Can British Identify FRENCH Languages? (French, Quebec, Belgium)ㅣ GUESS THE NATIONALITY

[@emondmi]

I once met a British guy, fluent in French, who had an interesting take on the matter. He told me (I am Québécois) I spoke French like Americans speak English.

[@andraflorescu]

Personnelement, je me sentirais insultée 😅

[@cardenova]

@@andraflorescu I think I actually prefer the American/Canadian dialect 😂 It depends a lot on which words or sentences.

[@nuansd]

@@andraflorescu arent you romanian anyway?

[@andraflorescu]

@@cardenova aawwn, thanks, thats really nice to hear!

[@andraflorescu]

@@nuansd Dude, what?

[@drylander8560]

French languages? I think that you mean French accents.

[@rajacyrilchidiac760]

More like accents

[@MaestroSangurasu]

Différent accent

[@liabstrait8306]

Creoles are french dialects as well as some regional languages inside of france but, belgium, canada and france all speaks the same modern french with differents accents due to history and environment but at the end we can still mostly understand each other

[@fablb9006]

Not even dialects, just accents. There are dialects in France (not yet spoken nowadays), but these are just accent of standard french.

[@baski2757]

@@liabstrait8306 creole is in Guadeloupe 🇬🇵 (me)or another creole it’s Martinique creole 🇲🇶 et another creoles sure!

[@루루박-r9r]

The lady from belgian doesn't only has a belgian accent. Her case is super unique ! Cause she definitely speaks with a mix of different accents. French doesn't seems to be her native language. "Une belle pays" ?? Is a very weird mistake for a native ahah I understand why the british dude was confused and I wouldn't be surprised if her mother tongue language isn't french considering she speaks 6 languages

[@lawtraf8008]

You're sot on, that's because she's from the Flemish part of Belgium, not the French speaking part but she still speaks French. Obviously not as good as a Belgian from the French speaking part of Belgium.

[@lea9966]

I’m a native French and I didn’t heard the Belgium accent neither

[@italixgaming915]

@@lea9966 It did recognised a Belgian accent but only because the Belgian "r" sound is characteristic.

[@italixgaming915]

The fact that she made one mistake is not an absolute proof that it's not her native language. She said that her parents came from Africa, and if we imagine that they emigrated from former Belgian colonies, there is a chance that they were speaking French at home. And assuming that she is from Antwerp, there is also a chance that she went to a Dutch speaking school. It that case she didn't have the opportunity to fix all the mistakes she used to do as a young child. And about her accent, it really sounds Belgian to me, I didn't notice hints of other accents mixed with it.

[@루루박-r9r]

@@italixgaming915 But the "male or female" isn't a mistake you do. I teach to 6 years old dudes at school, they wouldn't have any doubts specially for "pays".

[@zahrahmiike369]

Quand tu est français et que tu écoutes ça, tu ne peut juste pas t'empêcher de rire aux éclats tellement que notre accent et manière de parler se remarque 😂

[@nimethcheng5007]

A fond! J'adore lire les commentaires qui voit difficilement la différence, ça me plie de rire

[@undefinedfr-fr]

« Heu », « ouais-ouais-ouais » and the blasé way she speaks is hilarious and feel really obvious after the two other persons.

[@anOlie01]

et les américains, australiens et anglais se tordent de rire en nous voyant bégayer sur leurs différences d'accents !

[@papyrusse.]

​@@undefinedfr-fr ça sert a rien de parler anglais mon reuf, ça se voit que t'es francais

[@undefinedfr-fr]

Oui ça se voit c'est même clairement écrit dans mon pseudo. Ce qui aurait dû vous permettre de deviner qu'il n'y a aucun lien entre les deux.

[@SKhybrid13]

Saying Drake cause she thought Céline Dion would be too obvious is the most québécois thing I’ve ever heard 😂😂😂

[@peteralbert1485]

I love how shocked she was that he didn’t know Céline Dion! (Or maybe that he didn't know Céline Dion was from Québec, which would seem hard to understand if you ever lived there because there, she's as iconic as les Habs and maple syrup)

[@ghxsty_]

@@peteralbert1485 tbf he knew her but just didn’t know where she was from, wouldn’t be surprised if he said switzerland because of the eurovision

[@Rosannasfriend]

He knew Celine Dion. He didn’t know where she was from. He says that clearly in the video. That in itself was kind of surprising to me, but things that were common knowledge in the 90s I guess are come and knowledge to you young ones.

[@pommedap6137]

@@Rosannasfriend Surely depending for who, personally I knew for Céline Dion but not for Drake, so I was as surprised as the Canadian girl. I’m French btw

[@leandrocruz2744]

I love Céline. I'm her die-hard fan.

[@henri191]

"Drake" , "that's worse" lol 😂 couldn't handle this one

[@STOCKHOLM07]

Poutine got it for me but yeah Drake was a dead giveaway

[@xenotypos]

I didn't even know he was canadian, I think in France it's really singers like Celine Dion and other singers from Quebec that are really associated with Canada in the collective mindset. Drake well whatever, let's say he's from north america.

[@astouaiisha]

@@xenotypos well not really? it's true we make a difference between anglophones celebrities of Canada versus Francophones but their nationality is still a known fact. Like we know that Justin Bieber, Alessia Cara, Shawn Mendes, The Weeknd are canadians and not united states citizens. just like we know for Garou, Coeur de Pirate, Zaho etc... I think what you're saying is more the case for actors😂at least for me

[@pazelloxu]

Shawn Mendes, Justin Trudeau

[@johnalden5821]

I have often heard that Québecois French is quite different from European French, but this is the first time I really heard it. She definitely had a different accent, maybe even leaning toward a different dialect. btw/there are other European countries in which French is a native language, including Switzerland, Luxembourg and Monaco.

[@canada4life551]

as a person from quebec i can’t make a difference between french from france belgium or switzerland

[@zouz3588]

@@canada4life551 les suisses parlent super lentement avec un léger accent germanique mais après c’est dur de le détecter parce que les français d’alsace et des alpes ont à peu près le même accent. Pour les belges, on les reconnaît parce qu’ils ont des « r » beaucoup plus harsh que les nôtres

[@katoub3718]

​@@zouz3588 En tant que québécois,la différence de l'accent français de celui de Belgique est plus facile à distinguer pour moi,surtout quand on parle d'année 1990 ou comme ils disent "nonante-dix"!

