Montreal, how many languages do you speak?
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- I ask Montrealers what languages they speak. As you can see, Montreal is a very multicultural city full of French, English, and more. Also, please note that I am not making any commentary on what language people "should speak" or trying to prioritize English or French with this video. Each person I spoke to, I offered the chance to reply to me in English or French. Hope you enjoy :)
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*Ok CZcams, now it's YOUR turn.... how many languages do you speak?*
5
2.5 but used to speak le francias n le homgul
Se algum nativo do Canadá quiser aprender português comigo de graça ,eu posso ensinar .
@@zulmakarnacha english
English, Castellano, e un po Italiano
I'm surprised that the Swiss lady is monolingual.
No because depending on the region, you don't need to speak one or another, also because of professional purposes. There are four languages so it's quite a lot.
It’d be quite hard for me being unilingual in Switzerland ! I met people in Zurich from that town that I spoke in french with. No trouble. Their French was great
Yes I was surprised, too because in Switzerland at schools they insist on all kids learning at least one of the official languages of the country. Often the French speaking Swiss aren't happy with learning German, but usually they know Italian.
Me too.. i expect swiss would be either french/english or english/german
It's kinda weird i think that cause i know much people there ando usually they know at least 2 languages
It's cool, I wasn't expecting to see so many people in Montreal knowing Spanish as a third language. I guess it's easy to learn Spanish if you have a foundation in the French language and vice versa.
Spanish is extremely important in the Americas
@@charlolel You do realize almost all countries in central america speak spanish as well right? Also lots of countries in the carribean
@@LandenLaliberte I think they included central america as part of south america. I'd probably do the same mistake, as sometimes people also mistake latin america being the same as the geographical term, south america.
@@charlolel what you're really saying is "not really only in about three quarters of the totality of the Amerias"
There's a big Latin community in Montreal!
Also, most high schools in Quebec offer Spanish as a third language elective (that's how I learned it).
The guy who didn't want to respond the survey but gave you a grammar lesson, that's somewhat representative of my experience in Montreal. Younger people usually switch back and forth between English and French, but most of my interactions with older people have been like that. You try your best to speak French, they notice an accent and reply in (often fairly good) English, then you switch to English and they reply in French. That when they don't start correcting your mistakes. It can very tiring to say the least.
That's a shame that is representative of your experience. I would have hope people were past that :(
That guy was rude plain ans simple, I'm 51 years and I speak Frenchlish which is English mixed with French. That man was so rude. And your French is pretty man, you did a fantastic Job!
The saddest part is that the old guy wasnt probably trying to be mean or anything. He is from a generation that was constantly corrected about the way they either speak french or english. That is also one of the reason some older french canadians are afraid to speak english :(
@@guillaumericher-rochon4902 nope - it's everywhere - seen it many, many times - especially if they know you are from Ontario - they just get rude
@@marymarcoux3459 na he is just a turd
For those wondering : Spanish is commonly taught in schools in and around Montreal, as an '"option" class that you can choose in high school. I personally even had Spanish lessons in primary school. There is also an important Spanish-speaking community in the city since the 1970s.
lexical similarity between French and Spanish is about 75%, its easier for them to learn french.
my school had to ditch spanish because english teachers were using "work to rule" to fight for equal salaries as francophone teachers and Ontarian teachers.
@@OdinWannaBe I'm still struggling to learn spanish even tho French is my first language
@@lawtraf8008 of course, nobody said its easy
@@lawtraf8008 but was English easy for you to learn?
Chinese "dialects" are really different languages, in most cases unintelligibles from each other. The same goes for the Italian "dialetti".
Maybe she was really talking about dialects of Mandarin Chinese but yeah more probably other Chinese varieties idk
@@theobanse1494 Guaranteed she speaks fuzhounese
Completely agreed. I speak Mandarin (native) and Cantonese. Linguistically they are two dialects, in that they have close proximity in grammar and vocabulary, and it's relatively easy to learn either one from the perspective of the other. But from a mutually intelligibility standpoint they're more like two seperate languages, mostly due to the differences in pronunciation and word choices.
@@SkillzKillzBR she sound like a Singaporean to me both English and mandarin
Like Cantonese is basically Chinese French & Hokkien is basically Chinese German
I was born on the north shore of Montréal in the mid 1970s. It was a very French area, almost everyone was unilingual when I was a kid. It took me a while to become proficient in English, especially learning the locutions and cultural references. When it comes to TV, for examples, Québec has a very strong production (series, TV shows, movies) and people watch a lot of Québécois TV even today. Contents from the rest of Canada was minimal, although it has improved over the last few years.
