I’ve lived close to french canada all my life and learned the language since grade school. African french was seamless for me to understand but then when I hear my french friends or family talking with quebec slang and accent it’s damn near impossible.
The statenitan canadian french and african french are betters in phonology african and statenitan prounounces more clear without any silent letters ❤❤❤❤ I love this way of french.
Finally, someone made a video about French accents outside Europe. I'm glad you chose people with a decent Canadian (Quebecois) accent not the stereotypical "joual". One thing I noticed is that, unlike Europeans, Africans don't make fun of our Canadian accent even though it is just as hard for them to understand us.
I know exactly what you mean. The first time I traveled to Canada I had a lot of apprehension about the French Quebecois dialect and accent. I thought that I wouldn't be able to understand them and that they wouldn't understand me either. Though, I quickly realized that the French Canadian accent ( at least in Montreal) was not nearly as terrible as many people in Europe (and to some extent Africa) think it is.
I am from the Grand North of Gabon but now I have more of a coastal (Libreville, Port-Gentil, etc) accent. I sound just like the white Gabonese swimmer in the video.
One of my best friends is a white Gabonese and his last name looks similar to that Ambonguilat dude's in the video. He told me that he's of the Myene ethnic group and that he grew up in Port-Gentil. He went back to Gabon after college, a year ago. I also love his accent. Btw, do you live in Canada?
Try getting into a heated discussion with an Ivorian and see if you're able to make out even one word. Because they're on TV they want to speak slower and clearer, but amongst each other it sounds different
@freedomm @@seandotcom3321 and Pondicherry, Vanuatuan, New Caledonian, French Polynesian, and Luxembourgish. I would say Laotian, Cambodian, and Vietnamese but French is actually not that commonly spoken in those countries after the colonial period. I am Vietnamese and no one I know is Vietnamese and speaks French except some from my grandparents’ generation. Also, it’s French Guyana not Guinea but close! (If you mean Guinea, it’s no longer known as French Guinea, just Guinea)
The Congolese accent is the easiest to understand for me. Though I do speak a Bantu language, which might help. But Congolese people pronounce very clearly and very well, as well as the "rolling R" behind the teeth.
they speak so fast and sooo quietly, when some of them would talk to me i would be like répétez s’il tu plaît? quoi? pardon? because i just straight up couldn’t heat them well and then they’d get frustrated and speak english just as quietly. And then I’d be frustrated cuz it wasn’t the language i had a problem with it was the volume and speed.
Wow, they all sound so different from one another. The francophone world seems so diverse. I heard about the white Gabonese population in my French class but I never actually saw any white Gabonese (or any Gabonese in general). My favorite accents are the Ivorian, Cameroonian, and Gabonese accents. They sound more melodious and are easier to understand.
@@fcssefvvgattrfdx487 would you say the same about English? Not every English speaker sounds the same and there are different dialects like pidgin and patois
Rodrigo das Graças j'adore le bresil j'ai rencontré BEAUCOUP De bresiliens qui parlent la langue française lors De mon voyage En Europe il y a quelques mois. MERCI et continuez comme ça aprenons la langue française c'est vraiment Une fierté
I think all the accents are beautiful no matter where it's spoken. I currently learning Spanish. After 10 to 15 years of learning and speaking Spanish i will being learning french
@@chibimoon1432 yeah chibiusa idk why it took you that long, you could have learned them side by side; im learning spanish, portuguese and french at the same time, their levels vary ofc with spanish being the highest almost mirroring my native tongue
@@chibimoon1432 yeah chibiusa idk why it took you that long, you could have learnt them side by side; im learning spanish, portuguese and french at the same time, their levels vary ofc with spanish being the highest almost mirroring my native tongue
Pour les accents africains, c'est mieux de mettre des extraits de films ou series car les gens qui passent aux infos essayent toujours de faire en sorte que leurs accent ressemble a celui des français.
Littéralement, un africain éduqué qui ne mène pas une vie de favelas en version africaine, parle le français standard de paris avec un accent léger et local généralement pour les pays comme le Cameroun, le Togo, la côte d'Ivoire, la RCA, le congo Brazzaville. Les pays francophones avec une population majoritairement musulmane ont un très fort accent, difficile à comprendre. Se sont aussi les moins lettrés de la communauté francophone d'Afrique. Les favelas d'Afrique ne parlent pas de français mais en version créoles du français. Au Cameroun avec le Camfranglais par exemple, qui semble influencer la culture urbaine du gabon.
Vietnamese don't speak french, except people who are learning the language for economical purposes, if anything the most widely spoken foreign language in Việt Nam is English
As someone who has Vietnamese heritage, yes they most certainly do speak French. Some may speak English, but speaking French is not uncommon and is very normal in Vietnamese culture.
Dragar _play Je pense que c'est pareil dans toute la francophonie L'accent parisien montré dans cette vidéo est loin d'être représentatif du français parlé en France métropolitainr, alors je ne parle même pas du français parlé en Guadeloupe, à la Réunion ou à Tahiti Et c'est dommage de ne pas avoir montré les accents belges et suisses aussi je trouve :/
le pire accent de langue française. on a vraiment du à comprendre les québécois. on dirait qu'ils n'articulent pas bien les mots se se retrouvent en otage dans l'accent et timbre anglais
@@gluehuffer1411 The girl on the right sounded more realistic Quebecois to me. Perhaps some people are careful when talking on tv, but I don't hear the French pronunciation of "r" very often in Montreal. They tend to roll the r's with the tip of their tongues instead of deep in the throat.
