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French of France vs Switzerland
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15/06/2020 12:43:54
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Linguistic
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French
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Hi Daniel,

Thank you so much.

Reason I asked is I started listening (on a B2-C1 level) online to a guy from Switzerland. Of course, I cannot hear any difference in his french speech. And yet I was wondering if I was going to learn some bad french pronunciation :) (just kidding). I like this guy a lot.

Merci beaucoup !




>Hi Dmitry,
>
>Zero issue with Switzerland (and Belgium by the way).
>
>You can certainly recognize that there is a very slight and pleasant difference in the was people speak. But this is definitely exactly the same language.
>
>There is some limited difference in terms of the way people speak French in the "hexagon". But way less than say German or English in the UK. France is still highly integrated, for both good and bad!
>
>Merci Louis le quatorzième, Napoléon and centuries of centralized administration.
>
>Daniel
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