POV: You're a french-speaking anglophone in Montreal, Quebec
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- When in Montreal... I know all my English speaking people can relate. 🙋🏻♀️
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Cashier on the other side: i just wanted to practice my English 😢
Ouais, mais t'es pas là pour ca. t'offres un service dans la langue d'usage du client soit le francais, la seul langue officiel au Québec. Y'a un conflit d'intérêt entre le provinciale et le fédéral là dessu qui te permettra de parler anglais à celui qui veux se faire servir en anglais pour te pratiquer si tu veux alors stp, quand un non francophone cherche à améliorer son francais où tout simplement s'intégrer dans la culture québécoise, permets lui son francais cassé et arrete de passer automatiquement à l'anglais! Pis dans le cas où ca serai un touriste, c'est justement ca qu'ils veulent de se faire dépayser. Tu serais déçu d'aller en Allemagne pour te faire servir en québecois.
@camLefrancois, tu seras déçu.e. d’apprendre que la majorité des Allemands parlent parfaitement anglais et français et qu’ils vont s’adapter à la langue dans laquelle tu t’adresses à eux, en cherchant à t’accomoder. Vouloir pratiquer une autre langue n’est pas synonyme du rejet de ta langue maternelle, ni un déclin automatique de la société: ce qui a réellement un impact, c’est la langue parlée à la maison, entre amis, au travail avec les collègues, etc.
@@carolanneplourde7246 Ton résonnement se tiendrai davantage si le Québec serai aussi souverain que n'importe quel autres pays normal dans le monde. Exemple l'Allemagne, ou eux n'ont pas à protéger leur langue comme nous qui baignons dans un bassins anglo saxon depuis les 400 dernières années.
" Vouloir pratiquer une autre langue n'est pas synonyme de rejet de ta langue maternelle. " Eee...non? Evidemment? Ce n'est pas mes mots mais les tiens. Dans le montage de cette video; On vois l'intention de l'auteur à vouloir s'essayer en francais, langue officiel du quebec, par plaisir ou par soucis d'intégration. Et voici donc un exemple de québecois pas moyens de se présenter comme francophone aux yeux d'une autre personne d'une autre culture et qui projete une fausse image d'anglicisation qui à longue deviendra réalité. Point.
" Ni un déclin AUTOMATIQUE " Ben là dessu j'te concède ma chère; ca se fait pas automatiquent. On parle d'une belle mort lente.
" Ce qui a réellement un impact, c'est la langue parlée à la maison, entre amis, au travail avec les collegues, ect. " J'aime que t'ai souligné la langue parlée au travail avec tes collègue mais pas aux clients haha Tes de mauvaise foi.🤭 Dans ton 8 heures de service à la clientelle ( à la caisse metton ), t'en passes pas mal plus à jaser avec les clients qu'avec tes collègues donc juste pour ca, ca s'équivaut. Apres, c'est tout le message que ca envois à la populations quand tu te prives de parler la langue officiel, encore plus quand tu t'addresses à quelqu'un cherche à parler francais! "Come on"😂
Parler plusieurs langues, c'est une richesse et un outil incroyable. J'serai toujours pour ca. Le Québec est reconnu par le Canada comme étant une nation disctinct du reste du Canada. Mais c'pas assez. Contrairement à l'Allemagne, on se doit de défendre notre langue et notre culture. Vois ca un peu comme une plante à arroser ou bien une faune à proteger. Ca s'entretiens et se protège.
J'ai grandi toute ma vie à Verdun. J'suis la premiere génération qui n'a pas les moyens d'y habiter. Et quand j'y retourne et que j'vais aux restos du coin, plusieurs d'entre eux ne peuvent même pas me servir en francais. Anglais seulement voir l'hindi ou le mandarin. Ca parle en franglais à demi phrasé en francais parfois le sixième et j'ai du lâcher une formation DEP parce qu'ils ont choisi à la dernière minute de faire le cours en billingue ( encore une fois franglais non constant ) complètement illégal et dangereux car on comprennais tous à moitier les procédés a suivre! C'est juste absurde.
Y'a un anglophone dans une salle de 8 francophones, tout le monde va parler anglais. C'est connu. Au contraire, y'a rien qui me charme le plus que quelqu'un qui s'essai de ma langue.
