Do Canadians Really Speak French? Things to Know About Quebec French

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[@SOT233]

Despite what some people think, Canadian French is actually very clear French although the accent is different and Canadians can use different vocabulary to express certain ideas. In the Anglophone world, there is even more diversity in the way English is spoken as the language is so widespread (USA, Canada, Australia, England, Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, India, Philippines, etc.). But contrary to a certain "elitist" mentality still prevalent in the French speaking world, Anglophones are used to the linguistic diversity within their own language and do not consider that English should be spoken in one accent only. However, in most of the Francophone world, there is an "unconscious" bias whereby Parisian French is considered the "norm". The only Francophones who are somewhat liberated from this "colonialist" mentality are Quebecers. So this is why when it comes to discussing diversity within the French language, so much of the conversation revolves around Quebec. It's not so much that Québécois French is that much different than Parisian French on a formal level (written French remains the same in both varieties) as it is the fact that Québécois don't see why they should change their accent to imitate Parisians, unlike the rest of the Francophonie. So to sum up: French speaking countries in Europe, Africa and elsewhere all consider Parisian French as the norm to attain, whereas Canadians and Quebecers don't. And that is perfectly fine. Just like there is no reason why an American should speak like a Londoner, there is no reason why a Canadian or a Québécois should speak like a Parisian.

[@languerouge5385]

Bullshit ! Even in France there are numerous accent. A lillois, a marseillais, a toulousain doesn't speak like a parisian. In Ivory Coast, in Martinique, in Cameroun it's the same. The difference is that the way the quebecois speaks is very different thant the way they write french.

[@kimbercustompro1911]

No it ABSOLUTELY IS NOT. It is a highly bastardized version of French.. Almost every French person. Would agree with this statement. You are incorrect.

[@ctalcantara1700]

French Canadian celebrities like Garou and Celine tone down their Quebecois accent in French interviews to sound more Metropolitan French. However, Lara Fabian, having lived in Montreal, switches from French to Quebecois, depending where she is- she is fantastic a switching accents.

[@SOT233]

@@ctalcantara1700 Québécois French isn't a dialect, it is French but with a different accent.

[@ctalcantara1700]

@@SOT233 You're right, my bad!

[@anthonydavid5121]

His French is most likely the most authentic since it has preserved it's liguistic integrity for 100s and 100s of years. I love that Québecois is this pure.

[@toughcookie128]

Our french is not old it's the original and the best. Shopping, parking are english words. Magasiner and stationner make more sense.

[@kimbercustompro1911]

The only REAL French is from France. Quebecoise is absolutely a disgusting language and it should be eradicated.

[@f9w99]

Well…it is old French. The dialect from France had evolved and adopted anglicism. We branched off in the new world and stayed in the bubble. That’s why I can’t stand French from France folks who judge Quebec French and look down on it. Like, you sold out. We helped bail you out in ww2 btw

[@indiraconnolly2889]

Interesting video. I learned French in both Quebec and in France. I LOVE comparing the two varieties, it is absolutely fascinating. I am now learning Portuguese. Personally I find that the differences between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese are greater than the differences between European French and Québécois French. Ps I would also agree with Benoit, I’m not sure I would have used the explanation used by Marie at the beginning of the video. Québécois French has evolved as well.

[@lindabrouillette6765]

We don't use "parking", or shopping or weekend. Magasiner est bien mieux que shopping qui est anglophone!!!

[@SOT233]

What people also need to understand is that people in France have a certain tendency to look down on French speakers who don't speak with a "Parisian accent". Whereas this "aristocratic" mentality has disappeared for the most part in the Anglophone world (no Anglophone will say that the "London" accent is to be emulated), it is still very present in France today. French people tend to see other accents as deviations from the "norm" rather than natural evolutions of the French language that speak to its diversity. Many French people actually consider that speaking with a different accent means speaking a different language. They don't even consider that Americans speak English but they'll say they speak "American". This is how crazy French people can be in the way they approach "other" accents. This "ethnocentrism" is probably the reason why it's so difficult for French people to learn other languages properly. Because in order to learn another language well, you need a certain "mental flexibility", something that's difficult for people in France because of how they perceive their "French identity". An example of this can be seen on this very video: the Québécois guy speaks English perfectly and with almost no accent while the French girl speaks English hesitantly and with a very strong French accent...

