city_vixen21
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It's not likely -- Canada is a bi-lingual country. The only place you would run into that is in Quebec. |
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Pagan Dan
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I'm disappointed. Someone asks a perfectly reasonable question, and gets two rants.
English is my native language, and I still can't get it right. Is the plural of "ignoramus" "ignoramuses" or "ignorami"? Either/or--I'll just ignore you anuses anyway.
There are approximately two million Francophone Canadians who don't speak English. Not because they won't. Because they can't.
Whether you run into them depends on your driving skill, and how much experience you have with freezing rain and black ice. |
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Chigga
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Yeah....it's possible and quite common to run into people in Toronto that speak only French, Italian, Mandarin, Thai, German, Spanish, or many other languages, but not English. Quite common, and embraced by most Torontonians. |
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Grant M
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My goodness yes especially around Quebec |
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MrZ
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There are many in Canada that will only speak French, even though they know English.
If you go up to Quebec City, there are many who only speak French, they know no other language, so the answer is yes. |
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adayandforeverband
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I heard by someone who used to live in Canada that they will pretend not to speak English just to avoid talking to Americans. |
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Sunny San San
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I think if you want to run into a Frencophone village in Quebec, Canada. You probably try to take a bus from Montreal to the destination of a specified farming community that speak French only. The truth is that my brother told me that there is a farming community in Manitoba (Canada) where the residents speak no English but their own native language, Ukrain. |
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SteveN
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Unfortunately, I see all the stereotypes have come out about Quebecers not wanting to speak to people in English. I'm sure that may happen at times, but it is not as prevalent as people make it out to be.
There are several places in Canada where you may run into a francophone person who can only speak French. There are French people in Manitoba, parts of Ontario, naturally in Quebec, and also parts of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. (For example, when I stopped for lunch near Edmundston, NB on a trip recently, the girl behind the counter spoke only "Acadian" French and no English.)
In Quebec, many people are bilingual around the city of Hull, Montreal, in parts of the Eastern Townships, and yes even Quebec City. It is in their best interest to be able to speak and understand English in any tourist area, since we have many American and British tourists that come to Canada each year. In the other areas, where agriculture and blue collar jobs prevail, you will see more French-only people.
Of course, people visiting Quebec should be aware that French is the predominant language, protected by laws and an official government department, so remember the adage "...when in Rome..." - you should not expect service in English as a policy, but rather as a courtesy. |
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mickkooz
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Unfortunately, Yes and I'm sure it is by choice to try and prove that Canada is and French is their exclusive right. The only country in the world where the waste of capital is required by law to print 2 languages on everything sold or manufactured to Canada. Outrageous |
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greatempress
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Yes of course, why arent there any people in your country who speak only your language and not any other language foreign to your people? |
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Wish Upon a Shooting Star
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YES. very much so possible.
Especially in Quebec |
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LOR
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Yes...
In the Quebec province, there are a large number of individual that only speak 'french'. (A lot may be indirectly related to me) The French is not Parisian though. It is usually refered to as Quebecois.. It is a combination of french, creole, and indigenous languages from the region. There are also parts where individuals only speak Scottish, but those are becoming far and few between. Most people in canada speak at least 2-3 languages. |
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Julzy
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Yes, French tourists are commonplace in Canada, they may be there to go skiing |
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Marie
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I am amazed that only one other Answerer noted that there are parts of Canada other than in Quebec, especially in New Brunswick, where you will have people who are unilingual francophones. |
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Miss Elizabeth
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Yes of course. Especially if you go to Quebec. I had to go through Quebec to get to NewBrunswick, and man did I have a hard time ordering Lunch!♥♥ |
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roncj88
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not sure if they only speak french but some will only speak french by choice |
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lawmen
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Yes, if they don't want to talk to you. |
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Sue
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Of course, if you are in Quebec. Or they are from there. |
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daisy_ask2003
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99% of all Canadians speak english,except in Quebec.Here in Canada we are english first languga,and French second language.Mosy french people in Canada know enlish,we learned it in school. |
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Oldmansea
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yes in certain parts they only speak French....and won't speak to you in English...also there are foreigners living in Canada that don't speak English or French. |
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Franny
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Yep. There are some places in Canada where if you run into the right jerky cop you can be arrested for not speaking french. |
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tj is cool
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Yep especially those from Quebec, Canada |
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Lil Blousou
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YUP! I'm sure they know some English but some refuse to use it. In Montreal, Quebec they can be a little stuffy there. |
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Alex
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yes, the french once tried to colonize it. quebec is where most of the french in canada live. and recently quebec wanted to recede from canada, because most of the rest of canaada is english. and in quebec the dominate language is french. |
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bnv...d
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Yes, But only in quebec, Most of the people are bilingual there, but there are some exceptions |
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babapples
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YES! i know this girl from canada who moved to US and she has a deep french accent. its cute :) |
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Bob
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yes.
i hate the french.
that is why I live in America. |
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