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French in Quebec - getting all alarmy
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caracao
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17 September 2011 at 7:36pm | IP Logged

montmorency wrote:

Homogenik wrote:

That Gazette article really annoyed me. It IS very annoying going to Montreal as a Québécois and dealing with clerks
or waiters who can't speak french (or who pretend they can't, that happens too). It would not happen in any other
self-respecting country or region of the world.

I was told (by Flemings) that it used to happen in Brussels (people refusing to speak Flemish in what is officially a bilingual city). I don't know if it still happens, but from what I do hear, Fleming-Francophone relations in Belgium still aren't the greatest.

Check your infos, Brussels is a French speaking city, it's everywhere, it's only officially bilingual because of the Flemish nationalism (only 4% of the population of Brussels now).
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Saim
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18 September 2011 at 3:20am | IP Logged

Really? Because it was 16% in 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels#Languages
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