Montreal

[Rockslinger]

If you want to fantasize about having a French girlfriend or wife, be my guest. But don't necessarily expect her to speak to you in English all the time. Even if she's bilingual, if she had her way, she would want the relationship conversations in at least 50% French.

This is probably true to some extent when you are with a lady from another ethnic group. I dated an Italian lady for a while and I knew whenever she spoke in Italian, it was because she was upset about something or me. Also, dinner with her family was a constant switching from Italian to English to Italian which really was hard for me because my Italian is almost non-existent.

 

[Rockslinger]

I dare anyone to come up with a more whiny, annoying and extremely irritating minority than the Quebec anglophone!!!

I don't want to turn this thread into a political discussion and I'll say this as sensitively as possible: "The Quebecois have perfected the art of whinning."

 

[lookingforitallthetime]

I dare anyone to come up with a more whiny, annoying and extremely irritating minority than the Quebec anglophone!!! wah wahh I have to speak French all the time, well you are in an entity called Quebec that has been French majority speaking for 4 centuries deal with it!!!

We are supposed to be living in a bi-lingual country. Unlike English in Quebec, French is not illegal in the rest of Canada.

All Canadian anglophones (not just Quebec anglophones) have a reason to be pissed as far as I'm concerned.

Deal with it.

 

[ExoticSpirit]

Well, you certainly don't have to take my opinions as gospel since they are only my opinions. But the statistics do not lie. There are certainly more anglos leaving (still) Quebec than going there to live.

It was a real shocker to me. I had visited Montreal many times on business and for skiing but when I actually lived there, I was exposed to things that tourists are just not exposed to. Too bad really, because the lifestyle ain't bad over there. But the politics there just make it pretty rough if your French isn't up to conversational level. And if you choose to either be employed or start a business over there, you will be subject to a whole range of rules thanks to the language police.

I'll still go back to visit and I still have friends (anglos) there. But I certainly wouldn't choose to live there under their provincial government anymore.

 

[scouser1]

We are supposed to be living in a bi-lingual country. Unlike English in Quebec, French is not illegal in the rest of Canada.

All Canadian anglophones (not just Quebec anglophones) have a reason to be pissed as far as I'm concerned.

Deal with it.

Canada being a bilingual country is meant in the sense that a guy from Trois-Rivieres can call up the federal government and get the same federal services that a guy in Guelph or Medicine Hat can thats all. Its not meant to be that everyone speaks both languages although that would be great in a utopian dream, the Trudeau idea that a Quebecois would feel comfortable living in BC and speaking French is a dream.

And those of you who call the Quebecois whiny, well easy for you to say you speak from the point of the majority, you arent an island of 7 million surrounded by 300 million plus people who speak a different language, and when you let your guard down and stop speaking French, your language and culture are finished forever!!! just look at the rates of assimilation of francophones outside of Quebec, because when you give up your language and start to speak a second one, the native speaker is the one who is in power.

As for the fantasy Quebecoise girlfriend who speaks English, well if you want a Quebecoise girlfriend learn French and impress her, why should she be the one giving up her language.

 

[Rockslinger]

when you let your guard down and stop speaking French, your language and culture are finished forever!!!

I really don't want this thread to turn political. Having lived in Montreal (so I speak from experience), a lot of injustice is committed in the guise of "protecting the French language and culture".

 

[~ORIGINAL~GFE~]

i think you should all know this about women in quebec

i read this thread for a while and i can tell you guys,
montreal is a wonderfull city with lots of beautifull friendly women out there.

But please stop have headache about subject like girls want you guys speack french.
ok YES but if you want to seduce a women in quebec,
just try to speack french with your english accent,
and i promess to you succes ( just try it and you will see the attention she going to give you )

they find this really cutes like they say lol .

merry christmas to all

John

 

[Rockslinger]

montreal is a wondefull city with lots of beautiful friendly women out there

Yes, let's talk about women and not politics (much more fun). Guys, don't worry about your French language skills, you'll do just fine.