She said people from Switzerland Belgium and Canada speak French. But she forgot about the worlds largest French speaking population west Africa!

Ils ont pas parlé de l'accent circonflexe

La journaliste française parle vraiment bien l'anglais

Regional accents should be celebrated and cherished. It is sick if people want to erase them.

Anchor women: here are a bunch of regional accents that all sound different from each other. Me: *waiting for different accents*

Ils ont pas parlé de l’accent du 4 eme arrondissement de paris

As an American who has great trouble learning French, I find the southern accents slightly easier to understand. They don't slur the words together as much as the Parisians, and they also speak a tad bit slower. And it also helps that they are friendlier and less impatient with foreigners attempting their language. Parisians give me such a hard time - it's not enough that you can speak French but if you don't speak like they do, they give you attitude. :(

i’m not french but SAH QUEL PLAISIR

I almost spat out my coffee when she said “accent Australien” - I’m Australian, and if she’s Australian then she’s the most British-sounding Aussie I’ve ever heard! 😂

I'm still learning French so I can't fully tell the differeces . I'm a native speaker of Spanish and I like the diversity of accents in a language, it makes the language more interesting.

"sexiest accent"...HAHAHAHA- oh wait sorry HONHONHONHON

Makes a video about accents, dubs most of the French-language interviews.

Regarder une chaîne française sur laquelle ça parle en anglais des accents français. Ça va, c'est normal.

I work here in the US and in my job I interact daily with francophiles. A large number of them are American students who are going to France for study abroad. The amount of times they have casually told me they "hate" the accent from Quebec makes me uncomfortable. But it's interesting to see non-native French speakers express themselves this way about a language they, sometimes, barely speak and understand.

Le français standard n'est pas l'accent parisien !!! mais l'accent de la vallée de La Loire ...

"les entreprises pensent que quelqu'un avec un accent n'est pas serieux" donc on efface les accents mdr

Now everyone will know my pain as a French when I tried to understand different English accents!!

It’s kind of funny watching this as a foreigner, even though I speak French I can’t distinguish the accents.

j'ai jamais vu du francais, reengistrer en anglais par dessus c'est drole xD

That fellow at the press conference pretending to not understand the accent of the speaker. As an American learning French, that has absolutely happened to me a few times. 😑 Fortunately not all français are like that are happy to hear me trying! I’m definitely going to look up that ‘sound map.’ Sounds really interesting! I think it is very, very sad that any accent is made fun of, discriminated against, or causes embarrassment. In many regions, the accent is all that is left of the local language of a now-gone era. For example, how many people still speak Basque??

The Parisian accent sounds stuck up, I like the sound of the Southern accents better because they sound more friendly~

All types of french accents should be celebrated, not discouraged

They didn't mention most Southerners make fun of Northern accents and discriminate them... What a shame

Interesting, we have that kind of thing in the US too where the Southern accent is fairly looked down upon. My dad's originally from Tennessee but when he joined the Navy he trained himself out of his accent just so people would take him seriously. Now he sounds like he's from the lower Midwest and people are genuinely surprised when he tells them he's from Tennessee.

Am I the only one who speaks Occitan? I haven't met many people that have.

I’m so confused what’s the point of this channel? Why make a French news channel in English?

English speakers on a French news channel talking about French dialects. LOL

2:46 on voit la mamie que Loris a interviewé à Marseille

People need to get over themselves. Don't we have bigger problems to conquer? Making fun of other's accents or language is ridiculous.

J'habite dans le sud et j'ai un accent parisien, j'ai pas compris 😭

I'm crying she said we gonna talk about it with Florance then 1 sec later she was like "Hi Flo!!!" Like it's her bestie or something

C’était dans mes recommendations, Au moins j’ai appris des trucs

Je viens des Vosges et nous, tout les "o" on les prononce "ô" très grave. Voilà c'est tout ce que jai à dire

Why do they dub it?? Using subtitles is a great way of learning a new language

Sadly, linguistic discrimination is alive and well in the United States too.

