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LonelyJar
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24 Oct 2014, 1:14 am

Which do you know?

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28 Oct 2014, 11:37 pm

i don't know french, but the variation in dialects/accents even within metropolitan france is amazing. american english by comparison is very uniform.

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24 Nov 2014, 3:23 pm

French canadian for me.being from a half english half french family means i leaned it early on and had schooling in both.

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24 Nov 2014, 3:39 pm

which one had more emphasis?

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25 Nov 2014, 2:06 am

I dont think one was more than an other but as a family we spoke english,but schooling started in french.i guess english was a little since it was what we spoke at home.

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I was born in province of Québec, Canada so I speak canadian French naturally and I've learnt to imitate european French by watching French channels on youtube.

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06 Apr 2016, 7:18 am

you forgot patwa.

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18 Apr 2016, 5:57 pm

They say that French speakers in Quebec, and in France itself, have no trouble understanding each other, but that Quebec French comes off to the French as quaint, and full of archaic vocabulary.

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20 Apr 2016, 12:08 am

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

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22 Apr 2016, 8:30 am

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

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22 Apr 2016, 8:35 am

I studied French. My instructors told me universally that I had a Marseillais accent ... and they weren't flattering me. As in the United States, a southern accent is frowned upon in France. I have since lost almost all my knowledge of French.

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23 Apr 2016, 1:22 am

i find that the right amount of southern drawl can be super attractive.

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25 Apr 2016, 8:21 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:

i find that the right amount of southern drawl can be super attractive.

That sounds like a thing in english xxxxxxDDDDDDD I think you found the wrong topic. Unfortunately the only thing I know about french is Patwa and that's the broken french spoken by Haitian people.

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25 Apr 2016, 8:24 am

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

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25 Apr 2016, 8:45 am

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".

The main patois derive either from "la langue d'oil", the main dialect of Northern France, or from "la langue d'oc", the langage from the South of France -the operative Mason-Dixon line here being the Loire Valley.

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