Montreal, how many languages do you speak? 

5

2.5 but used to speak le francias n le homgul

Se algum nativo do Canadá quiser aprender português comigo de graça ,eu posso ensinar .

@@zulmakarnacha english

English, Castellano, e un po Italiano

No because depending on the region, you don't need to speak one or another, also because of professional purposes. There are four languages so it's quite a lot.

It’d be quite hard for me being unilingual in Switzerland ! I met people in Zurich from that town that I spoke in french with. No trouble. Their French was great

Yes I was surprised, too because in Switzerland at schools they insist on all kids learning at least one of the official languages of the country. Often the French speaking Swiss aren't happy with learning German, but usually they know Italian.

Me too.. i expect swiss would be either french/english or english/german

It's kinda weird i think that cause i know much people there ando usually they know at least 2 languages

That's a shame that is representative of your experience. I would have hope people were past that :(

That guy was rude plain ans simple, I'm 51 years and I speak Frenchlish which is English mixed with French. That man was so rude. And your French is pretty man, you did a fantastic Job!

The saddest part is that the old guy wasnt probably trying to be mean or anything. He is from a generation that was constantly corrected about the way they either speak french or english. That is also one of the reason some older french canadians are afraid to speak english :(

@@guillaumericher-rochon4902 nope - it's everywhere - seen it many, many times - especially if they know you are from Ontario - they just get rude

@@marymarcoux3459 na he is just a turd

Spanish is extremely important in the Americas

@@charlolel You do realize almost all countries in central america speak spanish as well right? Also lots of countries in the carribean

@@LandenLaliberte I think they included central america as part of south america. I'd probably do the same mistake, as sometimes people also mistake latin america being the same as the geographical term, south america.

@@charlolel what you're really saying is "not really only in about three quarters of the totality of the Amerias"

There's a big Latin community in Montreal! Also, most high schools in Quebec offer Spanish as a third language elective (that's how I learned it).

lexical similarity between French and Spanish is about 75%, its easier for them to learn french.

my school had to ditch spanish because english teachers were using "work to rule" to fight for equal salaries as francophone teachers and Ontarian teachers.

@@OdinWannaBe I'm still struggling to learn spanish even tho French is my first language

@@lawtraf8008 of course, nobody said its easy

@@lawtraf8008 but was English easy for you to learn?

Maybe she was really talking about dialects of Mandarin Chinese but yeah more probably other Chinese varieties idk

@@theobanse1494 Guaranteed she speaks fuzhounese

Completely agreed. I speak Mandarin (native) and Cantonese. Linguistically they are two dialects, in that they have close proximity in grammar and vocabulary, and it's relatively easy to learn either one from the perspective of the other. But from a mutually intelligibility standpoint they're more like two seperate languages, mostly due to the differences in pronunciation and word choices.

@@SkillzKillzBR she sound like a Singaporean to me both English and mandarin

Like Cantonese is basically Chinese French & Hokkien is basically Chinese German

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Molt content que sàpigues una mica de Català !

je suis brésilien et je parle espagnol portugais anglais et je veux apprendre le français

🤗, Sou mexicano e falo quase os mesmos idiomas que vc; espanhol, inglês, português, catalã, um pouco de francês e italiano. Forte abraço!

@@ojrivas6843 falas catalão também ? Muito obrigado !

Less and less people speak French in Montréal it is for this reason CAQ win the election

@@christophedel2642 Les statistiques disent le contraire. Ta gueule.

@@thprmr Je suis pas pour la CAQ, mais je comprends pas pourquoi t'as besoin d'être impoli?

@@ambradeluna être impoli est amusant

@@christophedel2642 So there's a growing tension from French Canadians ?

yeah and sadly too many people speak only english

@@danemon8423 And too many people speak only French.

@@barcham Bruuuuuh, it's fcking Quebec, it's normal for people to speak only french there, just like it's normal to speak english in the rest of canada

@@danemon8423 Only 7% of Montreal's population speak exclusively English.

@@shauncameron8390 And according to the latest census figures, that number is rising! The bilingualism rate is now higher among young francophones in Montréal than among young anglophones!

