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As a French person, I would like to add more details: - “r“: very well explained in the video - “th”: we pronounce it differently according to the word (the, this, they, weather = “z” or « v » (or even “d”). think = “f” or “s”) - “h”: we don’t pronounce it when it is at the beginning of a word (help = elp, hello = ello, head = ead) - vowels: very strong vowels - difficult to speak fluently (my name is = my name is) - “le” (end of words): “le” = “eul” (little = litteul, startle = starteul, table = taybeul, bubble = beubeul, comfortable = comfortabeul, bottle = botteul)
I'm Polish and I worked with French and visited Toulouse twice. The le advice is on point, but I think what is missing here is how French people end sentences as if half o them was "a ba oui". ;) At least, this is the first thing a Polish person will notice, if they hear French person talking in English or Polish.
also, confirm or correct - I think th is sort of soft 'd' most of the time, far from 'z' or 'v' in my opinion. some en or an will be pronounced as sort of moaning ew or aw (we have this in Polish too, with ą and ę characters, although it sounds a little different here). Example: accent -> aksęt, and some 's' can morth into 'z', but most stay 's'. like "samesies" -> i think it would sound "samezis" or alternatively they sometimes might actually become even softer, more clearly pronounced s
Personally helps me the other way around I'm French and that video helped me know what kind of pronounciation mistakes not to do when I try to speak english
funny cause I did not even think of it :d take another one - compare the way you finish sentences, in general, to native speakers. Most French people have something like a raise in pitch or something. The way you pace words, I don't know, but I think you speed up until somewhere after middle of sentence, but then drastically slow down for last couple syllables.
ADVICE FROM A FRENCH PERSON: what he said about the "th"->"z" is very inaccurate and very cliché. In real life, we do more of a "d" sound, examples: "this"->"dees", "that"-->"dat"
You're probably talking of the standard "Parisian" French accent? In French, like in most languages, there are different accents according to the region you come from. Especially between the north and the south of France, the accents are very different.
Exactly! I’m French Canadian…and even within parts of Québec where French is the most prevalent, we have different accents. Never mind Belgium, North Africa, the rest of Africa, some Carribeans countries… I can do a French accent (from France in both English and French), and of course my French Canadian accent…but I can’t do the African one even if I know quite a few native speaker.
Using this for my Janet role in Drowsy Chaperone Jr. I have to do a scene in the show where I do a French accent and I had no idea how to do that until now! Thanks so much! 🎉
Me trying to get a french accent from an English video for my Turkish school play. That was acting does to you I guess. Good thing that I know a little bit French and my French teacher had said I spoke with a pretty solid accent for a beginner so I can hopefully transfer that to my native language by this thursday
as a french speaker these are good tips obviously this english pronunciation comes from having french as a first language but these are sum good rules to replicate the sounds anyway
I'm French. Some of the features he's talking about are true, e.g. the TH and I sounds, but the R is overexaggerated, it really sounds like an American would imitate a French, but absolutely not like a French. We do pronounce a guttural R, but we can only truly hear it at the beginning of words, such as road (we'd pronounce /Rod/ or even /wod/ for those trying to imitate english r making it sound like a w). But in median or final position, we'd generally make it sound like a /ʁ/ sound, rather than a /ʀ/, i guess.
listen, he exaggerates it, but you CAN definitely hear it in almost every 'r' pal :) if you're not French that is. it's sort of r shifted toward dry h in fact, I am trying it right now and can't do this - I am Polish - it's either a bit too hearable, or it becomes a proper English r. I worked with French for almost a year I believe, and I heard a lot of their English over that time. If it matters - it was the south French. I think French English is beautful, it's a shame French people are shy about this. Accents are a good thing, they enrich global culture.
Appreciate the tips! Just picked up a role doing the voice of a character set to be established roughly around southeastern France and the French accent is one of my least polished lol they gave me a good bit of creative freedom to play with the voice and character but I wanna give them at least a couple takes that are accurate to the location of where he’s from.
