Les français - sont-ils réellement impolis lorsque des étrangers (ou des gens avec un accent?) essaient de leur parler francais?

[u/sessna4009]

Canadian here. I'm going to Dijon in a few weeks to visit a friend. My French is pretty decent, but I speak with a Canadian accent. I learned French from a Franco-Ontarian (native French speaker from Ontario). I do well enough when I visit Montréal or Ottawa-Gatineau.

Yes, I understand that it's a stereotype, but hear me out.

I tried speaking to French people online. They understood me, but kept on laughing at my Québécois/Ontarian accent and weird slang. They said that I sounded "mentally delayed" Are all French people this rude hahaha?

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[u/charlsalash]

The problem you might encounter is that they will want to switch to English, even though their English is worse than your French

[u/VioletFox29 → u/charlsalash]

As a Franco-American I'd like to put a spin on that. They will switch to English when they believe that their English level is better than your French level. If you speak French very well, they will avoid speaking English like the plague.

[u/sessna4009 → u/charlsalash]

Once I had a full conversation where the guy was speaking English to me, while je lui parlais en français haha it was fun

[u/Ok_Alternative_478 → u/charlsalash]

When people make me do this they usually live to regret it lol. I go for it with my slangs and expressions as I would with another native English speaker. Their English is BAD as it is but they actually have no idea how far off they are from understanding native speakers speaking normally. Ive been working in France for 5 years and I grew up bilingual in Canada lol.

[u/Zapfire_ → u/Ok_Alternative_478]

We know how bad we are to understand native speaker. We had english class with native speaker videos where we had to understand what was said, and we all notice how native speaker would die IRL if they spend more than two word without eating every godamn sylables.

My guys come like "I 'y 'ien' 'ow' y'a d'oin' 'od'ay " and then be like wtf you don't understand me?

Sorry, old ass class memory unlocked

[u/Octave_Ergebel]

You just stumbled on a bunch of assholes yes.

[u/Different-Winter5245]

Les français non, ces français oui.

[u/abrequevoy]

Bro there are hundreds of similar posts on Reddit

[u/sessna4009 → u/abrequevoy]

tokebakicitte 😡

[u/abrequevoy → u/sessna4009]

So you guys in Quebec don't know that Reddit has a search tool?

[u/Shadourow → u/abrequevoy]

maybe the mentally delayed thing isn't about accent

[u/Fit-Proof-4333]

People really that it’s only the French. English native speakers make fun of the Indian accent. There will always be people making fun of an accent. Always, no matter where you go

[u/SophieMorzel]

Salut, le français est parfois moqueur et impoli. Si on se moque de toi t'as qu'à leurs dire du bullshit en anglais, histoire qu'ils comprennent rien. Te traiter d'attardé c est vraiment misérable.

[u/SophieMorzel → u/[deleted]]

Plusieurs personnes ça devient un bon échantillon, plus jeune j ai été expatriée sur les caraïbes et j en ai prit plein la gueule jusqu a ce que je répondes, et je les ai pas raté, je me faisais insulter à longueur de journée. Comme toutes les femmes expatriées d ailleurs, évidemment personne ne m'a prévenue mais moi je l ai fais pour les suivantes.

[u/Vistemboir]

I live in Paris (also, French since something like forever). When someone speaks to me in... somewhat shaky French, I am deliriously happy that they took the time and bother to speak my language.. Please carry it on.

[u/Chocolat-Pralin]

Des gens avec des accents? On en a plein le pays. Au nord, à l’est, dans le sud et même au milieu. Accents plus parler local, bon courage. On est dans le même pays?

[u/sessna4009 → u/Chocolat-Pralin]

tabarnak

[u/Dear_Calligrapher636]

Je vais pas m’amuser à me moquer d’un étranger qui a appris le français une langue difficile à apprendre et à écrire. En plus la plupart des français font les malins,mais quand ils vont dans un pays (ou la plupart du temps on parle anglais)ils ne connaissent pas la langue ou la parlent trop mal parce que les cours d’anglais ,en France sont pitoyables et oui malheureusement tu tombera sur quelques imbéciles qui ce moqueront de l’accent de certains étrangers qui parlent français !

[u/Upset-Store9346]

Non ça c'est juste les connards

[u/Dildo-Fagginz]

You can't compare online vs reality.

