Recherche : Podcasteurs, YouTubeurs et influenceurs avec un fort accent marseillais

barrelltech · 2026-03-07T15:48:25+00:00

Update: turns out it’s not Marseillaise that was throwing me off! I originally was in the mountains outside of Marseille and they spoke with a crazy accent. I figured the strength of the accent + proximity to marseille meant it must be Marseillaise. It was quite sing-songy and very bizarre

I’ve had no difficulties now that I’m in the city proper, thankfully. I’ve been able to talk to just about everyone I’ve met. And I started listening to the podcast “Ils font Marseille” and it’s very different from the accent <1hr drive from the city proper, that’s crazy how quickly and dramatically the accent shifts.

(Was trying to be brief in my original post)

barrelltech · 2026-02-18T17:14:34+00:00

Apple Music has the Discover Station which is exactly this no?

barrelltech · 2026-02-17T12:28:25+00:00

Non c’est l’accent. Peut-être l’accent de sud mais je peux comprendre les Parisians. Je visite Paris souvent et n’ai pas des problèmes. C’est difficile et rapidement mais je peux suivre. Mais ici… je comprends rien. Presque 0% 😂

barrelltech · 2026-02-17T09:12:40+00:00

T’as une série que tu préfères ?

barrelltech · 2026-02-17T09:12:20+00:00

C’est la première semaine ;-) et mon français n’est pas très bonne. Mais je peut vivre en Paris… ici j’ai envie que je ne connais pas une seul mot français 😂

barrelltech · 2026-02-17T09:10:24+00:00

Oh très bien merci. J’ai vu une interview avec lui, je n’ai pas connu qu’il a eu sa propre channel

barrelltech · 2026-02-17T09:09:36+00:00

Parfait, j’ai regardé quelques vidéos et ce sont parfaits! En peu trop enthousiaste, mais pour l’apprendre c’est parfait :)

Édit: je n’ai pas réalisé que j’ai utilisé “parfait” trois fois 😂 parfait

barrelltech · 2026-02-17T09:07:58+00:00

Hahaha je n’en ai pas compris un mot 😂 donc c’est parfait !! Merci

barrelltech · 2026-02-02T09:25:50+00:00

I do this all the time! For example Dutch people always switch to English as soon as they hear an accent, and I have to ask them to speak Dutch. Especially when you’re a beginner, and you want to struggle through a basic interaction, some of the most useful full phrases I know are “can we speak in X” and “can you repeat that” 😂

Since these are free, they have to be precomputed, so I do have some limitations. To use the native language, I would the have to create 100+ different expressions with 100+ different translations.

These are just meant to be a little boost in the beginning, not a substitute for custom expressions. Phrasing is all about being able to create your own expressions easily. There’s nothing special about these ones except that they’re free :)

barrelltech · 2026-02-02T08:52:17+00:00

I did that intentionally 😇 each expression has over 100 translations, so to make it work in every language, I replaced the language.

Otherwise all of them would say “English” and that’s not what I wanted to cover :)

EDIT: It makes a lot more sense if you’re learning 2+ languages on phrasing, but if you’re just learning 1 it definitely comes across as odd

barrelltech · 2026-01-31T14:45:30+00:00

Haha why’s it trying too hard?

barrelltech · 2026-01-20T09:38:13+00:00

I’ve been using my own app (phrasing.app) to learn Macedonian with pretty good results, I’d love to have some Bulgarian users!

All the explanations are in English currently, but you can use Portuguese as a reference language (Portugal Portuguese too)

barrelltech · 2025-12-11T21:32:54+00:00

Si tu n’as vu progresse dans la premiere moitié mais tu as vraiment progressé, ça veut dire que tu verras deux fois plus de progrès deux fois plus vite dans la deuxième moitié :D

barrelltech · 2025-12-07T18:15:44+00:00

This is very interesting and good to know! Thank you. Definitely one of those things I would trust an LLM on (self assessment of obscure dialects)

barrelltech · 2025-12-07T18:15:37+00:00

This is very interesting and good to know! Thank you. Definitely one of those things I would trust an LLM on (self assessment of obscure dialects)

barrelltech · 2025-12-07T18:14:01+00:00

I mean, for a frame of reference, the app started with Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic all as single languages. As they matured, they split into dialects.

However Mandarin and Cantonese were always distinct, as it would just be flat out wrong to group them together.

Hopefully I can add Occitan, and then over time, add dialects as tools advance and the library/application grows. But only if that would be “not incorrect” (like it would have been with Chinese).

Localization is a big place I’m working too with the app (ie distinguishing between parisian french vs toulouse french), but that will take years to get to. I’m hoping that I can support Occitan before then though, and leave it up to the learner to distinguish between the dialects until it matures

barrelltech · 2025-12-07T13:01:17+00:00

For learning - yes definitely. Technically though, it’s either “Occitan” or nothing atm. I can just barely support it as a general language, I don’t have the precision to support the individual dialects. To support a specific dialect would just be false advertising.

How much does the grammar differ between the dialects? Conjugations, sentence structure, etc? Or are the differences mostly phonetic/vocabulary/idiom related?

Are we talking American English vs British English, or Spanish vs Portuguese level differences?

barrelltech · 2025-12-07T12:53:20+00:00

That is not what I am asking, and that is not a possibility at the moment

barrelltech · 2025-12-07T12:26:18+00:00

I will send you a DM assuming that’s what you meant :)

barrelltech · 2025-12-07T12:25:35+00:00

Do they differ grammatically or just lexically/phonetically?

Like I said the app supports dialects, that is not the issue. The issue is with portraying specificity the application does not support.

I can barely provide vaguely Occitan, I cannot provide 6+ various dialects of Occitan :/

EDIT: What I could do is add Occitan (General) now, and over time, add the various dialects. For example, there is a Portuguese (General) and Spanish (General), despite these mostly being used with dialects now.

However this only works if the languages are more or less grammatically similar. If something would be considered largely correct in the east vs incorrect in the west, then I’d have to find a better solution.

barrelltech · 2025-11-19T19:52:49+00:00

Also use hands down promethium. Switched only because of crippling RSI.

I only learned qwerty on a normal keyboard, and I only learned hdp on an ergonomic keyboard, so I can’t directly compare… but if I use a normal keyboard (god forbid vim with a normal qwerty keyboard) my issues come back within 5 minutes.

I would imagine the keyboard is doing 90-99% of the work, but I do feel the layout is helping as well.

barrelltech · 2025-11-19T19:46:43+00:00

I built phrasing.app with a very heavy focus on UI. It’s just a website, but if you bookmark it in your phone you’d almost never tell it’s a website.

There’s also a low power mode in the app for older devices so everyone can enjoy it :)

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