Literally so glad I found this, I have an audition next week but one of the characters I have to read a monologue of a woman who is French but the script is in English
Hi. Thank you very much for these videos! I started understanding some of Souther accent after watching one of your videos. You’re a great teacher! I can teach you some Russian accent. 😊
I'm French and watching this video to learn more about why our accent is so bad. The difference between Th and Z is realy hard for us... great video btw
the way my dad taught me how to speak french is with rolled r's similarly to spanish. He's Quebecois and was just wondering about this discrepancy. I'm saying you're wrong I'm just inquiring on the specifics of the french R
Guys I have made a random discovery while trying to do a Dutch accent. If you want to do an Irish accent, try to talk from under your tongue. I can’t do accents at all but I did a pretty decent Irish by doing that. Please if anyone tries this tell me how it goes. After making that discovery, I have been searching how do to different accents hoping to figure out where they talk from hence me watching this video. I saw a video that said Americans speak from the back of their mouths near the neck. That is exactly what I thought and now I wonder if doing accents is as simple as figuring out where to talk from. Sorry if this makes no sense! I am excited by my discovery 😅
I did it and I sounded halfway between Irish and Newfie I think. But that's definitely a key part of it and I never realized that I was doing that when attempting it. Fun fact with French, it is spoken with the lips, so using a lot of lips on your accent is important.
@@WillyShankspeare I just tried soo a French accent by speaking from my lips and it definitely sounded better than my other attempts. Fascinating stuff
@@Noname-vu1om Yeah proper French can't be spoken without moving your mouth. English can be spoken relatively well without moving your lips at all. I'm going to look up French ventriloquists now.
zis is honestly mostly what I heard in Canada but it was about 50/50 in France that I heard Dis. I am confused as to why every video I have seen never mentions the D. I was really hoping you'd have it mentioned.
I've just finished watching videos on Russian, German, and now French accents and I see the same tips EVERYWHERE (beginning with the first one "th=[Z]" and many others). Seems like there are two accents: correct accent and "the others". 🤣🤣🤣
i speak french (im american) and i sometimes talk in the french accent when i speak french then english and i dont even know that im doing it. also can you nake a vid on a mew zealand accent?
Fantastic! Glad I could help! The French accent is extremely fun to do and everyone always enjoys when I pull it out in a room. Being able to put on different accents is a very fun trick that many actors and non-actors enjoy :)
I’m auditioning for Yvette in my schools showing of clue (I js love her she’s dumb) so I can partially do one I just want to get better to secure the part
as someone french, there is no real french accent, like 200 years ago there was a language per region and now there are a lot of accents depending on where and even iin france some people dont even agree on whole words so yeah its very hard
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I'm fluent in French but my accent is horrendous, this is gold!
Glad I could help! 😁
I am French raised in the us and like you I am incapable of doing a French accent without speaking French
My french teacher taught us french language, accent, and culture.
I am French to!
But I don’t have an accent
As a French person, I would like to add more details:
- “r“: very well explained in the video
- “th”: we pronounce it differently according to the word (the, this, they, weather = “z” or « v » (or even “d”). think = “f” or “s”)
- “h”: we don’t pronounce it when it is at the beginning of a word (help = elp, hello = ello, head = ead)
- vowels: very strong vowels
- difficult to speak fluently (my name is = my name is)
- “le” (end of words): “le” = “eul” (little = litteul, startle = starteul, table = taybeul, bubble = beubeul, comfortable = comfortabeul, bottle = botteul)
Some people also drop Hs at the beginning of some random words ("I am ... years hold")
This actually helped me so much, especially the last part. Thank you so much
I'm Polish and I worked with French and visited Toulouse twice. The le advice is on point, but I think what is missing here is how French people end sentences as if half o them was "a ba oui". ;) At least, this is the first thing a Polish person will notice, if they hear French person talking in English or Polish.
also, confirm or correct - I think th is sort of soft 'd' most of the time, far from 'z' or 'v' in my opinion. some en or an will be pronounced as sort of moaning ew or aw (we have this in Polish too, with ą and ę characters, although it sounds a little different here). Example: accent -> aksęt, and some 's' can morth into 'z', but most stay 's'. like "samesies" -> i think it would sound "samezis" or alternatively they sometimes might actually become even softer, more clearly pronounced s
I watch these to practice my DnD accents.
