Learn the English (French) Phrases "C'est la vie!" and "déjà vu"

Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases C'EST LA VIE and DÉJÁ VU

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase c'est la vie or is this actually a French phrase? By the way, there are French phrases that we use in everyday English and c'est la vie is one of them, and it means, that's life. Sometimes you have a situation where something goes a certain way and there's no real way to explain it. So in an English conversation you would just shrug and say, "Well, c'est la vie." And basically what we're saying is, "That's life." Life has its ups and downs. Sometimes good things happen, sometimes bad things happen. Sometimes it's hard to understand why those things happen and then we just say, c'est la vie.

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By the way, there's another French term we use and that's deja vu. In English, people often forget to put the accents on it, by the way, but deja vu is a situation where you feel like you're experiencing something that happened before. In English, you would say, "Oh, I just had deja vu. I felt like I've already done this." Maybe you're reading a news story, and you feel like you've read the story before or maybe you just have a weird moment in your day where you think, "I think I've already done this." In that situation, you would say you're experiencing deja vu. By the way, in French, this actually is the past participle of the verb voir, and this means already so it kind of roughly translates as already seen.

Anyways, enough of the French lesson. To review, in an English conversation, you may use this phrase, c'est la vie. You can also say that's life. Either one will work and people will understand what you're saying. You just say, "Hmm, c'est la vie." Or, "Oh, that's life." And if you experience deja vu, it means you have had a situation in life where you feel like you've already lived that moment that it's already happened to you. It can be very, very strange to experience deja vu.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video. This comment is from Ruslan. Thank you for the lesson, dear teacher Bob. I love that nice, quiet neighborhood you were walking around in this video. Everybody has such a small fence around their houses so I guess house robbery does not happen in this area. And my response, it does happen, but not too often. It is a very peaceful neighborhood.

So thanks Ruslan for that comment. Let's talk a little bit about crime in Canada. We do have crime. Houses do get robbed. We are like every other country in the world. We try our best to keep our crime rate down, but there are still bad people and things still do happen. So yes, people do have their house houses robbed from time to time. We don't tend to have a lot of fences, but a lot of houses have security alarms or alarm systems and we probably in smaller towns have a very low crime rate. It's probably more of a worry in the bigger cities like Toronto or Edmonton or Calgary. So yes, we do have crime. It's even sometimes dangerous out in the countryside where I live, although people steal different things when they're out there. People tend to steal things like snowmobiles and four wheelers and farm equipment. So yes, there is crime. We do our best to stop it.

Hey, I'm out here at our local soccer fields because as I understand it, the W

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