Le pays du yaourt et du fromage : tellement vrai 🤣 ! Chez mes parents, les repas c'était TOUJOURS (donc je l'ai fait pdt 18 ans) un plat + un yaourt ou du fromage + un fruit ou un dessert. Et si on ne prenait pas de yaourt ou de fromage, maman nous sortait un truc du style "les laitages c'est important, tes os vont se casser sans calcium" (lobbys laitiers français, bonjour !).
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Marie Bambelle 😂😂😂
@LetsChillPage
4 жыл бұрын
@@UnintentionallyFrenchified Just a question, are you now able to understand or recognize words games in French after 9 years in our country when you hear or read one, like here with the pseudo of "Marie Bambelle"? I'm just curious... :) Juste une question, êtes-vous maintenant capable de comprendre ou reconnaître les jeux de mots en français après 9 ans dans notre pays quand vous en entendez ou en lisez un, comme ici avec le pseudo de "Marie Bambelle" ? Je suis juste curieux. ("Sophie Fonfec" c'est pas mal aussi) :)))
@TheGrandy123
4 жыл бұрын
Strikes are "un art" in france!! Most of us started at school with our teachers 😊 you have them at different level of the society. So everyone has to organize according to his job : strikes on site, strikes inthe street, strikes at school, part time strikes, etc. So it might impact anyone. To keep living with minimum impact but being heard, you have to be organized ! Inform the préfecture, define the road, the calendar, etc.😂
@travisbickle81
5 жыл бұрын
Pour les "Saints"(prénom du calendrier) en général on ne fait aucune fête, on se contente pour la personne concernée d'un "joyeuse fête".
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
travisbickle81 ok!
@catimini3970
5 жыл бұрын
Et encore XD
@yoyotopyoyotop5447
5 жыл бұрын
@@UnintentionallyFrenchified Traditionnellement, c'est la veille - pas le jour-même - qu'on souhaite "bonne fête" à la personne. C'est un peu bizarre mais c'est comme ça.
@kellyg-c
5 жыл бұрын
Personnellement dans ma famille on ne se contente pas de juste souhaiter bonne fête ^^' on s'offre des cadeaux aussi ! Mais j'avoue qu'à part ma famille, j'en connais pas qui le font XD
@mallorygoossens8270
5 жыл бұрын
Could also celebrate your name day for the Saint Name your name is a derivative of... For you it would be Catherine..
@jennavanburen9473
5 жыл бұрын
I once asked "Ou est la guerre?" instead of "ou est la gare?" So I accidentally asked for directions to the war... Oops
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Jenna hahaha not bad, not bad 🤪🤣
@caciliawhy5195
5 жыл бұрын
Nowadays in Paris, that would fit.
@pingouin7
3 жыл бұрын
XD
@luceaschild
5 жыл бұрын
The name Kate is a derivative of Catherine, so you could certainly celebrate St. Catherine's day - and there is more than one St. Catherine. Choose one! A lot of smaller names are derivatives of larger, more formal names. :)
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Lucea's Child I’ll absolutely choose one then! Here’s to another celebration! 😀
@furansujinkaeru
5 жыл бұрын
A dire vrai, dans le passé nous fetions les saints aussi mais cette tradition se perd car la plupart des gens ne sont plus croyants. Quant au planning des grèves SNCF c'était une première pour nous aussi, c'était la première fois que cela a été mis en place à cette échelle.
@Lea-rb9nc
4 жыл бұрын
Twelve years and counting. For me it has been an unending gift that keeps revealing itself. I love Paris but prefer my village on the Mediterranean. Bonne courage et bonne chance.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
4 жыл бұрын
I'm not surprised you prefer your mediterranean village. Hard to be that!
@UnePaquerette
4 жыл бұрын
@@UnintentionallyFrenchified le Pays Basque 😏💙 On a de beaux paysages aussi, des vagues, et des montagnes hehehe
@missmayflower
4 жыл бұрын
Oh yea, the yoghurt. I’m always amazed in the supermarket when there is a whole aisle of just yoghurt.
@nicowanna3658
5 жыл бұрын
Lol haha i didnt even know theres Saint Joanna until my french in- laws greeted me and said it's my day that day. Lol. Loved this video❤️
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Love another reason to celebrate!!
@paranoidrodent
4 жыл бұрын
Interesting custom. It doesn't exist in French speaking parts of Canada and we're practically a living museum of archaic French custom and language. I wonder if it became popular after the Seven Years' War (the cultural divergence point), simply wasn't a thing in northern France yet by then or if our ancestors dropped the custom for some reason. Pity, we're always up for any good excuse for a party.
@abesses6630
4 жыл бұрын
« Name day » is an old Christian custom. actually it doesn’t concerns the majority of the population. The name day is mostly wished by the seniors now.
@thedavidguy01
5 жыл бұрын
I love your story about "l'arête" instead of "l'arrêt"! I was in France for 3 weeks last year and did a lot of train travel during that time. I had to do all my planning around la grève. I had made all my AirBnb reservations before the strike started, so I had to scramble and change lodging and ended up paying for nights that I couldn't stay because I couldn't get there. At the same time, the SNCF had people in the train stations helping you rearrange travel and find alternatives like Bus routes!
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
David Guy they were as helpful as they could be!
