French Accents Around the World

It's really cool because in canada we say both à tantôt and à tout à l'heure ahah.

Interesting, thanks for sharing ! Just to say that Southern French accent has not been influenced by Franco-Provençal (which is not a langue d'Oïl nor a langue d'Oc) but by Occitan, a language very close to modern Catalan spoken in the southern half of France until the late 19th Century, hence the accent. On the contrary, modern French, especially in the northern half of the country, has been deeply influenced by langues d'Oïl, which are themselves a galaxy of dialects heavily influenced by Frankish and Gaulish.

Je suis de terre neuve et je parle le français

By the way you could have made a really longer video because there's a looot of accents even only in metropolitan France, you forget to give examples of many of them and many of non metropolitan ones too.. Great video concept anyway.

Yeaa we're the sexiest of all, come to Toulouse !

French is also the official language of one Italian region, la Vallée d'Aoste!

Vous les britanniques vous avez un très bel accent.

As a Québécois, whenever I go to France I try to tone down my "accent" a bit in order to be better understood.
Can't say it comes out naturally though as I feel like I'm just acting and not being me.

What sounds as an accent to others is just natural to me ... I do struggle with some accent from the south of France though.

I'm from Quebec and my grand-ma is of acadian descent so I fully understand standard Québécois french and some chiac + my gift with languages make it so that I'm often the first person in the room who catches when a french person from France or Belgium throw some weird/cute twists from their version of french...and I do understand some creole.
*see you on your video on english accents to tell you how many of them I also understand (my favorite being queen english that I find quite elegant)

You forgot another French accent, it's called English

Haiti

You are correct that most of New France was ceded after the Seven Years War; but the date was 1763, not 1713.

As a Cameroonian born, I can definitely say the person you called “Cameroonian” wasn’t a Cameroonian indeed

I am an anglophone Canadian who learned French while I was growing up but I did not learn the language well and my French could be greatly improved.

The biggest problem I have found with speaking French is that many francophones have a sneering attitude towards people who do not speak the language fluently. I have experienced this multiple time in both Québec and France. If one uses an incorrect word or even ask for the correct word, some francophones look at you like you are stupid Philistine and with respond in a very condescending way.

I have never experienced this same attitude in any other country in the world other than francophone areas. In most places people are pleased and become much more friendly if one attempts to use even a few words in the local language. Francophones will often look down their nose at you for making errors, even though you are doing your best to speak and learn the language. Such people do French speakers a great disservice I think.

Ooohhh bonne mèrrrre ... j'adore !

Canadians expelled French?? no... Settlers from France.

Paw-Paw French is an endangered American language spoken by just a handful of people in Missouri and Illinois on either side of the Mississippi River. Its decline partly was due to punishment for speaking it.

Je suis au Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 en Afrique de l'ouest dans le pays du grand président Thomas Sankara et je suis polyglotte.

There is no "french" there are Frenches. And the (too) long, acceptance of French related créoles as full fledged languages in their own right is long overdue..

Reunion!!!

Southwestern French accent doesn't come from Franco-Provencal tho. It comes from occitan

As a French (from the northern part of the country), I have to say the hardest accent to understand was probably the Acadian one. Fortunately, there were subtitles ^^ while my favorite is probably the Antillese and Congolese one, they sound so friendly :)

Il ne faut pas confondre les mots , c'est-à-dire le vocabulaire et les accents, c'est-à -dire la prononciation . Dans la video , vous citez des expressions différentes en France et en Belgique, ce qui n'a rien à voir avec l'accent .

Cajuns came from Accadia/Eastern Provinces from where there were expelled after the 7-years war, or do I remember this incorrectly?

It was really interesting to see these many different "French accents" but I wish you'd given us longer samples. Maybe side by side to compare them with each other.

I was hoping to hear about the French spoken around Old Mines, Missouri. It is called Missouri French, or sometimes called Paw Paw French.

They also speak Jèrriais(Jersey French) in Jersey Channel Islands, Its spoke by farmers mostly. I've lived there, but I've never heard anyone speak it.

Il dit: ''J'était dans ma bagnole(Mon char!), tranquille,
J'arrête au feu rouge, c'est normal,
Un mec me rentre dedans par derrière,
J'allucine, il sort de sa caisse(son char, encore)
Il commence a m'insulter, quoi,
Donc, Une BAGNOLE = CAISSE = MON CHAR!
Pour les Parisiens, un char, c'est UN TANK POUR LES ANGLAIS!!

Quand j'étais chez mon père,
Christ, Calice, Tabernacle de Saint Ciboire,
Oh! Quand j'étais chez mon père,
MON S'FAISAIT BATTRE A COUP DE BATON!
😄😁😆😅🤣😂🙂🙃😉😊

I'm from Canada. I speak French. There are native words in French like la boucane to mean la fumée.

Je amor français et France❤❤🇲🇫🇲🇫🇲🇫

Excellent video! The only countries of different regions that come to mind that aren’t featured: Madagascar, Djibouti, Lebanon, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Though there are others, mostly in central and west Africa.

Such an influential language that you have to use English. I wonder what language will actually challenge English.

Parisian French is the absolute *worst*!!! The other Fracophone dialects and accents are fun, warm and beautiful. But Parisien is just urgh...

Ummm…. Correction: the Seven Years War ended in 1763 with the Treaty of Paris. Where did you get that date????

One of the best account of the usefulness of French. Indeed too many people think French is spoken in France and that is about it. In reality the French speaking world (the same can be said of the English speaking world to be fair) is extemely diverse in terms of cultures, scenery and climate with people of all shades and all religions.

Canada and switzerland and belgium talk the best french the worst is spoken in france.

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There is no real distinct accent in Bordeaux. But there is one in Charente Maritime (Saintongeais).

I'm an anglo who lives in Quebec. I have no problem understanding people here, but folks with French accents from France are unintelligible due the the lack of animation. They sound like adults from Peanuts cartoons.

I'm here for the Canadian French variety. 😆