French Accent Help!

Hey guys! I am auditioning to be Lumiere in my high schools production of Beauty and the Beast and I am having issues with developing a French accent. It is very easy to find websites that tell you how to pronounce French words with a French accent but a totally different story to find sites that give you English words with a French accent.

I'd really appreciate you tips, grammar rules, etc. Thanks a lot!

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Watch Monty Python and The Holy Grail and imitate John Cleese

Drop "H"s.
"R"s should have kind of a gutteral sound- and sound slightly like "l"s. SLIGHTLY. Hard to explain, but if you've ever heard an "R" pronounced with an exaggerated French accent, that's basically it.
"I"s can sound like "ee". (Example: "Ees," instead of "Is")
"Th" sounds can be replaced with "z"s. (Example: "Zees ees true" instead of "This is true")

As people have suggested, it's easier to listen and then imitate than it is for someone to explain (sidenote: I may be totally off with some of these, so don't take my word as the gospel). And it depends on if you're doing a really over-the-top accent, or not.

Exactly (I think). Heh...

watch lots of french tv shows and movies. It'll give you a feel for the sound of the language, which in turn will help you with the accent. It works, trust me.

And practice your lines in the accent over and over.

i have tons of dialect tapes from David Alan Stern - look him up. but... kevin kline really wasn't that bad in french kiss. juliet and the other guy (villian) were french.