Counting to 100 in French with a NYC Cabbie

"THERE'S FOUR NUMBERS, FOR JUST ONE NUMBER"

SCHOOL FRIENDLY VERSION:

[wfd]

by the time this video ended i realized that i'd been tricked into learning some french

[simonr]

I got four-twenty-ten-nine problems, and counting in French is one.

[freakystarlight]

Belgium people : *"Laughs in septente"*

[gemaxice]

1963 in french : mille neuf cent soixante trois
1963 in deutsch :

[clemnade_]

My french teacher found this and was offended, watched it in class and everyone died of laughter

[Gradd]

I came here to be an angry french canadian. But then I laughed.

[katerinaslavickova]

The moment he yells I DoNT´ nEed To Say EEEennN, iT´S jUSt tWeNTy-oNe!! and than slips out of role and gigles...absolutely killed me, best sketch Matt XD

[oddtherapy]

As a Belgian who speaks french (we're neighbours), I laughed. We Belgians have decided the whole counting numbers thing was way over the top so we thought we'd use our own word for seventy which is :"septante" instead of "soixante-dix". But because we like making things more complicated for ourselves, we thought we'd keep four-twenty though. And because we're inconsistent, we still came up with our own word for ninety nonetheless, just like we did for seventy, which is : "nonante", instead of "quatre-vings-dix". Way to show the french we're smarter but actually not quite lmao.

Brace yourselves though, the swiss came up with not one, but TWO other words for eighty (french : quatre-vingts-dix), which are "octante" and "huitante". But I believe one of the two is rarely ever used though. Anyway, welcome to the french language, what the hell were you thinking when you chose to learn this am I right ?

[Falka]

English :
99 = ninety nine

French :
99 = *4 20 10 9*

[bribread]

“He asked if I know French, what do I look like... God?”

[aretuzamoonchild]

I'm french and I never realised how complicated counting in French was ! This video makes me laugh so much ! 😂

[alecacosta]

This is how the USA look like for nations that use the metric system

[hanadian]

Even though he’s complaining the whole video he actually learned all of it lmao

[googly]

Glad you didn’t miss your Duolingo class.

[ymir]

Me: *IS LAUGHING*
Also Me: *i'm french*

[arkonakron]

Can we just appreciate this guy for writing so many subtitles?

[andreadiaz]

ah yes the first four number in french
1- oon
2- ducks
3- toas
4- cat

[sepehrrz]

It's been 3 years and I regularly come back to this video and rewatch it. It's lovely

[lennaerthondelink]

Scout's failure with Miss Pauling really got to him in the end

[Diedela]

I can just imagine the relief when the 2000’s came and they didn’t have to spend 3 hours saying the year