OQLF report: French language on the decline in Quebec

“I think it depends on the area," says one Montrealer about a new OQLF report that shows the use of French is declining among Quebecers aged 18 to 34. Swidda Rassy reports.

[@sharonperry5213]

One has to acquire a language. Learning is too slow through education. Education system is only for money.

[@timmymiron2727]

The French language has been in decline for over a decade

[@sharonperry5213]

We are a bilangual province. Always will be. English is 60 percent French from French language. Bilangual languages here in Quebec.

[@nicolasg.514]

Fausse nouvelle... La province de Québec n'est pas bilingue. La langue officielle du Québec est le français La langue anglaise n'a pas 60% de mots français. Va t'instruire, non à l'ignorance !!!

[@TBA-zv9qt]

And Punjabi Indian language on the rise😂😂😂😂

[@saxonthegermanshepherd2809]

Arabic for Quebec

[@joshdu9278]

@@saxonthegermanshepherd2809 The majority of immigration in Quebec are French people from French but you don't realize it because they're white.

[@MrBetc]

Oh gosh, I really hope not. Gotta keep as much of ones heritage as one can❤

[@Andre-vr1ul]

Obviously, from a ratio perspective, any increase in non-french speaking people (via mass immigration), will result in a decrease of the native french speakjng people. The number of people that speak french may remain the same but their share of the demographic pie will be lessened. Perhaps they should dial back the importation of millions of foreigners (who can barely speak english too btw)?

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

No, Andre. Canada selects its immigrants, and one of the rules of selection is that there's a French quota that has to be met. The proportion proceeds, straight sideways. You're missing that one small point. Back in the days of Jean Lesage and the Quiet Revolution, there was an absolute rule cemented into every stage of every immigration policy: immigrants had to come from French backgrounds in proportion to the French Fact on the ground here in Canada. There was a small glitch with this: there wasn't any overwhelming desire for the French in France to rush to the planes and boats to get to the then poorer Canada. Fortunately, French imperial policy over the last five hundred years or so has arranged for there to be adequate numbers of eager French-speaking, indeed French citizenship bearing, peoples across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. That's why we've had the very fine Michaëlle Jean, our upstanding and talented Governor-General, for instance. Haitians speak French, remember?

[@Andre-vr1ul]

@@TheDavidlloydjones Haitians speak some dumbed down Creole, if I'm not mistaken but anyhow. Also replacing your population (European French), with Creole speaking West-Africans results in the same outcome. Michelle Jean is not fine, either. I also seem to recall recently that Quebec wanted to set its own immigration policy but the feds won't allow it. This still all boils down to mass immigration.

[@DELIRORAMA]

​@@TheDavidlloydjonesthe very fine Michaëlle Jean ...😅🤣🥴 Are you kidding me?

[@ClarkGreaseball]

Quebec has allowed mass immigration from North Africa (Arabic) and Latin America (Spanish) Those are the languages I'm hearing more often in the streets. It's not an increase in people speaking English. English and anglophones are an often used scapegoat by the Quebec government. 👎

[@ClarkGreaseball]

It's the Arabic and Spanish speaking population that has increased not English! Those are the languages being spoken other than French. I hear it constantly on the street, in parks. The Quebec immigration policy is causing this.

[@TheOsmanly]

English is a very powerful rich Germanic language that originated from Sax in Germany 1000 years ago then it was developped beautifully .But French we use it in littreature and poetry and i confess i must read a lot of Novells to reach that academic level in French .

[@croatianwarmaster7872]

English is a mutt, you lost a lot of old good germanic words and replaced them with french and latin.

[@sharonperry5213]

English is 70 percent French . Subjected to Norman French 1066. Study the similarities please.

[@juliusmure8795]

English language came from French language! 😂😂😂😂

[@nicolasg.514]

@@sharonperry5213 Fausse nouvelle !!! L'anglais n'a pas 70 % de français. Va t'instruire

[@ClarkGreaseball]

​@@juliusmure8795No, English and French are nothing alike. The grammatical structure is completely different I teach English. If you knew both languages you would understand this. 33% (you can easily verify that on Wikipedia) of the words are the same or similar as well as Spanish because the words were adopted from Latin, which used to be the international language. As for 1066. You're one of those insecure Francophones who keep that fantasy alive. Probably because you think that's the current year. 🙄🤣

[@dearaneta]

Les Québécois doivent parler français en public, et non un mélange d'anglais et de français.

