DIFFERENT FRENCH ACCENTS w/ French Native Speaker 

StreetFrench.org C’est une vidéo intéressante mais si avoir présenté l’accent normand (Ouest) ne donne pas suite sur l’accent (Est) pourquoi parler d’un seul côté ? Oubli ? Ça met à la trappe tous les accents germaniques et limitrophes à la Belgique l’Allemagne et Suisse. Il y a mon sens 5 grands accents en métropole. Vous en citez que 4 oui je ne suis pas très pertinent mais 70 K de vues bah ne le sauront pas du coup snif .

Franche comté et aveyron pour compléter, ainsi que lyonnais et l'accent de banlieue et tout y est.

I live in france, and am very well versed about politics. JLM (Jean-Luc -élenchon) Was just tired of everyone asking him about Marine Le Pen. So he used this guy as a way to express he would not answer about it anymore.

There are also the Breton accents of Lower Brittany (known as "Bretonnante" with a language of Celtic origin). Coming from this region, I must say that in France, it is almost never mentioned. There are several accents because we consider that there are 4 Breton dialects. The accent of Trégor (North Brittany, around Lannion and Tréguier) seems to me the most particular: many tonic accents on the penultimate syllable (as in standard Breton) and especially the pronunciation of the "r" which looks more like an English or even American "r". But it is quite localized and is disappearing quickly because it only concerns the older generations who speak both Breton and French. I find that young people who speak Breton do so with a French accent, particularly by not respecting the tonic accent as well as the elders did. The older ones used to pronounce French with for many words a tonic accent on the penultimate syllable as in Breton. My mother who spoke Breton told me that her Breton accent when she spoke in French seemed more universal than the typically French accent. It is true that German and Spanish, for example, have a fairly comparable tonic accent. One of my aunts, the oldest, told me recently that she was mistaken for a German woman on the train between Toulouse and Montpellier.

@@pierrebotella3603 perso je vie a Perros, mais je viens de Brest, j'ai l'accent français mais je cultive l'accent breton, qui fait parti de notre identité

agree! :)

Mike Martin for foreigner learners it is hard

@@fatimaabdullah3657 So true, but in the end worth it I think.

She say one truth , the parisiam accents not exist anymore , the parisiams people who was speaking parisians not exists too ... this kind of genocide have a name , a populicide ...

French can understand what spaniards say because the words are simular or sound the same for example in spanish you say frambuesa and in french frambuase

wow what ? who said that ?? that's a crazy thing to say :/ Yeah it makes no sense...

@@elbowroom7993 ah ouais c'est fou que des gens parlent comme ça!

Weird thing is i used to have a roommate from Quebec who told me that Quebecers speak French properly, but the French no longer do. Goes to show that there's ignorant people everywhere. Also, I have been told that only The Queens English is correct, and that other accents, spellings, and idioms are wrong. Like I said, there's ignorant people everywhere.

@@grennhald ah yeah I guess people have strong opinions and are really proud of their heritage... but they don't often think "what am I basing my judgment on ?"... languages are meant to evolve that's just how it works.

Ne vous en faites pas. A Canadian accent is cool and I wish I could imitate it.

ah yeah makes sense

I'm not a big fan of the Parisian accent.

« The » southern?? There are multiple southern accents, from Bordeaux to Toulouse and Perpignan, Agen, to Marseille and Nice, every accent is different.

@@jeffkardosjr.3825 I like all the French accents: French Polynesian, Franco-African, Quebecois, Lebanese French etc. Gives each community a distinct characteristic.

@@thedarkestcloud I agree. I've traveled to France. Each region, culture, way of speaking is amazing. I just found that, in general, I found that I could understand the people in the southern regions better.

no ?

Ah cool! Thanks for sharing that :)

Yes, exactly. I'm a southerner and this is very true. Southerners are made fun of all the time for their accent. My mother is from the north, I was raised in the south and went to school/worked in the north. I get teased, not in a bad way, for having a little bit of an accent from both regions. Southerners think I have a slight northern accent and northerners think I have a slight southern accent hah. I can't win hah

@@RogerThat902 Ahaha :)

I had someone from Texas tell me my accent was cute... I’m from Arkansas 😁..... but on the same note I had a man from England ask where I was from- and he was visiting our area 😁 I lived in CA for nine months many years ago. I guess it messed with me dude ... 🤗

@@mango2779 I'm sure your accent is lovely :)

you"re welcome :)

ah yeah it's interesting :)

It is true " leur accent est chantant "

Same here. I speak Spanish and English and know a little French and I can only understand people from the south of France. Parisians I can't understand at all.

