Aside from songs , just consider all the references to saying yes and thinking positively in pop culture. Download: This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that you can take anywhere. Click here to get a copy.

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The Unsure Yes in French
Oui has a long and fascinating history, and is the winner of a long-running linguistic battle. By the Middle Ages, French had evolved into numerous dialects that were essentially mutually unintelligible. Oui is also a good word to know for romantics.
The Beginner’s Guide to Saying Yes in French
All of which mean yes, but with different nuances for each. You can get by with just saying oui each time you want to say yes in French, but it gets old quickly. Oui is the standard way to say yes in French. Ouep is often used as a way to sound cool. Do you want to come over to play videos games on Saturday? Wow you got a new skate for Christmas?
Si is a little French word that mainly corresponds to three little English words: "if," "so," and "yes. Note that when si meaning "if" is followed by il "he" or "it" or ils "they," masculine , it is contracted to s'. Si can also be used to indicate a contrast or opposition, in which case it means "whereas":. Just keep in mind that si refers to the adverb "so" as in "so happy" , not to "so" as a conjunction as in "move so I can see" :. Caption 26, Dahlia: Contre courant. One of the first words you learn in French is the word for "yes," oui , but sometimes si can also mean "yes" as it does in Spanish and Italian.