Today I speak French, English, Spanish. I understand basic Portuguese, Catalan. I know a little bit of Japanese. I love to travel, open to the world, and I am proud of my Québécois culture and heritage.
Le meilleur commentaire que j'ai lit jusqu'à maintenant 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Molt content que sàpigues una mica de Català !
je suis brésilien et je parle espagnol portugais anglais et je veux apprendre le français
🤗, Sou mexicano e falo quase os mesmos idiomas que vc; espanhol, inglês, português, catalã, um pouco de francês e italiano. Forte abraço!
@@ojrivas6843 falas catalão também ? Muito obrigado !
I am really impressed that sooo many people spoke three languages. Good for them, and for Montreal.
Less and less people speak French in Montréal it is for this reason CAQ win the election
@@christophedel2642 Les statistiques disent le contraire. Ta gueule.
@@thprmr Je suis pas pour la CAQ, mais je comprends pas pourquoi t'as besoin d'être impoli?
@@ambradeluna être impoli est amusant
@@christophedel2642 So there's a growing tension from French Canadians ?
It is rare to find unilingual people in Montreal. Most speak English and French, often with a third language that could be anything from Spanish to Italian to Chinese or go ahead and pick one, because if you walk around Montreal over a few days, you will likely hear many different languages being spoken. If you are under 60, and grew up in Montreal, you are at least functionally bilingual.
yeah and sadly too many people speak only english
@@danemon8423 And too many people speak only French.
@@barcham Bruuuuuh, it's fcking Quebec, it's normal for people to speak only french there, just like it's normal to speak english in the rest of canada
@@danemon8423
Only 7% of Montreal's population speak exclusively English.
@@shauncameron8390 And according to the latest census figures, that number is rising! The bilingualism rate is now higher among young francophones in Montréal than among young anglophones!
I speak English and French and when I was in Montreal I had fun switching from one language to the other during the conversation, everyone I spoke with followed this change very naturally!
Greetings from Brazil.
I had to do this and it thru me for a huge loop cuz I was practicing my French but it was back and forth and I was breaking a sweat trying to understand
Você fala português também não?
@@MariaFernandazz se essa pergunta é para mim, sim, português é uma das cinco línguas que falo.
😅 I was born and raised in Montréal! I know what you are writing about...some affectionately call this "franglais" lol
@@shantemoore6265 and that's just part of the magic of the lovely Montreales!
Me ha sorprendido la cantidad de gente que hablan español en Montréal. Genial.
Sí hay muchos latinos en Montreal! :)
Es un idioma hermoso. Yo habla Francés, mi idioma materna, pero el español es de mis idiomas favoritos del mundo y aprenderlo es uno de mis mayores logros.💖 (Lo pude hablar con mi ídolo, Sebastián Yatra, y me sorprendió hablándome en francés, así que realmente creo que saber varios idiomas es una riqueza.)
@@melissa-annefrigon7973 Así es
@@melissa-annefrigon7973 Tu écris vraiment bien en espagnol 😃 mais il y a seulement une petite erreur, le mot « idioma » est masculin, alors on dit « un idioma hermoso ». Le reste, c’est génial 👍🏻.
Desde hace varios años muchos latinos han emigrado a Montreal y México tiene un tratado comercial con Canada, es por eso
I moved to Montreal because of my job, and I was a little afraid of my daughter struggling with French, but she learned very fast! School teachers are very good and very kind to foreigner kids, I'm very grateful.
I was born and raised in Montréal.
I speak English, French Spanish, Jamaican patois and some creole. I have lost much of my conversational Japanese unfortunately but love languages and Montréal's true language and culture DIVERSITY.
Suh mi affi nuo if yuh jumiekan oswa ayisyen ou ye
Diversity is not a culture though. Diversity needs to converge towards one "culture commune"
Do you understand Haitian Creole ?
@@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY Hello! For the most part...I know how to say a few words and sentences also. Since many are words that my male friends taught me when I didn't know what I was saying, some of them are not things I would practice or say on a regular basis! 😅
Made up languages dont count
I just moved to Montreal a week ago and I think it would be interesting asking people who moved here how long did it take them to learn to speak French here.
