How To Do a French Accent // Sound Like a Native Speaker
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If you want to learn how to do a French accent, or sound like a native French speaker, check out this helpful tutorial from our expert instructor Mikayla.
Mikayla goes over some of the sounds that are commonly heard in Parisian French, and the differences between this accent and the English accent.
You’ll learn about the nasal sounds, French vowel sounds, and some new sounds that don’t exist in English (like the guttural "R").
The French accent is very fluid, and this quick lesson for beginners will help you begin to speak more like a local.
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Her french accent in english is actually perfect.
Vraiment, non
Ah yes like hollande
No the "r" is a bit wierd
Was trying to do these sounds
Then I remembered that I already speak french
Comme moi.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
lmao same
lol
* and you speak better than her.
im native french, im just here to help myself talk with a sexy accent without sounding like i have a pair of socks in my mouth
😂 Yassss
Bien vue mon gars )
meilleurs amis en ce moment!!😂
Same 😂
viviane mdr hahah
Literally had an emotional breakdown minutes ago and here I am now learning French
As a native french speaker, i encourage all of you to watch and to listen carefully a lot of old French movies from the 50s up to the 70s. The language and the accent are great. You will make great improvements :)
I am French. Why am I watching this ?
I want to be able to do a French accent without sounding like an idiot. Time to go listen to that one chick from Ratatouille
Haha
"KEEP YOUR STATION CLEAR!!!"
But the real question is, what french accent? North, south, east, Paris,...?
Don't worry as a french we don't care about accents it's just cute
XDD
I’m not French but my girlfriend loves it when I speak in a French accent so going to practice this till I got it down completely.
Retroactivity J you’re so sweet
😂😂😂
same here
You simp
My language (french) is difficult to learn, sorry 😅 Do you english guys find our accent "sexy"/"beautiful" in general ?
Have bravery, good luck 😂👌🏼
I speak Spanish and English
I'm going to sound hilarious
I know how you feel
Same
Me too
Same
Hahahaha same
I'm native french and I've learned a lot about English accent. For example :
- English never use nasal sounds
-English use the whole mouth when speaking
-Speak in french whith English accent can help
Very interesting video by the way :)
This was really helpful. I have only been studying French for around half a year, and my professor is always getting onto us about our pronunciation. She continuously reminded us that if we worked on our accent that our pronunciation would be a lot better. So thank you so much for this video!
Glad you found it helpful! Keep up the good work :)
desi_emoji W same I've been studying it for almost 3yrs and I still can't get it
tip: accent is useless. If you know french, we will understand you
If you say " vou " and not " vu" it's ok, we'll understand you with the context, the accent isn't important in French
@@sashapeguero5563 don't worry, english accent sounds wonderful in french
Me: *speaks french*
UA-cam recommandation: YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO THIS, REALLY.
also, as a native francophone, here is some tips too:
1- canadian french has a really HUGE box around their mouth. Basically if you apply her pronounciation tips, but just without the little box, that should do it.
2- her "R" is...actually quite bad. To pronounce it properly, try saying "air" with your throat. It should sounds almost arabic if you do it properly.
3- Don't listen to french music. "France" French has a lot of anglicism and "made-up" word. That will help you at the very beggining, but on the long run that'll just make you sound like a teenager.
I speak french too but im Serb
Yeah it does sound arabic haha
what about the rap genre is it helpful?... i use to get a lot of english idiom when listening to english rap
But what if I'm already a teenager?
Out of place Cheems then it can Work but u will sometime just be cringe
I’m learning French and I can’t get the accent right. I say French words in an English accent and I sound so stupid. This was pretty helpful.
Her: listen to french music
Me: *IMTAKINTHISHORSEBYTHEREINSMAKINREDCOATSREDDERWITHBLOODSTAINS*
Thats the only reason I'm here ngl :')
Lol
@@molehie me too
I- Lafayette doesn’t count.. 💀💀
Lafayette
To be honest, I'm just doing this so I can sing like Lafayette...
Yup me too
👏
Bruh same
I only know French becuase of " Oui, Oui, Mon ami Jemaple Lafayette "
And
Un. Deux. Trois. Quatre. Cinq. Six. Sept. Huit. Neuf.