[@TheNmecod]

Un dialecte non je crois pas. On construit nos phrases différemment et on a une prononciation différente mais bon ça reste du français.

[@anthonyg9938]

@@katoub3718 La seule différence avec les belges et les suisses c'est que eux disent nonte et septante alors que nous on dit quatre vingt dix et soixante dix.

[@Djino]

Naya, the Belgian girl, is certainly Flemish. We can hear that in her accent, like in the way she pronounces the R's

[@smelly1060]

right that's exactly what i thought(im dutch), or at least she speaks it more often

[@itachiwife8670]

i would have loved to know where she's from, i tought she might be from Brussels but maybe you're right

[@carthkaras6449]

@@itachiwife8670 there are a lot of french speaker in flanders actually arround brussels

[@lxportugal9343]

The R's in ending of the words?????? I noticed something different there too

[@oliveranderson7264]

​@@itachiwife8670 Maybe Alost/Denderleeuw

[@Morwenna16]

Naya is Flemish or from Brussels but her accent is pretty unique. I’m from Wallonia and my accent is totally different from hers or from my friend who lives in Liège!

[@MerlinetUriel]

L'accent Wallon une petite

[@bleucha]

And even liegois accent is different than mine (Hainaut). I sound almost french (when i don't try to speak in patois).

[@Morwenna16]

@@bleucha my friend from Liège says I sound French 🤪

[@hurricane31415]

Yes but the accent from Liege is very strong. It's funny in a way how many accents are there on such a small area.

[@gameknightjek2640]

@@bleucha Yeah, you are the most french-sounding in belgium.

[@emjizone]

7:15 Luxemburg and Suizerland, too. Monaco of course. And despite it's not and official language at all in Portugal you'll find french speakers there without much difficulty.

[@victouxxx]

Ils auraient dû prendre un gars du Lac St-Jean, ou de la Gaspésie, ça aurait été drôle 😂

[@Imsemble]

Thank you for representing Québec on your channel

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

After doing Spanish, German and English, I think it’s time for French and Portuguese to have their own miniseries

[@kaihiroku8495]

I always find it funny that Canada insists on translating certain english terms in french like "magasiner" which actually means "shopping" and France just uses the english terms with a thick french accent. They also translate almost all movie titles in french, despite being so close to the US and much better at english than French people. Yet at the same time, they use english vocabulary a lot when speaking😂

[@mariamb1777]

Since they are not many in North America they do this to preserve their language

[@ultimateblaze23]

People need to protect their native languages from American english take over, even british english is being corrupted with American terms

[@kaihiroku8495]

@@GabrielDupras Which makes it funny that you use so many other english words and expressions 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@rpoutine3271]

The French use even more English words and the Canadian French usage of English depends on the region, Montreal is the worse.

[@cedo3333]

Sometimes the quebecois is more french than pure french as they translate some english word that we don't. And then you are 90% true, their language is mixed with a lot more of english. And finally they do have specials words that is purely quebecois like "Char" for car and this word in french is tank lool. I don't have a Sherman in my garage lool. Love from france ;)

[@TheReverses78]

To recognize someone from Belgium, close your eyes and listen to all the R's they pronounce all the R's

[@jfrancobelge]

In French from France the R is definitely softer, less from the throat. I'm a Frenchman who lives in Belgium.

[@lakm9062]

People that are dutch native pronounce the r more but french nativs not

[@ophelieb5454]

This might be tricky because depending on where you come from in France, you can pronounce the R's as strong as a belgian people. As an example, I come from South-West of France, close to Toulouse and in the deep countryside we do pronounce the R's this way !

[@TheReverses78]

@@ophelieb5454 ah bon??

[@ophelieb5454]

@@TheReverses78 Oui, dans la campagne tarnaise !

[@ej-miranda]

That Quebecers accent is verrryyyy neutral for a Quebecer. It only comes through a little stronger when she says hiver, populaire, and printemps

[@italixgaming915]

I agree, this is a light accent, like when she pronounces the word "ça" almost like a French instead of "ço". However, I've heard this kind of light accent very often from Canadian speakers. I assume that in the most cosmopolitan areas, the accent is getting softer due to the fact that people from France also live there.

[@yehet_squish]

nah her accent is typical quebecois lmaooo

[@cornie7339]

@@yehet_squishsome words sounded a bit more English, but I think it’s because she had to speak English throughout the video

[@ej-miranda]

@@yehet_squish Maybe in Montreal and Quebec City. I live in a small town and it gets so much worse than that dude.

[@yehet_squish]

@@ej-miranda I'm Québécoise and I know when I hear my people her accent is typical, not every Quebecois/e sound like Ginette who smoke 67 pack of cigs a day

[@intreoo]

The poutine should've given the Quebecois girl away. Regardless, even before the poutine I immediately could tell that this was not metropolitan French. Even as an Anglophone, I could sense that something is very different from the standard French you associate with France.

[@Emixam9090]

Yes it is particularly ugly so it’s easy to guess the canadian accent

[@goodsoup7477]

@@Emixam9090 hum waw ouch okay

[@bicsfireextinguisher]

i think he might not have understood what she was saying that well bcs yeah it would be a big giveaway

[@Emixam9090]

@@goodsoup7477 you don’t think?

[@goodsoup7477]

@@Emixam9090 no I don’t think my accent is ugly no.

[@AuxaneST]

Too bad they don't have Louisiana French as well. We also speak French in the US as an heritage language. Also a Swiss or a Luxembourgish. Also if they took a French from Occitania with the singy accent it would have been fun...

[@sion8]

Part 2?

[@goofygrandlouis6296]

True. But Cajuns are not numerous enough.

[@sion8]

@@goofygrandlouis6296 True, but they should at least try to give their audience the opportunity to have one of them on here. I mean, I'm sure there are Cajun KZbinrs!

[@hakanstorsater5090]

@@sion8 They seem to prefer hiring people that are residents in South Korea, though...

[@sion8]

@@hakanstorsater5090 That is true.

[@sabrinasgandurra4818]

I'm actually surprised at the French Canadian's accent. I'm Canadian, and all of my French Canadian friends have very distinct accents that you can really hear on vowel sounds, particularly when they say "Oui", and I assumed that accent carried through all of Québec. Clearly, I was very wrong 😂😂

[@awsd_0_0]

Her accent is closer to international french than how most québécois sounds. She's probably been abroad for a long time or she has a lot of French friends maybe

[@lepotdefleur9906]

Or she was shy to let her jargon out haha.

