It’s not just that she speaks a second language without an accent. It’s that she structures her thoughts and her expression in a way that conveys how intelligent and well spoken she is. She does this in both French and English. Her language skills are superior to many native speakers in both languages.
C'est là qu'on réalise à quel point la langue française doit être dure à apprendre pour un étranger. Quand un étranger parle un français impeccable, on est en extase. C'est un exploit. Félicitations Jodie Foster!
french here, and I can tell you that her french is impressive she speaks even better than 90% of the native speakers in our sorry country without any accent at all! Completely neutral accent... "comm' je choisis très pertinemment, ben il faut qu'je cherch' des choses...." mix between bretagne, orleans and Normandy I'd say.
Her French is not 100% perfect, she makes some mistakes but she is impressive for a non French person to speak so well and particularly with a genuine French accent!
@@genevievemarie9427 99.999999% parfait, oui. Il faut vraiment être très attentif pour détecter une faute. Et puis, de toute manière, qui n'en fait pas de fautes, même chez les francophones natifs?
I confirm, her accent is perfect. When I was a kid and saw her on French tv I thought she was a French actress and grew up believing in it. She dubs herself in French for all her movies so even for her American films we hear her voice.
@@jameshudson169 Nope, the French lycée system, usually ending with a baccalaureate (= 'high school degree entirely/ completely in French) uses the 'Parisian accent', which is the official French accent. If one successfully graduates at that level, one has to speak in the 'Sorbonne way', not the Montréal or Marseille, Languedoc, or even 'Alsacian' way. Kristin Scott Thomas, the famous British actress, is another example. Hope this helps! ;=) Joyeux Noël à vous tous!
@@lafillesage6561 Je ne connais pas ta langue mais le meilleur moyen de perfectionner est de continuer à le parler. Ça va venir éventuellement. Mon oncle, lui, francophone, est parti vivre en Australie. Il a dit que ça lui avait pris 5 ans pour apprendre à parler correctement et aisément la langue de ce pays.
@@DocteurInfierno Merci beaucoup pour ta réponse.Je serai ici pendant 5 ans aussi j espere que je pourrais parler et perfectionnner mon français comme ton oncle
Quand je pense qu'elle s'est doublée elle-même dans la plupart de ses films, ça doit être un exercice bizarre de se doubler soi-même dans une autre langue.
Une des rares actrices (occasionnellement chanteuse) qui a vraiment un très bon niveau de français, la plupart du temps c’est plus les francophones qui deviennent anglophones comme Vanessa Paradis etc... c’est beau de voir plus de diversité 💖💖
The problem for us French when we listen to an interview of Jodie Foster in French, is that just like everybody else on the planet, we're so astonished by her freaking flawless french tones, that we forget she's speaking to explain something. The last thing she said "the most important is that we make good films, not to check boxes on a list, or to fill up quotas" after a the feminist speech. Not that I'm against the feminist speech, she's right, but yeah, it's not because "feminism" that now we have to hire women because they're women. People have to be a fit and a match for their job, if they're ain't and are only hired because of their genders, be females or males, then it's sexist again. Just allow people to be and do what they're good at and for. Thanks Jodie.
In using ain't, just use ain't, cuz you ain't gonna need nuttin' else. Pardon my most ignorant sounding English. Ha, ha! Here is how 'ain't' is conjugated: I ain't, you ain't, he ain't, we ain't, y'all ain't, and they ain't. It's such a wonderful word that requires no effort at all to use, but it makes you sound as ignorant as all get out. That was fun.
Does it make any sense to work for someone who doesn't like you, who doesn't really want you there ,?But is forced to hire you,?Why bother you already know the ending?
I was working in Lausanne and one of my colleagues was amazed to hear Jodie Foster's French...that's what you can get if you start early enough! The "English" speaker I most enjoyed hearing speak in French was Anais Nin ua-cam.com/video/6BNCAF87T9g/v-deo.html
Im not downplaying Jodies linguistic accomplishments, but being a child movie star afforded her one on one tutors, not to mention she lived in a bi lingual household,, still there are fast and slow learners and I think she leans towards the fast.
