The french girl is really pleasing to hear and she´s very knowledgeable. Would like to see her again!

They didn't mention the actual reason why French is so different. French is influenced by their Celtic heritage (Gaulish to be more specific), with a sprinkle of Frankish influence. English also picked up some of that influence from the Norman French (which itself was a version of the Gallo-Romance language spoken in the area we now know as Normandy after being influenced by Old Norse) that crossed the channel when the Normans became the ruling class of England. The Celts in Britain likely came from continental Europe several hundreds of years before then, with multiple regions producing their own variant of that language in relative isolation. Nowadays we typically think of the British Isles when we think of the word "Celtic" but the Celts were very widespread before Romans and Germanic people spread their influence. They were also in Iberia, but the Romans spread their influence in that area hundreds of years before they conquered Gaul (and were subsequently taken over by the Franks hundreds of years after). Certain parts of northern Italy have been influenced by the Gaulish language as well. The Arabian influence in Spain is relatively well known, but the Celtic influence is rarely mentioned even in France where it remained to some degree for quite some time even after being conquered by Romans and Franks.

i must say the brazilian girl is very positive, friendly and whenever i see her in the video i have a huge smile on my face automatically

In french there is also the word "grâce" for "thanks", it's not common though it can be used like "grâce à toi" which would mean "thanks to you"

More videos with this group, please. They are smart, elegant and represent their respective countries very well.

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Maison has the same root of Latin mansionis (place to live, residence), which derived mansion and mansão.

French retained, more or less of course, the medieval spelling, but the pronunciation evolved. For instance the word for Easter is "Pâques" pronounced [pak]. In Middle French it was "Pasques" (pronounced [pask], like modern Welsh word "Pasg") and in Old French it was "pasques" pronounced [paskes].

Again Dafne doing an amazing job, love her! You guys should have on a lady from Romania with the latin girls. I would be interested in hearing that Romance language as well.

The thing is that French is NOT different from other latin languages. Only the phonology is really special, which makes it SOUND different. But in the grammatical aspects and vocabulary it's ultra similar to other romance languages. French is closer to Italian than Spanish to italian for exemple. The similarity of several languages is not determined by the way it sounds. I'm French, I never took one single italian or romanian class, but in the written form I understand a lot from them and it would be really easy to learn them. Spanish is super easy to me and since I study a slavic language (polish) that is totally different, I realised even more how French was similar to Spanish in terms of grammar, syntax, structure.

As a Haitian, I am so proud of my language, French. 🇭🇹🇫🇷

I’m so happy to see the Brazilian girl again, she’s my bias (she and the girl from Spain)! And Catalan is awesome, more Catalan please!

"Viande" in French is Latin-based and it comes from the word "vivanda" in Latin, and according to Wiktionary: "Inherited from Old French viande, from Vulgar Latin *vīvanda, alteration of Latin vīvenda, from the neuter plural form of vīvendus, from vīvere (“to live”). Compare English viand, Italian vivanda, Portuguese vivenda, Spanish vivienda." By the way, In German, meat is "Fleisch," which is obviously a cognate with English's "flesh." 😊

In Canadian french (province of Québec), we say "Espadrilles" instead of "Basket" for sneakers.