They don't learn it
It took me a year :)
Great idea!!
It depends...if they go to school, or live with French or English people.
If you live with a French boyfriend/girlfriend it's easier to learn
I appreciate your effort speaking french! 🤙🏼
Also, lots of people seem to speak Spanish in Mtl 😍
Español es mi lengua materna (by default I understand a bit of Portuguese and Italian) así que podemos practicar juntos y bailar también- pourquoi pas!? 🤣
Don't worry , it's the same in France, most people choose Spanish after English , due to the fact it's closer to the French language and more sun than in Germany.
It's not too surprising. Spanish is pretty close to French, and it's a very widely spoken language. Beyond native French or English, and the inevitable immersion with the other, Spanish makes a lot of sense to learn
@@BroadwayRonMexico I'm still struggling to learn spanish while being a native French speaker
muchas escuelas aca tienen espanol como clase de idioma opcional
Bailar? 😂
Montreal is amazing, went to an Iraqi restaurant and the owners 2 little kids were running around, couldnt be more then 6 or 7. To each other they were speaking French, to their Dad they spoke arabic and to me they spoke English.
Their dad is smart, they learn french in school and are around Quebec culture then he teach them arabic at home and keep them to their root. Later on as they grow up its gonna be waaaay easier to be fluent in all
Yup, this dad is a real immigrant and most likely a hardworker with a big heart, one who knows the value of culture and languages! And I have so much respect for those who put efforts into learning our culture while not fully losing theirs.
I'm interested in knowing the restaurant's name, I've never had iraqi food and I usually go to montreal for food trips. I love that Canada is getting more socially diverse than it was 20years ago!
@Tsusday hmm, I was staying at Centre Sheraton on Rene Levesque. It was walking distance. I totally forget the name. This is back in 2006 or so.
@@abbasrizvi9389 I'll scour the lands nearby! Thanks for the reply still!
J'aime beaucoup comment tu prends le temps de t'adresser à différentes personnes et comment tu les laisses exprimer leurs idées.
Continue le bon travail.
VL
Whoa I didnt expect so many Spanish learners there.
Yeah, really useful in the Americas and easy to learn, when you know already French.
I believe those are more native speakers than learners
I just learned that spanish was the 3rd spoken language in Québec!
Spanish is very easy to learn once you already know French.
Relatively easy to learn Spanish (or vice versa French) if you know the other, easier than English. My wife came to Canada as a child via Spain knowing Korean and Spanish, went to French immersion school since it was easier for her to hit the ground running vs going to an English one.
I thank you for this kind of content.
Damn, i just found your channel days ago and im totally addicted! Makes me happy to hear all these humble, amazing people and see the diversity in your content! Language is so intresting I so want to learn more! I only speak English, Swedish and I understand Norweigian but I would love to learn Portuguise! Keep on doing what you doing man, I appreciate it and I wish you all the best! Videos likes these make my day!
7:51 his T-shirt though hahaha
I love videos like this. They make me happy because I love languages and how they connect with people's life stories.
This feels like a very old school CZcams video and I love it!
An informative and enjoyable video. Well put together, being respectful of the people being interviewed. And thank you plus Merry Christmas and happy New Year ! I speak English and am learning French Canadian !
This is so wholesome 🥹 I’m smiling watching the entire video
Montrealer here! So cool to see our city represented and being born here, I`ve always been surprised to see how most Americans and a good part of Canada speak english only.. It`s so natural here to know at least two! I speak french, english, spanish, italian and basic german :) Cheers!!!
What language is used in schools and government offices and streets?
@@saeedyeslam1202 In the whole province of Quebec mostly French, but in the city of Montreal itself I`d say english and french equally
If you want to know and even worse story of american history, there's a book called "slaughter of cities" by E. Michael Jones. Basically ethnic cleansing of non anglo Europeans.
@@meganedandurand268
Montreal is French-only. The only places that have English and French equally are Anglo-majority suburbs like Westmount, Point-Claire, etc.
Hey, I‘m from Germany and I want to do an exchange year as a student in Montréal. Do you think it‘s a good place to improve your English Skills or is it only good to learn French?
Portugais c'est ma langue maternelle. Je parle aussi le français, l'anglais et je comprends très bien l'espagnol et quelques mots en suédois.
Great Job, it was a really nice video, we can all feel the good vibe you share through this !
