How good is your French accent?

Re:How good is your French accent? by chrstphrhrt on Friday April 08, 2016 @04:11PM (#11457533)

My fave in Québec is 'baladodiffusion' for podcast. Not sure if they say that in France too.

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Re:How good is your French accent? by jmnicolas on Friday April 08, 2016 @05:10PM (#11458010)

No we don't. To be frank, podcasts are not a (big) thing here.

I love how Quebecois are always inventing these funny french words, always put a smile on my face.

I got to talk to my friends about 'baladodiffusions' but I'm not sure that they all know what a podcast is so I doubt they will appreciate this new word to its full extent.

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Re:How good is your French accent? by rawfan on Friday April 08, 2016 @05:55PM (#11458388)

Wait, what? No Podcasting in France? Go start a Podcast ;)

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Re:How good is your French accent? by jmnicolas on Saturday April 09, 2016 @09:47AM (#11461199)

According to Google there are French podcasts, and they are very popular ! I found an article from 2012 that said there was 20 millions podcasts downloads in France every month (we're a bit less than 70 millions French).

I had no idea since nobody I know ever mentioned podcasts to me. Maybe they're all Luddites or they hide their podcast addiction well ;-) Me I exclusively listen to audio books (and I can recommend wholeheartedly the ones from Graphic Audio).

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Re:How good is your French accent? by LeoPanthera on Friday April 08, 2016 @05:01PM (#11457918)

baladodiffusion means "podcasting". podcast is "balado"

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