Bonjour my name is Rebecca and welcome to intro to French in this video you'll
learn the advantages of learning French as a foreign language I bet you didn't
know that French is the official language in 29 countries in the world I
have traveled to France to Geneva in Switzerland to Belgium and to Montreal
Canada it's so amazing that you can travel to all these places and be able
to hear and speak French wherever you go French is spoken as a first language in
the country of France in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick in
Belgium in western Switzerland and in Monaco it's also spoken in other parts
of Canada and in the United States as well as around the world as a second
language the most second language French speakers live in Africa especially in
Algeria Senegal and the Ivory Coast as a result of having so many second language
speakers there are many French dialects this means the French language took on a
different form and sound depending on the region or the social group speaking
it for example if you go to Paris you will hear the standard French but if you
visit Quebec or New Brunswick you will hear a Quebec French or Acadian French
which sound very different because the language evolved from the two different
social groups that lived in those regions you might be familiar with
Louisiana French in the United States this is a French dialect to community
members of French speaking countries are said to be part of La Francophonie or
the francophone population France is also known for its great food and also
for fashion and fabulous sights like the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre Museum where
you can find the famous painting of the Mona Lisa the French language uses
the same 26 letter alphabet as English French also has five different accents
like these French nouns have two genders masculine or feminine the articles lit
for masculine and lap for feminine are always used for example in French we say
Le garcon and la fille we're in English we say the boy and the girl French verbs
are said to be tricky to break down or conjugate we know that word is a verb in
French because it ends in ER ir or an re in french verbs are conjugated in
several ways they can be regular or irregular which means some follow a
specific pattern we're breaking down whereas others are exceptions to the
rules the verbs can be personal or impersonal which means they are broken
down differently for each grammatical person for example breaking down the
verb to have or avoir in the present tense in french will be written
differently depending on the person we are relating to whether it be I you he
she it we you or they in French it would look like this j' Tu il/elle
nous vous els/elles whereas in the matching English breakdown barely
changes I have you have he or she or it has we have you have they have there are
eleven main verb forms in the French language there are simple verb forms and
compound verb forms wow that's a lot of verbs to know how to break down to speak
French properly luckily there are many books online courses and videos to help
you you might want to invest in special verb dictionary
like this one that also is available as an app you can find 12,000 verbs
conjugated correctly even on the go if you want to become fluent in French you
might want to travel to France or Quebec or other french-speaking countries and
provinces you can also take some language classes in your city get a head
start by playing our fun online games and quizzes begin with our fun picture
games like learn French in the kitchen and learn French at the boutique and
then continue with our more challenging vocabulary practice gains agua and
remember to always be clever