@kimc555
5 жыл бұрын
Canada 🇨🇦has a similar cultural exception for media, music, film, radio, tv as well. For example - radio has to play a specific % of Canadian content, which that it’s self is defined as music either written, performed by, produced by Canadians. Most Canadian tv/film is supported by grants, specific for Canadian content.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
kimc555 good to know! 👍🏻
@jeniferbfly
5 жыл бұрын
Great video! Your videos are so insightful. I live in North Carolina 🇺🇸 but via your KZitem channel, I live in France 🇫🇷 And when you are ready to protest pizza tax, I’m there 😂
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Hahaha I'm so glad I can count on at least one person to join my important fight!
@weswright7888
3 жыл бұрын
i like how the french people even when on strike, will still help people who need it, for example: getting your train ticket reimbursed, or the people helping to bring the stairs to the plane so people could get off safely
@lolobebel4936
5 жыл бұрын
Sainte Catherine est la patronne des femmes célibataires: ainsi, pendant longtemps on appelait celles-ci, passé l'âge de 25 ans (et donc considérées comme "vieilles"^^) des Catherinettes.
@paranoidrodent
4 жыл бұрын
Pronouncing the T's in words like arrêt as distinct consonants is very very common in English accents. Almost every anglophone I know who didn't have significant linguistic immersion in French at a young age tends to pronounce those "et" endings more like "ette" than "è". My spouse really struggles with those.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
4 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear I'm not the only one!
@xouxoful
4 жыл бұрын
Ok but if you've been to french class, I guess you would know that, wouldn't you?
@paranoidrodent
4 жыл бұрын
@@xouxoful It isn't really a French class thing (for the record, I'm a native level speaker of both French and English - Canadian and grew up in both linguistic communities). I've seen the "et" thing show up as a consistent telltale trait of English accents in French no matter how much formal schooling in the language the person has (including political candidates, CEOs and senior bureaucrats who have had the best French tutors in the country). It seems to be something that just happens subconsciously, like using the wrong R and J sounds (much like French speakers really struggle with TH sounds). My admittedly anecdotal observation has been that it takes actual immersion in a French speaking environment for a significant time period to properly soften/remove those telltales or, even better, growing up hearing the language and picking up the phonetics at a young age (even if your grammar and vocabulary remain rudimentary). I have a few friends who are native English speakers who grew up in the Montreal area and who have very broken French (certainly far less fluent than our charming channel host) but they grew up hearing and absorbing the phonetics from their neighbours around them. Their grammar is terrible, their vocabulary is pretty limited but their phonetics are bang on, the accent is generally mild (to the point that people mistake them for speakers of different Canadian French dialects so long as they keep their sentences simple), they contract their casual speech naturally (which avoids giving them that overly stiff formality of classroom French) and they know how to swear like a native (our local cursing is distinctive). These guys and gals sound like the exact opposite of someone who took lots of formal French courses (of course they got the typical basic French in late grade school and high school but that really only gets you to around a grade 5 proficiency but their spoken French is absolutely informal conversational French rather than classroom French). One of my buddies finds it terribly amusing that he constantly gets mistaken for an Acadian by Quebecois who aren't used to Montreal anglophone accents because of what he calls his "street French". He remembers picking up most of his spoken French simply by trying to communicate with other kids in the playground and while playing sports (including street hockey). Despite the fact that he struggles to get across complex ideas in French, he easily passes when he sticks to short sentences and he even slips naturally into Canadian French swearing when he gets very upset (apparently he finds it more cathartic). Kids just absorb those subtle fundamentals in ways that a teacher cannot easily pass on in a classroom.
@marsattaqueladelinquancest9727
3 жыл бұрын
You do an incredible work , Rosie as well. In fact, I am very amazed how one must explain ppl how we live. As if we lived on planet Mars. I didn't know that the culture difference was that important... I couldn't have your patience. Thanks have a good day
@chateau7
4 жыл бұрын
French pharmacies are quite intriguing. I don't know if you've ever done a clip on that. They had this product - maybe they still do - called Avibon. Now, I think it's A313 (on Amazon) - it's a type of Retin-A cream.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
4 жыл бұрын
I don't know about the product, but i love the idea of a video on French pharmacies. They are so different than US ones.
@paulchapoy992
3 жыл бұрын
The Saint day for Kate is Sainte Catherine famous for its traditional "dicton" for the gardeners: "à la sainte catherine Tout prend racine", meaning you have to plant this particular day if you wants you plants to grow up well. Célèbre aussi pour ses "catherinettes", des jeunes filles célibataires cherchant un mari.
@R0ckRoots
4 жыл бұрын
"En France on a le droit de pas être content, il faut juste demander gentiment"
@habsheim0
5 жыл бұрын
Nice to see you back. Best wishes to you for the new year. Let’s celebrate March 9th with a special video
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Same to you!
@thestonegateroadrunner7305
4 жыл бұрын
Like in France also in Germany, name saint day was even more important than birthday. My grandma never celebrated her birthday, only her name day.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
4 жыл бұрын
That's interesting to have a name day be more important that a birthday!
@xouxoful
4 жыл бұрын
Historically, birthday celebration was a Protestant thing and was disregarded by the Catholic Church, which pushed more for celebrating the name day (linked to saints) instead.
@etherealsky7078
5 жыл бұрын
Je suis française, mais je ne savais pas du tout qu’on produisait plus de yaourts que de fromages ! À vrai dire, je n’avais même pas remarqué à quel point les français consomment des yaourts tout le temps (vu que personnellement je n’aime pas trop ça) xD
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Oui par rapport aux états unis c'est vraiment énorme le consommation de yahourt!