Me suis déjà faite dire ( en anglais ) par un italien sortant d'un bar;
" Pourquoi l'on parlerai francais? Ce n'est pas langue du commerce et vous n'etes même pas foutu de vous respecter vous même. "
Il avait raison. C'est vraiment juste de notre faute. Vient me dire que j'ai tord.
Une culture; Ca s'entretient, ca se présente, ca se chante, ca se raconte, ca se partage entre autres cultures, ca se concerve ( dans notre cas, se protège ), ca se vit.
D'abord, selon moi, a comparaison avec l'Allemagne est tirée par les cheveux. On parle d'une population de 83 millions de personnes dans un territoire qui est au moins 7 fois plus petit: la densité de population étant beaucoup plus forte (237hab/km^2 pour l'Allemagne contre 0.18hab/km^2 pour le Québec), il est logique qu'il soit beaucoup plus facile de pratiquer sa culture et sa langue dans une endroit où les rencontres sont plus fréquentes. Ils n'ont pas besoin de la protéger, car l'union fait la force. Ils sont excessivement nombreux à partager une même façon de vie, c'est plus facile de l,'mposer dans ces conditions.
Ceci dit, , je ne pourrais être plus d'accord avec votre dernière phrase, mais voilà quelque chose qui me titille: qu'est-ce qui définit une culture? Est-ce qu'une culture ne peut pas changer lorsqu'elle entre en contact avec les autres? Prenons justement l'exemple de l'anglais: les linguistes considèrent que jusqu'à 30% du vocabulaire anglophone provient du français. Une langue, ça se transforme. Et bien qu'il faille la protéger (prenons exemple sur l'occitan), devenir une pays ne garantie en rien sa protection. D'ailleurs, la vision qu'on les autres pays de nous joue aussi sur notre façon de parler, d'agir: prenons les autres pays francophones, la France et la Belgique particulièrement. Quel est le premier commentaire que leur gentilé nous font lorsqu'ils nous adressent la parole? «J'adore votre accent, c'est tellement rustique!» Être constamment rappelé que nous ne sommes pas la norme est un motivateur en soi pour changer de comportement. Alors, qu'est-ce qu'on fait? On parle anglais devant eux, parce qu'au moins, quant on le fait, on le parle beaucoup mieux qu'il ne le feront jamais et ça fait du bien de recevoir des compliments de temps en temps. Et avant qu'on ne puisse pointer un manque de courage et de fierté envers notre langue, je me permets une question: si vos ami.e.s vous répètent sans cesse que ce que vous portez ne vous va pas bien, est-ce que vous continuez à porter ce chandail? Non. Et pas d'argument de «Je change d'ami.e.s»: ça fonctionne pour 6-7 personnes, mais pas pour 80 millions d'individu.e.s.
Nous voulons tous être aimé.e.s, être reconnu.e.s à notre juste valeur et appréci.é.e.s, mais je crois que d'incomber incessamment la responsabilité sur les locuteur/trices devient rapidement lourd et empêche de véritable avancement. Oui, nous sommes tous/tes «coupables» de changer de langue, mais si nous le faisons toutes et tous, n'est-ce pas cette culture que nous partageons justement?
Probablement a cause de l’accent
The beauty of Montreal. French people talking in French. English people talking in English. Everyone understands each other.
They dont
Bill 96 is the only reason french is still in montreal.Fucк bill 96.
Pal, if you have any idea that we understand each other, you’re deranged
@@couragepizzapizzas1599 except for old bastards its actually pretty accurate, to me at least
Dude has spoken to like 3 people from montreal and all of them had an education
French Quebecer here, when I worked in Tim Hortons I liked when an anglophone tried speaking french, but aI would always say "French or english?" To make the interaction faster.
The intent never was to disrespect, but when you have a manager pushing you in the ass to speed things along, you start doing it to keep your job
THIS! Ask, just ask. My dad tried to order my mom a french vanilla at a tims but didn’t know it’s the same in french just with an accent really, and as soon as he fumbled the cashier started speaking in english. My dad’s first language is french, he’s just a double double guy.