[@sabrinasgandurra4818]

@@lepotdefleur9906 ah yeah that makes sense

[@sabrinasgandurra4818]

@@awsd_0_0 that would explain it!

[@italixgaming915]

There are several accents from Quebec and other French speaking regions in Canada, as you can guess. Some of them are really strong, especially in Northern Quebec. Personally I can't really differentiate all these accents but maybe that girl was not from Quebec but from Ottawa or something like that (there are native French speakers from there too).

[@SandlotRider]

4:50 She says "une belle pays" but "belle" is feminine and "pays" is masculine. She should've said "un beau pays". So I guess she's not native from French speaking Belgium. Flemish maybe? I'm wondering because I'd hardly see a Walloon confuse "pays" for a feminine name.

[@Annielee825]

She's from Antwerp. Said so in another video, so I suppose Flemish is indeed her mother tongue.

[@emjizone]

7:46 Oh, it's funny, because if you go to Switzerland, they'll definitely tell you in French that they have the best chocolate too, even though it's very debatable. I mean debatable in Switzerland. There is no debate in Belgium about what nation makes the best chocolate.

[@heleneb514]

The young lady from Belgium is flemish. Her first language is not French but Dutch. Therefore, she has an accent that is not the accent of a native French speaking person.

[@vicky7645]

Her French was perfect, as someone who lived in French Belgium (and who's French) I would say she just had a slight French Belgium accent, not a Femish/Dutch one

[@heleneb514]

@@vicky7645 je suis francophone (wallone). J'entends son petit accent flamand. Son français est en effet excellent mais le français n'étant pas sa 1ere langue, la comparaison des accents est un peu biaisée. Mon commentaire ne cible en rien sa connaissance du français ( je voudrais bien parler néerlandais comme elle, elle parle le français) mais c'est une constation par rapport au but de la vidéo qui est de comparer les accents des francophones. Comme le français n'est pas sa langue matenelle, elle a un accent mais ce n'est pas un accent francophone , c'est un accent lié au fait que le français est une 2e langue pour elle. L'accent flamand n'est pas du tout le même que l'accent néerlandais que ça soit dans l'utilisation du néerlandais, du français ou de l'anglais.

[@intercepte]

@@heleneb514 Même la Française n'a pas l'accent et l'articulation générique du français, mais de sa région.

[@Konichimah]

@@heleneb514 totalement raison

[@niracat15]

I'm agree

[@megxoxo1244]

My history teacher told me that us Quebec French people, our accent and language in general is very close to the ancient French. So yes we are REAL French. French from France got influenced by Italian and Spanish

[@GIoo-yc9jz]

French people are extinct soon anyway

[@goofygrandlouis6296]

Those Italians...

[@hurricane31415]

It's not just influence. It's just that languages naturally evolve over time and these two have simply evolved differently.

[@mirage2585]

how is it influenced by Spanish and Italian? no, French has been influenced by Latin, which has become vulgar Latin, French has Latin, Celtic origins and German influences.

[@allister.trudel]

@@mirage2585 your comfusing being "influenced" and "originating from".

[@elouenmyas580]

7:52 The idea that french fries are from Belgium is actually a misconception which comes from a claim from Belgian historian Jo Gerard. He claimed that he had a manuscript in this family, which described a peasant recipe of potato fried in fat and which would have dated back from the 17th century. The problem is that he has never been able to provide the manuscript in question. The only serious origin of french fries currently is still France where it is attested that fries were cooked at the end of the 18th century.

[@theanalymous]

You're right but at the end Belgian fries are still better 😁

[@Mia-gi7wy]

Anyway, today it's considered Belgium because we have the best ones. Go to Belgium and you will find fries trucks and shops everywhere. It smells like fries in the whole city of Brussels. We eat French fries a lot and they taste way better than in France.

[@lmnll2742]

Jo Gerard was a journalist, not historian. And a liar.

[@lmnll2742]

@@Mia-gi7wy Belgium is the leading producer and consumer of frozen fries the world.

[@bleucha]

@@lmnll2742 That not because we froze them that they can't be better. Secret is the frying.

[@brunetpm]

It's interesting that he thought Naya might be from Africa. Given her parents are from Africa, it is reasonable that their accents might subtly influence hers despite the fact that she herself is from Belgium. I am not familiar enough with a typical Belgium accent to identify if hers differs in anyway.

[@Poussindesdomtom]

I was actually surprised that she was surprised people might think she comes from Africa... since she has a quite strong African accent. Our accent doesn't only depend on the place we were born, it also depends on if our parents have an accent or not. Also, she has a small belgium accent, the way she pronounced the sound "R".

[@buzzbuzztv6266]

@@Poussindesdomtomit’s not an « African » accent retard SHE is from the dutch part of Belgium (i speak FRENCH) Thats why she has an accent

[@rienavoirmdr]

​@@Poussindesdomtom well i don’t think it’s the case for everyone tho, i was born & raised in belgium but my parents were both born in Africa (west & central) and still it doesn’t affect my accent i also speak dutch but if you hear me speaking you wouldn’t immediatly think i could be African. She doesn’t have a strong afro accent tho😂 she has more a dutch accent i can hear it

[@Poussindesdomtom]

@@rienavoirmdr I never said that's the case for everyone, I just said it has a chance to influence our accent. Ok maybe not a _"strong"_ african accent but an african accent anyway. It looks like people with african origins are pretty bad at recognizing african accents! 😂

[@rienavoirmdr]

@@Poussindesdomtom well you said "our accent depends on our parents too", if you don’t add "in some cases", then yes you’re generalizing. Also, she has more of a dutch accent than an African one, i completely don’t hear the african accent and my parents have one so i know what an african accent sounds like trust me. I feel like when y’all see a black person, you immediatly expect them to "sound african" or atleast have an accent and not have a wide vocabulary and to sound let’s say less intelligent etc even when they don’t you just force it on us because i guess it’s the stereotype, but y’all are not ready for this conversation🤷🏾‍♀️

[@erikpetermans]

He forgot that they also speak French in Switserland. A big tip to find out where the french speakers are from is to ask about numbers. The French do the really weird math counting whilest Belgian French is more logical except 80 and the swiss have the most logical where 80 is octante instead of quattre-vingt. That's how I would figure out what part of Europe they are from.