[@juliad368]

'his "aristocratic" mentality has disappeared for the most part in the Anglophone world'... ahem have you been to England ? it's terrible there.

[@SOT233]

@@juliad368 Still not as bad as what you'll see in Paris. There are Parisians who think that French spoken in another accent than Parisian French is not French.

[@Xochiyolotl]

Interesting observation. I’m not so sure this is unique to French though. Still in all, you see it in people trying to revive the languages of the south of France too. You’ll have people whose grandparents spoke a variety of Occitan doing the very best to learn it as second language speakers but, they have a massive French accent. It really shows up in the way they do there R. Occitan does it with the tongue in the front of the mouth like Spanish and Italian and, I suppose, like French used to do but these guys put a super strong one from the throat in because, I suppose they can’t help it. You see the same phenomenon in second language Breton speakers trying to learn the language of their grandparents.

[@robelanger4242]

To use the french name is not old BUT normal, the word Parking is not French but english.

[@johnlester1537]

A large proportion of English words are derived from French words originally - this how languages develop - influences from other languages and culturse etc - to ignore this normal development of a language is bizarre and will stagnate the language in the long run

[@pwp8737]

I defy an Englishman speaking Oxbridge to go to rural Texas and try to understand the locals. Language changes by distance, time and how the links were maintained. The Dutch who settled the western Cape planted their language, but due to policies that discouraged schools, press and urban life and the loss of the colony to the British in 1814 the Cape Dutch language evolved into Afrikaans.

[@Xochiyolotl]

I live in Texas. I’ve met lots of people from England. They don’t have any difficulty understanding us. Oddly enough, there are accents in Britain which certain British people do not understand. Newcastle comes to mind. Here’s an oddity. I understand that some English people have a very difficult time with Appalachian English. Appalachian English is famous for having preserved certain arcade features of the language that have been lost in other varieties. In this, it’s sort of resembles the situation with Quebec French.

[@franghan]

Actually, both Québec and France (metropolitan) french evolved, they just evolved differently. Québec kept most of the vowel sounds that metropolitan eliminated. When you look at the evolution of the french language, you can see how it constantly removed the pronunciation of certain letters or sounds with time. Québec french kept a lot of those sounds, but we had our own evolution, mostly through the 20th century, where a focus on spoken french started to appear. Our low confidence regarding our own spoken language, compared to the perceived "purity" of metropolitan french, led to many changes in Québec french as well.

[@Xochiyolotl]

At least you kept yours though. This was not always the case in other places. East of where I live is Louisiana. They speak a very good French there. This is not to be confused with creole which is a different language altogether. Louisiana French preserves a lot of old sounds And has evolved in its own direction. However, since 1921, it has been under constant pressure from English and millions of people stopped speaking it. It is dying. It’s very tragic because that variety of French has lots of character. There are faint glimmers of Hope because some young people have started trying to learn the language of their grandparents who did not pass it down to their parents because they were beaten when they were young for speaking English. Trouble is, a lot of them are learning standard metropolitan French because there are very few materials available that teach Louisiana French.

[@gregri8519]

that guy is so cute

[@Xochiyolotl]

@@bingodeluxeooooh! Me! Me! Me! … I think the girl is gorgeous! Absolutely adorable, in fact.

[@JimmyStark77]

The French accent of Quebec corresponds with the time when the monarchs and Kings of the 18XX century spoke, only the monarchy and royalty spoke like the Quebecers, the peasants spoke more broken French. Only real historians knows this facts. In other words, french accent is directly from the King of France and the bourgeoisie. We kept the real French from France and France adopted another pronunciation.