0:16 est ce qu'elle est entrain d'imiter l'accent que les Français on quand il parle anglais ? Si c'est ça et bah c'est pas mal

1:45 What is this accent 🤣 I'm French and I didn't understand anything

Pride and uniqueness which is what we all should be proud of , being the same but also being unique on our own

*I love this video!! well put together too, I love the graph thing that shows their dialect tract* :)

I sometimes get mocked in the United States for my regional accent, which is actually rather standard. I'm from Los Angeles and generally speak Standard Broadcast English--the English of Television--but also have that 'surfer sound' in my voice, as I lived in beach zones. It probably wouldn't be too strange. But I have worked as a professor of English Literature at elite Universities. So, sometimes my students--or even colleagues--will point out the accent...as if it is a sign that I am unintelligent or lack depth.

This makes a language so rich. The different accents that people have in all the regions of a country. We, everybody, should be proud to have variations, even more people abroad who want to learn our mother tongues

I didn't know France 4 is available in English also. Watching 2 French ladies speaking in great English pronunciation makes me want to learn French more! But I'm still struggling in learning English.

French Caribbean here, our accent sounds suave baby (Guadeloupe)

I think the real problem and what they should have talked about the most is people not getting a job because their told their accent is a problem. For example, a senegalese woman with a strong accent won't have the same probability to get a job where you need to phone-call people than a parisian woman. Except for that, there is usually no problem with accent in France. People can have préjugés, of course, but nothing that you can't outpass. (I'm from Marseille - in the South of France - and I don't have an accent).

Now just say 'does your glottophobie extend to the people in QC?' and watch them scatter.

Accents are beautiful and they enrich a language

It’s pretty awesome to recognize regional accents from France. Crazy after a couple of months of studying I know those differences.

Reporter flirting with french connection is actually most amazing thing about this video. They got a great chemistry

Here in Germany we have a ridiculous amount of regional varieties, but only two regional languages. People tend to mock eastern and far-north accents, while southerners are proud of it no matter if someone understands them. A northwest accent is considered almost none at all and sounds “educated” compared to (high) Saxon which is the most mocked one. Oh and the Berlin accent gets a lot of “glottiphobia” because it comes with a more direct and honest way of telling things.

I am french, and each time i have heard a joke about accents it was always with humour and tenderness where î’m from (Paris). Southern accent in particular is very much appreciated because it sounds friendly. It’s when i travel in the south that people recognize i come from paris and they’re not always welcoming me with opened arms. La Corse is even worse, i could get in trouble very easily juste because i am « from the continent » which shows how much this kind of discrimination is absurd. Though it’s true there isn’t a lot of accent diversity in positions of power.

As a French-Canadian, with a French father, I always thought that southern French accents sounded more like like Canadians in French-Immersion... like, they speak French but they can’t pronounce all the words correctly. At least it’s not the Québec accent lmao

J’ai appris beaucoup de choses sur les accents de mon pays xD

I have a very strong southern accent but have had to "neutralise" it to get a better and higher end job

Extremely disturbing not to mention Africa, yes.

I remember hearing once that much of the push for standardization of French has it's origins in the Revolution, the various reformers seeing regional dialects as deliberately contrived by the nobles and the Ancien Regime to maintain power. I wonder how much social capital this notion actually has, if indeed it ever had any.

1:17 When I listen to myself talkIng I do not find my voice so sexy as that, besides it's weird when I speak with French from other regions they all know right away that I am Toulousain yet when I do not see what distinguishes us I can not perceive my accent , everyone sounds normal to me I guess its must be like the Marseillais or Parisian I recognize them quite easily Its weird fact when foreign women tell me that my voice is sexy, for me the sexiest languages are English from England and Japanese who have a voice too cute in French 😉

Discimination of accents, huh? The dead corpses of Alsatian, Breton and Occitan say hi.

Jsuis archi morte à chaque fois que la dame passe d'anglais à français c'est archi drôle 🤔😂😂😂 Anglais, elle a l'air heureuse et tout et français en mode "ouais bof bof" 😭😂😂😂 The way she said "Jean Luc Melanchon" 😭 I died

La discrimination à l'accent se justifie un peu parfois quand on a une besoin d'une voix claire et plutôt neutre, j'ai un accent moi-même mais je comprends parfois cette position. Pas toujours. C'est toujours agréable d'entendre l'accent chantant dans le Sud.

