While the vocabulary of the love language is known for being charming and sophisticated, French language is also pretty ridiculous sometimes. Let's celebrate a few of French grammar moments that really made us mort de rire.
French is spoken by an estimated 274 million people in the world, but that doesn't mean it's a walk in the park. French pronunciation has up to 17 vowels depending on the dialect, and most of them are nasal. Many words sound the same but mean completely different things. Everything has a gender. It can take days of examining your relationship to someone before you figure out if it's more polite to call them tu or vous. Oh, and also we must not forget the funny French way of counting! Adding all of this together, French sure seems like the hardest language to learn.
Whether you consider yourself a Francophile, or you've barely mastered bonjour, these struggles will be all too real. To make the French learning process a bit easier we've compiled some really funny jokes about it, so at least you can practice your laughing in French.
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French Cats
The French Way Of Counting
The Correct Way To Name A Potato
French School Years
They are counting how many years left before they can go to uni and do dru- I mean study hard.
way to go on making my life more complicated, france. am i in eighth grade(US) or 4th grade? BAWWW!!
ÉCOLE MATERNELLE CYCLE 1 PS petite section MS moyenne section GS grande section ÉCOLE PRIMAIRE CYCLE 2 CP Cours préparatoire CE1-CE2 cours élémentaire 1-2 CYCLE 3 CM1-CM2 cours moyen 1-2 COLLEGE 6e 5e 4e 3e LYCÉE 2e 1e terminale >>>> baccalaureate (examen general culture before specialization in high studies)
Before CP it's Maternelle, not kindergarten, and there are 3 years you can do there, but not all children go
In Brazil you go 9 years and then you go back to the first. Cool right?
Where I lives it's kindergarten, grade 1 to 6 and then secondary (secondaire) 1 to 5
We don’t say « kindergarten » in France we say « Maternelle » ( which means maternal ) and it lasts for 3 years
We use the grades as well. Freshman et al are more like slang terms.
French makes sense too , once again for historical reasons , CM2 was 7th , CM1 8th etc. Terminale means end ( just like in an airport) , so it means when you are in terminale ( to use the french terms) it means you're done with your secondary studis
It's actually slightly worse. Kindergarten is divided in "petite section", "moyenne section", "grande section" and even sometimes "toute petite section" depending at what age the kid starts going to school.
I agree with the sophomore, (especially the spelling of THAT!) senior thing. It should just be 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th. That is what I have always said.
Well well well, from 3 years to University in france its... TOTALLY FREE... sorry if it's confusing , so go back to work people and pay the bills...
When I was at school in England it went; Primary school:- 1st year 2nd year 3rd year 4th year Middle school:- 1st year 2nd year 3rd year 4th year High school 3rd form (wtf) 4th form 5th form 6th form Upper 6th (YOU WHAT)?
Whoa, I'm from England and have never heard of such a confusing counting system for a school!
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People (including American people) forget America is a melting pot of people from all over the world. America has words and customs from every other part of the world and sometimes what got kept and what has been discarded has no logical explanation
The French Numeric System
But it's pronounced 'kes ke say' a lot of French autograph has silent letters
99 Problems, But Longer
Funny French Language
French Numerals
Not all french speaking countries count this way. Belgium and Switzerland still use, septante (70), huitante (80) and nonante (90)
Funny French Expressions
"Go on and cry, you'll p**s less". Great! I will use it in italian
The French Word For Shower
Funny French Language
La Petite Mort
Tu vs. Vous
The English Have Landed
Magic Baguette
French Letters And Their Pronunciation
Funny French Language
Actually more like "oil of nut of coco", or else French would be "huile de la noix du coco" whereas it's "huile de noix de coco". Makes sense.
The Love Language
Diversifying Words
Learning The French Language
Confusing Language
but then again he spelled it as "handfull". how we know if he meant handful or hand full? it's ok to be confused! ;)
The Law Is The Law
I Am Late
Funny French Language
I'm fairly certain that "breaking my balls" is also an English phrase. Not sure what country it originates from.
Word Similarities
Until you meet "actually" "actuellement" "eventually" et "éventuellement" or dramatic/dramatique which ended with different meanings xD
French Language Jokes
Oui = yes in french + ja = yes in german = oui+ja = ouija. Sorry, mate
Minute Changes
One Big Ooof, Please
Ne vous inquiétez pas, vos expressions idiomatiques sont hilarantes aussi. Do not worry, your idiomatic expressions are hilarious too.
I think it's nice we can make fun of each other. Laughter makes the world a better place!
