How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time

Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by CTDOCodebases on Monday December 18, 2023 @04:41AM (#38680714)

> I have more trouble understanding Indian, Australian than Americans, but it may be due that I watch a lot of American made content and am more used to their accent.

As an Australian who has lived in Europe you are not alone. I had to change the way I talked in order for non native english speakers to understand what I was saying. Australians tend to cut the end of the words off and mix vowel sounds e.g "dinner" gets pronouced as din-na.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by strken on Monday December 18, 2023 @07:44AM (#38681674)

I have a friend who grew up in Australia, who's from a state capital while I'm from the country, and he once said that I sounded "more Australian" on the phone to my family than I do while taking to cosmopolitan Australians. I think a lot of us subconsciously suppress our accents and vocabulary when we're not around the exact dialect we grew up with.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by CTDOCodebases on Monday December 18, 2023 @04:11PM (#38688339)

I do this too but I think it works a little differently. I would say that we unconsciously tailor the way we talk to align ourselves socially with others.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by mjan22640 on Monday December 18, 2023 @11:47AM (#38684911)

Thats a common misconception among non native speakers, that the letters in the written form have some relation to how the word is pronounced.

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