Bonjour et bienvenue à Coffee Break French. Welcome back to Coffee Break French. Now last time we learned how to say my name is. In this lesson, we're going to learn how to ask the question, what is your name? We're also going to be talking about nationality. So, I hope you enjoy today's lesson. So last week we learned some phrases such as, for example, Je m'appelle Marc. My name is Marc. Anna, can you tell us what your name is?
Anna? Yeah, but can you tell us in French? Je m'appelle Anna. Très bien. Now, if you were to say je m'appelle and give your name, then sometimes it's very normal to follow this with and you, what about you? And there are two ways of doing that in French. Let's imagine the situation that you're with friends or people of your own age and people with whom you're being quite informal, even if you don't know them. If you say, je m'appelle Marc, you could follow this with, et toi?
Et toi? Et toi literally means un dieu. Je m'appelle Marc. Et toi? Je m'appelle Anna. Now French is like many other languages where you have different levels of register, where you have for example informal versions and formal versions, particularly when you're talking to someone directly. We've already had et toi meaning and you and this is the informal version.
If you want to be more formal, particularly when, for example, you're speaking to people who are older than you, you would use a different version. And this is... Now watch it, it's the VOU. Vous? Vous. Très bien. Et vous? Et vous? Je m'appelle Marc. Et vous? Je m'appelle Anna. Okay, so you can just ask, and you, following a question, or you could actually ask the question itself. So, if I say, je m'appelle Marc, I'm going to reuse this word, appelle, in there.
And I'm going to put it into a question, which is, Comment t'appelles-tu? Comment t'appelles tu? Très bien, très bien. So, comment t'appelles tu means what is your name? Literally, how do you call yourself? Comment t'appelles-tu? Comment t'appelles-tu? Très bien. So, comment t'appelles-tu? Je m'appelle Anna. Comment t'appelles-tu? Je m'appelle Marc. Okay, I'm going to ask you, the listener now, what your name is. And I'm going to be informal with you. I hope you don't mind.
Once you've said your name, you can ask me, and you, what's your name? Comment t'appelles-tu? Je m'appelle Marc. You should have said, je m'appelle and given your name, and then, et toi, or comment t'appelles-tu? In fact, you can combine them both. It's like saying, and you, what about you, what's your name? So Anna let's practice this. You ask me my name. Comment t'appelles-tu? Je m'appelle Marc. Et toi, comment t'appelles-tu? Je m'appelle Anna. Okay. So that is the tu form, the informal form.
There is a way of asking what is your name in the formal form. Let's look at that now. It's a bit more tricky. You would say, Comment vous appelez-vous? Comment vous appelez-vous? Okay, watch your VOUS sounds. Comment vous appelez-vous? Comme on veut, j'appelais vous. Très bien. Now, watch in the middle of that word. We've been saying so far, appelle. Je m'appelle. Comment t'appelles? But in the middle of that phrase, we have, comment vous appelez-vous? It's not appelé vous but appelé vous.
Comment vous appelez-vous? Comment vous appelez-vous ? Très bien. Excellent. Okay, so we've learned now how to say and you in both the informal and formal forms, and we've also learned how to ask someone their name. Comment t'appelles-tu in the informal form? And comment vous appelez-vous in the formal form? We're now going to learn another question. And this question is, where are you from? Where do you come from? Listen to this in the informal form D'où viens-tu?
D'où viens-tu? Literally, from where come you. D'où viens-tu? D'où viens-tu? Now, to answer that question, you would say, je viens de... And then give the name of the town that you're from. Je viens de Glasgow. Anna, d'où viens-tu? Je viens de Glasgow. Ah, toi aussi. Je viens de Glasgow aussi. What do you think that means? Also? Yeah, I also come from Glasgow, so...
Notice that when we said Glasgow, we sort of said it in a French accent. And that's basically how you would say your town, where you come from, if there isn't a French version of it. And there are French versions of certain towns. For example, Londres. Londres is London. Edinburgh is Edinburgh. Now, there's also a formal version of this question. We've learned so far, d'où viens-tu? We would be using the vous form in the formal version. So we would say, d'où venez-vous?
