8 things Québécois People Say

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skeptoid's picture

I wonder if he knows PGFL. When I went to Paris despite all of the formal French language education I received I was nevertheless told I have a slight Quebecois accent. 

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You're going to have a Québécois accent if you learn french in Canada, man.

It's how it's spoken.

I always listen to the news on the radio, and when they have a guest whose first language is not french, it's pretty easy to spot if they learned it in Canada or France.

 

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Ah but the French program I attended touted itself as teaching "proper French" as it is spoken in France. That was the Trudeau dream - preserve the French language, not least from the Quebecois who apparently make a mockery of it. Ah but our teachers, though they were from Quebec city, were nevertheless Quebecois and they could not mask the shameful degeneration of their tongue nor avoid passing these minor warpings on to their eager young students. Language is not something one should get all bent out of shape about forcing to remain static. 

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No doubt you were thought "proprer french". We all were.

Just like we were though proper english.

The "minor warpings" are picked up along the way, as well as the regional accent.

It's street stuff.

You can have 2 guys from the deep south one with a very steretypical accent and the other, let's say more educated, however, by listening to him speak, I'm pretty sure you would eventually spot that he's from the south.

Goes with all language. If you learn spanish in Mexico and travel to Spain, they will spot your accent right away.

Not that you were not thought proper spanish, it's just that your teachers are mexicans.

 

 

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I think it did have something to do with it - when I would go to Quebec for hockey tourneys I would talk with some of the French kids and felt obliged to put on an accent so I didn't sound like a formal fuddy duddy. But this thing about language - this is definitely a French thing. For example, at the slightest indication of an accent French folks in Paris would immediately transition to English. Now we could say they were just being polite, but there was an element of "Stop butchering my language" as well, which after a while becomes a bit tiresome for someone who bothered to spend the time and energy learning the damn thing so Quebec wouldn't separate.

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Oh, yeah, lol... those days.

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