French Highschooler reacts to French memes!

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Would that make French a ridiculously sexy language? 🥴
_hon hon hon intensifies_

@@aureliuszeta3037 To be fair, Russian is also a ridiculous language, but when spoken by a Russian supermodel, it's also quite sexy.

Too true😂

Well, it was influenced by those french noblesse who wants to sounds exclusive and elegant than the average peasants (correct me if I'm wrong)
Personally, I'd rather have Latin & Portuguese classes

banger idea honestly

Oh oui ! Il faut le faire !

Yes please

seriously! Like, they get the crew with everybody who usually helps out with Josh and Ollie but now the show is called Armax and the logo has their faces in it and everything...it feels safe to say this would be an instant classic

I wouldn't be surprised if Ollie came up with that idea already.

Snobby AF

@@tamtam8499more logic…

Seems pretty common sense to me. Randomly speaking to a stranger on the street in English is incredibly rude. You literally need to learn one phrase in the local language: excuse me, do you speak English. That's it. If you're a tourist and won't even go that far, that's on you for whatever rude treatment you may receive.

@@MrVovansim I speak a few varied languages (not totally fluent) and not once have I needed someone to prove that they speak English first before actually communicating with them. You’re right, it’s rude treatment but not deserved. And I reiterate, it’s Snobby AF.

@@tamtam8499 no, going to another country and making no attempt whatsoever to communicate with the locals in their own language is snobby AF. The worst part is that, in my experience, the types of English-speakers who do that kind of thing are the first ones to whinge about people in their country who don't speak English fluently.

Armand only have eyes for Ollie. It is kind of weird and unpolite to be honest. Must feel odd for Josh.

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@@hurmur9528 you don’t know that, and what got you to that conclusion??

Wait… Im confused, so is Armand french or english? Cos he was in another video as a british student…

@@ab.8510 Armand was born in France, grew up in England.

Oh man this comment made my day 🤣

Perfect 😂😂

Yes!!!! 😂😂😂

i was thinking the exact same thing haha and was wondering where did juno learn that 😂 got too ahead of myself

I miss Juno!

TON NOM MDRRR

French people are way funnier than this lol. Where is the Macron memes at?

Me too

@@jasper5201 it's in the belly. ready for the farmers...

@@jasper5201 I mean, I feel like they were memes about France, not from France, really

Exactly 😂

yes

More first wife moments for Ollie

yeees!! i was looking for this comment lol

He speaks very wel english, I wonder why

Feel the same!

He is very lovely ❤

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰Yes he is 🥹🥹🥹

Ooo I definitely agree with that!

You realize that high fashion beauty standards are changing right? Armand is known as conventionally attractive, but not uniquely attractive that designer brands are looking for. Look up Burberry models and you’ll see. People with conventionally attractive faces are forgotten more easily, so there’s greater emphasis now on bringing in weirdly attractive people instead. And to be fair, there are hundreds of guys in this world that look like Armand, similar hair and face, but there’s only one of very specific-looking models.

Armand is becoming famous doing these so it makes sense for him. He’s on his way to having his own following online.

I wouldn't be surprised of they're paying him a fee to shoot with them at this point. In the British Schoolboys series, they got footage and the boys got an all-expenses-paid trip in exchange. In this case, Armand is putting time and effort into shooting with them, and it's not a collab because Armand doesn't have any monetized social media, so it would make sense for them to pay him a talent fee

@@revinaque1342 could be but in the last video they said Armand offered to be on the channel for a while for some french videos before he starts college again so he probably could just be doing it for free.

i feel like is the other way around cause idk if you've notice but their audience loooooove armand. he's actually the most popular one in korean from the british schoolboys series. so it makes sense that they're keeping him around and let's be honest armand is such a charming young man and has an interesting background in which they can make videos of while having fun at the same time!

hope jolly puts on other high schoolers as well..

Yes!! A shared struggle can be such strong common ground, even among people who grew up in different countries from each other, because the common struggles make them so alike.
I loved when Josh called Ollie out for "asking a TCK about their cultural identity" because that's a great way to put it. Back when my family moved back to the US from overseas, I used to feel bad when people would ask me "How's it feel to be back home?" and I didn't have the heart to tell them that Indonesia felt like home, but that the US was home to my parents so I still felt like I belonged, just not in the same way.
It would be really interesting to interview Armand and Josh with questions about their experiences as TCKs, if I start a KRplus podcast channel like I've been dreaming about, that's the kind of content I would make-interviewing adult third culture kids.
Just realized I rambled on somebody else's comment 😅 sorry

Meanwhile you also have american/indian highschooler (max), albanian highschooler (ray), ethiopian highschooler (nati) and more...

