French Dialects

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25 Apr 2016, 1:35 pm

France is such a pretty country.

So is England.

But the difference between the two landscapes is evident immediately after one crosses the Chunnel.

The Loire Valley is really scenic.

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25 Apr 2016, 1:41 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

France is such a pretty country.

But the difference between the two landscapes is evident immediately after one crosses the Chunnel.

The Loire Valley is really scenic.

I can only agree. I would go for pretty and beautiful, depending on the sceneries.

The Loire Valley is very artificial and staged. I like it but it is one of the most man made in France (with the Mediterranean region, of course). Both kings and vineyards went into shaping it.

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26 Apr 2016, 7:00 am

LaMereLoi wrote:

kraftiekortie wrote:

Patwa, or "Patois," is creolized French which is spelled phonetically (e.g., "patwa" for "patois).

Yeah, and Patois is actually the French word for "dialect spoken by peasants or locally".

My mom's immediate family growing up all spoke that, they never did teach it to her but she said she went to learn french in the attempt to understand what they were saying but it failed xD

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26 Apr 2016, 7:05 am

green0star wrote:

LaMereLoi wrote:

kraftiekortie wrote:

Patwa, or "Patois," is creolized French which is spelled phonetically (e.g., "patwa" for "patois).

Yeah, and Patois is actually the French word for "dialect spoken by peasants or locally".

My mom's immediate family growing up all spoke that, they never did teach it to her but she said she went to learn french in the attempt to understand what they were saying but it failed xD

My mothertongue is French, I have studied Spanish and Latin (same linguistic family) and I am having a hard time understanding my grandmother when she cracks jokes in her patois that stems from Occitan.
There is actually a song I find very touching in Occitan. I am going to put the link here.

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27 Apr 2016, 1:38 am

laissons tomber le luxembourgeois pour l'instant, incomprehensible comme le Schwiizerdüütsch, il y a l'alsacien

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12 Sep 2016, 1:19 pm

Ils n'enseignent pas le francais canadien en l'ecole, alors... je parle francais european seulement

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15 Nov 2016, 1:24 pm

TheEndIsNearUs wrote:

Ils n'enseignent pas le francais canadien en l'ecole, alors... je parle francais european seulement

Moi aussi. Je connais Belgique et la France, mais je voudrais visiter le Canada francophone dans le futur.

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19 Nov 2016, 8:28 am

LaMereLoi wrote:

Kiprobalhato wrote:

as it should, i suppose, when you have an entire ocean between the regions.

Well, it is said in France that French Canadians speak like French did in the 17th Century. I don't know if that is true.

What I find most difficult to understand on French Canadian is the Frenchising of English words.
But I am really fond of their curse words. "Tabernacle" and so forth are litteraly rib-cracking material.

But they are other French dialects like Occitan

They use the word "tabernacle" as a "cuss word"???????????

Has the "Mormon Tabernacle Choir" ever performed in Quebec? Do they have to change their name when they tour there? lol!

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19 Nov 2016, 8:42 am

green0star wrote:

LaMereLoi wrote:

kraftiekortie wrote:

Patwa, or "Patois," is creolized French which is spelled phonetically (e.g., "patwa" for "patois).

Yeah, and Patois is actually the French word for "dialect spoken by peasants or locally".

My mom's immediate family growing up all spoke that, they never did teach it to her but she said she went to learn french in the attempt to understand what they were saying but it failed xD

Kinda like studying the best Oxford British English in order to understand the speech of peasants in Jamaica (who speak a bastardized patois of English thats probably equivalent to the "French" spoken by Haitians).

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13 Mar 2017, 5:28 pm

Kré vin dju la Marie, rentr' in peu les 2 bieux qu'on lé kont!

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