Well I'm from Toulouse and when I moved to Paris, people couldn't stop making fun of my accent. It's funny at the beginning but when everyday someone tells you "oh, you're not from here aren't you" it's getting tiring. So without even planning it, I erased my accent. And now I regret it!

As a French 🚺 I really love the South's accent. I wish I could talk like them. My " Parisian" accent is boring. Btw I'm looking for native English speaker living in Paris, to hang out, and why not create a friendship

Le linguiste interrogé est mon prof de sociolinguistique à la fac. J'ai beugué à mort en le voyant :')

Linguistic discrimination can be so subtle, yet so real. Haitians often face this weird situation when speaking with other Francophones. There's this strange look you get and/or you're asked to repeat a sentence many times. Funny how I've faced this situation with Quebec folks than French folks.

Wow I was once told that I spoke French like a native ( South East France) and although a bit rusty now I could still easily hold a conversation. However I was struggling to understand the first 3 men at the beginning, especially the third. The rest were fine and the woman at the very end was more like the accent I was used to when I lived there.

C'est impressionnant l'accent parfait des présentatrices quand elle disent des mots français

J'ai appris ce qu'était la glottophobie

Fascinating.

"we don't even have a language, we have accents like Maurice Chevalier." "Ah, ha ha."

22 septembre 2019, je viens de visiter le site "Atlas sonore", la carte de France n'est jamais apparue à l'écran ... :-(

You forget breton 😂🙌🏼

I used to live in South Korea, and they have the same accent discrimination... the Seoul/capitol accent is considered the best, most normal, most educated accent. A countryside accent or Southern accent from Busan is often made fun of. And a North Korean refugee living in the south can usually be clocked by their accent almost immediately. They especially experience a lot of discrimination.... kinda sad.

It's only the parisian/versaillais post 1960s' upper middle and upper class accents that are used on tv and radio. The 2 "traditionnal" parisian accents are the popular "titi" speech (ex Jean Gabin) and the highly aristocratic "16e" one (ex Giscard). The first one is mostly diluted as a result of the complete gentrification of Paris though. Oh, and if you have Northern/Champagne/Burgundy/Alsacian accent, you'll be automatically categorised as a hick.

The living proof of the war against multilingual France

I love the southern accent!

Linguistic variations are a *national treasure*, yet since 19th century nationalism and centralisation, they're treated like the opposite, and there's not enough effort put into their preservation and protection and historically even some legislations aimed to stamp them out.

I gotta say that is the most "English" sounding Australian accent I've ever heard. I'm guessing they lived in London for at least a decade and copied the London accent. That ain't Australian at all.

Here in the US there is a saying that having a Southern accent lowers your IQ by ten points. It is certainly not so much true as it was a couple of generations ago.

Discrimination 😞😞... J'avais jamais vu ça comme ça... Pour moi il s'agit plutôt de prendre un ton - plutôt qu'un accent - universel dès qu'il s'agit de travailler ou simplement d'interagir avec des personnes qui viennent d'autres régions. Pour se comprendre mutuellement. Mettez un Raimu avec un Gabin pour qu'ils parlent ensemble ça ne va rien donner. Les accents sont épais et les expressions seulement locales. Mais si on est entre personnes du même coin que ce soit pour le travail ou pour la détente la on va garder notre accent, normal. Après l'idée qu'il y a un pouvoir qui "tue" les accents; pour ma part je n'ai jamais perçu ni pression ni repression sur qui que ce soit pour qu'il quitte sa culture & langue locale. Si quelqu'un veut faire perdurer sa culture locale rien ne lui interdit. Parler de menace contre les régions pour moi ça provient de petits fachos qui essaient de gagner un quelconque intérêt. Et de toute façon une langue c'est fait pour communiquer. Son historique on s'en fout un peu. À mon sens ce qui compte le plus c'est surtout de garder les belles expressions: les mots justes, les mots qui désignent des concepts justes et intéressant, les mots qui expriment bien des idées importantes, pertinentes, belles etc... c'est ca qui fait l'intérêt, la beauté et la performance d'une langue.

