How good is your French accent? • Hacker News Board

Re: How good is your French accent?

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Post by Philadelphia » Sat, Apr 09, 2016, 7:43 PM UTC

jmnicolas wrote: post #139

nkrisc wrote: post #57

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My wife (we're American) watches a lot of British programming, and for some shows she has to put on the subtitles. Between certain English accents and slang, it's hard to follow sometimes.

As a French I never found an American TV show that I had difficulties with (love the Appalachian accent btw) but English shows were another matter (usually when there are criminals). But if you tell me it's difficult even for Americans I'm a bit reassured about my abilities ;-)

BBC America used to have a banner before certain programs suggesting that some people may want to put on closed captioning for the show.

Re: How good is your French accent?

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Post by nkrisc » Tue, Apr 12, 2016, 5:40 PM UTC

jmnicolas wrote: post #139

nkrisc wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My wife (we're American) watches a lot of British programming, and for some shows she has to put on the subtitles. Between certain English accents and slang, it's hard to follow sometimes.

As a French I never found an American TV show that I had difficulties with (love the Appalachian accent btw) but English shows were another matter (usually when there are criminals). But if you tell me it's difficult even for Americans I'm a bit reassured about my abilities ;-)

Rest assured, there are American accents I can't even understand. The most recent example on American TV that comes to mind is some of the characters in the first season of True Detective. Some of those Deep South accents, particularly from the bayou in Louisiana are beyond my comprehension.

Re: How good is your French accent?

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Post by the4dpatrick » Wed, Apr 13, 2016, 12:54 AM UTC

rconti wrote: post #21

Heh, kinda cool! Definitely in its beginning stages, but I had to try it out as I'm probably a target market; studied French for ~10 years (middle school, high school, some university), and have spent a total of perhaps 6 months in France -- But I've not lived there permanently, and haven't really used the language in perhaps 10 years. I'm at the point where I'd have a hard time following dialogue in a TV show (altho…

Since you're apart of the target market, mind sending me an email? (email in profile)