On the flip, when I was in high school on a trip to montreal, my roommates made me order the pizza since I was the only one who spoke french, but I hated calling people as it was, doing it in my worse language… asking me to dance on broken glass in bare feet would have sounded less painful at the time. The guy asked if I would prefer english since I was stuttering, and I was so grateful.
Just ask, always ask. People like being asked their opinions or preferences. Some might be rude, but they were probably gonna be rude anyways.
dam, i wish you worked at the tims by the decathalon warehouse. so dam slow there.
La question devrait même pas se poser c'est en français d'abord puis après tu peux demander s’il parle l’anglais.
Exactement
Au Québec c'est en français que ça se passe une question de respect envers la nation québécoise merci
Montrealor here, its confusing which language you start eoth then end with. You can be in the middle of serving someone then forgetting if they were talking to you in english or french
So damn true 😂 happened so often, people don't even comment on it, we just continue the conversation like it never happened
Not difficult. If you are in Quebec, it's french first, and whatever second language second. If you are a cashier and you welcome someone to your store in French and they speak to you in English, you switch to English and finish the transaction in that language. If the customer or patron switches to french, you continue to speak French. If they are struggling to get their words out in French and you hear a clear English accent, you ask if they would prefer to continue in English. Some English speakers will refuse to switch to English because they want to practice french and that's ok. We shouldn't assume that they want us to switch just because they have an accent
@StewieQc okay but that's not what that comment said? Working in customer service, you'll hear four conversations taking place at once. I'll speak one language to a customer, turn around to grab their order and in the meantime I was asked a question in another language while my coworker also has their own conversation with a customer. By the time I turn back towards my customer, I have completely forgotten which language they speak. Having both "english" and "french" brain on at all times while working in Montreal is confusing in itself, no matter how simple the norm of "French first, English if asked" is
@daph2443 C'était très clair la première fois. Ça sert à rien d'essayer d'expliquer quelque chose de nuancé au "Tokebakicitte" crowd.
“me and my neighbour were pen pals for ten years before we realized we lived next to each other! oh, the addresses were P.o. boxes. oh the city? oh, um…we both have amnesia actually”
Ottawa here: used to work in retail downtown. Had a client approach me in really broken English. I switched to French. Client immediately following spoke English, I switched back. BOTH clients complained (my manager told me it was the most ridiculous complaint she had ever heard but had to tell me because they were both lingering.). First client (with thick French accent) complained because they wanted to practice English. Second client knew I could speak French - but approached me in English- and complained they wanted to practice their French. Most blatant example of darned if you do and darned if you don’t I’ve ever seen.
The first client was right, because they approached you in French, which indicated the language they wanted to use. I mean this is what I always do - I approach them in English and if someone greets me with bonjour, I respond with hello and we continue in English. The second complaint was totally ridiculous and illogical. You are not there to read some Karen's mind. :)
@@Lotna technically, the first client approached in English but was nearly incomprehensible, thus the reason I switched to French. My name tag is very Anglo and I suspected that the customer may have presumed that I didn’t speak French. When there is a long line, I would not encourage someone to try their second language if the service provider speaks the client’s first language. Courtesy for the rest of the clients.
@@cynthiabruce-marzenska5024 True, they should learn on their own time, not the time of other clients. In any case, when I said the first client was right, I didn't mean he/she should be complaining to the manager about it - not such a big issue, since the service was provided.
@@Lotna one of many reasons I got out of retail. I still deal with clients, but not the same kind of environment. Cheers!
Quebecer here. Most of us are complete morons.
As someon from Montreal that speak fluent english and French I can tell you that when I want to buy something I start in English the cashier replies in French I reaply in French and we finish in english.😂
So true. Always happens
Hahah thought it was just me
It should be that way, instead of having fn language colonialists barking at you when te parle en english only tabarnak..
It's true
My dad and I are french, my step mom is english and my half sisters are both but go to english school so more english then french... keeping a conversation going in just one language is almost impossible 😂😂 Even my dad and I talk in english to eachother sometimes 🥲
the joy of living in Montreal! 🙏 as this won’t last long due to ‘you know who’
Today I got through my first french coffee shop order+small talk without the barista switching to English. I moved here last month im so proud of myself lmao
Bro congrats!
Congratulations!! Very proud of you!