Super intelligente. Son accent est parfait et son français excellent. Seulement une petite faute mineure par-ci par-là ("remplacer pour" au lieu de "remplacer par")
@@DoubleGauss absolutely I'm a native French speaker and I can tell when someone is from new-york, baton rouge Louisiana, England and what not. American people can't say the "r" for instance and they make a lot of mistakes since french has more rules therfore it's more complexe to sum up she's all the way at the top of the game as opposed to other English speaking cats
@@sograteidrissirochdi6527 For an American learning French in adulthood, the French 'r' would be almost impossible to pronounce. I practised a lot and I think I am 75% of the way there.
@@DoubleGauss well it goes the other way around big brother I'm from Paris and I've been living in New Orleans for a minute (2 years) and people still notice my French " r " my messed up "th" and wathever the case may be but it's all good I'm not trippin since American people love French guys I see it as a plus 😂
she lived in franca for years and she was a student at a french university for years. is that a wonder that she talks french ???!!!!!!!!!!!!!! je parle la langue francaise moi meme et je n'etais jamais un eleve dune ecole francaise ni je n'aijamais vecu en France. ou est le magique??!!!!!!!!!!!!
Khamis Zananiri Well, people are not amazed by the fact that she speaks French, but by the fact that her French is nearly flawless (accent, syntax, grammar rules...) which is extremely impressive indeed. You may have learnt French and you are apparently able to speak it, but you have already made several mistakes in that short sentence you wrote. I am of course not being judgmental, speaking a foreign language doesn’t require perfection, but I am jut trying to say that her flawless French is indeed a big deal as it is such a difficult language to master. La jalousie est un vilain défaut!
You want a counter example ? Jane Birkin... She has passed 40+ years in France, was married to a French singer (Gainsbourg) and has a daughter which is a true good french actress, but still, her french is not only with an english accent but she continues to do mistakes between la and le (male/female gender for things and animals) and sometimes she pronounces some regular and common french word in her english way... and I love Jane Birkin, she's cute, smart, interesting and a good actress... Then yes, Jodie's french ability is incredibly good.
Not only her french is any mistake free, but is WAYS better than 90% of French themselves ! When she speaks french she has a totally french mind and body language, and shows an extraordinary smartness in a total french way. She speaks as a totally brilliant french woman. At this level it's very rare even among high level educated french women.
It’s not just that she speaks a second language without an accent. It’s that she structures her thoughts and her expression in a way that conveys how intelligent and well spoken she is. She does this in both French and English. Her language skills are superior to many native speakers in both languages.
And Italian too!
everyone has an accent
@@paloma4444every American doesn’t have a native French accent. Don’t be disingenuous 😒 it’s obvious what I was implying
@@lloydtxw she clearly does not have a Native french accent either???
@@lloydtxw cause she is not Native french
C'est là qu'on réalise à quel point la langue française doit être dure à apprendre pour un étranger. Quand un étranger parle un français impeccable, on est en extase. C'est un exploit. Félicitations Jodie Foster!
Le français n’est pas trop compliqué. Je l’apprends en ce moment et j’aime très bien ta langue
@@flibbettyjibbetts6766 wesh es-tu fou?
Elle a été scolarisée dans le système français, donc elle parle de manière native.
Le français n’est pas aussi compliqué
American here. She spoke perfect French. I couldn’t even hear an English word.
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french here, and I can tell you that her french is impressive she speaks even better than 90% of the native speakers in our sorry country without any accent at all! Completely neutral accent... "comm' je choisis très pertinemment, ben il faut qu'je cherch' des choses...." mix between bretagne, orleans and Normandy I'd say.
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Her french is 100%perfect. Not a single mistake, just like any other interview i've heard from her.You can't even tell she's not a native of France.
Her French is not 100% perfect, she makes some mistakes but she is impressive for a non French person to speak so well and particularly with a genuine French accent!
The French lycee system.
@@genevievemarie9427 99.999999% parfait, oui. Il faut vraiment être très attentif pour détecter une faute. Et puis, de toute manière, qui n'en fait pas de fautes, même chez les francophones natifs?
@@genevievemarie9427 is there really such a thing as 100% in languages?
Genevieve Marie I agree she’s not 100% perfect - sometimes she messes up the genders - but she’s as close to fluent as you can possibly be.
I confirm, her accent is perfect. When I was a kid and saw her on French tv I thought she was a French actress and grew up believing in it. She dubs herself in French for all her movies so even for her American films we hear her voice.
does she dub 'erself for quebecois?
@@jameshudson169 Nope, the French lycée system, usually ending with a baccalaureate (= 'high school degree entirely/ completely in French) uses the 'Parisian accent', which is the official French accent. If one successfully graduates at that level, one has to speak in the 'Sorbonne way', not the Montréal or Marseille, Languedoc, or even 'Alsacian' way.
