How Similar Are Québec French and Metropolitan French?

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[@dannygjk]

lol it sounds weird/bizarre (ha ha) to me to hear the Quebec 'religious' swear words in the video. I lived just east of the Quebec border for 9 years in Labrador city and many of the people there speak French so to me these are words I don't expect to hear casually voiced in a KZbin video. I moved from there in 1985 but I still use those words from habit almost on a daily basis tho I shorten tabarnak to nak.

[@RadicalCaveman]

This is a really excellent video!

[@Melanie-ji3do]

Has a french canadian I saw some mistake in the video... there's lacking some contractions we use everytime such has j'veux, chu or chui and ect... but overall I loved that video, it truly exposes the differences.

[@ExSheriffFattyBoySkinnyArms]

Langfocus incredibly well reseached content. well done!

[@scania3939]

Fun fact, the metropolitan french has some variations too, i'm living in a "département" called Jura and there is some things in relation to the quebec french like the il=y or je suis=chui.

[@alexandrelarsac9115]

Fun fact : In France, movies from Quebec are subtitled in french. Not kidding.

[@caleblovell]

Not too crazy - oftentimes the news, movies, etc. here in the US will subtitle Southern American accents. It's not always needed, but it can help!

[@davidchicoine6949]

doing the same for southern france and north african french in quebec but have to say in france they use too much english word and they sound terrible !

[@newmanclement3774]

True ! Sometimes it sounds like a foreign language to us French :)

[@alpacatwoniner2370]

This is something I have pondered. The sheer awesomeness of this knowledge will unite humanity. Or maybe just make some people laugh

[@alebangalter]

TV5 monde channel do that with French spoken Canadian TV shows.. I found that very funny... and necessary

[@liralen1116]

Wow. It's so rare to find a truly neutral linguistic video that truly shows the differences as they are, without trying to make one sound inferior. As a Quebec citizen, I am very grateful!

[@MCSorry]

Yeah, I expect some form of Quebec-bashing, but this man really looked at both with objectivity

[@SinsTenshi]

@STENNELER Jérémy People usually tend to say/think/imply that french from Quebec isn't a real french and that it's "ugly compared to real french". It is offensive and sad because, French from Quebec IS French. It just evolved differently du to centuries of events shaping it. This video is so great pointing it

[@joshuametzl1420]

@STENNELER Jérémy damn full on lecture

[@parmaxolotl]

@@MCSorry as a true linguist should

[@joshuametzl1420]

@STENNELER Jérémy that's fine, It's cool to learn about the old french vs English days .

[@aliebellule]

I'm a translator in Canada. A client who usually used the agency to translate the packaging of their products in Canadian French once asked us to translate "Dog treats" without mentioning that, this time, the product would be sold in France. We gave them "Gâteries pour chiens", which is the correct term in Québec. The problem is that in France slang, "gâterie" is used as a euphemism for a blowjob. Suffice to say, the client was mortified when they received complaints.

[@Langfocus]

Haha 😄

[@shadowking141ghost]

interesting

[@RPMZ11]

Hilarious!!....🐶🦴👀

[@rejeangadbois3123]

lol I know

[@rejeangadbois3123]

friandises pour chiens must have been more convenient.

[@thetruebrahanseer]

No clichés or bad jokes, no misleading information, everything is thoroughly explained. Great job!

[@flyingfig12]

Except they're actually lots of English words mixed in with quebec french youth.

[@maitrebug9686]

C'est de la belle ouvrage.

[@monaco1964bis]

@@maitrebug9686 c’est du bon travail maître !

[@andrewprevost]

Totally agree that the differences are frequently exaggerated (especially by people from France). Montreal French and Paris French are no more different than New York English and London English. But I think the only reason people from France find the Quebecois accent so hard to understand - at first - is because they hear it so infrequently - a lot less frequently than Quebecers hear Metropolitan French, or Americans hear British English, or Brits hear American English. I think it's just that people in France are a lot less used to hearing their language spoken with very different accents than most English-speakers are.

[@THESKYMASTER]

You are correct.

[@cbcluckyii4042]

@Welly y'all, who it is, must of vs must have but that's just slang I guess. Spelling there are some differences: our=or colour-color neighbour-neighbor se=ze prioritise-prioritize criticise-criticize re=Er theatre-theater centre-center Z(Ed) =Z(ee)

[@BucyKalman]

@Welly There are plenty of grammar differences actually. For example, 1) Verb forms : in the US, spelled, burned, learned, dove, snuck, gotten, proven; in the UK, spelt, burnt, learnt, dived, sneaked, got, proved. 2) Use of prepositions: in the US, "protest the government", "graduate High School"; in the UK, "protest against the government"; "graduate from college". 3) Use of articles: in the US, "go to the hospital"; in the UK, "go to hospital". 4) Use of verb tenses: in the US, "did you eat yet?"; in the UK, "have you eaten yet ? ".

[@chocomint8261]

Lucky Wu (must of) vs (must have) isn't a grammar difference, it's just incorrect lol

[@Patrick-857]

@@BucyKalman US English is just incorrect English, fight me.

[@jaybou007]

Finally, somebody who actually knows what he's talking about to explain our accent! Kudos for your reasearch, good sir.

[@peterconway6584]

I went to high school with a boy from France. Over the summer his family would vacation in the home country. In our Senior year, he said that his friends in France told him that he talked like "a d*d Canadian."

[@nickeman132]

@@peterconway6584 a what

[@peterconway6584]

@@nickeman132 : one of those impolite words..

[@Misterjingle]

@@peterconway6584 Sounds weird, actually we do love Canadian accent in France.

[@Eric-pt5mt]

@@Misterjingle i have not had that experience

[@hencrazy]

*[TABARNAK INTENSIFIES]*

[@HubrisInc]

[DEPRECATED] Rocket Propelled Mexican OSTI DE CALICE DE TABARNAK

[@lachainedesam3112]

Tabarnak le calisse de cave y’es rentré dans mon esti de char en se parkant l’écœurant! Québécois 100%

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

Tabern*

[@lachainedesam3112]

No I’m from Quebec and trust me it’s tabarnak that we say

[@pierredumais6749]

La Chaîne De Sam We are from Québec and we say that en tabarnak 😁

[@DanielHowardIRE]

I'm from Ireland but speak fluent French. I'm a French teacher in fact. I lived in Montréal for two years and loved it there. Very informal varieties of Québec French can pose difficulties but the same can be said in regions of France. I do think the differences can be exaggerated and some French people act like Québec French is impossible to understand or it's bad French. It's just different and beautiful in its own unique way 😉

[@wally7856]

Quebec doesn't speak French, they speak dirty peasant slang.

[@jeanrose1627]

Je suis complètement d'accord

[@nolyspe]

> I do think the differences can be exaggerated and some French people act like Québec French is impossible to understand or it's bad French. Exactly. Usually it comes from 20 something French "expats" going to quebec and being shocked, shocked! that France is no longer the center of the world. (I'm saying that as a French implantee in Québec myself.) The difference in accent, vocabulary, etc. is notoriously more marked between say, Metropolitan French and Sub-saharian African French.

[@targard.quantumfrack6854]

I'm "french" and I never ever met anyone claiming that Quebec french was impossible to understand... That's mindblowing to me lol. If they want something that's real difficult to understand, I'd gladly send them to listen to Radio Radio lol : kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3TdqHaqlspji7s

[@fleadoggreen9062]

Oui oui 😊

[@HirachieOfSociety]

Nobody in Quebec says "Telephone intelligent" most people refer to smartphones as "cells" or "cellulaires" Edit: I should have probably iterated that yes in FORMAL settings "Telephone intelligent" is used, but informally people would think you're weird for saying that.

[@Prokomeni]

HirachieOfSociety except when you’re looking at an ad and they refuse to use words that real people use

[@matthieuperreault5381]

the joys of l'office de la langue Française with gems like "clavarder" (to chat) Égoportrait (selfie) Nouvelle fallacieuses (fake news) téléverser en amont / en aval (download / upload) and so on. Nobody really uses them, they're used in formal settings like on televisions and ads, rarely actually spoken.

[@kleptomaniagta5362]

Hmmm... oui et non. Règle générale on va dire un cell, mais si quelqu’un veut distinguer un vieux motorola razor pis un galaxy S, on risque de faire la différence en disant un cellulaire et un téléphone intelligent... même chose en France; la plupart des gens disent toujours un portable, mais vont dire smartphone quand la distinction devient nécessaire.

[@kleptomaniagta5362]

Matthieu Perreault « Courriel » vient pourtant de l’office de la langue française et le mot est passé dans l’usage courant. Mais c’est vrai que c’est un cas relativement rare. C’est un peu con qu’une institution essaie d’inventer des mots et les diffuser dans la société du haut vers le bas, mais je pense que c’est encore plus con de continuellement adopter des mots anglais en s’imaginant qu’en accumulant des grains de sable, on ne finira pas avec une dune...

[@dominicbeaudoin2762]

@@matthieuperreault5381 Beurk. Le mot clavarder m'a toujours donner le goût de gerber.

[@RDCQ59]

You didn't talk about the famous "gosses" in France: gosses = enfants in Québec: gosses = testicles

[@magnusscheck4425]

Wow, english, spanish, french and portuguese change so hard depending on the region you live in. "Coger" in spanish from spain means "Take". But in latin american spanish it means "fuck" XD. But if you get along with people from that region you get to understand them more.

[@foreal3312]

Ouais je peux te le confirmer haha

[@foreal3312]

En passant je suis un québécois haha

[@patrickbaillargeon1933]

There's a key difference, though. Both words have a different gender. "Gosse" as in a kid is a masculine noun, whereas "gosse" as in a testicle is a feminine noun, as paradoxal as it is. If you pay attention to the article and adjectives used around the word, you can figure out which meaning the speaker intends to communicate.

[@RDCQ59]

@@patrickbaillargeon1933 indeed yes (even if the gender depends on the kid's gender, at least in France, maybe it's different in Quebec), but, in France it's ok to say "j'ai sorti mes gosses au parc", while it's clearly not ok in Quebec

[@EddyWoon]

I stayed in Quebec for about 3 weeks and had learnt French there (and had not visited any other French speaking countries in the next 4 years) when 2 business visitors from Quebec came to visit my work in Brisbane, Australia. I spoke the only French that I had learnt and they were very surprised to hear Quebec French being spoken so far from their home.

[@josephnash2081]

You must be quite the linguist to have picked up another language in weeks. I find other languages interesting but have no gift towards learning them easily.

[@freshname]

@@josephnash2081 I'm sorry to be some sort of Debbie Downer here, but. Learning language in three weeks can only bring you thus far. Meaning not far at all. In the country where I'm from it's not even considered to be learning a language. It's called going to a restaurant in a foreign country. My second thought is learning languages is not easy. And it's not supposed to be. It's fun, it's interesting, it's eye opening, it's thrilling. It's many things, but it's not easy. So please do remember, you're absolutely ok, languages do not come easy, it's ok to learn languages at your own pace, you can do it, the only important thing is not giving up. Choose a language to learn and enjoy the ride.

[@felipecortez1042]

@@josephnash2081 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Yagid]

How could you learn a language in 3 weeks?!?!? Maybe you mean you had already known French, and you just have been practicing speaking it in Québec for 3 weeks, and have known and remembered a lot of special things of Quebec French?

