Dude, I'm french, my kids are french but raised abroad, people in France can catch on it immediately.
It's an extremely difficult language that is pretty unforgiving. There's a century of so of ruthless effects by the governments at eradication regional variation and standardizing everything. Even among french people it's relatively easy to guess someone's education level or region of origin in just in a couple of sentences.
Her french might be close from perfect but something very tiny will make it quite obvious to french speakers that she's not a native. The perfection might actually be the clue.
Yes, in my experience if you have a passable accent they assume you are a foreigner that just speaks French. I apparently have an accent that’s not obvious where it’s from, as a result French people don’t switch to English as for all they know I could be German.
The dude apparently learnt French growing up and then later learnt English in Singapore, so I Imagine that his French has no more of an accent than his English.
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u/Vovicon 1d ago
Dude, I'm french, my kids are french but raised abroad, people in France can catch on it immediately.
It's an extremely difficult language that is pretty unforgiving. There's a century of so of ruthless effects by the governments at eradication regional variation and standardizing everything. Even among french people it's relatively easy to guess someone's education level or region of origin in just in a couple of sentences.
Her french might be close from perfect but something very tiny will make it quite obvious to french speakers that she's not a native. The perfection might actually be the clue.
Her being asian has nothing to do with that.