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| CheeseInsider Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5122 days ago 193 posts - 238 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: French, German | Message 9 of 15 17 December 2010 at 8:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Don't forget the "neutral" accent which some refer to as "transatlantic". My dad claims to have this accent, but to me it just sounds Parisian but with less exaggerated pronunciation. I guess one could call it wallflower French.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 10 of 15 17 December 2010 at 9:09pm | IP Logged | ||
Because of the relative homogeneity of the population, at least until recently, we don't say that in Québec. I often hear English-Canadians say things like "I'm Ukrainian" when in fact, they've never been to the Ukraine, they don't speak Ukrainian, and in most cases, their parents didn't either. In Québec, if you say he's Polish, then he moved from Poland at some point. To have such mixed origins is rare. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5130 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 11 of 15 17 December 2010 at 9:39pm | IP Logged | ||
That happens a lot in the US too. And if that person went to the Ukraine and said that, they'd most likely get a "that's special" response and not much more. That was what I meant by coming across as condescending. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6120 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French | Message 12 of 15 19 December 2010 at 2:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Examples of Louisiana French:
Cajun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2QMks3G-Tk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ5yV34QmFM&feature=related Creole: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E9iHs6S47w 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6003 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 13 of 15 19 December 2010 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the links, tritone, that was exactly what I was looking for! Man, without subtitles I have a really hard time understanding Cajun French. It's fun to listen to, though.
And I found an example of African French from a video about a Touareg band. The members are interviewed in French. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MHAKNL-Vkg 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| g.polskov Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 5252 days ago 37 posts - 50 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Portuguese | Message 14 of 15 22 December 2010 at 1:18am | IP Logged | ||
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Both videos are not particularly hard for me to understand. The accent is quite different, but not completely alien (sounds to me like the East Canadian) but the words and sentence structure could have been my grandparents. Even the creole one, surprisingly, is understandable. In fact I don't think it qualifies as creole. They do switch from English to french but seem to not do so in the middle of sentences.
Here is a clip of a song from a canadian band, from Nova Scotia. They speak/sing in their "creole". I have no clue what the blueshirt guy says from 0:20-0:25. The rest isn't toooo bad 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JLA Triglot Newbie France Joined 4897 days ago 25 posts - 33 votes Speaks: French*, English, German Studies: Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 15 of 15 11 August 2011 at 1:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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This thread is a bit old, but if you are still looking for examples of French dialects, you can hear quiet a lot of the very beautiful variant of French spoken (and here sung) in Louisianan by searching for Zachary Richard (I must admit he always manage to make me cry, it's very beautiful to listen too)
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