@@grammar_ash Thank you for sharing! I personally really liked to read your thoughts 😃 and if you ever do start that podcast, I'd really like to listen to it! I'm not technically a TCK but was raised by 3 different sets of immigrants (Colombian, English, and French). What was really interesting for me is that my identity always changed depending on whose house I was in. In the Colombian home I was the French cousin, in the French home I was the Colombian cousin, and in the English home I was the Canadian/American cousin but to my neighbours, I had an odd accent that sounded like a cross between a Canadian and an English accent and unless I work to change it, my accent will bounce around and sound different in various situations 😅🤣 but for the most part, I've always lived in the same country just caught between very specific cultural communities within the region I live in so people in my own region will often ask me "where are you from?" and it's just way too complicated and personal to explain thoroughly each time so I just say "from here and raised by immigrants" 🥳

@@EyeGlassTrainofMind That's so interesting! There are similar cases of people growing up in environments with a lot of people coming and going and having a global worldview as a result of knowing people from different countries while growing up, and I think that this is being added to the definition of a third culture kid. The example I'm familiar with is of the children of professors and teachers who worked at missionary training centers. Their childhood experiences mirrored many of other TCKs who "spent a considerate number of their developmental years in a country foreign to their parents," but because these children had not lived overseas themselves, they were originally not counted in the same category. However, they literally grew up in that third culture! Living in the same country as the "first culture" among all the rest of the missionaries who were returning from their "second culture," they were in one of the fairly rare places where the third culture is considered the norm.
So I think that being raised by immigrants-especially three different sets!-should be considered part of the definition of a third culture kid. In fact, it's the experiences of people like you that I would love to focus on in a future project.

When you know America is a melting pot so we have multiple languages being spoken along with English we have multiple cultures that are exposed here because of those people imagine how they feel

You can, you just have to skip every number that ends in -70 to -99 :P

Just use the belgian counting system, 70 is septante and 90 is nontante

@@robby3499 that's also the system of the romandie, the french part of switzerland

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Agreed 😂

Armand and max being the next generation of Jolly

The Armand and Max show

Yeah, my sister and I were saying that Armax could do a channel like Jolly 2.0

i second this motion

for reallll!

And let Josh and Ollie watching

Thinking that ollie always has wild idea. This one might be planned way ahead guys. Just wait

I agree!

Both his parents are French but he was born and raised in England.

TBH, you can hear a hint of French intonation when Armand speaks English, but it helps that he speaks a very posh English too.

There are actually a few of us who can speak without an accent and not be born in an English speaking country, or even be raised in one.
I know most french people have atrocious English skills, our presidents over the last decades leading by example, but still. We aren't THAT bad.

@@GreyPunkWolf tu connais la Norvège ou la Finlande ?

This is because racism faced by Asians in America is still very common -- less now (even with all the hate crimes) but still there and is very normalized. People used to get teased all the time for foreign accents, and in some communities the racism was so bad that parents simply did not teach their children the language in an effort to help them assimilate faster and less painfully, and in some cases for safety as well. It's a very different situation.

Yep. The word is assimilation. It’s the byproduct of living in a diverse environment, but remaining a minority of that population. Sucks for the vast multitude of things tied to identity and culture though. 😢

French immigrant speaking English and French - "Oh, wow, you're so smart. You're bilingual? You're so interesting!" Asian or Hispanic immigrant speaking two languages - "This is an English-speaking country! Speak ENGLISH or get out!"

@@JP-rw4mq Racism against the French is a British passtime (we love them really)

@@jacksawild as a french I did not know that! Here we don't really joke about the brittish. I don't know enough brittish stereotypes to make jokes about.

French kings 🙄

@@-EchoesIntoEternity- 💀

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I believe you mean 2 bilingual kings and trilingual king Ollie.

The cringiest sentence I’ve ever read in my life.

Me the whole time. A poor high schooler with a crush I'll never meet 😭

Yea hes kinda cute

@@niqi2641 lmao yes

Please log off and go outside

He is very good looking

too busy mate... ain't got time with school... unless he could get credits...

@@PrograError He just left school, he's prepping for Uni now.

@@JinsolLee it's still school ain't it? ya studying...