I am studying history and I had a course on languages. This was my favorite class of all my college years. I learned so many exciting things, for example, how languages ​​influence each other and why. (Commercial, contact, domination...). French originated from Latin, but it was strongly influenced by Celtic and Germanic languages ​​in its pronunciation due to the fact that there was contact and mixing of populations. Hence the fact that pronunciation in French is VERY different from other Latin languages. In the same way, Romanian is a Latin language but has been influenced by nearby languages, hence the fact that it no longer really sounds Latin. We still find the same patterns between French and Italian. For example, words in "ch" in French are in "ca" in Italian (if they existed in Latin.) "chèvre" becomes "capra", "chien" becomes "cane", "chaîne" becomes "catena" etc. Words in "cl" in French are in "chi" in Italian. (clé- chiave, clair - chiaro...) -> we can find the same phenomenon between English and German (night - nacht, eight - acht...) As said in the video, Spanish has been in contact with Arabic, so we find borrowings from Arabic. On the subject of borrowings between different family languages ​​(or not necessarily), there are also some super interesting things to notice: borrowings can be linked to a level of prestige. The culture associated with knowledge and medicine is ancient Greece, and there is a lot of Greek in this field. In classical music, opera, etc. it's more of an Italian influence. The cuisine, rather French, as we can notice with English (beef, which comes from the word "boeuf" in French etc.) In the context of my studies, it's really usefull to think about the patterns we observe, because it allows us to obtain information on ancient cultures without having access to writings or traces. As I gave the example with the French words in ch and the Italian words in ca: the words that we find are words that existed for those who spoke Latin, therefore concepts that come from ancient cultures. For Latin, we have enough archaeological traces, etc. but there are other cultures ​​where this is not the case, but we can find out if they had horses, metal (bronze, gold etc.), we can even try to guess the social structures, if there is a word for king, for queen, or not etc. with languages which came from those cultures. It's not infallible, given that languages ​​borrow from each other and evolve, but we can still get a lot of information from that and I find that absolutely fascinating.

One of my favorite words that a lot of Romance language speakers don't realize are related to their French counterpart is Monsieur and Madame (Mr./Sir and Mrs./Ma'am). Mon is basically the masculine form of my (mi or mio), and Sieur is basically sir (señor, senhor, signore), which happens to also be related to the word senior. Ma is also the feminine form of my (mi or mia), and Dame, which we also have in English, is basically lady (dama, donna). The Italian word madonna is basically the same as madame.

What a delightful group

I am a native French speaker (from Atlantic Canada). I love watching these types of mutilingual exchange conversations, to see how different and alike we are at once. It’s interesting to hear that, even though they might be different from one language to another, the roots of certains words and expressions are still familiar.

I did some research, and it turns out that "viande" actually does come from a Latin root, which is "vivenda," approximately meaning "life-serving" or "life-giving."

Some words in brazilian portuguese also have indigenous origins.

Elisa, you as a French person have very charming accent! I enjoyed it!

The sneakers one is a tricky one. I'm from Spain and the way you call them totally depends of what part you're from, to the point that in my city we call them "tenis" while in our nearest neighbouring city they will call them "bambas". I'd say all around Spain "deportivas" (as in "zapatillas deportivas") is a safe neutral take. If I'm not mistaken, in Seville they call them "botines", which I find super funny.

So happy listening to Catalan, cuz it's my language (I'm from Valencia, just in the sourth). And, wait all of you, two remarks: [9:37] 1. We all Catalan speakers use the same Portuguese word for skirt, which is 'saia', but ONLY in the folkloric skirts. The used is only limited to this specific situation. If you go to see 'Falles traditional celebration' in València, it's a word for one type of cloth for the feminine and masculine dress used in Falles. [10:47] 2. For "sneekers" we can say "vambes" pronounced as /vambas/ or /vambes/ (depending on if you're in Valencia/west Catalonia, or East Catalonia +Balearic Islands). This is the casual word instead of "Sapatilles esportilles" which is the academic version, or more formal version, which is 100% acceptable and cool ,).

This lesson from these ladies is pretty awesome, I like how they use the words for each country's meaning.

In french we can say « case » to mean a little house. Mostly a simple wood house. For the more generic « house » we say « maison » which comes from the latin « mansionem »

The French cognates of "carne" and "casa" are «chair» and «chez».