6:12 she conveniently forgot the former African colonies.

La première question que je me suis posé, les présentatrices sont françaises qui parlent anglais ou des anglaises qui parlent savent parler français, parce que leurs deux accents sont géniaux

Jsuis salement insultée on parle pas de l'accent Savoyard..

2:59 c'est mon prof mdrr jpp qu'est ce qu'il fou là

Est-qu'on peut me dire d'où vient l'accent de 1:54 ?? C'est un des plus beaux accents que j'ai entendu. Wow ! Could someone tell me where the accent at 1:54 is from? It's one of the most beautiful accents I've ever heard!

This can happen in the United States too. The more “sophisticated” accent is New England. But accents such as New Yorkers, Southerners, Californians etc have many different are a few of many. We have a massive country here in the US. Southern accents are often seen as less educated which is not true at all. My favorite personally is the New Orleans/Louisiana bayou style accent. But the New York accent is up there too. Regional accents give us many different cultures in the same country and that’s what makes countries great and the US is no exception.

J'me suis encore perdu. Merci les notifs KZfaq 😆

J’en connais qui veulent finir dans les livres d’anglais

I'm proud of every accent in my country. The Parisians must be the ones who have The Amazing accent ! :D on TV they say : édé leh ( aidez-les) but I say : aidé lé. Interesting

5:15 OMG, vous êtes parfaitement bilingue, super de vous entendre parler ces deux langues courrament!!

Le pire c'est l'accent de cité.

Errr.. .yeah. This is the case in most countries. In my land of England. A strong accent is not fitting for tv.

1:20 oui... c'est surprenant aussi pour moi qui vit à Toulouse

Nice. But sad... Always Paris. The accent in Paris come from la Touraine and a little bit of le Val de Loire (a region of west france). The accent, famous for his perfection because of his "flat" sound, was imported in Paris by kings. But there is also some tiny details. Nowadays, a lot of strangers go in Tours for learn a "pure" french as you can hear in parisian journalists. I come from this region named Val de Loire. I've almot this "pure" accent.

"with my accent australien" lolwut ?

Regional accents are discriminated around the world. Even here in the Philippines.

I am a Canadian of French Acadian roots. In Canada there are not only the different Quebec accents, but the Acadian accents as well. I am a descriptive linguist who teaches English in South Korea, but I have not let go of my French. In descriptive linguistics, one studies the different regional accents and ways of speaking. It is in prescriptive linguists where the purists are found, they are ready to criticize any variations of pure standard French. The way I see it, prescriptive linguistics does not reflect linguistic reality.

Regional accents reveal the place where you come from. So it's source of pride in the country who invented the concept of "terroir", in language and gastronomy it's a stong fact of identity. I On the other hand it could be source of discrimination because in France is a country where elitism and social class rules everywhere, specially in Paris, high economic class, high schools, politics members live by strong cooptation

Accent australien? What? You're british

I’m a proud Haitian. But Haitians speaking French on the island, is deafening to the ears. Not saying there isn’t any accent on other French speaking Caribbean islands. It just sound like Haitians are still speaking Creole when they speak French in Haiti.

Je suis venu à Bordeaux cette été pour pratiquer Français (premier fois en France, je suis Russe) et 50 pour cent de gens m'ont dit que il n'y a pas d'accent à Bordeaux, ils ont dit que c'est le meme que dans Paris, mais les autres 50 pour cent de gens m'ont dit que il y a, en fait, un accent à Bordeaux et que à Paris les gens parlent différemment, mais car je n'ai jamais été à Paris moi meme je peux pas juger. Est-ce que l'accent à Bordeaux est différent que l'accent Parisien? P.S. - désolé pour mon français

I am an American and English was my major in University. Even when you pronounce a word correctly, grammar matters. I cannot understand over 65% of the time what Donald Trump is Tweeting or saying. The President of USA is an embarrassment as an English speaker. He makes no sense, often misspells and pronounces words wrong. He also makes fun of people and loves to humiliate anyone that does not praise him or do his bidding.