[@CH-VS]

huitante*

[@erikpetermans]

@@CH-VS Ow for real? I always thought it was that. Thanks for informing me

[@henri191]

Emmanuel is back , good , the first UK male member , last time he also had to guess , but in english , French is harder for him

[@Misty_luv]

I did the first comment not you

[@ShireTommy_1916_Somme-Mametz]

Yeah can't understand anything these ladies said without subtitles

[@ShireTommy_1916_Somme-Mametz]

Henrique lives on KZbin 24/7.

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

​@@ShireTommy_1916_Somme-Mametz I do 😁. J'suis Français

[@queen0294]

​@@christophermichaelclarence6003 on a compris vu le nombre de commentaires que t'as écrit 😂

[@nathanspeed9683]

Didn't know that French Canadian are known as Québec or Québecois! I've heard of the city Québec. Also, I never visited Canada, so I didn't know there're differences between French Canadian and regular French! Emanuel seemed to have some knowledge of the French language, which helped him a lot.

[@dictiustecare]

Not all the people who speak french in Canada are quebecois ,there all also french speakers in New Brunswick and Manitoba .

[@mic498]

It's not that French Canadian are known as Québécois, it's just that most of the french-speaking canadians are in Québec. In france we often say "Québecois" to refer to French-speaking Canada, exactly like we say "England" for UK, or "Hollande" for the netherland. It's not technically accurate, it's just a way of speaking

[@AT-rr2xw]

Maybe it is just my personal experience hearing French Canadians from a certain place, but her accent didn't strike me as super strong Canadian. A lot of the French Canadian French that I have heard had had a noticeable dollop of a North American accent mixed in. I figured that she wasn't France French, but I would not have guessed French Canadian. Her mentioning poutine and maple syrup genuinely surprised me, but maybe I just had not heard her particular accent that much.

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

Well if you didn’t see, Québec is the biggest province in Canada and the sole provincial language is French. But they’re French-Canadians all over the country so yeah Franco Canadian isn’t just Quebecker. It will be like saying that you didn’t know there is a difference between British English and American English .

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

@@AT-rr2xw her accent is pretty normal Québécois to me. I don’t know what you mean by North American accent because she DOES have it

[@heleneb514]

French is French ..we all speak the same French. The accent changes.

[@shi6600]

👍

[@cookiedraw8173]

Some words, expressions, turn of phrases are different

[@YeahUrMinenow]

@@cookiedraw8173 yes like pain aux chocolats ou chocolatine

[@heleneb514]

@Cookie •Draw• slightly, but we all speak the same literary language.

[@heleneb514]

@PoweringManipulation yeah but if you say "pain au chocolat " in France or Belgium, everybody will know what this is.

[@jonna7777]

the canadian girl made me laught. thank u for that it made my day!!!

[@kronosbot5]

Belgium has such wonderful and interesting young women. They have such a pleasant demeanor.

[@jean-lucleblanc5825]

Ok but how was maple syrup and poutine not a dead giveaway 😭😂

[@ZYaruru]

The Belgium girl and him were funny together XD

[@Charles_200]

There are more French speakers out of France , in Africa it's the official language of many countries , I would think the lady from Belgium is from there

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

This is the result of the Colonies. We have French Overseas Territories scattered across the Globe, mostly islands. We 🇫🇷 have the most Time zones Secretly the 5th Largest Country in the World.

[@lxportugal9343]

So as English... so as Spanish.... so as Portuguese... But I still suspect that there are more French native speakers in France than outside

[@itachiwife8670]

she said she never even went to Africa...

[@mic498]

@@itachiwife8670 Yes, this. If you are born in a country, raised in a country, educated in a country, you ARE from this country. I know people from African origin in my country, we watched the same cartoons when we were kids,we grew up in the same environment, we have the same cultural references... The only difference is literally the skin color. This young girl is Belgian

[@mic498]

​@@lxportugal9343 If i'm not wrong Rep.Dem. of Congo is now the biggest Francophone country, yet the thing is they don't have many access to the internet and therefor aren't very present in the Francophone world

[@Mr.K-y1g]

Chère Dame (3:39) J'ai l'honneur de vous remettre cette missive remplie d'intrigue à votre égard. Oui, j'ai été plus qu'ébahi par votre sourire angélique, votre façon de vous exprimer coordonné par votre accent belge, en harmonie avec votre fabuleuse coupe de cheveux afro en parfaite philharmonie de vos yeux amendes... Les mots me manquent, afin de poursuivre mes flatteries... Je ne suis guère polyglotte à l'inverse de vous. Plait-il à mes yeux, comme à mon cœur chavirant entièrement à votre égard ! "Mais que me veut-il" vous diriez vous ? Ma Dame, laissez moi vous déposer une simple requête ; me feriez-vous l'honneur de me fournir votre Insta-missive ? Dans une éventualité ou ma missive, n'arrive point à bon port, je tacherai d'avoir eu comme souvenir de vous, un magnifique sourire d'une colombe lâchée signifiant la paix et l'harmonie à travers les peuples du monde. Respectueusement,

[@Mr.K-y1g]

Diantre ! Je viens d'apercevoir votre Insta-Missive dans la rubrique déroulante ! Je vous laisse tout de même ma missive. Respectueusement, Toujours un jeune homme admiratif.

[@SALx96]

We finally have a quebecoise 🇲🇶

[@chloecze5851]

c’est pas le bon drapeau, tu as mis celui de la martinique 🇲🇶

[@cornie7339]

@@chloecze5851il n’y a pas de drapeau du Québec dans les emojis, c’est celui qui lui ressemble le plus mais non c’est pas le bon

[@envar1]

8:59 She literally says France 😂

[@ahoraya1047]

There is also Swiss French and speakers of French in Luxembourg

[@dictiustecare]

There are french speakers in Vals d Aosta in Italy .

[@romaingillet2526]

​@@dictiustecaremore like another latin language, no? I'm from Savoy.

[@naturalsoundsoftheworld]

The Northern French girl really needs to visit Quebec. Everyone who settled the French colony largely hails from Northern France, and we share a near identical culture with an old language that she would recognize quite profoundly. Northern France is a wonderful area, and spans two continents ultimately.

