Thank you in French

Why am I writing this post on how to say thank you in French? I personally believe, along with, forgiveness, giving thanks is one of the most powerful human spiritual things you can do. If you learn how to say thank you in French with a smile your life will be a lot easy if you are planning a trip to France or Quebec, for example.

Below I drew a little Dwarf in the French countryside saying, “merci pour votre aide précieuse”. This is a very charming way of saying thank you in French, it means literally, “thank you for your precious help”. I love visual learning, as for me a picture is worth a thousand words.

Thank you in French

If you memorize this and only this phrase, you will be in the good graces of many people in from Montreal to Marseille.

Learn a language with memorization

I know this sounds like hard advice when the entire Internet is saying take French lessons here at this school it is easy and fast. But I teach and learn languages. I am not good with languages personally. However, I found that memorizing French words and basic phrases, but mostly words along with blood sweat and tears is the most effective way to learn a language.

To learn a language you do not need a dictionary or phrase book or a translator. You need physical paper flashcards. Something that you can hold and carry around with you during the day, that will test and retest your knowledge over and over again. This is because most memory problems are a retrieval not a retention problem. Using language flash cards will teach you word retrieval.

French for thanks and Gratitude expressions

I do not want to give you too many as it does not good. Often less is better than more. With too many French vocabulary words you will become demotivated or frustrated. Just learn the following phrases.

These expressions of gratitude are all you need. Copy them to notepad and print them. Fold them up, put them in your pocket and carry and reference them around all day for one day and that is better than any phrase book.

A mnemonic for Merci beaucop could be “image a man who is saved from execution, crying and saying “mercy, Boo hoo”. The meaning of this image is ‘thank you for showing me mercy and saying me from my exicution’. It is a visual link word to help you remember these French words for thank you very much.. If you remember this image you will remember the words in the French language with a mnemonic trick. Try it with other vocabulary it is pretty fun.

Now you know how to say thank you in the French language

Let me know if I misses any words that might be useful for saying thank you in French or leave a comment and say ‘Merci’.

Thank you in French