I wonder what should we say in our Native tongue to wikitongues . I would like to do one in our language of Xirinian. An indigenous language of the jungle of Lake Orinoco. Plus the Panaquate language of the Shoshone-Bannock reservation of Fort Hall, Idaho. OMG. This will be a great opportunity for me for I'm a linguist from Idaho State University.

I'm french and they are some error in subtitle

I'm french and they are some error in subtitle

@@andreasm6636 like what?

Tu parles super bien. Ma langue maternelle c'est le français standard et j'ai compris tout ce que tu as dis. Continue comme ça à faire vivre tes racines c'est vraiment important. Clairement, la culture c'est précieux et fragile à la fois. Il faut la protéger et la faire vivre !

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Actually he sounds allright compared to some of the mericans i know. J'suis français btw

If this was reddit I would throw you a gold 🥇

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Omg yes 🤣🤣🤣

This is acadian french, the people who settled lousiana were from canada. It is a different dialect than what you speak in France.

I'm in Acadia and Acadian French can be very different from village to village,,the French in schools is not used outside in life in general. As no one would understand you,,whatever is taught in school is not used nor needed by reall Acadians,,they fish, farm, hunt, cut wood, heavy equipment,,80%+ of population is in the fishing industry.and live a simple happy life in general

@@unfairfight3625 doesn't change that acadians settled Louisiana and that's the language Louisiana french comes from. Which is why I brought that up

@@dylanmccallister1888, what came from here 200+ years ago is incomprehensible now,,one can't read something from a Acadian from the 50s,,the dialect is region specific also, different make up of phrases and words,,,i cant read from someone that's 100 miles away,,,as phrases would be completely different and loaded with words not used locally here, talking is the same, with all kinds of invented words with different meanings, accents,,,most peoples grandparents coulnt read,, electricity came on in 1959,etc,

Sounds like quebec french with a rolled "r" and a little sprinkle of english

Keep it going, people! I’ve kept myself occupied during lockdown by learning Scottish Gaelic: similar thing, unless we speak, the language will go with an older generation. And the beauty and strength, the poetry, will be lost.

I speak standard French, and the only difference I hear is the accent. What differentiates this as Cajun French?

@@JPMJPM Well I'm from France, and there are things that I would all "grammar mistakes', as when he says " il faut que j'apprends ", a real French would say "il faut que j'apprenne ", but apart from that, it seems to be quite similar

Camille Imbert Music Vous avez raison. Grammar mistakes do not constitute a new language - or even a dialect.

jake jones Oh! I’ll have to hunt down some Cajun French videos! Thank you!

Oh s**t XD

Lmfaaaooo

Lmfao

Ahahah "Napoleon" takes a whole sens now

Hahahahaah accurate

Les Whynin His background is more than just a typical American. He is probably of Acadian descent. His ancestors left France, were persecuted in French Canada, driven out of the country, were also persecuted in the U.S. for speaking French, then settled in New Orleans. His grandparents may never have learned English, and the French retained their own community in New Orleans, creating creole music. Here is a link to a Zydeco song about their history. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLeEmbCbvMeWoGQ.html

@@melanieeleuterio6901 yep I agree, and thanks for the info. Just commenting that his accent is obviously heavily influenced by American English. I am Canadian btw.

Because that's exactly what it is. He says in the video French is not his first language.

He sounds slightly like a Quebecer our like someone speaking Chiak from New-Brunswick

Apart from his rolled r’s

Martin Hebert Yess , Cajuns are acadians deported in 1755 during the colonial wars

Martin Hebert tout à fait j’habite à Québec et sont accent semble du nouveau Brunswick

Bingo.. Acadien!!

eh! i’m anglo and i feel he sounds more like us!

God this made me laugh. Native Québécois here with Cajuns in the family.

Imagine if the French had won the French&Indian War.... continental b'fast, wine with lunch and dinner.

300 years ago, who would have thought that the British would win the colonial competition with other Western European countries. But they did. A small island State has imposed its language on the whole world. Once a great nation, I'll give them that. That's why the Americans speak English, not French, German, Italian, etc. Because the founders of the US were of British descent, it was their mother tongue. That's why I'm writing this message in English now, despite my mother tongue being Russian.

@@siberianfreedom The official language was very near to being German. Interesting bit of history.

