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have you mad the French? they're mostly very much full of themselves and won't talk to you if you dont speak French. yes, this is a gross overgeneralization.
When I was in Southern France the people could not have been friendlier. They struck up conversations and helped with my pronunciation. I never felt put down for not speaking perfect French. I have no idea where this stereotype comes from but I didnt interact with a single meanspirited person when I was there.
It mostly comes from folks only visiting Paris and not realising those motherfuckers are worse than new-yorkers. And it is also true that generally speaking, the rate of adoption of English has been slower than comparable neighbouring countries, though that is starting to change now.
yeah I think they mostly care about people trying.
I asked for directions in broken French and the guy answered me but spoke slowly and clearly. Then asked me in English if I understood him
This has really changed the last 20 years or so, especially in the bigger cities. The part where they won't talk to you it you don't speak French I mean.
That's not a gross overgeneralization of Quebecquers tho
Try speaking English in Quebec and you might get resistance but at least they know English.
Try speaking French in English Canada and nobody even bothered to learn the language. Hell, half of Canada barely speaks English properly.
Québécois are the most bilingual people in Canada, besides french New-Brunswickois.
The most bilingual people in Canada are the people living near Ottawa or Montreal. French people from Chicoutimi are just as monolingual as English people from Edmonton.
Maybe it's because "people living near Ottawa" are actually people from Québec (Gatineau), and Montreal has a large english community that kinda forces french speaker to speak english. Doesn't change anything in that english speaker are very much better received in Québec than french speaker are elsewhere in Canada.
If we look at the last census from 2021 : https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/as-sa/98-200-X/2021013/98-200-x2021013-eng.cfm
Non-metropolitain Québec has 30% of its population bilingual, versus 10% in non-metropolitain Canada outside Québec. Comparing Edmonton (a province capital with a million people) to Chicoutimi, a small town of 70k people is just unfair, and even then, Chicoutimiens are probably more able to speak english than Edmontoniens are to speak french.
Sure, without Montreal and Gatineau, Québec's stats would drop a bit, but would stay higher than Canada by a large margin, excluding the french part of New-Brunswick, as I said.
Gatineau mentioned 🍁🍁🍁
The majority of people living near Ottawa are from the Ontario side. But, bilingual schools are much more common in Ottawa because of the proximity to Quebec.
You can see that that's very low, right?
Much higher than the average 9.5% in ROC.
Also, Ottawa had 36.4% of it's population bilingual in 2021. You can see that that’s very low, right? Especially for the capital of a "bilingual" country.
Meanwhile, Gatineau has 64.6%. If it doesn't make clear that Québécois are more bilingual than anglo canadians, I don't know what will. All you have to do is cross a river and bilingualism doubles.
I lived in NB for awhile. Costco was a cacophony of English, Français, and Mi'kmaq.
Yeah but Quebecquers != Quebecois