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Arekkusu
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Message 41 of 43

26 August 2011 at 5:21am | IP Logged

Dr. POW wrote:

There was a post in a French language learning forum I use often
(french.about.com) claiming that in France, they put subtitles on television whenever a
person from Quebec is speaking/being interviewed, which seems a little weird to me.

I think this is probably true, at least sometimes. I think the reason is that Québécois
are usually more used to French accent then the other way around. Then again, I've
watched the French version of South Park, and I was lucky if I could catch one word out
of every sentence.

Dr. POW wrote:

They also said that Quebecers tend to drop syllables or sounds at the
end of certain words.

"Paysan" instead of "parisien" or "choisi" instead of "choisir" (isn't that last one
supposed to be like that?)

The 2 examples you quote are wrong. In informal QF, l and r tend to be dropped after a
consonant at the end of a word. For instance, table becomes tab' or votre become vot'.

Edited by Arekkusu on 26 August 2011 at 5:23am
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Dr. POW
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Message 42 of 43

28 August 2011 at 1:26am | IP Logged

I just made up the second example (though that is how my French teacher pronounces it
when
quickly speaking), but I got the first example from a quote.

Quote:

I notice that in Québecois, syllables are lost often that are not lost in
Franco-
français. And vowels seem slurred to me. I know about toi and moi and the strange
pronunciation of "i" like in "petit". Are there other pointers that could help me
understand better? I had a business partner and close friend for 12 years who spoke
Québecois. One would think that I would understand. The problem is that he switched
easily to standard French and insisted that I never speak like a "paysan".

It's written about halfway down the page.

http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=messages& webtag=ab-
french&tid=25758

Edited by Dr. POW on 28 August 2011 at 1:27am
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Message 43 of 43

28 August 2011 at 3:03am | IP Logged

Dr. POW wrote:

I just made up the second example (though that is how my French teacher pronounces it
when
quickly speaking), but I got the first example from a quote.

Quote:

It's written about halfway down the page.

http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=1&nav=messages& webtag=ab-
french&tid=25758

"Paysan" means "someone from the country". It has nothing to do with "Parisian". Your link didn't work for me, so I can't be sure of the context, but I'm assuming this person was saying that one shouldn't pick up countrified regional accents.

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