Literally exact same as me
That why I'm here XD
Samesies
gang, gang
Same here! (Well, if you count Pathfinder)
This helped me so much. I am going for a French character in my school musical and I need to learn a French accent. I took a lot from this video.
What character was it
same here!, I got assigned Lafayette from Hamilton
@@htsbrickreviews Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast
SAME
SAME
I should be more proud of speaking French, it's a language many people would love to speak
Lol I have a whole as journal filled with french greeting and number shi. You are lucky. It is such a beautiful language. Unlike english or Spanish
@@slayin9331 English and Spanish are both beautiful languages too, flowers and sunsets are both beautiful but very different
id love to speak french that's a real flex
Like me🥲
@@slayin9331 what.. just because those languages are widely spoken doesn’t mean they’re not beautiful.
Personally helps me the other way around
I'm French and that video helped me know what kind of pronounciation mistakes not to do when I try to speak english
funny cause I did not even think of it :d
take another one - compare the way you finish sentences, in general, to native speakers. Most French people have something like a raise in pitch or something. The way you pace words, I don't know, but I think you speed up until somewhere after middle of sentence, but then drastically slow down for last couple syllables.
I'm from Zambia and I've been practising the American and British accent, coz I wanna fool my friends with prank calling 🤣🤣
🤣🤙🏼
LMAO
ADVICE FROM A FRENCH PERSON: what he said about the "th"->"z" is very inaccurate and very cliché. In real life, we do more of a "d" sound, examples: "this"->"dees", "that"-->"dat"
I use the "V" sound for "that" or "this". But my English... iz de la merde. 😂
Yup, that's much more a German thing.
@@chipsalom exactly
I think its because of acting since its more believed but idk
@@chipsalom Italian as well. 😄
As a french person i totally agree abt what he's saying
Tu trouves? Moi perso je dis "dys" pour dire This
I am going to be playing a part with a French accent and this video has been the most helpful I've watched. Thanks!
Best of luck!
Thanks dude I wanted my dnd character to have a french accent and this helped a lot.
No way, green mage from everhood
You're probably talking of the standard "Parisian" French accent? In French, like in most languages, there are different accents according to the region you come from. Especially between the north and the south of France, the accents are very different.
Exactly! I’m French Canadian…and even within parts of Québec where French is the most prevalent, we have different accents. Never mind Belgium, North Africa, the rest of Africa, some Carribeans countries…
I can do a French accent (from France in both English and French), and of course my French Canadian accent…but I can’t do the African one even if I know quite a few native speaker.
You mean like every accent anywhere in the world? lol...
@@SheaMF oh, African French is beautiful, I like it more than Black American English
I went from my French accent sounding German and Russian to somewhat French within ten minutes 😭 thank youuu 🙏🫶
thank you!!! i have to play Lafayette in my fifth grade american revolution play and this helped so much‼️
So happy to help!
THANK YOU I NEED THIS FOR COICE ACTING YOY ARE A LIFE SAVER
Why am I watching this ? I'm french.
Lolllololol
Lol 💀
Lolll 😂😂
Using this for my Janet role in Drowsy Chaperone Jr. I have to do a scene in the show where I do a French accent and I had no idea how to do that until now! Thanks so much! 🎉
Excellent video! Thank you❤i love how you speak and explain everything! 💕
I’m working on a show with my friends and I have a character that needs a French accent
This video helped a lot! 🎉🎉
ty!! i’m playing Clerval in Frankenstein and i need to sound french, this helped a lot!!!
Me trying to get a french accent from an English video for my Turkish school play. That was acting does to you I guess. Good thing that I know a little bit French and my French teacher had said I spoke with a pretty solid accent for a beginner so I can hopefully transfer that to my native language by this thursday
as a french speaker these are good tips obviously this english pronunciation comes from having french as a first language but these are sum good rules to replicate the sounds anyway
using this for the clue auditions going for evette!