@@williamjordan5554 Not true, just a myth. The US has never had an official language.

@@JeffGeorge666 Your 2nd sentence is true.

Im from french Polynesia and that is true ^^

Yes bb on pRRRRononce bien les RRRR hihihiih

@@number1lazyboringgirlsenjoyer it's just old French like in Quebec you are right

In other words the original French. All French dialects seem very similar to old French except the French spoken in France today

In Quebec , Canada they pronounce the R the same way

C'est le franglais

you would love people from shediac in N-B 🤣 . the place where you hear stuff like - jva crosse la street pour ialler me buyer un cofee a la tim ..... 🤣

very common in montreal too

@@charlescomeau6930 Ya assayer de crosser la street, but y'etais trop slow pis y sa fait runner over.

atila correia sure he said aussi ?

Moi aussi/Yo también!

Parece que se habla de forma más abierta, a lo mejor es por eso!

Because his French has a Spanish accent Lol

Campbellton, NB. Same here!

from the Miramichi Buddy!

Si vous parlez comme ça au Nouveau-Brunswick, ça voudrait dire que vous parlez mieux l'anglais que le français...

CFB Gagetown/ Moncton NB, sounds exactly how my Sgt would yell at me lol

C’est vrai bon voir ce,

Je suis Marocain De Casablanca residant a Denver et Jai tottalement compri ce qu'il a dit

Je suis pas français et j'ai compris tout ce qu'il a dit

Meme chose....moi aussi...

Je suis americain et j'ai compris tout ce qu'il a dit aussi. J'adore la langue Française par tout dans le monde entier. Soyons Fiers Francophones! Les belges les suisses les français les quebecois! Les Luxembourgeois !

I'm not French but I understand everything he says and even understand the errors vis a vis the French as he is speaking Cajun.

arnaudfabs exactly! That’s the entire point of language- communication. I taught English in Spain many years back, and you would not believe how bashful my students were (especially the adults) when it came to speaking with me. They were afraid of making a mistake! I was, at that point in time, learning Spanish myself (through immersion, obviously, the best way to learn if you have the chance) and I always said, “you’ve heard my Spanish! I make tons of errors, but that’s how we learn. And who cares if you do make mistakes? Communication is what is important, and I will let you know if I cannot understand.” *sigh. It’s human nature to be embarrassed about what one would consider to be trivial errors, but such is life. 🤷‍♀️

A relative of mine who speaks French was in the Canadian Rockies and she told me some French people had trouble understanding Canadian French, ever heard that to be true. But it was on West Coast Canada, not Quebec

Susanne Collins it’s true actually. But it’s only because the accent can sometimes be so strong. Otherwise we understand everything

Susanne Collins Quebec French uses a lot of old French words and a lot of Quebec French revolves around the church and royalty etc it’s similar to how English people speak proper English vs Americans speaking simplified English but it’s not an exact comparison tbh either way they can still understand each other

arnaudfabs une mot, Québec, est-ce que vous pouvez comprends les québécois, moi je suis curieux? Pas du français formal de Québec mais le français informal, le français slang?

C'est similaire à l'acadien avant d'être similaire au québécois.

Un accent bien campagnard je trouve

Beaucoup d’acadien se sont retrouvés en Louisiane alors c’est très logique qu’ils parlent d’une façon similaire.

Vive le français libre

Ma famille en Saskatchewan vient de Manitoba et avant ca probablement de louisiane

Mais pourquoi écrivez en anglais? Si vous adressez a Sam, je pense qu'il serait plus reconnaissant si vous le faite en français.

@@simonledoux8519 D'accord. Je suis Français de Paris et le Français est ma langue natale. Je maîtrise plusieurs langues et j'ai commenté en anglais afin que tout le monde sur cette plateforme puisse comprendre. Mais si vous le désirez je commenterai désormais en Français. Merci pour votre réplique.

@@tonychrist1923 Je comprend mais je crois bien que le plupart des gens qui regarde ces video comprend français.

How interesting - thanks for sharing! If you're grandmother is ever interesting in being recorded, we would love to have her language represented ;)

Very interesting! Never heard of that.

I need to know more about it.

lol! In Québec, a "memère" is a frail and/or cenile old woman.

