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To: Tommaso who wrote (51033)	6/16/2004 9:30:40 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 74559

Montreal I was allowed to speak French That would make perfect sense.. The biggest problems were in fact in Montreal so efforts to speak French are not chided. Outside of Montreal (except for some towns settled by Loyalists south of Montreal) the population is overwhelmingly Francophone so there is no fear of losing one's language. You just need to speak French. Our last conservative Prime Minister of note Brian Mulroney how's that for Irish) who recently eulogised your former president Reagan ( came from such a French area so his French was native). I think outside of Montreal you just ran into folks trying too hard to accommodate tourists... outside of the big towns they could not so managed with your Germanic ( :o)) accent... You know like when I was in China ... the hotel staff spoke some English... but out in the street after I exhausted my 10 Chinese words it was sign language ... no one got petulant and broke into English ;o) my French was so terrible that there was no point in anyone's wasting time with me. I think your experience bears out what I've said... It's not your French... FWIW the accent in New Brunswick forces me to listen more carefully (different from Montreal) since I haven't used my French daily for almost 20 years.. and at a town called Abrams's Village in PEI I had a hard time at first to my chagrin. Besides if you aren't speaking it regularly it quickly becomes evident that you are translating and not thinking in the language... when you do use it... I need a few days back home before I get native and stop translating...