[@ClarkGreaseball]

👏👍

[@danmarijanovic2099]

CAQa is failing.

[@watchdog5678]

If Quebec and France can ban English. In France English is banned in schools. In Quebec English sfigns banned, so in all other provinces the Quebec Canada can ban French language and should ban French language hard enough to learn English let alone 2 languages. Quebec's has to stop forcing the French language on canadains who are not French and don't live in Quebec.

[@juliusmure8795]

English speakers speak only English... 😂😂😂 Ils ne sont pas capables de parler une autre langue.

[@grayhunterx352]

The rest of canada can ban french if they want it wouldn't change a single thing, they don't speak it.

[@lkampmann]

Revoke all counterproductive laws and encourage bilingualism - government can’t dictate people’s choices

[@user-nd8lr9xf6t]

You pay for it,id rather see the 3 5 billion budget paying down the national debt

[@KRajah-lg6ix]

Why does French exist in Canada to begin with? Didn’t Wolfe beat Montcalm? Doesn’t that settle it?

[@nicolasg.514]

Arrête de pleurnicher

[@Ahgsb456]

Forget about decline, how about fixing quebecers from speaking broken French

[@Kingofspaids]

That's a very ignorant take, they speak real french

[@ClarkGreaseball]

​@@KingofspaidsWhere do you live? I'm in Montreal and in the last 30 years I have witnessed Francophones increasingly using English words in their sentences. In the media and in the average person on the street. That's broken French. Even the French people from France agree with me. Quebec Francophones aren't protecting their own language!

[@Kingofspaids]

@ClarkGreaseball I'm from British Columbia, but I don't think that is relevant. You say French canadians use a lot of English in their vocabulary, but don't recognize the French use more anglicizzazions in their words such as "Shopping" or "weekend" which don't exist in French Canada.

[@Kingofspaids]

@ClarkGreaseball You also say they aren't protecting their language yet compared to France. Stop signs and store fronts must be in French, in parts of French Canada such as Quebec. French Canadian dialects are much older than Parisian french.

[@sharonperry5213]

Bilingualism is the way it is. That's progress.

[@juliusmure8795]

Les anglophones ne veulent pas être bilingues, ils ne sont même pas capables de parler une autre langue ! Which progress??? 😂

[@sexygeek8996]

If we want to learn another language, there are many better choices than French.

[@nicolasg.514]

Es-tu bilingue ? Tu as fait beaucoup de commentaires haineux envers les francophones...

[@sexygeek8996]

If you want to learn another language there are many better choices than French.

[@nicolasg.514]

​@@sexygeek8996 Pas au Québec Karen, le français est la langue officielle du Québec donc c'est la langue la plus utile à apprendre pour vivre au Québec. Fais-toi à l'idée

[@kialljacobs8331]

Not surprising nobody really cares about Quebec in the west of Canada anyway Alot of us speak French, Spanish, Russian, Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gealic and of course English so alot of us here are not worried. I haven't been back in Quebec in like 10 years I speak it ok for now, half my family that live there never leave Quebec and don't even know where Calgary or Vancouver is so they in there own little country over there. They wanna keep the French alive go visit France 🇫🇷 more

[@Rhdlm-yo1tv]

It’s is a sovereign state within Canada

[@cleazy______5624]

@@Rhdlm-yo1tv pretty mcuh

[@sexygeek8996]

@@Rhdlm-yo1tv It's more like a parasite living in Canada, taking all the benefits but contributing almost nothing.

[@sexygeek8996]

@@Rhdlm-yo1tv Quebec is just one of ten provinces. They talk like they are a separate country, but only when it suits their desires. When it comes to accepting handouts such as equalization payments, they are happy to just be a province.

[@ClarkGreaseball]

​@@Rhdlm-yo1tvExactly, it's like having a country without paying the expenses of a country. Having a currency, an independent economy, a military etc.

[@user-nd8lr9xf6t]

Can we stop wasting 3.5 billion per year on this dead language now? I'd like to learn klingon but i dont think the tax payers should have to pay for it.