[@juliad368]

I'm sure she meant not harm but what she says is quite offensive (evolved French ???). I'm French by the way. I think it got lost in translation.

[@jLjtremblay]

The question is "Do the FRENCH really speak French anymore?!" Quel titre idiot!

[@robelanger4242]

Si tu avais été en France dans les dernières années tu comprendrais qu'en France les mots anglais sont si nombreux que le titre est approprié. Moi j'y suis aller 4 fois, et OUI moi aussi je me demande si les Français parle encore français. Pas une phrase sans avoir plus d'un mot anglais qui remplace le français.

[@rvnhty]

This title would actually be more accurate. I agree.

[@xaviermuloin4174]

Le titre est nul. oui on parle français

[@binxbolling]

Americans also use an older form of English pronunciation than in the UK.

[@dianetaylor4256]

I notice that the T and the D used in Tigre and dur is not typical to French Acadians living in New Brunswick, Canada. It sounds more like a Quebec accent . We as Acadians would pronounce Tigre as tégre and dur without the z sound.

[@JeiElRai]

Thought this was Sean Evans and Nandi Bushell for a sec 😂

[@Xochiyolotl]

There are parallels in other colonial languages in the Americas. I am an English-speaking polyglot that grew up in Texas but, my native language is Spanish. I am from Central America. In some places, we speak an archaic version of Spanish the preserves features that have been lost in European Spanish and in the standard register of Latin American Spanish for about 300 years. There are other parts of Latin America that use different archaisms that go back at least as far. In the case of English, There are people in the Appalachian mountains that use expressions and pronunciation tendencies that date back to the 1600s. There are also similar cases with regards to Brazilian Portuguese as opposed to that spoken in Portugal. Same goes for some of the German dialect spoken in the United States. Texas German comes to mind here. I am sure Dutch has a similar story but, I don’t speak Dutch so I can’t really say for certain. Long story short, as monsieur le Quebecois so excellently explained, when a group of people become isolated from mainstream speakers of their language, they tend to preserve features of it that go out of style elsewhere and add new features of their own as their language evolves over time.

[@nanonkay5669]

I won't lie, the girl looked like she was using a bit of classism in favor of her French

[@nestormerinoayala9827]

Loathe using English words when there are perfectly good and valid ones in Spanish in my case. Learning French and try to avoid them too. Fin de semana. Fin de la semaine. Estacionamiento. Stationnement. Magasiner. Ir de compras (that one is really different 😅). Personally I find French rather old-fashioned in comparison to Spanish. Listening to it there are things that are said that can be easily understood for a Spanish speaker but sound as if they came out of a literary work ie. A l'ombre de la nuit. A la sombra de la noche. All in all it is a beautiful but challenging language.

[@joemag6180]

so if t has ts sound and d have dz sound, sounds italian to me. weird that french canadian is surrounded by english speaking regions when french france doesnt use weekend and parking words in french?

[@julien827]

the french spoken in france during colonization is as different to modern quebec french as it is from modern france french, neither is more correct french both are valid

[@michaelhornsby6840]

Why do French pronounce the name 'Marie' as 'Mary' in English? It's Mar-EE in the UK at least!

[@ejd7881]

it's like Australia or new Zealand or the US different accent thank god

[@lisaharrison8754]

Yes Canadians speak a different kind of French but its French over the decades things have changed I am bilingual so yes its French Canadian

[@AuxaneST]

They would make a cute couple ❤

[@robelanger4242]

Really the evolve french...serious. Do American speak new english and the British OLD British, that is not the way to look at it.

