Counting to 100 in French with a NYC Cabbie

Welsh Numbers...
Okay, why do we have multiple ways of using numbers, also why do we even have a base 20 numbering system?

Fine, "cyntaf" is first... 1af
"ail" is second... 2ail
Twentieth is... "ugeinded"
and if you want to add something you put "ar" (literally "on")... so
21st would be... "un ar ugeinded" (lit. 1 on 20th)? WRONG, IT'S "UNFED AR HUGAIN" (lit. first on 20).
WHY DOES THE "FED"/"OEDD"/"AIL"/"WHATEVER" COME BEFORE THE "ON"
UNFED ISN'T EVEN WHAT "FIRST" IS
UNFED ~= CYNTAF

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also, my source is: wiktionary, me being born in south wales, and train announcements.

Yes some french is stupid. But in french we pronounce the letter 'w' as "double V", cause it's like VV. In english you call that "double U" ?!?! Why ?

Lmao for seventy we just say septante u

Im Canadian i count numbers and pronounce words the Americans way . French doesn't make sense xD Canadian is a new language mix of french and English.

come on, bro!! french numbers are easy !! 70 septante, 80 huitante, 90 nonante

Forwarded it to my french teacher. 😅

when you're too slow to utilize basic math principles on a daily basis:

moron is not a New Yorker

Oui je suis d'accord, merci beaucoup..."I'm going to be normal for the next numbers."

My teacher but this on in my French class and everyone was dieing of laughter

This is gold

its been years and i will always laugh

Can someone write how a number 1888 looks like.
I thought that German system is stupid: number and number, for example "fünfundzwanzig" which means "fiveandtwenty", but what French guys generated is out of this world.
Than I found that for example in Brittany they speak normally, so they even have words for those 70, 80 etc.
UNBELIEVABLE

The voice crack on goddamn gets me every time

😂😂😂😂😂😂 I'm screaming because I'm learning French and this is exactly what was going on in my head as I'm learning to count from 1-100 in French. 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣💯✨✨✨

I'm cramming for a french test, and this video actually helped me.

les gaulois compter par 20 grâce à leur orteil contrairement à ces primate de romains qui savait compter que par 10 avec les doigts de la main alors rage pas si on à de l'avance si tu comprends pas x'D Dans notre langue c'est aussi rapide que vos twenty one etc ^^

this is so common in school for some reason, i’m glad it is though

My teacher found this and we laughed SOO hard

I find this funey

When I was in Switzerland they said septante for 70, huitante for 80, and nonante for 90.

I French teacher put this in for my grade 9 class 😂but so true

A hundred in french in cent and phonetically its the same thing as sang, which means blood. I would’ve love to see his face 🤣🤣🤣

Then how you say 1999

I watched this in class today

As a french he just make me realize that lol. Courage at all learn french.

This guy is like a New York Jew smashed with a Maine French-Canadien. Lachaime!

i actually take french and this helped

Who else is here from Godzilla versus French numbers?

A college French professor once explained why "one week" in French is "huit jours," or "eight days":

[Speaking in French] "The French have always had a problem with figures. What other language doesn't have a word for" [switching to English] "ninety-nine."

I like to think that the French numbering system was invented just for this masterpiece of a video to be made

That’s not New York. That is Boston all day.

The weird French numbering system comes from Latin :)

-"It'll be 1 cent please"
French people: 1100!?

Why would you get offended as a French person like its not your fault your number naming system sucks. I don't complain when someone criticises my language, I didnt invent it, I don't care if your delivery is off when you try to speak it, Just learn to take a joke without nitpicking

If this guy picks up a chatty Danish passenger who explains their voodoo numbers he's going to get a heart attack, that's for sure.

Why this thing has so many subtitles?

as an algerian living in quebec and talking fluent french from france, i feel insulted.

Je ne comprend pas la confusion avec les nombre français

Bro. I grew up speaking French.

I NEVER thought about this...

2497 = two thousands four hundred four twenty ten seven
What's funny is that you start doing math after 100 in English too.

This the greatest rant is history.

As a French, I agree, french numbers are total bs

In the French-speaking part of Switzerland we actually say septante, huitante, nonante for 70, 80, 90

sad but true :(

The reason French numbering is so messed up is that they used to be Gals, and while Rome used the Decimal system in which everything revolves around 10 and it's multiples, the Gals user the Vigecimal system which revolves around the 20's.

So to the Gals, you haven't finished a full set of Numbers until you reach some integer of 20's, that is why they used to have a unique name for every number between 10 and 20, and everything after 20 is a repetition of what came before.
And fun fact, English gets its numbers from 10 to 20 from Vigecimal French, because all other Germanic languages say Three-Ten, Four-Ten, only English does deviates because of the Norman conquest.

But then the Romans conquered them and they tried to erase every bit of Gal heritage they could erase, and that involved the numbering system, so they forced their method on the Gals, which is why we have "Dix-huite, Dix-Neuf" that is the Roman way of counting, and they kept forcing it until the people forgot what numbers their original method had for the 17-19 group.

This is very funny (and helpful) but as a New Yorker, this dude is definitely not a New Yorker. His accent is about soixante-quinze percent Boston.

once you learn to count to 100 in English you get the hang of it until you hit 1000. I guess it's not like that in French.