Salut!
In this episode of Romance languages comparison we’re going to see if speakers of
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese
can understand the French language.
Let’s meet the guests of today’s show.
Tom Gauthier - a fellow youtuber from France and a French teacher.
He's going to be the host of this language challenge.
Linda Riolo - an Italian teacher and the author of a podcast for Italian learners.
Gustavo Rangel - an English teacher from Brazil.
And Isidor Morales - a Spanish teacher from Mexico.
My name is Norbert and I bring speakers of different languages together
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Let's see, can Italian, Spanish and Portuguese speakers understand The French language?
So, I'm delighted to welcome all in this game. I will let you guess words in French.
So you have to guess the word in your native language.
And I will show you the word in French on paper and I'll tell you how it is pronounced.
Ok. I'm ready when you are.
I: Ready. G: Got it. L: Ready.
Very well. So the first word is.
This is a thing, it is an object.
On which you sit, where you sit.
Typically in a car, in a plane, on a bus.
it can also be the word for a type of chair.
It is a general word.
Yeah! Do you have any idea?
Do you understand me?
Pretty hard.
It’s difficult, it’s difficult, but…
It can be a piece of furniture but typically this is the name used when this thing, this item is in a mean of transport.
Typically it can be in other cases.
Tom, is an object that we use, typically, on means of transport?
T: No. L: Like a bus…
That's the name...
It is an object that is ... everywhere.
On which one sits.
We stand ... and we sit
Yes, yes, yes.
We stand ... and we sit.
Very well. Is it a part of some transportation means, of all transportation means?
This is not typical.
For example in a cinema you can call it too ... Like this.
It's like an armchair but it is the name of the chair in the bus for example.
Or the plane.
T: Or in a car? In a car? T: No.
I do not think so. I do not think so.
Tom, is there any relation to a seat?
Somewhere you sit on?
Yes I think that's right yeah.
Because you've mentioned the movies...
... you've mentioned airplane. Is it a seat?
Is that the word then?
Yes, maybe.
Is it correct?
Ok. And write it down.
I don't know ... I don't know if Linda is right.
Good. It was a seat.
Yes, yes, a chair / seat? Chair?
I think… Because at the cinema sometimes we use the word “poltrona”.
But, yes, chair, this. Chair, good. Great, a chair.
A seat.
Very well! Well done 100% successful.
Cool!
Difficult.
In Spanish, we call the ‘butacas’ in the cinema.
It changes, oh. The word changes, yes.
But on transportations means, yeah, a seat.
On the bus, on the car, on the plane, seat.
Ok. Great!
The next word is a person. Who starts.
Typically to learn something.
If I start to learn Italian I will be...
We will call this person that way in Italian.
This is someone who starts ... to learn something.
Starts to learn something at school, on her own, in autonomy or what?
Independently, generally at school.
It's just the level.
The level is called like that.
There is a level like that the intermediate level advanced level.
So is it…
Ok, it’s the word, the general word.
Does this word refer to the level of the person who starts to learn something?
Yes that's right I think.
Ok, maybe, it’s the general word.
I understood the same thing as Izidor. Ready to write?
Yeah, let’s write it down.
And it was a beginner.
A beginner.
Ahhh, beginner!
So, this word refers to the level of a student.
If he is starting then he is a beginner.
Yeah. It's true, it's true.
Yes. In Italian there is the word “debuttante”,
but it’s not really “beginner”. It’s used just in certain context, but we have a word.
In Spanish as well, exactly the same:
a person who sings for the first time, that performs for the first time, is a debutant
In Portuguese we've got the debutant party...
...that's when a girl turns fifteen years old.
So that's the debutant birthday party as she's making her debut before life, before the society.
It's the debutant party.
I have also heard this in Spanish but, well, at least in México I don’t think it is very common.
Very cool. interesting.
¿Entonces cómo es en italiano, Linda?
It’s a beginner.
Is it spelled like in Spanish, for example?
Beginner, yes.
In Portuguese it's the same, beginner.
The spelling is also the same.
Very well. Great.
It's different in French and there are no words like. "Principiante"
In French of course, not as far as I know in the comments,
some people will say "but if there is a word" but I do not know.
I do not know the word.
No I do not know words like that.
Ok good, next word.
It is a body part of the human body.
I think maybe even exclusively (human)
It's...
This is something we all have.
