Dee-yy1vb Před 2 lety +1

      @@JustWantToFly_ put your tongue against your top front teeth and the slightly blow air while making a vibration in your throat if that makes any sense

  • @taylorblonde9438
    @taylorblonde9438 Před 8 měsíci +3

    Lol !! 😂 I am learning French and I learn today that I need to keep “ H” on Happiness … lol 😂

  • @PaulDonaldRoy
    @PaulDonaldRoy Před rokem +22

    The world would be dull if we all spoke like newscasters. I love accents because they preserve cultural diversity.

  • @GreyKnightsVenerable
    @GreyKnightsVenerable Před 2 lety +5784

    I feel like some people genuinely don’t know that ‘apines is just happiness.

    • @pie6029
      @pie6029 Před 2 lety +339

      It took me some time and many comments to figure it out.

    • @amanmenath8098
      @amanmenath8098 Před 2 lety +50

      Yes, Penis is happiness 😂

    • @tammya5403
      @tammya5403 Před 2 lety +43

      I thought it was opinions, not happiness 🤣🤣

    • @ApexOfEvolution
      @ApexOfEvolution Před 2 lety +61

      Thanks. I was wondering why talking about one's penis was appropriate for a job interview. Had to rewatch it after knowing he meant 'happiness' the whole time, lol.

    • @yeetwchybaban
      @yeetwchybaban Před 2 lety

      @@pie6029 huh

  • @bendervorleser8906
    @bendervorleser8906 Před 2 lety +10709

    I love the two HR-Guys' acting. Their pokerfaces, their synchronized movements (especially the pen-clicking in the beginning) this total out of place "Bingo!" at the end. Stellar performance in this 1-Minute-Clip

    • @ashdjin8530
      @ashdjin8530 Před 2 lety +41

      literally the stiff upper lip exemplified

    • @rizkyandra8923
      @rizkyandra8923 Před 2 lety +11

      What is that H and S for? What does it mean when he says 'if he drops an S/H i get a point?' can anyone explain? I dont get it, but i really want to know

    • @ashdjin8530
      @ashdjin8530 Před 2 lety +132

      @@rizkyandra8923 The letter 'H' is always silent in French and native French speakers usually have a hard time pronouncing it so they don't. That's what they mean by dropping the 'H'. It's the same for the letter 'S': it's normally silent in French if it comes at the end of a word so native speakers will habitually omit it even when they're not speaking French. So basically whenever the guy at the interview omits these 2 letters and therefore mispronounces words, the 2 HR guys get points. Like each pronunciation mistake equals a point. Clear enough now:)?

    • @rizkyandra8923
      @rizkyandra8923 Před 2 lety +12

      @@ashdjin8530 thankyou

    • @cliffbramlett4131
      @cliffbramlett4131 Před 2 lety +66

      Also, kudos to the French actor. I have never heard a French person abuse English that egregiously, but he makes it appear believable

  • @arnaudcalais6346
    @arnaudcalais6346 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Je meurt de rire. Un grand bravo aux concepteurs de cette vidéo. 😂

  • @aders957
    @aders957 Před rokem +2

    That “of course” sounds so hilarious, understanding and comforting at the same time lol

  • @mohamadwafa9000
    @mohamadwafa9000 Před 3 lety +879

    Sitting on the beach in Goa, I realised, I 'ave 'apenis
    Of course
    The most majestic expression and respond.

    • @ameilioracryptos5298
      @ameilioracryptos5298 Před 2 lety +1

      Imao

    • @lisasommerlad1337
      @lisasommerlad1337 Před 2 lety +4

      i am sad. i might be missing something. what could it be.... ?