[@phildyrtt6433]

@@freshname Je beg de différer -- je livé en France durant un weeke et jay lerné Frasšais perfectlyment! Pas boecupe Americans ont cette capacitý, nestlé pah?? 😎🇫🇷🇨🇦🇺🇸💞

[@chocolatequente4531]

as a brazillian learning french, the quebec vocabulary you showed in this video is a lot easier for me to understand than the france version, words like "char", "bicyclette", "fin de semaine" are a lot closer to portuguese "carro", "bicicleta", "fim de semana", that's very cool, idk if the rest of the vocabulary follows this tho but this made me very excited to learn more about the quebec version

[@zxszert573hg46]

Bicyclette is used in France just like fin de semaine which literally means weekend lol. Also they don't exactly say bicyclette in Quebec but bicycle.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

Quebec french is ironically closer to old french than in france

[@TitanLRV]

@@zxszert573hg46 Nah well in Montréal and in most rural regions near Montréal and Québec we say bicyclette. I don't know about other parts though. But bicycle is used while speaking formally.

[@noZ3v]

Those words are also close to Spanish, "carro", "bicicleta", "fin de semana".

[@kathrynstemler6331]

In school in anglophone Canada I learned bicyclette and voiture as the words for those things so I guess no surprise I can’t speak any kind of French.

[@anthonygagne8520]

As a native speaker from Québec, I agree with Paul saying the differences are exagerated. It’s not that bad. If you go for about a week in QC you’ll be able to understand it mostly. I think it’s the exact case with a spaniard who goes to Argentina. They have the same issue with grammar, pronounciation and vocabulary. And so does Brazil and Portugal...

[@lorrantcavanha]

Exactly, as a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker I can say we are capable of understand Portuguese from Portugal, but there's a lot of differences in pronunciation, but it's ok 😄😄

[@joangg]

As a Spanish speaker from Spain I agree 100%

[@matheusmarlleyfrançais]

Je suis brésilien, je suis d'accord.

[@bobing1752]

Franchement, les Québécois que je connais ont un très fort accent quand ils parlent entre eux. En revanche, ils sont souvent capable de limiter l'incompréhension quand ils parlent avec un Français. Et puis ça dépend des endroits aussi j'ai l'impression. Certaines parties du Québec ont un plus fort accent que d'autres. Quand deux Québécois se parlent, je comprends parfois rien du tout, mais parfois ça va. En tout cas je pense que vous avez moins de mal à nous comprendre qu'on en a à vous comprendre, c'est vraiment difficile.

[@MathieuVOtis]

@@bobing1752 quand deux Marseillais se parlent, où quand ça parle verlan, je comprends rien. Je change comment je parle en fonction des gens avec qui je parle. On le fait tous, utiliser différents registres de langue.

[@lovvyuo]

his quebec translation: Je fais qu’est ce que je veux. my strong accent translation: CHFAIS SQUE JVEUX TABARNAK

[@louisd.8928]

My meta translation: J'ai l'doua j'fa c'que j'veux!

[@kingvin08]

Lol

[@frankmayerstudios2161]

and usually I had to your sentence: "pis ceux qui sont pas content ben qui mange don d'la marde coliss !

[@guytremblay1647]

its writen : J'fait c'que j'veut

[@doigt6590]

@@whatever12643 colice existe, variante plus rare. Tsé quand tu lâche un gros calice en mettant l'accent sur le « a » de calice? Ben un coliss/colice/côlice c'est essentiellement la même chose, mais il y a une courte diphtongaison du « a » en « o ».

[@MrGeorgeFlorcus]

I love that Quebec French and Parisian French have both adopted a variety of English words and ideas, but they adopted completely different English words at different times. Quebeckers have their "gang", but only Metropolitan Frenchmen can go out on the "weekend". Language is a funny thing.

[@tornadodee148]

nah we say weekend also, just rarely :)

[@stuartmcnair2783]

The reason for that is the French language laws in Quebec as was mentioned

[@tornadodee148]

@@stuartmcnair2783 we tend to not really respect the rules when we speak, tho

[@tornadodee148]

@@florencecousin5577 no you are right. we use a lot of anglisisms yet the government insists on shoving french laws down our throats and even inventing new words that the French from France themselves dont use as they themselves use different anglisisms instead. Trying to be more french than the French. the irony is *muah!*

[@Squid_y]

@@tornadodee148 Is this a bad thing for you?

[@thethreecobras8834]

As a quebec citizen and speaker I was surprised at how well you could learn our accent!

[@andrewshepitko6354]

That accent is like you're grimacing. Those long sounds. Why?

[@MihaiRUdeRO]

I think the host is from Montreal lmao

[@ZhangtheGreat]

Well, Paul is Canadian, so that may be advantageous.

[@anmolbargujar]

quebec sucks its horrible place

[@antonboludo8886]

@@andrewshepitko6354 The accent resembles that of the Southern Drawl spoken in the USA. The vowels are more drawn out and there are many diphthongs.

[@benoitverret6722]

In Québec : Je vais parker mon char dans le stationnement. In France : Je vais garer la voiture dans le parking.

[@patbl61]

hahahahaha!

[@Superibis.]

*au parking ;)

[@spacecat6022]

Schtroumpf vert et vert schtroumpf

[@xavierlebeuf3061]

For Québec, it'd be more like: M'a parker le char icitte

[@kenzasmaki6611]

Benoit Verret *stationnement lol

[@zachp.3509]

Quebecois : I'm from quebec French : DIS TABARNAK

[@angrydoodle8919]

Zach P. Non French people say « Allez fais-le ! Mais dis-le ! Tu sais quoi. Dis tabernacle ! »

[@madkillller]

The french will usually butcher it, saying Tabernaquele.

[@zachp.3509]

@@madkillller "ostie de tabernacle" ugh it sounds ugly ;-;

[@zachp.3509]

@Em yeaaaa

[@shubhankartiwari4348]

Caliss🤪

[@albandevaux6348]

As a French from Paris I understand 99% of French from Québec. I guess the first step is to listen the French from Québec a few hours (when it's the first time in your life you listen this accent for a Parisian French speaker, like it could be the same for the accent of South of France), then we learn the main different expressions like char, blonde, chum, tabernacle, etc. For the different anglicisms, if we speak English, we still perfectly understand the meaning of the sentences and finally for the "old fashion words" we still perfectly understand even if we don't use this world spontaneously. Conclusion: it's really easy to understand each other with a minimum effort of getting use to the accent. Beside people will of course still laugh and mock about accent they're not use to but this is how you distinguish open minded and kind persons or rude and uneducated persons. Bisous à tous les Québécois, je rêve depuis bien trop longtemps de visiter votre pays, ça va se faire ;)

[@marysealbert1570]

Alban Devaux, tu es très sympa, un gros merci à toi !

[@Math-qe6kp]

On a malheureusement pas de pays -_-

[@judahsutherland6827]

Le Canada est à vous! 😊

[@glahaye]

It's not "tabernacle", it's "tabarnak". I don't know how many times I've had to correct people on that...

[@maxmanitta8594]

@@glahaye c’est pas grave 😂😂

[@bobchad206]

As someone from Ontario who learned French I never realized how mixed my vocabulary was between MF and QF.

[@fantastopotomus]

I'm also from Ontario and learned mostly MF translations. Weird. edit: I accidentally put "never learned " 🤦🏿

[@karla1717]

Same. I hate that I was taught European French instead of Canadian French. It got me some...LOOKS before I learned a more Canadian accent and vocab!

[@stephanebrunet7129]

I'm Franco-Ontarien now living in Québec and though I have a very hard time understanding MF, it took me some time to fully understand QF. When I met an Acadien from New Brunswick I realized how similar their French was to mine. But like the man said, only Québec has French language protection laws. ;)

[@captaincouchpotato7374]

I'm learning French in new brunswick and sometimes agreed with French proper, sometimes agreed with Quebec french, and sometimes disagreed with both.

[@maryamm.9]

i'm pretty sure this just applies to everywhere in canada except quebec since everyone i know, including myself, who's learned french in alberta, saskatchewan or manitoba has learned french the same way as you.

[@zefkyros5465]

Also some advice: if you hear multiple swear words chained together, as in "osti de calice de tabarnak", run.

[@catetmax1812]

ciboire de saint osti de viarge

[@PHthaKING]

calisse de ciboire de tabarnak

[@fieryelf]

J'allais faire le meme commentaire haha

[@hammerheartdan6311]

Or it's because: Mon osti calice de Skidoo veux pas partir tabarnak!!!

[@DDrac0]

Tabarnak d’osti de marde de chien de calisse de criss de saint tabarnak

[@JoCE2305]

Person in Quebec getting in a Prius "My tank"

[@alexandreduhamel6761]

Why do people think we say the word tank? We literally only use it to refer to the war vehicule or a gas tank

[@fs400ion]

@@alexandreduhamel6761 C'est qu'en disant « C'est mon char », un français va penser qu'on parle d'un char d'assaut et non d'une voiture, parce qu'à part au Québec, personne n'emploie le mot char pour désigner autre chose qu'un Tank.

[@jaybob9317]

Or, I get stuck everywhere lol.

[@poeleabois]

more like a charriot

[@michaellafond715]

Literal translation does mean tank, assault vehicle, yes, but the meaning of the word has changed over time for us Quebecers. I promise, we do not refer to our Prius's as tanks. For us, "char" simply means "vehicle". Just as "car" means "vehicle" for you.

[@ceolmhargael]

I am a French teacher from northern Maine, near the border with Québec and New Brunswick. Where I’m from forms part of the historical region of Acadia alongside QC and NB. As a result, we have our own dialect of French that is spoken here (Acadienne). It was even more isolated than Québécois, so its grammar and syntax sound like it’s still in the 18th century with Anglicisms thrown in. I learned Metropolitan French (like everyone else), but that did not prepare me for the French spoken here. Even after 18 years, I still have to really pay attention when I’m speaking French in Maine or NB. My first teacher was québécoise, so my accent is closer to that than Metropolitan. However, as I watched the examples in the video I find my vocabulary is still more metropolitan than québécois; although I do have a fair amount of phrases from Québec. To the French, I sound québécois, and to Quebecers I sound French. To Acadians I sound unintelligible. Language is fun like that! 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@DSkye-n7m]

Daniel Jackson near Madawaska? 😃

[@ceolmhargael]

Violet Skye Sort of. Madawaska/Edmundston is about an hour away.

[@jean-michelb7290]

Donc vous pourriez converser avec une personne de la Lousiane et bien la comprendre? J'y suis allé il y a quelques semaine et leur dialecte est très dure à comprendre. Je suis Québecois.

[@ceolmhargael]

Jean-Michel B J’ai regardé quelques vidéos du français de la Louisiane et je pouvais les comprendre.

[@jeromesmith636]

I live in quebec city for 3 years now (i'm a french from france), and it is so hard to understand you guys ! One of the first guy i met there was Acadien and i often smiled at him or just said yes after he told me something because i couldn"t undesrtood him, no offense taken i hope, it just feel so weird !

[@zenkid4113]

As a French who spent some time in Canada I can safely say that generally speaking it's not too hard to understand Québec French but sometimes I have to ask the other person to repeat the sentence because the accent can be tricky. I would say it also depends if the Québec person tries to speak more formally or not. Also people from Montréal seem to speak in a way that's closer to metropolitan french compared to people from other areas. To us Québec often feels way more american than us and more traditionally french than we are for other things, so it's an interesting mix. I have southern french/occitan roots which I don't think are common in Québec at all, and it often feels like most people there have super traditional french names.