[@crixusthenorman1603]

Many French Canadians are decended from Normandy. French Canadian genealogy is very well documented and goes back to the first settlers and back to France. There is a very small gene pool in Quebec. Very unique.

[@sid7088]

​@@crixusthenorman1603unless it comes to native tax exemptions, then they're all suddenly part native. 😂😂

[@hannahdavis7089]

when he asked who was famous in lucie’s (the french girl) country and she said « dans ma partie de france » (in my part of france) lmaoo

[@emjizone]

1:48 Come on ! She literally sold it ! 😆

[@astouaiisha]

4:20 That is so funny cuz to my french ears, the belgian accent is so noticeable 🤣

[@thibaut4181]

not for me i thought she was from Haïti or something like that

[@astouaiisha]

@@thibaut4181 Mais archi pas, leur prononciation des mots est reconnaissable entre mille, surtout le R 😅 J'ai un collègue qui parle comme elle Les Haïtiens ça n'a rien avoir

[@lea9966]

@@astouaiisha pas d’accord peut-être c’est parce que j’habite à côté de la Belgique mais j’ai pas entendu de différences avec le français classique

[@philippesales2842]

@@lea9966 l'accent n'est pas aussi marqué qu'on aurait pu le penser pour une Belge, mais le "r" est nettement plus prononcé qu'avec l'accent français. A part ça, rien à voir avec l'accent haitien, mais alors rien de rien de rien ^^

[@astouaiisha]

@@lea9966 Bah du coup Je comprends pas pk tu l'entends pas, c'est vraiment audible! On parle pas comme elle en France, du moins en Île de France, pourtant c'est pas tout le temps que j'entends l'accent belge, jdirais que la première fois que je l'ai entendu, c'était avec les stars de téléréalités belges qui venait à Secret Story

[@ced205]

C'est marrant comment les québécois ont vraiment un accent américain quand ils parlent anglais. Un français qui parle anglais se reconnaît direct alors qu'un québécois ça paraît beaucoup plus naturel (Logique vu la proximité géographique en soit + le fait que tt les canadiens sont bilingues dès l'enfance)

[@eloise-uc5bw]

Oe j'avoue

[@Emixam9090]

Faux. Les Canadiens ne sont pas tous bilingues dès l’enfance. Au Québec, 60% gens qui vivent dans la métropole, Montréal, sont bilingue. Si tu sors de la métropole c’est moins de 30%. Notre accent en anglais est différent car on consomme plus de culture américaine donc on est capable d’effacer l’accent un peu. Mais écoute par exemple George St Pierre un Quebecois qui ne parlait pas anglais son accent en anglais est aussi pire que les Français, différent, mais tout aussi horrible.

[@OdinWannaBe]

@@Emixam9090 50% du Québec est bilingue étant la province la plus bilingue du Canada.

[@Emixam9090]

@@OdinWannaBe si tu enleve Montreal le chiffre tombe a moins de 25%

[@OdinWannaBe]

@@Emixam9090 et alors ? ça va de plus en plus être bilingue Québec, Montréal fait partie de Québec ce que je sache ;p. internet change tout ça en plus.

[@Nancy-sf2pl]

I could listen to the Belgian girl talk all day 😩

[@GoodOldErin]

Yes, she is very cute. Or should I say hot? 😊 I would love to meet her. Speaking six languages is awesome.

[@mic498]

Is it related to the fact she's hot

[@lucaswells933]

@@mic498 I doubt it because she’s not

[@shinyemi]

Yes her accent is very pleasing to hear

[@huldah1605]

​@@lucaswells933To you

[@basil2512]

7:15 Well in fact, France, Monaco, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland all have French as an official language in Europe haha (French is also Vatican City's official diplomacy language!) But French is also spoken in Andorra, even if it's a minority ^^

[@anttirytkonen11]

I couldn't have told 🇨🇵 French and 🇧🇪 Belgian French apart because they sound so similar to me. I found it pretty easy to distinguish 🇨🇦 Canadian French/Québécois though since I'm a typical 🇫🇮 Finn who loves 🏒 ice hockey and my favourite team comes from Montréal, so I've watched videos in Canadian French (I know only the basics of French but Spanish helps). If she had named a famous hockey player (not Wayne Gretzky) instead, he probably would not have guessed Canada. 🤓 Personally, I absolutely love Canada. ☺️ There'd be so much to explore and I only managed to scratch the surface by seeing a little bit of Toronto, Montréal, Calgary and Banff during my only trip there. A beaver tail pastry with maple syrup and a poutine tasted delicious. 😋

[@bereny45]

It's cause the french woman is from the North of France. The accent is kinda close to a belgian one.

[@iyzfedyherbzyfe]

The belgian one said "belle pays",that is not french.

[@RainbowNatsuki]

When he said that the quebecoise didn't seem like a real french person but that quebec's french is the old and first french that have existed before and even France speaked that way before, but not today and quebecois are the only one who kept the same french.

[@Rowlph8888]

Yes ironically, in France itself, the language has been infested by the English-language, they organnised a programme to defend the French language against English influence going forward many decades ago.Quebec is Is more insular

[@nabilhussain605]

What about Swiss French?

[@tonyhawk94]

Swiss French is very very close to standard French, unless you are native there is a few chance you would tell who's who. :)

[@aldarxi5148]

As a Belgian I didn’t know the girls was from Belgium. She really doesn’t have the accent I’m use too. Maybe that Dutch is her first language but it doesn’t even sound like it

[@L-Quebecois]

Je suis du Mexique, j’ai compris l’accent québécois et l’accent France

[@TheNmecod]

Vive le Mexique 🇲🇽

[@allinix7]

*j'ai compris 😉

[@L-Quebecois]

@@allinix7 Merci pour la correction!

[@katoeri505]

Cotoyant des belges il y a les intonations la mélodie oui mais j’ai pas entendu de houite et de « savoir » ce genre d’expression beaucoup utilisées mais surtout oui elle a un leger accent africain meme si elle n’y est jamais allée elle reproduit les sons de son entourage (que ce soit famille ou amis) qui semble pas parler le belge pur en tout cas. Notamment qu’elle dit parler 6 langues donc c’est tout a fait remarquable. Ce n’etait pas le plus facile je trouve (au contraire pour les français le québécois etait le plus simple a deviner)

[@Ice_V]

2:36 Drake🤣 Famous meme-person, curse to all football (soccer) clubs and national teams😅 Lucie is so serious

[@girlfromgermany]

These different French accents made me think that it would be fun to do something like that with different German accents as well. And different British accents or basically different accents in any language.

