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Antonio the Sixth
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« on: July 15, 2012, 12:32:28 PM »

Honestly, I don't think I've got any problem with written English at this point. I lack vocabulary on select topics, but that's about all.

My main problem is oral English : in particular, understanding other people talking normally. That's probably the ability I've had less occasion practicing.
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Antonio the Sixth
Antonio V
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« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2012, 04:07:08 AM »

I don't know how it sounds in English, but Québecois accent in French is awesome.
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Antonio the Sixth
Antonio V
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« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2012, 06:46:43 AM »

I don't know how it sounds in English, but Québecois accent in French is awesome.

Wow, most French people from France usually look down on it/us and say that we talk like uncivilized baboons who don't speak real French (which means they clearly haven't heard the Franco-Ontarian accent or, gasp, the Acadian Chiac accent). Thanks for this welcome appreciation Smiley

Really, that's what most French people think ? It sounds a bit funny and weird when you are used to the french accent, but yes, I like it. I tend to like original/colorful accents and dialects in general. Maybe that's part of my Italianhood. Wink
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Antonio the Sixth
Antonio V
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Posts: 58,179
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Political Matrix
E: -7.87, S: -3.83

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« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2012, 09:24:31 AM »

I don't know how it sounds in English, but Québecois accent in French is awesome.

Wow, most French people from France usually look down on it/us and say that we talk like uncivilized baboons who don't speak real French (which means they clearly haven't heard the Franco-Ontarian accent or, gasp, the Acadian Chiac accent). Thanks for this welcome appreciation Smiley

Really, that's what most French people think ? It sounds a bit funny and weird when you are used to the french accent, but yes, I like it. I tend to like original/colorful accents and dialects in general. Maybe that's part of my Italianhood. Wink

Not all (and perhaps not 'most') French people, but I have experience with a fairly significant sample of French people who are, shockingly, arrogant stuck-up imperialist morons who look down on practically every other Francophone country which isn't France/Paris. I had a principal at the Lycée Français in Riyadh tell us that education in Quebec sucked because they didn't teach proper French, and I've certainly met countless other French people who looked down on you because you had a weird accent.

I much prefer the slightly annoying but otherwise nice and cute type of French people who are enamoured by Quebec, call us their 'cousins' and dream of an idyllic postcard landscape with a small cottage in the distant woods with cute white snow on the ground and with wild animals (which doesn't really exist and hasn't existed since New France, but I digress).

Yeah, it's true that France is rather good at producing arrogant assholes who think of themselves as the center of universe and the embodiment of perfection. However, I don't think this is really the prevailing view among a majority of French people (hopefully). I don't know how widespread is the naive Québec-loving attitude, but I guess there must be some people like this as well.
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