I had to do this and it thru me for a huge loop cuz I was practicing my French but it was back and forth and I was breaking a sweat trying to understand

Você fala português também não?

@@MariaFernandazz se essa pergunta é para mim, sim, português é uma das cinco línguas que falo.

😅 I was born and raised in Montréal! I know what you are writing about...some affectionately call this "franglais" lol

@@shantemoore6265 and that's just part of the magic of the lovely Montreales!

They don't learn it

It took me a year :)

Great idea!!

It depends...if they go to school, or live with French or English people.

If you live with a French boyfriend/girlfriend it's easier to learn

Sí hay muchos latinos en Montreal! :)

Es un idioma hermoso. Yo habla Francés, mi idioma materna, pero el español es de mis idiomas favoritos del mundo y aprenderlo es uno de mis mayores logros.💖 (Lo pude hablar con mi ídolo, Sebastián Yatra, y me sorprendió hablándome en francés, así que realmente creo que saber varios idiomas es una riqueza.)

@@melissa-annefrigon7973 Así es

@@melissa-annefrigon7973 Tu écris vraiment bien en espagnol 😃 mais il y a seulement une petite erreur, le mot « idioma » est masculin, alors on dit « un idioma hermoso ». Le reste, c’est génial 👍🏻.

Desde hace varios años muchos latinos han emigrado a Montreal y México tiene un tratado comercial con Canada, es por eso

Yeah, really useful in the Americas and easy to learn, when you know already French.

I believe those are more native speakers than learners

I just learned that spanish was the 3rd spoken language in Québec!

Spanish is very easy to learn once you already know French.

Relatively easy to learn Spanish (or vice versa French) if you know the other, easier than English. My wife came to Canada as a child via Spain knowing Korean and Spanish, went to French immersion school since it was easier for her to hit the ground running vs going to an English one.

Suh mi affi nuo if yuh jumiekan oswa ayisyen ou ye

Diversity is not a culture though. Diversity needs to converge towards one "culture commune"

Do you understand Haitian Creole ?

@@FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY Hello! For the most part...I know how to say a few words and sentences also. Since many are words that my male friends taught me when I didn't know what I was saying, some of them are not things I would practice or say on a regular basis! 😅

Made up languages dont count

I'm french canadian and all my ancestors were, I love my Province and Quebec is a country in my heart, but this guy has a condescending and unpleasant attitude, the beauty of Montreal is the multiculturalism that sprouts from all the good people in the city, when you fall in love with Montreal and that you live in it, your love reverberate through out the city. The people's love of Montreal make it what it is.

Yes, the attitude was a bit rough, but I appreciate that he gave a useful correction. I'm from Toronto. I speak English and Polish fluently, and French, Spanish and Russian only at a pretty basic level. When I first went to Montreal, with only a bit of high school French, I was initially turned off by encounters like that (they are rarer now). Later when I went to France, I found that the attitude there (especially in Paris) was at least as bad. I then learned the "trick" of pretending that I was from Poland and didn't know any English. Suddenly they would be able to understand and converse with me in French.

@@George-2115 i was born in Montréal but my family is from France, and let me tell you i have never met more obnoxious and rude people than French people. French is my first language, but just because of my accent, some people in Paris would reply to me in English or act as if they couldn’t understand what i was saying… But in Québec, for the past 15-20 years, they started teaching English in all primary schools, and now there’s a lot less of rude french gatekeepers and a lot more people are bilingual, so things are getting better i’d say.

@@businesszeus6864 Agreed. I remember, back in the 1980's, they took a survey at a linguistics conference. One questions was what languages they spoke. The only linguists that were monolingual were those who spoke only English or only French. I suspect that now, or soon, the English will be alone in that group.

To be honest, this guy's answer would be the typical answer you get from older generation of Quebec. They tend to speak with a Staight to the point approach. They don't take into account feelings and they don't care about feelings either. It's more of a cultural thing and not about who you are or where your from. I'm from Quebec and every old people I know speak like that to each other and even to me. It's just how they grew up.