[@hakanstorsater5090]

As well as ordering three beers correctly...

[@mathlover4994]

Quebecois they talk like they are singing. Love it. Accent from France is more brutal .

[@emjizone]

7:51 *WRONG !* Historically, french fries actually are french. It's a fact. Invented in France, most developed in Belgium.

[@jonaramire]

What about our swiss acccent ?!

[@emjizone]

6:36 Pour moi, c'était assez évident: la prononciation des "r" est franchement différente. Une très très légère différence de prosodie aussi, et peut-être de voyelles légèrement plus graves, mais ce sont surtout les "r" que je n'entend jamais prononcer comme ça en France. Et puis "une belle pays" au féminin, ça trahit un apprentissage conscient ultérieur à l'influence d'une autre langue où les genres sont importants mais différents.

[@niracat15]

Le français n'est pas sa langue natale tout simplement. Un wallon ne ferait jamais cette erreur. En faite, elle a l'accent d'une flamande qui parle français. L'accentuation du r est plus forte chez les néerlandophones de Flandre. Et les francophones de Wallonie ne se trompent pas sur "une belle pays" s'il vous plaît 😂

[@napsiuslebelche5846]

Actually, the fries ARE French, even though it hurts me to say it. But it's us Belgians who made them great and famous

[@mirage2585]

c'est exactement ça, c'est grandement grâce à vous, que les frites sont tels quels sont

[@sushiboss4984]

Non il existe encore des hésitations au niveau des historiens on ne sais pas si ça a d'abord été fait en Belgique ou en France.

[@mirage2585]

as French what you say is right but it is you the Belgians who had popularized and improved them greatly

[@napsiuslebelche5846]

@@sushiboss4984 Il me semble que non ? 'fin je pense pas que Jamy aurait avancé ça si y'avait pas un consensus sur le sujet

[@napsiuslebelche5846]

@@derbygagnant7458 Les frites françaises c'est les frites mcdo, arrête de te la raconter x')

[@machintruc9457]

6:47 children can get accent from their parents and familly. I think it's the "R" prononciation, that comes from the throat.

[@shi6600]

"ouiiii j'aime bien regarder la TV" ...uhhhh TV? Ahhhh Québec

[@LePhil79]

au moins elle dit "magasiner" au lieu de "faire du cHoOpiiiiGnE" ...

[@BucyKalman]

The accent of Quebec was easy to spot, for example, how she pronounced "printemps" or "populaire". She also used Quebec specific words/expression like "magasiner" and "écouter la TV".

[@vxlrian]

I’m Canadian and when I heard Québécois French, I immediately knew. I don’t know how, but I just knew.

[@Entername-md1ev]

They say things like “ecoute le TV” which sounds really weird for me as someone from Ontario (Toronto) 😂 I’ve always been taught “regarder le television” so hearing “listening to the TV” is a big curveball for me lol

[@kebabman2834]

​@@Entername-md1ev la télé*

[@J0HN_D03]

*8:46** One more ANGLO-SAXON CLICHE about French people...* *FYI, here is the percentage of daily smokers of cigarettes among persons aged 15 and over in different EU countries (2019):* *-Bulgaria: 28.7%* *-Greece: 23.6%* *-Germany: 21.9%* *-Croatia: 21.8%* *-Slovakia: 20.4%* *-Austria: 20.2%* *-Spain: 19.7%* *-Hungary: 19.3%* *-Romania: 18.7%* *-Poland: 18.4%* *-FRANCE: 17.8%* *-Italy: 16.5%* *-Belgium: 14.6%* *European Union: 18.4%* *STOP YOUR CLICHES ABOUT FRENCH PEOPLE...*

[@xohyuu]

cliche [cliché🅝🄲¹決まり文句²陳腐[ちんぷ]な表現[考え·筋·場面などˈkliːʃeɪ]] | Миру мир!

[@J0HN_D03]

@@xohyuu blablablablabla 🤡

[@xohyuu]

🤣@@J0HN_D03 | Миру мир!

[@Rowlph8888]

Now give us the figures for Paris - probably about 40%

[@J0HN_D03]

@@Rowlph8888 "probably" "probably"... keep your clichés. Paris' region called "Ile-de-France" has the lowest daily smoking rate in France, it's 20% lower than the national average... and the rate is declining for several years, all over France!!! But you can't admit it can be true, you are so attached to your lovely clichés...🤷🏼‍♂️

[@Jamdcup]

I am French and I wouldn't have been able to guess Belgium 🤔

[@kamishiroyuu7375]

Pareil que toi

[@kyky1689]

Les "R" et le "parfois"

[@allthe1]

As with everything in language learning, exposure is the best teacher! This guy spent some time in France and seems to have guessed it in under a sentence into the interview with the French lady 😅

[@NoopyP]

Les Québecois disent "magasiner" ? Wow XD

[@pa_whitecar]

On parle français oui!🙂

[@da_little_tsundere1281]

I don't understand what everyone means by Belgian accent 😅 I'm Belgian and I have a similar accent to Parisians and the girl clearly has a flemish accent But it's true some regions have a very particular accent like in Liège but nothing much

[@eloise-uc5bw]

For me who is French it was very easy 😂👌🏻

[@llbeats8396]

Pas facile en anglais par contre c’est pas who I am c’est who is

[@eloise-uc5bw]

@@llbeats8396 ah ok mercii 💖😁 (chui assez mauvaise en anglais mais justement j'essaye de progresser 😅)

[@Leo-Faure1]

It would have been interesting to have people with accents from different parts of France. The girl from the north have a very neutral French accent.

[@goofygrandlouis6296]

Yep.

[@jasperkok8745]

What’s it with you people calling various dialects languages instead? I’m pretty sure that all three of the girls would say that they speak the same language (albeit with different accents! You did the same with the German variants. I’m also surprised that he thought that the Canadian girl was the hardest. To me, the Canadian accent was the one that stood out most! The way she (and all Canadians I’ve ever heard speak French, in fact), pronounces syllables that in standard French from France are pronounced as ‘ee’ (in English), words like ‘petit’, but sound more like the i in ‘bit’ when pronounced in Canadian French, really gives it away to me. Even before she was on about “poutine”. An FYI, I’ve never been to Canada, but I did have two pen pals (back in the day before email) from around Montréal.

