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5 Jul 2017
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Question about France
How is a British accent from a native French accent? What about American accent?
How is a British accent from a native French accent? What about American accent?
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- Country or region France
From a french point of view, british people tend to articulate much more than americans, who also use to say things like "I'm gonna" instead of "I am going to"
- Country or region China
No I mean when they're speaking French😂 They speak differently from native French but since I don't speak French, I can't describe it in language.
- Country or region France
@DavidC96 I can't really tell the difference between British and American when they speak French, so I'd speak about Anglophones generally :
I think that they have a hard time pronouncing "r", "u" and the nasal vowels like "on", "in" or "an". They often pronounce u like "ou" and they mix "on" "in" "an" etc.
- Country or region France
and they add tonic accents (Idk if it's the right word) on the wrong syllabus... Actually, I'm not even sure we do have tonic accents in French
- Country or region China
@yoff do you mean that native French speak with flatter intonation?
- Country or region France
yes maybe but not exactly... I made some research on the internet and now I am able to explain it better to you :
Languages like most of the Roman languages, for example, are tonic accents languages : some syllabus are pronounced stronger than the others. For example, in the word "castle", you pronounce it CAstel, with the accent on the first syllabus. But in French, these accents are really soft, especially compared to other Roman languages (wich explains why French native speakers tend to not really pronounce the accent when we speak English or other foreign languages)
- Country or region France
Moreover when we say the word separately we pronounce them with the (slight) tonic accents but in sentences, we only accentuate the last syllabus of each group of words, "syntagme".
- Country or region China
I see. I heard that when an English-speaking person says "people", it sounds like he's singing in French haha.
- Country or region France
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