I have a few friends from Canada. When they speak French, their accent has a lot of the sound “arrr”. Like the word “couleur” I learned as (coo-ler) but they say it like (coo-lar). Just little things like that which contribute to the beautiful and confusing variety of the French speaking world.
I feel like what made the African accent more understandable is that their phoenetics are, what I would say is "more direct" to the spelling As an Indonesian, I notice how the Guinean accent sounds like it was was spoken with Malay phoenetics, in fact at 7:50, the anchor pronounced "Dollar" exactly how a Javanese would say it. Especially the Malagasy French, it sounded much like it was spoken like an Indonesian person who studied French (aside from the unsurprising fact that Malagasy and Malay are Austronesian languages)
I really like the sound of the Cameroon French accent. In general, those French speakers from African countries are easier for me to understand as a native English speaker. The most difficult accent for me to understand is the Parisian French accent.
Je suis d'accord avec toi. C'est l'accent le plus difficile a comprendre parfois. Moi je suis Americain mais j'aime La langue Française avec tout Mon cœur dans toutes ses varietés.
We have différents accents in Gabon. A particular accent is determined by the speaker cultural background. We have more than 30 tribes and so many languages. And your french accent will be affected by the main language of the tribe or the region you belong.. Like the gaboneses black guy in that video is without a shadow of a doubt from south gabon..
I like the Quebecois accent. I used to listen to a lot of Quebecois music in high school and still do. I’m pretty much stuck with the Quebecois accent that I picked up from the music.
But they can understand each other perfectly tho? I’m livin in the us but my father Senegalese. I wonder if I could understand his language if I’d learn “regular” French
Some words/expressions can get confusing but globally yeah, it's just an accent not a dialect. Now the different types of creoles and regional dialects also exist and these are much harder to understand even for a native french person.
moi, j'aime bien tous les accents, d'Afrique, du Pacifique, de Guyane, de la Réunion, de l'Ile Maurice, du Canada, de Louisiane, de Belgique, de Suisse et ...de France. Vive la différence. Amitiés de Nancy (France).
Yes, it has declined in use, but that does not make it irrelevant. Louisiana French is still a viable variety of French, and not nearly as dead as people wrongly think.
France had a lot of colonies in Africa just like the UK did have a lot of colonies all around the world. The language stayed in thoses regions, that's why french is spoken in a lot of African countries
@@deviousimpulse No, historically the French R was a rolled R - it was only in the 19th century that the uvular R became widespread. Outside of europe it's quite common to hear people roll their Rs in French
@@lexdiamondz1991 Out of curiosity, how would they know something like that? The earliest French voice recordings I heard had uvular r's, but recording of voices doesn't go back too far.
@@bobbbxxx Literature from the 17th and 18th centuries described the R in french as a rolled consonant, and in dialects like Louisiana French and Canadian French, which have been isolated from Europe for several centuries, the switch to the uvular R (and other phonetic shifts) never happened so they are in many ways a window into what the language sounded like in that era. Even into the 20th century in rural France there were still people who spoke with the rolled R, although now it's quickly dying out ruclips.net/video/4YcySIR4T6Q/видео.html&ab_channel=elixdesign
Journalist shouldn't be count as accent .. because most of them speaks in a standard way. Not like every day people . For the ivoirian accent, the people interviewed had the common accent but not the speaker
The French spoken in America, Africa, Asia and Oceania is better than european French because it does not use the bad silent letters of European French, they actually sound better to speakers and non-speakers of Romance languages, they are more understandable. French channels should leave subtitles in other Romance languages. Francophony is Latinophony and must love other Romance languages and never isolate itself, isolation is bad for socialization and correct conduct among Romance cultures. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
It's cos of all of them Lingala speakers over there. It is just a beautiful language, so obviously, the Lingala French accent would sound really pretty. 😊
In some african franch like cameron guine and senegal they pronounce r like american like english world rich and in some of them people pronounce american r but tv pronounce french r any way african french accent who pronounce r like rich in american accent is better than french accent
There are neighborhoods with large immigrant populations and I sometimes have heard African accented French there and I do think it sounds like the stereotypical African accent of English...which is I believe to be based on Nigerian. I heard that one in the Ivorian part. Being close to Nigeria and all, kinda understandable.
@Fatimaxn Barry a foreign ear might not be able to get some more subtle differences, that’s just me and my guesses. As for there’s the more stereotypical accents associated with countries and regions, and there’s the reality. For instance in India there are many languages and many corresponding accents for English, yet there’s the perception of the “Indian English”. When I was there I kinda realized that people spoke differently, but could not pinpoint the differences. They sounded like this stereotypical Indian accent in one way and different than in another. Same for Africa. The more stereotypical ones I hear in the media are more or less like the Nigerian ones I see on RUclips accent comparisons and the French spoken by the Ivorians on this video kinda reminded me of that and the accented French I hear in the neighborhoods I mentioned. Then it’s only me. By the way Ghana, Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire are closer to each other then say other Anglophone African countries like Kenya, Botswana or South Africa, which speak different regional languages too. I hope I could express myself. Thanks for the feedback.