3:40 it's people like him that give us such a bad rep... I'm all for protecting and maintaining French but being condescending towards someone who was genuinely making an effort is just rude and not helping anyone.
I'm french canadian and all my ancestors were, I love my Province and Quebec is a country in my heart, but this guy has a condescending and unpleasant attitude, the beauty of Montreal is the multiculturalism that sprouts from all the good people in the city, when you fall in love with Montreal and that you live in it, your love reverberate through out the city. The people's love of Montreal make it what it is.
Yes, the attitude was a bit rough, but I appreciate that he gave a useful correction. I'm from Toronto. I speak English and Polish fluently, and French, Spanish and Russian only at a pretty basic level. When I first went to Montreal, with only a bit of high school French, I was initially turned off by encounters like that (they are rarer now). Later when I went to France, I found that the attitude there (especially in Paris) was at least as bad. I then learned the "trick" of pretending that I was from Poland and didn't know any English. Suddenly they would be able to understand and converse with me in French.
@@George-2115 i was born in Montréal but my family is from France, and let me tell you i have never met more obnoxious and rude people than French people. French is my first language, but just because of my accent, some people in Paris would reply to me in English or act as if they couldn’t understand what i was saying…
But in Québec, for the past 15-20 years, they started teaching English in all primary schools, and now there’s a lot less of rude french gatekeepers and a lot more people are bilingual, so things are getting better i’d say.
@@businesszeus6864 Agreed. I remember, back in the 1980's, they took a survey at a linguistics conference. One questions was what languages they spoke. The only linguists that were monolingual were those who spoke only English or only French. I suspect that now, or soon, the English will be alone in that group.
To be honest, this guy's answer would be the typical answer you get from older generation of Quebec. They tend to speak with a Staight to the point approach. They don't take into account feelings and they don't care about feelings either. It's more of a cultural thing and not about who you are or where your from. I'm from Quebec and every old people I know speak like that to each other and even to me. It's just how they grew up.
I truly enjoy this kinda videos, greetings from Morocco 🇲🇦
Cool - Montreal was my hometown and I grew up there. I migrated to the US years ago but still pride myself in knowing French and actually took French Literature classes at college here to broaden my reading. I recognize some of the areas in the video and it makes me nostalgic to go back.
Je suis Belge de la partie francophone et je me suis toujours demandé, comment c'est la vie en Amérique du Nord. Est ce que ca ressemble aux États-Unis et au Canada mais version francophone ou c est un mélange de la culture nord américaine et française (europe) en même temps. Je devrai un jour aller visiter cette ville. Mais d ailleurs vous trouver notre français européens bizzare quand on parle par rapport aux français américains du nord
why u migrated to the usa ? canada is better than usa
@@user-up8cu4qr9v Donc pour faire un peu simple, nous somme autant proche de la culture américaine que les Belges et les Hongrois. Bon en rigolant un peu moins, la culture au Canada est vraiment différente d'une province à l'autre, (l'Alberta ressemble vraiment beaucoup au Texas des US, et le Nouveau-Brunswick ressemble un peu à la Belgique avec ces plusieurs langues utilisés) la relation entre le Québec et la majorité du Canada anglais est similaire à celle des Belges et des Français, on se tape sur la tronche, mais on s'aime quand même (petite exception pour l'Alberta qui a réussi à nous détrôner de la province la plus détesté autant par le Canada anglais et français haha). Le respect fait toujours parti selon moi de la définition du canadien moyen, le type qui s'excuse souvent, n'aime pas les embrouilles(sauf si cherché bien sûr) et une grande ouverture d'esprit.
Côté économique, la vie au Canada est un peu plus dispendieuse qu'au US dût à leur surproduction massive, leur pouvoir d'achat supérieur et leur peur irrationnelle de payer des taxes et aider son prochain. On gagne par contre sur la qualité des produits, par exemple le lait américain se compare souvent à la pisse de chameaux comparé à celui canadien. Le prix des maisons est relativement stable au Québec, mais on ne peu pas en dire autant dans le reste du Canada, surtout en métropole.