And then he'd find out why Sam Hammington gave up 😂

nah, that dude is cringe

"Baguette" means indeed "wand". The expression "baguette de pain" ("wand of bread") is usually shortened to "baguette", but this word is still used to designate a standard wand in French.

@@funram exactly ! That's why we call chopsticks "baguettes" as well

@@saga_oneil Not knowing French myself I would have thought the word for wand would have been "baton." In Louisiana, USA the capital city is Baton Rouge.

@@HermanVonPetri Well a conductor's baton is called... "une baguette de chef d'orchestre". There is a slight overlay between "bâton" and "baguette", and even "barre", but "bâton" will be used near exclusively for a wood stick.

@@funram yes "bâton" is actually "stick" as we say a glue stick in English, it's literally "bâton de colle" in French (colle = glue)

How gay

would@@Paragonoflaziness

But who says he wants to walk runways?

Would do what 💀

can't agree more❤

Do Cambridge students really go on to be youtubers?

@@Cloudfive55 Cambridge students can go on to become whatever they want 😊 Armand did say that he doesn't really see himself working in either history or politics, he just wants to study those subjects. So who knows, he could go into journalism or KRplus in the future

@@Cloudfive55 i said on camera and i also said on the big screen, i’m not just talking youtube. He’s free to do whatever he wants with his future. I just think he’s a natural on screen😊

@@revinaque1342 did he really said that? He can do whatever he wants but I don't understand people who do this like why you spend years and alot of money to study things you won't do in the future ? I can't understand their logic tbh

pas vraiment, try having Russian as your first language 😅

😅 french is pretty easy for english speakers too, it's not considered one of the difficult languages, russian, mandarin and arabic are up there.
Also greek is ridiculously unrelated to most languages and hard for anyone to learn.

Fr

​@@seldom_bucketYeah but when it's talk about passé simple (In real life, it's okay), les valeurs du temps and some of these shitty things it's rly difficult

@@seldom_bucket The order I learnt them in was for their sound and in that same order their difficulty increases. Did anyone else who's done any extent of languages also find this? My order: French, Italian and Spanish. An example: To say "thank you for your assistance", in Italian "Grazie per l'auto", I wasn't sure what the l' was and still don't really.

Before was was was was was is

@@gabe_itch24 The meal that I had had, had had no effect on my appetite.

There's a second system too, rooted in latin, with endings in -ante that gives septante-70 and nonante-90 in Belgium and Switzerland. Switzerland also uses huitante for 80.

@@maleineperle1770 And to be fair, as a French, I must say the Swiss numeration makes more sense than the French one. But no French speaking country had gotten rid of "dix-sept", "dix-huit" and "dix-neuf", sadly.

@@funram why would that be necessary?

@@maleineperle1770 Because it's not consistent with "douze", "treize", "quatorze", "quinze" and "seize".

@@funram that's true. It's consistent with other european languages at least

This would be a cool idea. Quebecois French is something special.

A stick would be more commonly refered to as a "bâton" or even a "branche", though. And a twig as a "brindille".

yes, but 'baguette' implies a stick size somewhere between 'bâton' and 'brindille'. It's quite vague, I know. I more often see it used in books than in everyday speech.

@@tabby_cat It can, yes. But it is mostly used for your standard wand. All types of wands : magic wand ("baguette magique"), bread wand ("baguette de pain"), etc.
And ironically a conductor's baton (a direct loanword from French) is refered to as a "baguette de chef d'orchestre" in French.

I was explaining where the connection came from, not where the word is most commonly used.

@@tabby_cat I see what you mean, baguette is a shape, the bread is named after ^^

Yassssssss giving us what we NEED

Africaine oui

@@lynnd3164 c'est quoi ce racisme? baltringue va!

​​@@lynnd3164Not mutually exclusive and also French blacks with no links to Africa for over 10+ generations do exist.... Maybe get cultured.

