mardi 18 octobre 2011

Typical French usages.


The strongest accent, and without any doubt the most difficult to understand comes from Quebec. In this area, people speak their own language, in a way explained in the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw5Re7k1KBA&feature=related

Inside France, some people don’t understand well each other, especially because of the differences of accent and pronunciation of certain words, and sometimes also because of vocabulary particularities/ special expressions. It could be the case in some rural area in the North of France, even though the following scene is quite exaggerated. The show starts here from 01:06:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY5cWL4SUmw

Here is an example of a French high level usage, characterized by several words from a high level vocabulary, as: “errer/ errance, aboutir, péril, s’expose, surgir”… This comes from a quite well-known Fench writer, Pascal QUIGNARD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KllcGBhHExo

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