Except.
Me.
Again, please.
This is something that is part of a body part and a part of the human body,
of the human anatomy.
This is something that everyone everyone except me.
Actually not everybody except me.
Ahh, I got it! I got it!
Question: I have many, do I have a lot of this thing?
Me too.
Yeah it'll be it'll be easy.
Ready to write?
OKAY. Write it down.
That's it.
Hair in French.
In the plural.
Linda has a lot of hair.
What is a person with no hair on his head called?
A bald.
How?
Bold.
How to pronounce it?
A bold, bold.
Bald, in Spanish.
"Calvo" in Portuguese.
Also in Italian, bold. Bold
Very similar, isn't it?
Yes.
The "che" is "che" in French often.
In Portuguese we've got "careca".
"Careca" is another way of saying "bald". "Calva" or "careca".
This word is funny.
Maybe “pelato”. Maybe we would say “pelato”. But the word is “calvo”.
Ok, great, cool!
The next word. It is a room in the house or in the house or in an apartment.
This is the place ... where people sleep. Typically.
Therefore. In French we use a word for that which is somewhat an abbreviation.
So this is where... this is where we sleep, this is where there is the bed in the house.
The bed is the surface where we sleep, the furniture on which we sleep
and so it is a room in the house.
If you have questions.
es, I think so... Let’s see, Linda.
Can it be single, double, big, small?
The size of the room.
Yes, the size, the… yes
No this is usually a medium sized room in the house
not the smallest not the greatest average size.
But it would have the same name if it’s small, medium or large, right?
Yeah yeah it's the same the same name.
Yeah, if these little ones.
Ah, and you've said that's a place where people typically sleep at?
T: Yes. G: Or not?
Yeah.
But is a room in the house or a furniture?
It is. A room.
I: A room... L: Is it a piece of furniture? Is it an object? G: Uhum, an objeto in the house.
This is not an object that is not an object, it's a room.
L&I: Is it a room?
Just like here is the kitchen, here is another room.
Ok, it’s a place, it’s a place of the house.
That's a place in the house. Yeah.
Let’s see!
So it's a bedroom, in French "chambre"
A room, sometimes we say a bedroom, that's the name.
I think bedroom. Is it to sleep right? Is it the room where we sleep?
The room to sleep, right.
Everyone has everyone's okay.
Yes, bedroom.
In Spanish we also say cuarto.
So, the rooms of a house.
Habitación is also very common.
Ok and now the last word.
It is an object, is an object that has been used.
With this form, in this way it is an object that has been used for maybe...
300 years. Maybe more, no precise idea
It is an object to read the time, to know what time it is.
It's an object we carry with us.
This is not an object in the house, not in the house, it's on you.
This is typically... Around the wrist around the hand.
I think that... Everyone guessed.
Ok. Fine. Not too easy not too easy.
I haven’t guessed it.
It’s an object that we carry on us when we leave the house.
With us.
Yeah with yourself.
To know the time, to know the time.
The time.
To measure time, right?
Aham! This one was really tough for me, the sound.
I don't know.
The time. Right?
I thought about reading, not sure why.
I also thought "read".
I don’t know, but, no.
Time, because…
The time is the time as in the schedule that's a word...
Ahhh, the time!
Ah, thanks Linda.
T: An hour, two hours. L: The time. It’s the same
Linda helped me out.
Ok I think you can write.
Yes I think I do not know if everyone is right.
It is a watch for the wrist, not otherwise.
Yeah, that's it.
In Spanish, if you want to specify that it is the one you wear on the arm
is ‘reloj pulsera’
But ‘reloj’ is enough.
Ok "pulser" is very interesting as the pulse of "pulse" is very interesting.
Wrist, wrist watch.
And I think, I believe the root of the word "watch" is the old French...
"Monstrer"
Something like that.
This is to show time, yeah that's the root of the word.
Ah, it's shows the time.
Yes that's it.
Or you show the watch, right? Because you can't carry a huge clock.
What time is it? Ahhh!
What time is it?
Really interesting, cool.
And difficult!
Difficult.
The pronunciation is difficult, but beautiful, really interesting, yes
Yeah. The pronunciation is different.
Great! In certain moments I could get it because of Linda's help...
n some other moments because Izidor's help.
When I didn't understand French the other languages helped me out.
How was it for you? Did you understand anything?
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