Loll as someone living in France, watching this video is so funny. And how well they kind of grasped the French accent 😂😂
🤙🏼
auditioning for lumiere soon and i need to have some kind of french accent in my repertoire
Bro you are a life saver!!! Thank you so much! 🙌✨🙏
I'm French. Some of the features he's talking about are true, e.g. the TH and I sounds, but the R is overexaggerated, it really sounds like an American would imitate a French, but absolutely not like a French. We do pronounce a guttural R, but we can only truly hear it at the beginning of words, such as road (we'd pronounce /Rod/ or even /wod/ for those trying to imitate english r making it sound like a w). But in median or final position, we'd generally make it sound like a /ʁ/ sound, rather than a /ʀ/, i guess.
listen, he exaggerates it, but you CAN definitely hear it in almost every 'r' pal :) if you're not French that is. it's sort of r shifted toward dry h
in fact, I am trying it right now and can't do this - I am Polish - it's either a bit too hearable, or it becomes a proper English r. I worked with French for almost a year I believe, and I heard a lot of their English over that time. If it matters - it was the south French.
I think French English is beautful, it's a shame French people are shy about this. Accents are a good thing, they enrich global culture.
Appreciate the tips! Just picked up a role doing the voice of a character set to be established roughly around southeastern France and the French accent is one of my least polished lol they gave me a good bit of creative freedom to play with the voice and character but I wanna give them at least a couple takes that are accurate to the location of where he’s from.
Literally so glad I found this, I have an audition next week but one of the characters I have to read a monologue of a woman who is French but the script is in English
THIS HELPED SO MUCH THANK YOUUUUU
Auditioning for Lumiere in our school musical, Beauty and the Beast. This helped a LOT.
Glad I could help!!
Awesome! can you break down the German accent?!
Thanks. I have an audition today. Appreciate it.
I have a retainer so I can’t really roll or gurgle r’s with it in, so I’d have to take it out to do the r
As a French, that’s funny 🤣 but what you need now is the «melody » of French speaking ! The way we accentuate words and sentences flows ! 😁
Hi. Thank you very much for these videos! I started understanding some of Souther accent after watching one of your videos. You’re a great teacher! I can teach you some Russian accent. 😊
Nice! Saving this for sure! Can you do a Brooklyn new york accent next? And then Italian? Lol thanks!
Sure!
This was super helpful. Thanks so much! :)
As a native French, for R. I recommend saying ergh but like eyuhgh.
Love your lessons, would love to see a Hispanic/Latin Accent!
So difficult to do it in just one vid; the Spanish from Spain is VERY different from the Mexican, Argentinian, Puerto Rican, or Cuban.
Brilliant...concise...Merci! LOL
I'm French and watching this video to learn more about why our accent is so bad. The difference between Th and Z is realy hard for us... great video btw
the way my dad taught me how to speak french is with rolled r's similarly to spanish. He's Quebecois and was just wondering about this discrepancy. I'm saying you're wrong I'm just inquiring on the specifics of the french R
super easy to follow and fast as promised!! thank you ❤
😁👍🏼👍🏼
omg !!! thank you so much. i needed this so much after watching Pattinson's The King !!!
Haha! Glad I could help!
Guys I have made a random discovery while trying to do a Dutch accent. If you want to do an Irish accent, try to talk from under your tongue. I can’t do accents at all but I did a pretty decent Irish by doing that.
Please if anyone tries this tell me how it goes. After making that discovery, I have been searching how do to different accents hoping to figure out where they talk from hence me watching this video. I saw a video that said Americans speak from the back of their mouths near the neck. That is exactly what I thought and now I wonder if doing accents is as simple as figuring out where to talk from. Sorry if this makes no sense! I am excited by my discovery 😅
I did it and I sounded halfway between Irish and Newfie I think. But that's definitely a key part of it and I never realized that I was doing that when attempting it. Fun fact with French, it is spoken with the lips, so using a lot of lips on your accent is important.
@@WillyShankspeare I just tried soo a French accent by speaking from my lips and it definitely sounded better than my other attempts. Fascinating stuff
@@Noname-vu1om Yeah proper French can't be spoken without moving your mouth. English can be spoken relatively well without moving your lips at all. I'm going to look up French ventriloquists now.