Kristin Scott Thomas, the famous British actress, is another example.
Hope this helps! ;=)
Joyeux Noël à vous tous!
@@chipham1281that's not correct, since 2020 the french law prohibits discrimination by the accent called glottophobia.
Not only she speaks an absolute perfect French but when she does she’s also got French manners with facial expressions and gestures!
This lady is a class Act!
From Clearwater Beach Florida. Good day.
Her french is perfect, i'm french and still looking for the slightest english / american / non native accent in her speech and there's none.
Ça arrive qu'elle fait des fautes de genre mais c'est très rare
Elle a un très très très très léger accent mais faut vraiment chercher, quelque très très rares fautes de genre...
je vis en france depuis le 26 mars 2021 meme si j ai eu mon diplome en B2 j ai peur de parler et et faire des fautes.C est dur votre langue :(
@@lafillesage6561 Je ne connais pas ta langue mais le meilleur moyen de perfectionner est de continuer à le parler. Ça va venir éventuellement.
Mon oncle, lui, francophone, est parti vivre en Australie. Il a dit que ça lui avait pris 5 ans pour apprendre à parler correctement et aisément la langue de ce pays.
@@DocteurInfierno Merci beaucoup pour ta réponse.Je serai ici pendant 5 ans aussi j espere que je pourrais parler et perfectionnner mon français comme ton oncle
One more reason to love this amazing actress
Intelligent, well dressed, nice hair, well spoken 😎
Quelle CLASSE cette femme!
Peut importe la langue dans laquelle elle s'exprime, cette dame est une grande Dame. Merci à vous.
Peu*
Français parfait, avec un accent français, plutôt de la région parisienne... Une qualité de plus chez cette personne vraiment exceptionnelle...
Happy birthday jodie from italian boy live in rome
Elle parle parfaitement, c'est remarquable et rare
Quand je pense qu'elle s'est doublée elle-même dans la plupart de ses films, ça doit être un exercice bizarre de se doubler soi-même dans une autre langue.
High praise from numerous admirers, well deserved I'm sure.
HAPPY 58TH BIRTHDAY JODIE FOSTER !!!!
when you realize that a foreigner speaks French better than you when you are French yourself
Excellent
Fantastic French!
Genius woman
Jodie Foster la plus Française des Américaines :)
C’est le euuuhhh à chaque pause qui fait que son accent est parfait
Genius
Elle a un français impeccable !
Oui aucun accent
Toujours aussi belle
Elle est d'une grande classe Mme Foster, élégance...
Si je pouvais parler anglais comme elle parle français 😜🙏
bravo Jodie, vous parlez très bien français, avec un bon accent
Elle est vraiment magnifique ! J'adore cette femme ! ... Mais elle me fait penser aussi à Sigourney Weaver......
Super impressive. She sounds like a Parisian
😘😍
Elle parle français mieux que moi 😍😍
Une des rares actrices (occasionnellement chanteuse) qui a vraiment un très bon niveau de français, la plupart du temps c’est plus les francophones qui deviennent anglophones comme Vanessa Paradis etc... c’est beau de voir plus de diversité 💖💖
The problem for us French when we listen to an interview of Jodie Foster in French, is that just like everybody else on the planet, we're so astonished by her freaking flawless french tones, that we forget she's speaking to explain something. The last thing she said "the most important is that we make good films, not to check boxes on a list, or to fill up quotas" after a the feminist speech. Not that I'm against the feminist speech, she's right, but yeah, it's not because "feminism" that now we have to hire women because they're women. People have to be a fit and a match for their job, if they're ain't and are only hired because of their genders, be females or males, then it's sexist again. Just allow people to be and do what they're good at and for. Thanks Jodie.
In using ain't, just use ain't, cuz you ain't gonna need nuttin' else. Pardon my most ignorant sounding English. Ha, ha! Here is how 'ain't' is conjugated: I ain't, you ain't, he ain't, we ain't, y'all ain't, and they ain't. It's such a wonderful word that requires no effort at all to use, but it makes you sound as ignorant as all get out. That was fun.
@@PRmoustache88 shut up
Does it make any sense to work for someone who doesn't like you, who doesn't really want you there ,?But is forced to hire you,?Why bother you already know the ending?