[@JorgeLopes-bg5tw]

This French canadian sounds just like european portugueses... Its like they literally translated to portuguese... We say weekend and Park/parking just like them

[@death88.]

até mesmo o português brasileiro fala magazine, estacionar, semana e shopping dessa forma. não tem nada de único e especial. são línguas latinas. normal

[@yveslorange2689]

canadian dont speak fench the speak american english the québecois speak french

[@egorsokolov6959]

So, how can québécois will understand me when I speak in metropolitan french, they will NOT gonna understand me, and I will not gonna understand them, there is no way to understand each other in Quebec if you speak in metropolitan french

[@monniekay]

Fascinant d'entendre les différents accents de cette archive. J'en compte 3 ou 4 qui s'apparentent au Québécois. On détecte même une saveur Acadienne chez la dame de Berry! kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5jVl6akZ6iIbqc

[@anikizero893]

So the french are more English the the Quebec thank good i learned Quebecois not French

[@banditlegal7452]

The girl is fine as hell, the whole snack

[@whitneysmiltank]

Not really, she's annoying.

[@banditlegal7452]

@@whitneysmiltank was talking about look not personality

[@jjmarcgagnon2386]

i found her laughter over quebecois french or xpressions a bit annoying. To begin with to even think that quebecois speak old french is simply stupid. I could laugh at her on that. Quebecois french is under attack and dies everyday. we survived hundred of years. and we continue to survive. where as in France they also die from within. This is why they say shopping, email, or that they watch "the voice", La Voix" au Quebec.. Yes, in Quebec we have a great history of the language. It is a language of pioneers, lumberjack, full of expressions and strong emotions. where in france is very clear and refinned. For a quebecois, french from France sounds girly, fragile and vuknerable, thats why they accept all new english words without a fight, where in Quebec we will fight and translate. because we have to survive..alone.

[@tander101]

The sexual tension is GARGANTUAN.

[@jeancharland3858]

J,adore ces discussions sur le francais en anglais ! C,est ridicule.

[@rvnhty]

The girl is very judgmental. She made this conversation very uncomfortable to listen to.

[@mcrusty2507]

She was flirting

[@kimbercustompro1911]

Nope, those of us who are labeled as speaking French are actually speaking Quebecoise which is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE ACTUAL FRENCH SPOKEN IN FRANCE.

[@seantitus2769]

This guy is so beautifully sexy.

[@VladislavBabbitt]

Justin Trudeau does not even master the language, so don't worry, LOOOOOOOL! xD

[@thomasbarnison4808]

Why you speak english????

[@SlugSage]

Marie 🥵

[@stephenmarkovic878]

The only reason Quebec has French speaking speaking people when France helped England fight against the Americans people in France that came here decided to stay

[@yannislaurin5438]

If you're Canadian you prove that you guys are ignorant

[@robelanger4242]

No that is not quite what happened. The French colonised part of North America and named it NEW FRANCE. and the rerritory expanded form Quebec and Ontarion all the way to Louisiana, the british invaded new France that at the time was now named Canada. and in 1760 the british conquered Canada in blood. Since then we are called French Canadian but we were and still are the REAL Canadians along with the first Nations. If you understand and really know Canadian History ( not the ones of the winners since they change the story to their benefit ) you would realize where most Canadians did stand at the time. There is so much to say about that period that this would require a minimum of a full year and even more to study.

[@robelanger4242]

And the french helped the American in the war against the British. I wonder where did you go to school to talk like this. Which country to you come from to not know this.

[@SOT233]

Oh my goodness, you have your history all wrong my friend! The French settled in North America even before the British did. This is what explains French presence in North America. The reason the French ended up being outnumbered with time is that the King of France forsake the French colonies to the British when he signed the Traité de Versailles in 1763. But French presence in North America has remained and is now mainly concentrated in the province of Quebec. Now I can't help wondering: what have you been taught in school???

[@m.boivin8671]

C'est plutôt le Traité de Paris en 1763, qui mit fin à la Guerre de Sept Ans, par lequel la France céda à la l'Angleterre la Nouvelle-France ainsi que ses colonies aux Indes, traité signé par Louis XV.@@SOT233

[@naturalsoundsoftheworld]

Quebec French never went through 19th century standardization. It still retains its hard sounding, germanic elements that were "purified" in the 19th century by Elites in Paris who didn't like "ugly" the language was compared to the other romance languages. But French was never a true Romance language, and it's important to celebrate its uniqueness!

[@bretwein3793]

Right French 🙄