There is negative history between the 2 nations right? Any history buffs care to give some brief insight? I know Britain prevented Napolean from dominating Europe (Napolean wars) as is a reason that a lot of the world speak English (found this out on a itunes podcast)

@@PaulW4 France and England have been the two dominating powers in Europe from, let's say, ~800 to the first half of the 20th century. Normans invaded England in 1066, that's why today 30% of English words come from French. The hundred year's war (a war that went on actively between 1337 and 1453) was between France and England. For a long time, the whole southwestern part of France was under British rule. These two countries have basically always been rivals. And yes the British defeated Napoleon, mainly because they were a monarchy, and wanted a Bourbon back on the throne of France. Much the continuation of what happened throughout the middle ages. There's even a little (outdated) nickname for England in French - "la perfide Albion". Literally : "the treacherous Albion", Albion being England's medieval name. All in all yes there definitely is some negative history but nowadays France and England work together closely and are strong allies so everything's good.

if it can make you feel better even for french people it's hard to learn our own language

In arabic we call it shaer bannat which means Girl's Hair 💀💀

The word in Urdu which is used for cotton candy also translates to grandmas hair lol

In malaysia we say, gula-gula kapas. Meaning candy (gula-gula) and cotton (kapas). So we are already close

Well it is not known outside of France but it is very known in France. This is where i lived (i am French) and Bretagne is full of parisians in the summer

Underrated for foreigners but not for French ! We all have friends or family members attached to Bretagne who often go there on vacation

Ok but you forgot to use your heart and brain (:

@@mademoiselleetpasmadamesvp1482 not only full of Parisians during summer

kouign amann >>>

They have more videos with him on 2nd channel (Korean Englishman)

@mellbell360 The silver plate thing is incredibly funny and cute, really nice way to remember "s'il vous plaît" xD and I can understand your struggle with listening VS reading a foreign language, this is so relatable (native frenchie here, trying to understand spoken english ahah). Best of luck, don't give up, it might come around later !

YES! Started watching them in college and haven't missed an upload since! Such lovely gents :D

Same 😂❤

Ditto 😂 doesn't feel like it's been that long though!

same. insane how time flies lol

Until 2008, learning English was actually not compulsary in French schools : depending of your school, you could be proposed to learn German, Spanish or Italian instead as your primary foreign language. Most of the people choose English, and most of those who didn't picked it as secondary foreign language, but it was possible to not learn English at all, albeit being very rare. Since 2010, English is compulsary as the primary foreign language, and you get to choose a secondary one later, usually Spanish, German or Italian. Plus English has been made compulsary in elementary school, while it was compulsary only from middle school onward before.

@@funram but then you get the "french council" banning english loan words...

@@PrograError The French Academy is a very outdated, out if touch institution whose rulings are not normative in France (contrary to the Commission de la langue française et des langues de France, a much less known institution, which is much less controvertial), it only has some kind of "soft power" and has lost much of its influence in the last decades.

@@funram i think TVshow, youtube video's and so did lot to it. I remember first TVshows i started to watch in english were skins and gossip girl, there was not video platerform by that time. We had to watch them on illegal streaming website or wait 2 to 3 years to be able to see it dubbed in French on TV...

@@nathalieast6179 That's very true. Even our porn was dubbed in French back in the days.

I wish he actually had translated Jolly to a word that actually means "happy" and not "beautiful"😂

Now that I think about it, he maybe translated it that way because he thought of the expression “À très vite” so honestly “À Jolly vite” makes sense 🤔

In Belgium, it's septante and nonante, but still quatre-vingts 🤷🏼‍♀️

Quatre vingt dix neuf(99) easy😛quant tu es français!

that meme was awesome

Je fais la version complète pour les belges et les suisses ;)
10 : Dix
20 : Vingt
30 : Trente
40 : Quarante
50 : Cinquante
60 : Soixante
70 : Septante
80 : Otante/Huitante
90 : Nonante

well... to some he's always a high schooler... tho it's a question if he could fit in one later on

Once he starts uni, I think they'll start calling him the French Cambridge student 😄

yeah, French is a tricky language and if the pronunciation is not on point, we tend to have trouble understanding. And since we're not the most patient bunch, english it is lol

😂😂😂 We appreciate it when people try dont worry
a whole better than people expecting you to understand them

My mom got brushed off when she spoke English during a college trip to France so she decided to just speak fake bad English and mixed it with our home state's dialect (we're Malaysian) lol didn't have any more issues with English after that

@@charles1413 I guess it's just cultural difference then, because we'd be hyping up stuttering tourists in the philippines even if what's coming out of their mouth is straight up gibberish 😂

French people will rather you speak English rather than broken French. If you can speak French, good but if you can't, don't try lol

Same here in Belgium 👋

Les français, passés le dépourvu les comprennent très bien.
Les suisses et les belges ont bien raison d'utiliser ces nombres (septante, huitante et nonante) qui sont beaucoup plus logiques.
De la part d'un français ;)

en tant que Français vous avez eu raison, on s'est cassé la tête

R u being sarcastic 😭