Such a great video and channel, full of conversations that we're always willing to have, but couldn't because of the difficulties in gathering this amount of different people in one place. I'm a fan, from Brazil ❤

• "école" shows the typical pattern in Romance languages of adding an "e" before words that begin with "s" in Latin, but "s" became silent after vowels in most French words a few hundred years ago. So "schola" (Latin) → "escole" (Old French, with the "s" becoming silent in Middle French) → "école" (Modern French, with the accent on é indicating that there used to be an "s"). • "cheval" … another typical French thing: most words beginning with "ca" changed to "cha" in Old French. Originally it was a regional thing, with some parts of France keeping the "ca" forms longer than others. In English we sometimes have both the newer "cha" and older "ca" forms in our borrowed words. (e.g., "catch" and "chase" which come from the Old French regional forms "cachier" and "chacer" … the modern French word is "chasser") • "maison" comes from Latin "mānsiō" (same as English "mansion", Spanish "mesón", Portuguese "mesão", etc.) • "jupe" comes from an Arabic word

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Hum...actually😄, there is a very valid reason why in French the words that end in "al" in the singular, end in "aux". Basically, us humans always go for the way to do things that require the less energy and an "u" or "o" sound at the end of a world requires less energy than an "L" or "ls" sound. And the evolution of the latin word "caballum" to "cheval" (singular) and chevaux (plural) is very well documented. It went like this Caballum to Caballo to Cabal to chabal ("ch" takes less energy to pronounce then "c") to chaval ("v" less than "b") to cheval (the silent "e" less than "a") to (now in plural) chevals (and the "als" was pronounced) to chevaus (that would have been pronounced "chevaws") to chevaux (where the "ux" is just pronounced "o"). Also the same phenomenom that is established in French is happening "live" in another roman languages, very specifically in the Brazilian form of Portuguese (and I suspect in some American forms of Spanish). In Brazilian Portuguese nowadays you hear many people say "Braziw", "Portugaw" or "Futebow". Maybe in some centuries from now that evolution will settle like it did in French and some countries' names will be written and pronounced very differently in Portuguese. On another note, about the translation of "sneakers" in French and Portuguese (Portuguese person here, but born and raised in France), the word "tennis" is also used in France to say "sneakers" (like in Mexico or Brazil), and in Portugal you can also say "tenis", but the more common word for it is "sapatilhas" (close to the "zapatilhas" from Argentina). I suspect that sneakers are called "tenis" or "baskets" because they were historically known to be used first in theses sports, but I'm not sure.

Viande is related to the Spanish Vianda (Game meat) and the Portuguese Veado (a deer). It comes from the Latin Vivenda (literally that which is living), but evolved to mean animals that are hunted, then the meat of those animals, to being just the generic word for all meat in French. Maison comes from Mansionem in Latin while the word related to Casa is Chez, which is a preposition meaning at the home of, like chez moi means at my place. Pomme is from the Latin Pomum, which is just a generic word for any fruit, but apples were the most common for French people so it became specific to it. Pom in Romanian on the other hand is the generic word for a tree, which comes from the word for fruit tree. Mela is from Latin Malum, which is an apple, while Manzana, Maçã, and Maçana refers to a specific type of apple, Malum Matianum, named after the famous Roman chef and horticulturalist Gaius Matius. Jupe is actually from the Arabic Jubbah, which is a type of robe worn by Muslim men, often to prayer. Most Romance languages have a garment named after the Jubbah, they just tend to all be different types of clothing. Like the Spanish Jubon (a doublet), Giubba in Italian can refer to a few different types of tops depending on the time period and region of the country, Gibão in Portuguese is a jerkin, and Gipo means the same in Catalan. Pollera actually is related to Pollo, where a Pollera is literally a chicken coup. It also was used to refer to the frames around dresses back in the olden days, aka crinolines, because they looked like a cage that would enclose chickens. Semantic shift in Argentinian Spanish caused it to refer to skirts in particular. Saia comes from Sagia in Vulgar Latin, which referred to a cloak, especially ones worn by military officials. Then Gonna is actually related to the English Gown and originally meant any kind of garment made from animal skins or furs. Falda and Faldilla are actually Germanic words borrowed in ancient times and are related to the English word Fold and German Falte, referring to the folds or pleats on the skirt. Fralda is of the same origin but has shifted meaning to refer to diapers. Why French words start with Ch while the other languages begin with C is because like how Italian C before I and E became a CH sound, Old French saw the syllable Ca become palatalized to a Kya sound and then Cha and finally the Sha sound.

