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[dookdawg214]

You should warn people that your accent isn't French. It seems like it's Canadian but you're trying to hide it. In any case, that little girl is definitely Canadian.

[JouelletteTutoring]

@dookdawg214 - Hello, and thank you for your comment! Though I first thought I'd remove it (for inaccuracy), I decided to leave it and let everybody make their own opinion, regardless. Should you compare MY accent with the accent of a Canadian (the little girl in the video, for example), Parisian or Moroccan, you will see that I speak STANDARD French. That little girl IS Canadian, as I teach all over the world (I have students, as you can see on my website, from Algeria, Canada, Kuwait and US).

[dookdawg214]

@JouelletteTutoring

You sound like you're trying hard for a standard French accent, but I can hear a foreign accent come through. Anyway, it's not a big deal. It's very subtle.

[JouelletteTutoring]

@dookdawg214 - I am not born in Canada and Standard French is French WITHOUT AN ACCENT, referred to as ACADEMIC French. This is an educated accent, it is not something you learn in your environment. I wonder where do you have Your sample of Standard French that you compare mine with. In my experience, only a few selected African countries speak it and I doubt that many people have access to that. If you do, I invite you to compare mine with it, and I assure you that you will see no difference.

[dookdawg214]

@JouelletteTutoring

I'm not criticizing you. Perhaps I'm wrong to use the word "standard." All I know is, people living in France don't have exactly the same accent as you. Although it's close. 

[JouelletteTutoring]

@dookdawg214 - No offense taken! You are using the word "standard" inaccurately. In France there are hundreds of accents, the French spoken in Paris is very fast and the words are linked together. Not to mention the other accents (really, dialects) in the country. I am not teaching that language, though "Parisian" is what people assimilate with "Standard". I teach the French Without an Accent, that you can use all over the world. Should you want to add an accent (i.e. Canadian), it's a choice.

[dookdawg214]

@JouelletteTutoring

OK, I got it. Sorry, I was using the word wrong. Anyway, do you ever come to Paris?

[JouelletteTutoring]

@dookdawg214 The Standard (Academic) French, is taught in Universities. Not in the street, colleges or even acting schools, where you typically end up learning the most commonly used accent. You can, however, put on an accent on top of the Standard language; harder to put on an accent on top of another accent. Standard language is understood by all those speaking with an accent, but it's difficult to understand others and make yourself understood when using an accent. I go to Paris regularly :)