@noefillon1749
4 жыл бұрын
En faisant le calcul : la France produit 97g de yaourt par jour et par habitant. Vu que tout le monde n'en consomme pas, ça paraît effectivement énorme sachant qu'un pot de yaourt pèse 125g.
@pmllahaye4376
5 жыл бұрын
In French, each word that ends with a consonant has this letter silent or in diftongue with the vowel that precedes it.Of course except ;-) for some foreign words like "stop"
@paranoidrodent
4 жыл бұрын
Much like the spice, the language must flow. It sounds godawful to us francophones when words in a sentence don't flow naturally into each other. The language includes all sorts of quirks just to keep that pleasant cadence. Foreign loanwords really do stand out for that, don't they?
@xAbby65
5 жыл бұрын
, I never realized how much we eat yogurts, for me it's just usual to take one after every meal... On a side note, I wouldn't say Poitiers is in South West x) Ask any person who lives near the Spanish border, they would tell you the North/South limit is in Bordeaux :P
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
I've been corrected SO much on that. I have officially changed my southwest cities :)
@noefillon1749
4 жыл бұрын
But Parisians would say that of course Poitiers is in the South. I just arrived in Toulouse this year in prépa and in my class some people said (seriously) that Lyon was in the north. I was shocked. But me, I say that the true south-west is French Guiana (I am from there). Bayonne is the north-east. Lol
@fzkxl9931
4 жыл бұрын
Good news for you, you can check most classical names are celebrated even if you can't see them on the calendar. Go to a flowershop, they often show 4 to 10 names each day, and I am quite sure Kate is celebrated on Catherine's day.
@salmanhamza4202
5 жыл бұрын
Your hair and you eyes mesmerized me
@KFCJones
4 жыл бұрын
#1 is true in the US too. Love your channel!
@Snail_Nailz
3 жыл бұрын
Yogurt is a constant staple on the West coast here in the states as well (can’t recall if we ate it quite as much growing in the midwest)...its a frequent offering w/ fruit for breky, snack during the day, and with cheese or fruit for dessert after dinner
@morganel8208
5 жыл бұрын
I spent 4 months in Québec and one of the things that I missed so much was yogurts! I don’t like Greek yogurts so I spent 4 months eating the same (and only type) chocolate yogurt (Danone of course). My roommate from Alberta was shocked when he saw me eating yogurts for dessert 😂 And it was really surprising to learn that outside France, there is no « Name Days », even if I don’t celebrate them!
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
it is really surprising for the first time to see how much yoghurt the french eat for dessert! Since it's not considered a dessert in north america, it makes you do a double take 😂
@vilayoudama6235
4 жыл бұрын
Kate is the short version of Catherine. You can celebrate the name on this day.
@ericsalt6531
4 жыл бұрын
Hello Kate! I’m Éric, I’m French and I like your videos 😊 I understand you perfectly and I would like to know where you are from in the US 😁 I might go there one day to practice my English 😉
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Eric! Thanks so much. Glad you love the videos. I grew up in a "small" town in Illinois called Springfield. It's about 3 hours south from Chicago!
@YannBidon
5 жыл бұрын
The name days celebration is not an absolute match. You must take the origin of your name and find the closest one. I'm french, living in Lyon and my name is Yann. Yann is a name from "Bretagne" and its french equivalent is "Jean" (Yann = Ian = Jan = Jean). So even if my name is Yann, my name days celebration is December 27th (Jean) and June 24th (Jean Baptiste). You're Kate that came from Katherine, thus Catherine so it's march 24th, April 29th, November 25th.
@saramilles
5 жыл бұрын
I would add you're not supposed to celebrate ALL the matching days ^^ Only one per person. For example my dad's name is François, and there are several "François" saints so several name days for this forname. But when he was born his parents chose to name him after "Saint François d'Assise" so we celebrate my dad's name day only on "Saint François d'Assise" day. My brother in law is also called François, but his parents named him after another Saint François so we celebrate his name day on different day from my dad's.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
saramilles ahh ok got it!
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Yann Bidon thanks for thé info! Hard to choose just one now 😂
@nicolasprivat
5 жыл бұрын
@@UnintentionallyFrenchified Actually u don't really need to choose. There is one linked saint day already selected for each name. For example Kate is April 29th : www.journaldesfemmes.fr/prenoms/kate/prenom-3770 You could celebrate it next month ! ;)
@tulipwindmill
5 жыл бұрын
Ah,French strikes! I remember thee farmers strikes of the 1990's trying to avoid the potatoes on the road on the way to the ferry.Locals were out with bags picking them up to take home! Uk is the same with yogurt,Im more likely to have one at work as a snack or after dinner.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
tulipwindmill I didn’t know yoghurt was a UK thing too!
@tulipwindmill
5 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah! I will sometimes have one for breakfast,but,its usually a snack or dessert,my boss is the same.Growing up,we didn't really have them,certainly not the variety we have now.I only really remember Ski and it was strawberry or raspberry.My mum didn't like them either,so,I was in my teens before I tried my first!
@ameliemelo92
5 жыл бұрын
Nope, uk is really not the same when it comes to yogurt. Go to a French shop and you will see the huge variety of yogurt. Trust me in the uk the choice is really restraint
@tulipwindmill
5 жыл бұрын
@@ameliemelo92 I mean how and when we it it more than anything. We do have a very big variety in bigger supermarkets,but in smaller stores they tend to stick with best sellers.