Ok, i appreciate the corrections but keep in mind im not fluent nor french myself. These are only lines ive picked up from the soundtrack since i never been to the show before. So i wouldn't have a clue, so if you are gonna correct me then be more nice about it
Ämãyā Skitz
*un deux trois quatre cinq six sept huit neuf
I thought she was French till she said R's prononciation and heure's xDD
Same
I used this to speak like the candle 🕯In beauty and the beast at my school production
snuggsy no wayyyy! me tooo
I'm learning this because I just tried out and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be babette so I have to have a cute little French accent
Hahaha I’m playing Babette (feather duster) so I need a French accent
I want to get the candle in my play and that’s why I’m here
Same!
Just to precise which in french the "S" When is the first letters in a word, so we pronounce like in English when you say "See". But, when we make the connection between two words that follow each other in a sentence, then the "S" is pronounced "Z". As you hear in the video for "Vous avez". If you listen well you hear : "VouZavé" Same thing when the "S" is placed between two vowels in a word. So, we pronounce it "Z", as in "maiSon" (maison = house in French) for example, we pronounce it "MaiZon".
And to finish, when there are two "S" following each other and they're placed between two vowel, as in the word: "Mission" for example, then we pronounce the "S", as we pronounce it in English with the word "Sea" or "HouSe".
YOUR FRENCH ENGLISH ACCENT IS PERFECT
One more tip: Practice with the imitation technique. It’s a proven method used by many polyglots. That will help you improve your pronunciation and fluency fast. You will speak French with confidence!
please don’t learn the canadian accent. we swear in every sentence.
- a canadian french
sorry, your from Canada too eh? ( Im not french Canadian im from Toronto)
Why did the grandma cross the road? Lol que veut dire “tabarnak” en anglais? J’ai des amies québécois et elles disent ce mot tout le temps
ah, sacrés canadiens. aime des ères
Why did the grandma cross the road? Don’t worry, I am Belgian and we swear in every sentence as well!
I believe French is the most foul language out there
A tabarnak enfin !
As a native french speaker from Canada, I'd say that video is quite awesome! Usually french instructors don't pronounce the right way but that girl really gets the subtilities of our language.
for students learning french, if you're coming here, just a thing about
baguettes : they aren't the name for big sticks of bread, it's a
quantity of dough, so imagine you're in a bakery : if you want more
bread than in a baguette because you're really hungry, you will say "Je
voudrais une flûte (i would like a "flute")" for example, a "flute"
(400g) is more dough than a baguette (250g). and if you want less bread,
you will say "Je voudrais une ficelle (i would like a "string")" a
"string" (125g) is less dough than a baguette.
Oula je crois que ça ça dépend où en France, je viens du sud et je n'ai jamais entendu ces expression de ma vie 😂
Alexandre Moonwell toi t’es loin toi personne dis sa 😂😂😂
j’ai déjà entendue « flute », mais parcontre « ficelle » ca me dit absolument rien 😂😕
Personne ne demande une ficelle par contre
@@moonpearl4767 Ce ne sont pas des expressions, ce sont des mots qui existent bien pour différencier diverses sortes de formes de pain. Allez dans une boulangerie n'importe où en France et demandez une baguette, une flûte et une ficelle et vous allez voir la différence.
When you spoke English with a French accent it really sounded like my friends trying to speak English
Me: *native french, watch this video*
Also me: now I can speak my own native language, awesome
I am French , and it’s so funny to see the way you heard my natural language . There is my advise : learning French is hard , but not impossible ,just do your best , and try , try , try , and try again, you will make it 👍
I'm trying to imitate Lafayette from Hamilton 😂 Hey, he my baguette, so I must do it properly 😂😂
Kitten God The lancelot of the revolutionary set 😂
Yep----same. Lmao
LARGE BAGUETTE
IM TAKING THIS HORSE BY THE REINS MAKING RED COATS REDDER WITH BLOOD STAINS-
Oml same
Same lol
I loved that speak your native language with a French accent advice ! Mikayla, you're awesome !
Thank you! How does this video not have more attention?
Thank YOU for watching! :)
I have to agree with you, I'm French and I really understand why you have difficulties, so if any of you need help, I'll be glad to help 😊
Heyyyy
I have so many things to say about your video !
I like how you made the intro very inclusive not restricting the french accent to only the parisian one. All french accents are beautiful. I am very fond of the canadian french myself.