    • @nayanmishra9011
      @nayanmishra9011 Před 2 lety

      @@lisasommerlad1337 he wanted to say Happiness but pronouncing H is tough for french so a penis instead of Happiness..... Hope You get the joke

    • @lisasommerlad1337
      @lisasommerlad1337 Před 2 lety +3

      @@nayanmishra9011 thank you, yes,i got the joke. you missed mine.. (hint: been single too long)

  • @jagadeeshgurana4490
    @jagadeeshgurana4490 Před 2 lety +4624

    This concept of gaining points for every miss of S and H is hilarious and really creative 😂😂😂

    • @balduccioliv
      @balduccioliv Před 2 lety +17

      Hilarious and really créative. Just like your Mother bjs

    • @imprincesswolfy2565
      @imprincesswolfy2565 Před rokem +6

      Ilariou*

    • @paulwaltersheherfeministvl521
      @paulwaltersheherfeministvl521 Před rokem

      should i skip school for youtube video making? i making good stuff but i need much time to making. maybe replace school with making videos. i have two girlfriends. thanks for your opinion dear ja

    • @marysketch4772
      @marysketch4772 Před rokem

      I agree.

    • @huntsman9316
      @huntsman9316 Před rokem +4

      @@balduccioliv and unlike your comment, lol

  • @some-say
    @some-say Před 7 měsíci +2

    hahaha, the 'a-penis' just laughed my a*** off

  • @panama-canada
    @panama-canada Před 8 měsíci +1

    These interviews are fun!

  • @haidouk872
    @haidouk872 Před 3 lety +7210

    The frenchie speaking english starter pack:
    - We drop most of the "h", and a good part of the ending "s", because we're bringing to english the concept of "silent consonants"
    - We magically transform the "th" into either "z" or "ss", because hell, who needs those sounds anyway, you look dumb when trying to pronounce them
    - We tend to skip the preterit tense, because we can't afford to remember how it works (we already struggle to remember how our own preterit works)
    - If we don't know an english word, we just casually try to say the french word pronounced in an "english way". There is 25% chance that it will actually work out, but even if it doesn't, we'll expect you to get it anyway. If needed, we'll repeat that made up word until you understand.
    - If anyone tries to correct us in english, we'll get very offended, even though we spend our time correcting each other in french among frenchies (because yes, we also can't speak or write proper french)
    - We make various weird sounds with our lips, something like "ppppp", while talking that are confusing af for all foreigners, because we never considered one sec that we're the only ones who do that
    - We insert random "euuuuh" from time to time
    On a more serious note, I can see some reasons why most of us suck at english, among other things:
    1. When it comes to older generations (people who are 40-50+yo), lot of them just didn't care enough to learn good english back in school, because back then, there was still a widespread mentality that english was not more relevant than french wordlwide. So there was a bit of matter of pride there, like "who cares about english?"
    2. The way we learn language in school/highschool is still a bit old fashioned (I mean, atleast it was still the case when I was in highschool 6 years ago), in the sense that there is a great emphasis on learning all those gramar rules, vocabulary, etc... , but there is less focus on actual practice, let alone speaking practice. You have some speaking exercices from time to time, but it's usually texts that the students will have prepared at home, written on a sheet, so that they will only read it for the actual exercice. "Improvisation" is very rare. As such, most people who don't keep studying english after highschool are very bad at dealing with an actual "live" conversation in english. There has been some progress been made in the past decade or so, but the language education still needs to modernize.
    3. There is this mentality in french education that is deeply rooted within us and has a hard time going away: "if you don't know, you shut up". It's never told directly, but it gets slowly printed in your mind while you are in primary school, and then it just stays with you for a long time. Because of that, you are ashamed at the idea at saying something wrong in front of people, so you prefer keeping your mouth shut unless you're sure. This is especially bad when it comes to language, because language practice requires you to try speaking, and you will obviously do a lot of mistakes. And thus, I suspect that a lot of french people who are not THAT bad at english but who are not confident in their level, try to avoid speaking at all cost, to avoid making mistake, especially in front of a real english speaker. And so, they'll just lose their english level, and become even less confident, it's a cycle :/
    4. This one might sound really stupid to foreigners, but when we learn languages in highschool, there is a high chance you'll be shamed by your classmates if you try having a better accent. If you try speaking with a good accent, you'll hear a lot of "wow, look how he's trying to show off", and it can make you discouraged to keep trying. And even outside of highschool, if you are among french people and for some reason you have to say something in another language, and you try to say it with a good accent, there is a good part of people who can see it as being pretentious. Hell, I get laughed at by my own family when I pronounce foreign places names in their native pronunciation ahahahah
    Sorry, that was a long comment ahahah
    Edit: I can't believe so many people actually read this whole thing. I didn't realize so many people felt the need to express their complexes with English language ahahahahah

    • @friendlymango.2650
      @friendlymango.2650 Před 3 lety +165

      Euuh? How do u pronounce euuuhh

    • @jnealla
      @jnealla Před 3 lety +294

      Don't apologize! This is how I felt when I was in France and when interacting with French.... very unpleasant and frustrating.... even I try hard to learn French and communicate with them, like there is a invisible wall between us.

