Can The French Speaking Countires Understand Each Other? (France, Quebec, Belgium)

Fun Fact: Despite Quebec french often being mocked for how it sounds, studies have actually shown that Quebec french sounds more like what 17th Century French Aristocracy spoke, also known as 'The King's French.' The pronunciation and drawn out or shortened words that were mentioned are all things that came from the 17th century language. Some historians have even claimed that Quebec is the most like the old french, while France seems to have become the new and foreign country. So! To all my Quebecois speakers out there, if you ever happen to be mocked by someone for your accent or way of speaking, remember that you are speaking the King's French!

I'm French and the French girl is so rude making fun of that poor Quebec girl every time she says something

The Canadian girl is so much nicer than the two European girls. The French girl makes comment such as "it doesn't make sense" and "she said it in a strange way". And the Belgian girl laughs when the other talk. Seriously, they are so impolite. Meanwhile, the Canadian shows manner.

En tant que Français, j'ai honte de la façon dont la Française et la Belge se moquent de la Québécoise. Chers cousins d'outre-Atlantique, j'espère que vous n'aurez pas (ou le moins possible...) ce genre d'interaction ! Votre variété de français est parfaite comme elle est, ne changez rien. Nous en revanche, il faudrait vraiment qu'on éduque notre population au respect des accents des autres !

As a québécois myself, I can’t tell you from first hand experience, Every European French person I’ve ever spoken to in French always gives us the dirtiest look and judges us , followed by answering in english. So the fact that the other girls are laughing totally tracks unfortunately

No lie this is why I have a hard time making French friends abroad (as a Quebecer). they will ALWAYS point out things we say differently and it gets very annoying... (you can see it in these videos too) it's like they have a hard time accepting that french dialects and expressions that are different than theirs exist lol

Wow the girls from France and Belgium should be ashamed of themselves. They were so condescending the whole time to the girl from Quebec, she was really kind and polite to tolerate that!!

as a person from Québec, we understand PERFECTLY people from France and Belgium and can very EASILY imitate their accent. But they can't do it for us. I think it's a skill issue on their part.

As I am watching this, me, Quebecoise, just came to the realization that my French coworker was in fact not talking about an actual island off the north coast of France but an actual city. I also never actually looked it up on a map either. I'm dead.

hope they do Haitian french, Swiss french, cameroonian french would be interesting

I (a Canadian) used to be a tour guide and I remember a couple from France telling me about how ridiculous Canadian French is. They were straight up making fun of it and saying they couldn’t understand a word of it. I’m not French speaking but I remember thinking how rude it seemed. It’s unfortunate this video kind of made me think of that encounter again. Luckily there weren’t any Quebecers on that tour but I’ll never forget it!

This is so classic. The Canadian girl is sweet and kind as expected. The girl from France was snobby and condescending. Ironiquement , c'est exactement ce à quoi l'on s'attendait.

Poor Girl from Quebec, I felt so bad for her because she looked very uncomfortable. The 2 girls were so disrespectful the way they were making fun of her, trying hard to "correct" her while laughing out loud for no reasons.

As a Belgian, you can clearly hear from the Belgian girl that she is first language Dutch (Flemish) and secondly French. She speaks French fluently but you can hear there is some Dutch accent hidden in there. When someone from the South (French part) speaks fluent Dutch, we can also hear there is some french accent in their Dutch

The way they always laugh at the girl from Québec as soon as she says a word. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I'm also from Québec and I can understand French people just fine. My best friend is French and she can understand me just fine. I swear they picked the rudest French girl they could find. 🙄

Fun fact: The Quebec French is closer to the older French. We also use fewer English words than the French from France. Where the French saying "shopping", we say "magasiner", the French say "le parking" we say "le stationnment", etc.

As a french myself, I never had any problems to understand Belgian. + We completely understand Quebec, it’s just a little harder bc they have an accent which is a little stronger than us. Let’s not talk abt our expressions lol. We speak the same language but sometimes we still don’t understand each other’s expressions haha

Québécois sounds natural and beautiful. The other two seemed to redicule her language and acted like they are above the Canadian, but that was expected

Even as an anglo-canadian, I learned french from Northern Quebecois folks - and people from France STILL disapprove and say how strong my accent is. I'm all for Quebecois french - I want my kids to speak french like the Quebecois do.

La québécoise est trop charmante et trop douce. Moi je suis Algérienne et personnellement je comprends bien l’accent québécois 😅❤