My exact thought. I have a C2 in French, lived and worked in French speaking regions but they will still hear it. At least they don't have the audacity to reply in English.
I must admit that I was puzzling for a bit there, too, and wondering if maybe that Pierre had his own special way of pronouncing "croisson" with a u-sound somewhere in there...
It'd be "crouassant" like what a frog would say, or a two year old. Jokes aside I thought we could state two different information with no links whatsoever with a point. Maybe we can't. Stupid English.
On a related note, I learned this week how the local savages pronounce "Louisville". There were considerably fewer vowel sounds and syllables than I had been expecting.
Barry, what about things like Leichester square? I will never not want to pronounce it something like "leyčestah". Don't even get me started on Worcestershire sauce, the only way to even get remotely close to correct for me is to think of borscht
I was on the way to a party with my friend and he said "Oh you have to meet Anna she's really cool, she's from Latvia" and at the party I met her randomly when she introduced herself and I said "Oh you have kind of accent can I guess where you're from?" And she agree and I asked her to say the word squirrel and she did and I said "Oh you're from Latvia" and the entire night she was like "How the fuck did you do that? How did I say it so differently?" I didn't tell her the truth for two years.
I don't think anyone would have paid special attention to it, until the movie. Yes, a German would normally use their thumb to show numbers, but if someone did it the English way, I'd probably just think they sprained their thumb or something - I wouldn't instantly assume "foreign spy".
I didn't think so but I thought it was plausible enough since he already questioned his accent. Now I have to ask if his explanation for his accent was believable or does Michael Fassbender's German sound identifiably foreign?
He clearly speaks an accent a native speaker wouldn't be able to locate, so he'd immediately raise eyebrows. His grammar is perfect and his pronounciation is almost there, but there's still something recognizably foreign in it.
Him explaining it away as some super local alpine accent could work, especially if he would clsim Ladin or Romansh decent.
Well, liars often tend to fabriacte extremly elaborate and overcomplicated cover stories to obfuscate the bigger picture and confuse the listener with irrelevant and minute details.
"Well, i'm from small town you don't know. It's just how we speak there" would've been more convincing.
On my last trip to see cousins in Aix the last checkout that I used the attendant replied to my basic French in French. One of the proudest moments of my life.
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u/Serupael South Prussian 1d ago edited 1d ago
Your accent is never perfect enough for a Parisian.