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MUST-KNOW FRENCH SUMMER VACATION WORD!

August 31, 2024
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    • by: @lionelschmitt6657
    • 5 months ago

    Ah, que serait la France sans le chassé-croisé des Juillettistes et des Aoûtiens ? 😉

    • by: @asterixky
    • 5 months ago

    In the same aspect, you have "a la rentrée". Like, "on se revoit a la rentrée"

    • by: @youpihat
    • 5 months ago

    French public holiday doesn't count inside the annual five weeks holiday which means if one day of public holiday inside your annual five weeks holiday then you have five weeks and one more day of legal holiday !

    • by: @annepoitrineau5650
    • 5 months ago

    Practically all European countries have a month long summer holiday. However, the French have July or August because schools are on holiday in July and August, so people have t got into the habit of taking August or July off. Some people do 1/2 July+1/2 August, whcih means that they sandwich their holidays betwen national day July 14th, an the 15th of August, another big holiday.

    • by: @andyshacks7812
    • 5 months ago

    I’m going to Lesvos next week,so that makes me a juillettiste! We definitely can learn a lot from the French!

    • by: @DH007-w2d
    • 5 months ago

    Oh la la. Les vacances, c'est sacré, ma p'tite dame. Et pis, y a les gosses…

    • by: @jostock564
    • 5 months ago

    Prolongateur is my favourite word. I absolutely love it. It makes me chuckle.😂😂

    • by: @thierryf67
    • 5 months ago

    i'm "Aoutien" since several years… 😉 I take 3 weeks off in August.

    • by: @ValleyGreenNaturals
    • 5 months ago

    We will be "Septembriens" this year as we are heading to Scotland. Next year we will be in France to scope out our best choices for retirement living!

    • by: @enriquesanchez2001
    • 5 months ago

    COOOOOOOOOOOL! Thank you, Diane!

    • by: @susanbartone1347
    • 5 months ago

    I dislike hot humid temperatures so I often find myself wanting to take vacation in off season(s) like in February and March. I wonder, with 5 weeks of vacation time, if employers get a bit more upset if their employees take vacation(s)/holiday time at other time(s) of the year?

    • by: @Kaister007
    • 5 months ago

    Hello Diane! Just scrolled to your channel and it is amazing! Wanted to ask you if there is anything I should know before coming to Paris. I will be working at the Olympics and wanted some heads up before coming.

    • by: @Joliefleur252
    • 5 months ago

    Traditionaly, the aoutiens are more very blue collar (since factories close in august) and juilletiste are more white collar.
    Now french are mostly going on vacation from mid july ( bastille day) to mid august (15 august being a major christian hollyday)

    • by: @lavachekikri
    • 5 months ago

    Bonjour Diane,
    Étant une professeure (au collège) en Suède je pourrais dire que suis les deux – juilletiste et aoûtienne et même juiniste car mes vacances sont de 19 juin jusqu’au 11 août cette année et je passe mes vacances en France! 😅
    Bonne vacances à tout le monde!❤

    • by: @yumyummoany
    • 5 months ago

    I’m a Juilletiste going to France to see my son and his family and my son and his family are going to be Aoutiens as they come here! I love the village where they live and it’s great when we are recognised!

    • by: @cyngibson950
    • 5 months ago

    Italie!!!!

    • by: @jeanmarieboucherit7376
    • 5 months ago

    I love your enthusiasm about France. I am French myself but my girlfriend navigates between Zambia and Switzerland but when she comes to France she goes crazy about everything,the food, the history, the culture.Unfortunately many French people tend to complain a lot about their country maybe because they have never lived in other countries,they do not appreciate the good things we have.

    • by: @feraudyh
    • 5 months ago

    Les aoutiens are often familiar with les aoutats. Take care.

    • by: @enriquesanchez2001
    • 5 months ago

    Bonjour, Diane! I need to make up a few words! I am a "printempien" and an "automnien" !

    • by: @hexhex7220
    • 5 months ago

    " Weekender" ….North Americans vacation at all times of the year…Quebecers vacation during the last two weeks of July, which they call the construction holiday…it's illegal to work on construction sites during those " sacred" two weeks

    • by: @peavy6106
    • 5 months ago

    I'm quite intrigued by the shift in pronunciation from aôut = oot to aôutiens = ah-oo-sien! Why in the heck do they pronounce the A when they lengthen the word??

    • by: @np8173
    • 5 months ago

    I’ve realized I prefer traveling in the shoulder seasons because it’s less crowded and the temperature is much more reasonable.

    • by: @jml4774
    • 5 months ago

    I wonder if there is a word for foreigners who stay in France for the winter (like we call people "Snowbirds" when they go to Fla or AZ for the winter.) My husband and I are starting to spend winters in Nice. Do the French have such a word?

    • by: @wesleyshelby8163
    • 5 months ago

    Merci Madame Diane!

    • by: @Alexandre_Sauron_Emery
    • 5 months ago

    Hello! That's very funny.
    I am a French person living in France, in Britany, and I am a French professional proofreader. I didn't even know those words do exist, it's the very first time I heard of them. Thank you, Diane! xD

    • by: @dev5963
    • 5 months ago

    I knew the words because I have French friends. Not that different than the US. I you tell a French person (or British, German, etc), that you are an American snowbird, they may think you like winter. However, to Americans, it originally meant retirees from the US Northeast who travel to Florida for most of the winter but can now mean any person from a northern colder clime to any warmer southern clime. Different cultures, different languages, but similar context.

    Another great video. I appreciate that you point out that you are still learning new words and cultural norms.

    • by: @user-bl2cy5es8i
    • 5 months ago

    Bonjour Diane!I was planning to visit Paris this summer, but unfortunately I am not, I'm thinking if it was a good idea with the Olympics, I know it's difficult in Paris right now!My question is about voting! Will you vote?❤

    • by: @LennyBarre
    • 5 months ago

    On the "the world can still function if people had time off", well, everything is slowed down and don't expect projects to progress much in July/August either… Same story in late December/early January.

    • by: @OuiInFrance
    • 5 months ago

    Bonjour! I'm thinking of doing a Q&A-style video soon and would love it if you dropped your questions over on the prompt in my community tab! Merci!

    • by: @ogamiitto8627
    • 5 months ago

    Salut Diane, team aoûtiens ici ! Un mois de congés entre Alsace, Allemagne/Suisse, Vercors et Var… J'ai hâte. Bonnes vacances à tout le monde !

    • by: @joelcafeolai6201
    • 5 months ago

    Expressions I LOVE in France : 'Bonjour ma puce' ( which is endeering ) , which translates to ' Hello my flee' or ' je vais jeter un oeil au four' which translates to ' I am going to throw and eye in the oven ' … always makes my English friends laugh …

    • by: @lindagrace2
    • 5 months ago

    Long summer vacations are just as true in Holland, perhaps all of Europe?

    • by: @lindagrace2
    • 5 months ago

    Someone would come up with a word in English, they always do. First of all Americans don't get/take a month vacay each summer and if they did I'd be surprised if most actually picked a month, knowing them, they more likely to straddle a couple of month depending on their family or job activities!!

    • by: @b.w.9244
    • 5 months ago

    Hi Dianne! I loved saying pamplemousse!

    • by: @yourikhan4425
    • 5 months ago

    Julyians & Augustians ?

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