Yes it's true :)

Yes you are right, in this video we mainly focused on the difference between people from the north and the south of France because our students have never heard them. If you have any videos you can recommend where we can here Swiss or Belgium accents, please feel free to send it to us, I really want to make a second part where I explore French outside of France :)

@@Street_French ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hiYCNIfgV6w.html here you have a theatre play written in 1910, recorded in 1978, where you can hear some real accents from Brussels... Actually it's part of the subject of the play that was a great success, in Belgium but also abroad, it inspired Marcel Pagnol to write his trilogy from Marseilles, realising that a litterar piece with strong regional attachment could really work with the public even outside of its region. The later recordings of the play are good but the accent is not so natural anymore as almost nobody speaks like that anymore...

swiss accents are super hard to study and develop as almost every french speaking canton (there are 7 of them if you include bilingual cantons) has many of its own accents, then you have to take account of the german influence, mainly in the regions of fribourg, jura, bern and valais. you then have to add the french accents spoken by non native french speaking swiss people from the german, italian and romantsch parts,,,good luck with that ahahah

@@tamanoiruzbek8393 same here in Belgium more or less, there is the Brussels accent (like in the link I posted above even if it's not that strong anymore) and even in this one you can here a difference for exemple between the accent of the "rich" people and the domestic... The influence of the Dutch is strong in the accents of Brussels. In the rest of Belgium, there are many differents languages (Dutch and the Flemmish dialects in Flanders, French and the Walloon languages in Wallonia, and German along the border of Germany) and in Wallonia where people speak french you have many different accents like those of Liège, Namur, Mons (same family of accents originally from the Walloon language but with variations in the different areas. You have the Picard influence in the area of Tournai where they have an accent close to the Ch'ti from North of France... I think you can also find a influence from the Luxembourg in the Belgian Luxembourg accent too...

aw very interesting! thanks for sharing all that!

That’s really cool! I don’t really have any of the accents listed here. Since my family moves around a lot. I used to live in Germany and all the shows were in British English, so maybe that’s why I don’t have a specific accent. It’s not exactly midwestern, but there’s some east coast to it, and some of the British influence. Is it possible for someone to not have a specific accent? Or do I still have an accent?

Interesting to know

ah you're welcome! and thanks for sharing :)

ah yeah, in some korean tv shows I've seen people make fun of the Busan accent! is it common?

​@@Street_French hmm.. Busan accent is rly iconic since it's been featured in so many films, etc.On tv shows it's often 'fashionable' or fun to have characters from other regions speak in their distinctive dialects and this doesn't come across as strange i think. and yeah i think certain words/phrases in dialects can become like trendy memes - so somewhat mixed perception (in general tho, in real life if a dialect is 'too strong' there may be a bit of a barrier in communication). Enjoyed the video btw! =)

@@Olivia-od9pu ah interesting :) I used to watch some game shows or other programs something like 5 to 6 years ago and I remember seeing people kind of make fun of that accent but maybe because it was a comedy type show

ah cool :)

ah interesting yeah in France Allo is just for on the phone

ah cool merci pour ce message! oui je vois que la vidéo a bien plu, du coup je vais en faire d'autre avec différents accents et dialectes français :)

:)

Yes I can confirm from when I worked in a call centre calling people from all over the U.K. that Wrexham, in particular, is Scouse central!

pour la partie 2 :)

je viens de faire le même commentaire !!

L'accent breton

@@Street_French y a la bretagne aussi hen, moi ç fait un an et demi que j'y habite et en tant qu'étranger j'ai trouvé l'accent plus proche celui du nord

😂 c'est un peu trop precis

ah cool :) thanks for sharing that with us!

The mexican accent is amazing because lol my friend from mexic and his accent is more than awsome 😍😍😍😍

What about US varieties of Spanish as spoken in California and Texas?

ah cool je suis contente! Par contre moi aussi, étant française je ne savais pas du tout qu'il y avait différents accents québécois. Je l'ai appris en faisant l'erreur dans cette vidéo et en lisant les commentaires après! C'est bien on apprends tous quelque chose comme ça 🤗

Je suis Suisse et même en Suisse francophone, il y a de très nombreux accents différents ! Je ne crois pas que ce soit le cas pour la Wallonie mais il y a surement des petites différences en fonction des régions

Et n'oublions pas toute la région Grand Est: le franc-comtois, jurassien et alsacien (très caractéristiques) et l'accent de la Moselle

ah oui merci pour ces suggestions :)

ah yeah it's the same here

Its exactly the same here except that the channel france 3 you can watch the regional news from each region in france. There you can hear people with regional accent

@@Street_French -- But it's no longer the case in the UK, where we have national newsreaders and radio/tv journalists who speak with Scottish, Welsh, and regional English accents.