All charming, level-headed ladies 🥰

Funny to se these girls thinking some french words may vcome from english, when in fact english is based on french ^^

Why are they skipping the Spanish girl, Andrea? She hasn't said almost a single thing

I’m French and made Italian friends a couple years ago. I was surprised how much Italian I can understand when I read it 😊

As usual, good work, Elysa. You are a wonderful ambassadress.

'Maison' in Catalan is 'casa', but the traditional Catalan country house is called 'mas', from the same Latin root. And the French say 'maison' for house, but when you go back to your house, you go 'chez' toi, which is their word coming from the Latin 'casa'.

In Catalan a house can also be called "masia", but those are usually rural houses and for sneakers we have "vambes". And "merci" in Catalan comes from "mercès" not the French word, which is an old way of saying thank you, we still use "moltes mercès" to say thank you very much when we are joking or emphasising.

Je ne lasse pas de regarder ces vidéos. Tellement instructif !!

For water, "aqua" in latin became "awa", then "ewe", "eue", "eaue" (e-o-e) , and finaly, "eau" (o). "Manoire" actually is related to "maison", not "main". They both come from gallo-roman, the variant of latin spoken in the roman gaule. I think the original world's mean was "where you rest/recover" In latin, the world designated a place where to rest during travel, or some kind of restaurant, but in gaule, it become a way to designate your house, and then evolved into its modern forms. Also, in french, the sneakers can be called "tennis" or "basket" (the sleeker design are tennis, more massive one are basket) or "chaussure de sport" (shoes for sport).

In French, "viande" used to mean "meal /food", just like the Spanish word "vianda". The real term was "produit carné" or "chair" (this last one means flesh). "Viande" comes from Latin "vivanda" and means "useful for staying alive".

The lady from Mallorca is so elegant. She looks like the queens depicted on mural in Minoan times

Just let all English speakers know, for the more educated Romance languages speakers, the word Latino/Latina means anyone who speaks a Latin language or culture is directly derived from ancient Romans such as the Spaniards, Portuguese, French, and Italians.

Viande comes from the latin word "vivenda" which means " what serves life ", in old french viande used to mean "food" and the meat from the aniomal was used with the word "carne" which now means a low quality meat !

okay so this french girl with this accent is cute AF.

if i am not mistaken, "manoir" doesn't come from "main", but from the old french "manoir", a verb whose composed form "remanoir" gave "remain" in english : "to stay" thus the noun "manoir" is originally a place where you stay. "manoir" comes from a latin word indeed closer to the english "mansion", that got altered in vulgar latin and then evolved into "maison". so yeah, if you go further enough into the past, "manoir" and "maison" come from the same root.

For "house" the original word in French was "case" for "une case". But now this word is used for little houses made from wood... often used by fishmen or poor people. With time "case" got replaced by "maison" which is bigger and specifically a single house; not an appartment.

Finally, Elysa, my favorite character of this gorgeous girls band ❤

I love that Catalan is present! ❤

Most of the differences are from the usage of different latin words. Merci for example comes from the Latin "mercēs", which meant gift, reward or price. It was transformed into "mercit" in old french, which basically meant what "mercy" now means in english. As with most words in french, they dropped the pronunciation of some consonnents, and it became "merci". I would say it has a similar root as"obrigado" in portuguese. "être à votre merci = je vous suis bien obligé" "to be at your mercy = to be much obliged". "merci = obliged = obrigado".

In french-Canadian we usually say "espadrilles" for "chaussures de sport". It have the same roots as the Italian "espadrillas" or the Spanish "esparteña".

