15 ways to express your tastes in French

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To express your tastes in French, you can say "I like" or "I don't like". This is correct of course, but it is very limited. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to give a little depth to your speech, and today, we are going to see 15 of them.

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Let's get back to the expression of tastes. Sometimes, when we express our tastes, we need to vary, refine, and nuance. And for that, we need a somewhat specific vocabulary. That's normal, right? It's true in French, but in any other language, there are different degrees of expression and we need, to appear natural, to have natural French, to have a good range of vocabulary.

Today, we're going to try to see how you can express your tastes. This video is a follow-up to another video we made a while ago. That video was "20 advanced vocabulary words to express your tastes." We introduced you to a whole bunch of very useful words. You can watch that video again. Today's video completes all that.

We're going to look at different things. We'll start with vocabulary that allows you to say that you like something, vocabulary that you'll use when you're hesitant or to say that you prefer one thing to another, and we'll see how to say that you don't like something without saying "I don't like" every time. We'll look at both very useful verbs and expressions that you'll have the opportunity to hear in many contexts.

Let's start with the first category, ways to say that you like something. In French, we often use "bien aimer", we rarely say "j'aime ce film" for example or "j'aime ce plat", we would rather say "j'aime bien ce film" or "j'aime bien ce plat". This is one of the most widespread ways. We don't say "j'aime", but we say "j'aime bien".

Another, slightly more formal way of saying that you like something is to say "être féru de", which means "to be fond of something". If you say "he's a real history buff", it means that he really likes history. There is still the idea here of intensity, we really like something.