[@onegirlmusic]

did y'all find this guy living under a rock because he keeps on passing every hint like damn 😭😭😭

[@andrewwilliams2193]

Good job, being Canadian, as soon as Poutine was mentioned, I smiled. You can tell the difference in the accents.

[@katjakettmann8679]

I am from Luxemburg and we speaks French too😊

[@samuelalexander2992]

Do you have a particular accent/way of saying things that differentiate Luxembourgeois French from French French (or Belgian French)?

[@JosephOccenoBFH]

Please find someone from Geneva who can represent Swiss French. 🇨🇭

[@frenchfan3368]

I am with you. In my personal opinion, Swiss French is the clearest, accent free French that is perhaps the easiest to understand for non native French speakers.

[@flxdz7103]

@@frenchfan3368 I totally agree with you 👍 You might also include Louisiana French wherein the contraction can easily be followed and I love their vocabulary such as "petit(e)" for "enfant(e)"but the main meaning is still small 🍹

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

@@frenchfan3368 really?

[@frenchfan3368]

@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 Yes, really.

[@MsJuval]

​@@frenchfan3368 but French in Switzerland differs also highly on where the person speaking it is coming from. And I am not talking about a Swiss German speaking French. There are different accents of French in Switzerland. You probably mean the French spoken in Neuchâtel, which has kind of a reputation 😉

[@LancerDeCrocs]

I lvoe how they took the most typical belgian accent for the shoot it amazes me

[@BigSlimyBlob]

Québécois is fairly easy to identify, no surprises there. The Belgian girl did have a bit of an accent from Africa (which is natural, she would have gotten it from her parents), she was definitely the "trap" here. But the French girl was about 107% French.

[@tomminho]

No african accent at all she sounds like she’d be from nothern france if anything.

[@Rowlph8888]

@@tomminho All those French-speaking girls said she didn't have any African Intonation - they would know better than anyone

[@BigSlimyBlob]

@@tomminho Admittedly it's quite subtle. Very slightly different Rs, and half-skipping a consonant here and there. I haven't heard that many Belgians speak, though. Those that I have didn't sound like her, but it could be that some parts of Belgium just happens to have that same accent she has. But most likely she got hints of her parents' accents.

[@TheReverses78]

She had no african accent buddy, she even said she never been to africa..... u probably haven't heard many people from belgium.... Expose yourself more to different culture before saying ignorant nonsene.....

[@aurelieb.6552]

Trap is that she's from Antwerp (watch the 3rd video of this serie) and her mother tongue is actually Flemish Dutch and her parents are from Africa. You can clearly hear her Dutch accent and she said "une belle pays" misgendering a common word like "country" twice. Not a native speaker and has a foreign accent.

[@J0HN_D03]

*9:01** "in my part of FRANCE". Did she know the rules???* 🤦🏼‍♂🤦🏼‍♂🤦🏼‍♂

[@ashleegarcia1806]

This is really interesting, I have been learning english since I was young and I noticed there was a difference when it comes to accents, now I'm learning french and one of my teachers was a fonetist and he told me about this, I don't think dialects are the key in this video because they actually speak with the same vocabulary as it's different with Spanish (frutilla is strawberry or little fruit), I think the mane difference between the three of them is fonetics, because I noticed a small prolongation in the vowel of the québécoise and guttural things (I might be wrong) dans la femme de Belgique.

[@cedo3333]

Yeah your ears are very good. About guttural the best give away is the "R" but there is a trick, those R can be found in the south of France too.

[@ashleegarcia1806]

@@cedo3333 French is so rich and I love it :3

[@hakanstorsater5090]

The Canadian girl uses some typical quebecois words, though...

[@ashleegarcia1806]

@@hakanstorsater5090 Really? I thought there wasn't that much of a different when It comes to dialects. Could you give me some examples for learning purposes? I think is really important because of the use in spoken French. Can you also recommend me channels in French?. Please :'3

[@hakanstorsater5090]

In this video, she said "écouter la tele"("listen to TV") and "magasiner" (shopping), I recall, there was another video where she did nearly the same presentation and the French and Belgian girls commented on it...

[@lalalili4197]

For non native frenchs, If u wonder, for french speakers, easiest to understand is swiss french because they speak slower than any others. Then french in France, then french in africa, then french in belgium, then french in Quebec. (I think most people would agree with me) But we all understand each other very well.

[@Fizzys_FunFest]

Idk why but as soon as I heard the first girl talk I knew she was from Québec- Guess that’s just like an instinct since I live in Canada- French Canadian is just so different from French it’s just easy for me to tell for some reason

[@AT-rr2xw]

Wow. I couldn't at all. Maybe the Canadian French that I am used to are from different parts, but I usually notice North American influences in the pronunciation. But maybe I have heard more French Canadians than I had noticed and simply assumed that they were from Europe.

[@mecha-sheep7674]

Just in France alone you have very different accents (and regional languages as well). But I guess it would be hard to find young people speaking with the South-West french accent in Korea... Likewise for overseas accents.

[@YouTubeExplore777]

But can they all understand each other in French? "Canadian, Belgian, and Parisian varieties have some differences. They are mutually intelligible to some extent. But when a Canadian is speaking to someone from France, the accents might create a problem for them. However, it is only natural for a vernacular to develop its unique features."

[@81naixy]

It's mostly mutually intelligible appart from some expressions that are only used in each countries, but other than that we can totally understand each other

[@itachiwife8670]

we understand each other, i'm from Belgium and i follow youtubers from France, Quebec and Swiss. There are some words and expressions that can be different, the Quebec accent is the most different, if the person decide to take a stronger accent when speaking it will get harder to understand but it will still be undestandable if they don't use unknown expressions. It's basically like english in different countries.

[@mic498]

We totally understand eachother. It's still the same language, the difference between Parisian/Québécois French for example is about the same as between UK/USA English.

