Well, i am very happy there are more and more french speakers....but can they speak well? Also, this analysis lacks an important point: spoken language in store/restaurant or at work? French is declining at work. Because French professionnals have to be bilingual but english professionnal do not have to. 15 francophone professionnal on a zoom meeting and one unilingual Anglo...They will all switch to english because they are all polite and nice, want to appear competent etc.
Thanks for this article. I wish the language police would just leave Montreal alone. The rest of the province is tellement français, point final. In fact, anglo-ish areas like the so-called West Island and Eastern Townships have undergone substantial francisation in my time. At the last referendum, we used to joke that if Quebec separated from Canada, Montreal would separate from Quebec.
Well, i am very happy there are more and more french speakers....but can they speak well? Also, this analysis lacks an important point: spoken language in store/restaurant or at work? French is declining at work. Because French professionnals have to be bilingual but english professionnal do not have to. 15 francophone professionnal on a zoom meeting and one unilingual Anglo...They will all switch to english because they are all polite and nice, want to appear competent etc.
Thanks for this article. I wish the language police would just leave Montreal alone. The rest of the province is tellement français, point final. In fact, anglo-ish areas like the so-called West Island and Eastern Townships have undergone substantial francisation in my time. At the last referendum, we used to joke that if Quebec separated from Canada, Montreal would separate from Quebec.