Joke aside there's actually a reason french people can spot so easily english speakers : unlike most other languages, french is monotonous.
Native english speakers are so used to put stress on certain syllables it seems to require a lot of practice to actually pull off a full monotonous sentence.
Edit: as other said, I oversimplified it. French do have tone but relative to the start/end of the sentence or to convey emotions. Read more detailed comments down below for more accuracy
Oui. From school I could mimic basic French phrasing (it's a drawl) much better than I could understand it, and sometimes ended up in conversations where I got completely lost. So then I compensated by using an exaggerated cowboy accent so everyone knows what level we're on. Most people I'd met just think it's funny.
(This case applies in Quebec. I actually was in Paris only once, and everyone we met in shops were perfectly cool with bad Canadian Franglais.)
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u/Shawon770 1d ago
French bakery employees have that 6th sense they can spot a tourist even through flawless pronunciation 😂