[@loftsatsympaticodotc]

We do indeed here have lots of the old Bréton and Normandie french names in Quebec, because the settlers largely came from those Atlantic coastal regions of France. I find that some French place names and addresses are foreign to the average place names in Quebec

[@plumebrise4801]

@@loftsatsympaticodotc Yep ,I'm a French born in the city Dieppe ,a coastal city in the North of Normandy (It has 30k habitant) ,but I lived in Picardy my whole life .(In the 2nd most southern coastal city of Picardy) and I often go to Eu (a city) which is in an Urban unit along with the Most southern coastal city of Picardy + the most Northern coastal city of Normandy (And 2 other Normand city + 1 other in Picardy). And I know that in the New Brunswick (Province of Canada) ,there is city called Dieppe ,which is the biggest Francophone city outside of Quebec ,and this one also have 30k habitant (Even tho both are different ,Dieppe ,Canada is a city growing in Population ,while Dieppe ,France was a city that peaked at 40k population in the 70's and is now declining .)

[@kokocaptainqc]

@@plumebrise4801 wanna know something funny about New Brunswick? when you cross the bridge from pointe-a-la-croix, quebec to Campbelton, New Brunswick, all people there speak almost exclusively english and then, as you go deeper into New Brunswick, you begin to hear more and more french

[@goldenretriever6261]

@@kokocaptainqc Cool, interesting.

[@pbasswil]

I'm an Anglo Montrealer, working at a big store with some Euro French managers. I'm so used to Québec French that it's those Euro managers I often have to ask to repeat!

[@Metaldannyp]

Québec: Sua poude Francais: je suis sous l’influence d’une substance illégale

[@remilacharite1998]

pour une raison ou une autre je l'ai ris vraiment fort elle XD

[@DominicBrissette]

sapoud'bon sens

[@marcchapleau8343]

Non. Ça c'est comment un illettré vivant dans un quartier pauvre va parler mais pas un Québécois qui a un tant soit peu de culture.

[@Metaldannyp]

@@marcchapleau8343 Tu n'as pas compris la joke je crois... et le quartier dans le quelle tu vis n'a aucun rapport avec l’intelligence oui tu peux naître avec des avantages être née dans un milieu plus développer mais sinon félicitation a s'eux qui réussies à en faire autant avec beaucoup moins

[@marcchapleau8343]

@@Metaldannyp Je parlais de culture et du niveau socio-économique.

[@sgagnonproulx]

Native speaker of Québécois here. My english might be broken a little bit, sorry! I just wanted to say you really nailed our way of speaking in this video and I love your channel. :) There's just some nuances I would add: -We say ''Bienvenue'' but we also say ''de rien''. Actually we often use both. -''Téléphone intelligent'' would be used in a more formal way of speaking (for example, in a commercial on t.v.), but usually we say ''cellulaire'' instead. -''Bicyclette'' is indeed commonly used here but we also say ''bicycle'' and sometimes ''vélo'' but more often ''bicycle'' -''Dis-moé le!'' can be said here but we tend to say ''lé'' instead of ''le'' for example in this phrase: ''Dis-moé lé don'!'' (which we could maybe translate ''come on, tell me!''). ''don'' would be a contraction of ''donc''. Again, great video, you explained it really well! :)

[@dxrlingsofmine]

I love how you said your English might be broken but you spoke in perfect English, nice!

[@patog6408]

Couldn’t have explain it better and I am Quebec City native 👍

[@BarryB.Benson]

Perfect English, much much better than my French, greetings from Ontario :)

[@BobTheAnimator101]

Ton anglais est parfait mon gars! Et ton explication est su'a coche!

[@jean-francoisfafard647]

Right on mon bob

[@frosty_fox3559]

In Québec we don’t say téléphone intelligent we say cell ( cellulaire ) 4:26

[@Ghi102]

Especially in informal contexts. Téléphone intelligent would be more formal

[@EebstertheGreat]

@@deannawhalen8047 The word "footing" does sound very silly in English.

[@foreverhappiness3396]

non on dit telephone intelligent ! a montreal en tout cas !

[@Houkiboshi713]

Isn't it more like... (pls correct me if I'm wrong) Portable (France) = Cellulaire (Québec) Smartphone (France) = Téléphone Intelligent (Québec) (?)

[@marcalbertpaquette3163]

@@Houkiboshi713 both words exist in Québec, but "cellulaire" is more commonly used in everyday Qc French whether it is to identify a "portable" or a "smartphone"

[@Dismantled95]

I'm a Québécois, and this is a great demonstration of the difference in our languages. Couldn't have done it better myself. Kudos to you, friend!

[@andreashottin6143]

Hey ! I'm french from northern France (next to the Belgium borderline). I loved your video. My answer to your question is the following. I have no problem understanding the French from Quebec and i actually love talking with Quebecois. Studying every accents of a language is as interesting as studying every languages of the world. Don't you think? Thanks for the video. Keep going 👍

[@ashanderson2703]

That's probably because you live near belgium. The accent is pretty similar. Not the same tho.

[@JafferManiar]

My first French teacher in Ontario was actually a Belgian - he ironed out many differences for us in those first weeks.

[@mathewvanostin7118]

Ash Anderson actualy quebec french is exactly the same as the accent of west france dialect. They even have same exact expression!! Because it was the 1500 1600 1700s. Traveling took a long time. And train didnt exist. So its mostly people living near a port of west france that went to quebec East french and central french didnt immigrate to quebec much. Cause it could take 15 20 days by horse just to join a port in west france South of france was used for africa/pacific/caraibian destination. West of france was used for french north amerika destinations

[@gaius_marius]

As a Spanish speaker from Mexico who loves to speak with other Spanish speakers from other regions, I totally agree with you!

[@HectaSpyrit]

As a native French speaker from Metropolitan French it's really interesting to learn about the actual diferences between MF and QF Because we all broadly get the diferences, but to see the linguistical details is pretty interesting And to be honnest, the French of Québéc may sound funny to us, with the accent, vocab and slang, but usually it's perfectly intelligible. Also I feel like Québéquois adjust their speach to metropolitan French a lot more than metropolitan French people adjust to French from Québéc

[@makanat7495]

As a native Quebec French speakers I agree that we change our language for the MF speaker. Sometimes, we try to use less slang and more corect grammar.

[@baudouinmualaba5717]

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[@OmegaDez]

It's always been a one-way deal for us. We understand you and adjust accordingly, but you guys usually don't, or don't want to.

[@Dajo28]

I think it's because it's easier for you to understand us than us to understand you. I think you guys hear more often MF than we actually hear QF. #NativeMF

[@randybell5461]

I think you should go to France and stay there.

[@camembertdalembert6323]

As a native metropolitan french speaker, I can clearly understand Quebec formal french. When it comes to unformal quebec french it's more difficult. There is also an other difference. The words imported from english are most of the time pronounced with a strong american accent in quebec, but in metropolitan France they are most of the time pronounced with a very french accent and with the french pronunciation of vowels, exept for nasal ones.

[@vinnywong5808]

Raphaël D American accent? You mean Canadian accent?

[@erickpalacios8904]

I think that's one experience. Metropolitan French is much more similar to Spanish Imo than Québécois French, and I'm Canadian! Parisian French is more consistent with formal Spanish Imo.

[@camembertdalembert6323]

To me it sounds the same, I can't hear the difference. This limitation comes from me.

[@camembertdalembert6323]

Erick, as Paul explained, informal french in quebec uses a lot of direct translations of english expressions. This explains that. But formal french in Quebec is nearly as closed to formal spanish as formal metropolitan french. When I read press articles from Quebec I don't see any differences. I can say it's from quebec only because of the context.

[@cabbyboy]

Yes, good point, the pronounciation of english words is done with an english accent. For instance, Wi-fi in France would be pronunced "weefee", whereas in Quebec it would stay the same as in english.

[@JonathonV]

Thanks for this video! I’m an Anglophone Canadian. I didn’t take a French course until high school, but I pursued it in post-secondary, and that led me to live in the southwest of France for a year. I was surprised how easy I found it to understand what the French were saying. They were much faster than I was so I couldn’t often contribute to the conversation, but I had very little trouble understanding. There was the odd regionalism from Gascon dialects, or just local slang, but that didn’t take long to pick up. I did notice that practically every food has a different name in France. In Canada, even in English-dominated areas, all food packaging has a French translation on it, so when I was young, most of the terms I knew were food. Those terms all went out the window in France. 😂 Arachide becomes cacahuète, bleuet becomes myrtille, patate becomes pomme de terre, etc. Many of these Québécois terms exist in Français de France but mean slightly different things. But you get used to that too. After living in France a year, I watched a Québécois TV show on the plane back to Canada. They may as well have been speaking Slovenian because I understood virtually none of it. Formal French, such as is broadcast on Radio-Canada, I have no problem with, and I even listen to some informal Franco-Canadian podcasts and find them easy to follow, but some Québécois accents, particularly the rural accents, are nearly very difficult for me to decipher. The Québécois often have so much more of an open mouth when speaking, whereas the French purse their lips and speak front-of-mouth, which makes a massive difference in accent and inflection. Thanks again for starting the conversation!

[@monichat]

Personally I have difficulty understanding the French from France, they speak so fast !

[@YeetusTheFetus]

You’re required to take French in elementary school in Ontario, so I took it for quite a few years

[@monichat]

@@YeetusTheFetus Glad to read this. Most English Canadians are unilingual. Whereas in Québec most French Canadians are bilingual. My daughter speaks also Spanish. Am proud of her.

[@jeanrose1627]

​@@monichat j'aime beaucoup le français du Québec

[@monichat]

@@jeanrose1627 Merci à vous. Souvent au Québec nous utilisons des mots de vieux français qui sont devenus désuets en France.

[@SergioALara]

I tried to study French in the past but I really hated it so I quit and I just focused on English, then I went to Québec; Montréal, Ville de Québec and Mont Tremblant. I really thought everyone would be bilingual but I find that almost no one speaks English so I had to speak in French (the little I had learned) and Spanish. To hear the Québécois accent made me feel different about French, it’s pretty thrilling to hear them, they have a really beautiful accent. Now I’m learning French again just to speak with the Québécois and learn more about them and their history. Vive le Québec ⚜️⚜️

[@Chillitz]

unrelated but i love going to Mont Tremblant!

[@TH-tl6sy]

Almost half of the population in Quebec speak english. They're just being asses. Lol

[@repp181]

Honestly I'm surprised you said almost no one speaks english, specially in Montreal and Mont-Tremblant. I was born and raised in Sherbrooke city and here almost everyone can handle a conversation in English. In Montreal I guarantee you there is a very very small percentage of the population that speak French only. We have laws nowadays to protect our native tongue because English is slowly taking over the French. That being said, I'm glad to here you want to learn about our beautiful Québec! :)

[@therealmrsteve]

Thats great! Am a french speaking Québecois.

[@therealmrsteve]

@@TH-tl6sy relax man am not what you said comme on. Osti qu'il est cave. C'est une joke

[@isaojable]

As a French native I do experience difficulties understanding French Canadian not because of their grammar but because of their strong accent. I remember once I met a Canadian in Los Angeles. He started to speak Quebec French. I couldn't understand one single word, his accent was so thick. I didn't want to be rude so I just said 'oui' and he kept talking and talking and I kept smiling and say 'oui'. I don't know if he realized I couldn't understand him. It was a very uncomfortable situation.

[@shipshrekt2156]

oui

[@shipshrekt2156]

that's really funny

[@lyadmilo]

I went to school 100% in French until university. And it was a bougie private school which boasted ~ international standard French ~. I did not understand anyone in Paris. But I understand northern French folk just fine! The Parisian accent seems much more isolated in itself than just France vs Quebec, to me

[@Cepheus_01]

Je suis d'accord. Je suis un canadien, mais, d'habitude, je parle anglais. J'aimerais savoir parler avec les autres francophones.

[@viniciusmerlo100]

Believe me, Manitoba french is way more difficult to understand.

