> but a non-native speaker who has learned French as spoken in Paris will more than likely not understand a native French speaker from Québec or Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). So I don't think this problem is specific to English.
That's true but French is kind on an exception among latin languages, it is a phonetically complex language compared to Italian or Spanish.
Yeah. Spanish does have regional phonetic differences, but they don't tend to be hard to understand. Vocabulary is much more likely to cause misunderstanding.
That's true but French is kind on an exception among latin languages, it is a phonetically complex language compared to Italian or Spanish.