Their dad is smart, they learn french in school and are around Quebec culture then he teach them arabic at home and keep them to their root. Later on as they grow up its gonna be waaaay easier to be fluent in all

Yup, this dad is a real immigrant and most likely a hardworker with a big heart, one who knows the value of culture and languages! And I have so much respect for those who put efforts into learning our culture while not fully losing theirs. I'm interested in knowing the restaurant's name, I've never had iraqi food and I usually go to montreal for food trips. I love that Canada is getting more socially diverse than it was 20years ago!

@Tsusday hmm, I was staying at Centre Sheraton on Rene Levesque. It was walking distance. I totally forget the name. This is back in 2006 or so.

@@abbasrizvi9389 I'll scour the lands nearby! Thanks for the reply still!

Don't worry , it's the same in France, most people choose Spanish after English , due to the fact it's closer to the French language and more sun than in Germany.

It's not too surprising. Spanish is pretty close to French, and it's a very widely spoken language. Beyond native French or English, and the inevitable immersion with the other, Spanish makes a lot of sense to learn

@@BroadwayRonMexico I'm still struggling to learn spanish while being a native French speaker

muchas escuelas aca tienen espanol como clase de idioma opcional

Bailar? 😂

That's something I like about living in Montreal. When I try to speak French, people help me to carry on. Which is not the same in France (or at least Paris), where people switch to English if you don't speak French perfectly.

I speak french, I've learn it in México😂

Your video is biased . You seem to have omitted Greeks Italians as well as Eastern Europeans. Your video is not informative because you have not included all of the demographics.l guess you need to educate yourself before you try to educate us!

@@tonyp749 Hummm... Who are you replying to?

@@galoreinoso lol .. to someone who deleted his/her comment? or maybe replying to the wrong comment (it happens)

Je suis Belge de la partie francophone et je me suis toujours demandé, comment c'est la vie en Amérique du Nord. Est ce que ca ressemble aux États-Unis et au Canada mais version francophone ou c est un mélange de la culture nord américaine et française (europe) en même temps. Je devrai un jour aller visiter cette ville. Mais d ailleurs vous trouver notre français européens bizzare quand on parle par rapport aux français américains du nord

why u migrated to the usa ? canada is better than usa

@@user-up8cu4qr9v Donc pour faire un peu simple, nous somme autant proche de la culture américaine que les Belges et les Hongrois. Bon en rigolant un peu moins, la culture au Canada est vraiment différente d'une province à l'autre, (l'Alberta ressemble vraiment beaucoup au Texas des US, et le Nouveau-Brunswick ressemble un peu à la Belgique avec ces plusieurs langues utilisés) la relation entre le Québec et la majorité du Canada anglais est similaire à celle des Belges et des Français, on se tape sur la tronche, mais on s'aime quand même (petite exception pour l'Alberta qui a réussi à nous détrôner de la province la plus détesté autant par le Canada anglais et français haha). Le respect fait toujours parti selon moi de la définition du canadien moyen, le type qui s'excuse souvent, n'aime pas les embrouilles(sauf si cherché bien sûr) et une grande ouverture d'esprit. Côté économique, la vie au Canada est un peu plus dispendieuse qu'au US dût à leur surproduction massive, leur pouvoir d'achat supérieur et leur peur irrationnelle de payer des taxes et aider son prochain. On gagne par contre sur la qualité des produits, par exemple le lait américain se compare souvent à la pisse de chameaux comparé à celui canadien. Le prix des maisons est relativement stable au Québec, mais on ne peu pas en dire autant dans le reste du Canada, surtout en métropole. Côté politique, nous sommes centre gauche pour la majorité, mais aussi gauche que la définition européenne. L'éducation est à 95% payé par l'état, 100% pour le médical et environ 80-100% pour les prescriptions de médicaments. Au Québec, nous avons le principe de protection de la langue française puisque nous sommes une minorité dans le pays et avec une langue semi-mourrante. Et nous sommes très laïque, c'est à dire AUCUNE connection de l'état(école, police, hôpital, services de transports publiques, emplois gouvernemental etc) et la religion, certaines personnes nous traîtent de racistes, mais après avoir connu plus de 100ans de persécution et de contrôle par l'église catholique, on ne veux plus rien savoir de la religion main dans la main avec l'état. Les État-Unis sont de plus en plus critiqué au Canada, autant pour leur interférence dans nos politiques que pour la mauvaise réputation qu'ils ont en voyageant notre beau et calme pays (le convois anti-vaccin a reçu beaucoup de donations venant des US et plusieurs avaient des drapeaux Trump). Donc leur réputation prend un bon coup depuis les 7dernières années. Les Québecois en fait n'ont aucune difficulté à comprendre ou interpreté le français de france, belge ou suisse, c'est plutot l'inverse en fait. Les français on plus de difficulté à comprendre notre accent et expressions. Malgré cela, nous parvenons quand même aisément à avoir des discussions ou des rapprochements. Petit fait amusant, la France utilise le mot "ferry" pour un bateau de passagé, quand au Québec on utilise le mot "traversier", il y a plusieurs cas ou les français utilisent plus de mots anglais que nous dans leur dialect haha!