    • @haidouk872
      @haidouk872 Před 3 lety +207

      @@friendlymango.2650 Hmmm, imagine the "u" in "hurt", but by closing your mouth a bit more. Or like the "o" in "world" said with a very British accent

    • @haidouk872
      @haidouk872 Před 3 lety +531

      @@jnealla one thing I have heard from people learning French is that they feel like we French people are not supportive of their efforts and are instead criticizing . But this might come from the fact that in our culture, we value negative criticism much more than positive criticism. If something is good, there is no need to comment on it, however, if something is bad, we gotta make it known, so that it can be corrected. And this probably feels weird compared to Anglo-Saxon cultures that are, on the contrary, more into compliments and positive criticism.
      Add all the points of my initial comment to this, and it's no wonder we seem rude af ahahah

    • @asreeniram3112
      @asreeniram3112 Před 3 lety +233

      Oui c'est un long commentaire mais il est très vrai.

  • @cisium1184
    @cisium1184 Před 3 lety +1939

    "We'll agree money can't buy 'apenis. After school I went to India, looking for 'apenis."
    You should have gone to Thailand.

    • @hannahjoseph2347
      @hannahjoseph2347 Před 3 lety +36

      Lemme guess, you're from Thailand?

    • @sheepketchup9059
      @sheepketchup9059 Před 3 lety +16

      We are inclusive in that respect, unlike some countries.

    • @sheepketchup9059
      @sheepketchup9059 Před 3 lety +11

      Also this has nothing to do with trans people.

    • @raeidm.raunak4927
      @raeidm.raunak4927 Před 2 lety +39

      Yeah but i dont want a bangkok

    • @hannahjoseph2347
      @hannahjoseph2347 Před 2 lety +10

      ​@@raeidm.raunak4927 Ohhh, now I finally get the joke Cisium made after 2 months. Smh, I'm so dumb.

  • @imissmyoldacc4739
    @imissmyoldacc4739 Před 2 lety +6

    As a Goan, I'm thankful that he found apenis in my state, I hope many others do too 😊

  • @user-dg5fm7wv8i
    @user-dg5fm7wv8i Před 2 lety +1

    This was missing from my life . And CZcams recommended me this after this much time🤣🤣🙏

  • @user-mj8cf7so7t
    @user-mj8cf7so7t Před 2 lety +8173

    I was with a French girl once:
    Her: Pffff I'm so angry..
    Me: Why?
    Her: Aren't you?
    Me: Why would i be angry?! What's going on?
    Her: I mean, we haven't eaten since yesterday afternoon!!
    Me: Awww you mean HUNGRY!
    True story 😌

    • @juliemartin934
      @juliemartin934 Před 2 lety +87

      😶🤣😭

    • @NhanChanh
      @NhanChanh Před 2 lety +377

      Believe me, it's awesome but awful at the same time to be in a romance with a foreigner, since i was with a dutch girl 😂😅

    • @keithhunt5328
      @keithhunt5328 Před 2 lety +286

      H is silent in French

    • @SirKolass
      @SirKolass Před 2 lety +83

      @@keithhunt5328 Like that's an excuse lol

    • @jhonwick1856
      @jhonwick1856 Před 2 lety +187

      @@SirKolass English accent is confusing

  • @tastes-like-straberries
    @tastes-like-straberries Před 2 lety +848

    This was gold. "I realized I 'ave 'appines" was literally gold.

    • @timeless3336
      @timeless3336 Před 2 lety

      if indian men find out you made this comment you might get jumped, madam🤦🏻‍♂️

    • @gauravkumaryadav8117
      @gauravkumaryadav8117 Před 2 lety +11

      @@timeless3336 what do you mean sir???

    • @4yearsago343
      @4yearsago343 Před 2 lety

      You might dipped it to your shit

    • @yumyummaey
      @yumyummaey Před 2 lety +4

      @@timeless3336 wdym???? could you explain why????

