Click here to get a copy. One fantastic thing Quebec has going for it is its amazing folk music. We stopped in a pub on a Tuesday night, and many of the locals had brought their violins, flutes, drums, you name it. They proceeded to jam together late into the night while everyone sang along. Before you write me off as some old fogey digging up ancient relics for you kind people to listen to, hear me out. In fact, it has mixed with the Celtic music played in Anglo-Canadian circles.
I walk into a church Where no one was around Where no one was around I spotted someone far away Yoyo, yoyo A little monk in a corner And then well, well, well! Pay special attention to nasal vowels—they sound very different from Parisian French, and the nasal vowels, I think, are really what characterize the Quebec accent. Watch for how the words seem to collapse and slur into one another more so than in Parisian French , and how the nasal vowels, especially in and en, sound a bit twangier.
French learners often fail to realize that Quebec has its own strong film tradition separate from France. Movies in general are a great way to fine-tune your understanding. The dialogue tends to be closer to how people speak in real life.
FluentU takes real-world videos—like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks—and turns them into personalized language learning lessons. Movies can also offer a great challenge because especially in independent sorts of films, the actors tend to speak quietly and mumble.
This movie is hilarious. It takes place in the tiny village of Ste-Marie-La-Mauderne, which has long been in decline. Just e-mail customer service after you place your order from either the Canadian French orders page or the French orders page and ask. Use your back button to come back to this page. This part of our site is for people who want to learn the Canadian version of French. How Many Canadians Speak French? Learn Both Canadian French and Paris French Here If you purchase either our Canadian French lessons or our French lessons with the educated Paris accent, we will give you access to both our Canadian French lessons and our French lessons from France by paying for either one.
Read more about the Languabe I want to learn. Start learning now. Would you like to:. Reviews of:. I am retired took some French in a community college and have used Duolingo. I would like to try to take lessons in France for a week or two, or perhaps via Skype. Any suggestions? I have a friend who did French immersion at a school in Ontario. She claims no-one in France understood her. He stopped getting lost!
I think it depends on who you want to talk to in French. As far as sources of Skype tutors, I admit that there I don't know too much. That should work just fine as a starting point. Once you have the basics down you'll need to spend time in France speaking, reading to lock things down. Not everyone learns the same way so you'll need to take your own personal strengths and weaknesses into consideration.
The comment about Quebecois is a bit comical The history related to the reasons for differences between Parisian modern French and old world Quebecois are interesting in and of themselves but what is correctly noted is that they are not the same. Our family is of French Canadian decent and we speak what the French condescendingly call "old French".. The languages overlap but vary in syntax, structure and vocabulary.
French language teachers in Canada do not teach this "old French" but if you are raised in Quebec or in Maine, you will learn it. He says the experience was pretty comical but that they managed to work things out with some effort. The boys would show up at our apartment for late dinners and always brought along wine and bread to get things rolling.
I think of how my Berlin Grandparents reacted when I spoke Plattdeutsch as a child. If I was laying it on as you should depending upon were you learned it they could barely understand me. They were not pleased and made a big deal out of teaching me the Berlin dialect. I later learned Hoch Deutsch and laid that over the top of the Platt and Berlin lingo At the end of the day people will recognize and appreciate any effort you make to converse in their tongue.
Some will be annoyed, some will be amused but for the most part they will be appreciative. Worst case you can always fall back to English Poutine anyone?
A born-and-bred resident of Tennessee will sound different than you in Michigan, but the basic language is the same. Purists in France may turn up their noses at the "joual" accent of working-class Montreal, but that's snobbery, not grammar and syntax. I think the grammar is manily the same.
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