@ameliemelo92
5 жыл бұрын
tulipwindmill I am French and I have been living in the uk for more than 5 years now and even in big supermarkets i find the yogurt section really small. Some of my British friends visited my house in France and they were surprised about us having yogurts at dinner. But I guess it is more common to do that in the uk than in the US.
@ginadoti8698
2 жыл бұрын
Bon jour! What do you miss the most about living in America? (I have only lived by the coast in California). I think you and Rosie are very brave!!
@phmagnabosc0
5 жыл бұрын
Hi Unintentionally! I love your videos! Did I hear a very Frenchy "-uh" ad the end of the word "France" at 1:01? That's actually very endearing. ;-)
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
hahah you are completely right! It's the frenchified coming out of me! :)
@phmagnabosc0
5 жыл бұрын
@@UnintentionallyFrenchified Goud job-uh!
@laspou
4 жыл бұрын
Greetings from Pau! It's nice to hear something about my hometown once in a while 😅
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
4 жыл бұрын
I lived there for 4 months to improve my french. I loved it!
@youpihat
5 жыл бұрын
100% absolutely RIGHT !!!
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
thanks!
@alexandracsaranko8809
5 жыл бұрын
Nice to see you again!! Tip: Check the focus of the camera before filming :)
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Hi Szandi, totally agree! thanks for the tip :)
@peps7274
4 жыл бұрын
French cultural exception aims mainly to resist to Anglo-Saxon (American actually) films and songs...
@mooreanonumbers
4 жыл бұрын
It's a beautiful irony that French cultural exceptionalism gave birth to Johnny Halliday as best selling artist of all time - a man who loved America so much he borrowed dozens and dozens of American songs.
@peps7274
4 жыл бұрын
@@mooreanonumbers And so what? Johnny Halliday is just a tiny piece of French culture...
@mooreanonumbers
4 жыл бұрын
@@peps7274 French culture is very beautiful and diverse and the governement supporting arts is great, just not a fan of the CSA laws in question, which don't do much to promote creativity
@peps7274
4 жыл бұрын
@@mooreanonumbers I agree with that actually, a lot of French musicians and movie actors/producers benefit from a kind of monopoly position which makes French movies and music poorer every day. Out of the 200 movies produced every year in France, max. 10 or 15 make profit actually, the rest being supported by public subsidies. And if I may be ironical too, I guess Johnny Halliday never really needed public subsidies, he was so popular that his business always made money stand-alone... :)
@dmccoy9509
2 жыл бұрын
My son and daughter-in-law lives in Poitiers
@nadegeschiltz1447
5 жыл бұрын
If you like celebrations, you should have a look at Percent. It is the celebration of the remaining 100 days before students have to start their exams for "baccalaureat". It is pretty fun and again it is organised like a strike protest. Maybe you could make a video on it...
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Nadege Schiltz I’ll look into it!
@nellyishtari
5 жыл бұрын
@@UnintentionallyFrenchified The student thing is a fork from the origin of the père cent.... it was the number of remaining days for serving in army, the "conscrit" used to bury a manniquin or burn it during that day..... also could be to bury a fake coffin. As you might know... or not... French army was made of young people at the age of 18yo, basically "called under the flag" were people would join the army for a time, 3 years at first then it was reduced to 2 years, then 1 and was stopped some years ago to become a professional army. It was then mandatory for every boy to join and be trained in some regiment in case of war, so they would be called back (as they did in ww1 and ww2). Note also the "conscrit" is still celebrated in some part of France, it's the celebrating day of a same class of age ready to be called in army (usually 18 to 20yo)
@LauraMorland
5 жыл бұрын
Hi! I discovered you through Rosie -- this is the first time I've "turned on" your channel, and I really liked this episode! I've lived in France (Paris mostly) for a dozen years now, and I, too, am still occasionally stunned to find mispronunciations that have stuck. In my case, just last year a friend asked me why I pronounced the final "s" in "matelas"! Oh, no! But I know why: our first summer in France -- 20 years ago -- my French was quite mediocre and so were the beds in the apartment we were renting. We ended up buying two mattresses: one I found through FUSAC (this was pre-Internet days), and the other I purchased through a company called "MATELSOM," which actually accepted my U.S. check to pay for it! (I"m sure that wouldn't happen now.) Anyway, you do pronounce the "s" in "Matelsom" (which is a calc of "matelas" + "sommeil"), and that probably encouraged me to pronounce that darned "s" in "matelas." (In my defense, there *are* French words where the final consonant is pronounced: "but" [goal], "fils" [admittedly a weird one], "bac" & "fac" [although these are abbreviations]. In the theme of transportation, I'm embarrased to say that it took me at nearly four years before I was able to pronounce "Métro" correctly. I had three problems, which I fixed slowly, one at a time: my "e" was not "aigu", my "r" was American, and most importantly, I was accenting the wrong syllable! MEH-trow vs. May-TЯOW !
