do French Canadians speak English with a french accent or speak french with a English accent?

Question

What about english canadians? They seem to have identical accent to americans with some subtle differences.

Answer 1

Most French Canadians in Quebec speak English with varying degrees of a French accent. The late Canadian Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau (1968 -1980) was one of the few exceptions I've heard. He was half French Canadian and from Quebec.

Once you get outside Quebec, most French Canadians speak English no differently than Anglo-Canadians or Americans. Many like a park manager I once knew, Roy Bilodeau can't speak a word of French.

I've never heard of Canadian French or (Quebecois) being called bad or incorrect French. The Cajun French of Louisiana is the one that always seems to get a bum rap with some people calling it atrocious compared to Parisian French.

Canadian English is much the same as English in the northern and western United States except that it contains some Briticisms like "mum" for mom, "leftenant" for lieutenant, "samyoorai" for samurai, "postman" for mailman, "letter box" for mailbox and the quasi-British "shejool" for schedule. There is a joke that it comes from them listening to too many speeches by the Queen.

Canadian English is at its strongest in the rural and northern towns of Canada where words like house and mouth definitely sound like "hohss" and "mohth." and a couch is still called a chesterfield. Victoria, Vancourver, Calgary and Regina are too close to the American border so this may not always be the case in these places.

However, the differences between Canadian English and Standard American English pale in comparison to the American English of the southern United States. Someone once said that the real division in English North America is not the U.S. - Canadian border but the Cumberland gap. I for one, pretty much agree.

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do French Canadians speak English with a french accent or speak french with a English accent?
What about english canadians? They seem to have identical accent to americans with some subtle differences.

Answer 3

Canadian French has a different accent from French in France, so their accent when speaking English is different. To me, the accent isn't all that different, but my brother-in-law from France says it is very noticeable to people in France. Back some years ago, he said French Canadian popular music was preferred in France because it had a great sound. when they would interview the musicians on TV, everyone in France was going "What??!!" or (quoi?!) because the accent was so difficult to understand. Remember that the French have been in Canada since the 1500's, so their language has developed into one uniquely their own.

English-speaking Canadians sound very much like U.S. Americans in neighboring states over the border. Coming from the northern states, it isn't all that different to me, except for the use of some local phrases and the great Canadian "ote and abote" sound. The US has far more varied accents throughout the country.

Answer 4

french canadians speak english french accent speak french english accent

Answer 5

Umm, i don't exactly know what you mean but.. I'm Canadian and i know that we have a 'accent', we talk fast and say 'Eh' a lot. oh and when you said about English Canadains, that makes no sense at all. cause' were english aren't we? So yeayh.
and i heard a American speak one time and im pretty sure canadians don't talk like that.
French Canadians have a French accent when they speak English.

Answer 6

I imagine they'd speak either laguage (French or English) with a Canadian accent, since they are Canadians.

Answer 7

Neither. They speak a dialect of French.

English-speaking Canadians speak a dialect of English which is similar to US English, eh.

Answer 8

I am part Canadian,part European and Part French. I do have an english accent.

Answer 9

they speak french as french ppl but some expressions are different. they got an accent as a region in france.
we call them Our cousins in france

Answer 10

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