It's the best feeling right?? I moved here a couple months ago as well. Great work!!!!
Congrats man! All about progress
En tant que québécoise francophone, je peux dire que c'est super apprécié cet effort d'apprendre le français! Je pense que la caissière voulait te rendre la pareille en parlant l'anglais, une marque de respect mutuel.
En tout cas tu parles très bien français avec un très léger accent on voit que tu as dû t'entraîner beaucoup et ça force le respect!
Courage! ❤
Je m'abonne 😉
On a beaucoup de respect pour les gens qui se donne la peine d'apprendre et parler le français au Québec ❤
Culbec!
It’s native land and we will not bow down to bill 96
Désolé, mais ce n'est pas du tout respectueux. Au contraire. Si vous retenez une chose de cette vidéo, retenez que l'influenceuse est partie frustrée. Si vous aimez ça quand les gens apprennent votre langue, ben, parlez-la avec eux. On ne l'apprend pas pour démontrer qu'on est capable, on l'apprend afin de tenir de vraies conversations.
vous parlez comme si vous aviez pas remarqué que la caissiere et la cliente sont la meme personne. On appelle ca un montage lol. Nobody was disrespecful
It's even that we don't want to speak english. It's just that we see so many different people talking either language that we just switch based on whatever we feel like the customers would feel more comfortable with. Honestly after 8 hours shift, i don't even make the difference between English and Français
Exactly! No one is trying to be offensive or mean, just trying to accommodate the client
Classic Montreal customer service! I heard some people who just have a regular regional accent and get this english treatment too 😂 they don’t even understand english
if you speak to me in the language you speak to me in but some customers realize my accent and switch to english and get really happy cause there's an english cashier lol
This drove me CRAZY!! When I first moved to Montreal. Come to Quebec City they don’t play that shit out here!
We call that le franglais a mix of french and english who we randomly swap in The middle of the phrase
Yes!
Oui! C’est un… euh… fun thing
That's us
Personally I call that québécois.
@@slicker8442 Québécois is a different thing. That’s French, but the weird ways we say the words. Quoi? : Hein?
This happens in France too. I had many transaction in shops where I have spoken in French and they respond in English. They appreciate your effort to meet them on their own terms and they respond accordingly.
They like to practice their English too.
I love when service people do this! It is so nice to feel welcomed in my first language. Legault knows this and that's why Bonjour-hi PISSES him off.
anything that makes him miserable makes me happy Bonjour Hi!
Étant une québécoise francophone, je t’aurais répondu en français. Avec un français aussi impeccable, je ne pense pas avoir une barrière linguistique si je continue de te parler en Français lol
Je n´ai pas compris.
@@rumpelcita Quels mots? Quelles phrases?
I'm a building manager in the outremont/park area and everyone literally starts a sentence in 1 language and finishes in the other😂
I never taught about it this way… I really just wanted to make it easier, it’s in fact, really nice of you to try to learn. From now on, I will gladly help!
If you’re uncertain, you can always ask the customer which they’d prefer speaking in. Sometimes they want to practice or get more accustomed to the language, but sometimes they learned a few things to try and make things easier for everyone, but are struggling. Asking is gonna be safer than assuming 99% of the time :)
For me, no. matter what language i speak. They always respond in french because montreal (mainly westmount and monkland) is forced by the quebec government to speak french. Thats why signs in fornt of stores have to be in french and if they add french and english French has to be bigge /more visible.
Because they want to accommodate you. They want to speak a language thats easier for you
Arrête moi ça, la langue officielle c’est le Français de toute façon. Si tu veux te faire accommoder vas en Ontario où est-ce que le monde se font servir en Anglais, personne va me servir en Français en Ontario, un double standard pour les Québécois encore une fois
You cannot get mad at english speaking Canadians. It is the goverment that did not make the Canadian education system bilingual so your beef is with them. You sound like an idiot telling people to go to Ontario.
@@goldorackconceptionwebmark4319 Tayeule calisse yon ruiner le francais depuis longtemps. Maintenant ca parle un francais créole/arabe.
@@goodmorningpeople. the official language in Quebec is French go read please before saying nonsense
@@goodmorningpeople.loi 101
They say “bonjour hi” or “suivant next” when someones next 😭
The beauty of Quebec, if you put in the effort to speak french, they will respect you 💯% of the time. It shows you put thought into it.
