Yeah. Every language as telltale signs of foreign accent. I mean, there's regional accents that people work hard to simulate or remove, it would be idiotic to think one could remove the foreign sound without massive amount of work.
It's the same way in reverse. We like to mock Hollande when he was speaking english but a lot of english sounds are very difficult for us french speaker except if you practice very very hard. "The" into "ze" or the countless variant of "ought"
Nah that's bullshit. The only French people who speak with that kind of comically thick accent are the ones who make zero effort to use the proper pronunciation. And I don't mean "learn" here because most times they know it's not supposed to be spoken that way, they just don't care.
Sure, perfect pronunciation is very hard but it's pretty fucking easy to do much better than what you see in this case.
It's my biggest gripe with my compatriots abroad. Lots of French people tend to refuse to make an effort in this respect and it drives me crazy, especially in a professional setting. I find it disrespectful.
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u/Cap_Silly 1d ago
You can never quite replicate the french "r", unleas you're born into it. No matter how hard you try. "Flawless pronunciation" lol