Salut! Y'a plusieurs différents accents et dialectes françaises au Canada qui ne sont pas mutuellement compréhensibles. Quelques exemples sont les acadiens de l'île prince édouard, de la nouvelle-écosse, du cap breton et surtout de la nouvelle-brunswick (ce sont 4 dialectes différents), ainsi que les accents de l'Ontario et le dialecte Québecois qui s'est fait connu mondialement parmi les francophones. Il y a plusieurs régions où des canadiens indigènes le parle aussi, mais je ne suis pas assez connaisseur pour te le raconter. stp fait de la recherche au sujet, les francophones hors du québec ont des dialectes différents, des accents différents, des cultures différents, et ont venus au canada pendant des siècles différents. merci de m'avoir écouté :3 surtout!! rappele-toi que «l'accent canadien» n'existe pas; il y en a plusieurs. c'est comme dire «le français européen» lorsque les français des différents pays et même les provinces sont bien différents.
En tant que locuteur espagnol, je peux en déduire que le français africain est plus facile à comprendre pour moi, je pense que le dilemme que les Latinos ont avec l'espagnol de Castille est que l'espagnol de notre région est plus compréhensible que l'espagnol de Castille, la même chose se produit avec les africains et les haïtiens. Français avec français canadien et européen. Salutations du Panama 🇵🇦👋🏼
So far I've only found one or two RUclips recordings of someone who seem to have spoken the traditional Louisiana French from birth. Most "Louisiana accent" videos I've seen are of people who learned French later in life from a variety of tutors from different places They aren't very interesting as basically it is listening to students of French.
@@quelquun2018 you didn't read my comment I said yes they speak creole majority of the population and French is still the official along with creole only few of the population speak French
À mon avis, l’accent français est le plus difficile à déchiffrer. Ils parlent avec la bouche presque fermée, et de plus, ils utilisent des trends plutôt bizarres comme reverser l’ordre d’un mot, mais quand même, il veut dire la même chose. Example: une femme devient une « meuf ».
L'argot français de Paris. Néanmoins, ça (le jargon etc) se fait un peu partout. Le Nouchi Ivoirien c'est pareil, même moins intelligible. Fo' pa fai ye kouman façon c'est dur payè kouman ça là o a met vitesse en toi. Cha fraya façon ça'a versé si toi. Kongolo de ça ya que vrai môgô noussiya qui a fini aè ça jisqan dja, sinon français pou toi naka ett comment comment, cha rien capté nan film ça là. C'è com'n ça ye dan Babi o. Et j'en passe. L'humouriste Français parlait de manière plus colloquiale or qu'au tour des autres accents/pays de la vidéo on ne presentait que des émissions de la télévision avec un français plus ou moins standarisé afin d'accommoder une grande audience, voir une audience internationale.
Est-ce que ta première langue est Français? Il y a des personnes en Afrique du sud et c'est le plus "friendly" avec les membres de le communauté lgbtq.
@@brettlarch8050 J'habite en Ontario, la province à côté du Québec. Un chose, je ne sais pas si tu sais déjà mais "tue" veux dire "kill" et "Tu" veux dire "you". Vous le savez probablement déjà, la correction automatique ajoute le "e" a la fin pour moi aussi. Mais je pense que si tu essay des différents place au Afrique du sud où quelque part d'autre pour voir comment il traite les dans le communauté lgbtq, tu peux avoir un sentiment de ou tu veux rester.
I thought all african french accents sounded the same, but seems like in Côte d'Ivoire they don't roll their Rs like in Gabon, Spain and Italy (I haven't finished watching the video yet, I simply heard that speakers of African French, in general rolls their Rs, but now I know not all of them do) Also, I did not know there were "white" people in Gabon! I thought Botswana and South Africa were the only subsaharan countries with important "white" population, xD
Also, is to me or do cameroonians pronounce the r like the "soft" r in Spanish (arar) or like the t in American English (pretty)? (I think it is called alveolar tap, in phonetics but I'm not 100% sure)
Can't speak for all countries but a lot of them have significant Caucasian minority populations. My own Zambia does, so does Namibia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Angola, Kenya etc and many of them consider themselves natives. There are also big Indian and Arab enclaves in most African countries.
Some three, four thousand years ago the ancestors of the Polynesians left Asia, China, the Philippines and those who went east expanded into the Pacific (Hawaii, etc) and mixed with the black Melanesians that they found there. Those who went west would, years later, reach as far as Madagascar and basically became the Malagasy people. In Madagascar, the Bantu people from mainland Africa would become their neighbours as they, too, lived on the island even though the Malagasy would constitute a ruling dynasty. That president is most probably descended from those same people who left Asia thousands of years ago.
@@ghassencsetwow What do you mean? What place has the "proper" french accent then? Because, they are all french accents and they are all actual french accents.
@@ghassencsetwow Canada** And again.. what do you mean by "French" exactly? Because, if you are talking about people who speak french as there first language, it is most certainly more than just people from québec and france. But, if you aren't talking about that, then people who are French, are from France. Not Canada. If they are from Canada they are Canadian. I live in Canada, 30 minutes away from québec. People in Québec are french, but so are people who dont live in québec are too.
French is not my native language, but i found that African French is more understandable than NA and European ones. My favorite accent is Ivorian.
