12 Difficult French Accents You WON’T Understand
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🇫🇷 Surfers, cowboys, and lemurs know these French accents. . . do you? Time to match wits again. How many French accents can you understand?
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I didn’t understand a word of that. But then again, I don’t speak French.
I came here to say the same thing
Thanks for watching anyway!
these videos are very cool thanks for making them and spreading knowledge and eliminating hate for languages and ignorance as well
That’s the aim!
Good video. You covered Quebec here, as well as covering it and Acadian French in your last video on French accents. You should also check out Michif. It’s spoken by the Metis people of Canada. It’s a mix of French and indigenous languages like Cree.
Thanks for the tip!
Could you learn French this way? 👉🏼https://youtu.be/sqpnkIKFcBg
I got Québécois, Belgium, and Louisiana… I think I’m just happy I recognized the Canadian one, given half my family is Québécois! XD I would’ve been so mad with myself
Hi There! These videos are so much fun, and I have an unfair advantage since my father is from Martinique and I took trips to the Quebec area to ski every year. Thanks for doing this, it’s great to see different cultures the way you present it 💎😊
Vidéo trop cool!
Honestly surprised you didn’t include Haitian Creole, especially with it being the most widely spoken Creole language. Martinique Creole is similar enough I guess
Parce que c’est probablement assez différent qu’on le considère comme une langue distincte
I really hope you’ll talk about … Dutch accents!
Ps. I’m Belgian, I could give you some extreme accents if you like
Minor correction: Libya was never a French colony. It was part of the Ottoman Empire, and then a colony of Italy.
honestly as a Quebecois, those are all pretty easy to understand, different expressions from different places probably being the main difficult thing to understand (Quebec is also probably the hardest to understand, so I get a free pass here)
your videos are really cool btw, I’ve been on a watching spree, they’re very interesting and well done
I grew up in Southern Ontario and the French we were taught in school was more of a standard French than Quebecois. I’m not sure why. When I later moved to Ottawa I was exposed to much more French and for a while could conduct crude conversations in it, but it was always interesting when visitors from France were surprised at the large differences, especially with words considered archaic in France like stationnement or ordinataire.
I got Belgian, Louisiana and Marseille for sure. I think what clued me in initially for the Louisiana one is the man’s cowboy hat, though him mentioning Mexico threw me for a bit of a loop. Belgian’s hint was the Dutch influences and Marseilles I guess I’ve just seen and heard before somewhere else, probably on this channel.
Suenan literalmente la diferencia entre el español y el portugués. Es como que la pronunciación puede llegar a ser tan distintiva que tienes que estar continuamente buscando una correlación entre la palabra que ha utilizado y la palabra que ya conoces, que es la misma, pero con una pronunciación diferente.
I used to live in Haute Savoie (close to Geneva) for a time in the 80s, and they always used to say “y” instead of “le” like in your example at the start of this. I’d actually paused this to write my comment and then when I restarted it you actually mentioned Haute Savoie.
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Puis-je gentiment glissé un mot …
Pour l’ exemple que vous donnez de l’ accent Québecois
Il est très sympathique le grand brun que vous avez choisi Mais beaucoup trop
caricaturale…
Vous auriez pu choisir :Geneviève, ma prof de français
Beaucoup plus réaliste et si vous aimez l’ humour il y en a plusieurs mais le premier qui me viens en tête
C’est Arnaud Soly 😊😊😊
Bien a vous
Claire😊😊😊
A few decades ago I had backpacked in Canada and had spent several weeks in the state of Quebec… and had acquired the Quebecois accent. About 2 years after my Canadian trip, I had taken some work guests to lunch and one of them is from Quebec. I conversed some French (that I could remember) with him and he was surprised to hear some random guy in Australia with a Quebecois accent.
The only ones I got right were Mauritias and Basque.
Rough one. Great video.
This is the most comprehensive overview of the varieties of French-based or heavily related languages that I’ve seen. It was very eye opening.
I’m not French, though I studied the language in school. I don’t really consider the creole spoken in Louisiana to be French. I do enjoy it though! Love that their toll pass is called Geaux pass 😆
As a French mainlander, I got them all. You give way too many cues outside the accent itself.