@@user-up8cu4qr9v Le Canada ressemble aux États-Unis mais sans la violence et les armes à feu. Autrement dit, les villes canadiennes sont dans l'ensemble très sécuritaires, ce qui n'est pas le cas aux États-Unis. Le Québec est aussi différent du reste du Canada, non seulement en raison de la langue mais aussi parce que les Québécois ont gardé un petit côté "européen" que l'on retrouve moins dans le reste du Canada. Autrement dit, les Québécois aiment sortir et profiter "de la vie". Montréal est particulièrement apprécié, autant des Européens que des Américains. Assez paradoxalement, les Européens aiment le côté "américain" de Montréal, alors que les Américains aiment son côté "européen". Cela dit, malgré ce petit côté "européen", le Québec demeure bel est bien une société "nord-américaine"... mais avec une petite touche européenne.

Having a sense of humour helps a lot with language learning. I'd never have the confidence to speak my broken french to strangers if I couldn't laugh at myself 😆

On an Air Canada flight this summer from Vancouver to Nanaimo, the flight attendant gave the 'Safety talk' in English, French, and Spanish. Tres cool, si?

Merci!

What language is used in schools and government offices and streets?

@@saeedyeslam1202 In the whole province of Quebec mostly French, but in the city of Montreal itself I`d say english and french equally

If you want to know and even worse story of american history, there's a book called "slaughter of cities" by E. Michael Jones. Basically ethnic cleansing of non anglo Europeans.

@@meganedandurand268 Montreal is French-only. The only places that have English and French equally are Anglo-majority suburbs like Westmount, Point-Claire, etc.

Hey, I‘m from Germany and I want to do an exchange year as a student in Montréal. Do you think it‘s a good place to improve your English Skills or is it only good to learn French?

Funny, I didn't even notice it the first time around. 😀

Mexicans have big hearts and go along with quebec s culture.

Merci!

ta guele

@@rkgrant On ne dit pas vraiment "ta guele", mais "ta yeule, le gros" ;)

@@rkgrant non : « ta gueule »

If you really want the idea of “know”, you can use connaître which is know as in familiar. If you use savoir you need another verb after and it will mean to know how to do something. Combien de langues connaissez-vous? OR Combien de langues savez-vous parler? I really enjoyed your video. I’ll be showing it to my French classes on Monday. High school classes in Ontario. Merci pour votre vidéo. Quant à moi, je parle (en ordre de compétence) anglais, français, allemand et espagnol. Je comprends un peu d’italien, de néerlandais et de danois. 😊

great tips!

Thanks!

Romania in the house!!

También tienes la ventaja inmensa de contar con muchos hispano-parlantes en EEUU. Lástimosamente no contamos con francófonos para practicar y no hay escuelas para aprender francés tampoco.

Im fluent in 3 languages, first 2 being French and English and even then, I took Spanish as my 3rd language class in IB high school here in Mtl and even though I spoke French fleuntly (and am a grammar and litterature freak in French) I had the hardest time with Spanish...I took 4 years and really had to get to talking with friends from southern america to get it going...but the again they use a lot of slang and spoke so fast that it did take me a minute to kind of be able to follow the conversation and whatnot...speaking French made understanding Spanish a breeze but speaking and the worst part : spelling...oh boy

Americans say they’ve lived in Europe when they spent only a day :)

@@mdte5421 this was recorded in Canada so…unless you meant North America, you’re not really talking about the right people. And most Montrealers actually come from Europe so they do more than visit and even if that’s not the case, do you know how many students do exchanges in Europe for like a whole semester or year?