The French speak very fast and with a lot of slang.
I’ve lived close to french canada all my life and learned the language since grade school. African french was seamless for me to understand but then when I hear my french friends or family talking with quebec slang and accent it’s damn near impossible.
They pronounce much more clearly!!
The statenitan canadian french and african french are betters in phonology african and statenitan prounounces more clear without any silent letters ❤❤❤❤
I love this way of french.
I love Quebequian engfranspannormandish❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ they love be polyglots ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Finally, someone made a video about French accents outside Europe. I'm glad you chose people with a decent Canadian (Quebecois) accent not the stereotypical "joual". One thing I noticed is that, unlike Europeans, Africans don't make fun of our Canadian accent even though it is just as hard for them to understand us.
I know exactly what you mean. The first time I traveled to Canada I had a lot of apprehension about the French Quebecois dialect and accent. I thought that I wouldn't be able to understand them and that they wouldn't understand me either. Though, I quickly realized that the French Canadian accent ( at least in Montreal) was not nearly as terrible as many people in Europe (and to some extent Africa) think it is.
Where are you from? and what kind of accent do you have?
I am from the Grand North of Gabon but now I have more of a coastal (Libreville, Port-Gentil, etc) accent. I sound just like the white Gabonese swimmer in the video.
One of my best friends is a white Gabonese and his last name looks similar to that Ambonguilat dude's in the video. He told me that he's of the Myene ethnic group and that he grew up in Port-Gentil. He went back to Gabon after college, a year ago. I also love his accent. Btw, do you live in Canada?
No, I don't. I live in Libreville, Gabon.
I love how some African french accents/speakers speak with a hard/rolling R. It sounds so good.
I agree. Disappointed that I didn’t see any Haitian French
The African ones are so easy to understand.
Try getting into a heated discussion with an Ivorian and see if you're able to make out even one word. Because they're on TV they want to speak slower and clearer, but amongst each other it sounds different
So true
@@vusyumanisahelien7799 yeah we africans tend to speak fast
@@vusyumanisahelien7799 even then you can understand
@@heyah1447 depends which country you came from and wether they were mixing the language or speaking Nouchi
First video I’ve seen comparing French African accents
I'd have liked to hear the Algerian, Congolese, Swiss, Belgian and Haitian accents as well.
Algerian is the same as the generic accent in France
Yeah same, plus Guadeloupe, and various accents from the US, French Guinea, and just more from the Americas in general
@freedomm @@seandotcom3321 and Pondicherry, Vanuatuan, New Caledonian, French Polynesian, and Luxembourgish. I would say Laotian, Cambodian, and Vietnamese but French is actually not that commonly spoken in those countries after the colonial period. I am Vietnamese and no one I know is Vietnamese and speaks French except some from my grandparents’ generation.
Also, it’s French Guyana not Guinea but close! (If you mean Guinea, it’s no longer known as French Guinea, just Guinea)
Completely forgot about the Arabic French colonies.
The Congolese accent is the easiest to understand for me. Though I do speak a Bantu language, which might help. But Congolese people pronounce very clearly and very well, as well as the "rolling R" behind the teeth.
Why do Parisians speak so damn fast as if they're running out of time or something
🏃🏃🏃😂😂😂😂
More time to pose, sip wine and complain
Exactly
Coffee and busy lives
they speak so fast and sooo quietly, when some of them would talk to me i would be like répétez s’il tu plaît? quoi? pardon? because i just straight up couldn’t heat them well and then they’d get frustrated and speak english just as quietly. And then I’d be frustrated cuz it wasn’t the language i had a problem with it was the volume and speed.
Wow, they all sound so different from one another. The francophone world seems so diverse. I heard about the white Gabonese population in my French class but I never actually saw any white Gabonese (or any Gabonese in general). My favorite accents are the Ivorian, Cameroonian, and Gabonese accents. They sound more melodious and are easier to understand.
May Dinh Really ?!
Bruh it’s just like any other language you’re so extra lol
@@fcssefvvgattrfdx487 would you say the same about English? Not every English speaker sounds the same and there are different dialects like pidgin and patois
SHE DEVIL yes I’m just saying every one has different accents and dialects when a language is shared by many different countries and cultures
@@fcssefvvgattrfdx487 really? in English most people prefer the American accent over the British accents lmao
Journalists speak a much more refined French than the majority of people. In Africa most people roll the r's.
Parisian and Cameroonian are my favs.
C'est un video génial. Salutations du Brésil.
Rodrigo das Graças j'adore le bresil j'ai rencontré BEAUCOUP De bresiliens qui parlent la langue française lors De mon voyage En Europe il y a quelques mois. MERCI et continuez comme ça aprenons la langue française c'est vraiment Une fierté
I think all the accents are beautiful no matter where it's spoken. I currently learning Spanish. After 10 to 15 years of learning and speaking Spanish i will being learning french
Mimi143iloveyou bro I legit never spoke a bit of Spanish but my dad I got job in España and I learned it fluently in like 1yr
wow cool.
@@chibimoon1432 yeah chibiusa idk why it took you that long, you could have learned them side by side; im learning spanish, portuguese and french at the same time, their levels vary ofc with spanish being the highest almost mirroring my native tongue
@@chibimoon1432 yeah chibiusa idk why it took you that long, you could have learnt them side by side; im learning spanish, portuguese and french at the same time, their levels vary ofc with spanish being the highest almost mirroring my native tongue
@@meriez2892how do you go about learning new languages??
