Learn French - Basic Phrases for Tourists

hi guys mark here with Voltas world we're in Paris France behind me you have the pyramid the entryway into the Louvre the greatest museum in the world basically but basically it is you really have to go there and if you're going to come to France in general you really need to learn some French so what we have today is just a simple video on the basic phrases for tourists that you'll need whether it's hello goodbye I want these just simple phrases that can make all the difference because French people though people have this bad impression of them if you speak a little bit of French they will go a long way to help you out okay so let's get started if you want to say hi well you should be going to store people say Bonjour Bonjour which means a good day or hello Bonjour but you can just say a civil way to say hi is salute salute so formal Bonjour informal hi salute salute you come in the evening you want to say good evening good evening is bonsoir bonsoir bonsoir okay now we want to be polite when we're here and we want to say please please is si vous plait si vous plait si vous play and you'll see it sometimes you'll see SVP that's even play that just means please and you're gonna say thank you you say merci messy messy avevo say thank you very much even Elizabeth seppuku merci beaucoup if you wanna say you're welcome you're welcome is deadly huh del hijo okay now some of the simple phrases you want to have simple words you want to say yes and no yes is oui oui and no is no no okay go ahead somebody how are you or how's it going you say Shiva sip on and if you want to answer your answer the same way they say save huh how's it going when you see how it's going save up save up okay you say the same thing for like I and hi back okay how you doing how you doing goes back and forth okay now if you want to say good good is Yong Yong okay do it a more formal way to say how are you doing now it's como 11 come on alley-oop okay how are you going como I'll leave you and then you say I'm good thanks boom messy biank messy now if you were to say I don't speak friends for I don't speak French I don't speak French Sgt Papa Jose Zuniga fall sick shoot me papa fall sick okay if you want ask do you speak English you speak you say parlez-vous anglais parlez-vous anglais alright now if you want to say I don't understand just a Jedi to understand that is Ginny come clean pop she need coke Quinta okay if you want to say I do understand ah she complain she complain now if you want to say you know now we're tours we know where things they'd like the Louvre you don't want to say where is where is this a but where is who where is you a few a so you want to say you know where is the the museum with limos a wait you say okay Bank is bunk bunk post office is post so we la post where is the post office who a la post okay you will know where the hotel is way low tell l'hotel okay you're looking for a cathedral cutting tile cut it doll okay now let's go back to the hotel if you call up a hotel or you want to tell me you have a reservation so if you will say I have is Shay Shay so and a reservation is passive assume who preservation so I have a reservation boys I've assumed zoo reservation that if you only joined when a room is a room is as chambre Shambhala okay so there's a hotel stuff now another thing we're tourists we want to buy things if you want to say how much something is how much is Combee on campeón okay if you go into a restaurant okay you want to ask water is Fuu sorry water is oh oh let go out wine wine is phone zone so red one is home Bohus Bohus and white wine is gone blown don't a beer is deal deal if you're looking you'll go to the train station the train station is gah-gah but sometimes you'll see it on signs it'll say SNCF that's the name of the the train line like a new us is like Amtrak okay it's SNCF you'll see that okay but it's gah it's a train station so say like gah and then an SNCF after it okay if you want a ticket is your yet yet train is clean okay okay and then if you want to ask you know like what's your name which aim is come on boom up 11 come on vous appelez-vous okay say oh I'm Marc I call myself mark je m'appelle mark je m'appelle mark okay they might ask you where are you from that is do Vanessa dude being a view my son screaming cuz you must learn French okay ago say I come from the US a vein this is natsume your vein is it a Sunni or you can say I'm American just be American just we American or if you're English je suis Anglais je suis Anglais well my kids want to get going so hopefully this gives you guys a few extra things to help you out when you come here last word you might wonder need you're at the restaurant because the service isn't the best here you want the bill it's loud this young let this young love this young that's the bill okay so one last one Oh wha that's goodbye Oh wha so okhla from Paris we're going to go ahead in the Louvre my son's here to say bye kiss it Oh wah Oh wah from Paris French and please check us out on our website ww-well Jose worldcom and please like and favorite this video and we hope you subscribe Oh wah from Paris France you

Channel: Wolters World

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Keywords: travel, europe, mark wolters, wolters world, advice, Tourism (Industry), School, learn french, francais, France (Country), paris, learn french online

Id: HgIm25zWALQ

Length: 6min 58sec (418 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 28 2012