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| WANNABEAFREAK Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong cantonese.hk Joined 6826 days ago 144 posts - 185 votes  1 sounds Speaks: English*, Cantonese Studies: French | Message 1 of 20 27 February 2010 at 9:18am | IP Logged | ||
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I have been fixed on TV5 Monde for months now and I have some questions:
1) Do Quebecois speak French to English speaking Canadians when they are learning French or cannot speak French? 2) Is French increasing in Montreal? 3) Do you get English TV in Quebec? 4) Can Quebecois speak English like native English speaking Canadians? 5) Does Quebec promote French tourists from France to increase the number of French speakers in the community? 6) Do the Indians and Chinese bother to learn French in Quebec? 7) Are the majority of taxi drivers Indians? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5676 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 2 of 20 27 February 2010 at 11:42am | IP Logged | ||
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1) Sometimes
2) Yes 3) Yes, but the number depends on whether or not you pay for programming 4) For the most part, no 5) I don't know. Quebec's tourism campaign is probably a global one. 6) Yes 7) No 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6438 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 3 of 20 27 February 2010 at 4:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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6) Depends. I've heard second-hand about people from India who speak 6 languages (including English), live in Quebec, and refuse to learn a word of French. Canadian language politics can get ugly.
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| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6121 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 4 of 20 27 February 2010 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | ||
No, it's a foreign language to them. Some speak English quite well, i.e., what we would call "native fluency" but I find that many are very uncomfortable speaking English and would much rather speak French if you are able--especially when you get out of the tourist areas. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| The Blaz Senior Member Canada theblazblog.blogspotRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5599 days ago 120 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Swahili, French, Sign Language, Esperanto | Message 5 of 20 27 February 2010 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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It is indeed a big controversy about immigrants learning French in Quebec. For an
immigrant who speaks neither English nor French, English often seems the way to go. They may settle in Montreal (where there are many anglophones) but they've got a whole English-speaking continent around them. In the Quebec culture-wars, these immigrants are seen as a force against the survival of French, so there is discussion about making immigrants learn French, or only accepting immigrants with certain levels of French into Quebec. Whose rights are more fundamental? Immigrant rights or language rights? One of my classes had a discussion about this and the teacher showed us a Quebec TV show plays with these issues, called Pure Laine (a term denoting the 'vrais quebecois'). Here's a youtube clip of it: v=a9vUhyErKPI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9vUhyErKPI Edited by The Blaz on 27 February 2010 at 8:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Wilco Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6329 days ago 160 posts - 247 votes Speaks: French*, English, Russian | Message 6 of 20 28 February 2010 at 12:49am | IP Logged | ||
Edited by Wilco on 28 February 2010 at 12:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| WANNABEAFREAK Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong cantonese.hk Joined 6826 days ago 144 posts - 185 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, Cantonese Studies: French | Message 7 of 20 28 February 2010 at 4:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you. Very informative.
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5480 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 8 of 20 28 February 2010 at 5:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Do most native English speakers in Canada speak French?
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