[@mic498]

@@81naixy Totally unrelated but I love your pseudo

[@81naixy]

@@mic498 Thanks, I like it too lol

[@simoneortolani3604]

Never experimented such uncommon way of speaking french, even from Quebec

[@fien4878]

at least he is educated enough to know 'french' fries are BELGIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@rowenn1729]

Actually non

[@fien4878]

@@rowenn1729 actually oui. Even people from other countries know it🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[@tigerbesteverything]

fun fact, french fries aren't from beligum, but from france, more exactly Paris. Other theory is that the term comes from the verb frenching and not the country of France.

[@sushiboss4984]

Non il existe encore des hésitations au niveau des historiens on ne sais pas si ça a d'abord été fait en Belgique ou en France.

[@Wickerrman]

Really couldn't tell Canadian from typical French, but come on, she said poutine when talking about food! That's such a giveaway!

[@AT-rr2xw]

I got the feeling that she was not from France, but...I would not have guessed Canada until she mentioned poutine and maple syrup.

[@MW_Asura]

The weird anglicised tone from Quebec French is a giveaway

[@AT-rr2xw]

@@MW_Asura Maybe. It just seemed more subtle than what I remember hearing, both in media and in person.

[@fs400ion]

​@@MW_Asura It's not that much anglicised it's just more nasal just like Portugese

[@fs400ion]

​@@AT-rr2xw Depends on the age and region, but most young people have a similar accent to hers.

[@emmanuelasu9246]

Did she say "dans ma partie de "FRANCE"?😂. And he wasnt supposed to catch that?

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

This is the result of the Colonies. We have French Overseas Territories scattered across the Globe, mostly islands. We 🟦⬜🟥 have the most Time zones Secretly the 5th Largest Country in the World (bigger than Brazil) The Bristish are in fact is our Colonial Empire Rival For example, Canada and Québec are the result of our colonies 🇨🇵🟦⚜️⚔️🇬🇧🟥👑

[@luksavat7750]

Frence is the 5th largest country? I'm curious about this. How? Are you counting the parts of the ocean that belong to France or what? Cause if we count mainland France with its overseas territories, France has not even 1 million kilometers yet.

[@christophermichaelclarence6003]

@@luksavat7750 Yep our French Overseas Territories that belong to us

[@luksavat7750]

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 According to Wikipedia, the total land area of France with its overseas territories is about **643,801 km2** (248,573 sq mi). The land area of mainland France alone is **549,060 km2** (211,999 sq mi). For comparison, the state of "Amazônia" in Brazil alone measures 1.559.167,889 km2.. Almost three times larger than France with its overseas territories. I can't get your math.

[@romaingillet2526]

​@@luksavat7750he's talking about our maritime territories. Our Exclusive Economical Zone or maritime area is the largest. It's about 11,5 millions km2. So in total our territory is about 12 334 801 km2. Most french people don't actually know that we own like 8 percents of the globe, I'm a geography fan and he's a damn french nationalist (he's literally in every foreign french themed video hahaha) 😂 Take care and have a nice week :)

[@ESC_Thomas]

@@romaingillet2526 wtf vraiment ?

[@1sulista]

4:55 "WE have a king" she really thinks she's belgian

[@alexandrebouvier7731]

A lot of words in Quebec French kept the correct phonology. Ex : mettre (put) vs mètre (meter) vs maître (master) or jeûne (fasting) vs jeune (young) vs jaune (yellow). French in France has been simplified after the French Revolution to be easily taught at school outside Paris.

[@goofygrandlouis6296]

Just like modern English. If you want a language to spread to the masses.. simplify it !

[@Zephyriia]

Man surrounded by model girls must be the one thumbnail this channel loves making the most

[@marc-antoinenadeau8401]

Quebecois French has long been mocked for its rough-and-tumble sound, but this version of French is more likely what 17th-Century French aristocracy spoke - including the king. This is the title of an article made by the BBC about it.

[@archituere1460]

French fries are from Paris. The Belgian just made it their speciality.

[@TheResponse01]

Une fois pour toutes : les frites (French fries) SONT FRANÇAISES ET PAS BELGES ! Et c'est Pierre LECLERCQ, historien Belge de la gastronomie (on ne pourra pas l'accuser de chauvinisme) qui l'a prouvé en recoupant les dates. Likez mon commentaire pour rétablir la vérité svp. 🙏

[@briantravelman]

When I hear Metropolitan French and Quebecois side by side, the differences are so obvious. But when I just randomly hear it, without knowing anything about the person, I honestly can't tell😂

[@hurricane31415]

It was funny to watch. Note that in Europe, there are many other countries speaking French : Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco, ... The main difference for the Belgian gild is the way her "r" were being pronounced. For me the Canadian and the French were instantly obvious. It took me a bit more to guess the Belgian one. Also there are so many French accents in France and in Belgium that you could have taken several people from all around the countries and have an even more difficult test.

[@ahoraya1047]

American English. Quebecois French or Mexican Spanish at least keep the common language...but it was not possible with Dutch and Afrikaans, which is not Afrikaner Dutch as the link with the European Metrópolis was broken soon

[@flxdz7103]

Actually, Afrikaners of Dutch descent are very eager to revert back to the Standard Dutch as spoken in the early 20th century. The big hindrance are the Afrikaners of German and British descents who insisted that Afrikaans/Cape Dutch should be distinct from Dutch as much as Norwegian is distinct from Swedish and Danish.

[@EdwardRock1]

Quebec accent sounds like the Australian version of French.

[@flxdz7103]

While Swiss French is the Colombian Spanish of the French-speaking world 🍹

[@JosephOccenoBFH]

Or Brazilian Portuguese is to European Portuguese

[@MW_Asura]

@@JosephOccenoBFH The difference is that Brazilian Portuguese actually sounds good (in comparison to the Quebec accent)

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

Literally that’s what everyone says. People also compare us to the US and UK but also people compare France to America because they are more famous than their other counterparts, the Britain and Canada

[@canada4life551]

@@MW_Asura non

[@michalhrdy577]

Lucy was not HAVING it lmao

[@sunlight.travels]

Im guessing there will be several videos about different french accents? Can’t wait 🎉

[@JosephOccenoBFH]

There are several outside Europe, Haitian French (Creole), Madagascar French, West Indies French and of course, West African French among others.

[@jfrancobelge]

@@JosephOccenoBFH Even within France, the southern accent is different from the northern "Parisian" accent.

[@BulanIskandar]

Him explaining why he knows Drake but not Celine Dion is a bit….. idk man I love her I wouldn’t know where Drake is from.