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Laura! :)
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
I still have a super strong accent Laura even after 10 years i cannot pronounce things properly. I've got a French video coming out in March and you'll see :)
@noefillon1749
4 жыл бұрын
There are people who don't pronounce the final "t" un "but"
@NinoJoy
4 жыл бұрын
I don't remember exacly, but I don't think we had to inform the "prefecture" for protest before the so called "state of emergency", which now sadly have totally diminish our "état de droit"
@nlight8769
4 жыл бұрын
yes, informing the "prefecture" is mandatory, getting an authorization is not, but they want you to believe otherwise. Unfortunately, respecting the law only goes one way
@CaptainDangeax
5 жыл бұрын
Thumbs up although the focus is more on the christmas tree than on your face.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
CaptainDangeax thanks! The out of focus won’t happen again 🥴
@300books
5 жыл бұрын
Interesting that you mentioned that. During the entire video I kept watching the Christmas tree. I never realized it was because it was so clear and in focus. It was almost like I was being mind-controlled to look at the Christmas tree, but didn't realize it until you pointed it out...LOL.
@susandevine3907
3 жыл бұрын
I didn’t notice the tree until reading your comment...
@notarobot5558
4 жыл бұрын
A bit of a nonformal thing is when your colleagues arranged a strike, it is considered offensive to show up at work whether you abide by or not to the protest. The reason being you make your colleagues feel bad and also are expected to show some solidarity for their cause
@clairebreuleux2928
4 жыл бұрын
Kate is the short name for Catherine so yes you have a name day 😉
@nuf412
4 жыл бұрын
SNCF is the french train service in the whole country, not just Paris
@isabelle133
3 жыл бұрын
Actually, the french train service for Paris and the suburbs is RATP, except for the TGV.
@aldonastraczek
5 жыл бұрын
We don't really celebrate name days. We do mention it but never celebrate though (at least not in paris)
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Aldona Straczek good to know!
@saramilles
5 жыл бұрын
I was born and raised very close to Paris and we always celebrated all our name days. It was a smaller party than birthdays and only between us (parents and sisters) but we still offered presents (less than on a birthday). And it is still the case even if my sisters and I are all around 30 yrs old.
@saramilles
5 жыл бұрын
But I guess it depends if your family has a religious background or not :)
@NoraGuerrot
5 жыл бұрын
We have name days in Hungary too. You would be celebrating on the 25th November as well (Katalin in Hungarian). :) I feel like here in Paris/France it's not really a thing. :) Actually even in Hungary, where it was a "big deal" 20years ago, it's going a bit out of style, as apart from some names that used to be either very common or linked to some kind of tradition, nobody's aware what name day it is on a given day (but they do announce it on like the radio and so) And with Facebook, now it's easy to know everyone's birthday. Back in the day that was a family only thing and name day was something you celebrated with friends. Sorry for rambling :D
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Nora Guerrot thanks for the ramble! Love hearing how name days are celebrate other places!
@sandrap4304
5 жыл бұрын
Yes not really a thing in France because the country is tradicionally christian but only tradicionally . But there is sometings i notice in some family like my mother in her 50's now is name after the sant of her bithdate . November's 25 so her name is Catherine. We celebrate her birthday and birth name as well (without thinking about it)
@jean-claudevoillemin4618
5 жыл бұрын
Nice to see you again, Happy new year :-D A technical point : you should have made the focus of your camera on the background, your face is kinda blurred. Yep, protests needs to be declared to the prefecture actually, Are you sure it is different in US ? when people are making a protest, don't they have to prevent the police or the sheriff ? I really don't know ,just askin"
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Hi Jean-Claude, Happy New Year! I totally agree for the focus on the background. I didn't notice until after filming, but I won't make the same mistake again for the next video! Good question about whether or not it is different in the US. I probably shouldn't assume that it is! I'll check it out!
@chalokun1
4 жыл бұрын
fun fact: un arrêt(masculine so no e here so not hearing the t...) de bus is an "aubette" in Belgium; and because it is e at the end, it is a feminine noun here.....
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
4 жыл бұрын
masculin and feminie is the worst for me! I'm always confusing one or the other and its such a tiny difference to my ears, i think its no big deal :)
@chalokun1
4 жыл бұрын
@@UnintentionallyFrenchified it is no big deal from a logicla point of view but it triggers in every french a red alert almost irrational saying:"cautino , maybe this person does not know a thing about what s=he or she is talking..."; on a "higher plane":caution this person doesn't even know the "gentilé" of this town (a gentilé is how you name somebody living somewhere;the gentilé of Paris is Parisien, Parisienne, Saint-Malo is Malouin, Malouines, Besançon is Bizontin/Bizontine, Saint-Léger Vauban is Léogardien, Léogardienne so the more tiny the town, the less you are expected to know the gentilé, but if you do, good point for you...Most of French people don't know what the word "gentilé" means anyway! ;-) ); plus when you know all the masculine , feminine, you learn German and it is almost all reverse but not totally (funnier isn't it?!)
@chalokun1
4 жыл бұрын
@@UnintentionallyFrenchified that being said there are some rules and sometimes the distribution is not even about gender but it could be grammatical: for instance the differnece between bonjour & bonne journée is more a grammatical distinction by function than a gender distinction by nature. If you say Bonjour, it carries an imperfective notion connecting to the future & when you say bonne journée , it carries a perfective notion connecting the thing to the past:that's why you say bonjour when you arrive somewhere & bonne journée when you leave, & it is a rule, the word that contains the other one(here the jour)is imperfective while the word which is contained by the other one (here journée)is perfective;the journée is litterally the amount of time in side a jour; this way of confering a progressive or perfective value to a verb through a noun is called telicity in linguistic & is crucial in Finnish language where the sentence I love Ana sees Ana in the partitive case because if it was in the accusative, you would love all Ana that is to said you achieved loving her=you don't love her anymore ; this "télicité"concept is attached in masculine /feminine in French. That's why you say :"je vais passer le nouvel an chez des amis", but "on a fêté la nouvelle année chez ma belle-mère".....
