I'd like to learn French, but I'm not sure which variety to learn. Should I learn French from Canada, France, or somewhere else? Is there a big difference between them all? Will I be laughed at by French qts for speaking like a Canuck, or vice versa?
Hey what? I have an American Flag? I've had a leaf all week, since I'm in Ottawa...
Noah Ortiz
what? its the same french, its all about the accent and you will have a shitty american accent regardless
Ryan Martin
OP, just learn French from France.
Yes, Quebecois and other Francophones here tend to use different vocabulary and have different accents, but actually, we all learn Metropolitan French in school.
Jose Collins
>it's the same French >courriel >stationnement >dépanneur
Tyler Evans
learn France French unless you live in Vermont >what are dialects
Jonathan Taylor
you'll most likely learn the same either way and pick the accent and expressions of whoever you're talking to
Tyler Bailey
>american accent >shitty pick one
memes aside though, I'm not too worried about my accent. I speak a few languages, and I'm usually mistaken for a native. Is that really the only difference, though? Accent?
Jonathan Roberts
>Is that really the only difference, though? Accent?
There are some vocabulary differences, but many are colloquial.
Jason Roberts
nope, its not like two dialects of french separated by an ocean for 400 years will develop the same there's some different words, sayings, etc I'd go with real french t b h, more relevant internationally and gaybecois will still understand you
Grayson Jones
Thanks, these answers are big helps. Out of curiosity, though, is and accent from one or the other generally regarded as nicer?
Ryder Lewis
there is practically no difference anyway besides Canadians typically being worse posters
This We all learn the Queen's English in school, but being mostly exposed to Washingtongue in life, we end up speaking/writing in a sort of hybrid + very strong accent
Hunter Thompson
lel, its few words variation, core of the language is the same, english from england and english from america is the same, but a few words variation/spelling like colour/color
Québecois is a meme, we learn french, we just use our culture and accents on it, like catholic swearing or some influence from english like practice
Some french people make fun of the québécois accent because it sounds very different from our french. We also tend to banter the belgians about their expressions and their pronounciation.
But when you write in french it doesn't matter, it's the same everywhere?
Jonathan Anderson
was that english
Luke Turner
I have a German friend irl that does this. He sounds English for half his sentence, then switches for some to sound more American.
He's tried to stop, he says he can't.
Lincoln Ramirez
quebec french with a strong accent is hard for french people from france to understand i learned. I lived in montreal and the people i lived and worked with hardly spoke any english and people who are monolingual tend to have a heavy quebecois accent so the french i learned was their kind. when i met people here who were from france they had a hard time understaning me
thats what ive been saying, you cant learn french quebecois
idk i might be biased, i played a lot of games with people from france and watched french shows, so i picked up on a few things over the years
Elijah Hill
her france accent seems really sloppy
Joseph Torres
well her english sounds pretty much flawless, but all three accents sound quebecer with varying degrees of intensity. Not bad, actually cute, but no one in metropolitan France has that accent