[@nicolasg.514]

Fausse nouvelle Karen

[@MarkEliasGrant]

No. Quebec is a French speaking province. If you don't like it, leave. French must be protected because it is in a sea of English. All education - other than foreign language courses - should be, by law, exclusively in French for all educational levels. There should be NO English speaking schools in Quebec. Immigrants to Quebec should exclusively be from Francophone countries.

[@TheAntReport]

@@MarkEliasGrantpeople have the right to speak whichever language they chose, if you don’t like it then move to France.

[@MarkEliasGrant]

@@TheAntReport Quebec is a French speaking province. English as a foreign language is welcome, but as a language of instruction English should be banned. It's quite silly that Quebec even permits any Anglophone schools to operate.

[@MarkEliasGrant]

@@TheAntReport You have a right to speak whatever language you want. You do NOT have a right to education in any language you want paid for by tax dollars. You do not have a right to government services paid for by tax dollars in English only. You do not have a right to run a business only in English in a French speaking society: all Quebecois have a right to goods and services in their language: FRENCH, THE LANGUAGE OF QUEBEC.

[@steveswhirld]

oh oh the language po po gonna put em all in jail 🤣🤣🤣

[@nicolasg.514]

Toujours sans arguments le maraud

[@steveswhirld]

@@nicolasg.514 foff

[@nicolasg.514]

@@steveswhirld Apprend à écrire 🤣

[@steveswhirld]

@@nicolasg.514 🤣

[@nicolasg.514]

@@steveswhirld Merci de prouver mon point le perdant

[@RustyPryde]

Open discrimination over language, tax payers denied social services over language, a premiere that refers to "other" languages as viruses, infections, and a danger to his people. Quebec has regressed immensely under the current government.

[@sharonperry5213]

Watchdog will show anything to use as a showing. .. colonialism on the move.

[@nicolasg.514]

Fausse nouvelle.... Va t'instruire, non à l'ignorance!!!

[@sharonperry5213]

Translate button

[@nicolasg.514]

@@sharonperry5213 Vive le Québec français et libre !!! Abolissont la monarchie.

[@TheOsmanly]

I was french teacher for over 13 years even if i was never a teacher here in Qc . I love this great language but I need to review the Grammars and syntaxes .It is a shame to see French in decline here in North America .

[@liberatetutemeexinferis5902]

Big deal.

[@user-ov9eu4gx3z]

600 million dollars to promote French??? Couldn’t that money be used for better things?

[@sharonperry5213]

We are all the same despite the different languages. French nor english are not declining here in Quebec

[@nicolasg.514]

Fausse nouvelle

[@moniho6907]

English is too powerful for french to compete with it

[@williamterrymasters1934]

Young people think they have power and control over this world and there is no GOD a Spirit 😂

[@TheOsmanly]

very true brother very true very well said.

[@williamterrymasters1934]

@@TheOsmanly Who is the One who has power and control over this world a Spirit not people or man?

[@grannygrammar6436]

@@williamterrymasters1934 Freeble the Snorkly. Thank you for asking.

[@williamterrymasters1934]

@@grannygrammar6436 Who said I was asking for anything?

[@CrisCDXX]

Can someone please justify why it's so important to preserve a dying language that only the nationalist, xenophobic, descendent of colonialist québécoise want to preserve? When the Roman Empire fell and disappeared, so did the Latin language, as it should have. Why should I, a first generation Canadian born in Montreal QC Canada, descendent of Chilean political refugees, should care about a language that no one in my immediate family uses at their respective homes, and that has been an oppressive language that has harnessed only contempt, racism and anger towards me and my family? Let's not forget, Jaques Parizeau blamed the "etnic vote" when they lost the last referendum in 1995. Why should I care for people who think like that? Montreal is not Quebec. Montreal is multicultural. Montreal is bilingual, Montreal is no longer a hub for Quebecois nationalism and thinly veiled racism and xenophobia anymore. You lost in 95! Get over it! Cope! Good riddance.

[@Cellulosaurus]

Montréal is francophone. Ne t'en déplaise, méprisant personnage.

[@ClarkGreaseball]

😯👏👍

[@charlesward9486]

Que the whining about the imminent death of their culture!

[@rivensleyanelas4890]

I'd their culture die Canada won't have any major distinction with the USA since they're almost the same now

[@sharonperry5213]

English is 70 percent French. . Thats it . Progress

[@nicolasg.514]

Complètement faux...