Côté politique, nous sommes centre gauche pour la majorité, mais aussi gauche que la définition européenne. L'éducation est à 95% payé par l'état, 100% pour le médical et environ 80-100% pour les prescriptions de médicaments. Au Québec, nous avons le principe de protection de la langue française puisque nous sommes une minorité dans le pays et avec une langue semi-mourrante. Et nous sommes très laïque, c'est à dire AUCUNE connection de l'état(école, police, hôpital, services de transports publiques, emplois gouvernemental etc) et la religion, certaines personnes nous traîtent de racistes, mais après avoir connu plus de 100ans de persécution et de contrôle par l'église catholique, on ne veux plus rien savoir de la religion main dans la main avec l'état.
Les État-Unis sont de plus en plus critiqué au Canada, autant pour leur interférence dans nos politiques que pour la mauvaise réputation qu'ils ont en voyageant notre beau et calme pays (le convois anti-vaccin a reçu beaucoup de donations venant des US et plusieurs avaient des drapeaux Trump). Donc leur réputation prend un bon coup depuis les 7dernières années.
Les Québecois en fait n'ont aucune difficulté à comprendre ou interpreté le français de france, belge ou suisse, c'est plutot l'inverse en fait. Les français on plus de difficulté à comprendre notre accent et expressions. Malgré cela, nous parvenons quand même aisément à avoir des discussions ou des rapprochements. Petit fait amusant, la France utilise le mot "ferry" pour un bateau de passagé, quand au Québec on utilise le mot "traversier", il y a plusieurs cas ou les français utilisent plus de mots anglais que nous dans leur dialect haha!
@@user-up8cu4qr9v Le Canada ressemble aux États-Unis mais sans la violence et les armes à feu. Autrement dit, les villes canadiennes sont dans l'ensemble très sécuritaires, ce qui n'est pas le cas aux États-Unis. Le Québec est aussi différent du reste du Canada, non seulement en raison de la langue mais aussi parce que les Québécois ont gardé un petit côté "européen" que l'on retrouve moins dans le reste du Canada. Autrement dit, les Québécois aiment sortir et profiter "de la vie". Montréal est particulièrement apprécié, autant des Européens que des Américains. Assez paradoxalement, les Européens aiment le côté "américain" de Montréal, alors que les Américains aiment son côté "européen". Cela dit, malgré ce petit côté "européen", le Québec demeure bel est bien une société "nord-américaine"... mais avec une petite touche européenne.
Very fun video. Thanks man
I speak English and French and can speak a little Spanish. I can also understand some Portuguese, Greek and Italian and some basic German. I worked for years with Spanish speakers, Greeks, Italians, Portuguese, French and a classmate was German so just being around them you picked up phrases and words. It's also obvious that the speakers of the romance languages (i.e. Latin based languages ) are in Montreal since there's a lot of overlap between them.
I was surprised at how many people spoke Spanish too. In Montreal I would expect a lot of people to speak French and English but the Spanish surprised me.👍👍
Mexicans have big hearts and go along with quebec s culture.
Thanks a lot for the video!
Thank you for your content :)
I'm also from the Montreal area, my first language is French, I speak fluently English and German and I'm currently learning Korean!
Love this video! I only speak English and Spanish. I wish I kept up with my French studies but I’m able to get by which some humour 😅
Having a sense of humour helps a lot with language learning. I'd never have the confidence to speak my broken french to strangers if I couldn't laugh at myself 😆
love this ;) thank you!
Loved this video 💕
Thank you for speaking french in quebec, we appreciate it a lot
I speak french, I've learn it in México😂
Your video is biased .
You seem to have omitted Greeks Italians as well as Eastern Europeans. Your video is not informative because you have not included all of the demographics.l guess you need to educate yourself before you try to educate us!
@@tonyp749 Hummm... Who are you replying to?
@@galoreinoso lol .. to someone who deleted his/her comment? or maybe replying to the wrong comment (it happens)
I have been a primarily English speaking tourist in Montreal and found most citizens accommodating and helpful as I used my very limited French to ask directions to get around or to order in restaurants. Montreal is a real international city, with a French heart. I really recommend it as a destination, so much to see, such great food.
That's something I like about living in Montreal. When I try to speak French, people help me to carry on. Which is not the same in France (or at least Paris), where people switch to English if you don't speak French perfectly.
Hello, thank very much for sharing this video. It's really inspiring and interesting
I very much enjoyed your video!
J'aimerais beaucoup aller a Québec. Je suis brésilien et je pense que le Canada c'est comme une modèle aux autres pays du continent en plusieurs de secteurs.
tu doit venir a Montreal, c'est une ville formidable :)
Depends on what neighborhoods of montreal you ask the people. The city is so diverse. Some neighborhoods like cote de neige speak more than 30 languages.
