How the French Foreign Legion teaches the French language to the new recruits.

suck hello friends of the frankfurt legion i am greeting you you are very welcome on my channel hello so some guys of you asking me were asking me hey thomas when you joined the french foreign legion do you need to speak french did you speak french thomas when you joined a french foreign legion no i didn't i yes i did a little bit i say i could say we or bonjour and that's all so i had maybe two or three words i knew in french language i came from i come from germany so i spoke a little bit english but that that was it you know and uh and my message to you guys is don't worry don't worry when you join the french for legion the life will teach you the french language and they will teach you the french language so you have about every day in the boot camp the boot bootcamp is for 17 weeks most of the time you are on the farms or in the old kasan la passe or now in the newcastle um don ju so they will teach you french and every day you are there you will learn three words three words every day and responsible for the thought that you are able to understand and can write and read these words is your binom because they put you together in a binom binom means two two guys or even suriname and your most of the time is a galwa maybe a francophone a guy who speaks already very well french language the french language so every day three books sase and bere amber and the whole day during the whole day you constantly repeat these three works very you've been home come to ask you hey what is this this is the berry berry of course these are my boots le pot sachet depot then your nco come and ask you what is this message and you will understand very well very quick you know and that's it that's how you learn french and the french for religion so you guys see these boots and you as i told you before when i joined the french foreign legion i did not speak a word french not at all and i joined the french for religion in february 85 and i've been in the boot camp in custer no dari in the old casino la pasay you know this was before joining the farms and i was in the second platoon as do and we lived on the second floor and uh one day i remember very well there was an irish couple stormed our room and he put himself in front of me he was sold like this like this and he has scars all over the face and he was screaming at me hey legendary you have to see the la rangers sir la rangers and i did not understand a verb i didn't cop it no and then he put me in the pull up position and i have to pump pump pull ups making pull ups one two ten twenty forty fifty 100 until my nose was in the dirt and after a while i had arms like muscles like arnold schwarzenegger and then my binom came it was there was a french guy a galwa and he told me hey thomas the only thing he wanted to say is you have to clean your boots make them shine and since then when somebody told me cyril arranges i knew exactly what to do i cleaned my boots i made them shine you know and so you learn french in the french for religion you know learning by doing in all day life that's it and your platoon leader in the boot camp most of the time is a young little lieutenant you know or an attitude or a session chef maybe an artisan chef you know these are nco great they give you french lessons so every day every single day when you are in the french foreign boot camp you have some um how can i say it i cannot find the word you are in school they teach you the language so you come together in a class all 25 applicants or 30 applicants and they give lessons and in the end of the bootcamp they teach you by this way 400 french words so you can write them you can read them and you can talk and after not even 10 days in the boot camp you are able to say things in french language like your blood group you know your numero sangino your group sangine that's it that's what they call them and you're able to tell them your numero of your famas in my time with the famas today is the hakka 417 the german weapon you storm give a storm your number your personal identification number so one wheat that's what they want to hear after 10 days but it's okay you can do it you can do it after one and a half year in french for religion your french language skills are so good that you can be corporal and give your orders to your team in french language so after three months in the boot camp you can join your regiment your final regiment as you know better than i do we have six fightings regiment in france in the french metropole and one in overseas this is in french guyana and your french language skills are good enough you know read write and talk 400 words and this is good to go for any operation yeah it's enough and after one year in your regiment your french language skills are so good you can even be radio operator of your unit and they do so much more to learn the french language to you you know even when you sing a song a french military song a legion song because we in the legion we sing a lot a lot a lot every day and when you have to sing a song they don't teach you the french word go outside outdoor and then you have to sing the song no it's much more than this before going outdoor you come together in a classroom and they tell you the french words and afterwards at the same time they explain the words and the meaning of the words and they translate it for you in your language so you can understand and this is so important have you seen the legionnaires flag have you seen the flag of the legion understanding and then doing going outside and singing very important singing is a strong message so when you want to join the french for religion but you have doubts because you have not the language skills you don't speak about french don't worry my brother they will teach you the french foreign legion will teach you their language so be cool stay safe amici electioneer your [Music] on yes [Music] me [Music] hey [Music] me you

Channel: The Legionnaire

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Length: 10min 5sec (605 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 28 2021