Not only is the channel owner interested in her, but Corona virus looking for her too

Wow! That's Beautiful! I know exactly what you mean.😔😌☺️ C'est la vie! Life happens so fast, it takes years to fully comprehend one single moment. The line between this process ⬆️ and PTSD is thinner than we realize.

,💜💜

andy - The memories of our wonderful grandparents can make us very emotional.

@@AG-jw4im oh piss off. France SOLD IT first off.

@Brayten Yes... America purchased Louisiana from France. What’s the big deal

Bh c’est notre accent c’est normal

Finally, French I can understand ... because it’s slow!

Non il n’a pas l’accent d’un américain qui parle français. C’est très différent, croyez-moi. Son accent est un accent acadien, bien différent de l’accent du Québec, de la Belgique ou de la France, qui est normal vu que ses ancêtres sont acadiens.

@@karim-a7469 perhaps because he had to learn it basically as a second language, even if it is the language of his ancestors, that may be why he speaks it slowly and deliberately, which helps those of us who are not native French speakers but learned the language in school.

He's speaking a New World French dialect and has an American English accent. I've heard several Americans comment that New World French (mostly the various Canadian dialects but also New England French and Louisiana French) is easier to understand. Something about pacing, phonetic differences and such. Louisiana French is a very close cousin to the Acadian dialect (the Cajuns are descended from Acadians who got deported by the British). If you are taking French language courses, you might find listening to a fairly standard New World French (typically Quebec French) easier to follow than European dialects. Something from the Quebec City, Ottawa or Montreal suburbs (not Montreal East End joual... that's like cockney or a thick Brooklyn accent). The more obscure rural dialects get quirky, like they do with almost any language. And heads up, formal French instruction tends to be obsessive about conjugation and grammatical details. It ends up teaching you a super stiff formal sounding French that sounds very unnatural when spoken on either side of the Atlantic. Try to mix in some conversational stuff if you can. Everyday speech and writing (like texting) has simpler grammar and a lot of casual expressions. It's a fair bit more glaring than the difference between casual English and formal written English. Metropolitan French speakers (especially Parisians and folks from southern France) do tend to speak quickly. Northern dialects are a bit more languid (and New World French derives from pre-revolutionary forms of Northern French).

I’m learning creole ❤️

Creole and Cajun are different cultures.

creole is a different language

I was told that French used to be banned in schools.... the teachers would tell you off or you would be punished. I assume it was seen as a language of the home not of an educational instutaion.... they tried to make the Louisiana French die out and replace it with English. Then the children wouldn't be able to understand their grandparents?!

@@SteppingStonevlogs yes that is true. how ever revitalize effors are beinɡ made

Hiro Takkan Thank you for sharing!

cajun french is derived from a mix of canadian french and traditional french, acadians (cajuns) moved here from canada soooo it basically is an american learning french from a canadian :)

His accent is almost indistinguishable from an Acadian accent. My French teacher, who is Acadian, said that one time when he was down south and spoke with Cajuns that their accents and language were pretty much the exact same

@Hiro Takkan Who pissed in your cornflakes?

@@sarahalise5806 I was just about to say that, haha. It is exactly what happened 😂

Lol..

C'est, aussi, un oxymoron....

Oxymore en français

@@submarines_1015 On peut aussi dire oxymoron, même si c'est beaucoup moins courant. Ça m'amuse toujours d'entendre les anglophones dire "I don't know how to say that in French" quand en fait ils parlent d'un terme français.

@@Asaki44 Quand même, le terme a l'origine il est grec, et les français vous l'avez modifié. Nous, en langue anglaise, on tend plutôt a conserver les termes en leur forme originelle, d'où l'abondance des termes en latin et en grec en anglais qui sont utilisés dans une forme presque identique a leur langue d'origine. Les deux langues sont uniques et belles (même si le français est chiant a orthographier lol)

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Get into it. What you mean is: "Pourquois non?" Hehehe.

@@H4mmerofD4wn (friendly smile) "Pourquoi pas?" (as in the "ne (verb) pas" construction for the negative - non is no, ne pas (or pas all by itself) is not) "Pourquoi non?" is something you would ask someone telling you no when you want reasons for the no (it's literally "Why no?" rather than "Why not?"). Cheers!