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And then people complain because Spanish is weird... Yo hablo los tres idiomas; Français est le plus difficile mais je l'aime tout de même. That's all! Gracias :)
The one thing that makes me crazy is the way that in French, nouns have to be preceded by what in English we would translate as "the", that is "le / la". I'm sure someone will point out something like "you don't have to when speaking French casually, or in this dialect" but you know what I mean - generally "proper".
is nobody here going to talk about the significance of the tu in permets-tu? ok then...
When my grandmother was taking french, she only learned written french, so when she moved schools (either changing schools or going to a higher school (middle to high school, etc) her french class was primarily spoken french, so on the first day the teacher would speak rapid fire french, and she couldn’t understand anything. At one point he pointed to her and asked her a question in french, and she’s like, “Uhhh...” and he was like, ”Oui! Un!” (like the number).
Regarding Tu and Vous, that applies to many other languages. I'm not sure if any of us would like to keep it, though. :-)
Je ne savais pas que ce genre de choses existaient xD c'est enrichissant !
French is diverse. In Switzerland and Belgium 97 is 90 + 7 "nonante-sept" not the funny "quatre-vingt dix-sept".
With the current political, global disarray, the timing of this is left to be desired
Hi, french there. I'd like to say all of this is not true, but i would lie x) Really funny, thanks
And in most others. English is the only language I know that doesn't do that and even though I'm very fluent in english it's incredibly hard for me to use "it" for animals, too. That is completely unnatural.
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Hahhaha aww man this made my sides hurt lol. For any of you people wanting to have a laugh at English, Google: An ode to English plural. I promise it'll give you a chuckle.
Thanks for the laugh. I'm French but have been living in English speaking countries for 13 years now and I always think English has weird rules and words. But it's nice to be reminded of the fun side of French as well! PS: I have ALWAYS thought pineapple was such a weird name for a... well... fruit that is not an apple and does not grow on pine trees.
Pineapples don't even grow in trees. They grow on top of weird stalks.
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Only last week I learned the French say Talky Walky instead of Walky Talky. That's just adorable. xD
Sil-vous plaît, put your opinions somewhere else, not on this page, mon ami.
Load More Replies... Ne vous inquiétez pas, vos expressions idiomatiques sont hilarantes aussi. Do not worry, your idiomatic expressions are hilarious too.
I think it's nice we can make fun of each other. Laughter makes the world a better place!
Load More Replies... And then people complain because Spanish is weird... Yo hablo los tres idiomas; Français est le plus difficile mais je l'aime tout de même. That's all! Gracias :)
The one thing that makes me crazy is the way that in French, nouns have to be preceded by what in English we would translate as "the", that is "le / la". I'm sure someone will point out something like "you don't have to when speaking French casually, or in this dialect" but you know what I mean - generally "proper".
is nobody here going to talk about the significance of the tu in permets-tu? ok then...
When my grandmother was taking french, she only learned written french, so when she moved schools (either changing schools or going to a higher school (middle to high school, etc) her french class was primarily spoken french, so on the first day the teacher would speak rapid fire french, and she couldn’t understand anything. At one point he pointed to her and asked her a question in french, and she’s like, “Uhhh...” and he was like, ”Oui! Un!” (like the number).
Regarding Tu and Vous, that applies to many other languages. I'm not sure if any of us would like to keep it, though. :-)
Je ne savais pas que ce genre de choses existaient xD c'est enrichissant !
French is diverse. In Switzerland and Belgium 97 is 90 + 7 "nonante-sept" not the funny "quatre-vingt dix-sept".
With the current political, global disarray, the timing of this is left to be desired
Hi, french there. I'd like to say all of this is not true, but i would lie x) Really funny, thanks
And in most others. English is the only language I know that doesn't do that and even though I'm very fluent in english it's incredibly hard for me to use "it" for animals, too. That is completely unnatural.
Load More Replies... Hahhaha aww man this made my sides hurt lol. For any of you people wanting to have a laugh at English, Google: An ode to English plural. I promise it'll give you a chuckle.
Thanks for the laugh. I'm French but have been living in English speaking countries for 13 years now and I always think English has weird rules and words. But it's nice to be reminded of the fun side of French as well! PS: I have ALWAYS thought pineapple was such a weird name for a... well... fruit that is not an apple and does not grow on pine trees.
Pineapples don't even grow in trees. They grow on top of weird stalks.
Load More Replies... Only last week I learned the French say Talky Walky instead of Walky Talky. That's just adorable. xD
Sil-vous plaît, put your opinions somewhere else, not on this page, mon ami.
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