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__tory__
10 Feb 2017

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Quelle est la différence entre l'accent du nord et l'accent du sud en France?^^

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Avylia
10 Feb 2017

  • Country or region France

There still are differences even between two cities in the south 😉
It is mostly heard on some words like lait (milk), said "lè" with a northern accent, but "lé" with a southern accent :)
in words ending with "ain", such as pain (bread), southern people tend to say it more like "pein"....
also rose (same in english), can be pronounced with a very strong o sound (north), or with a lighter, more open o (south) and same goes for the word jaune (yellow) for example...
so the differences can mostly be heard on some syllabes like theses ones :)
Hope it helped!

__tory__
11 Feb 2017

  • Country or region Russian Federation
@Avylia merciiii 😊
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Heldan
11 Feb 2017

  • Country or region France
it’s just extremely southern, very warm, very singing. It’s often parodied because it’s an extremely intuitive accent, genuinely spontaneous. So that can be really funny because “regular” French is quite tempered and hushed sometimes. Southern tends to formulate every letter and makes it harmonious by spending more or less time of vowels. It’s a guttural accent, which means Southern people’ voice is quite deep, punctuated with a lot of exhalations. It sounds like formed down the gullet and shaped by the mouth, it inspires me amplitude.The rhythm is created by the combination of speed and slow vowels, exhalations and deep sounds. The result is quite melodious, that’s why we call it the “sun accent” or the “singing accent”. Northern accent is a “head voice”, falsetto in English I believe. It’s quite a high pitched tone, with particularly intense notes. It’s mostly formed in the throat/nose and shaped by the mouth. It’s a fast accent which tends to make some parts silent when not truly necessary to understand a word, especially “e” sounds (Ex: they’d say “Brul-ri” for Brulerie, instead of “Bru-leh-ri-e” in Southern accent). Also, the consonants are very intense, the rhythm shapes into a fast and intense series of hard consonants and high vowels. There’s no particular melody, it’s quite an “immediate” accent. To me (and that’s just my opinion), Southern accent seems much easier to understand when you’re foreign because each letter can clearly be heard. It literally dissects the words -a little too much even. However, if you come from a Nordic/Germanic country, Northern might be better because the sounds are inspired from Germanic accents, so you’ll most likely find it quite natural. Want to know more : http://awesomefrench.tumblr.com/tagged/accent

it’s just extremely southern, very warm, very singing. It’s often parodied because it’s an extremely intuitive accent, genuinely spontaneous. So that can be really funny because “regular” French is quite tempered and hushed sometimes.

Southern tends to formulate every letter and makes it harmonious by spending more or less time of vowels. It’s a guttural accent, which means Southern people’ voice is quite deep, punctuated with a lot of exhalations. It sounds like formed down the gullet and shaped by the mouth, it inspires me amplitude.The rhythm is created by the combination of speed and slow vowels, exhalations and deep sounds. The result is quite melodious, that’s why we call it the “sun accent” or the “singing accent”.
Northern accent is a “head voice”, falsetto in English I believe. It’s quite a high pitched tone, with particularly intense notes. It’s mostly formed in the throat/nose and shaped by the mouth. It’s a fast accent which tends to make some parts silent when not truly necessary to understand a word, especially “e” sounds (Ex: they’d say “Brul-ri” for Brulerie, instead of “Bru-leh-ri-e” in Southern accent). Also, the consonants are very intense, the rhythm shapes into a fast and intense series of hard consonants and high vowels. There’s no particular melody, it’s quite an “immediate” accent.
To me (and that’s just my opinion), Southern accent seems much easier to understand when you’re foreign because each letter can clearly be heard. It literally dissects the words -a little too much even. However, if you come from a Nordic/Germanic country, Northern might be better because the sounds are inspired from Germanic accents, so you’ll most likely find it quite natural.

Want to know more : http://awesomefrench.tumblr.com/tagged/accent

TheTwig
14 Feb 2017

  • Country or region France

Well people make fun of us, who have a southern accent :(.

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