You got the flags mixed up in the thumbnail, dafne(my crush) is Mexican not Argentinian and the other girl to her left is 😂

Dafine is Mexican 🇲🇽 and Margarita is Argentinian 🇦🇷

Let's say to simplify and explain these differences that: Since the time of the Germanic invasions of Gaul in the 4th/5th century, France has been divided in two, to the north of the Loire, a Germanic influence and to the south of the Loire, a strong Latin heritage And just to further complicate things a little in the two languages ​​of Oc and Oïl a Celtic base. In the north langue d'oïl and in the south langue d'Oc (the two ways of saying "yes" in the Middle Ages. Current French words come from these two influences. Example: The Seine River in Celtic was called Sequana Poor quality meat = Carne (Latin) in the verb casanier=(the one who doesn't like leaving the house), we find the Latin casa in aquarelle and aquifère we find the Latin Aqua, which gave Aix in the middle ages, Eau in modern French. Modern French comes from a mixture of these three languages and that may be why French is complicated.

Manoir and maison have the same latin root : Manere. It means to live in, stay.

The funny thing is most of them are polyglots and know how the word is spoken in the other language but they still pretend they don't

1:33 omg look at this Italiano cutie pie😍🥰

In some regions of Valencia, where we also speak Catalan, we informally say "auia" for "water" 😂 That's 4 vocals, we made it harder than French lol

It'll be nice if in a next similar video there is a linguist so we can know where all these words take their roots! Cool video 👍

In portuguese we have mansão, that's very similar with mansion

I'm Italian and if I see written French I can understand almost everything. Spoken French it's a different thing. Spanish I can understand almost everything written and spoken while spoken Portuguese sometimes has sounds I am not used to so I find it a little bit more strange. For a lot of different words from Italian however I can understand the meaning because there is a Latin/old Italian word or a dialect one that is similar so given the context I can find quite easily the meaning.

In French it is un re-merciment which is a returning of grace, returning of faveur, that we cut short into Merci.

De fet, tant en català com en castellà existeix la paraula "vianda" que es refereix a les carns de caçera que menjaven els nobles a l'edat mitja, em sembla. En tot cas diria que les viandes son carn de luxe. De la mateixa manera, en català també existeixen els mots mas, masia i masió que es refereixen a grans cases de camp, propietat d'una familia. Maison deu estar emparentat amb aquests mots. Després, tampoc cal oblidar que el català o com se'n digui posseeix una riquesa dialectal enorme. Així, mentre a Barcelona es diu aigua i a Mallorca aigo, arreu de Catalunya es pot sentir aiga, com en occità. Igualment, en el dialecte occidental es prefereix el mot maçana sobre el de poma, el qual s'assembla més al castellà i el portuguès. I per acabar, això no té cap valor comparatiu però ho dic igualment perquè és maquíssim i sense cap dubte superior, i és que a Mallorca, em comptes de gràcies o merci diuen gracis 😍😍 Si heu de comentar, us prego que sigueu respectuosos, aquí l'idèia és compartir i aprendre, no fer la guerra ❤

⚠⚠⚠People must realize that the regions that became Italy, Spain and Portugal spoke latin for a longer time than the region of Paris where French comes from So French evolved from Latin much earlier That's why French sounds so different

Don´t take me wrong~ I enjoy the videos, but the background musics doesn't help much in videos like these, specially when kinda loud. The back ground musics might bother and deviates our attention from their conversation >.

In French there is also the thing that some words are not based on Latin, but Gaelic. I once saw a docomentary about this topic. It's really interesting. But that would explain why French is so different sometimes

If Andrea is in the video, I know that is worthy to watch.

I'd watch a 2 hour long video with these languages ❤

_"Viande"_ (meat) comes from the latin _"vivendus"_ which means: everything you can eat to feed yourself (not only meat) but it evolved with time to designate only meat (or fish flesh).

Viande comes from Old French vivande, which comes from Latin vīvō - meaning "I live"

I love how Andrea is right there just being her 😁. I wish there was a romanian person in the video too.