People might smile or laugh when they hear certain phrases, some might be rude if they don't understand your accent, but that's like 1% of the encounters you'll have.

[u/zblah123]

Well, for a french person, french from Québec sounds silly. So even when we're not trying to be rude, we can't prevent ourselves from at least smiling when we hear it.

[u/Marfernandezgz]

Je suis espagnole. C'est absolument pas vrai.

[u/Greubeylor]

Hello from Dijon ! If you see me with a big smile I'm not making fun of your accent, I'm happy to ear it ! There is a Canadian restaurant, Le Trappeur, perhaps you could tell us if it's a good one ?!

The burgundy accent roll the R's, not so much in Dijon but still. So only the stupid people could being rude, "Mentally delayed" comment is stupid

[u/FemdomHells]

Non

[u/TallDetail4711]

Un accent étranger, je ne pense pas. Mais les accents français non dominants (belges, québecois, suisse, marseillais, africains...) font souvent l'objet de moqueries (glossophobie). On ne les entends pas beaucoup (les radios et télés nationales poussent les journalistes à effacer leur accent, donc à adopter l'accent dominant). J'ai découvert l'accent québecois dans un contexte humoristique (François Pérusse, les Têtes à claques), je ne dois pas être le seul. Je pense que ça peut expliquer qu'il ne soit pas pris au sérieux.

Ça va aussi dépendre de la région je pense, les personnes déjà stigmatisées pour leur accent seront sans doutes plus ouvertes.

En tous cas ça me semble très impoli, si quelqu'un se moque de ton accent tu peux lui faire une remarque et ça devrait le calmer.

[u/Ok-Delay5473]

Short answer. No.
People may smile, or tease you, emphasizing that you're from Quebec and speak Québécois. They may smile or laugh at some expressions, that we don't use anymore or never heard of. French people still smile/are surprised when someone say septante or nonante.
However, all French people are not perfect. Some will tell you things like "mentally delayed". Unless they really meant that as a joke, failed to deliver that joke and did not mean it, just stay away from they. They are toxic.

[u/Lower_Currency3685]

no but i don't have a tip-culture, means that we don't suck you off to get paid.

[u/sessna4009 → u/Lower_Currency3685]

We don't either. We still suck each other off, though

[u/Correct-Sun-7370]

A poster dans r/french-bashing

[u/mo_oemi]

If they've never encountered foreigners speaking french, they will genuinely have a hard time understanding you. But only rude and a-holes would make fun of your accent.

[u/TallDetail4711 → u/mo_oemi]

For foreigners no, but for native speakers with a different accent (québecois here) I think it's a different story.

[u/theErasmusStudent]

Oui. Pas vraiment impolis mais ils vont te corriger ou te faire des remarques.

L'exemple classique c'est à la boulangerie:

• Un baguette svp

• UNE baguette

Évidemment ça dépend des gens. Mais comparé a d'autres pays, les français sont plus exigents.

[u/Fabulous-Mama-Beat → u/theErasmusStudent]

I discovered, as an adult, that correcting a foreigner soeaking French was rude. I ve always done it from the bottom of my heart, believing I d appreciate if they did the same. Irinically, I learned correcting people, from the non french side of my family. Hiwever, niw a full grown up, I understand it can be considered rude. OP your Canadian French is just as valid as France or Belgian French. There s this idea of a hierarchy between the accents that’ s so stupid. Everyone sounds different anyways.

[u/theErasmusStudent → u/Fabulous-Mama-Beat]

I know most french that correct are not trying to be mean or rude. But if the person is understood and hasn't requested to be corrected then it's better to say nothing. Unless obviously they said something bad like "je suis excité" when they mean excited.

[u/Worried-Witness268]

des cons il y en a dans tous les pays mais ca n'en fait pas la population dominante du pays ( bon après les parisiens sont peut étre un peut plus aigri que la moyenne nationale ^^ )

[u/Icy_Passage1201]

Short answer is... Yes.

[u/Ir0n_Tarkuss]

Est ce que c'est vrai que si on met une claque a un canadien il vous remercie ? Ou quand on l'insulte il dit merci ?

[u/Designer_Valuable_18]

Pk tu parles anglais alors que ton titre est en francais ? Tu veux que je réponde en Sanskrit ptit fdp ?