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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 25 of 29 09 March 2010 at 10:34pm | IP Logged | ||
To answer the question of why it isn't taught, I think the answer is a mixture of different reasons. For one thing, most French teachers have a literary background rather than a linguistic background which means that apart from not understanding the rules of spoken QF grammar very well, they actually despise colloquial spoken QF and would rather teach prescriptive rules rather than giving students the actual keys to understand QF. There are other reasons, but I'll leave it at that for now. If you did find the information on QF that you are looking for, what would it be? A website? A book? A class? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| microsnout TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Canada microsnout.wordpress Joined 5470 days ago 277 posts - 553 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 26 of 29 10 March 2010 at 1:30am | IP Logged | ||
So that explains it. The private teacher I had at 'École de langue française et de culture québécoise' at UQAC in Chicoutimi did in fact have a background in linguistics. She understood the spoken grammar very well and would talk endlessly about it if I let her. She even had a series of printed lesson pages and sample dialogs prepared. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Julien71 Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 5371 days ago 42 posts - 52 votes Speaks: French*, English, German, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Hungarian | Message 27 of 29 17 March 2010 at 12:54pm | IP Logged | ||
Very interesting articles. I didn't know there was such a debate in Quebec at the moment. Edited by Julien71 on 17 March 2010 at 12:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6767 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 28 of 29 17 March 2010 at 2:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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One of my teachers (my German teacher, possibly) once defended Quebec French once as being a beautiful, rich
remnant of Louis-quatorze French, the period when French colonists were settling in Canada. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 29 of 29 17 March 2010 at 3:19pm | IP Logged | ||
The first settlers from France came from a region North West of Paris, at a time when dialects abounded. It's only later that the Parisian dialect gained in popularity and became the official language. Hence many of today's differences. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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