The African accent was the best
Which one?
There is no such thing as an African Accent. So please tell us which one.
@Fatimaxn Barry
Yeah, i know...
I wrote to the wrong person.
I have visited many French speaking african Countries.
@@frankkongossa3117 lol fr
Pour les accents africains, c'est mieux de mettre des extraits de films ou series car les gens qui passent aux infos essayent toujours de faire en sorte que leurs accent ressemble a celui des français.
Oui comme en france. Y a des accents regionaux mais avec les medias tout le monde tend a parler avec le meme accent.
les infos sont toujours présentés dans un français standard inclusif, que ça soit au Quebec, en France ou en Afrique
Ce qui est impressionnant c'est que les journalistes africains de l'ouest ont une bien meilleure grammaire que les journalistes de France.
@@trorisk la colonisation😂.
Littéralement, un africain éduqué qui ne mène pas une vie de favelas en version africaine, parle le français standard de paris avec un accent léger et local généralement pour les pays comme le Cameroun, le Togo, la côte d'Ivoire, la RCA, le congo Brazzaville.
Les pays francophones avec une population majoritairement musulmane ont un très fort accent, difficile à comprendre. Se sont aussi les moins lettrés de la communauté francophone d'Afrique.
Les favelas d'Afrique ne parlent pas de français mais en version créoles du français. Au Cameroun avec le Camfranglais par exemple, qui semble influencer la culture urbaine du gabon.
what about the french carribean accents
oc2k13 they always forget us sis 🇭🇹 🇬🇵 🇲🇶 🇷🇪
@@hakuqtsukii You wanna know who they really always forget? The cajun french.
@@hakuqtsukii And Louisiana
what about Polynésie?
@@romelo1201 No such language as Cajun French it's called Louisiana French
You shoud have done polynesian and melanesian french accents... tahitian is very beautiful.
You are right. As a Frenchman, I love the way the Polynesian and Melanesian people speak French.
L'accent du CAMEROUN est UNIQUE 🇨🇲
Oui!!
Its cos they speak 250+ languages over there, so you get a lot of variety in the French accents spoken there 😊
What about the French in French Guiana? Haiti? Belgium? Switzerland? Lebanon? Algeria? Vietnam? Laos?
the video would be very long if they had to show the accent from all the countries, maybe the people wouldn't even watch
Vietnam?
Vietnamese don't speak french, except people who are learning the language for economical purposes, if anything the most widely spoken foreign language in Việt Nam is English
As someone who has Vietnamese heritage, yes they most certainly do speak French. Some may speak English, but speaking French is not uncommon and is very normal in Vietnamese culture.
Calm down
I've been learning french for like 4 months now, this is quite helpful for my comprehension-
I dunno why I even clicked this. I don't speak french so I actually can't tell these accents apart.
same lol
They all sound the same to us English speakers.
@@atengku9660 I dont speak french but I am able to find some pronunciation differences, african french pretty different from european
Le problème c'est l'accent Québécois se diversifie énormément de personne en personne
Dragar _play Je pense que c'est pareil dans toute la francophonie
L'accent parisien montré dans cette vidéo est loin d'être représentatif du français parlé en France métropolitainr, alors je ne parle même pas du français parlé en Guadeloupe, à la Réunion ou à Tahiti
Et c'est dommage de ne pas avoir montré les accents belges et suisses aussi je trouve :/
Yeah like some speak like a Parisian while others are so nasally
le pire accent de langue française. on a vraiment du à comprendre les québécois. on dirait qu'ils n'articulent pas bien les mots se se retrouvent en otage dans l'accent et timbre anglais
@@gluehuffer1411 The girl on the right sounded more realistic Quebecois to me. Perhaps some people are careful when talking on tv, but I don't hear the French pronunciation of "r" very often in Montreal. They tend to roll the r's with the tip of their tongues instead of deep in the throat.
Comme tout les autres -_-
I have a few friends from Canada. When they speak French, their accent has a lot of the sound “arrr”. Like the word “couleur” I learned as (coo-ler) but they say it like (coo-lar). Just little things like that which contribute to the beautiful and confusing variety of the French speaking world.
I feel like what made the African accent more understandable is that their phoenetics are, what I would say is "more direct" to the spelling
As an Indonesian, I notice how the Guinean accent sounds like it was was spoken with Malay phoenetics, in fact at 7:50, the anchor pronounced "Dollar" exactly how a Javanese would say it.
Especially the Malagasy French, it sounded much like it was spoken like an Indonesian person who studied French (aside from the unsurprising fact that Malagasy and Malay are Austronesian languages)
Africans just make everything feel, taste, sound, and look better.
so true. ive always thought italian was ugly lengua until i heard this african girl speak
The African French Its easier to understand for me as an American. Thanks for the content
South African, im one month into learning French so I sent understand really. But I'm excited to learn. I'll be focusing on African dialects mostly
Cameroonian Accent to French is equal to what Nigerian Accent is to English.
Cameroonian English is also very similar to Nigerian English.
I really like the sound of the Cameroon French accent. In general, those French speakers from African countries are easier for me to understand as a native English speaker. The most difficult accent for me to understand is the Parisian French accent.
