foreign Welcome to our friends for beginners I will be your native French teacher Clara from Leo east of France I'm really happy to help you on your French language Journey let's get started in our first lesson it's all gonna be about Greetings or salutation it's actually a great way to start since those are the first things you say to someone you just met so let's see our first vocabulary word for this lesson bonjour I'm quite sure you already heard this word let's practice it still boom boom bonjour as you can hear French language is all about nasal boom great Also let's have a look at this phonetic over here o and n together sounds uh boom while o and u sounds ooh ooh good so once you've said bonjour you might actually want to introduce yourself how do we do those two ways in French the first one you just tell your name and get ready to shake hands second way je m'appelle Clara literally this means I call myself Clara but anyways One More Shot maple Clara very good so how about asking somebody's name here we go to again literally this means how do you call yourself Como tap into let's have a look at the phonetic over here e and n sounds ah as you can hear it's quite close to um to make the difference you just need to open your mouth a little wider with E and n o very good so now once you've both introduced yourselves to each other you can add Shanti nice to meet you let's try it nice here you might wonder why we have letter e between parentheses simply because we want to turn the word into a feminine word when it comes to women foreign let's have a bit of practice I will be black you will be red and we will try to have a short conversation with what we've just learned let me start bonjour je m'appelle Clara Ashanti how did you do so far let's check is this what you've said if yes let's move on if not feel free to rewind to continue with the greetings we've already seen bonjour which stands for both good morning and good afternoon so how about good evening here bonsoir you guessed it means evening one more boom soir we have a new fanatic over here o and I together sounds SWA very good so what comes after bonsoir our bed bunny very good you might wonder why we changed boom because the following word Nui is a feminine word we then need to change boom to burn you excellent now let's see how we ask somebody how they feel how they are como va tu how are you literally this means how are you going since VA means go foreign did you hear that the letter u in French is uh very good how do you answer to this question again literally this means I'm going very well foreign Ty over here a and I sounds e e very good if you want to make it short asking them back how they are going doing how they are you can simply say etwa etwa it means and you which actually in English you might tend to say and yourself all right let's have one more practice so I will still be in Black you will still be red let's try this one kind of easy bonsoir come over to Bia merci how is it is this what you said if yes let's keep going if not you can keep on practicing it now let's say goodbye in French we say or revoir or revoir if we cut the word into over here or would stand for two revoir would stand for c again since C okay which stands for again to see you again but in French we like to keep polite so we like to add this little abiento a biento which means see you soon in French means early all right let's have a little review of all we've learned repeat after me bonjour je m'appelle Clara Ashanti bonjour bonsoir etwa over great so let's have one last practice over here so you will keep the red color and I will keep the black one so as you can see you will be the one to start the conversation I'll let you begin bonjour je m'appelle Clara Ashanti javibia etwa how did it go is this what you said if not feel free to rewind as much as you need it if yes you've done a great job today quite a fast learner very good Bravo congratulations