Living in a language can sometimes be hard to understand.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s difficult to imagine des personnes r\u00e9elles qui vivent une vraie vie, travaillent, font les courses, etc<\/strong> (real people living real lives, working, grocery shopping, etc), when you\u2019re staring at des tableaux de conjugaison<\/strong> (conjugation tables) for hours on end.<\/p>\n I recently thought about making French more real for those outside la francophonie<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n Living in France, ma vie est en fran\u00e7ais<\/strong> (my life is in French), and I meet people every day who use French without ever having to wonder if a word is masculin<\/strong> or feminin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n My idea is to start a Real French<\/em> series where I interview French people and have them talk about d’o\u00f9 ils viennent et ce qu’ils font dans la vie<\/strong> (where they are from and what they do for a living). It’s is a fun way to share more French voices with all of our readers!<\/p>\n Dans cet esprit<\/strong> (with that in mind<\/a>), when I wrote about le jazz manouche<\/strong><\/a>, I hinted at a musician friend of mine who I had interviewed. Le musicien<\/strong> is Jean Guyomarc’h<\/em>, a member of several different groups who tour around France! I first had the pleasure to hear him and his group, Alternate Cake<\/em><\/a>, play at a local bar. I had no idea who they were, but I enjoyed la musique<\/strong><\/a> so much I had to talk to them after le concert<\/strong>, which is how we became friends!<\/p>\n I recently had a chance to sit down with Jean and ask him a few questions about sa vie et la musique<\/strong> (his life and music), and after a couple questions he played une chanson avec sa guitare <\/strong>(a song with his guitar)!<\/p>\n In the interview he explains qui il est<\/strong> (who he is) and ce qu’il fait<\/strong> (what he does) and goes into detail about what le jazz manouche<\/strong> is and how it developed in France. La vid\u00e9o<\/strong> is en VOST<\/strong><\/a>, and you can choose either French or English sous-titres<\/strong> (subtitles) by hitting l’ic\u00f4ne en forme de roue dent\u00e9e<\/strong> (the gear icon) in the bottom right corner of the YouTube player!<\/p>\n