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 JodieBenitez on Monday December 18, 2023 @08:33AM (#38682179)

> They just can't get over the accent

French here, with an anecdote:

More than 20 years ago I visited Montréal. It was difficult to participate in discussions with french-speaking people because I could understand some participants very well and others not at all, just because there are different degrees of accent. In constrast, it was easy to understand any english-speaking person.

> There are so many YouTube videos of French people mocking us. It's not curiosity but a distinctly French superiority complex.

Nope, we also mock our own accents. There are many of them across our country. It's just for fun, we still like you.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by allarm on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @02:37AM (#38706295)

Yeah, I remember how I tried to order coffee in a restaurant in Paris. Even though coffee sounds almost exactly the same both in French and in English the dude refused to understand what I need. Probably it was just for fun, but this type of fun is what stops me from visiting Paris ever again.

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