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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All
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To: SofaSpud who wrote (2015)3/19/2003 9:21:04 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum   of 37445
 
I didn`t encounter that in Québec city, from much personal experience but I`ll admit to some trouble in Riviére de Loup, Sept Isles and in the Maritimes. Just had to listen more closely. Seems they understood me just fine, but I had to get used to them.

PEI French was simply brutal for me. I found the slang was very different. I had some trouble there as well as but less so in New Brunswick.

Maybe it depends where you learn your French. I learned it as a young child living with my French Grandmother for a few years but after I grew up English at home. Most of mine was honed chasing French girls, carousing in bars and on the job dealing with a lot of minimum wage folks.. My French ain`t pretty but it works pretty well :o)

You probably aren`t hearing <<Le Français International>>.

Learn French if you want. Middle class Quebecois will be pleased when you meet them. But lets not get all starry-eyed about what it will do for national unity -- the core PQ vote doesn't give a flying, er, fig. Yep.
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