He's got a really interesting and rare dialect of New World French (with an English accent as he freely admits - he learned it later in life as a second language). The only more obscure ones I can think of would be the dialects of the Canadian Prairies and New England French. Louisiana French and New England French are unique American dialects but they're easy for Canadian French speakers (like myself) to understand. It's very cool to see folks keeping their regional culture and dialects alive.

I thought the ones who were forced to learn French in Africa were enough.

That's not Cajun French, Cajun French is why more creolised. That's Standard Colonial Louisianan French

Russell Solomon It’s called Louisiana French now, not Cajun French. Why? Because studies of the dialect show it’s a mix of the French that was spoken by white Creoles (called French Creoles) and Acadians in Louisiana, supplemented by a few loan words from Spanish, German, West African languages and Native American languages.

Dera Kio French from France is another element on Louisiana French as well. Also, white St. Domingans (colonial Haitian) also came to Louisiana and their dialect melted into Louisiana French. The French creoles (white creoles) were/are a mix of ancestry from colonial French from France and from Quebec. This formed the base of French creoles. Their French, mixed with the French of white St. Domingans and that was mixed with Acadian French and French from France from later settlers known as the foreign French was mixed in. Louisiana French is a mix of 5 different styles of French. And on top of that, it absorbed a few loan words from other languages in Louisiana like from Spanish, German, West African languages and Native American languages. And on top of that, some speakers added words from kouri-vini (the French-West African hybrid mistakingly referred to as creole) in which one of the parent dialects of Louisiana French, French creole, is also a parent dialect to kouri-vini. So Louisiana French is too complex just to be called Cajun French and since its not only of Acadian origin (and neither are Cajuns whom are actually creoles but that's another discussion) it can't be referred to as Cajun french.

Wonderful to see, I hope up in Madawaska in Maine it is the same and being passed, on. Sad that Scottish in Nova Scotia Breton Island kind of died out.

mon fracais est ne pas tres bon, traduire sil vous plait

In the end,our French Louisiana is not culturally dead

Le français est une langue très forte qui ne se fera jamais tuer!

Ill ne va pas de morri

Colons

Maeva Demol exactement c’est ce que je me disais quand il parle il sonne comme la miss France 2019

@@anthonymatumbu4613 oui c'est ce que je me disais :)

I would bet the trilled "r" comes from Spanish colonial influence

@@mathildedlihtam382 Probably Old French.

@@mathildedlihtam382 Frech used to have that tipe of "r". But he is not pronouncing a thrilled "r" instead he is pronounce a tap "r" or more commonly known as alveolar tap or flap

Oui c'est la même chose / yeah it's the same thing

"Um" en anglais c'est plutôt "euuuuu" en français, je crois :D

Lol.

It means he's bad at speaking it

Jota C no lol just means he’s thinking of what words to use. I speak English- have grown up speaking it and still say “um” in my sentences😂 doesn’t mean I’m bad at my native language

Done been algorhythm'd.

fun fact: U a bich

Actually, I did lol One day, I saw a map that shows whats the language most spoken in the states of USA (in addition of english, of course), most of the states speak spanish, but I was surprised that Louisiona speaks french and I got interested in the topic of "Lousiana French". I'm studying french at my highschool in Mexico. I hope someday I'll be able to go to New Orleans in order to practice both English and French.

incorrect I actually did

I searched for it because a character in a book I'm reading speaks it

James Byrne Tres bien fait! Well done!

Same, I was even nodding my head in agreement.

@@AlexisRestless281 Hahaha! :)

So... how’s life?... 🤣

Hun hun hun oui oui baguette There, now you speak french

@Rohan Dahiya Pluta yeah, which small town? Northern or southern?

That is wonderful! It goes by a bit fast for me...except I got a little of the more efficient grammar...what creole did you hear?

@@ROTALOT I thought I heard "ti kras" a few times, but I am hard of hearing and did not have the amplifying headphones I usually use to help me lol

@@KT-Kaboom Oh just a morsel even is great. Cheers.

id say there's also very notable hints of spanish phonetics in his pronunciation

@@saffler1228 I'm a Spanish speaker and I totally agree with what you say. I find it much easier to understand than European French.

