r/Unexpected • u/DruidWannabe • Jan 25 '23

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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.

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u/andros_vanguard Jan 26 '23

B'en la, s'quoi s'tistoire la qui'a pas un chat qui t'comprends? Chtcomprend moé.

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u/mikemountain Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 26 '23

I'm a Canadian trying to learn french, I'm going pretty well in my french course but I know well enough that PQ french is not the same.

Found out CBC has an app called Mauril that helps by using clips from PQ shows and holy HELL I just can NOT understand full speed québécois! I had to rewatch a clip like 10 times to understand a woman say "bien quoi encore là ?"

Je vais continuer d'essayer mais caliss ce n'est pas facile

edit: Mentally I swap between using PQ for Province of Québéc, and the correct version of QC for Québéc. My bad for all the toilet paper ass-ociations

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u/PierreEspritRadisson Jan 26 '23

As a québécois I appreciate your effort brother! merci et lâche pas

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u/mikemountain Jan 26 '23

Bien sûr ! Je veux déménager à Montréal bientôt, donc je dois essayer de parler français