D'où venez-vous? Watch your sounds again. Venez-vous. Venez-vous. D'où venez-vous? Devonnez-vous ! Okay, so we've got d'où viens-tu and d'où venez-vous. The first word in both these sentences is the same. It's d'où, d'apostrophe, o, u, with an accent on the u. D'où means from where. D'où viens-tu? Where are you from? Informal. D'où venez-vous?
Where are you from? In the formal version. Now, we're going to put together some of the language that we've already covered in lessons 1, 2 and 3 here. And I'm going to have a conversation with Anna. Listen carefully to this conversation. Bonjour, comment t'appelles-tu? Je m'appelle Anne, et toi? Je m'appelle Marc. Ça va, Anna? Ça va bien, merci. Et toi? Oui, ça va. D'où viens-tu? Je viens de Glasgow. D'où viens-tu? Moi, je viens de Paris.
So that's the first full French conversation that you've heard. Hopefully you understood it all. Let's listen to it one more time. Bonjour, comment t'appelles-tu? Je m'appelle Anne, et toi? Je m'appelle Marc. Ça va, Anna? Ça va bien, merci. Et toi? Oui, ça va. D'où viens-tu? Je viens de Glasgow. D'où viens-tu? Moi, je viens de Paris. So, in that conversation, I came from Paris, Paris, and Anna came from Glasgow. I could have said then, je suis français. Je suis français. Repeat that please.
Je suis français. Je suis français. Now, if I were female, I would say, je suis française. Je suis française. Très bien. Sois français? Française The feminine and masculine form of the word for French. And most nationalities have a feminine and masculine form. Let's take, for example, Scottish. I would say, je suis écossais. And Anna would say, OK, we're going to take a short break there, and we'll be back in just a moment.
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Okay, now we've not really explained this je suis part. Je suis means I am. I'm spelled S U I S. French has many letters which end up silent in some situations, and S's at the end of words are very often silent. However, when they're followed by other words which begin with vowels, then you sometimes pronounce the S's. For example, je suis écossais. And in the feminine form? Je suis écossaise. Très bien. Try to run the z of je suis écossaise on. So you're actually saying je suis.
If you have to stop between SUI and ECOSSAISE. Je suis écossaise. Très bien. So we have français, française, écossais, écossaise. You might be English, in which case you would be Anglais. And Anna can you guess what you would be if you were feminine? Well you are feminine but can you guess what you would be? Anglaise. Très bien. So this pattern of Anglais, Anglaise, Écossais, Écossaise, Français, Française is very common in French. If you're from the States, then you would be American.
And this time, it's not ending in an S, but an N. So I would say, but Anna would say, Je suis américaine. And if you are from Canada, you would say, Je suis Canadien. Je suis Canadien. And the feminine form of Canadian is Canadienne. Canadienne. Très bien. OK, let's run through all the language that we've covered in this show. We started by asking, and you? Et toi? Et toi? And the formal version was, Et vous?
Et vous? Then we learned, what is your name, or literally, how do you call yourself? Comment t'appelles-tu? And the formal version, comment vous appelez-vous? Then we learned how to ask, where are you from? D'où viens-tu? D'où viens-tu? And the formal form, d'où venez-vous? 2. Venez-vous. To answer that question, we said, je viens de... That's the name of the town. Je viens de Glasgow. And then we also learned moi aussi. Moi aussi. Moi aussi, je viens de Glasgow. Moi aussi je viens de Glasgow.
We then learned some nationalities and these were combined with the phrase je suis. Je suis meaning I am. Now, in each of these, I will say the male version, and if you're male, you can repeat after me. And then Anna will say the female version, and if you're female, you can repeat after Anna. So, je suis écossais. Je suis écossaise. And that, of course, means I am Scottish. Now, to say that you're French, you would say, je suis français. Je suis française. I am English as Je suis Anglais.
Je suis anglaise. I am American. Je suis américain. Je suis américaine. And I am Canadian. Je suis Canadien. Je suis Canadienne. Très bien. Now there will be more nationalities on the website and in this week's bonus lessons. And that's where we're going to leave it today for this edition of Coffee Break French. Thanks for joining us and we hope it's been useful. You can join the Coffee Break French community on Facebook at facebook.com slash coffeebreakfrench and
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