Then, it was so clear and concise and you reviewed all the most important steps :)
Finally, I am myself a teacher of english and usually struggle quite hard teaching english pronunciation (again, which one in the first place??) while a lot of my students ask me for tips. The harsh truth is that there is not much space in the french language teaching tradition for teaching pronunciation skills and we mostly tell our students to just listen to the radio or netflix and speak to themselves while thinking out loud. (I truly managed to improve my accent and my expression speaking only to myself for weeks ahah, and it payed of I ended up with an english MA and wonderful students to teach).
Thanks for the videos ! I'm open to any advice on how to teach english pronunciation efficiently. (I used a frequency based method lately, which can be of some help but had to build it all myself so it's savage didactics.)
She has a perfect french accent and her advices are really good,so use them!
Je me suis d'abord dit qu'elle aurait quand même un petit accent anglophone mais pas du tout et quand elle parle anglais avec un accent français on dirait mes amis en cours d'anglais.
Personnellement je parle anglais et français depuis mes 5ans c'est rare les anglais qui parle si bien français.
Her : names every place where people speak french
Me, native french speaker in Canada : "Am I a joke to you?"
She mentioned you....
Video: How to speak in a French accent
Daveed Diggs: *_The Expert_*
to non-french learners: in fact there is the h that can be heard as in "hi" but shorter. in fact, really as she said in the video.
and there is a "h" that is written but muted.
when you ask "what time is it?"
you will ask "quelle heure est-il?"
and you'll pronounce as if it were "kel'eur ett'eel" (the ' indicate a small time between sounds, a bit shorter than a regular space between words)
(i'm a native french also.)
Wherever we are from, we all have an accent. It is true when we speak our mother tongue and especially in a second language. When speaking a foreign language, pay attention in improving your language skills in that new language, over time, your accent will improve. But remember, you'll still have an accent and that's OK...as long as people understand you when you speak. Also to keep in mind, accents can be an advantage. I am québécois and worked six years in Paris. My Québec accent has always been an asset because the French people have a favorable prejudice vis-a-vis the québécois accent. It opened so many doors to me.
I'm french and i have one global idea to add, when we speak french we do liaisons naturally but sometimes we use some liaisons that are not needed or does not exist at all. most of the time you will meet liaisions between the subject and the verbs or after conjonction de coordination, conjonction de subordination etc.. but liaisons are really obvious because even if it sounds bizarre you will be understandable very easily by a random french
pronunciation ‘r’ is so difficult lol
C'est simple pourtant
Non ça ne l'est pas. En tout cas, en tant que française je peine à prononcer le "r" anglais alors j'imagine que c'est réciproque pour les anglais.
Yeah i need serious help
Ludivine Hery 😂😂😂
Well if that makes you feel better it's not easy for us french to pronunce the english 'r' either
As a native french, I think this video is really good, like it's very usefull and completely correct !
Je suis tombé sur cette vidéo, j’adore comment vous arrivez à faire notre accent ! ( I found this video, I love how you make our accent !)
I absolutely love the idea of speaking English with a French accent. I will come back and let you know!
Do you have any tips or tricks to share on how to improve your French accent? Let us know!
I'm of french descent so I'm wondering how many different movies and songs are out there in French so I can learn how to speak with the accent!
Jose Lopez I think there are quite a few because my french teacher is lending me some movies I can watch ( in french )
I'm french I think you have to listen to french music and try to understand what is about if you want to improve your french
You 'ave to spek in the frront ov you-err mouth with you-err lips powting
Don't listen recent French music
English is quite dynamic, you put a lot of stresses and the consonants are really explosive, in French we tend to not have as much emphasis on consonants and as much stresses. If you want to sound French you'd have to get the words to sound much more even. If you can do the sounds perfectly but still have very explosive consonants you will sound strange and maybe a bit aggressive 😂
I’m doing a teenage remake of the Hamilton Musical and I’m auditioning for Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, the weird thing is that I’m part french and can barely do a french accent.
I love hamiltion
Did u make the role?
I need this for a play and the character i’m auditioning for has a french accent 😂
Lemme guess Hamilton?
Did you get it
I’m a DM, and I promised to give one of my NPCs an accent, so~ here I am-
Literally same.
I'm a player and my character has a French accent! I have a session today so I'm preparing haha.
