French Slang Words With Meaning [Increase your vocabulary]

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Hi, welcome to my channel, in this video we will learn French slang words and backwards slang words.

As probably any language in the world, French slang can be hard to teach because there are slang words that you will hear everywhere in the country but some slang words only in some part of France. It can be different from one region to another, but also from France to another country or province where French is spoken, such a Belgium or Quebec (Canada).

For example, a 40-year-old French native speaker from Paris, will most likely not use the same slang words than a 40-year-old French native speaker from the south of France.

As you can imagine, it also depends on the age of the person, a 20-year-old person will have different slang words than a 50-year-old.

Of course, it is not necessary to learn all of it. However, when you learn a new language, knowing slang words can be helpful to take your speaking and comprehension skills to another level, and it’s a step forward to sound more like a native French speaker.

One more thing before you start, I don’t want to discourage you, but you need to know that we use slang (argot) and backwards slang (verlan), because we like to make things complicated!

Verlan actually means l’envers, “the inverse”.

Example :

Fou = crazy – Ouf (verlan)

Méchant = means bad – Chanmé (verlan)

Knowing these words can be useful for several situations, but I recommend you to use backwards slang words cautiously, if you don’t want to sound like an old person trying to act young and cool, just listen to your French friends, and try to catch the slang vocabulary they are using.

I didn't include rude French slang words and phrases or slang words for texting, but you can find them on my site , where you can listen to each file and also discover slang from my region, Alsace.

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