Irony, when you consider CNN's based in Atlanta, I know I was there a few months ago.

American newscasters speak in a flat California accent (even in NY!) because of the dominance of the medical companies and Hollywood in Southern California dominating the industry. I grew up in SoCal and noticed that whenever I travelled the people on the local news didn’t have an accent despite the average people living in the area having an accent.

ah yeah true, there's not many of us being confortable in English, but you can find some^^

Ah I see, thanks for sharing that with us!

Ebutuoy - this is so similar to England except that northern England is seen as backwards, unintelligent, poor, and full of peasants; northern English accents are mocked. Some of our political parties hate the north too (like Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative party).

ah so interesting ! I'm glad it was helpful :))

ah yeah I see :)

Its only the corse accent which truly sounds like Italian At first i was even surprise i even said Huh mais c'est du Fratalien(français+italien)

Les Français ne sont pas forts en langues.😉

:))

ah de rien :)

ah interesting :)

@S Hwang I'm from Ontario as well, I'm an Anglo-Canadian so I'm speaking from my experience of being taught French in school rather than at home. I have no doubt that French Ontarians have a similar accent to Quebecois rather than Parisian, but in school they teach French-French rather than than Quebecois-French.

yeah that's true, there's still some languages and dialects still used today that we don't all understand :)

aw interesting !

aw interesting

are you sure you can understand a 100pourcent someone from Scotland? there accent is quite thick haha ^^

@@Street_French Don't think I've heard one... Good question! lol

Ah cool :) maybe we'll do that for part 2

accent from Begium french natives and Switzerland french native!

@@Street_French What about the Algerian accent ? :)

ah interesting, it's cool to hear all your experiences from all over the world ^^

ah yeah will do a second one :)

My wife and I are often asked where in France we come from. Several times people have guessed Alsace. I have no idea what our accent sounds like to the French but we manage to hold a conversation with most people, excepting those who have wooden teeth and mumble.

The accent from differents caraïbe Islands are missing too....

Alsacian and Lorrain accents are from a german type

@@erick64bosck3 ??? A dialect is french since it's by definition depending on the geographical zone. Also, we're talking about accents right now, if I speak french with an alsacian accent, it deserves to be counted as a french accent

oh wow that's an interesting language journey thank you for sharing ^^

ah yeah true^^

ah oui j'ai mal entendu merci :)

haha c'est difficile! ^^

ow wow thanks for sharing that's crazy

@@Street_French London also has the equivalent of Titi. The streets sound very different to 100 years ago now!

I'm fascinated by the way language changes over time. In the Moyen age English nobility all spoke French, but I doubt that it was like the French you speak - they probably rolled the 'r' for one thing.

ah interesting, I don't know about the way they speaking in Mâcon to be honest so I can't help you with that. but yeah in Marseille they really pronounce more syllable than we do haha and the comparison with poetry is interesting, it's pretty close true^^

ow wow ok that's really interesting :/

yeah I don't know :/

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ah yeah that's so interesting though :))

ah yeah true^^

That's because Corse belonged to Italy untill the end of the 18th century.

@@viniciusmerlo100 Before Corsica became part of France, Corsica belonged to Genoa, not Italy. Italy as a country did not exist back then. Italy as a country have only existed since 1861, while Corsica has become a part of France since 1769. So technically, Corsica has never been a part of Italy.

@@leonardkorn2347 Italy existed as a country but not as a state. All the Italian kingdoms, meaning the kingdoms located in what had previously been the Roman province of Italia, shared a language that differentiated them from other Europeans and slightly united them. So Corsica was never Italian, but it was inhabited by people from Italy that spoke the Italian language.