Well, i'm french and it's funny to see people explain how strange is our accent, cause yeah it's strange.
Really good video !
Anyone else here so they can practice accents because they wanna be an actor/actress? :>
I don't speak french but sah quel plaisir !
I’ve struggled with pronouncing ou and u and that placement with the mouth you mentioned in this video helped me so much
Merci beaucoup, ce video était vraiment utile pour moi
Wonderful! Thank you for watching. :)
"Merci beaucoup, cette (feminine gender for video) vidéo fut vraiment utile pour moi" -> "fut" is more correct in a narrative or literary way. In everyday langage, you can use "passé composé" : "Merci beaucoup, cette vidéo m'a été très utile" with the "pronom réfléchi" : m' instead of "à moi". "Cette vidéo a été très utile à moi" which is not correct. So, you have to write : "cette vidéo m'a été très utile". Horribly complex langage isn't it ? ;)
Oh la la, on a pas l'impression comme ça mais oui effectivement c'est chaud.
Or else just take of the pour moi and it will work
Après, le seul truc un peu choquant c'est le féminin cette. Cette vidéo était vraiment utile pour moi, ça passe, hein, inutile de compliquer
How Is she doing that well the "R" sound??? As a French, I found it REALLY impressive!
As a French native, I can tell, those are really good tips ! Thank you for them ‘cause French can be so freaking hard
As a native French, I totally lost it when she started speaking English with the French accent. It's exactly how people in my class speak English!😂
I'm trying to land the role of Yvette in clue for my high school play, and I have no idea what kind of French accent that is
i’m here for clue too lmao
Rebecca O If you need help i can help you! I’m native french and I can do the french accent in english pretty darn well aha. And i love Lumière ;))
Just stick to a classic accent, no one is gonna see the difference unless they are native and you are a very good speaker. And in French theaters people have a really singing and expressive accent. But since your comment is 7 months old you probably already played Yvette 😂
OMG literally why i am here
im here for clue too!!
Hahaha! At the end it made me laugh aloud when she did our Frenglish accent ! Nice job, very helpful for those who wants to improve their French accent !
I’m just here because I wanna sing Lafayette’s parts in Hamilton
Erica Mancebo PFFT
Yesss!!
That’s what I’m here for LMAO
Let’s be honest, aren’t most of us? 😂
I can help you if you want boy
i dont speak french but sah quel plaisir
The comments are:
I wanna learn to sing that song from Ratatouille
I wanna be Lafayette from Hamilton
I wanna sing the joker song
I have a recording of The Singing Nun's songs, all in French, sung by her and her Sisters in the convent back in the 1960s. It's fun to sing along in French - learning the songs AND the accent at the same time --- Painless!
I’ve been learning French for five years, and I’ve always had trouble with the “r” sound. But hearing you say “heure” actually helped me a lot for some reason. 😅 Also hearing where the sound should be coming from was very helpful. I think I was trying to produce the sound more from the roof of my mouth than the back, so I’ll get to fixing that now 👍🏻
I love it!
I'm french-speaking
Being french, I enjoy this content ! :V
Btw, if some of you want to heard how fluent but truely french accent sounds like, I recommend to listen things like french (from France) developers talking about their games...
Exemple : "How Dead Cells Secretly Stops You From Dying" on YT.
There is another thing reeeally important to do : in english, when you have a vowel, you have différents sound inside : for exemple "I" is said "A-E". Well, english have différent sounds for one vowel.
In french, we ALL THE TIME have only ONE sound : "merci" is said "merci", with very short vowel and not "mear-ciee" (like an english people would do).
Make short vowel with only one sound, and you'll sound frency.
Me when I create my UA-cam account : I'm french
UA-cam : do you want to learn how to speak French
The best tips i can give ya is to take your time to read and trying to understand words with a google translate.. The more you read the more you will be familiar with some reccurant keys and you can go on your own. As long as you got a good understanding of words you can dig into the very basic stuffs to speak hopefully with a native french speaker to polish and imitate the other accent. All of those tips i took to myself as yound kid to be now bilingual. In one year you can speak fluidly some basic stuffs and maybe 2-3 years you can dig into the complexity of intellectual mind.
I had no idea with those different e's thank you!
At 1:46 in some regions we also make the difference between "é", "è", "e" and most important "ai" which sounds kinda like "è" but is really different.