@chalokun1
4 жыл бұрын
@@UnintentionallyFrenchified sorry for the typos....
@mayfielcl
Жыл бұрын
Name day is in every christian calendars so A LOT of countries
@daneashley7651
5 жыл бұрын
Nice to know! Thanks for posting 😘
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Of course! :)
@maxk5065
4 жыл бұрын
you can celebrate st day, it the name the closer to yours (so catherine i guess is right) it's just not much of a celebration, people would just tell you "happy catherine day" if they know about it (from meteo or newspaper mostly). at some point in time you would get the name of the st if you were "born under X" (abandonned at birth) i'm not sure we still do that but maybee
@sanxmuch121
Жыл бұрын
St Catherine is also the boss of bachelorettes, who are called "Catherinettes" ...
@zaasfromparis
4 жыл бұрын
You can celebrate at st Catherine it’s fine because it’s from the same name . Like William is Guillaume :)
@thethx9205
5 жыл бұрын
il vaut mieux confondre l’arrêt de bus avec l’arête de poisson qu'avec la raie des fesses ^^
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
:) bien sur!
@hervedupont6955
5 жыл бұрын
👎👎👎👌👌👌
@photographiezautrement
4 жыл бұрын
Authentique : J'ai vu des gens l'orthographier "L'arret des fesses" (tout le monde descend !)
@pastek59
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah striking is a big thing in France, and we can start in high school, I went on strike 3 of my 4 high school years. And it's legal, you can do it 3 days long before you're 16 and then unlimited cause school is not mandatory anymore. ^^
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
It's so interesting because i've never seen students in the US strike from school. It's really rare!
@pastek59
5 жыл бұрын
@@UnintentionallyFrenchified It must be what we call "exception culturel" and sorry for my english, I don't practice it often. :p
@Laurent69ftm
5 жыл бұрын
But even if you're 16, IF you are a student registered at a school, you HAVE to go to school. Otherwise you have to leave the school and not come back.
@Laurent69ftm
5 жыл бұрын
@@UnintentionallyFrenchified I'm French and I've never seen a student strike, few people do that.
@pastek59
5 жыл бұрын
@@Laurent69ftm ben je suis français aussi et crois moi qu'il y a 10 ans tout les lycées ou presque de ma région faisait grève, et c'est autorisé je confirme, dès 16 ans, sans avoir à quitter l'école.
@chalokun1
5 жыл бұрын
the Sainte Catherine is a special name day because it is dedicated to all Young girls Under 25 who are not married (though it is a bit old and nowadays nobody celebrate this anymore): it was once upon a tie a kind of festival in the countryside to found husband to almost "old" girls :they were "the catherinettes"
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
4 жыл бұрын
Interesting! I've heard about this once because a friend of mine works in a company where they still celerbate this tradition with all the women. Seems a little strange to do it now no?
@mikerhodes9198
5 жыл бұрын
Name day. I like it.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Another great reason to celebrate!
@danaschoen432
4 жыл бұрын
Since you are in on the joke now, I'd just keep calling the bus stop the "fishbone", with a little wink toward the people who know the story. A fun little inside joke to share with the special people who have been there for you.
@migrainewarrior1798
4 жыл бұрын
It’s not that you CAN be organized, it’s that you HAVE to ensure a minimum service. Also, I’d like to add that not everybody has the right to go on strike. I’m in the police, and we don’t have that right.
@caciliawhy5195
5 жыл бұрын
Finally someone who is talking about the protests..
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
4 жыл бұрын
haha I can't tell if this is sarcastic because i feel like were all talking about protests in France all the time :)
@remil.6647
5 жыл бұрын
Note for the next time : adjust the autofocus on the blogger and not on the background. For the "saints' day", just go to Spain. There, the saints' day" is more important than your birthday.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the recommendation. I noticed after I filmed that it hadn't focused properly :/ Noted for Spain, thanks!
@remil.6647
5 жыл бұрын
By the way, thanks for being so positive. You bring a lot of energy, it's refreshing with the actual weather. ;-)
@timsummers870
4 жыл бұрын
The French and their strike culture is so overwhelming that it underestimates the purpose of a strike. It's interesting to hear of a strike calendar. Getting things done really isn't a priority in Latin countries. Rather, personal relationships are. In other words, if you don't have connections in a country like France, Italy, Spain or Portugal, you're on your own! These are very interesting places to visit but I wouldn't want to live in any of those countries.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
4 жыл бұрын
The strikes can definitely be overwhelming. We are in one right now and it's been a whole month without working metros in Paris. 🙄
@timsummers870
4 жыл бұрын
Unintentionally Frenchified : that’s too bad. Good luck to you. Thanks for your informative videos, and a happy new year as well.
@agabekarthur777AAA
5 жыл бұрын
There is no Saint Kate but in that case you use the name from which Kate is derived in your that should be Catherine. So November 25 is your "fête".
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
4 жыл бұрын
Good to know, another reasons to celebrate something!