That was so informative bro🔥❤
Great content, thanks for sharing. You have a like and a new subscriber.
What I love about Montreal too is if you did this in even more parts of the island you would have had many more languages added to that list 👍
That was a great video!!!
Very cool and informative.
Living in Montreal and South Shore since 2012. I was born in Moldova. I speak 4 languages fluently: Romanian, Russian, French and English. I used to speak decently in Spanish, but didn't have practice in years. I can understand if the speech is not too quick and reading is very easy for me.
I was born and raised in Montreal your video is so nice I like that you tried to speak french it was cool I speak French English Arabic and trying to learn Italian but I do get some Spanish words because my sister speaks Spanish Montreal is full of diverse cultures languages which are amazingly fun to see hear and know I for sure want to learn more languages but for now, starting with Italian
This is such nice content, so humam and real! I feel connected and relaxed!! Ehat makws this video so special and so different from most other Video is how real and honest it feels. Yoy can feel these are real so much more real was really out in a park and having since interactions with people.
Great video ❤
7:23 we recognize here the Moroccan dialect
I speak three languages fluently and can get by in a fourth. For the past few years I've been teaching Italian to French-Canadian adults who take the course as a pass-time a couple of hours a week. Taking Spanish or Italian courses are popular pastimes.
So well done thank you, I wasn't expecting to see so many people in Montreal speaking Spanish as a third language. Montreal has always been and always will be a multi-linguistic metropolis that speaks English & French..It shows this by the multicultural restaurants we proudly have in so many flavors.
Great vid!!
Montreal is so beautiful even when I come from Toronto area people are lovely. That’s the amazing thing about our beautiful country people speak more than one language from coast to coast.
On an Air Canada flight this summer from Vancouver to Nanaimo, the flight attendant gave the 'Safety talk' in English, French, and Spanish. Tres cool, si?
J'adore votre vidéo, une question simple et efficace, des réponse belles, diverses, et tous répondent avec bcp de chaleur humaine, great bro, just keep going
Merci!
Great potential--some tips: 1) standup interviews where you're in frame is a popular format for these videos and gives you the opportunity to add more of your personality and good for short clips for more views on CZcams shorts, 2) put subtitles on these videos 3) list what languages they speak somewhere to make it more visually appealing--hope these are helpful!
great tips!
Nice video! Making me love even more my city!🇨🇦🤍
Really appreciate your videos. I live in Montreal, my mother tongue is German and I speak French, English and some Dutch and Italian
My wife is from Montreal and she speaks French, English, Arabic, and Spanish. Our kids speak English and French. The first time we visited Montreal after our first daughter had learnt to read, on the way downtown in the taxi she exclaimed "Papa, everything is in French!"
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I am frim the US and speak, English, Spanish, and French. English is my primary language.
Learned Spanish in grade school through high school and college, and can still speak at a medium kevel today.
I took Adult School French over 20 years ago and can still speak French at a basic conversation level. I specifically learned French because of my love for visiting Montreal and for wanting to speak French with the locals!
One thing to note. Since I knew Spanish, it was very easy for me to pick up learning French, since both are Romance languages!
También tienes la ventaja inmensa de contar con muchos hispano-parlantes en EEUU. Lástimosamente no contamos con francófonos para practicar y no hay escuelas para aprender francés tampoco.
Im fluent in 3 languages, first 2 being French and English and even then, I took Spanish as my 3rd language class in IB high school here in Mtl and even though I spoke French fleuntly (and am a grammar and litterature freak in French) I had the hardest time with Spanish...I took 4 years and really had to get to talking with friends from southern america to get it going...but the again they use a lot of slang and spoke so fast that it did take me a minute to kind of be able to follow the conversation and whatnot...speaking French made understanding Spanish a breeze but speaking and the worst part : spelling...oh boy
Americans say they’ve lived in Europe when they spent only a day :)
@@mdte5421 this was recorded in Canada so…unless you meant North America, you’re not really talking about the right people. And most Montrealers actually come from Europe so they do more than visit and even if that’s not the case, do you know how many students do exchanges in Europe for like a whole semester or year?
très sympa le video, merci
Cool running Dan, c'est en plein le sujet du jour pour moi aujourd'hui à Montréal en 2022. J'ai adoré ton réjouissant documentaire multiculturel about Montréal population today, ça m'a rappelé Amsterdam yesterday où ils parlaient tous de 3 à 5 langues en 1973 déjà... Bravissimo Mister Vineberg, keep on rockin...😎
Me sorprendió que muchos hablan español😮 ahora mismo estoy en clases de francés:>
¡Espero algún día ir a Montreal!❤
People can say what they want about Quebec but you won't find many places in North America with so many bilinguals or trilinguals etc.