Leonard Korn You're right, but I have one small correction. Corsica was sold to France in 1767. 1769 was when Napoleon Bonaparte was born (in France).

ah yeah I see, there's a bit of that in France too. for example In Paris we speak one way but people who live in Versailles of Neuilly (cities around Paris) they're from a higher economic class so they was they speak could be a bit different etc... but also in France we killed our kings lol .... so today we still don't like to show that too much haha maybe that just my understanding, should get someone else's opinion on that ^^

Yeah its that way in the US to a lesser extent, but still exist. Like we have the southern accent and then if you go to south Louisiana, you will see a whole other example of it. Then if u go specifically to New Orleans it is very much an accent most Americans wouldnt be familiar with. The creole accents of New Orleans have always been interesting to me because of the way they incorporate French with English and the southern Louisianan accent. It all blends together and creates this amazing form of Frenglish that u will only see from them. Absolutely amazing and interesting that we have areas like this in the US.

Ha! This is part of why as an American I'm addicted to Love Island (UK) -- so many different accents, and I love them all, but I'm starting to notice when two residents come from the same town/class. And it takes me back to that brilliant film with Michael Caine, Educating Rita.

No. It's not snobbery. It's due to History .

I read books aloud for recording. I was once given a book that would require a few different Louisiana accents. I took it home and did some research. I'm good with several southern US varieties of speech, but some of these were so different it would have taken me weeks to get them down. One in particular, from a certain part of New Orleans, sounded startlingly like a Brooklyn accent to me. Really surprising. The ones with French influence were less of a problem, but in the end I had to turn down the job.

It's like Parisians don't have time to talk or just don't want to. Southerners take their time. Same in the US. Southerners vs, say, a New Yorker

Southern French speakers do seem actually pronounce more of the letters.

😂As a New Yorker, i find that Southern Americans slur their words more than we do on the East Coast. Southern French and the Québécois woman sounded very much alike with their blurring of vowels. I personally find the Parisian French much more easy to follow.

ow that's amazing :)) it's great that you can be one of the representative of you're region in your country! ^^

What you don't know, it is that Brazilians go often to Canada to learn French instead of France because of the similar accent and music of their language and the ones of the French of Canada.

But in Brazil it’s very common in a group of friends you have people with differents accents and I think this is beautiful. I love being “mineirinha” and speaking my “uai” always.

True

tu é o bixo

ah cool ^^

Well, I'm Chilean and in Chile some people discriminate the Peruvian and the Bolivian accents. I listen less and less this kind of remark, because many people in the country have been working against discriminations. A proof of it is that I haven't heard of any humorist making jokes about that recently. I hope this silly jokes will disappear.

Oh, I wish that was true but sadly it's not, in my experience. I used to work at a place here in Texas where many of the people I worked with were Spanish speakers from South America and the Caribbean, and not only did they tell me about some of the cultural conflict between people from different places across Latin America, there are a few occasions of one Spanish speaker being rude on another Spanish speaker because they though their Spanish was poor. Also, I have heard many stories from South Americans about how poorly Indigenous peoples in South America who speak Spanish as their 2nd language are treated, much in the same ways too many Spanish speakers are treated here in the US when they speak English. I wish this wasn't true but unfortunately, South America is not immune to the kinds of problem we find all over the world.

@@basaka00 funny because Chileans don't speak Spanish properly, Peruvians and Bolivians

@@languagewitch6442 My experience is different in Florida. There are all kinds of accents like Puerto Rican, Colombian, Salvadoran, Honduran, etc. Not once has my Mexican accent been ridiculed or criticized nor have I heard others speak ill of other Spanish dialects or accents. It’s par for the course so it’s not a big deal.

haha :)

Peut être qu'ils étaient vraiment espagnols. 😂😂

Gomez et Tavarez

The southern French accents come from the Occitan language, which many people claim sounds closer to Spanish or Italian.

People from Quebec are not the only ones to think that. Sometimes even some people from the Northern half of France wonder if we're not foreign.

ah yeah true!

interesting...LOVE the Mid-Atlantic

@@Street_French You might find it interesting that probably almost no one in in the U.S. knows what a Mid-Atlantic Accent is anymore... it's sad YES...but also very Telling

haha :)

Oh, just by curiosity, which creol?

My dad speaks créole and french and Im born in Southwest

Haha I know what u mean!

Same for an italian speaker

ah interesting

How did that last sound to you?

Don't feel intimidated :) you should hear them try to speak English xD

@Lisa Hup Yes exactly! :)

Don’t be scared to be criticized because of your accent. Although native French speaker WILL criticize you, the French are not polite when it comes to their language. Just listen to a native french person try to speak English... it is funny lol but obviously you should never make fun of someone who is trying

Texans used to made fun of because of our drawl, but thanks to Mathew McConaughey its considered sexy now. Alright, alright, alright!

@@kerrypickens8594 Well, to a certain degree.