Patrick Eruimy It is not just that French is spoken by a segment of people in New Orleans, Louisiana. They also operate under rules based on French law and they created Creole Zydeco music. I attached a link to one example>. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLeEmbCbvMeWoGQ.html

@@melanieeleuterio6901 I wasn't aware of Louisiana State laws being more based on French laws. Sounds historically very interesting to me. I know about the Zydeco music, as I happen to have stored a few channels in my internet radio. Now and then I enjoy listening to this music. Thank you for your link, pleasant music with nice pictures. 😊👍🏻

@@Juraberg Yes, Louisiana is the only civil law jurisdiction in the United States, the rest uses common law (British heritage). With regards to languages, many parts of the US traditionally spoke German as the primary language. This didn't change until World War I, I believe. People still speak "Pennsylvania Dutch", which is actually German, not Dutch. But they would say that they spoke Deutsch, and the English speakers around them called it "Dutch". And of course, Spanish is spoken in many parts of the US.

Lmao 🤣🤣🤣

Oui

Holy shit I was thinking the same thing!

Cap'n Obvious 😂😂💀

Lol🤣😂

@antwinettec they were acadians i can imagine they didnt like english langage a lot after " le grand dérangement ", the great upheaval

@antwinettec Wow, I didn't know that. What a shame!

I'm French. He doesn't sound like he's speaking the language naturally. He's just an American who learned French at school, who has a strong accent, makes basic grammar mistakes and needs to think before finding his words. That's no Louisiana French, that's American school French.

Keoh 8 cAuse Catholics aren’t protested against in the south anymore

Mr Random u ever heard of .... the Louisiana purchase .....

Exactement

Ça lui donne un accent Canadien c'est énorme. Je suis de France 🇫🇷 😘

west island sapoud !

Canadian French is worse this is worse but better then québécois chéri

Omolemo Mokgatlhe lol, what are you talking about? I’m from Quebec live in the UK. I go in France all the time, they think I’m french. Stfu

Nekoala yes totally

Personnellement je ne trouve pas, non.

Nekoala no

Actually it's close to certain Maritime accents, like New Brunswick and Nova Scotia chiac, check out any of Radio Radio's songs and you'll see the similarity.

It's quite the opposite. R are less rolled than in French, especially compared to some local accent in French. It's more like a simplified version of French with barely no grammar. As a French, I understood everything, but it was more like hearing from time to time a toddler speaking

Mieux de dire contradiction, non? N'empêche que, vous avez raison aussi.

Coupal1 c'est oxymore en français

Quand il dit “nous autre” ca fait tres quebec aussi

C'est Oxymore

On est tokébek icitte!

@@dougjudy2305 "nous autres" s'utilise beaucoup en Belgique francophone aussi.

Carlos Galliath super d'autre francophone 😃

Carlos Galliath qu'est ce que des français foutent en Colombie ?! Je veux bien comprendre qu'en Nouvelle Orleans on parle français car c'est une ancienne colonie française. Mais en colombie jamais

Hercule55 bas faut croire que si, c'était pas une colonie majeur mais il y avait bien des néerlandais près ne New York

Interessant! C'est ou en Colombie ?

Je ne savais rien de cette communauté! Merci!

This doesn't sound at all like Quebecois (aside from some of the word choice). It sounds like an anglophone with lots of trills.

Probably because cajun was totally anihilated ... people speaking this patois were not keen on passing it on to their kids for being chastised by english speaker... their is though a canadian association that brings back “french” in louisianne.... this person speaks french... the only time i heard real cajun was on a french tv show about 25 years ago on french tv .... this old man living in the swamps spoke it... it sounded like some creole it was virtually impossible to understand what he was talking about... real cajun language is pretty much extinct...

First of all it sounds nothing like creole at all and second of all creole is not just spoken by black people you just sound ignorant!!

Their French was influenced by the Acadians from the Maritimes in Canada. (Cajuns)

@@JBond-zf4dj ... 7 Years War or French and Indian War, 1754-63, was why the French speakers fled to French controlled Louisiana or Quebec.

Rob 4494 acadien ;)

remiouzik Yes !! :) ;)

Des iles de la madelaine aussi ;) .