[@b43xoit]

Me (English-speaker barely having learned a little Metropolitan French): Merci My boss (French): Bienvenue Me: Bienvenue à où?

[@zachp.3509]

I'm a metropolitan french and there's funny facts like that about understanding quebec french lol

[@Eric-pt5mt]

@@zachp.3509 the reverse is also true. Ask a quebecois about their "gosses"

[@zachp.3509]

@@Eric-pt5mt yeaaah I know (I said "pauvre gosse" to a quebecois lmao)

[@meguinator]

Zach P. I am a Quebecois and I can clearly imagine their expressions XD

[@gabfortin1976]

Youre welcome to where?

[@reneeryan-vg4es]

I am Canadian and actually did a project on this for a translation class. I also found that Metropolitan French actually uses more borrowed terms from English. Québec French favours original French words because of that strong preservational mindset. Bilingualism in Canada is increasing, but only because more francophones are learning more English. Despite strict language laws in Québec, French is declining in Canada. There is not enough support and promotion to learn French further west unfortunately.

[@juliansmith4295]

"There is not enough support and promotion to learn French further west unfortunately." I can't speak for other provinces in the west, but in BC, there are waiting lists to get into French immersion.

[@BigPatViggen]

@@juliansmith4295lack of teachers maybe a manifestation of that declining support…

[@Toranius777]

Honestly in my experience (van anglo living in mtl) its a mix of people in BC looking at french as kinda pointless cause theyre virtually nonexistent that far west and the francos being often uninviting to those trying to learn. Ive been berated in interviews for my french level, laughed at for poor grammar and am constantly just spoken to in english so actually learning has been a hassle. The frustration on both sides is palpable.

[@angelbonilla2255]

You need independence or a status like Scotland in the UK

[@BigPharma-pe3mr]

why are you crying

[@c.d.b6713]

You’re research was indeed very accurate. As a Quebecer, I am so happy to find an accurate video about our language and history. For exemple, you mentionned the “Filles du Roy”. It made me incredibly happy to hear you mentionned them as such because most anglophones wrongly believe they were “filles de joi” which are prostitutes. It’s completly false, they were orphans from the state orphanage, they were called daughters of the king because they had no fathers, so the king took them as his own for legal purposes, since woman were considered legally minor all their lives at the time. Until they had a husband, they had to have another legal guardian, like a father! Often, anglophones perpetuate the myth that we are descendent of prostitutes, which is essentially a racist prejudice. Proper research is really important and you have my thanks!

[@davidmeir9348]

They must confuse it with the Island of Tartaruga, the famous Pirate Island. Over there, the king did send hundreds of prostitutes to entice the French to stay there so the Island wouldn't fall to the Spaniards or the British.

[@starshinedragonsong3045]

They weren't always fatherless, but were generally poor and with no prospects in France. They always had to be of good moral character, vouched for by their priest, family, friends. The king have then a trousseau and support for going to Quebec to help grow the colony. They could have their pick of men and even dictated parts their marriage contracts, even specifying minimum housing the man should provide, etc. My granddaughter descends from 2 fille de roi via her mother.

[@opusv5]

Montreal has a very evident adult industry: just walk down rue Ste. Catherine.

[@lynnegonyea2121]

I am Lynne’s husband and i am descended from almost two dozen Filles du Roi. They did indeed come from different classes, but they were all honorable ladies who were simply in unfortunate circumstances. Most of them found suitable husbands in Québec, in Nouveau-Français. They greatly helped in the settlement and population growth in early Canada.

[@thorodinson6649]

@@starshinedragonsong3045 interesting

[@bagellpower2311]

Quebec is like the Australia of the French Language

[@nicholastyler2714]

exactly!!! as an Australian in Quebec this in entirely true

[@panagiotislemontzis9986]

@@nicholastyler2714 c mm pas vrai caa

[@guiguisuperG]

I'm a Quebecer Crocodile Dundee!!

[@fredericbeaudoin6850]

@@panagiotislemontzis9986 c'est juste une comparaison par rapport à l'empire britannique

[@hericiumcoralloides5025]

More like the North American of the french language. How does this comment make any sense? The parallel would be American/Canadian english to british english. I know it's a joke. It just doesn't seem to work for me.

[@MineIsHuge]

Bilingual Quebecer here. From a sonic point of view of the informal/everyday accents, I would argue that: Québec french is to metropolitan french as american english is to British english. It is difficult to explain without actual sound examples but both Quebecers and Americans have faster pronunciations and wider use of contractions compared to their ancestors. Also, one can argue that being neighbours from their inception as colonies centuries ago in the new world far from their respective empires made their way of talking similar to each other while disconnected from their ancestral tongues. On the other end, as a bilingual, I find metropolitan french and british english to sound very similar in their more bourgeois (no offence) accents, in contrast to more common, working-class North Americans. An over-generalisation, but something like class vs efficiency. Just some thoughts, tell me what you think! Have a good day!

[@belladonnasixx]

Agreed, especially with the faster pronunciation and wider contractions... vowels also tend to be 'looser' or elongated in both instances.

[@katwatson007]

I agree! Bilingual here as well. In high school, I did an exchange in Switzerland, and was shocked at how slowly everyone spoke and how I understood everything. When I was there, noticing the differences between France and Suisse accents became so much easier. And then when I finally went back, and lived in Quebec, I was shook at how tough it was to understand my friends from Saguenay!

[@dannygjk]

D'accord XD

[@you_mtt3r477]

Oui,absolument!

[@lmnll2742]

I don't think Quebecers have a faster pronunciations compared to the French

[@BarryB.Benson]

Quebec French is beautiful and so is Quebec as a province, I’m from Ontario but recently drove to Quebec and it was wonderful, very very nice people and I never received any weird looks for speaking English, although I did try and speak some French.

[@RPMZ11]

So true....I love them!....Vive Le Habs!🏒

[@kokocaptainqc]

thats the key right there: you tried. It makes ALL the difference to most

[@domcool5]

Exactly. People will give you weird looks or attitude if they know you live here but don't know any french. Most of the time, when you try, people will even answer you in english to show appreciation (if they know).

[@YeetusTheFetus]

In some rural areas people will give you weird looks for speaking English but in most of the cities you’re fine

[@frederickd.provoncha8671]

I tried speaking French in Montreal. I like to think I can speak it reasonably well, having lived in France for 2 years years ago. But they usually responded to me in English. They could tell by my accent I was American. I thought to myself, "Come on guys! I'm trying to practice my French here! Humor me just a little." Nevertheless I had a great time and the peoiple were very nice.

[@Vita1892]

I kinda expected this to be full of stereotypes and misinformation, but this is actually a great video, very acurate and infomative!

[@kitnoCC]

I agree! Very well done. Congrats!

[@jbeaudoin8134]

I agree. I'm a french speaking Quebecois and I've learn many things in the video (mainly on the historical aspects).

[@emileigh39]

His videos are all awesome!

[@stmaurice2045]

@@emileigh39 Tout à fait d'accord avec toi.

[@frederickquezelpoirier9151]

most parts accurate, but a long shot for being very accurate, especially for the spoken quebec french VS the written quebec french

[@MihaZ]

Quebec swear words can be used as nouns, verbs adverbs and adjectives.

[@jeetee8369]

our flag is blue, we made Pepsi , which is also blue , when we get frostbites , it’s blue we are smurfs that cuss on the daily for no reason

[@maiiju6855]

Another difference, about the way we refer to our meals: In MF they have: Petit-déjeuner, déjeuner, dîner In QF we say: Déjeuner, dîner, souper

[@emilienlaliberte7325]

yes :)

[@rafeo4461]

Even in France, it depends on the region.

[@olivierdastein2604]

In fact, I was raised in backward rural southern France saying déjeuner diner souper. There, the switch is very recent. I'm not sure if this version being maintained was a southern thing or a rural thing. And also, I'm not sure when Paris French made this switch. For all I know it might have been a relatively recent change in Paris as well.

[@the_MrFloof]

Ça m'a toujours fait rire d'imaginer un Français dire "small-breakfast" 😂 Tu déjeunes ou tu déjeunes pas, il me semble que tu peux pas passer de "jeûner" à "un peu jeûner" 🤔

[@bouli3576]

En Belgique c'est également déjeuner - dîner - souper.

[@pink-grapefruit3092]

As many others have said previously, thank you so much for making a neutral and informative video about Quebec French. I'm a native Quebec francophone and I have had bad experiences in the past when traveling, people laughing at my accent, vocabulary, etc. It's refreshing to see such a respectful take on the subect. Un grand merci sincère !

[@canaldeblippstorm]

As a french student, I find interesting that Quebec French uses more similar expresions to the Latin American Spanish.

[@HackWindows]

Would it be because just like the colonies of Spain in what is today Latin America, we kept using older/more formal ways of speaking that are nowadays considered archaic in their country of origin (Spain and France).

[@kamikazes03]

Maybe your French teacher is actually Spanish. I did grade 12 in an anglo school and the 'French' teacher was actually Italian. No wonder little Johnny can't learn French!

[@Xerxes2005]

Two Spanish words that seem quite similar to what we use in Québec is "nosotros" and "vosotros", i.e. "nous autres", "vous autres" or "eux autres". I know "nous autres" and "vous autres" exist in France, but it is not used as much as in Québec.

[@apfdcarneiro]

yes, as french student and portuguese native speaker, i found easier some words like "bicyclette" (in portuguese "bicicleta") or "fin de semaine" (in portuguese "fim de semana")

[@morganrickards3811]

@@Xerxes2005 when france and spain occupied this territory it ended up over lapping depending upon who was in power. also when both countries were in the occupying aspect, it was with their distinct languages at that time in the 16th-19th centuries.

[@george30510]

I don't even speak or study French but this was really interesting

[@jeetee8369]

too bad this video is lacking many examples of the french canadian vocabulary the video would be well over 30 mins explaining the abreviation and way of speaking

[@axellfonz]

@@jeetee8369 he's more like explaining instead of just giving examples since you pretty much can see the list of the vocabulary on your own on google without needing the role of a teacher to elaborate.

[@jeetee8369]

@@axellfonz thing is... we have many different ways to talk about stuff... some are more abreviated , some are older ways of saying , some are mix of french and english , and the list goes on

[@DrakeLovett]

Hearing tabarnak, câlice and osti said so matter of fact like was hilarious

[@varana]

What would be the context of using those words? Just "you {stupid/bad person}" in general, like "don't go there, you chalice!" (that sounds weird :D), or do they have specific meanings?

[@KadruH]

When you're angry, you add it to the phrase. In english, "I hurt myself, it hurts" would be "Je me suis fait mal" in french. Now you add these words because you're angry: "Je me suis fait mal en tabarnak, esti de criss que j'ai mal caliss."

[@pasteurjeandaniel]

Woah, woah, calme-toé. ;)

[@lys676]

swear words from Quebec are really flexible. You can use them as interjections ("Ciboère!", which means "F*&k!), nouns ("Mon tabarnak", which means "You f*&!er"), or you can add another swear word for emphasis ("Mon ostie de tabarnak", which is the same but even worst); you can add suffixes to turn them into verbs ("M'a t-en câlisser une", which means "I'll f*&k you up"), or adverbs ("Ça fait crissement mal", which means "It f*&!ing hurts"), or you can do all of that in the same sentence ("Ciboère! Tu m'a fait câlissement mal, mon ostie de tabarnak. M'a t-en câlisser une.", which means "F*&k! You f*&king hurt me, you f*&king f*&ker. I'll f*&k you up.") This concludes the lesson.

[@SomeDudeQC]

Lysandre Gagnon Eille la violence, j't'ai rien faite, cibole.

