Pfff….c’est les hommes que je ne comprend pas (Sheesh…it’s men that I don’t understand!)

Actually I have always had a lot of trouble understanding the “accent du soleil” — the accent of the people in Marseille and surrounding areas. It’s happy-sounding and interesting…but *je ne comprend pas*. Even after all this time. They speak so fast and there’s such a twang to it. My husband has absorbed it and he likes to speak it just for fun. Sometimes I’ll accidentally say a word with the accent and he busts out laughing (Il s’éclate de rire). But I’m a Standard Classroom French girl, through and through. Let’s have a culture class on France’s “southern drawl” sometime!

Je ne comprends pas du tout les femmes… ( I don’t understand women at all! )
Quand je ne comprends pas quelqu’un, je rigole… (When i don’t understand someone, I’m laughing…)