Im from Quebec
Lies 😂😂😂 what
Let's drag that to 33.33% of the time
@@N.N.O.U. I can bet that you're racist.
C'est vrai
I tried ordering a club sandwich in French one time at a brunch place and they replied to me in English, I was so sad 😢.
French quebecer here, what you've experienced is part of the path to learn any new language. Just keep doing what you're doing and you'll eventually find the right folks. It's all about making progress :) good job
Ton français est quand même bien
fr si j'étais en service je switcherais pas a l'anglais
C’est juste l’accent qui la dévoile
Désolée mais,….dans l’industrie du service à la clientèle, il faut parler à nos clients dans leur langue . Je suis gérante pour une grosse compagnie et je travaille en assurance qualité et formation du service à la cliente pendant 20 ans. Je trouve que tu es très, mais très ignorant de dire que tu ne switcherais pas en anglais. La satisfaction clientèle est priorité num 1 et maintenant je comprends pourquoi le service à la clientèle au Québec est pourrit.
@@effieioannou5864 oui par contre dans cette situation le client parlait en français et en changeant la langue parlée avec le client à l’anglais au lieu de continuer en français avec le client vous insulter carrément le client comme si leur français est trop mauvais pour même essayer.
@@effieioannou5864Si vous pensez que la femme dans cette vidéo est partie satisfaite, j'ai une mauvaise nouvelle pour vous...
That's why I always ask "do you prefer english"!! I've had people thank me for not giving and continuing to talk in french even when the other is struggling, so ye lol
Just start saying “Huh?” everytime they start speaking complete English sentences.
Start going, "No hablo ingles"
Look over to a friend saying, "Que dijo?"
Most of my conversations with any customer service in Montréal has been in FrenGlish.. i switch often so they switch out of habit and we might switch back or not haha, sometimes we just go on like the video, both languages at a time!
And of course if you have an accent and were also comfortable in that language, c'est comme automatique, the switch just happens ♡
Montrealor here, my native language is French and my reflex is to say "Bonjour" and then switch if the person doesn't speak French. But there are always some people just staring at me blankly, totally frozen in place until I say something in English... Like, people, I won't bite you if you say that you don't speak French XD
you might not but your government has taught everyone otherwise...
I work in Ottawa and during our training we were told: You speak the language they speak to you in. It doesn't matter if they are francophone speaking english or anglophone speaking french. It can be very insulting if you switch language as it can be seen as "you don't speak that language well enough".
Anglos working like “Yes! And English person, I don’t have to speak French”
*thinking I’m being helpful by switching to english*
Customer: insulted
Lol it's true that being an anglo with good French can put you in weird situations in the service industry. I just say "Do you mind if we speak in English? It's my native language too." Then they don't feel insulted.
Kind of relatable. I'm visiting Quebec and have been learning French for a while. When I spoke to them in French, they respond in French. The only time they respond in English is so my entire family can understand because they don't speak French. Very cool how bilingual this city is.
That is so true.
Quebec is all high and mighty about the French language and yet, the second they hear a tiny bit of an accent, they start speaking English and refuse to switch back to French.
My partner's been struggling with that, she's trying to learn but got a strong accent and literally no one will have a conversation with her in French.
Is she in Montreal?
French Quebecer, and that's unfortunately true.
There are no laws where we have to be French teachers to anyone. Your partner needs to take French lessons.
Pas moi. Je suis bilingue, mais je demande toujours d'être servie en français.
That’s actually nice. I appreciate when someone does that for me.
I don't. If I wanted English, I'd have spoken English.
You are the problem
@@matthewcimino3564no they have a point
@@Ur_girl_Jenniferya, the point is to make problems out of nothing
I worked at a dep for three years in my Quebec hometown and would literally forget which language I started in mid conversation cause both languages are the same in my head
Je vis au Saguenay Lac-St-Jean et j’ai déja servi des gens en anglais. La langue que j’utilise dépend de ce que je perçois. Si la personne ne me répond pas en francais, j’utilise l’anglais mais je vais utiliser le français si la personne me parle en français.