The québécois accent is really hard to understand tbh
Not really dude...
I understand them perfectly.
Some people are just slower at understanding an accent lol I understand right away when i went there
Je suis d'accord avec toi. C'est l'accent le plus difficile a comprendre parfois. Moi je suis Americain mais j'aime La langue Française avec tout Mon cœur dans toutes ses varietés.
Not for me because i live in new-Brunswick and i ave “almost” the same accent.
R. CROWDER L’accent plus facile a moi est l’accent Africain our être honnête
I find it easier than the Parisian French. I haven't taken in a word from the stand up.
Best accents imo are definitely Guinea, Senegal and Cameroon
J'adore l'accent sénégalais 😍
Why does the African French sound more fun than France French!?
Gabon was strong so I could identify that
Oo actually Cameroonian
That guinean accent is really strong too
We have différents accents in Gabon. A particular accent is determined by the speaker cultural background.
We have more than 30 tribes and so many languages.
And your french accent will be affected by the main language of the tribe or the region you belong..
Like the gaboneses black guy in that video is without a shadow of a doubt from south gabon..
Guinea, Tunis, Ivory Coast, Cameroon
Very Informative
French Caribbean would be nice to hear too! 😃
J aime bien l accent les gents roule Le rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Boris Gerster, Moi aussi... 😅 Parfois je roules mes "R". 😂 J'ne sais pas pourquoi j'aime ce accent.
I like the Quebecois accent. I used to listen to a lot of Quebecois music in high school and still do. I’m pretty much stuck with the Quebecois accent that I picked up from the music.
Québécois, Louisiana Creole/Cajun, and African french accents are the coolest. HANDS. DOWN.
But they can understand each other perfectly tho? I’m livin in the us but my father Senegalese. I wonder if I could understand his language if I’d learn “regular” French
I think everybody who speak French understand the standard French because it’s what we learn at school even in Africa.
Even with an accent it's still french and we all understand each other
Some words/expressions can get confusing but globally yeah, it's just an accent not a dialect. Now the different types of creoles and regional dialects also exist and these are much harder to understand even for a native french person.
moi, j'aime bien tous les accents, d'Afrique, du Pacifique, de Guyane, de la Réunion, de l'Ile Maurice, du Canada, de Louisiane, de Belgique, de Suisse et ...de France. Vive la différence. Amitiés de Nancy (France).
No Louisiana French accents? But why?
It's declining in speakers.
Yes, it has declined in use, but that does not make it irrelevant. Louisiana French is still a viable variety of French, and not nearly as dead as people wrongly think.
Unfortunately, people mostly think it’s just a creole language now.
@@michaelajustin3443 not really.. it's making a comeback and their are enough speakers to talk to
@@jerraethomas2378 French is a minority language in Louisiana
I came here to understand how different the african accents are. Thank u❤
Je suis de Sainte-Lucie, je suis Portugais et Sainte-Lucie, j'habite à London
Ou sa pale kweyol?
A Sainte Lucie on parle anglais et Créole !
the only one that sounded different to me was Quebec
Cause it kept older French sounds and was more influenced by English.
Wow, just about half of africa speaks french!
How?
@@carolinekanini6342 because
France had a lot of colonies in Africa just like the UK did have a lot of colonies all around the world. The language stayed in thoses regions, that's why french is spoken in a lot of African countries
@@carolinekanini6342 Because France colonized them
i love those rolled Rs, like french should be spoken lol, but why no louisiana accent?
You mean uvular Rs? Rolled Rs would be like how Rs are pronounced in Spanish or in Japanese by a pissed off Yakuza member.
@@deviousimpulse No, historically the French R was a rolled R - it was only in the 19th century that the uvular R became widespread. Outside of europe it's quite common to hear people roll their Rs in French
@@lexdiamondz1991 Out of curiosity, how would they know something like that? The earliest French voice recordings I heard had uvular r's, but recording of voices doesn't go back too far.
@@bobbbxxx Literature from the 17th and 18th centuries described the R in french as a rolled consonant, and in dialects like Louisiana French and Canadian French, which have been isolated from Europe for several centuries, the switch to the uvular R (and other phonetic shifts) never happened so they are in many ways a window into what the language sounded like in that era.
Even into the 20th century in rural France there were still people who spoke with the rolled R, although now it's quickly dying out
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@@lexdiamondz1991 Thanks!! I didn't know that.
9:40 Hollywood of Africa xD (It's similar to the Hollywood sign)
Journalist shouldn't be count as accent .. because most of them speaks in a standard way. Not like every day people . For the ivoirian accent, the people interviewed had the common accent but not the speaker
Perfect. Simple and exactly what i was looking for.. learnibg sone basic french for a trip of mine to africa
The Quebec accent sounds more different than the Abidjan accent from Parisian french.
It's because it's similar to how the french spoke in the middle ages. Ivory Coast started learning french after the quebecois "existed".
Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo très intéressante. Many thanks for this very interesting video. Muchas gracias por este muy interesante video.
African Francais sounds more francais than european francais
No New-Brunswick 😔
Tu aurais dû choisir un reportage d'information pour l'accent parisien comme tu as fait pour les autres
The French spoken in America, Africa, Asia and Oceania is better than european French because it does not use the bad silent letters of European French, they actually sound better to speakers and non-speakers of Romance languages, they are more understandable.
