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OMG, I've been calling like 20 restaraunts in Montreal and Quebec City, most of them do NOT speak English.
Some of them even hung up on me because I spoke English.
They live in English speaking country and should be able to speak English in order to get job... what I think!
That means non-french speakers is hard to live and be in Quebec
I'm french and it's famous you know.Quebecois are afraid to see the french language killed by english, because the main city of Quebec, Montreal, is "invaded" by english-speakers.
I'm french and it's famous you know.Quebecois are afraid to see the french language killed by english, because the main city of Quebec, Montreal, is "invaded" by english-speakers.
I understand, but since French is the second most widely spoken language in the world, there's no way it would be killed.
I wish the U.S. was much more French than Spanish! I love French and wish I spoke it fluently!!!!!
OMG, I've been calling like 20 restaraunts in Montreal and Quebec City, most of them do NOT speak English.
Roughly 65-70% of the population of Quebec speaks only French.
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Originally Posted by New Yooork
Some of them even hung up on me because I spoke English.
They live in English speaking country and should be able to speak English in order to get job... what I think!
Québécois don't live in an English-speaking country. They live in an officially bilingual country that has both English and French as official languages and that has both English and French-speaking areas within it. Living in Quebec, they are right in the middle of the massively French-speaking area of Canada, and are totally and legitimately at home there. They are every bit at home there as English-speaking people are at home in New York or Nebraska, or Spanish-speaking people are at home in Mexico.
French isn't the second most spoken language anymore ! Spanish and mandarin are ahead.
But learning french can remain interesting.
I'm talking about by non-native speakers.
How many non-chinese speak Chinese? Probably less than a million.
How many non native-french speak french? Around 200 - 300 million, it remians the second most popular after english. Spanish is third!
OMG, I've been calling like 20 restaraunts in Montreal and Quebec City, most of them do NOT speak English.
Some of them even hung up on me because I spoke English.
They live in English speaking country and should be able to speak English in order to get job... what I think!
That means non-french speakers is hard to live and be in Quebec
In places regularly frequented by English-speaking people, everyone speaks at least a good bit of English, even in Quebec City. In places where English-speaking people rarely ever go (e.g. most suburban Quebec City or Montreal, and every other non-touristic destination in Quebec), fewer people speak English. Quite frankly, I'm not sure what the problem is.
The many times banned troll has been sent back under his bridge yet again.
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