You should watch the video TED talks learn a language in 6 months. It has great advice to learn a language or study

Jose Partida hey I am french girl ( north) and I want to learn speak English can u learn me really everyday I try to learn but lonely it’s more hard

@@sidneyberanger4413 yeah sure. Dm me on Instagram nbelle94

that's quite funny, beacause this politician is from a region with a quite heavy accent, (she didn't talk about this one in the video) and he was probably forced to erase it, because french politicians don't like accents...

There is no french "southern accent", south east accent is different from the south western accent, just like Alsacian accent have nothing in common with northern or Parisian accent. The real line of demarcation in France at many levels (wealth political, weather) is between the East & the West, more than North vs South.

Ah yeah I can understand that :)

​@Bob Smith Cameroun accent is very strong, so it's not surprising you can catch what they say. As for northerners, in my opinion that's more of a dialect matter. The man we can hear speak some Chti in the video uses some words most of french people (outside North) wouldn't understand, like "acater" (=acheter / buy) or "min" (mon / my). Those miay look similar when seen written, but the gap in pronounciation is quite big. The southern accents are heavy too, though.

​@@Nekoala The thing is that there is not one Cameroon accent. The accent depends on the native substrate, i.e. of the ethnic origin of the speaker, a Bete, a Bamileke or a Fang will have different accents in their French. As for the other accents shown it is a pity that the video lady doesn't seem to know the difference between dialects and accents. The chti and the normandie clip were clearly example of their dialect, Picard and Normand. While all other examples were just regional pronounciation variations. These variations come from the substrate of these regions. When you go in the east in Lorraine or Alsace, the Germanic substrate dominates, when you got to the south it's langues d'oc, etc. You can look at this map to see the substrate fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_r%C3%A9gionales_ou_minoritaires_de_France#/media/Fichier:Langues_de_la_France.svg

​ galier2 The lady obviously knows the difference, since she's French. She just chose to make a shortcut, imo. Moreover, chti (or chti'mi) isn't a department or a region but a local name for inhabitants of the North department and, by extension, the dialect they speak. It originates from Picardie, alright, but is basically spoken in the North Pas-de-Calais only nowadays. And picard is spoken in... Picardie. About the "cameroon accent" I was referring to the one we hear in the video. My knowledge on that matter is zero.

I hear difference in Paris, Corsica, and Southern My love 4 french started w/ hearing le titi parisien accent as a kid though. I can only understand/keep up w/the Southern accent because they speak what Americans would say clearly. In American u learn to pronounce every syllable and to speak clearly which is equated to your intelligence. In the South they tend to be lazy or lazier w/ the pronounciation of words and have a southern drag in there accent also is judged unintelligent compared to those who speak more clearly and understandably.

Yeah it can be really different at times :)

Well, Québécquois is much closer to regular french than many France's dialects. :D

Québecois is right on the edge of mutual understandability, with the added phenomenon of being asymetrical, since the relative smaller number of Québecois compared to French people means that culturally, they watch and listen to more Metropolitan French productions than the other way around, causing them to understand us better than we understand them.

Have you notice that if you speak with Québécois people in French with Parisian accent, some of them don't like that you have a French accent? Is it only me who has that idea or am I right?

It sounds louder.

yeah it's really close it's true :)

Corsicans might not even argue against that, a lot of them do consider themselves Italian, not to mention there are a lot of ethnic Italians in southern France. I like studying history.

It's the staccatoed pronounciation. It's similar in Swiss German accent.

Ghost language accent theory : Italian, Spanish, Basque, Occitan. For southern France;-)

@@adamhovey407 That's not true actually. Corsicans would consider themselves Corsican, end of story. You could say that they are culturally more related to Italians than to French people, but don't you ever dare say to a Corsican that he is Italian unless you want to offend him (and depending on the person, you might not want to call him "French" either by the way).

c'est vrai :)

ah interesting^^

Interesting. I'm from northern France and have heard this picard/chti accent all my life (I also seem to possess it slightly ^^). I also watched a lot of videos of cajun french speakers. I think what struck the cashier the most is the way you pronounce "a" in some words which is very similar to the picard, that is almost like a french standard "o", I hear that a lot in interviews of cajun french people, but the pronunciation seems to vary greatly from a parish to another, or even from a family to another. Also funfact, people in the picard accent area still typically use "asteur" frequently. It's also used in Normandy and Poitou, unheard of (or disappeared) in the rest of France unless I'm mistaken.

