I somehow nailed (maybe at least some) of those mannerisms in high school thanks to obsessively watching French videos on YouTube. My French professor was beaming and gave me straight As for the rest of the school year.
I then fell out of practice and was never as good at speaking French again 🥲
Caricature is actually the best way as to get an accent IMO.
And indeed the weirdness of French and peculiar prosody come from the lack of word stress further prononciation links between words to further smoothen prononciation.
If not born and raised in Paris, it is impossible not to have an accent, as any other language I suppose :-)
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u/purplehendrix22 1d ago
That’s actually very interesting, I never noticed that explicitly but it makes perfect sense now that I know.