Not everywhere in Québec, just in Montreal. And if you go to Miami, New Orleans, Halifax, Ottawa and other places you will find lots of people that speak many different languages. So, yes you will find places with people being polyglotte
@@Tony-og4oz I live in small town in northern Québec and most people have a decent level of english. Most young adult quebecers can speak in english.
@@94matheosome pockets here and there but not the same level as Montreal.
@@Tony-og4oz No, most young quebecers have a decent level in english.
That's just Montreal.
Parabéns ,suas reportagens sao muito boas .
This seems to be a very interesting place, I hope I can visit sometime in the future. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much! And please keep up the great job! Subscribed!!
Thanks!
Romania in the house!!
Surprising how many Spanish speakers in this city! I shouldn't be surprised, I have recently accumulated quite a few Mexican neighbours (all lovely people, btw), out on Montreal's West Island.
I’m glad that almost everyone speaks English and French (+ honorable mention to Spanish). It’s important to keep French, it’s part of my and many other’s culture, but it’s also important to adapt to everyone. Only thing that makes me sad, is that people sometime don’t make the effort to learn French (when they live there, not visits obviously). It’s like making an effort to understand you, but you’re not doing the same for me. I honestly rather you having the worsttt French ever but still genuinely trying for me. I really hope that someday those two languages in the province will grow to love each other and stop fighting all the time. I love speaking two languages, it helped me out so many times. I don’t think that one should be called “better” than the other, I simply think since French is our native language is should be preserved as much as any other language would be. Anyways, love the diversity in my beautiful province ❤
Yeah, it's important to adapt, but not to everyone. It's not important to adapt to those who won't adapt to you. Your observation that people don't make the effort to learn French is the result of French speakers stupidly adapting to those who don't want to adapt to us, one thing explaining the other. I speak five languages but as long as I am in Quebec, I will stick with French only, unless the person is a tourist or a recent immigrant. There is a limit to how much you should adapt to others without them making any effort to adapt to you. If a business place can't or won't serve me in French, I am not spending a penny there. Every country and region I have lived in, my number one preoccupation was to speak their language, it's their land and they shouldn't have to learn my language to live in it. Also, I immigrated here and French is not my native language.
@@Gomba13 smart
@@Gomba13 I agree with your point that people who come to Quebec should learn French. I am still surprised by the fact that some people is some communities did not manage to learn French or English although they immigrated to Canada in the 1960's. How one can live in a country without speaking the official language? They always depend on their kids to translate. This is strange.
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J'ai grandi en calgary mais me mere m'a envoyer a l'ecole immersion. Il faut ignorer les politiciens qui essaient de diviser le pays. La francophonie exist partous dans l'ouest, en petits coins (i just found out that's idiomatic for toilet, but not sure how else to phrase it lol) et les grandes villes. Quebec est inseperable avec l'identite canadien, sachant naturellement que cette croyance est pas reciproque, pour raisons valides. Quand je visit Montreal je suis tellement heureux, chaque fois, ecouter cenversations entre amis ou une personne parle completement en francais, et l'autre completement en anglais, echanger langues seulment quand in mot dans l'autre langue est plus precis.
@@matthewtanner5127 tu as complètement raison. I met a Scottish guy who travelled across Canada from BC to Montreal and he said that people kept warning him about going to Montreal and how he will be persecuted for not being able to speak French. He was so scared when he got off the bus that he would avoid talking to people unless being certain they spoke English beforehand. After spending a few days in Montreal, he eventually decided to spend the year there as he felt welcomed. He later realised that the people that had told him about Quebec had never been to Quebec nor had they ever spoken to a Quebeccer.
Very cool video!
i love so much your videos dude
On ne dit pas vraiment “Combien de langues est-ce que vous *savez*”, mais plus souvent “Combien de langues est-ce que vous parlez/tu parles?”
