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   Hello, Mortar!   
      
   Sunday January 12 2025 21:51, from Mortar M. -> Nil Alexandrov:   
      
    >> P.S. I lived in Quebec from 2009 to 2012 and picked up some   
    >> Quebecois French. Native French speakers always laugh when I speak   
    >> to them, though!   
      
    MM> That would seem to jive with various things I've heard about Quebec   
    MM> being intolerant to non-French speaking people, even when it's their   
    MM> own countrymen.   
      
   That totally lines up with what I know about Quebec being pretty unfriendly to   
   people who don't speak French - even if they're Canadian.   
      
   I've had a similar experience in France. A lot of people there can speak   
   English, but they just won't. It's weird because when French people visit the   
   US, they usually speak English just fine.   
      
   Quebec's got Bill 101 to protect the French language. When I was there on a   
   work visa, my daughter went to a public English school in Montreal. But if   
   we'd been immigrants, she would've had to go to a French school. Private   
   English schools are crazy expensive, probably on purpose.   
      
   I had some friends whose kids were in French schools, and I noticed something   
   strange - at parent-teacher conferences, the teachers never spoke English.   
   Only the principal would or could. It still blows my mind. Are they hiring   
   teachers who don't know any English at all, or are they just told not to speak   
   it? No idea.   
      
   Best Regards, Nil   
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