My bestfriend is a native Acadian speaker from the North-West part of New Brunswick (Grand Falls/Edmunston - I'd write Campbellton, but apparently Campbellton has it's own accent) and I actually got quite good at understanding him and his family. (don't know if I'd still be good, since I haven't been exposed to it again for a while now.)
I loved the sound of it. I think it's probably pretty different still from Chiac though. Gab told me that he didn't like the way the Acadian sounded in the Moncton area - he thought it had too much English and, ironically, given what you just wrote, he thought it was too SLOW.
I don't speak french, so I can't explain how he talks, besides that it's like happy mountains and valleys... or incredulous mountains and valleys, depending on the mood... but only ever those two. :P
I actually kind of loved it, though I knew I had no chance of ever understanding the rules of how they put sentences together.
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Date: 2014-06-24 04:24 am (UTC)I loved the sound of it. I think it's probably pretty different still from Chiac though. Gab told me that he didn't like the way the Acadian sounded in the Moncton area - he thought it had too much English and, ironically, given what you just wrote, he thought it was too SLOW.
I don't speak french, so I can't explain how he talks, besides that it's like happy mountains and valleys... or incredulous mountains and valleys, depending on the mood... but only ever those two. :P
I actually kind of loved it, though I knew I had no chance of ever understanding the rules of how they put sentences together.