Blanc is right, Ottawa is bilingual. You can't get a job there unless you speak English and French. To a lesser extent, the same goes for Montreal, but nowadays French is much more dominant thanks to over 30 years of legislated oppression of English.
The True Status French in Canada
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French will lose the race against English in Quebec, it's only a question of time that French dissapears.
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Really?
1. French is the official global language of Canada.
2. There are 9+ million French speakers in Canada.
3. Thanks to the success of French Immersion program, lot's of Anglo/Allophone Canadians are at least proficient in French because during their school days French is the medium of instructions in science, math, social studies etc.
4. More and more Franco-Canadians are becoming monolingual in French.
It should have been like this Spanish will lose the race against Quechua, Aymara, Guarani, Quiche, Portunhol, Lunfardo, Italian, Catalan, Galician, Basque, Asturian, Aragonese, and Leonese in in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Guatemala, Argentina, Uruguay, and Spain. The rest of Hispanic America's speech will eventually evolve so different from the Standard one and from each other that would either result in NEO-HISPANIC languages like it's mom Latin in which the only remaining remnants are the French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, and the fast ffragmenting Spanish or as MACO-LANGUAGE like Chinese and Arabic. it's only a question of time that Spanish dissapears.
Really?
1. French is the official global language of Canada.
2. There are 9+ million French speakers in Canada.
3. Thanks to the success of French Immersion program, lot's of Anglo/Allophone Canadians are at least proficient in French because during their school days French is the medium of instructions in science, math, social studies etc.
4. More and more Franco-Canadians are becoming monolingual in French.
It should have been like this Spanish will lose the race against Quechua, Aymara, Guarani, Quiche, Portunhol, Lunfardo, Italian, Catalan, Galician, Basque, Asturian, Aragonese, and Leonese in in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Guatemala, Argentina, Uruguay, and Spain. The rest of Hispanic America's speech will eventually evolve so different from the Standard one and from each other that would either result in NEO-HISPANIC languages like it's mom Latin in which the only remaining remnants are the French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, and the fast ffragmenting Spanish or as MACO-LANGUAGE like Chinese and Arabic. it's only a question of time that Spanish dissapears.
//More and more Franco-Canadians are becoming monolingual in French. //
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<< //More and more Franco-Canadians are becoming monolingual in French. //
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Yes, it is.
In Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, more and more people are becoming monolingual in Quechua or Aymara.
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Yes, it is.
In Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, more and more people are becoming monolingual in Quechua or Aymara.
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