Merci!
ta guele
@@rkgrant On ne dit pas vraiment "ta guele", mais "ta yeule, le gros" ;)
@@rkgrant non : « ta gueule »
If you really want the idea of “know”, you can use connaître which is know as in familiar. If you use savoir you need another verb after and it will mean to know how to do something.
Combien de langues connaissez-vous? OR Combien de langues savez-vous parler?
I really enjoyed your video. I’ll be showing it to my French classes on Monday. High school classes in Ontario. Merci pour votre vidéo. Quant à moi, je parle (en ordre de compétence) anglais, français, allemand et espagnol. Je comprends un peu d’italien, de néerlandais et de danois. 😊
I live in Montreal, and I speak French, English, Spanish and Hebrew and I have basic knowledge of German! I love Montreal. The lady who came to Montreal to visit her daughter who had her baby is right. It's a beautiful aspect of our province. #Freedomoflanguage
Très bon travail!
Nice video man.
Très surprenant beaucoup des gens qui parlent espagnol.
You may speak the language you want as long as french is respected. Personally, I speak french and english. I’ve always been stuying both languages wich I find important.
I know that the average that speaks Spanish in Canada is little but I'm still loving how el español keeps his influence in the entire continent everywhere .
maaan first video I saw from you and it was good, also mtl here, keep the good work
Thanks! I’ve made a bunch of mtl videos recently, hope you enjoy
Perfect, watched with pleasure.
I’m from Montreal and I speak 5 :) I’m surprised there’s so much Spanish !! I don’t know many Spanish speakers here
That's a very interesting vox pop, you see the newest evolution of this society where people are tending to speak a 3rd language, obviously spanish. It's especially usefull in north america and it would be interesting to know the reasons (leisure travel, immigration/cultural influence, business, etc).
I loved this video.
Great video
English (native), Español and Deutsch (conversational, not fluent), day to day Serbian and other Slavic languages (although reading is much better than speaking including cyrillic alphabet).
The joys of being a Travel CZcamsr when you can say hello how are you in 93 languages LOL
Haha yes, travel CZcams means butchering basic pronunciation around the world!
Why don't you add french into your sentences? You hate french???
@@tersangkabidah7928 yes
that old man with the French lesson so rough 😭
Love this video ... 👏👏👏🌅😉
I know Russian, B2 English and I have been learning German for year... Thanks to this video I began to believe again I am able to learn these 2 languages together!
I speak French and English, and I would definitely count “franglais” or “frenglish” as another language 😂
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@@opticalfred4 the whole frenglish thing is probably the cringiest shit I've ever heard
@@XxMusclecarsxX how is it cringe I literally can't stop myself from injection english idioms and terms into my explanations now when I talk in French it's just a fact of being bilingual. Problem is our vocabulary doesn't perfectly overlap so sometimes you only have the correct word to describe something in one language, that's all frenglish is really.
@@darrenfleming7901 I'm bilingual as well and there's plenty of words to use in each languages to describe everything. Slipping in some words here and there is totally fine. But some people purposely, or by a lack of vocabulary, butcher french and talk ''frenglish'' and it's just weird. It's usually people from the suburbs thinking it's cool when moving to mtl. Quebec french is already arguably not so great so replacing half your words for english just makes it sound trashy and uncultured. Speaking languages properly isn't so hard.
@@XxMusclecarsxX I think you're really judgmental and wrong. People describe certain things in english because that's how they usually hear of it and it's what comes to their minds, seeing a problem with a that is just being way too zealous about language. Also it's just not true that everything can be conveyed with the same meaning from one language to another and translating certain things does make a difference, especially idioms.
Very nice video. I have to go to Montreal in a couple of weeks and I was a little afraid I'd have problems to communicate... Looks like it's gonna be ok speaking only english.
Your videos help me to practice English when you talk with the people.
I lived in Lewiston maine it was illegal for French people to speak the French language the English Protestants founded defensive😢
Sorprendidísima estoy con la cantidad de gente que dice que habla español!
I met many people saying that they speak Spanish, but when I switch to Spanish, they can barely put 2 sentences together. 🤣Some people think when they know a couple of words or sentences, they speak the language.
Cool! Lots of different languages here at home...makes me proud.
I am from Québec and now live in B.C. I enjoy your videos. I speak 3 and 1/2 languages. French Spanish and English, and half Portuguese. And I know some minimal Thai and Arabic. :)
I also live in Montreal and I also speak 3 languages but I had met other people that speak up to 7 languages