Written French and the French we actually speak

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This guy speaks very strangely.

He's talking really weird, this guy. It's like he's reading a text.

Hello dear friends and thank you for joining me for this new video of Authentic French. Today, we are going to tackle a subject that haunts the minds of those who learn French. It is about the difference between written French and the French that French speakers actually speak on a daily basis.

The problem is that at school or in French classes, you were taught written French. So you can find yourself completely lost when you speak with a French speaker who expresses himself in a completely different way. For example, I understand that it can be destabilizing to hear a French person say "chais pas" instead of "je ne sais pas". You learned "je ne sais pas" at school and you hear someone say "chais pas".

In today's video, we're going to try to isolate the main differences that can exist between written French and spoken French. I'll start by explaining to you very briefly in which thailand whatsapp number data situations there is a difference between written and spoken French. And then, I'll give you some major principles, some general rules accompanied by examples. Obviously, it won't be exhaustive, eh. I won't be able to cover all the topics, all the general rules. The goal for me is to give you the main trends so that you are autonomous and can understand native speakers.

You can now download your PDF sheet that includes all the major principles that we will teach you today in this video. You have a link in the description for this. You follow the link and you can download your free PDF sheet that will help you revise.

So, let's start by seeing in which contexts there is a difference between spoken French and written French. To do this, I have to give a very, very quick reminder of the three major language registers that exist in French. To go further, you can watch the video that Français Authentique offered you on the subject, you have the link in the "i" for info there, where we even made an SOS sheet in the Académie Français Authentique, in which we go over precisely what these different registers are and we made a special sheet on familiar language in French.

As you probably know, there are three major language registers in French. You have formal language. Formal language is rarely used in speech, it is more of a literary language. And if people speak in formal language, sometimes it can sound a bit snobbish. You have standard language, which is the everyday language that we encounter on TV, at work, on the radio, etc. It is a bit formal, but not too much. And finally, you have colloquial language, which is really the great oral language that we use with our work colleagues, with our friends or with our families. We sometimes add popular language that can be spoken by a certain category. For example, young people who speak in slang, or even be rude.