French channels should leave subtitles in other Romance languages. Francophony is Latinophony and must love other Romance languages and never isolate itself, isolation is bad for socialization and correct conduct among Romance cultures.
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Mais Kinshasa est la premiere ville francophone au monde et elle n est meme pas mentionnee.
It's cos of all of them Lingala speakers over there. It is just a beautiful language, so obviously, the Lingala French accent would sound really pretty. 😊
This should’ve included Caribbean counties.
In some african franch like cameron guine and senegal they pronounce r like american like english world rich and in some of them people pronounce american r but tv pronounce french r any way african french accent who pronounce r like rich in american accent is better than french accent
Intéressant
There are neighborhoods with large immigrant populations and I sometimes have heard African accented French there and I do think it sounds like the stereotypical African accent of English...which is I believe to be based on Nigerian. I heard that one in the Ivorian part. Being close to Nigeria and all, kinda understandable.
@Fatimaxn Barry a foreign ear might not be able to get some more subtle differences, that’s just me and my guesses. As for there’s the more stereotypical accents associated with countries and regions, and there’s the reality. For instance in India there are many languages and many corresponding accents for English, yet there’s the perception of the “Indian English”. When I was there I kinda realized that people spoke differently, but could not pinpoint the differences. They sounded like this stereotypical Indian accent in one way and different than in another. Same for Africa. The more stereotypical ones I hear in the media are more or less like the Nigerian ones I see on RUclips accent comparisons and the French spoken by the Ivorians on this video kinda reminded me of that and the accented French I hear in the neighborhoods I mentioned. Then it’s only me. By the way Ghana, Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire are closer to each other then say other Anglophone African countries like Kenya, Botswana or South Africa, which speak different regional languages too. I hope I could express myself. Thanks for the feedback.
C’est plus facile pour les hispanophones de reproduire l’aacent de quelques pays africains, si on le compare avec le quebecois et le parisian.
Ça c'est pas le vrai accent ivoirien au début 😹😹
Je te jure 😂😂😂
je suis ivoirien et je confirme, notre accent est um peu violent que ca ):
La langue française ne s'appartient pas seulement aux français uwu.
n'appartient*
Salut! Y'a plusieurs différents accents et dialectes françaises au Canada qui ne sont pas mutuellement compréhensibles. Quelques exemples sont les acadiens de l'île prince édouard, de la nouvelle-écosse, du cap breton et surtout de la nouvelle-brunswick (ce sont 4 dialectes différents), ainsi que les accents de l'Ontario et le dialecte Québecois qui s'est fait connu mondialement parmi les francophones. Il y a plusieurs régions où des canadiens indigènes le parle aussi, mais je ne suis pas assez connaisseur pour te le raconter. stp fait de la recherche au sujet, les francophones hors du québec ont des dialectes différents, des accents différents, des cultures différents, et ont venus au canada pendant des siècles différents. merci de m'avoir écouté :3 surtout!! rappele-toi que «l'accent canadien» n'existe pas; il y en a plusieurs. c'est comme dire «le français européen» lorsque les français des différents pays et même les provinces sont bien différents.
Comme dans tout les autres pays de cette vidéo -_- ça parait évident mais ok
Honestly, I feel sorry for Quebeckers with these comparison videos... their accent doesn't get a lot of love, unfortunately.
En tant que locuteur espagnol, je peux en déduire que le français africain est plus facile à comprendre pour moi, je pense que le dilemme que les Latinos ont avec l'espagnol de Castille est que l'espagnol de notre région est plus compréhensible que l'espagnol de Castille, la même chose se produit avec les africains et les haïtiens. Français avec français canadien et européen. Salutations du Panama 🇵🇦👋🏼
Cameroon accent 🥰 accent trong soteyyy 🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🥰
And no reference to the French spoken in Acadian Louisiana?
So far I've only found one or two RUclips recordings of someone who seem to have spoken the traditional Louisiana French from birth. Most "Louisiana accent" videos I've seen are of people who learned French later in life from a variety of tutors from different places They aren't very interesting as basically it is listening to students of French.
I’m guessing Caribbean French accents are the most different?
2:47 his body 👁👄👁
Brb time to fa-
Haiti yes they speak mostly creole but French is still the official language
No its not
@@quelquun2018 you didn't read my comment I said yes they speak creole majority of the population and French is still the official along with creole only few of the population speak French
À mon avis, l’accent français est le plus difficile à déchiffrer. Ils parlent avec la bouche presque fermée, et de plus, ils utilisent des trends plutôt bizarres comme reverser l’ordre d’un mot, mais quand même, il veut dire la même chose. Example: une femme devient une « meuf ».
L'argot français de Paris. Néanmoins, ça (le jargon etc) se fait un peu partout. Le Nouchi Ivoirien c'est pareil, même moins intelligible.
Fo' pa fai ye kouman façon c'est dur payè kouman ça là o a met vitesse en toi. Cha fraya façon ça'a versé si toi. Kongolo de ça ya que vrai môgô noussiya qui a fini aè ça jisqan dja, sinon français pou toi naka ett comment comment, cha rien capté nan film ça là. C'è com'n ça ye dan Babi o.