In other regions, they just don't care and always say "é" no matter it is supposed to be pronounced.
I'd add that as a French I feel the speaker's accent, it's very very light but in some words you know she's not french native.
I’m here for my D&D character-
Yes I needed this
i love this, thank you! i want to speak more with a French accent, and i also want to speak it some more (i wouldnt say im fluent but im pretty okay at it). so this helps a lot :)
Perdue sur youtube, merci le confinement 😂 L’accent du sud, le best
I spat all over my phone trying to speak in a French accent 😂
I’m relearning french at the moment so I needed this for pronunciation :)
I'm French but I like watch this kind of video ^^
How people see our language and how much difficult is it for them to learn it xD
But go on, we love your efforts and strangers accent is always cute ^^
Thank to you, English is way much easier :P
I was born and raised in france and I have lived here all my life. I still live here to this day but as soon as I learned english my accent went away. even tho I still speak extremly fluent french of course
Is it normal that, as a native French, I find my own language very difficult after this video?!
Dear People from over the world, I swear that I will no more make fun of you for not being able to speak French correctly and I present you my sinceriest apologies for doing it before... X'D
4:10 wow elle le fait vraiment bien !
she : speak vous and vu, differently
literally me : fu~
hellooo i'm french j'adore cette vidéo c'est vraiment interessant de voir comment les étrangers apprennent notre langue
Hi i'm french
Hi french
Bonjour j'habite a suede
@@skeptic781 Tu habites en Suède :-D
J'aime bien la Suède même si je ne sais pas où c'est ^^
Hi ! me too (i'm french)
Mwa aussiii 😜
Im a French Native but UA-cam can't stop with this recommendation .
I think she meant Oceania, ie New Caledonia, not specifically "Australia."
i love heard english people speak french (i'm french) and it's really fun !
I'm French why am I even looking at this?
Jsp
true ;-)
bruh this five minute video has taught me more than my french teacher, and i’ve been taking her class for 5 months
I'm not sure if thats a good or bad thing
THANK YOU! GUNS AND SHIPS IS SO HARD TO RAP WITH A FRENCH ACCENT THO
Je crois que j’y arrive pas si mal... merci beaucoup
im only here trying to impersonate widowmaker
This frenglish at the end was just perfect, it remembered some of my classmates, thanks x) (french guy here)
De second woman has BEAUTIFUL ACCENT BOTH OF FRENCH N ENGLISH😱😱😍😨
American accent is snobby
Another good example to distinguish ou and u = cou and cul
I want to know the accent they have in Northern France.. A little East of Paris.. like near Strasbourg
Then you should search for « ch’ti» but you got to know that this accent (which can actually even be considered as a dialect for some) is pretty much hated by a lot of French people. It sounds rough and... uncivilized 😬 North if France was historically an industrial area with a lot of coal mines ant the ch’ti accent is non other than the working class accent. I’d say that the English equivalent is more or less the cockney accent :/
@@walidboukili7784 I'm staying there for a few months(already here), that's why I needed to know😂
Oh no believe me you don’t 😝 we sound terrible
@@walidboukili7784 a part of my family is ch'ti but actually I can't here there accent
I learned how to speak french in this video it's amazing comment j'ai appris direct
Good luck English People or other languages! I'm French and I can imagine how difficult is it for you 😂 And let me tell you learning English can be very difficult for us too!
I speak French already and good video
I'm french and OMG, i feel like i'm not able to learn my own language
T'es pas breton plutôt ? 😁
Quick tip as an swisserland native french ( Geneva , Lausanne etc) : first of all Fully understand basic French and then after read basic French books THEN think about the accent and secondly try to talk with native French speakers , for example if you are on discord go to a French speaking discord to get used to French sonority
L'accent du sud magnifique, tout le monde devrait le parler x)
Hello this is a message for all the English speakers : I'm French, could you please keep your English accent when you talk French, because firstly we understand you very clearly and secondly having an accent isn't a pain or a shame it's just lovely and friendly. To be honest, us the French people can't bear our accent we speak like a bear which has just awake from his Bed. So please keep your English accent and keep studying French. Thank you
I’m just part of beauty and the beast and can’t be luminere
Lumière*
She still have a little accent but she's really good at this, impressed