Si la personne veut pratiquer son français, elle peut me le dire, ca me
fera plaisir de parler en français.
Honnestly I work in customer service in Montreal at a very touristic place. When I have time it's my pleasure to ask people practice but When it's busy, I need to go fast so it's easier for me to switch. When the line goes all the way out of the building, if I want my customer service to be good for everyone, I need to be efficient... So if you want to practice, come at a less busy time.
Mais voyons donc! Tu ne peux même pas accorder 5 seconds de plus pour laisser les clients parler en français.
@@simonledoux8519Je vais essayer d’expliquer mon opinion en français, pour m’entraîner. Je pense que pour les anglophones comme moi qui parle le français « brisé », donc cela demande plus d’efforts et de temps pour le compréhension. Pour moi, si je suis dans un situation où mes objectifs de practiquer le français c’est plus lentement, c’est pa grave si l’autre personne me parle en anglais.
@@simonledoux8519J’ai essayé d’écrire mon commentaire sans l’assistance de « Google Translate » mais c’est difficile. J’habite à un ville trop anglophone, alors c’est compliqué d’avoir l’opportunité de parler français. Je m’excuse si il y’a beaucoup d’erreurs. Pour cette 2e réponse, j’utilise mon cerveau cassé 😂😂
The beauty of speaking several languages is that you can switch from one to the other seamlessly. Get over it!
Étant un francophone de Montréal, la situation inverse m'est arrivé mardi passé. Ton français est super-bon et si on se croise dans la rue ça va me faire plaisir de jaser en français.
I got confused at "why they won't speak to me in french?" I didn't even realized that the cashier switched to English 😂😂😂
This happened to me when I was in France, I spoke to them in French and they spoke back to me in English, I asked them why and they said "We can't stand your Fremch accent so we would prefer for you to speak English!" 😂😂😂
It's not like France is far from my Hometown, Paris is only a 6 hour drive from my house but they are so insulted when I try to speak French.
In quebec they are trying to be polite. We love when you try
But that arrogance about the only perfect kind of French does not happen in Quebec so much. It is not the issue. Montrealers will switch almost unconsciously to English if they think it is easier for you, as they have HAD to be that flexible all their lives. Most barely notice. Do not take it personally, at all. Stick to it, it is fine if you continue in French for practice. It is NOT a judgement as it might be in France
Oh my god no, we are SO EXTREMELY USED to English accents because we have places like New Brunswick where the language is LITERALLY a mix of English and French and sounds like a perpetual English accent! So it's part of our culture, it's been in our ears for so long, we 100% understand your French even if it's very fresh and we love it ♡
Never experienced something like that in France, _for sure that person was joking or doesnt exist (except in your head)
Parisians would take advantage of any situation to feel insulted. That's part of their love for anarchy.
Omg this is the most relatable thing I’ve seen
Moi je réponds toujours en Français aux anglophones qui essaient de se pratiquer! J'adore quand ils font ça! ❤
C'est une marque de respect de leur part, ça démontre leur curiosité envers les autres cultures, leur humilité, leur capacité à sortir de leur zone de confort pour honorer les hôtes de la région qu'ils visitent.., bref c'est très révélateur de la bonne éducation des gens, quoi. :)
si seulement tous les anglophones pouvaient être comme ça!
Merci beaucoup! C'est très apprécié. J'en peux plus avec ces commentaires qui disent que parler en anglais à une personne qui fait des efforts en français est « un signe de respect ». Dans quel monde est-ce que ça c'est respectueux?
What a nice girl!
I love that I only took three French classes and I could understand this.
So sad, French speakers most of the time, make fun of you, and they start like " I don't understand " to make you feel bad. Here in Montreal they don't appreciate a thing about others "making an effort for integrate and speak the language " that's why most of the time, people end up speaking English. Anglophone speakers are more receptive.
This is 100% accurate lol
To be fair, I tend to do that too out of consideration.. for it is said "when you speak a man's mothertongue, you speak to his heart", but at the same time I complain about the loss of the use of French in Montreal which is somewhat inconsistent, and I've also realised that it can be insulting to the person making the effort to speak the historical language of this society which is a touching show of love and desire to assimilate.. so I make a conscious effort now to speak back in french regardless of the accent!
