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Language quiz

Simon on 11 Mar 2007

Language and French and Quiz questions | Comments (13)

13 Responses to “Language quiz”

1. Colm on 11 Mar 2007 at 6:47 pm #

   1. France
   2. Belgium
   3. Quebec (Canada)
   4. Switzerland

2. Mike on 11 Mar 2007 at 6:56 pm #

   I agree with Colm.
   1. France
   2. Belgium
   3. Québec
   4. Switzerland

   If you want to hear true Québécois at its best go to: www.tetesaclaques.tv. These short clips and the website have become something of a cultural phenomenon here in Québec and is hugely popular. It really gives you a flavor of the phonology, the lexicon and the expressions here. :) Enjoy!

3. Colm on 11 Mar 2007 at 9:20 pm #

   Merci bien Mike! :-)

4. David on 12 Mar 2007 at 2:03 am #

   Oui, I also agree with Colm

   France
   Belgium
   Quebec
   and Switzerland

5. Karim on 12 Mar 2007 at 4:23 am #

   It would be interesting to do this with Arabic dialects/variants. I tried a simple online survey with a bunch of songs sometime ago and found most people thought most Eastern dialects sounded identical.

6. Evans Knight on 12 Mar 2007 at 6:27 am #

   what? no ‘cadien?

7. Travis on 12 Mar 2007 at 7:00 am #

   Before having read the previous posts, I had incorrectly guessed that number two came from Southern France. I noticed the announcer in the sample highlighted a final e at the end of several of his words: souhaite, podium, coupe, and réussite. My friend from Bergerac emphasizes these final e’s also. I’m glad to hear that this is done in Belgium. Vivent les e muets qui ont trouvé leur voix.

8. ISPKN on 12 Mar 2007 at 2:34 pm #

   I could only recognize the first one as France and the third one as Quebec, but I’m glad that everyone else seems to agree.

9. Simon on 12 Mar 2007 at 4:42 pm #

   Here are the answers:

   Recording 1
   Country: France
   Radio Station: france inter

   Recording 2
   Country: Belgium
   Radio Station: Bel RTL

   Recording 3
   Country: Canada (Quebec)
   Radio Station: CKAC 730AM

   Recording 4
   Country: Switzerland
   Radio Station: Radio Suisse Romande

10. James on 06 Apr 2007 at 2:52 pm #

    I am an addict of these guess the accent things

    (1) France. Love it ´changer´ ídentité´and facile…

    (2) Belgium: hard to say why (though I lived there for 9 months but that was more than 10 years ago).

    (3) canadian: never heard the accent before and the pronunciation of the english words: Cat Stevens

    (4) Swiss.

    I have to admit to being a snob with French accents: only the french one sounds ´right´ to me :)

    James

11. Questioneer??? on 20 Apr 2007 at 9:55 pm #

    This is rather interesting because to me the one from Belgium sound the most right to me. I believe I can attribute this to the fact that my first French teacher was from Belgium but the one from France also seems correct.

12. art on 11 Nov 2007 at 5:31 am #

    the swiss one was pretty easy to figure out i guess, because she says “geneve” and the Quebecois one was silly because he said all those English names.

13. Doodee on 31 Jan 2008 at 5:00 pm #

    Thanks for sharing