Hello. I just came across your channel and it's awesome! There is a question I've always wanted to ask someone who speaks both English and French but I have not been able to have the question answered. I think you'll be able to answer it. Why do French people dislike any mispronunciation of French by an English speaker when French speakers speak English with a very strong French accent (i.e. they don't pronounce English (either American or British) properly at all and they make no attempt to speak English without their French "accent."
David, thanks for contacting me, and it is a good question! I'm not sure I have a perfect answer, but here are some thoughts. The French have traditionally had a great respect for their language and emphasize its mastery a lot more in schools than we are exposed to in our schools. Perhaps for this reason French people are not too eager to adapt to another languages' sounds. Because French has such a melodic sound, people always say, "French is so beautiful". And so when we hear a French person speaking English with their French accent, we find it charming. Now, personally, I have never found it charming to hear an English speaker speaking French with their English accent! Although several of my students and others have said that their contacts in France do tell them they love their English accent. My teaching centers on the ways that we hold our mouths to produce our sounds in both languages: English very relaxed, more open spaces, and French very tense and more closed and everything said more in the front of the mouth. When we speak another language by saying the words as we would place them in English, we have an accent in the other language. I now offer private lessons to help students make these corrections.
Ah, yes, my linguistics professor said that his field is very small. It is surprising. The efficiency of understanding a language through linguistics seems so high alongside other methods, if not essential. Yet, no language course I have taken has ever integrated it. Anyway, I will be buying your program in a week and cannot wait to do so : ) @@gerimetz2137
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Hello. I just came across your channel and it's awesome!
There is a question I've always wanted to ask someone who speaks both English and French but I have not been able to have the question answered. I think you'll be able to answer it.
Why do French people dislike any mispronunciation of French by an English speaker when French speakers speak English with a very strong French accent (i.e. they don't pronounce English (either American or British) properly at all and they make no attempt to speak English without their French "accent."
David, thanks for contacting me, and it is a good question! I'm not sure I have a perfect answer, but here are some thoughts. The French have traditionally had a great respect for their language and emphasize its mastery a lot more in schools than we are exposed to in our schools. Perhaps for this reason French people are not too eager to adapt to another languages' sounds. Because French has such a melodic sound, people always say, "French is so beautiful". And so when we hear a French person speaking English with their French accent, we find it charming. Now, personally, I have never found it charming to hear an English speaker speaking French with their English accent! Although several of my students and others have said that their contacts in France do tell them they love their English accent. My teaching centers on the ways that we hold our mouths to produce our sounds in both languages: English very relaxed, more open spaces, and French very tense and more closed and everything said more in the front of the mouth. When we speak another language by saying the words as we would place them in English, we have an accent in the other language. I now offer private lessons to help students make these corrections.
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Anyone who studies phonetics is already my friend : )
Thanks; there aren't too many of us anymore, I think!
Ah, yes, my linguistics professor said that his field is very small. It is surprising. The efficiency of understanding a language through linguistics seems so high alongside other methods, if not essential. Yet, no language course I have taken has ever integrated it. Anyway, I will be buying your program in a week and cannot wait to do so : ) @@gerimetz2137
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Thank you, Lori. Hope you enjoy my You Tube teaching videos.