@migrainewarrior1798
4 жыл бұрын
Funny that you should specifically mention Sainte-Catherine. First, it IS officially your day because Kate is as you said a nickname for Catherine. BUT, it is also MY day, even though my name is Marie, because I’m over 25 and not married. Back in the day of course no girl wanted to be celebrated a “catherinette” 😂. I should do research to find out where this comes from...
@Nekoala
5 жыл бұрын
SNCF runs all trains of France, not just in Paris.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
yea i corrected it in the video by text, just slipped up while i was talking.
@Nekoala
5 жыл бұрын
@@UnintentionallyFrenchified Really? My bad, I didn't pay attention I guess.
@lorrainev7303
5 жыл бұрын
Poitiers is actually a good size town and not in the South West, more like middle West :)
@anastasia10017
4 жыл бұрын
any kind of demonstration anywhere has to be given the ok by local government. if you don't have proper permissions, it is just disorderly conduct/public disturbance and everyone participating will get arrested.
5 жыл бұрын
In fact, there is no obligation to declare a protest. People are doing it to make it happen as well as possible. Protests that have not been "authorized" by gouvernement are by law completely legal. If some people think the opposite is simply because the law is not respected by the government and they do everything to limit this fundamental right, event lie. What is not legal, however, is to violently repress or imprison peaceful protesters. What the government did not hesitate to do. In 3 months, there were more than 100 serious injuries among the protesters (people lost hands or eyes, etc...) and more than 4,500 preventive arrest for no reason. And of course all the lawsuits against police violence are blocked. So when you say that people who are unhappy are "more than welcome to protest"... it can not be more wrong.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the insights! Wasn't aware of that!
@arnaudvaugeois6574
4 жыл бұрын
So you think you can know a country, a culture, especially the complex French one in 9 years?? I'm French, am 49, and still learn French stuff every day, lol. Good luck for your next 40 years!
@meenalaregina7770
3 жыл бұрын
Hi. I disagree with your statement about Quebec. I am from Montreal and would like to point out that France lost the 7 Years War in fours flat in what was then New France, in 1760. In 1760, the English came to New France and effectively replaced the French elite that fled to France. Quebec at that point became a mix of French, the British and the First Peoples. In the 1800s there was further European migration and now there is immigration from African and Latin American countries. Thanks for reading my comment. 🇨🇦
@thewirah1
4 жыл бұрын
Those quotas have never really made sense to me, but it's a very French thing to do.
@clairebreuleux2928
4 жыл бұрын
Strikes and protests aren't so romantic in France ! 😉
@purplepuma123
5 жыл бұрын
And did you ever wonder how they can afford to strike for, more or less, 2 months?! There are actually people who essentially fund them. And how nuts that I never thought twice about how much French people eat yoghurts. At my carrefour we have at least 2 aisles dedicated to it. Whereas in New Zealand you wouldn’t find half an aisle.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
purplepuma123 thé yoghurt obsession is nuts!!
@mgcelinette
5 жыл бұрын
Tu peux célébrer Kate le jour de la sainte Catherine :-) Sinon, tu peux le célébrer le jour de la Toussaint (le 1er novembre) car le jour de la fête de « tous les saints »
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Célinette MG super! Je prends le jour de la Sainte Catherine alors 😀
@osez111
5 жыл бұрын
@@UnintentionallyFrenchified Profitez-en pour planter un arbre car un dicton dit "A la Sainte Catherine, tout bois prend racine".
@IceNixie0102
5 жыл бұрын
The protesting thing...that's exactly how it is in the USA, not sure why that surprised you?
@lou6584
5 жыл бұрын
Poitiers ? Small town? South west? Nope you're wrong
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
4 жыл бұрын
It may not be south west, but its a small town for me. Everything is relative to your own experience!
@lou6584
4 жыл бұрын
@@UnintentionallyFrenchified I agree with the"own experience" thing but in France it's a city, small yes but more than 85 000 let's say it's the countryside😋
@edwinswezey5028
5 жыл бұрын
About "organized protests:" We have the same routing and timing rules in the States and in every other country I know of. The difference is in point 2, where the strikers will accommodate the customers. This is because France has more rules about nearly everything than any other country I know, and certainly more than the pandemonium we have in the US. You might be surprised that most of these rules were instituted under the socialist Mitterrand presidency, who did more than any president to create the "société de droit" in France.
@conniedoiron5111
5 жыл бұрын
I am an English speaker married to a French Canadian living in Montreal and my French in laws correct everything I say in French.Everything, I hate to open my mouth. So you are lucky Parisiennes are more tolerant to let you get away with saying fishbones. The French in Canada have a law that legislated French as the official language of Quebec and English is never seen on signs or bill boards, so it is like being in Paris.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Oh wow! My in laws aren't like that at all. I'd say the opposite, they never correct me even when i'm completely butchering a word 😅. I didn't realize the Candian's were less tolerant!
@conniedoiron5111
5 жыл бұрын
@@UnintentionallyFrenchified Canadians are very tolerant .French Canadians aren't , there's the rub.
@bricelarie6527
5 жыл бұрын
Remarque judicieuse, sur cette épineuse question ... Why do we say bus stop ? Descente ou montée de bus eût été tout aussi judicieuse, Sauf référence aux descentes de lits, dont la montée et l'arrêt n' indiquent, ni la ligne, ni les stations desservies , ni la destination . Épineuse, judicieuse, pétillante question : Quid de la faisselle ? Cette cousine, ou apparentée ...
