Re: French r
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 10:33 |
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At 13:22 1.9.2003 -0400, Isidora Zamora wrote:
>My French accent, however, is *far* better than my
>French, which is only slightly better than nonexistant.
It's the same with me. I've always been a good phonetic
mimic. With my father it was decidedly the other way
around: the horridest accent with each French sound
replaced by the nearest equivalent (string) in his
native Swedish 'lect (Schö pangs kö schö pa[r]l frangsä),
but a passable grammar.
> When I was in
>France and explained, "Je ne parle pas Francais," people refused to believe
>me because I sounded so good.
That one was easy. I just imitated my Dad's accent.
/BP 8^)
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