Learn French with ASTERIX #74

Hi! We continue with Asterix. I check that I started the video and that the sound works. It's good. I don't have the secret of the magic potion, but as soon as I know how to get rid of hair eccentricities, I will remove the two Gauls. It will be a moral satisfaction. We just see in the background, we always see one of the Romans cutting hair and beard with big scissors. And we see a pile. This is a pile, T-A-S, a pile of hair. So he's downright installed on this pile of hair. Come on, next vignette. There we have, obviously, not a misunderstanding. It's not a misunderstanding. It could be a misunderstanding. A misunderstanding is when two people did not get along. But it's rather ... I have a little memory. A misunderstanding, a ... Ah! How do you say when you disagree? There is obviously a disagreement between Asterix and Panoramix. And look, we almost see it in the expression of Asterix's face, which is a little bit the expression of the face, but also the non-verbal communication. He's a little ... Why did you accept so quickly? This centurion wants us bad. The effects of the hair potion are short-lived. So why did you accept so quickly? This centurion wants us bad. The centurion, if I remember correctly, is a bit the title of Caius Bonus. He is a centurion. A little reminder definition. Centurion. A centurion is an officer in the Roman army who commanded a century, a group of 80 to 100 soldiers. He was responsible for the discipline and actions of his men on the battlefield. So indeed, the centurion is Caius Bonus. It's him. So there, Asterix is saying what? He is saying, Why did you accept so quickly to prepare the counterpoison? We could say, Why did you give in so quickly? Give in. Not the verb to help, but the verb to give in, which starts with C. Give in. When we give in, it means we say, OK, I accept, I give in. We stop the resistance. Okay? To give in is to stop the resistance. Why did you accept so quickly? Why did you give in? Why did you accept so quickly to produce the counterpoison? He recalls, Caius Bonus wants to hurt us. Caius Bonus has negative intentions. This centurion, Caius Bonus, he wants to hurt us. He wants to hurt us. And there, in fact, Panoramix will justify himself. He says, The effects of the hair potion are short-lived. The effects, the consequences, the effect that the hair potion has, what it does, that is, the fact that it pushes the hair and beard at a completely abnormal speed, well, these effects are short-lived. So the hair potion, the potion that pushes the hair, once again, adjective hair, which means it's related to hair. The hair potion, these effects are short-lived. So they last, maybe, I don't know, an hour, two hours, three hours, or we'll see what he says later, but it's not a definitive effect. And we see here a close-up on Panoramix, which continues his reasoning and his justification, and he says, Tomorrow it will no longer appear. We must think of getting out of there. Tomorrow it will no longer appear. Tomorrow, the next day, it will no longer appear. What is the expression, it will no longer appear? I have prepared a periphrase for you. It will no longer appear is, it will no longer leave visible traces. Or, everything will be as before. Okay? So if you say, tomorrow it will no longer appear, it means that tomorrow we will return to a normal situation. So in this context, what Panoramix means is that tomorrow, the next day, tomorrow, there will be no more effects and the hair and mustache, beard of the Romans will stop growing quickly. So there will be no more effects. Tomorrow it will no longer appear. We must think of getting out of there. So his deduction, well, it's not his deduction, it's the next point of his reasoning, is that we must anticipate the next step. What is the plan? What is the strategy? Tomorrow it will no longer appear. We must think of getting out of there. Getting out of there, we remember that there, Panoramix and Asterix are captive. They are prisoners. They are captive. So we must find a strategy to get out of there. Let's imagine they are in a prison. How are they going to get out of the prison? How are they going to get out of there? How are they going to free themselves? Tomorrow it will no longer appear. We must think of getting out of there. And there we have, visibly, Romans, even if they don't really look like Romans, because we see them with huge beards and we know that usually the Romans are glabrous, small revision, glabrous, they are really well shaved, glabrous. And there we have one of the Romans who says, we are ready to escort you into the forest to look for the ingredients of the antidote. So we have a Roman, a little smaller, but also with very long hair, a big beard, a shield, a spear, and another who is much taller with a black beard and also long hair, also a spear and a shield. And so this one, the big one, said, we are ready to escort you into the forest to look for the ingredients of the antidote. So basically, they will escort Panoramix and Asterix, they will accompany Panoramix and Asterix to protect them if something happens. But it's also, in a way, to check that Asterix and Panoramix are not going to run away. So finally, escort someone, it can be to accompany him to protect him, but also in some contexts, it can be to accompany someone to check, to check that the person does not leave, does not run away. We are ready to escort you into the forest, we remember, in a forest, in a forest there are lots of trees, to look for the ingredients of the antidote, the counterpoison. We are ready to escort you into the forest to look for the ingredients of the counterpoison. And we will continue with the next thumbnail. So we're going to zoom out. Here we have a big thumbnail, it's pretty big. So you see the illustration, and we're going to zoom in on the text. We see Panoramix on the left, Asterix and the two Roman guards who are visibly fighting each other. We can clearly see that this one walked on this one's beard and said to him, don't walk on my hair! So let's zoom in on the text. Here we have the great Roman with the black beard who says, don't walk on my hair! You walk on my feet, okay? You walk on my feet. You, you are walking on my feet. You are walking on my feet, okay? Walking on someone's feet. Don't walk on my hair! On the hairs. So