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 JPLeRouzic on Monday December 18, 2023 @05:18AM (#38680873)

I am French, the oral French is very different from what is taught in books. There are a lot of transformations like 'je' to 'che' or 'il' to 'i' (from a French perspective). Also, many liaisons between words are pronounced but others are not, sometimes astonishingly to me, a guy born a long time ago in Brittany.

And young people learn to speak very quickly when they go to primary school (I don't know why).

Also there are lots of invented words by each generation like "wish" that you are ignorant if are not 10 years old.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by ciberado on Monday December 18, 2023 @07:31AM (#38681592)

I think that is common in Catalan, too. But, curiously, not so much with Castilian Spanish: almost every word I can think of is pronounced just like it is written, if you do it properly.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by hef19898 on Monday December 18, 2023 @05:27AM (#38680920)

One of the hardest things tobadapt to: following conversation and discussions in French. In the beginning, I always was at least five sentences behind with my comprehension of what was said...

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