Finally, it will allow you to practice
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 7:12 am
I really recommend you listen to it, already because it has a nice rhythm, because it's a very beautiful song, but also you will learn a lot of slang words. He talks about bouffer, which is a familiar word for eating; godasse, the word godasse means shoe; barje, someone who is barje, is someone crazy. He also talks about piquer. Piquer means to steal. And the flow of the song is quite fast, so it's a good oral pronunciation exercise.
the nasal vowel "an": mistral gagnant, franc, there is the word "banc", le bon temps, les gens, etc. There are plenty of other songs by Renaud that you can discover. Some are even very politically engaged.
Fourth tip: Ne me quitte pas by Jacques Brel. Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter. Ne me quitte pas is a song about the cowardice of men and about sorrow. So, it is a fairly poetic text. It will allow you to practice the negation in the imperative, "ne me quitte pas". You will also practice liaisons, "il faut_oublier". And you will learn vocabulary related to breakups, such as the word quitter, s'enfuir, oublier, perdre, etc. And you will also practice conjugation in the future tense.
Note that Jacques Brel often has songs that have a very fast flow. I am thinking in particular of the song La Valse à mille temps. You can try to sing it in French. Personally, I can't do it.
Fifth: Sous le vent by Céline Dion and Garou. This is a duet. You have Céline Dion, a woman, and Garou, a man, who are both Quebec singers, who have a great career all over the world, of course, but particularly in France. Here, again, you will practice the nasal vowel "en" with sous le vent, un instant, en avant. There are also laos whatsapp number data quite a few sentences with conditions, with "si + le présent" or "si + l'imparfait": si tu crois, si je quitais, etc. And there is marine vocabulary, notably with the words souffle, voile, terre, étoile or even mer.
Sixth, a song in another register, once again, the song Balance ton quoi by Angèle. Angèle is a young Belgian artist who proposed this song following the #Metoo movement to protest against sexism. The flow is quite fast, she sings quite fast, so it's a good way to practice if you want to sing it.
There is some common vocabulary and also some colloquial, even rude vocabulary, so be careful if you listen to this song. And it's not necessarily a song I would recommend you listen to with children.
There are quite a few contractions, so it also allows you to listen to French as it is spoken in the street. For example, she says "j'sais pas" instead of "je ne sais pas". I don't know, in French, sometimes when spoken we say "j'sais pas". She says "p't-être" instead of "peut-être". If you learn "peut-être" in French class and you hear "p't-être" or "p't-ête" in the street, it might be complicated for you. But by practicing, thanks to the songs, well it will become more or less a reflex or in any case something that you understand easily.
Seventh song, yet another register, this is not at all the kind of music I listen to, besides, I don't even know this song, but since it's a song that is very successful in France, well we wanted to present it to you and you will make your own opinion, it's Djadja by Aya Nakamura. It's a song from 2018 and Aya Nakamura is the most listened to French artist on Spotify.
So, in this song, there is really street vocabulary, there are a lot of slang words, like "taré", which means crazy; "darone", which means mother; "tipeu", which is verlan and which must, in my opinion, mean small. There are colloquial expressions, slang as well, street language, like "ne pas affiche quelqu'un", which means not to like someone or to hate someone, or "c'est pas mon délire", which means it's not something I like.
So, there you go, I hope you liked it. You get it, listening to music in French helps you improve your listening, it helps you improve your pronunciation and it simply helps you progress in French while having fun. Tell us in the comments what your favorite French song is, we'd be interested in knowing. And if you enjoyed this video, don't forget to encourage us with a "like" and share it with your friends.
For the end of summer, we are preparing a small back-to-school event for you. We put the link in the description, it is the first link. You click on the link, you put your address and you will receive a surprise for our big back-to-school event that is coming and starts on Saturday. And of course, you can subscribe to the Français Authentique You Tube channel by activating notifications.
the nasal vowel "an": mistral gagnant, franc, there is the word "banc", le bon temps, les gens, etc. There are plenty of other songs by Renaud that you can discover. Some are even very politically engaged.
Fourth tip: Ne me quitte pas by Jacques Brel. Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter. Ne me quitte pas is a song about the cowardice of men and about sorrow. So, it is a fairly poetic text. It will allow you to practice the negation in the imperative, "ne me quitte pas". You will also practice liaisons, "il faut_oublier". And you will learn vocabulary related to breakups, such as the word quitter, s'enfuir, oublier, perdre, etc. And you will also practice conjugation in the future tense.
Note that Jacques Brel often has songs that have a very fast flow. I am thinking in particular of the song La Valse à mille temps. You can try to sing it in French. Personally, I can't do it.
Fifth: Sous le vent by Céline Dion and Garou. This is a duet. You have Céline Dion, a woman, and Garou, a man, who are both Quebec singers, who have a great career all over the world, of course, but particularly in France. Here, again, you will practice the nasal vowel "en" with sous le vent, un instant, en avant. There are also laos whatsapp number data quite a few sentences with conditions, with "si + le présent" or "si + l'imparfait": si tu crois, si je quitais, etc. And there is marine vocabulary, notably with the words souffle, voile, terre, étoile or even mer.
Sixth, a song in another register, once again, the song Balance ton quoi by Angèle. Angèle is a young Belgian artist who proposed this song following the #Metoo movement to protest against sexism. The flow is quite fast, she sings quite fast, so it's a good way to practice if you want to sing it.
There is some common vocabulary and also some colloquial, even rude vocabulary, so be careful if you listen to this song. And it's not necessarily a song I would recommend you listen to with children.
There are quite a few contractions, so it also allows you to listen to French as it is spoken in the street. For example, she says "j'sais pas" instead of "je ne sais pas". I don't know, in French, sometimes when spoken we say "j'sais pas". She says "p't-être" instead of "peut-être". If you learn "peut-être" in French class and you hear "p't-être" or "p't-ête" in the street, it might be complicated for you. But by practicing, thanks to the songs, well it will become more or less a reflex or in any case something that you understand easily.
Seventh song, yet another register, this is not at all the kind of music I listen to, besides, I don't even know this song, but since it's a song that is very successful in France, well we wanted to present it to you and you will make your own opinion, it's Djadja by Aya Nakamura. It's a song from 2018 and Aya Nakamura is the most listened to French artist on Spotify.
So, in this song, there is really street vocabulary, there are a lot of slang words, like "taré", which means crazy; "darone", which means mother; "tipeu", which is verlan and which must, in my opinion, mean small. There are colloquial expressions, slang as well, street language, like "ne pas affiche quelqu'un", which means not to like someone or to hate someone, or "c'est pas mon délire", which means it's not something I like.
So, there you go, I hope you liked it. You get it, listening to music in French helps you improve your listening, it helps you improve your pronunciation and it simply helps you progress in French while having fun. Tell us in the comments what your favorite French song is, we'd be interested in knowing. And if you enjoyed this video, don't forget to encourage us with a "like" and share it with your friends.
For the end of summer, we are preparing a small back-to-school event for you. We put the link in the description, it is the first link. You click on the link, you put your address and you will receive a surprise for our big back-to-school event that is coming and starts on Saturday. And of course, you can subscribe to the Français Authentique You Tube channel by activating notifications.