Merci beaucoup pour ton geste de respect et d'amour que pas tout les gens sont prêts à faire! ⚜️
BS! If the client speaks to you in French and is making the effort to speak the language, just be polite and respond in French as well. You aren't doing him or her any favors to speak in English.
Because most anglophones can tell another anglophone after just a few words; we feel more at ease and revert to English naturally 😅
Ton français est vraiment bon! Je te répondrais en français personnellement. Merci de parler Français au Québec ❤
Effectivement. C’est quasiment un problème maintenant. Je suis obliger de parler anglais à l’école 😅
@@shipsabilityécole française en plus?
@@shipsability Why do you have to speak english in school?. That's not right.
@@realjoshuaWOuai. Francophone, tout les cours sont en français.
@@Colmenero444we have French schools and some English schools in Quebec.
From my experience, in french school we have an English course obligated from 3rd year at elementary school and for the rest of your scholarship. Even at college English is part of the "basic" classes. It's the only class you speak in english.
I still am far from being perfect in english, but living in Quebec it's harsh to find a good job if you don't speak at least "correct" English...
For the English schools in Quebec I don't know if they have French classes as basic classes like us from elementary school until college because I haven't been there. I would hope so because it's as good for french Canadians to learn English then it is for english Canadians to learn French so we can understand and respect each other's language and culture as we live in the same country.
The most relatable thing I have ever seen
Yea people want to be kind but they just make it awkward and don’t help people who want to learn.
NAH CUZ SAME AS A ANGLOPHONE IN MONTRÉAL FOR LIKE 4 MONTHS NOW THIS HAPPENS EVERYDAY FOR NO REASON!
It's tricky because I get the point being made here, and I'm guilty of having done that, switching to english when I hear an accent, but the thing is, when you're an employee working retail or service, you're here to help/serve your customer, which implies *you* need to adapt to their language, not the other way around.
It's well intentioned but it doesn't help immigrants, anglophones and tourists practice their french, I realize it.
If the person has an accent it’s just an accent not a different language ahah it’s so rude it’s like huhh your accent is so bad i’m going to speak to you in an other language which you might not even speak!
No. They are servers or baristas, not your French teacher
They want you to speak English because they can understand you when you speak English and don’t need to put energy into understanding terrible French
Happen to me in a Tim Horton... When i speak french to the cashier, he respond in English... 🙄
Its a law that in Canada u have to talk french and then u can talk English
its in quebec and if the clients speaks in french you have to speak to him in french
as a Canadian, no it isn't or is this just a bad joke cause ???
In Québec, you have to offer French service every where, someone that doesn't speak French, can't be a cashier.
When they speak English back, act like they're an Alien :)
As someone in Quebec I can confirm that forgetting french words is too real so in stead of speaking franglish they speak in english
In quebec right now, went to a restaurant, the waitress and my dad were speaking the worst franglish I’ve heard 😂 it was great
Nice
Montreal is beautiful. I stayed there for a year for business.
I would speak French first, but when I would get stuck, they would switch to English. They would say they don't mind, and they appreciate people trying to learn.
Eternal question. We learn it, go on the trip and everyone speaks English. Or… aggressively speaks French only.
"gardez le change 😉" lol
I am anglophone, and if I hear someone is anglophone too, I’ll switch to English. Why should two anglophones speak to each other in French?🤷♀️
Because you're in quebec
I'm joking, I'm an Anglophone from montreal
as a french speaking anglo, i love speaking both honestly! most people i speak with we speak in franglais :) love that we have that opportunity here!
Lmao. I know enough, badly, to order food, ask for directions or a washroom. My dad let me be a superstar and order from a restaurant as a teen and this happened. We all had a good laugh 😂
Since that new bill I made a promise to exclusively speak english everywhere I go In quebec. Ive been living in this province for about 29 years now, born in algeria. Im sorry but that bill feels like dictatorship to me so Imma just english my way through my days and giggle when people struggle to reply lmao
I'm a french speaker, Québec born and raised, and while I'm not *completely* going to stop speaking french, I absolutely agree with you, and am using as much english as possible whenever I can. A language that requires dictatorship to exist doesn't deserve to survive.
