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Originally Posted by Razor
This may of been posted before, but to me this is classic small town Ontario, although I'm sure their accent represents a broader Anglo Canada..These guys may even be from the prairies. who knows. Can francophones distinguish between different NA Anglo accents?.I know that I can tell Northern Ontario and New Brunswick French from Quebec French.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-glHAzXi_M
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My kids have grown up francophone in Quebec. They can understand and speak English but it's definitely their second language.
They can't really tell your average Anglo-Canadian apart from an American with a fairly neutral accent. Someone with a strong Southern or New Yawk accent, yes. (My wife and I, who grew up in Anglo-Canada, are better at this than they are but we still aren't 100%.)
My kids can tell a British accent apart from a (North) American accent fairly easily, but not so much British from say Australian.
They of course are pretty good at identifying the various francophone accents from Canada and around the world.