I have talked to Germans other nationalities who have just as much trouble with random French rudeness as Americans. A lot of them don't get along with much of anyone (applies to the French speaking Swiss too).
I have a friend who is a native French speaker (he is Vietnamese) who was telling me that he went all over France with no issue, but in Paris people would pretend that could not understand him or just refuse to talk to him because they did not like his accent. I have heard Quebecers saying similar things.
I am going to stop making fun of the French
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I have heard Quebecois saying many things, but understood few of them Ca-lice!Vonz90 wrote:I have heard Quebecers saying similar things.
Parisiens are like New Yorkers - reknowned for their rudeness. Also like New Yorkers, the rude ones tend to be the blow-ins from elsewhere putting on airs, not the born and bred locals.
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But who likes Quebecois?I have a friend who is a native French speaker (he is Vietnamese) who was telling me that he went all over France with no issue, but in Paris people would pretend that could not understand him or just refuse to talk to him because they did not like his accent. I have heard Quebecers saying similar things.
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I found the Qubecois fairly easy to understand, once you catch on to their rich profanity.Denis wrote:I have heard Quebecois saying many things, but understood few of them Ca-lice!Vonz90 wrote:I have heard Quebecers saying similar things.
Parisiens are like New Yorkers - reknowned for their rudeness. Also like New Yorkers, the rude ones tend to be the blow-ins from elsewhere putting on airs, not the born and bred locals.
On the otherhand rosetta stone uses parisian accent for their french, and its terrible to understand, and it understands terribly too.
Cajons, well, cant do anything with their dialect...
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I speak no French whatsoever, so I cannot comment on that.slowpoke wrote:I found the Qubecois fairly easy to understand, once you catch on to their rich profanity.Denis wrote:I have heard Quebecois saying many things, but understood few of them Ca-lice!Vonz90 wrote:I have heard Quebecers saying similar things.
Parisiens are like New Yorkers - reknowned for their rudeness. Also like New Yorkers, the rude ones tend to be the blow-ins from elsewhere putting on airs, not the born and bred locals.
On the otherhand rosetta stone uses parisian accent for their french, and its terrible to understand, and it understands terribly too.
Cajons, well, cant do anything with their dialect...
I have some French cousins (half French I suppose, but they pretty much consider themselves all French). I do not recall them ever describing difficulties from their accents from other French types, but they mostly lived near Geneva and live in the US now and I have no idea what kind of accent they have.
I had a coworker a few years ago with a massively Cajun accent, accept he was actually Belgian and had never been anywhere near Louisiana. I thought that was interesting. He said everyone has thought he was from there since he came to the US.
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Didn't the Cajuns evolve from the French displaced from Nova Scotia as the poem Evangeline describes? They were displaced by Germans (among who were my Hirtle ancestors) invited to settle there by the British king.Vonz90 wrote: I had a coworker a few years ago with a massively Cajun accent, accept he was actually Belgian and had never been anywhere near Louisiana. I thought that was interesting. He said everyone has thought he was from there since he came to the US.
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One of the former tenants of one of my then neighbors was a good ole boy from the backwoods of Louisiana. He sounded like he was from Bay Ridge.Vonz90 wrote: I had a coworker a few years ago with a massively Cajun accent, accept he was actually Belgian and had never been anywhere near Louisiana. I thought that was interesting. He said everyone has thought he was from there since he came to the US.
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I shall invoice you for a keyboard, monsieur.Denis wrote:[I have heard Quebecois saying many things, but understood few of them Ca-lice!
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That's about right. One of The Band's many good songs ("Acadian Driftwood") is about that.Rich wrote:Didn't the Cajuns evolve from the French displaced from Nova Scotia as the poem Evangeline describes? They were displaced by Germans (among who were my Hirtle ancestors) invited to settle there by the British king.
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