Exact ! I am French and Swiss and he sounds more like a Swiss German talking French then an American. I would never say American if I just heard it.

c'est francais föderal, hä! et nous parlons trés bien, hä! 😁

@@sonqualnave The Cajuns, as you must know, are descended from the French Acadians who originally settled in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. What you may not know is that the first of them were accompanied by soldiers from the Swiss Guard. The official language of the Guard was German - but it goes without saying that the soldiers accompanying the settlers would also have spoken French. Of course the settlers themselves were from the Brittany region of France. Still, it is possible, perhaps inevitable, that there was some mixing of the language.

Totalement d’accord . On dirait Federer qui parle français

@@sonqualnave there is texas german which is one state over. So maybe 8 hours or less drive to get to the new braunfels, boerne or freidksberg which are all kinda near san antonio

Hina B. There have been times where I’m watching tv and there are Polynesians on tv and I swear they sound like my own family From the Louisiana bayous

@@WindsweptBeauty damn right, we sound hella weird

It's fascinating how much alike and how different the various European language creoles are. It shows how adaptable language is!

Ik ben van België en vertsa wel redelijk veel frans. Maar wnr ik het frans hoor van Parijs dan versta ik precies niets, omdat ze zo snel praten en koppelen alle woorden aan elkaar. Hier in België is het frans trager (dat is één van hey grootste verschil tussen frans van Frankrijk en frans van België). Sinds dit persoon heel traag sprak verstond ik hem helemaal, beter dan frans van Frankrijk en zeker beter dan québécois frans. Ik vind dat québécois frans geen frans is. Zelfs de fransen verstaan hun niet😂

Because he is slow

Will Steele true I am a native la. Cajun tsalgi indien. I always call south la. T’ Louisiana which means little louisiana. When I was a kid cher we moved way up to north la, where no one spoke french. It was a culture shock. I am practicing for my defan papa. (Dear departed sainted daddy) So I will become fluent again. I joke I “caught” the drawl the Texians (non native speaker) have. My maman was always worried that people would think you were ignorant speaking cajun French patois or speaking like a “hillbilly” I joke that I am a Cajun hillbilly cause I speak slower now with my drawl, but I still think in cajun patois. I noticed he said grandpere. . I say papere. Like in papa for grandfather.

My parents are from Acadiana (South Louisiana) and grew up speaking both English and French. They tell me that to speakers of the French Metropolitan variety, Louisiana French is often grammatically incorrect by modern semantic standards. Is that true and if so what makes Louisiana French 'unrefined' for lack of a better word?

@@Garrett1240 My comment is a year late but anyway. I'm French and I wouldn't say that Louisiana French sound " unrefined". But yes, there are a lot of "mistakes" from metropolitan french standard. Some verbs that aren't in the right tense, or not using the subjonctive when it should be used. But sometimes, even when it's gramatically correct, the words and terms that are used in louisiana french are a bit "crude" or like, the opposite of formal. Like when he said that Louisiana French " va crever (is going to die)" isn't something a French would say, even though he added " va mourir " after which is closer to what a french would say. We use " crever " but like between close friends, not in an interview for example. But it seems totally normal in Louisiana French. I'll add that the way he rolls the "r" is similar to the way french canadians speak and even Polynesians, but some of the old folks in deep french countryside used to roll the r like this. Often family of peasants and stuff like that. You know our french versions of Rednecks and stuff. So people might make wrong connections and label it as " unrefined ". But huge majority of native french speakers don't think like that. I hope you'll see my answer, even a year later and that my english is understandable enough lol.

@Arkanne That’s more or less what I thought. Thank you for the thoughtful reply.

Yes totally. I'm from Québec. Sounds nothing like a Québec accent to me, it's rather very Acadien and reminds me of New-Brunswick.

Henry Gray that’s because Louisiana Cajun French people original came from Acadia after they were exiled from Canada....read Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Evangeline” to hear some of the story!!

Henry Gray It really does. I have family in the Bois Hébert area and I also noticed a similarity.

@@amazonazapata9424 I'm sure he knows that, he was commenting on the similarity in accents. Acadians are very aware of our history, including our Cajun cousins.

So does that mean the Madawaskan French Speakers in Maine sound just like Cajuns when they speak French?

