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| WANNABEAFREAK Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong cantonese.hk Joined 6827 days ago 144 posts - 185 votes  1 sounds Speaks: English*, Cantonese Studies: French | Message 1 of 27 06 April 2010 at 2:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm wondering to speak French with a French accent is as simple as exaggerating a stereotypical accent like Inspect Clouseau did when speaking English with a French accent?
Does this approach work? Edited by WANNABEAFREAK on 07 April 2010 at 12:55am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 2 of 27 06 April 2010 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The result would probably be the linguistic equivalent of Frankenstein's monster.
But you are joking, right? "exaggerating a stereotypical accent" hardly sounds a logical or credible approach. Edited by Arekkusu on 06 April 2010 at 3:50pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| WANNABEAFREAK Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong cantonese.hk Joined 6827 days ago 144 posts - 185 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, Cantonese Studies: French | Message 3 of 27 06 April 2010 at 4:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Not joking... I'm tired of sounding like an idiot foreigner.
I'm getting quite emotional with my failure to speak good French. Like for example, if I tried to speak like a British person, I would continuously speak English with the most exaggerated Cockney accent hoping that it will eventually sound as close to a standard British accent than speaking English with a 100% foreigner's accent. Anyway, I don't know. I'm trying to figure out why I suck at French. It sounds so good in my head when I talk, but sounds like an idiot when I listen to a recording of myself. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 4 of 27 06 April 2010 at 4:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Why don't you post a sample recording? Maybe we can offer some help.
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| WANNABEAFREAK Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong cantonese.hk Joined 6827 days ago 144 posts - 185 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, Cantonese Studies: French | Message 5 of 27 06 April 2010 at 4:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
I did before and you told me it sucked in your reply. So here I am trying to figure out why I suck so much. Feeling ashamed. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 6 of 27 06 April 2010 at 4:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
I said "You used very little French in the video, but it appears to be the one that needs the most work out of the three you spoke." I did NOT say it sucked. Since you received positive comments about the other accents, I don't know how you can deduct that it sucks. I couldn't comment further because the recording wasn't clear enough. Post a clear mp3 file and I will try to analyze it and give you some direction. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6894 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 27 06 April 2010 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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A bit of exaggeration can be a valid technique for a while in the beginning.
But why try to imitate a stereotypical or phony accent (they pretty much amount to the same thing). Go for the real thing instead, and try imitating authentic native audio input. If you do that, exaggerating it a little can be a great help. Recording and listening to yourself is a great technique, I wish I did more of that myself, and you are already on your way. Suffering the embarrassment of listening to yourself sound like an idiot is an inevitable part of the process. I'd throw in a bit of shadowing as well, between sessions of recording yourself. Edited by Hencke on 06 April 2010 at 5:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 8 of 27 06 April 2010 at 5:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
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While we can notice certain things we do wrong while we are talking, the reality is that we are busy doing a million other things and we can only catch a small portion of our mistakes. Recording and listening to yourself is time consuming, it requires the right tools or equipment, but it does help.
If you are going to work hard at this, while not make periodical recordings of the same text and keep them so that you can witness your own progress over time! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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