{"id":8768,"date":"2019-09-04T11:33:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T11:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.frenchlanguagesalon.com\/?p=8768"},"modified":"2020-01-21T21:06:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T21:06:30","slug":"how-to-speak-french-like-a-french-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchlanguagesalon.com\/french-culture-en\/how-to-speak-french-like-a-french-person\/","title":{"rendered":"How to speak French like a French person"},"content":{"rendered":"
The vocabulary and sayings that we are going to see here are to be used in a social context<\/strong><\/span>, with friends or family. When you are in a professional setting, we advise you to stay with your scholarly French and avoid any “slang” or improper language techniques.<\/p>\n Speaking a language fluently is not only to know the words and the grammar<\/strong><\/span> of this language. It is also to understand the different meanings of the words and what they can imply both traditionally and non-traditionally. It is also knowing those little things, those little “additions” that come with the words in a conversation.<\/p>\n To begin with, in French, we don’t say “hmm” but rather “heu…<\/strong><\/span>“ (phonetic: {\u00f8}).<\/em> A typically french sound that punctuates many conversations. To use during a pause or an hesitation.<\/p>\n Then, there are the famous “oulala<\/span><\/strong>“, and “ah bon?<\/strong><\/span>“, “hein<\/span><\/strong>“. Those words that we add to conversations like an extra punctuation.<\/p>\n The negation is a complex matter in French. “Ne… pas” is the form that is mainly used but it is important to know that French people tend to forget the “ne<\/em>” when they speak.<\/p>\n To continue with the negation, the sentence that you will hear very often and that can sound surprising is the “Je ne sais pas<\/em>” (I don’t know) that becomes “Je sais pas<\/strong><\/span>” and often “J’sais pas<\/strong><\/span>” or even “Ch’sais pas<\/strong><\/span>“. Once again, it is good to know about it to understand your interlocutor, but not always as good to use it.<\/p>\n So, here are some little things that you can add to your french<\/span><\/strong> (in addition to our list of French Slang<\/a>“), once you reached an advanced level<\/a>. Here, I don’t speak about accent, first because there are many francophone accents, there is not one french accent. Then, because your accent will often be your asset, mainly to start a conversation. And as an American would say that the French accent is cute in English, a French will find the American accent “tr\u00e8s mignon”.<\/p>\n Feel free to share other examples of those little things that give all his charms to “la langue de Moli\u00e8re”.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The vocabulary and sayings that we are going to see here are to be used in a social context, with friends or family. When you are in a professional setting, we advise you to stay with your scholarly French and avoid any “slang” or improper language techniques. Speaking a language fluently is not only to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2076,37,47,67,2048],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/frenchlanguagesalon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/092419-speakfrench.jpg?fit=2000%2C1038&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kt18-2hq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2901,"url":"https:\/\/frenchlanguagesalon.com\/french-language\/pardon-my-french\/","url_meta":{"origin":8768,"position":0},"title":"Pardon my French!","date":"January 16, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"At school, in group classes or private lessons, we learn proper French, the French of\u00a0Moli\u00e8re\u00a0and\u00a0Victor Hugo. 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