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Originally Posted by Noego  I think it is, as well as you're aware that one language won't allow you to communicate everywhere. Although I would say that English speakers in Canada would be understood by most people, except some small French Canadian communities. |
Location is important, I agree. Consider that most French speakers, those who do not speak English, don't have a need to speak English. And those that do, well, let's just say that while I was teaching
ESL in Alberta, some of my students were from Quebec and northern Ontario.
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Originally Posted by Noego The opposite isn't true for French speaker however. I don't want to get into politics but the language issue is an important reason why French Canadians want their own country. If French was indeed spoken by the majority of Canadians (like it should in theory), I think things would be very different. |
The solution is in what is, not what ifs.
(I was born and raised in Quebec. My mother's family is British and German, my father's side, pure Quebecois stock. Talk about family feuds. We were the
poster family.
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Originally Posted by Noego As for Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, didn't meet a single soul who spoke good French over there. |
Let me drive you.
Check out some of the town names. French.
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Originally Posted by Noego Speaking of which, I was in Montreal not that long ago and a bank clerk couldn't speak French, which I thought was quite worrying. |
Gee, where were you, in the West Island?
All the best.