    • @ranakonswa2169
      @ranakonswa2169 Před 2 lety +1

      @@timeless3336 no one cares

  • @kashishsharma5176
    @kashishsharma5176 Před 2 lety +2

    That "ofcourse" after "I realised i 've 'apines."
    😂😂😂😭💀

  • @PomegranateMangoStarfruitJuice

    I speak French as my second language, but I get ‘stuck’ in accents easily (it’s gotten to the point where I switch languages so often in my everyday life that it’s just more comfortable to stay in a certain accent than my native one). I will never say the word happiness in a French accent again. Lesson learned.

  • @bendervorleser8906
    @bendervorleser8906 Před 2 lety +267

    It took him a journey, but now he knows, 'apenis was always inside him.

  • @ispeaku759
    @ispeaku759 Před 2 lety +788

    Interviewing a Russian. If he rolls an 'R' I get a point. If he says a 'G' in 'ing' you get a point

    • @hubertbdlb2228
      @hubertbdlb2228 Před 2 lety +10

      Wait you're not supposed to pronounce the g ?

    • @ispeaku759
      @ispeaku759 Před 2 lety +66

      @@hubertbdlb2228 in the "-ing" suffixes where letter "n" is a nasal consonant, Russians say a usual "n" sound because we don't have [ŋ] and add "g" at the end

    • @hubertbdlb2228
      @hubertbdlb2228 Před 2 lety +8

      @@ispeaku759 thanks

    • @ispeaku759
      @ispeaku759 Před 2 lety +8

      @@hubertbdlb2228 ya welcome, bro

    • @hubertbdlb2228
      @hubertbdlb2228 Před 2 lety +50

      @@ispeaku759 now i found apines

  • @PVNICVTTVCK
    @PVNICVTTVCK Před rokem +1

    LMAO so true. I had to force myself to figure out how to mostly drop the French accent I had when I was younger, although it does become a bit apparent when I say certain things or speak too fast!

  • @aysun9354
    @aysun9354 Před rokem +1

    Je ne m'en lasse pas ! 🤣

  • @White_Oak_
    @White_Oak_ Před 2 lety +2945

    What's really interesting is that English got a lot of those words from French after the Norman invasion. They were originally pronounced with a silent H in English (herb, history, and hospital, for example). It's also why Americans don't generally pronounce the H in "herb". The accent in England changed in the 1800s and they decided to pronounce the H at the beginning of French loan words while Americans kept using a pronunciation that's closer to the original French.

    • @szenasimarton
      @szenasimarton Před 2 lety +48

      You're right. It's very interesting to see how the pronunciation varies from accent to accent or dialect to dialect. Also, Cockney is another dialect that drops the initial H. And there are other sounds which are dropped or added in different accents/dialects. For example in Received Pronunciation, which is a non-rhotic variety of the English language, there is linking R, the r sound pronounced at the end of a word if it's followed another word that starts with a vowel (e.g.: "later on") or intrusive R, which means an r sound is put between two vowels where there shouldn't be an r sound (e.g.: "India and China" is pronounced as "Indiar and China"). And there are accents where an initial H sound is added where there shouldn't be one, e.g. "Uncle" is pronounced as "Huncle". Plus people from Washington say "Warshington" which is also another interesting thing. Or some Boston speakers say "good idear", which is funny because the Boston accent is a non-rhotic one since the area used to have close contacts with the British for trading purposes.

    • @joshuaa3075
      @joshuaa3075 Před 2 lety +44

      I have a coworker that makes fun of me for pronouncing Herb without the "H." Thank you for the history lesson.

    • @internetexplorerchan2697
      @internetexplorerchan2697 Před 2 lety +8

      Canadians: HHHHerb, HHHHospital

    • @jamesbutler8821
      @jamesbutler8821 Před 2 lety +27

      What? i love pronouncing herb with the h. Instead of boring plants I can imagine a cupboard filled with guys named Herb

    • @SUPERNOVA0360
      @SUPERNOVA0360 Před rokem

      @@jamesbutler8821 How so?

  • @blyat5352
    @blyat5352 Před 2 lety +209

    I love how in the start it is written Very Big Company.

