What French accent does Steve have?

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Marianne said that Steve’s French accent is more to Québécois. My French tutor that I meet in Hong Kong also said he sounds more Québécois.

BUT - For me he doesn’t even sound Québécois at all. He sounds closer to France French than any other accent all together.

Can Steve, or someone else confirm his accent?

(not that it really matters, but I’d like to know as I listen to his French a lot and it’s good to have a reference)

Like Céline Dion has a 100% Québec sounding accent. Steve sounds NOTHING like her… so I’m not sure where this Québec accent for Steve has come from.

Thanks.

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I thought his accent was much closer to that of France than Quebec. Steve is from a different generation and lived in France a long time ago. Sometime when I hear French men from his generation, for example on French Radio, they remind me a little bit of how Steve speaks.

It would be interesting to hear what native speakers have to say.

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I also thought it sounded more like in France rather than a Canadian accent. After all he has lived in France. Furthermore, the Canadians even use different words and anglisms so it is not just a question of pronunciation. Other than that, I don’t think too much about Steve’s accent in foreign languages or my own accent for that matter. Listen to a variety of native speakers and you’ll get a feel for the different regional accents.

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"the Canadians even use different words and anglisms (sic) "

Standard Euro French contains more Anglicisms than Quebec French.

“In Quebec, anglicisms are never used in formal documentation (government papers, instruction sheets) and very rarely used in informal writing (magazines, journals). Where the use of an anglicism is unavoidable, it is generally written in italics.”

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I also think Steve’s French is more like that of France.

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Maybe it is not English loanwords then but a lot of words are certainly different.

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Steve’s accent, including his intonation, sounds very French to my Québécois ears. This is definitely not the kind of French one would learn in Québec.

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Hi,
Steve have NOT the Québécois accent but a French Accent. I confirm! Indeed It’s amazing, when you know how strong is the Quebecois accent is ( I find it of course I am French ;-)).

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Hi,
Steve has NOT the Québécois accent but a French Accent. I confirm! Indeed It’s amazing, when you know how strong is the Quebecois accent is ( I find it of course I am French ;-)).

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While I group up in Montreal, I lived in the English speaking part of the city and learned French at school, although I could not really carry on a conversation, and essentially did not do so until I got interested in French at university. Then I went off to France where I studied for three years (Political Science). That period shaped my French. Thereafter I lived in Ottawa, Hong Kong, Japan, and Vancouver. I have not lived and worked in Quebec, and for that reason my French would sound more like the French in France, since that has been most of my exposure.