[@filolinguista5576]

I started learning French when I was in high school in Mexico 30 years ago. Then I've got the opportunity to study in Canada for 2 years in French from 2000 to 2002. When I fisrt arrived to Montreal, it seemed to me that the language spoken there was not French but a kind of strange language. I gradually got familiar with the Cadanian French accent, vocabulary and argot; "le Québécois" as it is called, and got used to it to the point that I now love it. It evokes in me many good souvenirs and remembrances with my friends and classmates. As an amateur linguist, I became obsessed with the differences between Canadian and Europuean French as you show in this video. That's why I found it very interesting given my experience as a student from abroad in Canada. Excellent video! Greetings from Mexico.

[@B0Beauxs]

Coming from Guernsey and speaking Guernésiais, Québécois sounds warmly familiar to me. We say sôlers for chaussures, baïce (or pushang) for vélo, and mé instead of 'moi'. We also use a lot of emphatic pronouns and tags for the explicit subject of the phrase e.g. ch'est, chenna (ça), mé, té, li (for lui), ielle (for elle), naon (nous), iaeux (them). Curiosities are that we also still use le passé simple to describe events that happened 'before today' where those on the continent would just use le passé composé and keep le passé simple for literary texts. In corners of this island, you'll find people still speaking a form of French which hasn't been heard in France for hundreds of years! It's probably a bit like the film 'The Village'.

[@Яна-мамба]

Do most people from Guernsey speak French, Guernésiais, or something similar?

[@pescairedelua5276]

It's normal, most of the French settlers in Québec were from Normandy or Brittany

[@BartAcaDiouka]

I didn't know people still spoke Norman langue d'oil dialect in Guernsey! Is it your native language or did you learn it at school? I am so amazed!!

[@eurovision50]

I had no idea French of some description was spoken now or ever in Guernsey! Are you a native speaker??

[@FLVCTVAT_NEC_MERGITVR]

How interesting!

[@robertspeedwagon982]

As a french speaker from Metropolitan France, this video was very informative. It's also very intresting to see that some expressions in Quebécois are still similar to those used in Normandy and Brittany, where the french settlers came from.

[@coulibalykalidou7959]

Les Québécois parlent comme si ils avaient un rhume lol.

[@monichat]

@@coulibalykalidou7959 Et toi tu parles comme si souffrais d'urticaire

[@theprettypetard2524]

@@coulibalykalidou7959 no they talk like their jaw is freezing wich to be fair is the case for a good portion of the year.

[@thenorthernspinozist397]

​@@monichat Trés amusant!! J’ai bien ri.

[@monichat]

Je vous envoie une facture pour taxe d'amusement - Soit dit en passant, les hivers sont de plus en plus doux au Québec - Réchauffement climatique - Nous ne parlons pas comme si nos mâchoires étaient gelées @@thenorthernspinozist397

[@sudonim7552]

Funny how both borrow from English but they borrow completely different words.

[@TheDeathpost]

"A great number of words of French origin have entered the English language to the extent that many Latin words have come to the English language. According to different sources, 45% of all English words have a French origin. " I wonder which language borrows more than the other ;)

[@Odinsday]

@@TheDeathpost I mean, French has had around 1,000 years of influence on English whereas English has had only a couple hundred. Also, French is way more conservative whereas English is more flexible (Also, the Normans forced Old English to adapt to Old French so of course there is going to be a lot of loan words). However, you can find some really old English dialects in Northern England that barely changed from Middle English.

[@keres666]

I mean... Everyone says email, "Courriel" is actually a lot more formal..

[@bruceparr1678]

@@TheDeathpost Yet strangely the French loan words are not much used in everyday speech. Listen to Churchills famous WW2 "fight them on the beaches speech" only one word in the entire speech is French. The others are either of Latin or German origin.

[@TheDeathpost]

@@bruceparr1678 Is that your argument? Churchill's speech from the WW2 era? Is that what you consider everyday speech? I speak french and tons of french words are used in everyday english speech, it was in fact one of the reasons why learning english was so easy, because a great amount of those words were the same.

[@michelvispress-lay2510]

Il y a une trentaine d'années, était diffusée la série québécoise "peau de banane" à la télévision française. Cette série était entièrement sous-titrée 😃

[@re_di_roma_is_back2388]

Je suis italien. J'ai du mal à comprendre les français du nord et les québecois. Au contraire je peux comprendre les marseillais, les niçois et meme les bordolais

[@Milnoc]

Les émissions québecoises sont toujours sous-titrées à ce jour! J'ai appris ça en 2008! Après avoir comparé le dialogue avec le texte affiché, je ne les blâme pas!

[@leibmoshe]

Actually, there are countless different French accents throughout Quebec (ex: the accent in Montreal is very different than the accent in small towns in the countryside)

[@lemachiniste2003]

i lived most of my childhood in smaller towns, from 10k to 15k people, and lived a few months in Sherbrooke (a big city) and i had a girlfriend in montreal for 2 years... the difference is the people who isn't native from québec.. in montreal, and a lot of big cities around, there is a BIG amount of people coming from around the world, each coming with their own slangs, prononciation, or even not speaking french at all.. if there is a big amount of people from québec and a big amount of immigrants in the area, the language might slowly get "fuzed" together.. and in the smaller towns where i grew up, there is close to none immigrants, which means the french spoken in here wasn't changed by the immigrants, since there are so few, or none of them.. im not saying one is better than the other, but just slightly different, yet so close that a french person from montreal might not notice if he is speaking to another person from montreal or not

[@JPBelanger]

The key words are "baleine" and "arrête". It'll tell people if you are from Montréal 😁

[@lemachiniste2003]

@@JPBelanger balène et arrèt' sont supérieurs à ba-lainne et arrêttte

[@JPBelanger]

@@lemachiniste2003 oui sans doute. Mais c'est définitivement un marqueur.

[@victorvezina5031]

@@lemachiniste2003 Sherbrooke c'est une ( big city) 😂😂

[@vinniboy222]

Note that, in regional informal Quebecois, the exemple "I'm going to park the car here and ride my bike." could be translated as "J'va parker l'char icitte pis prendre mon bicyc." "Je vais" becomes "J'va" "le char" becomes "l'char" "et" becomes "pis" (condensed of MF "et puis") "monter à bicycle" becomes "prendre mon bicyc" (which means "take my bike") ... As a Quebecois from St-Jérôme, I would normally say it this way. However, I would never write down such a gross sentence. This is a variant of popular QC french. I may speak like this but I don't consider it to be "good" "proper" french at all.

[@MrJohnnycampini]

je vais parker mon char, et après je pogne mon bike.

[@TerreSeche213]

C'est ce que je me disais, personne au Québec dit "bicyclette", on dit soit bicyc', vélo, ou bike pour la dernière génération.

[@cindyst-laurent6403]

Yess hahahaha

[@sebastienberger2890]

@@TerreSeche213 Pogne ton bike le gros. À soar on va faire dla trail dans l'boa.

[@damienmitchell2544]

@@sebastienberger2890 What does that translate to in MF? Merci.

[@DyeDoo]

It's important to mention that all the France variants presented in this video are also commonly heard here in Québec.

[@veroniquepoulette760]

Eh oui nous ne somme pas français mais québécois. Nous évoluons sur 2 continents différents et donc la langue évolue différemment. Extraordinaire la vie n'est-ce pas!

[@michaelbelley9377]

Oué

[@69GROMINET]

@@veroniquepoulette760 . Pourtant la phrase que tu viens d'écrire est absolument identique à celle qu'un français métro aurait écrit. Les différences linguistiques n'empêche aucunement la compréhension. J'ai beaucoup plus de mal à comprendre le chti que le québécois.

[@umot6277]

@@veroniquepoulette760 Vous êtes canadiens sous Sa Majesté Royale

[@paulmyers5017]

En savoyard, dire j'y ai rangé à la place de je les ai rangés.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Let's be honest, the best thing to come out of Quebec is Cirque du Soleil. Them continuing to wow audiences around the world is proof of that. But a shame they haven't visited Pyongyang. Also a shame we don't have any joints selling Montreal bagels. Should have one right across the street from a NYC bagel joint and let our citizens decide which bagels are better

[@Langfocus]

If anyone can make it happen, it’s you! 👍🏻

[@MikeFreedom23]

in quebec, we say bike often, or bicyc (we don’t pronounce the “le” in the end) “take your bicycle out of the way” “enlève ton criss de bicyc’ du calice de driveway osti de traineux!!!”

[@Aisleene]

Mike Freedom la vache, je suis pas sure que j’aurais compris ce que ça voulait dire si je l’avais entendu plutôt que lu!

[@foreverhappiness3396]

espece de vieux colon

[@allenwalker4033]

osti j’adore les gens qui sacre comme ça xD Ça me fait tellement rire xD

[@wussupitskheuchy4346]

@@allenwalker4033 ca veut dire quoi osti

[@alexassassy5855]

Mdr 😂 traîneaux sinon c'est quoi ?

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

I took my exams in Switzerland (in French) with a Quebecois who came from a town 8 hours north of Montréal. The examiners had an easier time understanding my Frenglish than his accent. BTW I adored his accent.

[@ParadoxalDream]

To be fair, even Montréalers barely understand people from Abitibi lol. And the Swiss people can be notoriously stuck up, which probably didn't help your pal lol

[@francisvoyer]

@@ParadoxalDream L'accent de l'Abitibi c'pas chien, ma famille vient du Témiscaming (drette à côté) pis c'est presque la même chose que nous à Montréal et les environs. Le pire accent à comprendre c'est celui du bas du fleuve, quand c'est prononcé c'est décalissant lol (on vous aime pareil le monde du bas du fleuve, inquiétez vous pas)

[@cathd.8285]

L'Abitibi a été peuplée dans les années 1920-1940 par des Montréalais... y'ont pas un accent siiii différent, pis le monde du Bas du Fleuve parlent pas mal pareil comme le monde de la région de Québec. Y sont difficiles à comprendre pour vous autres? Bof, c'est pas comme jaser avec un vieux de la Beauce... Je viens de Saint-Creux-les-meuh-meuh sur la Côte-Nord et j'ai étudié deux ans à Genève. Aucun problème. Les Suisses sont hyper gentils.

[@Gwel_]

Je pense que la différence est peut-être plus générationnelle. Mon ami danois qui était un échange étudiant comprenait zéro pis une barre mon grand-père au party du nouvel an alors qu'il avait pas de trouble à jaser avec moi ou d'autres personnes dans le fin fond de l'Abitibi haha.

[@EdgeOfLight]

@@francisvoyer tu as déjà regardé cloud atlas en français? ce que tu viens d'écrire ressemble au français utilisé dans le futur.

[@LearnCanadianFrenchwithNat]

As a native French speaker from Montréal Québec, I find this video fascinating! The video is so thorough, you did a wonderful job. I agree that french varies a lot across Québec depending on location, socio-economic background and employment. I learnt metropolitan French in school and continued using it through university and my career. It's the French that I am more familiar with, but of course my accent is not the same as in Paris. When working across Québec, I sometimes had trouble understand people from other areas which had much heavier Québec accents and used different expressions. It's true that the Québec accent is different from metropolitan French, but I find that many Quebecers, especially in Montreal, that are in academics or in the workforce, are able to 'turn it down'. I also found that the girl reading the text in 'québécois' had a heavier accent than I'm use to, but like I said, it varies so much. Great video! Very educational :)

[@aureoberlinerinn4679]

Hey, do they really say “char”? Maybe it’s because I’m an Anglo but I’ve literally never heard char in my life, only “auto” and “vélo”.