  • @orchardhouse9241
    @orchardhouse9241 Před 7 měsíci +2

    I feel bad for the French guy being interviewed. He seems really sweet.

  • @krystalkhope7429
    @krystalkhope7429 Před 8 měsíci +2

    On my funeral they're gonna say...she was a good girl.....she just couldn't control her laughter😂....
    I'm dying😂🤣this is soo funny
    That 'BINGO'😂....

  • @matrixphijr
    @matrixphijr Před 2 lety +318

    "We'll agree money can't buy 'apenis."
    This dude _definitely_ hasn't lived where I have.

    • @kevinbatdorf
      @kevinbatdorf Před 2 lety +9

      Bangkok

    • @user-sv5kt8qz3v
      @user-sv5kt8qz3v Před 2 lety +12

      @@kevinbatdorf wrong again, Kevin

    • @user-sv5kt8qz3v
      @user-sv5kt8qz3v Před 2 lety

      you get used to it after a while so it's your new normal and you need something better to be happy again

    • @_Iso_X
      @_Iso_X Před 2 lety +15

      -Actually, in France, money can buy a penis
      -You mean, hapiness
      -Both

    • @namjesus4612
      @namjesus4612 Před 2 lety +2

      where tf can i buy a penis

  • @levi_the_eggplant
    @levi_the_eggplant Před 2 lety +31

    1:00
    "I have a penis."
    "Of course."
    LMAO😂

  • @BH-fb4jx
    @BH-fb4jx Před rokem +1

    Your video is great, thank you!

  • @yasashiihitodesu
    @yasashiihitodesu Před rokem +3

    Das ist sehr lustig, wie gut Französisch am diesen video, liebe am wie er seiner Aussprache in Englisch 😄

  • @ninzouz
    @ninzouz Před 3 lety +2243

    sooooo i'm the only french person this was recommended to? lmao we do speak like that tho but at least we can communicate a bit in english ahah

    • @wasabi_civk1200
      @wasabi_civk1200 Před 3 lety +34

      Yessah😵😭😂 On se débrouille plutôt bien

    • @isabelleisabelle4896
      @isabelleisabelle4896 Před 3 lety +140

      Yes, instead of dropping an S, they should have count the misspeling of "TH" as "Z" or "S". "I sink zere were two candidate".

    • @wasabi_civk1200
      @wasabi_civk1200 Před 3 lety +6

      @@isabelleisabelle4896Yes you're right.

    • @noemie6804
      @noemie6804 Před 3 lety +22

      C'est vrai qu'on parle comme ça parfois par contre

    • @tuppernoot3902
      @tuppernoot3902 Před 3 lety +28

      Totalement. Mais bon apparemment il arrive parfois que notre légendaire accent soit apprécié. Donc c’est un mal pour un bien si on veut x)

  • @cilou9138
    @cilou9138 Před 3 lety +617

    0:40 "It make many SSSing"
    My ears are bleeding. 😅 Yet I'm French.

    • @honaydaafrias5172
      @honaydaafrias5172 Před 3 lety +4

      😂😂😂😂

    • @foxydefnaf3206
      @foxydefnaf3206 Před 3 lety +36

      génial je suis pas le seul français a détester cet accent

    • @felixweinlinger
      @felixweinlinger Před 3 lety +12

      Je suis d'Autriche et je déteste l'accent allemand. I am sorry if I made any mistakes. I am still learning french.

    • @Poppy-
      @Poppy- Před 3 lety +2

      Où Monsieur Smissss à la place de Smith

    • @Hobbit_libertaire
      @Hobbit_libertaire Před 3 lety +5

      @@felixweinlinger On dira plutôt "je viens d'Autriche", ou si tu es toujours en Autriche "je suis Autrichien", pas de soucis c'est tout de même correct

  • @somelettersandnumbers
    @somelettersandnumbers Před 8 měsíci +1

    Never gets old 😄😄

  • @allyoucancook3449
    @allyoucancook3449 Před 11 měsíci +7

    My French accent has opened so many doors for me in the US, especially in sales. I was the best salesman in 2 states, and I don't think it was due to my great look.

    • @Tjalve70
      @Tjalve70 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Maybe it was due to your great 'apines?