Gràcies a World Friends per aquest altre magnífic episodi! Que Déu us beneeixi❤❤

As I say in all these videos, love catalan

The house word “casa” makes in french “chez” (je suis chez moi : I am at my own house / so I’m home). There is the french word Case with a double meaning 1. Vernacular housing of some non western people. 2. A small space to fill, usually a square like on a paperwork. Chez/Case/Casa come from the Latin Casa (hut,shed). Maison comes from the Latin Mansio (the action of staying at a place). It’s the same origin than Rimanere in Italian (to stay).

French and Italian people have more in common that the other european countries due to the latin language imported with the roman empire.

Ana can not leave this channel, her vibe is so good!! she does represent Brazil ❤ oi do Brasil

In portuguese we also have "pomar" which means a set of fruit trees

Etymology of the word "viande". From Latin "vivenda" which became in late Latin "vivanda", neutral adjective form of the verb vivere (“to live”) meaning “that which serves life”. The word originally applied to all kinds of food and gradually specialized so that today it no longer designates only certain meat foods.

Btw to say something link to water, we also say : aquatique, so one in one we are pretty close 😄 And "case" is the specific home in African countries or West Indies countries where people speak French :)

I like how among the 4 main languages of latin , Spanish , Portuguese , Italian and French , the one who seems and sounds more different is French arguably , Elysa is pretty cool

Actually, French sounds like Italian and Latin, French and Italian are the most similar to each other.

As a brazilian living in France and speaking french i think we have a lot of words very similar and equal, but the accent its different, the truth is read in french is more easily then speak, because the accent its hard, even though i already speak very well.. mon français B1 si quelq'uen parle avec moi directment je peux comprendre mais si je suis dans un cercle d'amis parlant tous français, je comprends rien et ça me enerve =( la différence c'est que le français a des sons nasaux très différents

love the Catalan representation!!!!

in Spain there are a lot of words for "sneakers": zapatillas (de deporte), deportivas, deportivos, bambos, bambas, tenis... probably more I can't recall now

Giulia is great and Italian is such a beautiful language!

The french girl is classy! And the Italian such a beautiful face, same with the Spanish one in 2nd rank.Omg. Spare us with your beauty women!

For skirt, we say falda in certain parts of argentina as well. The word mansion exists in Spanish: mansión, but only for big and luxurious houses. Por otro lado meat/viande, we have a similar word in Spanish: vianda.

I'm so happy Ana is back😭♥️

Why not a romanian girl in this vídeos??? They are latin like all of these girls.

I've rarely so little chemistry between people on the same set, wow

Really cool video, especially because they were giving really good arguments and paying attention and thinking about the root origins. Really nice group of people. A romenian would be a must in this group, since it is the other romance language as different from the others as French, but at the same time has a lot of similarities and many words close to the original latin root.

Viande actually comes from latin « vivenda » which was a derivated form of the verb « vivere » which means « to live ». The word changed meanings in French even though we still have the verb « vivre » which means « to live ».

The archaic English word "viand" means "food" or an item of food.

"Viande" for meat in french is close to vivanda in italian, so it's very latin form (vivenda). In old french we use to say also "la carne", which give the word "la carnation" (the color of the skin).

In the past, old french used to have more similares words, like : a home= une case ( very used in french overseas territory). Thanks= grâce ( miles grâces messire) merci beaucoup mon seigneur. Meat= viande ( from latin vivenda, vivere, vivre. Avoir des vivres= to have somethings to eat). ''carne'' means at the same time ''vielle carne/ veille peau(old fart)''a very harsh way to describe an old person. And of course a very hard meat that you Can difficutly masticate "de la carne''.

Put Romania in these neolatin chats please❤❤❤❤❤❤

Italian chick is like Snow White

in french we used to say tennis too at some point ;)

You need to bring Ana from Portugal, to represent European-Portuguese.

Curiosamente na lingua portuguesa antigamente e resumido a palavra obrigado era basicamente uma dívida ou dever a alguém...posteriormente passou a significar um agradecimento, uma gratidão a alguém.