[@LearnCanadianFrenchwithNat]

@@aureoberlinerinn4679 Yes it's a very common word used here. I have to be honest, it's not a word that I would typically use, I use 'auto', but you'll definitely hear it often ;)

[@aureoberlinerinn4679]

Oh it’s ok! I just asked my Franco friend and she said that her family uses it. She says it has to do with how they used to drive chariots and the word carried over. Thanks though!

[@MPP_-je8ld]

Yeah that girl sounded like a freaking farmer and i’m from saguenay (QC) so😂

[@killpowernotpeople]

@@aureoberlinerinn4679 Are you Anglo-Canadian? Cos I'm from Toronto and I literally forget not to say 'char' when I'm in France. Gotten some weird looks.

[@PAULOFDX]

I grew up in Quebec and I must say you nailed it. We do however say « vélo » and for car we often use the word « auto » . There has been a big influx if French immigration from France in recent years so it has affected the spoken French here « Quebec », both in vocabulary and accent. Now I need to search for your videos comparing Portuguese from Portugal and Brazil and Canadian and British English . My two other native languages. :)

[@Langfocus]

Thanks! I have a video comparing the Portuguese of Portugal and Brazil. Have a look! :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYnMpYpmfql0oLM

[@blackmage1276]

I'm a French immersion student in Ontario. The French we learn is a super weird mix of both Metropolitan French and Québequois French. For example we use "byciclette" et "souliers" but pronounce words in the Metropolitan French, and also we dont contract. I understand both just as well as the other, though I feel Québequois French has more slang, so Metropolitan is easier to understand from a students perspective.

[@dudeorduuude5211]

I completely agree. I'm from Western Canada. When learning, I see we favoured some of the Quebequois words, but pronounce it more like Parisian French. I find it more difficult to understand Quebequois French - nasally, and as you say... to many contractions to know what they are saying.

[@JOE_XD]

As a Québécois, I say bicycle just like in english or ''bésike'' or vélo, bicyclette isn't used anymore, more a ''kid bike'' term..

[@rbpayer]

I would say that MF is international French mostly taught in school, but you can find a lot of slang in France too depending on the regions. Quebec slang is also regional and used in informal settings. Same for France. Paris slang is quite hard to understand too, and I won't start with verlan and other style of argot.

[@gamingshowerthoughts9723]

Same. From Vancouver, went thru French Immersion as a kid. I remember recognizing some words seemed to mean the same thing, but it never clicked that it was Quebec vs France. I think more often than not my Teachers were from France or Francophone Africa, but books - especially as a teenager reading young-adult novels - were overwhelmingly from Quebec. I remember thinking some words like Chum and Blonde might vulgar or trashy, since I would see them exclusively in these angsty YA novels.

[@JOE_XD]

@@gamingshowerthoughts9723 Chum also means a chummy/bro/bruh.

[@abozzo11]

As a Torontonian anglophone I found this very interesting and informative. I can here the differences between Québécois and Metropolitan French but see now how they evolved. Great work.

[@bernardbourdon2678]

Thank you from Québec and Bonjour!

[@uusername7454]

These English words adopted by Quebecers aren't a replacement for the original French. The words travail, bizarre and amusant are said in Quebec too.

[@CathPo]

marcijip exactly! We use English words in informal language only!

[@Gorgeousmali]

voilà! we are able to say : travail, bizarre et amusant aussi :P EN PLUS de ces mots anglicisés!

[@victord.monkey9081]

Érine Cath ouais mais non si vous voulez garder votre "identité" (je viens de me vomir dans la bouche) alors soit vous angliciser rien du tout ou soit vous mettez pas ARRÊT sur un panneau stop!! Faut réfléchir les gars vous faites juste pitié 😥😥

[@meeduoh]

And we also say the words "e-mail" and "smartphone" all the time lol. Though I'm from the Montreal region which might be more anglicised (as it is more multicultural)

[@TheGameLecturer]

Of course, and it also goes the other way (we say job and fun in France too, and courriel is the official word for email). But that's not the point, quebecers do use these words more spontaneously than us don't they ?

[@alannohlgren]

As an American living in the south of France, where I'm happy, at last, after 20 long years , to have more or less mastered the language spoken here, I find it a little disconcerting to realize that I haven't by a long shot mastered all of spoken French. Thank you for the perspective. Truly fascinating. ..it can only help one grow & improve ones global grasp of French. Please, in future videos, speak of the varieties found throughout the former colonies in Africa (& elsewhere), & inform us as to the differences in everyday vocabulary, as well as accents. Merci

[@momonp14]

12:55 True Québécois : J'vam parker icitte pi monter en becyc

[@bigoulay46]

Hahaha

[@allisonmclay7137]

Chuis heureuse que chuis pas la seule qui a trouvé sa traduction « québécoise » un peu weird.

[@kzual1]

beucyc

[@RyandracusChapman]

@@allisonmclay7137 Niveau 1" J'vais parker le char icitte pis monter en bicyclette" Niveau 2 " J'vas parker mon char icitte pis monter en becyc"

[@DenisQC]

@@allisonmclay7137 Je pense qu'il fait attention de ne pas exagérer pour ne pas s'attirer les foudres de la communauté québécoise ;)

[@themidnitemarauder941]

"J'va stationer mon char icite pi prendre mon bisik" is how I would say it.

[@bequietdontcry4310]

The Midnite Marauder Mon bisik 😂😂

[@PhO3NiX96]

@@bequietdontcry4310 "Je gare la bagnole là et je prends mon vélo" is how I would say it in MF - bagnole = car - - là = here -

[@tritojean7549]

Faut que tu voie le picard

[@loucam-l6214]

"L'ostie d'cave y'a été prendre mon spot tabarnak" is what you say after

[@Xkh514]

J'va parké mon char icitte pi prendre a'l'bécyk

[@lecoureurdesbois86]

I am from the beautiful province of Québec, and from my point of view, our French is the same, it is only a matter of accent and expressions, some different things. If I correctly write in French to someone from France online, he will *never* realize that I am from Québec, because it is the same! (Well if I don't start to write câlisse de tabarnak...). Even if it is "weirder French", I am still proud of my origins and of speaking the French language! And why French people say that sometimes they don't understand us? My simple theory: Québec is 8.4 million people, while France is 65 million people, France has a lot more presence in the world, so we hear them often, and very early we get used to their accent. But they never hear us, so they have no occasion to get used to it. I know a Belgian and a French that moved here a few years ago, they perfectly understand us, and they started to use our expressions too, so it is only about, getting used to it. Funny thing from childhood, in Québec "gosse" is used as like, "balls", but in France gosse means "kids", so we asked some people how many "gosses" they had, some said 0, 1, 2 or even 3, for us it was funny but they never understood why we were laughing eheh.

[@Eldiran1]

en tant que francais metropolitain ,mon oncle a proposer une photo de ses gosses a une quebecoise , elle en a été outrer et on a mis un moment avant de comprendre . l'accent quebecois je trouve ca drole et vieux jeu , mais dans le bon sens du terme . il est vrai qu'on entend peu l'accent quebecois si on ne va pas le chercher , c'est assez dommage . (on a aussi nos accent regionaux , tout comme je supose que l'accent d'acadie ne doit pas etre le meme que celui du quebec )

[@alekshar9690]

From the few Quebec peoples I met, they often use what seems like a big bunch of English terms that aren't used in metropolitan French. Thus it is hard to "translate" into metropolitan French for those who never learned English in school.

[@lecoureurdesbois86]

Alekshar Depends who, in my region the "most English" word we use is "Parking", if you see people from Montréal or like near Ottawa, they will surely use more English than here (I'm in deep French zone)

[@Patrick_AUBRY]

LeCoureurDesBois remember a Quebecer will "se Parker son char dans un stationement" and a french will "se stationner dans un parking". We're both fuck.

[@psychicvacuum83]

LeCoureurDesBois Actually, if you use certain words, for example writing "C'était à l'heure du souper...", "C'est difficile de se stationner au centre-ville...", "Je suis revenu dans la noirceur..." they will start to wonder if you're really from France... ;-)

[@cricket5381]

As an American learning french, my mom who is fluent in french, was telling me how my grandfather, who knew some french from canada, taught her some expressions. For example, he taught her how to say what time it is. in canada it’s so different from in france. she said how when she was in france, she used the canadian way to ask what time it was. nobody understood her there! it’s truly intriguing, i loved your video, i found it very informative! :)

[@cedmelancon]

The lady is putting her heart into these swear words lol!

[@prenomnom7295]

As a québécois, I can assure you that tabarnak always comes out of our mouth with all of our hearth!

[@adeleauclair9080]

I think she got a lot of pleasure just saying it but we always say it that way

[@JohWF]

made me laugh so hard

[@AmyAndThePup]

Oh, you heard that, too? Amusing.

[@maximelussier25]

I'm from Quebec. Great video! I would add that in Quebec, especially in Montreal, we tend to pronounce word borrowed from English with a distinct accent that is closer to the original english pronouciation. In other word we often try not to "frenchisize" the words. Ex Toaster, Star wars, u-turn etc

[@BarbeFou]

dollaaaw

[@10tenman10]

I recall when I worked in Hull I was told the item "est sur backorder" with a French accent. While I'm English I couldn't figure out what she was saying.

[@imheretofindasmr8990]

If I want to move to Montreal, will it help me if I learn metropolitan french? I don’t think I can learn any QF around Moscow lol... of maybe only English will be fine?

[@10tenman10]

@@imheretofindasmr8990 You could function perfectly well not speaking a word of French in Montreal. The island itself is about 50% French, mostly concentrated in the East half. Métropolitain French would be fine; apart from a mildly rural sounding accent (less pronounced in college educated) its the same language. That being said it is a beautiful language and French quebecers are wonderful people.

[@imheretofindasmr8990]

@@10tenman10 thank you!

[@myriam8190]

This is very well researched and interesting. You mentioned a few times how formal French in Québec is the same as in France. I would add to that that many Québécois will use the informal and formal registers interchangeably in informal settings. For example, I use the word “voiture” and “char” in informal settings. I would even say that I use “voiture” much more than char. It really varies. It even sometimes depends on my mood. Language is fascinating, isn’t it!? Also I very much agree with you, the differences are exaggerated. :)

[@loupois2370]

Language is fascinating indeed :)

[@jay-leebusque-blackburn6747]

Très bien dit! Je vous lève mon chapeau!

[@bl9531]

Totally agree - bien dit - as if French is somehow different than any other language. As if there is no difference between English spoken in rural Louisiana vs the Scottish Highlands vs some secluded fishing hamlet in Newfoundland. Hell, as if there is no difference between the slang spoken in Marseille vs, say Belgium. Of course any educated Quebecer can be easily understood in France but he has to make a very modest effort to adjust his pronunciation and vocabulary - just as a Scot has to be careful communicating in London. Any European francophone coming to Quebec will have trouble understanding some Quebecers … for a couple of days or weeks. My beef is that all too often this very common, modest and totally expected difference in language is used as some kind of proof of our cultural inferiority.

[@lucforand8527]

I just want to add that another common word for 'car' is 'mon auto'. Personally, I think it is more popular than 'voiture'. Also, as far as 'velo' goes, I think the use of 'bicycle' is more common than 'bicyclette'.

[@JosLouis28]

We also say "stationner" (to park) wich I don't think is used in France but still a french word (insted of "parker" or "garer").

