J: What's up, everybody? Today's video topic is...
J: We're trying to figure it out, but we can't actually like,
J: I don't... D: Well, It's like, when you actually went...
J: But... D: And tried to do like the... J: Damn...
J: FRENCH FILLERS! [Air horn x3]
D: French fillers, c'mon!
D: Here's the thing, when you're learning
D: a new language, you're like,
D: Sentence.
D: Sentence. Period.
D: Sentence. Period. Sentence.
D: Sentence. Period. Sentence. Period.
D: Sentence. Period. Sentence. Period. Sentence. Period.
D: But, like, that's not how a real person in a foreign language speaks.
J: Unless you're robotic.
D: You have to learn those filler words. In French, there's a thousand of them.
J: Because, you're most likely gonna need a thousand seconds to actually
J: think about what you really wanna say. D: Think about it forever.
J: At least that's what I feel like.
D: Okay, so first up we have "en fait,"
D: which literally translates to "in fact," but really,
D: all French people use it to mean "actually" or "oh wait, really."
D: So, for example, if you're a restaurant and the waiter asks, like,
D: "Oh, do you want chocolate or vanilla?"
D: "Umm, y'know, I'll take vanilla."
D: "Wait, actually, I'll take chocolate."
D: "Je vais prendre de la vanille. Naa en fait, je veux du chocolat."
D: It's for when you're really indecisive, like me as a Libra.
J: Like, let's just get that clear.
J: I didn't know you could use this to start a sentence.
J: So, a lot of French people will be like,
J: "Oui en fait, j'ai étudié là-bas pendant quatre mois..."
J: Like, they'll just start with that.
J: Bref. D: Bref is like your "long story short,"
D: or like, "so basically." J: So at the "end of the day,"
J: the end of the thought is... Both: "bref."
D: Oh, the other day, I was at home, and y'know I was just chillin', and I was watchin' DJ Khaled
on Snapchat. J: Always. D: Then I watched an episode of Orange Is The New Black on Netflix.
J: Always. D: Bref, long story short, I need to get out more. J: Or me, like,
I ate a bunch of chocolate, then I ate a grilled cheese, and then I ate spaghetti *bref* I need to go to the gym.
J: What's the next one, Damon? D: "Hein?" For example, if you wanna ask somebody, like,
D: "Right? Do you understand what I'm saying?" like, "Ya know what I'm sayin' over there?"
D: Let's say you're at the gym and you're lifting weights and then you're like, "Ah je suis fort, hein ?"
Like confirming to yourself,
like you feeling good
like right? Anybody else that's around me in the gym
like I'm feeling strong!
Right? J: Nobody lookin' at you!
What do we got here? "Genre"
J: Let me just like, D: Oh what you got to say? J: To this time,
This to me, you would read this "genre"
D: Like for the longest time, I swear, on
On Facebook Messenger, I was writing it like this
D: And someone was like... J: I was writing it "J-R-U-S"!
D&J: *laughter* D: Adding extra "s"s
because it's like, okay
D: "genre" is the way to say "like"
You know how we always like say like in
like English? J: It's a lot of that
with French, but it's "genre"
AKA, "genre", but don't say genre
because that's not how you say it, you say it "ja"
D: Like, I don't know
like, "Je sais pas genre" or blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah!
D: BON! Okay, bon can start a sentence
it's your typical, like, "okay"
like, "okay, let's do this thing", like, OK!
J: Let's get started, like, D: "Bon ce que
faire aujourd'hui J: Bon, I know what I'm about to
say. D: So many people are very articulate
you know what you're about to say
then forget all the other ones and skip straight to Bon!
J: Bon, nous va a
allons terminer cette vidéo
J: OK, the next one is "euh"
So going back to those noises that we make
like those weird noises that come out of us
that's like "eh?" "huh?"
like all those things
D:When you're giving that speech in speech class you're like,
"Uh, well, I don't know!"
You would say, "euh"
J: And if you want to sound like an exchange student you're gonna be like
"Uh, je suis um (buzzer noise) Joanna"
D: Don't say um! Use "euh"! J: No, they
will know! You say "um", they'll be like
*alarm noise* ENGLISH SPEAKER!
D: Okay, real quickly you may be thinking that all of these
are kind of the same thing, and THEY ARE.
J: But you wouldn't have known these noises otherwise!
D: *laughs* Ah bah oui
D: Ah bah oui euh? J: Ah bah oui euh?
J: You're not saying anything really
but what you're saying is like "okay,
yeah!" D: Honestly,
eloquent French speakers say these things
And you need to know them if you want to be fluent in French!
J: Okay, to conclude this lesson we need to know, can we
use all of these words on the board to
make a sentence that means nothing
AT ALL! D: We just taught you
everything and nothing at the same time!
J: 'Cause it don't mean nothing, but okay! So we
would start with like a little "en fait"
to "hein, genre"
"euh.." D: Bon,
ah bah oui, bref!
J: Always end with the bref. D: Always gotta end with the bref.
Don't let it slip, you're just trying to get it across
J: We just nailed that point on home!
D: You got it? Like,
J: Okay? D: These words are
honestly you're saying nothing at all
but you're saying so much at the same time! J: You're saying
you are fluent because now you know French
fillers and, D: You sound natural
when you say these things and so actually
what we're going to do now is if you have a French filler word
please write it in the comment section below
J: And let us know what other filler words we needa be fillin
our mouths with! *elated exclaims*
And also, click that subscribe button
We'll be back with more lessons. D: Give it a thumbs up
and we will see you in the next video,
Bisous! J: Byeee
J: This is the most like
powerful word. D: Like
en fait, en fait, is used all the time
like it's actually used all the time J: And, in order for me to really know
what you're talking about. It's like "Jo,
when's your birthday?" "En fait, C'est le
8 juillet." Like, okay, that was
important to tell you! D: We got two
videos over there, more French right here
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Okay, byeee