Im doing the same thing born here speak both languages but these laws suck andd im done with this bull all they needed to do was give free french courses bit they prefer to force
Literally my 30 years of living in Montreal even though I'm completely bilingual XD
C'est probablement parce que même la caissière sait pas parler français... Ça m'arrive régulièrement à Montréal.
Merci de l’effort ⚜️
I know. 😢
It feels so patronizing when they do that.
Having an accent or being a bit clumsy with words is not a reason to switch to English the minute I try to practice. 😮💨
You don't neeeeed to practice your English as bad as I need to practice French.
+Plus, how am I supposed to be the one to help you when I'm not even a native English speaker?😮💨 Stick to French, so at least one of us hears a native voice.
You may THINK it's the polite and accommodating thing to do, but it feels so condescending and it's a major disservice to me and others.
I used to do a mix of back and forth.
I was speaking french, she was answering in english. It was pretty fun and fluent too.
An other time, tilted my accent to irish while he decided to respond in french. That was fun too
Montreal Quebec
Nous Somme le Best
I'm a Francophone from another province, spoke french to a clerk in Montreal and had this happen to me as well.. It's just plain absurd lol
And Legault wonders why we can’t speak French!
Fuck Legault ! He’s the one that put us in this mess !
no cuz the first time they kept communicating back with me in french was the best day of my life
I like to think of it as them practicing their English and your practicing your French. You’re helping each other
So realistic the thing is if you get the québécois accent down there won’t be a problem. The French you were speaking doesn’t sound from Montreal (québécois). That’s how I talk French to people who have less of an accent but some words I have a slight accent cause when you learn French and have been hearing it your whole life and there’s an accent it kind of sticks. I’m an anglophone but learned to speak French 8 years ago when I was 4 so my French is pretty good but still you can tell I’m not French. So this has happened a few times.
Sometimes I'm left wondering, "is my French really that bad?" 😆
I didn't even notice that the cashier switched language 😭
happens a lot! I'll speak French, but then the customer will start speaking English, and we take turns switching languages lol
Well to be fair, a lot of quebecers want to practice their english too LOL
when I serve customers I commit to the language that they respond to me in, even if I hear an accent. usually works fine.
This is so accurate 😅
As a former cashier, I always switched to English cause I prefer it. So if I could tell someone could speak English it made me happy. Only had a few that asked me to respond in French and I did cause I'm nice to my customers.
I always like wether they want to speak English of French when I notice the accent 🥰
I thought I was the only one intense 🤣🥺😢 dont give up sis we united you not alone! #Forza #TousEnsemble
Just the same they also like to practice their English 😂
i do the same if im fluent in their language id rather be quick about it than wait after them trying to find the words its like a reflex cant help it
So relatable!! 😂
HAHAHAHA J'ADORE. "GARDER LE POURBOIRE" WESH BEAUTIFUL
It’s worse when they get sympathetic and say “it’s ok, you can tell me in English”
as a french canadian, you can say "garde le change"
This is so accurate
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I BE LETTING YALL PRACTICE
Yup Montreal's like this. As a fluent English and French speaker who lives in Montreal I can confirm thats true
So accurate 😅
Because we are just chill like that. I do it too. I think we should all try to do this to be fair it a good way to pratice and let the other person know that if they struggle in french/english we will understand nwaym
basically it's the ability to talk fast in one or another language to be the most efficient when the situation requires it. When a worker can afford to spend more time on a client looking for the right words they can talk in a language that needs more practice
A tip to look more polite in front of people would be to say « bonne journée à vous aussi » instead of « á toi aussi » but only do this if it’s a stranger you’re talking or an elderly
It’s because they’re also French speaking anglophones and when they notice you’re English they switch to the language they prefer to speak, I do this all the time
Conversely, also love - as a bilingual anglophone - when I am served by an anglophone in french, I just speak english to them instead, and they continue to speak accented french to me while intermittently turning to speak to co-workers in unaccented english. We are all engaged in a delicate linguistic dance.
There's two kind of customer/customer service in montreal. One is they'll try they very best to be accommodating, the other is doing everything to start a fight. Be the first one and you'll be fine.
When I worked service, I would switch only if they struggled, and I usually would ask before switching
My mom's exact experience living in Montreal 45 years ago
Bro your french is INCREDIBLE