  • @eveemoon5772
    @eveemoon5772 Před 3 lety +662

    As a french personne, this is the funiest and the most accurate video of all times ( sorry for the grammar but as i said i am french)

    • @landofw56
      @landofw56 Před 2 lety +25

      person

    • @zezenkop412
      @zezenkop412 Před 2 lety +40

      @@landofw56 personne means person in french

    • @landofw56
      @landofw56 Před 2 lety +14

      @@zezenkop412 I know it.

    • @vraelatao2264
      @vraelatao2264 Před 2 lety +49

      @@zezenkop412 dont be an a*** ^^ about 20% of the current English language directly comes from French. If we had to react like this on every English words... oh my ! On ne serait pas sorti de l'auberge !

    • @sambros2
      @sambros2 Před 2 lety +4

      French "person"

  • @melanisticmandalorian8909

    This is fantastic, reminds me of the Canadian Prime Minster Cretien when he was talking about happiness, and everyone looked concerned, then realized his accent threw it off. Great times. The teenage me was very happy to realize such a joke could be made.

  • @Lam-ey4lm
    @Lam-ey4lm Před rokem +2

    00:59
    “...I realised i have ‘apenis”
    “Of course”
    Lmao 😂😂

  • @tanmayagarwal8513
    @tanmayagarwal8513 Před 3 lety +138

    "I realized, I 'ave 'apenis" had me laughing all day.

  • @srishtubaby
    @srishtubaby Před 2 lety +131

    "I realized, I 'ave 'apenis"
    *i may have busted a lung*

    • @ustbot7047
      @ustbot7047 Před 2 lety +3

      i think i just did, oh my chest....

  • @Black-Rose12
    @Black-Rose12 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Congrats on finding 'apines' on a beach in Goa happy to help

  • @bharath2508
    @bharath2508 Před 5 měsíci +3

    😅😂
    You already have it.
    Hilarious. 😅

  • @ethangold4900
    @ethangold4900 Před 3 lety +466

    Random fact:
    French has a lot of sexual connotations

  • @TheAym1994
    @TheAym1994 Před 3 lety +268

    1:16 Give this man an oscar !

  • @vauths8204
    @vauths8204 Před rokem +1

    "Who would be your ideal boss?"
    That's when you look at them and smirk. "At this moment you two"

  • @sergioZI
    @sergioZI Před 8 měsíci +3

    Such a creative company name

  • @someonerandom9731
    @someonerandom9731 Před 3 lety +1776

    His accent is great tho😳

  • @warpey5632
    @warpey5632 Před 2 lety +566

    I am bilingual and I find people screwing up speaking either language a good source of laughter.

    • @LeFlibu
      @LeFlibu Před 2 lety +3

      Tbh I am not bilingual and me too

    • @ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid
      @ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid Před 2 lety +7

      You would have a fuckin field day in Quebec. 😂

    • @warpey5632
      @warpey5632 Před 2 lety +5

      I _live_ in Quebec. How else would I be bilingual?

    • @LeFlibu
      @LeFlibu Před 2 lety +3

      @@warpey5632 French parents in English speaking country or the opposite

    • @stackofpancakes
      @stackofpancakes Před 2 lety +2

      I’m bilingual and I find native speakers screwing up their language frustrating.

  • @neerajtewari3018
    @neerajtewari3018 Před rokem +2

    Thank you........the concept you brought here.....and happy that fellow in the interview finally found the happiness inside him...at least that was not dropped from him.....at last he picked that

  • @bria9516
    @bria9516 Před 2 lety +72

    i literally snorted when he he said "I realised i 'ave 'apenis." LMFAOOO PLS

  • @vanessachristina._.5874
    @vanessachristina._.5874 Před 3 lety +391

    this is hilarious

  • @starcherry6814
    @starcherry6814 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Don’t lose those sexy French accents!

  • @jakovbrizic
    @jakovbrizic Před rokem +1

    Always. The answer is always.

  • @sarkaniemi
    @sarkaniemi Před 3 lety +403

    Years ago, I used to work with a French guy who spoke English with a strong French accent. Once he wanted to say that he disliked another guy. He then sad "I (h)ate him"! He meant to say "I hate him", but it sounded like "I ate him"!

