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Originally Posted by Fluffy Kittens
Yeah makes sense, thanks Burning Down. Don't most people in Canada speak both English and French then?
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Most people only speak English, since Quebec is the only province where French is widely spoken (and a lot of them are bitchy about having to speak English - they don't even teach it in school anymore there). When kids are in high school, if you're not at an all French school or in the French immersion program, you have to take a certain number of French classes that count towards your diploma. These are more basic classes - an introduction to the language, basically. French is the other official language here, so you need to learn a bit of it in school.
The French spoken in Canada is a whole lot different than French in France. Especially the accent - I think if I went to France and spoke they would laugh, lol. The slang is also different and Canadian French is heavily infused with English loan words as well.