Et j'en passe. L'humouriste Français parlait de manière plus colloquiale or qu'au tour des autres accents/pays de la vidéo on ne presentait que des émissions de la télévision avec un français plus ou moins standarisé afin d'accommoder une grande audience, voir une audience internationale.
Philippe Couillard at the end xDDD
Un cauchemard XD
First 🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮
L'accent senegalais est le meilleur
Caribbean french accent is the best 😉. Should’ve been included in the video.
Et les accents belge et suisse ?
The accent you'll hear in Paris is the easiest accent of French to understand.
Martinique Guadeloupe
L’accent de la Madagascar est très proche de celle du français métropolitain
Ça n'existe pas l'accent métropolitain
super
Fun fact: The French you'll hear in Madagascar is more European sounding.
It’s cool how I don’t even speak French but I can differentiate the accents.
You are lying.
@@atengku9660 it’s not hard to hear the difference.
Yeah the accents are very different
@@lilpump9507 They sound the same.
@@atengku9660 better get your ears checked then
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Nice initiative but this not really accurate.the French spoken in the news is not the one spoken on the streets.. it tends to be more standardised
The best accent is arab North African french even french people themselves they do the same accent like us
You forgotten United States some parts of the United States speak French
French is dead in the USA.
@@atengku9660 then
in maine there are plenty.
Oui mais c’est peu
Je voudrais voyager aux pays francophone de Africa mais les droits pour les gens lgbt ne ces sont pa bien. Tue o emprisonnée.
Est-ce que ta première langue est Français? Il y a des personnes en Afrique du sud et c'est le plus "friendly" avec les membres de le communauté lgbtq.
@@ieaturmom Ma langue natif est l’anglais. Je suis américain et j’habite en New York. 8 hrs du quebec.
@@brettlarch8050 J'habite en Ontario, la province à côté du Québec. Un chose, je ne sais pas si tu sais déjà mais "tue" veux dire "kill" et "Tu" veux dire "you". Vous le savez probablement déjà, la correction automatique ajoute le "e" a la fin pour moi aussi. Mais je pense que si tu essay des différents place au Afrique du sud où quelque part d'autre pour voir comment il traite les dans le communauté lgbtq, tu peux avoir un sentiment de ou tu veux rester.
Je suis d'Arique aussi. Et les femmes disent que he suis Chinois sur de mon ceinture.
Pour tu ne mes aps l'accent ALG et l'accent congolais ?!!!
C les plus important et connus .
Et l accent belge ?
They all sound identical lmao.
They are all completely different
même pas de vidéo sur le Congo Kinshasa ? le pays le plus peuplé de la francophonie... bah bravo. et rien sur la Suisse ?
they all sound the same to me (I don't understand french)
I thought all african french accents sounded the same, but seems like in Côte d'Ivoire they don't roll their Rs like in Gabon, Spain and Italy (I haven't finished watching the video yet, I simply heard that speakers of African French, in general rolls their Rs, but now I know not all of them do)
Also, I did not know there were "white" people in Gabon! I thought Botswana and South Africa were the only subsaharan countries with important "white" population, xD
Also, is to me or do cameroonians pronounce the r like the "soft" r in Spanish (arar) or like the t in American English (pretty)? (I think it is called alveolar tap, in phonetics but I'm not 100% sure)
And seems like in Guinea they do both?
Can't speak for all countries but a lot of them have significant Caucasian minority populations. My own Zambia does, so does Namibia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Angola, Kenya etc and many of them consider themselves natives. There are also big Indian and Arab enclaves in most African countries.
Every country in Africa has its white population. They just live enclosed with their own.
The president of Madagascar is not black! Hmm!
Some three, four thousand years ago the ancestors of the Polynesians left Asia, China, the Philippines and those who went east expanded into the Pacific (Hawaii, etc) and mixed with the black Melanesians that they found there. Those who went west would, years later, reach as far as Madagascar and basically became the Malagasy people. In Madagascar, the Bantu people from mainland Africa would become their neighbours as they, too, lived on the island even though the Malagasy would constitute a ruling dynasty.
That president is most probably descended from those same people who left Asia thousands of years ago.
There is a lot of mixing
L'accent québécois est dégoûtant.
La France avait qu'à pas abandonner le Québec.
Tu es dégueulasse
Hahaha no se metan con mis amigos los québécois
the quebecian french accent is just horrible sorry if that is offense it's awful
only north africans speak smiliar to french people rest are ..
What do you mean by "French people"? They are all french people. Do you speak french? Are you a "french person"?
@@ieaturmom yes i'm saying north africans have the cloest accent to french .
@@ieaturmom and they aren't all french people only people from france or quebec canda.
@@ghassencsetwow What do you mean? What place has the "proper" french accent then? Because, they are all french accents and they are all actual french accents.
@@ghassencsetwow Canada** And again.. what do you mean by "French" exactly? Because, if you are talking about people who speak french as there first language, it is most certainly more than just people from québec and france. But, if you aren't talking about that, then people who are French, are from France. Not Canada. If they are from Canada they are Canadian. I live in Canada, 30 minutes away from québec. People in Québec are french, but so are people who dont live in québec are too.
Le accents du Sénégal Madagascar et Cameroun sont les plus facilement du comprendre pour moi 👍🇸🇳🇲🇬🇨🇲 trop intéressant
Le Senegal à le plus beau Français. 😀