As a french person, I approve this video
Tysm- I'm lumiere in my school play and I uh suck at french
hiii im in love with ur content u inspire me sooo much ! btw im watching u from France :)
Hey!! Wow that’s awesome 🇫🇷 I’m glad I’ve been able to be of inspiration for you!! 😊
Maybe add some emphasis on the last syllable of each word too
I'm concidering auditioning for fleur delacour in the new Harry potter series so this was super helpful
I'm actually a Russian and your accent parodizing sounds similar to how our English teacher was actually speaking during classes😅
This feels like an Egyptian speaking English
I'm watching this like I wasn't french myself 😂😂
My french dnd character will sound perfect now.
Hi, Im an old actor w a bunch of accents in my pocket but havent got french. thx so much for helping me; youre a good teacher.
zis is honestly mostly what I heard in Canada but it was about 50/50 in France that I heard Dis. I am confused as to why every video I have seen never mentions the D. I was really hoping you'd have it mentioned.
i hope this doesn't come out too weird but you were blessed with such pretty lips 😭
I've just finished watching videos on Russian, German, and now French accents and I see the same tips EVERYWHERE (beginning with the first one "th=[Z]" and many others). Seems like there are two accents: correct accent and "the others". 🤣🤣🤣
What I have learned from this, is that I already speak in a french accent
It would be fantastic if you could do a tutorial on how to do a scottish accent
i speak french (im american) and i sometimes talk in the french accent when i speak french then english and i dont even know that im doing it.
also can you nake a vid on a mew zealand accent?
I’m going to a murder mystery party on Saturday and I’m a French mayor. Trying to practice my accent so I can bag one of the fair maidens.
As a french I want to improve my english accent and pronunciation and then I see english speakers who want to speak with a french accent 😂😂
I’m good at this already I’m french
Awesome!!
@@TheActorsAcademy TYSM!!:))
THANK YOU THIS WAS VERY HELPUL IM STARTING TODAY!
Learning how to do a french accent because I'm writing a french character
Does this also work for learning French?
Tomorrow is my french talking thing exam 🙏🙏 she gives grades based on accent and stuff hope i do well
Actually really like and enjoy this video and I learned a French accent esley,for theder
Glad I could be of assistance!! 😁
I need this for Beauty and the Beast
Fantastic! Glad I could help! The French accent is extremely fun to do and everyone always enjoys when I pull it out in a room. Being able to put on different accents is a very fun trick that many actors and non-actors enjoy :)
I need this guy to give me a mogging lesson
zee bloo feesh iz unde🥤zee otel floo🥤
Do you have a video on how to do a Cuban accent?
the sound changes are right the only inaccurate part is the tone, french people have this tone that makes them sound french
step 1. th -> z
step 2. r -> hough
step 3. the attitude, the more, ze bettehough
I'm auditioning for Lumière (beauty and the beast) and literally cant do his accent yet, thanks 😭
Omg I am too! Lol, break a leg!
I’m auditioning for Yvette in my schools showing of clue (I js love her she’s dumb) so I can partially do one I just want to get better to secure the part
I feel like When doing the long ‘a’ sound in crab, when trying the French accent, it sound more Russian than French. Any tips?
I am French but born and raised in Germany. So my accent is terrible. :)) thanks a lot
watching this so i can improve for my french presentation 🤷♀️🤷♀️
Learning to do gambit
I just wanna sound like the spy
Thank you so much! I might have a chance to play in Baskerville😂
Wow!!! I hope you get the part! I need to learn this for an audition for Yvette from clue
Learning this for the Ace Attorney Recipe Turnabout.
This is such a great video
😄😄
Can you do like a slavic one?
Thanks 🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾🔥🔥🔥
Of course 👍🏼👍🏼
sounds great
💯
as someone french, there is no real french accent, like 200 years ago there was a language per region and now there are a lot of accents depending on where and even iin france some people dont even agree on whole words so yeah its very hard
Excellent Acting 🎭 Tips !!! Thank you
Of course!!
I watched this now realizing I have a French accent
Im learning this to troll people on COD 😭
Not me using these for the last 3 shows I've been in.
I clicked on this when i saw Timothee chalamet❤😂
reminds of shelby's shawrma
Damn dude you are dashing
Could you do the German accent next
👍🏼👍🏼
I'm here trying to find a way to write a character with a French accent with just saying it's a French accent