Vetrarbreytin comme tous les français quoi 😂

@@berlinkind6108 ah euh... 😁😁 j'ai encore entendu l'autre jour deux ministres se tromper dessus une énième fois. Je commence à croire que tu as raison 🤦🏻‍♂️😆

Vetrarbreytin la même jpp

@@berlinkind6108 Ba non , '' tous les Français '' utilisent le subjonctif. Sauf si un dialecte influence ta façon de parler

@@noaccount9985 Oui mais beaucoup de français ne savent pas utiliser le subjonctif... c'est évident quand on parle aux gens ou qu'on regarde les nouvelles

You need to educate yourself about french canadian, there is many, many different accents. The closest one would be from New-Brunswick, and still, it's different.

@@LisaIsabelle Yeah well I guess there are many different French Canadian accents but the guy's accent in the video is close from the average French Canadian one that we can sometimes hear here in France

Barb Murphy This is my impression as well-the rolled “r”s in particular-but the vowels do sound to be at least somewhat influenced by American English. My exposure to Acadian French is very limited, but I don’t recall hearing the flattened “r”. I find it amazing that they have both extremes for that particular consonant.

"Cajun" is kjjnd of a slur on the word Acadien.

Jenni Wieland I had no idea. Thank you for the information.

And Maine.

They are the same people. The French arrived in Acadia but some ran away to Louusiana, chased by the english. Almost the same accent. Some were coming from Poitou province, some from Belle Isle en Mer, in Brittany.

Cambarcus moi aussi

Me too! And I'm from Belgium (the Dutch side). But I think it's because he's speaking very slowly. Parisians speak very fast, but once they slow down it becomes understandable.

@@zoe5937 maybe also because it really sounds like an American speaking French with a strong accent

I'm from Paris and I agree on the fact he's easily understandable, despite his accent being quite different. And yes, we do speak too fast. So different from other regions/French-speaking countries. :') I like how he rolls the r x')

Same! I've been learning for four years and can never understand Parisian French or any French from Africa or any islands but this was very easy to understand!

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Same here, I am surprised how much I have retained with the French on duolingo as opposed to the other languages I study.

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As an American who speaks french, it kinda just sounds like a high level french speaker who doesn't put any effort into having a french accent

You need to hear our Louisiana Creole! Çé difisil pou lòt mounn Franco komprenn! Ayiti-yé pa ka tou komprenn nouzòt! I'm Louisiana Creole (Kréyol)

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That's because he speaks with heavy american accent. He's not a native speaker.

Yeah agreed. I'm an American who's been learning French for only about a year, but I understood almost everything he said.

Patte de Chat he clearly is not a native speaker. But I wouldn’t say he has a heavy American accent (as in, English-speaking American). His accent is clearly from Louisiana (rolling his “r”, the overall rhythm, the way several vowels are dragged on) with a hint of American accent, especially in the pauses (“hum”, “err...”). Not your typical Anglo-American accent. For one, American normally do not roll their “r” when speaking French as a second language.

@@procrastination2204 about a year and you can already understand that much? Damn, you're getting by fast

That's because he's using an americanized syntax. As someone whose first language is french, I can easily understand what he's saying. However, gramatically speaking, a lot of what he's saying does not make any sense (with standard french). There's a lot of french verb tenses that are cut off in his prose, for one. That's something that most english native speakers have a lot of trouble with when it comes to learning french. He also substitutes a lot of more complicated words for easier words (he uses a lot of "ça", which could mean "it", or "this").

He, is adorable!

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This "r" was very common in French region, until recently

looks like a quebec accent

@@skyalmillegra2532 Hmm. Language evolution I guess. I wonder why.

@@crackheadcampus8199 not at all. you can tell he pronounces it differently to get closer to the r pronounced in french properly, but its very americanized.

Actually, this would be more traditional than the French spoken in France. It just didn’t change as much. Even going back 75-100 years in France, they were still rolling r’s and just speaking a whole lot different than today. Edit: I do agree though, he still doesn’t speak it extremely well. It’s good enough.

I agree with you. He is so new to 'French' thst he speaks it very haltingly, without the fluency one has with their mother tongue. He reminded me of high school friends who were barely passing their oral tests in French class. I applaud him for his efforts. If he keeps this up, one day he will speak as quickly as a native speaker!

Me too, took years of French, top of my class. Went to France, complimented on my good accent. But cannot understand a word when French is spoken fast (normal speed for them).