I am a French-speaker, native from Montreal Quebec. Your video is well done and interesting. I like the recorded expressions in both "français" and québécois. We have so many more expressions here in Quebec, but you have mentionned the essential to make communication easier between us and French-speakers from Europe (France or Belgium) and English-speakers in UK or in US and in other provinces of Canada which are all English. I wish I could find a similar video for Québécois-speakers (French) who want to learn English expressions. Finally, I would say that here, we speak the "joual" language (we don't use the "slang" word). Joual is characterised by the accent and words or expressions typically "québécois". The word "joual" comes from "cheval" (horse). Around the confederation era, the word "cheval" was pronounced "joual". Since then, we have kept this word as a kind of language. You have made a great job in this video. Thank you for having shared it. As you have probably noticed, my English is quite "poor"! I hope you have been able to understand my main ideas ? Good bye from Montréal, Québec, Canada. :-) 😉👍

[@fparent]

As a Québécois in his 60's I've never been fond of Joual. I once tried to read a book written in joual and could pass the first page. I'm glad the government stayed away from it.

[@alex-oj5ed]

growing up learning french in ontario, it’s almost like we speak a mixture of both.

[@jackburgess5819]

Never have related more

[@Natalie98798]

How common is speaking/knowing French among Canadians in Ontario whose first language is English? When I moved to Canada, everyone kept telling me it's bilingual, but local Canadians here in Vancouver almost never speak anything beside English (not counting immigrants who are at least bilingual)

[@alex-oj5ed]

Natali it’s not common for people in ontario to be fluent in french, we mostly just learn the basics up until grade 9. it’s very rare to hear people speaking french in public

[@kamikazes03]

Mixture of both? Try Moncton NB. They hold the record of Frenglish. They call it 'chiac'. Just check the Acadieman videos on KZbin to get an idea. It is hilarious... and it is frowned upon by the rest of the Acadian community.

[@kamikazes03]

@@Natalie98798 In Toronto, Canada's metropolis, over 200 languages are spoken. Unilingual anglos are a minority there because of immigration. I graduated from Étienne-Brulé high school, a French high school in Toronto. The province will soon open an all-French university in Toronto in a couple of years. It is about time!

[@MaestroSangurasu]

Français : tu utilises quoi comme véhicule ? Québécois : Je prends mon char Français : WTF

[@jeanrichard6340]

Les Espagnols ont leur “coche”. Les Latinos ont leur “carro”.

[@monkeyingdom]

@@jeanrichard6340 'auto' aussi

[@LCdic09]

@@jeanrichard6340 Uruguay - auto

[@potatoeyboi]

Mon dieu

[@monkeyingdom]

@@LCdic09 estaba en chile y ellos tambien usan auto mas

[@benjamingeiller907]

I agree with you at 100% Your analysis is really accurate! I was born myself in the North of France. I speak both the formal French and the local regional language which full of expressions similar to the Quebec common language. I have no issue at all to understand people from Quebec despite their strong accent. I can tell that the formal language of Quebec and France is almost identical. To my opinion, French of Canada and French of France are not that different.

[@guyduquebec344]

*Bien d'accord avec toi, Benjamin !* 👍

[@Mr.ZooYYa]

Je suis québécois et j'ai passé mon tout mon primaire dans une école à caractère français et je peux te dire que cela m'a marqué,mon français est plus proche du FM que du FQ malgré que j'ai un peu l'accent et que j'utilise aussi des expressions locales.

[@francisvoyer]

Oui c'est parce que la majorité de nos ancêtres venaient de Normandie :)

[@monichat]

Je ris quand j'entends parler de l'accent des Québécois. Moi je trouve que ce sont les Français qui ont un accent.

[@benjamingeiller907]

@@monichat Je suis d'accord on a tous un accent.

[@Doomer3003]

I am from Québec and I think that by removing slang from both french, our languages are almost the same, except for some words. The accent will always be the big difference. Pretty much like US english and British english !

[@tsjoey25]

Can you talk about how the French in Louisiana spoken by creoles and Cajuns and how it differs from French from Metropolitan France?

[@Odinsday]

It is really similar to Quebec French with added stereotypical southern American phonology.

[@elGeant24]

Similar as Acadian (New Brunswick) French

[@its_me-nikki]

I’d like to see this too considering our Cajun dialect has evolved differently throughout the different regions of South Louisiana and can be difficult to understand someone just 40 miles away.

[@its_me-nikki]

One thing I have noticed is the pronunciation of the letter e. I’ve heard more metropolitan French pronounce it like “uh” whereas we pronounce it with more of an “ay” unless it’s followed by a letter r. Possibly Spanish influence? We also tend to tap or lightly roll our r’s.

[@datroy3647]

French isn’t spoken a lot in Louisiana. I once met someone who spoke French in Louisiana it was hard for me to understand as a Québécoise. He kinda had like what a thick southern accent in French. Like a mix between southern accents and Louisiana accents from English and deep city French in Quebec from old people.

[@21jillybeans12]

"There is one variety of french that is distinct from metropolitan french" *Laughs in Acadian*

[@daniel.mojimaki]

J'suis Acadien moi aussi! Ouais!

[@Strom1886]

@@vicki1818 the Créole is not French. It's a distinct language/dialect different from French.

[@Strom1886]

@@vicki1818 Imo, I think it should be classified as a distinct language, a daughter language but not a part of French. Because some of the Créoles are not intelligible for native French Speakers

[@Strom1886]

@@vicki1818 in fact, I just checked and Créoles are classified in a totally different way. They have their own group and are not a part of the Latin language group

[@aesaphyr]

@@vicki1818 Créoles are a whole collection of fusion or derivative languages. For example my native language is Mauritian creole, and the neighbouring island to us has their Reunion creole, and Seychelles further up north has their own creole. We don't really understand each other hardly at all. I understand Canadian French more than I understand my sister in law from Reunion. And that's within a relatively small area of the world - I'm sure if we go out to other parts of the world, their creoles would sound extremely different too. So it's quite tricky to make generalisations about "creole" as a whole, given the spectrum of variation between them.

[@JB-xz6dt]

I want to point out that etymologically, "char" actually refers to a four wheeled wagon pulled by an animal, as in "charriot", and not to a tank (char d'assaut). To extend the name of ancient vehicles to our modern cars won't seem like much of a stretch to metropolitan French speakers, as the word "voiture" also used to refer to horse powered carriages.

[@humainmtl]

Yes, and it aligns with other roman languages, like spanish, that use 'coche' to talk about car.

[@MeditationsWithSam]

hm I never made the realization that car must also come from horse and carriage! Thanks for the lesson!

[@THESKYMASTER]

You are correct, "char" is from a wagon pulled by an animal, not from a char d'assaut

[@lemonquxrtz]

I’ve been learning french in school in New Brunswick for 8 years, and I’ve only just noticed we learned a mixture of Quebec French and Metropolitan French! In some cases I use the same as the Québécois and others like in France! How peculiar!

[@jerrycdc8421]

Continue comme ça et tu viendras nous voirs :)

[@michellegrant5928]

Likewise, having learned it in British Columbia. I think it's because outside of Quebec, many French teachers actually come from other French-speaking countries. Or at least, that was my experience. I had teachers from Luxembourg, Belgium, Haiti, etc.

[@melanieberthelo9582]

Yeah if you learned French in NB you had another French, Acadian. And it's different than Quebecois.

[@FurtiveSkeptical]

Lol my Quebecois friends called Acadienne " The Newfie of French"... Bilingual Newfoundlander here. 😄

[@berserkrhadley]

We have many accents & dialects in NB alone. I'm a French northern New Brunswicker who's lived in Moncton for 26 years, and I still have a hard time understanding the French down here.

[@Rose420Princess]

We say "de rien" in Quebec too. More than "bienvenue".

[@o_oteeeaaa]

Coe Michaud ouais mais je trouve que c’est plus récemment avant tout le monde autour de moi disait bienvenue maintenant on dit derien

[@Rose420Princess]

@@o_oteeeaaa Ah oui!! Car je trouve que les français disent beaucoup "bienvenue". Ça a inverser on dirait.

[@o_oteeeaaa]

Coe Michaud c’est vraiment ironique la langue 😂

[@jessyjoe6938]

@Coe Michaud En tant que français je n’est jamais entendu quelqu’un dire « bienvenue » pour dire « de rien ». Je vient même de découvrir qu’ont le disait au Québec.

[@Rose420Princess]

@@jessyjoe6938 Ça ne se dit plus, sauf quand on accueille des gens.

[@MathieuChauvin]

I’m so amazed by the excellent research work here! I’m from metropolitan France, and lived a couple of years in Quebec. Your analysis is super accurate!

[@JOE_XD]

T'es-tu certains de t'ça? :P Vous devriez parker vos chars aussi en France, pas mal plus cool! 😎

[@HereGoesKevin]

What made you leave Quebec?

[@mkierans]

"Attends moi au corner, viens right back". Nouveau-Brunswick

[@Archive41024]

Moncton 😂

[@Archive41024]

Its Franglish 😂

[@msamour]

Moi, ca a été, "esper moi su'l corner, j'vaie ete right back." j'étais tellement confus. Je venais de rentrer dans la marine a Halifax en 97.

[@pmarquisYT]

C'est à ça que ressemble la disparition d'une langue. Les gens se couchent pas un soir en parlant français et se réveillent le lendemain en parlant anglais. Il y a une transition entre les deux. Cette période de transition ressemble exactement au Nouveau-Brunswick d'aujourd'hui. Au lieu de vous trouver cool ou unique avec votre charabia, vous devriez peut-être vous battre contre l'assimilation. Ou pas, c'est à vous de voir.

[@aservant1284]

Lol

[@Mel0nMel]

It's interesting to see that as someone who lives in Ontario and went to school for french, we learn a lot of France french but we use a lot of Quebec french. When you started using full sentences to compare I realized I sorta use a mix of Quebec and France french mixture when I speak

[@TheJeSsIcAt08]

I am from Québec and I agree with this! It is one of the best french language explanation I have seen so far! Good job!

[@GabrielleT]

I'm Québécoise and there's a couple of phrases/words that I personally wouldn't use ("à cause que", "je fais qu'est-ce que je veux", "parker"-> I'd use "stationner") but I can't say that they're uncommon. This video is really well-documented, thank you for making it!

[@dmhq-administration]

Gabrielle T. EXACTEMENT! PROPER...FRENCH! Merci! 😀

[@kevinvilleneuve5030]

My Québécois cousins always discourage me from saying « parker » and tell me to ALWAYS say « stationner »

[@GabrielleT]

Very well, better than they can understand Québec French. We might have slightly more trouble when watching for example teen tv shows/movies where they use a lot of slang words, but even then, we're more exposed to their media than they are to ours. We're used to hearing France French, and we tend to consider it very close to International French, which we also try to use in formal settings. This probably sounds complicated but to sum it up, their informal speech is definitely more understandable to us than ours is to them.

[@VicVonDOOOM]

parker just sounds weird. Stationner has much more of a flow to it. I've heard more ppl use garer than parker.

[@VicVonDOOOM]

Not only that, but like Langfocus said, we are taught metropolitain french in school, so aside from slang, we know their dialect

[@MichaelSteeves]

My wife grew up speaking Acadian French (New Brunswick) and has a very hard time understanding Quebecois and Metropolitan French. She is very comfortable, however, speaking French in West Africa.

[@adrianh.callais7565]

She probably would be comfortable speaking French in Louisiana. Also each area in the state that still speaks French has it own terms, phrases and accents. They argue amongst themselves on which is the the most proper French. This is due to the different French people that settled in the state over the centuries. The Royalist, The Bonapartist,, The 'Cajuns', the French speaking West Africans, and the Alsatians to name a few. The Cajuns are descendants of the French from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI.

[@michgranger2033]

Because Acadians (& Cadiens) speak quietly and slowly and not aggressively and fast.

[@viepa1access]

Acadian use French and English in one sentence. Ex. J'ai perdu mon scarf. J'ai perdu mon foulard / I've lost my scarf.