  • @yourslovingly77
    @yourslovingly77 Před 3 lety +45

    "I realised I'ave 'apenis"
    "Of course"

  • @spacex9819
    @spacex9819 Před 9 měsíci +1

    The way he said money can’t buy happiness 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Jafran_Helstorm
    @Jafran_Helstorm Před 11 měsíci +2

    Now this is what called actual youtube content. I wish we had more video likes this one

  • @Wahid2073
    @Wahid2073 Před rokem +2

    Why no one is appreciating the actors? All of them are awesome!

  • @cee8226
    @cee8226 Před 2 lety +169

    "I realised I already ave apenis"
    Them: "Of course"
    I died hahahah 🤣🤣🤣

  • @putmetosleep3734
    @putmetosleep3734 Před 2 lety +178

    Well I did not expect to laugh as hard as I have at this, and I'm sure I'll watch it 50 more times in the next week. It brings me joy and apenis.

  • @mrwolf-xy5vn
    @mrwolf-xy5vn Před 8 měsíci +1

    Genius

  • @bubuxor
    @bubuxor Před rokem +2

    ça m'a bien fait rire!

  • @DivingHawker
    @DivingHawker Před 2 lety +53

    As a French guy, I have never understood what some people find sexy about the French accent. It's so... coarse combined with English.

    • @NN-zg5bz
      @NN-zg5bz Před 2 lety +12

      It's not the accent per se, rather the connotations. I.e French people are sexy, so a French accent is just telling you that the speaker is of a sexy nationality. Also french tends to be spoken in the lower registers, which is generally considered sexy (in both genders)

    • @DivingHawker
      @DivingHawker Před 2 lety +7

      @@NN-zg5bz Really? I did not know French people were seen as sexy.

    • @NN-zg5bz
      @NN-zg5bz Před 2 lety +1

      @@DivingHawker i think you're trolling me but im not gonna stroke your ego anymore dude :) congrats on ur sexy nationality now stop being coquet

    • @poncho3326
      @poncho3326 Před 2 lety +21

      @@NN-zg5bz I'm a French guy who's familiar with the "sexy french" connotation, and trust me, French people are usually not aware of this stereotype at all. They sometimes know they're seen as frog and snail eaters by the rest of the world, but every other cliche associated with french people (good or bad), they've never heard of.
      But good thinking about French being in a lower register, I had never though of that, it might partially explain why french is seen that way.

    • @__-cd9ug
      @__-cd9ug Před 2 lety +6

      @@poncho3326 exactly, in my experience it's pretty hard to be aware of how your nationality is viewed in other countries, and what the clichés are. Comparatively, clichés that your culture has, about other countries, are usually so well known that you expect everyone to know what they are.

  • @nayanmishra9011
    @nayanmishra9011 Před 2 lety +55

    'Sitting on the beach of Goa, I realized I have Apenis'. Afcourse.
    Man I died laughing 🤣..... Excellent made my Day ❤️😜

    • @thealchemist41499
      @thealchemist41499 Před 2 lety +1

      What does that mean? Please explain

    • @nayanmishra9011
      @nayanmishra9011 Před 2 lety

      @@thealchemist41499 You Really didn't get the joke Bro?

    • @thealchemist41499
      @thealchemist41499 Před 2 lety

      @@nayanmishra9011 no.. And that's why I'm asking ya

    • @esmeralda8430
      @esmeralda8430 Před 2 lety +1

      @@thealchemist41499 search for "A penis" in Google translate 😅

  • @dondevatuatencionahifluyet9883

    Fantastico!

  • @alishahoosen2071
    @alishahoosen2071 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Well im so glad he found appiness all by himself😂😂😂

  • @KewKylyu
    @KewKylyu Před 3 lety +41

    Be proud of you, because you be, do, what we want to do....

    • @emmaleroy4209
      @emmaleroy4209 Před 3 lety +4

      Cette ref incroyable 👏

    • @_tgchk
      @_tgchk Před 3 lety +2

      💀💀💀💀 il a fait honte à tout un pays entier ce jour là

  • @willow9043
    @willow9043 Před 3 lety +118

    This is one year old but we're all getting it recommended rn 😭