As a french canadian, I do see it similarly to American/British English. It's two dialects of the same language that have evolved separately over 400 years. So of course a lot of idioms and some words are different, but we do understand each other verbally with a bit of effort and easily by text. If someone told you had a parisian accent, then yea they mean you sound like european French.
Cadorin
joined 1 year ago
From my experience that's fairly accurate. Although I'd say it doesn't take very long for French people to start understanding our accent, like by the end of a week long trip they'll understand 95% of it.