Which French accent is vowel friendly?

I like french!   Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:37 pm GMT
Which French accent is vowel friendly? The Northern one or the southern one ?

I have heard that the Northerners pronounce <bonjur sa va > and the Southerners <bnjur sva> Or is the other way around ?
Guest   Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:52 pm GMT
The southern one keeps the vowels.

Exemple:

"Qu'est-ce qui se passe" will be pronounced
"keskispass" in northern
"keskissepasse" in southern

"Qu'est-ce que tu veux?"
"kestuveu" in northern french
"kesketuveu" in southern

even in words without vowel somle southern pronounce it :

ex: "pneu"
"pneu" in northern
"peuneu" in southern
Guest   Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:57 pm GMT
They both pronounce that bonjour phrase the same way akin to your first example. Yes, like the above poster, I think the Northern accent might be simpler since certain syllables are often discarded, especially due to the mute 'e'. e.g. je te ferais savoir, becomes: j't'le f'rais savoir.
I like french!   Fri Dec 30, 2005 1:55 pm GMT
Merci beaucoup ! for examples !
Guest   Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:43 pm GMT
Thank you very much. You have been most helpful.
Eric   Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:37 pm GMT
Furthermore, in the southern French accent words of more than one syllable have one of their syllables stressed, making it much easier to tell where a word ends and where another begins.
Kelly   Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:35 am GMT
Merci beaucoup
[mexsi buku] ;)
Eric   Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:22 pm GMT
My pleasure. :)

However, merci beaucoup is not pronounced the way you wrote it.
It's either

[mERsi boku] (northern accent)

or

[mERsi bOku] / [mExsi bOku] (southern accent).
Kelly   Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:44 pm GMT
[buku] is also very used, it's more closed than [boku]
Eric   Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:34 am GMT
"[buku] is also very used, it's more closed than [boku]"

Err... no.
French born but noit espe   Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:07 am GMT
I am french but i don't especially like France....


99% of french are stupid
Irrintzi   Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:38 am GMT
<< I am french but i don't especially like France....


99% of french are stupid >>

Why this strange opinion?
Eric   Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:41 pm GMT
"Why this strange opinion?"

No particular reason. Just a troll trying to be fed. Don't feed it.
french against myself   Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:03 am GMT
99% of the people of the country i am from are stupid because they vote for stupid presidents and after that they complain about that. It is only in latin countries the people complain all the time! I don't lmike France, some people think it is a nice counttry when in fact it is rubbish!
greg   Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:12 am GMT
Eric :

« [mERsi boku] (northern accent)

or

[mERsi bOku] / [mExsi bOku] (southern accent). »




T'as souvent été dans le Sud ?!?

Je dirais plutôt Nord = Sud = [mERsiboku] (X-Sampa) = [mɛʁsiboku] (API).