here, again, we know that their hairs are very very long and so it's very easy, in the end, if you don't look closely, to walk, with his foot, to walk on the hairs. And that's what happened. The Roman is aghast, okay? He is aghast, he loses patience, he is aghast, he says, ah, you're annoying me, you're annoying me! He is aghast, ah, you're annoying me, you're annoying me! And he says, don't walk on my hair! Stop walking on my hair! And we see that he pulls, he pulls, that's his hair, I don't think, that's his beard, and that's his hair. So he pulls his hair all of a sudden, and we see the other Roman, in fact, who tilts, he tilts backwards, okay? He loses his balance. And he falls to the ground, and he says, you just didn't let your hair hang! You just didn't let your hair hang! Okay? You just didn't. So it's interesting, the expression, you just didn't. Or often, in an oral way, we will say, in fact, we can say, in the positive sense, we can say, you just didn't, blah blah blah. Or we can use the positive form, It's when we're giving a recommendation, in fact. But it's really ... I would say it's a familiar turn. It's not vulgar, it's not vulgar, but it's rather familiar. I wouldn't say, for example, if I'm in a professional interview with my director, I'm not going to say, you just blah blah blah. No. I'm just going to give you some examples. Imagine you are with a friend, you are discussing, and imagine that your friend smokes a lot of cigarettes and he or she tried books, tried patches, tried a lot of stuff, and it doesn't work, the person keeps smoking. And you, for example, one of your recommendations is, you just have to go see a doctor. Go see a doctor to discuss it with a doctor, a doctor, a doctor. So you can formulate it like that, you can say, you just have to go see a doctor. You just have to go see a doctor. It may sound a little weird, because it's you just have to go see a doctor. You just have to ... it sounds a little ... you just have to. It may be fast. That's why I'm explaining it to you. I hope that next time you hear it in a movie, in a series or in a podcast, you can think of me and say, oh yes, that means it's an advice, it's a recommendation. You just have to go see a doctor. Okay? It's not an incredible advice, it's not an extremely original advice, or it's not a revolution in terms of the idea, but I recommend you go see a doctor. Or it can be an idea to go see a doctor. You just have to go see a doctor. Orally. You just have to go see a doctor. Orally. But in writing we would say, you just have to go see a doctor. Or another example, you have too much work, and basically you are invited to a party, but you have too much work, you have exams at the university, and there a friend tells you, you just have to not go to the party. You just have to not go to the party, and you're going to have six more hours to revise for your exam. You just have to not go to the party. So there the advice is not to go to the party. So there he tells him, but it's more of a defense, it's to tell him, you just have to not let your hair drag. If you want me to stop walking on your hair, well, don't let your hair drag. I remind you, when we let something drag, it means that we leave something somewhere and it's not tidied up, it's not structured, okay? We let it drag. Imagine if you are ... you have trouble tidying up things at home, okay? At home, it's a mess, there are objects everywhere, it's not tidied up, it's not tidied up. It may be because, precisely, you let objects drag everywhere. You do not tidy up, let it drag. Literally, dragging is that. There, I take my hand and I drag it, I drag my hand on my arm, okay? Let something drag, drag. You just have to not let your hair drag, okay? So it's a bit ... it's not my responsibility, it's not my fault, it's because of you, because you let your hair drag on the floor. But remember this expression, you just have to not let, or you just have to blah blah blah. There we have, obviously, the two Romans who continue a little bit to walk on top of each other and who fall. We see either ... either they are fighting, outright, maybe they are fighting, or they are walking on their hair and beard and they fall. So we see little stars that make us understand that and we see Panoramix who obviously speaks to Asterix and who says to him, I have a plan, okay? I have an idea, I have a strategy in mind. I have a plan. And Asterix, obviously a little reassured, he is a little reassured. Before he was worried. Oh, I'm worried. And there he is, OK, I'm reassured. I'm reassured, it's good. Now I'm not worried anymore. And he says, what's good about us is that we're full of ideas. What's good about us is that we're full of ideas. Being drunk on something, literally, it's not ... there, in this context, it's not in connection with alcohol. Even if the expression I'm drunk, okay, I drank seven liters of beer, I'm drunk, being drunk, literally, it means that we drank a large amount of alcohol. Being drunk. But there, literally, it's ... we're full of ideas, it means that we have a large amount of ideas. We have a lot of ideas very easily. And he says, what's good about us is that we're full of ideas. So basically, to use other words, what Asterix says is we have this quality, we have very easily ideas, we are creative people, we have very easily ideas for strategies, for plans, to get out of difficult situations. I have a plan! What's good about us is that we're full of ideas. So, in the comments, put me tu n'as qu'à. This expression, tu n'as qu'à bla bla bla. You can, if you want, give advice to other people in the comments. Tu n'as qu'à bla bla bla. Tu n'as qu'à. And put me in your mother tongue if there is an expression to say, to give advice, to give a recommendation. So in your mother tongue. And if you can include it in French, it's cool for me because it means that if I see your comment at random, like that, in five months, well, I'll be able to connect, link the fact that you put an expression in your mother tongue to the French meaning tu n'as qu'à bla bla bla. And like that, I will be able to continue to revise my vocabulary in a somewhat passive way by looking at your comments. So thank you in advance if you can do it, it's cool. Tu n'as qu'à bla bla bla. Don't forget to leave a like if you can and see you in the next one. A plus! Ciao!