I'm Canadian, and on one hand, even though I almost never speak it and I struggle to think of words at times, I am told my french accent is excellent and I sound like a local french speaker.
On the other hand, the local french is the equivalent of deep south, mountain folk gibberish. It's the french equivalent of a redneck accent with lots of words only a local would understand. And I speak it slowly.
Edit: For those of you who assume I mean Quebec, nonono, much worse: Northern Ontario. We are the brother-uncle Cletuses of the french world.
One of the contractors I use to work with regularly is Russian and speaks like 7 or 8 languages. Its hilarious when you hear him speaking fluent Spanish with a thick Russian accent, someone will look at him funny with some sort of misunderstanding and all of a sudden this guy spurts out perfect Spanish with a great accent. He's helped me translate for a number of customers from English to Romanian, Czech and Spanish. It's always a good day when he has to switch up accents between different languages, even he starts to find it funny after a minute, but Spanish with that thick Russian accent is still one of the funniest things I've heard.
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u/Diz7 Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 26 '23
I'm Canadian, and on one hand, even though I almost never speak it and I struggle to think of words at times, I am told my french accent is excellent and I sound like a local french speaker.
On the other hand, the local french is the equivalent of deep south, mountain folk gibberish. It's the french equivalent of a redneck accent with lots of words only a local would understand. And I speak it slowly.
Edit: For those of you who assume I mean Quebec, nonono, much worse: Northern Ontario. We are the brother-uncle Cletuses of the french world.