How to Speak With a French Accent

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Athena Reich, and I'm an actress and acting coach here in New York City. In this clip I'm going to talk about how to speak with a French accent. Well you can get a book and a CD if you go to the dramabookshop.com about how to speak with a French accent, you can go to an acting coach, there's lots of ways you can do it. But you should really learn how to speak French, that will help, well you don't have to learn, but that's one way that will help, you can just get an acting accent book, you can fake it too, totally. But in general speaking with a French accent, a lot of the sounds are in the front of the mouth, the "r", it's in the back, it's not an "r" that's there, it's there, so "hey buddy, who Bob"; "I love to eat raspberries". Now the accent, the strong syllable is always at the last, so if you say, elephant, in English we would say, elephant, the accent is on the first syllable, but the accent is always, for every word in French, on the last, so, "I am going to the store". And also we cannot say "th" sound, so they can't say "th" it's too difficult. So that is speaking with a French accent, this has been Athena Reich in New York City."