@osez111
5 жыл бұрын
Avec le yahourt, il n'y a pas beaucoup de faisselle à faire. Juste la petite cuillère
@bricelarie6527
5 жыл бұрын
@@osez111 Qui, elle, est une habituée de la vie en brousse ...
@ash_17406
5 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure the Quebecois pronounce "l'arret" with a "t" - or maybe they're just more forgiving because I always said "arret(e)" when I lived in Quebec City and I was never corrected. It's also funny that she was never corrected in France because every time I've slipped up and say "arret(e)" the French look at me with that very blank French stare - the one that says "I couldn't possibly know what you're trying to say".
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
hahah I know that blank stare Ash which is why i was so shocked noone corrected me for years!
@batchsembilanbelas6950
5 жыл бұрын
The first thing you mentioned wasn't really funny at all, i am more shocked that you didn't know that aha i think so many countries apply to that rules. as far as i know many countries required you to report to the government before doing a protest or demonstration for safety reason if something bad happened.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
4 жыл бұрын
Sorry you felt that way! Maybe you'll like a different video better :)
@TheGrandy123
4 жыл бұрын
👍
@mistyhills9877
5 жыл бұрын
Please please please make more vids f u can. I love ur channel. I’ve subscribed 2 ur channel twice. I’m learning so much about France 🇫🇷 from u and Not Even French. I totally get what u meant n this vid. Simply because the French language is kinda hard enough as it is C liasion. But then when I hear 👂🏻 ppl speak it especially non natives it gets kinda confusing because sometimes vowels or consonants r pronounced when they shouldn’t b lol 😂 😝 😆. ............................................................................. But anyways // I love ur channel &ur blog keep up the good work. 🙂
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Misty! I totally plan on making more :)
@tanguysanchez2125
5 жыл бұрын
Fun fact about the organised protesting tho : it doesnt work 😂
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
4 жыл бұрын
It sure seems to be getting people's attention lately at least!
@delukxy
5 жыл бұрын
The entire video was out of focus so although you might have been saying something interesting I had to end it. Sorry.
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Deluk no worries!
@unusualsuspect1262
5 жыл бұрын
Si j'avais été dans l'avion à attendre les escaliers pendant 2h il y aurait eu des morts
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
haha j'ai essaye de rester calme :)
@jellyproxy
4 жыл бұрын
Name day is soooo 1990's I having heard a "bonne fete" since primary school
@ThePerksdeLeSarcasmeSiorai
4 жыл бұрын
What you describe about protests, demonstrations, and strikes also holds true here in the States because policemen will be summoned for security. There’s no such thing called “spontaneous protests” in any democratic country. The spontaneous demonstrations often happen in failed states that experience civil unrest. Remember that even the Arab Spring protests were organized. And what is so shocking about preserving the one’s own culture ? It practically happens everywhere whether you realize it or not (it also happens here in the States but at smaller scale and varies state by state but it is embraced mostly by the socially conservatives). The French are rightfully passionate about preserving their own culture. So are the Irish who even recognize the Irish language (which was vilified by many in the past, mostly by but not limited to by the Brits) as one of the official languages used in their constitution, national anthem, and education. So are the Norwegians and Icelanders who subtly reject Anglicization in their vocabulary. So are the Swiss who make make sure that immigrants truly integrate into Swiss culture (by letting the locals vote whether they should get a Swiss citizenship or not). So are the Japanese who will go at great lengths to ensure that no outside influences can transform their culture too much. Thinking that everyone embraces the globalist culture is honestly naive as best and destructive as worst because nothing will be unique or special anymore. In conclusion, you are pretty clueless as a person.
@nathalierodrigues2139
4 жыл бұрын
For the story here in switzerland (french part.) When we celebrate the saint Catherine there is the catherinette = single women under 25 y.o.😂🤷🏼♀️ ... back then was the opportunities to find a man ... 😅😂
@Roucasson
4 жыл бұрын
How come there are so many mistakes in your English subtitles ??? Even a Frenchman can spot them!
@midom9143
5 жыл бұрын
grève sncf pendant 3 mois... en 2018
@jpdj2715
4 жыл бұрын
So your name is Kate. My thoughts go out to The Taming of the Shrew, an MGM movie and a Cole Porter lyric. Your move, French hubbie.
@Waglou27
4 жыл бұрын
Are you aware that you are living in better conditions than 95% of French people ? Some people less fortunate than you are crushed day after day by the système they live in, one of their only pressure points are strikes. Sorry for the inconvience
@stephanevilboux1706
3 жыл бұрын
Avant, vous deviez choisir un premon de saint. Certaines personnes choisissait le prénom du saint du jour de naissance. Il est indiqué sur le calendrier. C'est comme cela que certains ont été appelés FETNAT. ils étaient nés le 14 juillet. Il n'y a pas de saint ce jour là. C'est le jour de la FETe NATionale !
@CleFesse
4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful american woman in France and no way to know that, that's so unfair ! :'(
@susandepalma1
5 жыл бұрын
I hope your absent ring isn't the cause of your hiatus. :(
@UnintentionallyFrenchified
5 жыл бұрын
Susan DePalma it’s not!! There was a lot of crazy things going on last year but that wasn’t one of them! 😻
@susandepalma1
5 жыл бұрын
Oh! I'm soooo glad! I love your cute stories about French men! And on a side note, I wish I'd been as smart as you at your age when you moved there. That's my only true regret in life. So, I enjoy watching you live out your happy. Thanks for sharing a slice of your life. :)
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