Ever noticed how the same food and dining words can sound completely different in French vs English? 🇫🇷🇺🇸
In this video, we compare everyday French words and English words you hear around the table…like table, menu, banquet, and more, and we show how pronunciation and meaning subtly change from one culture to the other.
You’ll hear real English pronunciation alongside authentic French vocabulary, uncovering the small (and sometimes funny) differences that make language learning so fascinating. Whether you love food, dining culture, or picking up new food vocabulary, this side-by-side comparison is both entertaining and eye-opening. 👀
Pull up a chair and enjoy a fresh take on French vs English…one word at a time 🍽️✨
00:00 Intro
00:05 Today’s video
00:37 Buffet
01:21 Table
01:56 Cuisine
02:52 Menu
03:40 La Carte
04:12 Banquet
05:23 Apéritif
07:29 Digestif
08:58 Sommelier
09:43 Hors d’oeuvres
10:08 Dessert
10:53 Outro
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Have you ever had an Apéro before? What country do you live in and is that a typical thing for you? We want to hear! 👇 Don't forget to subscribe so we can continue making videos like these! 🥰
Pleasure to see u guys I am also french n I apreciate our culture melting together
I live in south of France,so l'apéro c'est sacré ❤😂
I can't tell the difference between the American pronunciation of "désert" and Keisha's "dessert." I'm desperate 🥺
You’re quite the adorable couple, vous êtes des ados 😜 (pour adorables).
I know this gonna be an hors sujet but in the 90’s one of the Christmas desserts I loved were Marons Glacés and at the time Le Nôtre was still at the top of his game in France but also in Beirut, and once a year, a nice big box of Marons Glacés was better than anything for me, however by the mid 2000’s Le Nôtre was bust and nobody else was making good produce anymore (that I knew of), and so this became a bygone era for me.
Today marzipan is the direct replacement although it never could dethrone my old favorite, and it’s done by multiple pâtisseries, donc pas de pénurie, galette du roi is a thing too 😊😊, and I’d been king for a year 😁.
I understand that pronouncing those French terms the French way in the States would make the culptrit a gibier de potence, get socially lynshed … ?
And as soon as you said “trou normand”, “cul sec” immediately came to mind for me ☺, quelle belle Zizanie ! 🍹
love the content as usual, but this time it's actually the decor that caught my eye, specifically the tree ornaments behind you – how their colours match your hair – K's highlights are very nice comme d'ab, and F's silver looks even more F(oxxy) than usual, if that's possible! happy holidays to you and your fam!
11:28 we want a VLOG to see that !
The world is so small
As a French teacher in India it's nice to recommend this Channel to my students- one has to go beyond the strictly academic syllabus…learning of languages and cultures does happen outside 😍💕
When having a western style dinner in a gathering of friends or family, we do tend to take an apéro. If it’s a traditional Lebanese dinner, we drink along the arak, which is close to the French pastis.
We have to admit. Inserting French words into English adds a bit of je ne sais quoi. Well a bit of sophistication really without being overly snobbish, which is often the case in Lebanon. We use English and French with our Arabic to sound educated and whatnot.
English may have supplanted French as an international language, but the latter is still the language of reference in matters of cuisine! Which makes it all the more appropriate to use the French words when we wish to speak of matters related to the kitchen or cooking.
I mean no one wants to order flamed pan cakes or rooster with wine, right?
Bonjour à vous deux du sud de la France !! 🖐. Il serait bien de faire des sous titres en français pour ceux qui ne comprennent pas bien l’anglais. Sinon continuez vous êtes très drôle !!!🤣🤣