German sounds for KISS people

There are consequential differences between the French and the English languages: Unlike English the French language has no concept of variable vowel duration, and it's not explicitly taught at school from the beginning. No wonder why French people pronounce beach like bitch, sheet like shit, and so on. The syllables of all French words can be stressed or smoothed as much as the speaker wishes to, and that's one of French poetry trade mark. In English the words have a definite sound envelope, with a definite inflexion point that can't be tampered with or missed. And again, that is left to French pupils to suck it from their thumb. English accents all around the world are mostly based on the respective sounds of the vowels. I find there's no systematic quality in the different French accents. They mainly consist of variations in prosody and pronunciation of specific sounds such as [ɛ̃] that is found written as un, in, and ien [jɛ̃] as in chien (dog). But please don't take my word for…