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

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 World Cup

is occurring right now.

(chuckles) I have to admit, I am not a huge football fan

or what I call soccer.

I might watch some of it, but I know

that around the world this is a big deal.

When something is a big deal

when you say it's a big deal in English,

it means it's very interesting for everyone.

So I wish your team all the best.

I'm not sure what this meant.

I think that's my cheering action.

I wish your team all the best as they run around

on the football pitch and as they try to score goals.

I wish you an enjoyable few weeks

as you get to watch lots and lots of football or soccer

whatever you want to call it.

Anyways, have a good day.

I'll see you in a couple days

with another short English lesson.

Bye.