Ah :(

ah ok that's interesting to know :)

I am from the Caribbean and to me that's what makes it a bit more difficult for me to understand. It really does sound like Americans speaking French

Interesting, because it is said that the Quebec accent is actually a remnant of the French accent that was common before the 17th century in France. It was brought to Quebec by the French settlers of the time, whose descendants kept the same accent, whereas it evolved a lot in France, which would explain why they now sound so different.

As an "anglo" Canadian (whose first language is not actually English but I learned it when I was very young so I sound like a native speaker) I completely disagree. My first language is also a Latin language, and despite that AND despite the fact that I grew up in Canada, it was always easier for me to understand French accents from France as opposed to the ones here in Canada. It took a while for me to be able to finally understand what French-Canadians were saying to me. I have heard people with anglo North American accents speaking French and it sounds absolutely nothing like what French-Canadians sound like. French-Canadians have a tendency to change their d's to "ts" sounds and pronounce their vowels in a VERY particular way and there are many little particularities like that that make it extremely hard for anglo North Americans to emulate this accent as opposed to the "standard" French European one. It's just the places in your mouth and the placement of your tongue feel very new and therefore unnatural to an English speaker. In fact that's part of the reason why so many people here in Canada feel very discouraged when they try to learn French because no matter what, the French they're taught usually ends up sounding more like European French than Canadian French even if they try to avoid that, it's an interesting phenomenon. And French-Canadians do have a tendency to sort of look down on this, I'm sure it's at least partly because they're so used to French Europeans telling them they supposedly have an "inferior" accent (which I disagree with for the record) that they get very defensive when they see people in Canada learn French "the European way" because they feel like, what do you mean, our French isn't good for you? You think you're special or something? That isn't the case at all, it's just that 90% of the time it's incredibly difficult for people learning French as adults to copy the the Quebecois accent. I have noticed time and time again that the metropolitan French accent from Europe is much easier for anglos to sound natural and fluent in. Of course it must be said that there are several accents in Quebec as well, but obviously what I'm saying is that when they try to learn the "standard" Quebecois accent and speak that way, even if they're been speaking the language for 10+ years and they have perfect grammar, etc, it still sounds like they're actively TRYING to do the accent, as opposed to it sounding natural.

Usually, people find it harder to understand because we contract a lot of the words when speaking. For instance, the clip she shows in this video, the girl says: "[...] aujourd'hui, je vous arrive avec [...]". But it was captioned as: "[...] aujourd, j'arrive avec [...]", because she says it as if it was 1 word (jvouzarrive) and she says it really fast, which is hard to understand for people who aren't used to it.

Ahaha that's really interesting :)

Oh! I would be delighted to know. I am Colombian and currently learning Brazilian Portuguese: is it true that Paulistas are usually deemed as more sophisticated than cariocas? What is the general perception of 'gauchos'? I think Gauchos speak so clear, but I heard some Brazilians claiming it sounds gay in men.

@Germain Martel I’m sure that “more sophisticated” is a wrong statement. It’s just different, you know what I mean? “Paulistas” and “Cariocas” both have a peculiar way of speaking and rely heavily on slangs but that’s all; same in the south. We have plenty of accents in Brazil and each one of them has pros and cons. As an advice, don’t worry too much about it, just choose the accent you like the most and try to imitate. If you like how “gauchos” speak, go for it.

Germain Martel I find the paulistan accent clearer, and the news accent is mostly based on it. Cariocas have a very caracteristic accent, a lot of people I know find it annoying or funny. The southern accent is definitly one of the most notable accents. It is generally thought of as funny, but still generally well regarded. Just as a note, I am from the north, my region is very diverse in terms of origin, most people coming from other states, so people speak rather “neutrally”. Of course there is local slang and a lot of unique expressions and other particularities. Most people would not be able to recognize this dialect though.

Germain Martel there are a few different Paulista accents, the capital is way different from the countryside, specially if you compare how the R is pronounced. I'm from Sao Paulo, but honestly I never heard of the Paulista accent being "more sophisticated". Gaucho accent is also very strong and they have a ton of slangs and even nouns.. sometimes we say they have their own language haha. If you are learning Brazilian Portuguese, I think the accent will come naturally depending on how you're exposed. If you see novelas and movies, chances are that you're gonna be more used to Carioca accent. If you have the Colombian Paisa accent maaaybe Gaucho accent would be closer (it's a bit of a stretch what I'm saying here), but I wouldn't focus on that because of the slangs and nouns that differ from the rest of the country in general. Anyway, just relax and enjoy learning Portuguese ;)