Posted on 04/25/2015 9:35:13 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
How long until all flights to the US will require Spanish?
The animosity is usually with English-speaking Canadians, if they know you are an American, they are more understanding and will generally have no issues speaking in English.
If Jeb Bush is elected.
No placards in Spanish?
"Against da rules you know, you stupid when you do dat. Just some English pig with no brains, you know."
You don’t get it!! French is AS OFFICIAL as english in Canada. French Canadians are part of the fabric of Canada. Unlike in the US where people have to press one for spanish which is not an official language of the country. Very different situation. This is Air Canada being inconsiderate and ridiculous. FYI there are more french canadians that speak english than the other way around. Quebec Separatists see this idiocy and gives them cred.
Don’t they know that 7-UP needs to be served with Canadian Club?
Make 7-Up Yours.
That’s why minorities are winning.
Whatever became of Canada Dry ginger ale & club soda?
They sell it here in Indiana.
I buy it occasionally.
Owned by Dr. Pepper/Snapple now.
You're right. My father was from Nova Scotia and the only French he could say was Parlez-vous Frog?
I am not unemployed or smuggling cigarette across da border
I don't eat Pepsi and Mae West for breakfass
h'I doan watch da hockey game doing it doggie style
And no,I don't know Claude, Manon or Francois from Abitibi-Temiscamingue
But I'm sure dey all ave nice teeth
I smoke in church
I speak Québécois in joual, not English and French
I pronounce it 'turd' not 'third'
And eating French Fries with cheese makes sense, mon ostie!
h'I believe in a distinc society, as long as someone else pay for it
I believe in language-police, not equal rights
And I believe dat La Club Super-Sexe is an appropriate place for my wife and me to celebrate our anniversaire
What da ell, she goes on at ten, anyway!
In Québec, da Stanley Cup actually comes around more often dan Haley's Comet
I can get beer at the depanneur, not the convenience store
And maybe I can't turn right on a red light,
But tabarnac, I can go right true it!
Because Québec is da world's largess producer of maple syrup
Da 'ome of Celine Dion and Roch Voisine
Da lann where everybody is shacking up and da legal drinking age is just a suggestion.
Je m'appelle Guy h'and I am NOT Canadian!
Mot, t'a dit tabarnac, ostie!
Merci, salute la vedette
My opinion - I believe if people from the U.S. are going to visit another country they should learn enough of the language of that country to be able to communicate on at least a very basic level. I have seen too many instances where Americans visit other countries and are upset because not everyone there speaks English. Our family speaks Spanish but only did so when we used to travel in Mexico. When we decided to visit France, we took the time to learn some basic French before going there. The most difficulty I had was understanding the people in England. I expect people who choose to live in the United States to speak, read and write English with some level of proficiency.
In my school days we took at least two years of Latin which really helped with my English.
When Americans do business with people in another country I would think it good business strategy to speak their language unless they request that the conversation be conducted in English.
With a dad who was career military, we learned a few basic sentences in Japanese when we were there, but I doubt I’d ever be able to master a far eastern language-they are just too different. He was stationed in Puerto Rico, and that Spanish dialect is very different than what is spoken in SW Texas/Northern Mexico.
SW Texas ranchers and other small business owners like my family routinely do business with their counterparts on the Mexican side of the border-we are of Latino ancestry, but those who are any other ethnicity speak Spanish for the purposes of business-and just to know another language. Interestingly enough, most people from the Mexican side who do business with people in Texas/NM speak English rather well.
I went to Catholic school, so we were required to learn Latin-my knowing Spanish definitely helped with that. I’ve tried to learn French, but have never been successful-it is very different from Spanish-MrT5 was very good at it, but he learned Quebecois at home as a second language as I did Spanish.
My Brit neighbor rattled off to me a lot of regional dialects of British English, and they all sound different to me-far more variations on the English language than here, and we have several.
One of my best buddies is a Quebecois. He took his family on a visit to France while en-route to Africa. He said that the French treated him like dirt because he spoke French with a Quebecois accent!
Bien dit.
Exactly. Make an attempt. Don't be rude with them, and they won't be rude with you.
No kidding. There is a huge difference between Parisian French and Laurentian French. It's like saying people in Newfoundland and people in British Columbia are both speaking the same "English".
I’ve been learning French with Duolingo for the past year to prepare for my trip to France, I’m pretty confident I can speak it with a level of proficiency, although they are going to have speak “très, très lentement” for me to understand them.
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