👍👽🖖
Waw pour une americaine.. Chapeau
Vive Jodie foster
A quand qu'elle s'installe
En France définitivement
Et qu'elle tourne que pour la France et les autres pays européens.
That's security guard is on top of it...
Catch'em young ....
Wow .. Jodie Foster lookalikes...
Another one speaks perfect Italian...
I must search how many doubles she had.
how would you compare her french with that of richard ii?
tellement belle ( jsuis un mec) tellement intelligente sa compagne doit etre dans un reve conscient.
Wow, elle parle le breton super bien !!! Même pas d'accent du Béarne !
I was working in Lausanne and one of my colleagues was amazed to hear Jodie Foster's French...that's what you can get if you start early enough!
The "English" speaker I most enjoyed hearing speak in French was Anais Nin ua-cam.com/video/6BNCAF87T9g/v-deo.html
Im not downplaying Jodies linguistic accomplishments, but being a child movie star afforded her one on one tutors, not to mention she lived in a bi lingual household,, still there are fast and slow learners and I think she leans towards the fast.
She lived in France and attended school there, most people would probably pick it up. What’s amazing is her lack of american accent when she speaks.
Super intelligente. Son accent est parfait et son français excellent. Seulement une petite faute mineure par-ci par-là ("remplacer pour" au lieu de "remplacer par")
Le gars à l'arrière ! Son bodyguard ? XDDD
To me French without an accent sounds the same as French with an accent.
Heeeell noooo 🤣🤣🤣 it's just as if I tell u that English in India sounds the same as English in new-york . She sounds heavenly
@@sograteidrissirochdi6527 are you saying that English in India doesn't sound the same as English in New York ?
@@DoubleGauss absolutely I'm a native French speaker and I can tell when someone is from new-york, baton rouge Louisiana, England and what not. American people can't say the "r" for instance and they make a lot of mistakes since french has more rules therfore it's more complexe to sum up she's all the way at the top of the game as opposed to other English speaking cats
@@sograteidrissirochdi6527 For an American learning French in adulthood, the French 'r' would be almost impossible to pronounce. I practised a lot and I think I am 75% of the way there.
@@DoubleGauss well it goes the other way around big brother I'm from Paris and I've been living in New Orleans for a minute (2 years) and people still notice my French " r " my messed up "th" and wathever the case may be but it's all good I'm not trippin since American people love French guys I see it as a plus 😂
Not much of an accent. Impressive.
Je pense que c'est son bodyguard derrière, à la manière qu'il a de scruter chaque personne.
Doesn't she have a slight parisian accent ?
Is that her bodyguard in the back
Ou à t elle appris le français ?
Lycée français de Los Angeles. Elle a une soeur qui vit à Albi
The bodyguard is hot
Very smart lady. Like the fact that she dosnt feel the need to go to film premiers wearing hardly any clothe on like alot of these wanabees.
That's because she's not interested in the boys.
she lived in franca for years and she was a student at a french university for years. is that a wonder that she talks french ???!!!!!!!!!!!!!! je parle la langue francaise moi meme et je n'etais jamais un eleve dune ecole francaise ni je n'aijamais vecu en France. ou est le magique??!!!!!!!!!!!!
Khamis Zananiri Well, people are not amazed by the fact that she speaks French, but by the fact that her French is nearly flawless (accent, syntax, grammar rules...) which is extremely impressive indeed. You may have learnt French and you are apparently able to speak it, but you have already made several mistakes in that short sentence you wrote. I am of course not being judgmental, speaking a foreign language doesn’t require perfection, but I am jut trying to say that her flawless French is indeed a big deal as it is such a difficult language to master. La jalousie est un vilain défaut!
You want a counter example ? Jane Birkin... She has passed 40+ years in France, was married to a French singer (Gainsbourg) and has a daughter which is a true good french actress, but still, her french is not only with an english accent but she continues to do mistakes between la and le (male/female gender for things and animals) and sometimes she pronounces some regular and common french word in her english way... and I love Jane Birkin, she's cute, smart, interesting and a good actress... Then yes, Jodie's french ability is incredibly good.
Not only her french is any mistake free, but is WAYS better than 90% of French themselves ! When she speaks french she has a totally french mind and body language, and shows an extraordinary smartness in a total french way. She speaks as a totally brilliant french woman. At this level it's very rare even among high level educated french women.
She looks stressed here
Jodie is an imposter she was never American lol 🤣🤣🤣