[@michgranger2033]

ouai, en Louisiane tu dis : Voyage ton flag (pour le courrir du mardi gras)

[@BigMacOsaurusRex]

How different is Acadien French?

[@jessbeardshaw]

In french immersion schools across Canada (for me, specifically Ontario), we learn Metropolitan French, but I have always been able to have conversations with French speakers from Quebec (generally, lol). This video made me realize that in school, a lot of our french teachers were from Quebec or learnt Quebecois, so even though we were formally taught MT french, they would always speak to us and use words and phrases that are formally known as the "quebecois dialect". Anyways, my point is, the french I learnt as a native english speaker all my life is like a combination of Quebecois and MT French, and I think it's very interesting. I had a teacher in highschool who would get us to watch Quebecois TV shows (like "Les Parents") to have us learn some of the other phrases more commonly used in conversation in Quebec rather than strictly learning MT French and I loved it. For all my years growing up learning french, we never used our french speaking knowledge other than in school, but now it was like I could finally put my french speaking to use for something other than reading french history textbooks, haha. Also a side note, in elementary school (grade 7 and 8), for subject like history, we would of course learn in french, but our curricuus also focused on the French history in Canada such as the history of New France and Les Acadiens, where my non french immersion friends did not learn that, and focused more on just the english history in Canada. Maybe it was just my specific teacher who focused on the french history, but I never understood why other DIDN'T learn it, and how much my only english speaking friends have no idea about the hisotry of France in Canada.

[@feihe2053]

I learnt metropolitan French in my university in China, when I travelled to Montreal, I didn't find that hard to understand people's French if they didn't speak too fast.

[@louisd.8928]

I love your comment. A Chinese person who learned French as their third language (presumably) finds it easier to understand us Quebecers than French people from France who have French as their mother tongue. Go figure!

[@feihe2053]

Oui, le français est ma troisième langue.

[@blackwiza24]

I mean well adapt if we see that you dont understand. Not like we cant speak proper french. Its just that we like to speak quick and shortly so our patois is faster. Je vais te dire, Ma te dire.

[@PyromancerRift]

Tabarnacle !

[@jeffmorse645]

They probably realized that you weren't a native speaker and slowed down and spoke more standard French to accommodate you.

[@moonlace1560]

Me, reading the title: This man is looking for danger

[@johan_johansson_]

hahaha....

[@moonlace1560]

Johan Johansson Am I wrong though? 😂 What Parisian has said “ah yes the Québécois are so similar to us!”

[@mimiloll]

@@moonlace1560 Im from quebec and Ive never heard that! hahaha Ive heard that usually parisians are annoyed by the quebec accent... Its really different

[@moonlace1560]

@@mimiloll ah, that was my point sorry, I didn't say it very well 😅I'm well aware of how annoying Parisians find the Quebecois accent (apparently it's very nasal?) that's why none of them say "h yes the Québécois are so similar to us!" and like to make the distinction between them and the quebecois so clear

[@PlayStatiowned]

@@moonlace1560 It's the same the other way around too. If I compare my French speaking friends in Quebec to France or call them French they get offended... For the most part obviously

[@TheBoxyBear]

I remember once a tutor from France moved to my school in Quebec and for super mad when I talked about my “gang” cause she thought I was in a street gang 😂

[@sebastienberger2890]

Me I started using swear word and the teacher didn't care at all until I used the word "bordel de merde". I sad said the worst that a 8 year's old could say in her eyes.

[@TheZmusicGroup]

@@sebastienberger2890 well "bordel de merde" is a strong expression, especially coming from the mouth of a 8 year-old. That's definitely an adult's expression...

[@lolka49hot]

@@TheZmusicGroup If you say that in quebec most would just laugh cause it just sound funny to us.

[@phil_boucher]

I'm a québécois and I find the information in your video to be of extremely good quality (refreshing when it comes to this subject) thank you ! Like you said, both our formal forms of French are almost the same except for the accent. The main difference is our informal speech, and we québécois are quick to switch to informal speech, even in formal situations. It is widely accepted, although we usually ask permission before switching. So with that said, both our speech are very different, without even mentioning the many spoken varieties within each countries.

[@philipkremer1394]

Est-ce vrai qu'à l'école primaire, on utilise un français métropolitain? Mes enfants vont à une école francophone en Ontario, et parmi leurs enseignant.e.s, ceux et celles du Québec leur enseignent en français canadien, avec tous ses particularités, et non seulement l'accent: les mots québécois, l'usage du particule interrogative « tu », « assis-toi » au lieu de « assois-toi » ou de « assieds-toi », etc.

[@MyKittyPercy]

I don't speak French, but I watched this entire video

[@user-ze7sj4qy6q]

MyKittyPercy ok

[@Nomnomlick]

In MF: "Je vais garer la voiture ici et prendre mon vélo". In Québec: "M'a parké mon char icitte pi m'a prendre mon bike". I understand why the french don't understand us.

[@catetmax1812]

french.... france or Québec?I'm lost XD Français.... de france ou du Québec? Je suis perdu XD

[@Nomnomlick]

@@catetmax1812 The french/les français, ils viennent de France. Au Québec on est francophone, on parle le français mais on est pas français. So the french means people from France.

[@catetmax1812]

@@Nomnomlick Merci c'est juste tout au long de la vidéo, il disait français métropolitain et français de québec faique sa me mélangais

[@EstiDeColiss]

Je sais pas pourquoi c'est bicyclette et non bicycle, mais bike ça marche aussi.

[@RobinHood70]

LOL, thanks for the laugh! I could actually hear the two accents in my head.

[@ekx5120]

I'm French and sometimes I have trouble understading some people from Québec. French people are not exposed enough to Québecois culture, and we definitely don't have the history the US and the UK have today. I think that some French people considered Canada and Québec to be one and the same, 'that faraway place with winter storms, maple sirup and caribous that everyone wants to visit. And oh yeah, they speak funny'. We don't get much news about Québec in general, we don't really share a culture over the language the same way Americans and Brits can enjoy the same songs, movies... We do know many of their swear words, and if they see a Québecois, they'll just tell him all the 'funny' slang they know CRISS OSTIE D'TABARNAK TU VEUX-TU M'CRISSER LA PAIX. There are artists of course, a certain Céline, many other successful singers, many humourists have done spectacularly like Anthony Kavanagh (funnily enough it's pronounced KAVANA), and many French comedians go train in Québec because the reputation of the stand up comedy scene over there. I work in retail with a fair share of international guests, and we have a few Québecois popping in from time to time. I notice that most of them will use standard French when they talk to me, and very slowly. Some of them must realise that most French people won't understand if they speak as they would back home. It's a very distant relationship, but I would love to have more people from Québec in Paris, or go to Québec myself! Also one thing EVERY FRENCH PERSON knows, is that in MF : gosses = slang for 'kids' QF : gosses = slang for 'testicles' I'll let you guess how weird it can sound if a French man in Québec says he has to pick up his kids at school.

[@bentrott]

Inquiète-toi pas! On est au courant de la différence des gosses ici aussi, donc, à l'accent, on va comprendre. Et si tu demandes de l'aide pour trouver ton pote, personne va penser que tu cherches de l'herbe. Si tu croises Greg Guillotin, tu lui diras ça! Lol... je me comprend. En fait, le Québécois moyen en connait beaucoup plus sur la France que le Français moyen sur le Québec. Au fond, pourquoi se soucier de "quelques arpents de neige". Comme disait Voltaire à l'époque. Mais lorsqu'un Français ose traverser l'Atlantique pour nous rendre visite, il comprend rapidement qu'il est chez lui, en famille, au Québec.

[@xstrangew0rld]

"Criss d'ostie de tabarnack tu veux tu m'crisser la paix?" Je crois sérieusement qu'entendre un français de France dire une phrase comme ça me rendrait extrêmement heureuse.

[@iarl]

François Pérusse and a couple of QC soaps aired on TV5Monde helped me a lot to understand how to decode the QC accents. It's mostly a matter of exposure.

[@fredericgadoury6610]

Les foufoune aussi! Quand on dit taper les foufoune on veux pas dire la même chose ahahah

[@braschigiovanniangelo5559]

I'm from Rome and I have trouble understanding people from Sicily.

[@enemyarcher8472]

I’m a Canadian and I’ve learned French in school, now I realize that we’ve learned a bit of both dialects. Pretty awesome video!

[@dimestorephilosopher3308]

Fun, or not so fun, anecdote: My best friend from high school (in America) grew up in Montreal and we traveled to France and my spotty school taught French was better received than his fluent Quebequois.

[@maj-solidsnake1808]

What a shame, Quelle honte.

[@james-p]

I have found this to be true with friends who are fluent in French. They hear my "français élémentaire" and assume (correctly) that I'm a tourist and they are extra nice. They hear my friend's Parisian French and assume (also correctly) that he's a native and treat him like any other Parisian lol.

[@LMB222]

That just seems of the attitude if the French.

[@mjcpiano6936]

I speak mostly fluent franco-ontarien french. When I was in France some older people said they couldn't understand me and asked me to speak english. But younger people said they understood me fine and that I spoke well. I thinkthe older Frenchies couldn't understand because of a lack of experience but also they were being stubborn and prejudicial.

[@benoitdalle8536]

The QF to a MF native will make you sound like a backward peasant from the 18th century. It's just disturbing to hear.

[@ilopez9003]

In Spain, STOP signs say STOP, and in México and other latin american countries say ALTO

[@GerMalaz]

Interesting. Same as France vs Quebéc (or New Brunswick, where the read STOP ARRET). Maybe EU directives gave something to do with this?

[@boosterh1113]

I don't know about EU regs, but I'd think it has more to do with perceived threats to the language/culture. Spain does not receive an overabundance of visitors from a single other culture, nor one that has economic and political dominance over them. Therefor, they can use English STOP signs, just to cut down on confused tourists. Quebec and Central America both have English speaking monocultures that make up the majority of their visitors and immigrants (at least temporary immigrants, think expats working abroad for 2-5 years). Furthermore, these monocultures have much larger economies and have political power over them (formally in Canada, informally in Latin America). They post their signs in the native language in order to force those visitors to use at least a little bit of the local language, and to minimize the rise of large communities that are completely separated from the local culture.

[@robsoncosta7788]

iLopez STOP signs in Puerto Rico (special state of USA that speaks Spanish) is written "PARE" like Brazil (that speaks Portuguese) and some Hispanics countries.

[@slycordinator]

Robson Costa BTW, Puerto Rico is a territory of the US. It's not a state.

[@Fivizzz]

Is the Spanish word for "kids" slang for testicles in latin america as well ? Because it's always fun asking a French Canadian for a picture of his kids :p

[@psychoh13]

Fun fact, the word "job" is used in both MF and QF but in QF it's feminine while in MF it's masculine, and we have other words like that from english where we gave different genders based on the country.

[@antnil]

this is true of a few words that somehow change while crossing the atlantic. trampoline is one that comes to mind... also i think the use of "job" in QF is way older than in MF, but i may be mistaken here.

[@brauneskamo5974]

Like in MF, in Montreal, it's "un autobus" but apparently in Quebec City, it's "UNE autobus" !

[@drunkenmasterii3250]

brauneskamo it's not the Une or Un that is the real difference, people interchange it in both cities, but you'll never hear someone from Montreal say "La bus", but people from Québec city do say that.

[@CadenzaPiano]

Not quite. In Québec City, we say "une bus", but it is still "un autobus". It is only the short word "bus" that became feminine. I really don't know why though.

[@scattygirl1]

What is the logic behind how gender is assigned to objects? I can see how the logic behind old words might be lost in the mists of time, but how about new words?