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Thanks! I’ve made a bunch of mtl videos recently, hope you enjoy

tu doit venir a Montreal, c'est une ville formidable :)

Yeah, it's important to adapt, but not to everyone. It's not important to adapt to those who won't adapt to you. Your observation that people don't make the effort to learn French is the result of French speakers stupidly adapting to those who don't want to adapt to us, one thing explaining the other. I speak five languages but as long as I am in Quebec, I will stick with French only, unless the person is a tourist or a recent immigrant. There is a limit to how much you should adapt to others without them making any effort to adapt to you. If a business place can't or won't serve me in French, I am not spending a penny there. Every country and region I have lived in, my number one preoccupation was to speak their language, it's their land and they shouldn't have to learn my language to live in it. Also, I immigrated here and French is not my native language.

@@Gomba13 smart

@@Gomba13 I agree with your point that people who come to Quebec should learn French. I am still surprised by the fact that some people is some communities did not manage to learn French or English although they immigrated to Canada in the 1960's. How one can live in a country without speaking the official language? They always depend on their kids to translate. This is strange.

J J'ai grandi en calgary mais me mere m'a envoyer a l'ecole immersion. Il faut ignorer les politiciens qui essaient de diviser le pays. La francophonie exist partous dans l'ouest, en petits coins (i just found out that's idiomatic for toilet, but not sure how else to phrase it lol) et les grandes villes. Quebec est inseperable avec l'identite canadien, sachant naturellement que cette croyance est pas reciproque, pour raisons valides. Quand je visit Montreal je suis tellement heureux, chaque fois, ecouter cenversations entre amis ou une personne parle completement en francais, et l'autre completement en anglais, echanger langues seulment quand in mot dans l'autre langue est plus precis.

@@matthewtanner5127 tu as complètement raison. I met a Scottish guy who travelled across Canada from BC to Montreal and he said that people kept warning him about going to Montreal and how he will be persecuted for not being able to speak French. He was so scared when he got off the bus that he would avoid talking to people unless being certain they spoke English beforehand. After spending a few days in Montreal, he eventually decided to spend the year there as he felt welcomed. He later realised that the people that had told him about Quebec had never been to Quebec nor had they ever spoken to a Quebeccer.

Not everywhere in Québec, just in Montreal. And if you go to Miami, New Orleans, Halifax, Ottawa and other places you will find lots of people that speak many different languages. So, yes you will find places with people being polyglotte

@@Tony-og4oz I live in small town in northern Québec and most people have a decent level of english. Most young adult quebecers can speak in english.

@@94matheosome pockets here and there but not the same level as Montreal.

@@Tony-og4oz No, most young quebecers have a decent level in english.

That's just Montreal.

I'm happy someone else noticed it ! La vaste majorité des francophones au Canada sont bilingues. Ce sont surtout les anglophones qui sont unilingues. C'est d'ailleurs récemment sorti dans les statistiques. Je pense que c'est un fait important à considérer avant de faire du Québec Bashing

Si elle est chinoise toi tu dois être français ! D'après son accent , elle est pas chinoise !

Tout comme le Francais , le chimois n'est pas juste parler en Chine !

the Chinese lady probably missed one little factor: french is the sole official language in Quebec. Meaning that Justice, Administration, business legal framework, Education, media are overwhelmingly done and delivered in french, and it's been that way for the past 500 years. In other words, you won't go very far in Quebec without speaking it... so why not try it? :)

I was always unpleasantly surprised by the number of English speaking people who are resistant to learn any other language. Most of English speaking people are unilingual people. Your loss.

In fact it works pretty well to push down people's throat. That's how Canada killed French pretty much everywhere in the country, thanks to the anti-french bills.

@@juliam4100 sadly is because everyone learn english because is now the language of for commercial but the thing is in history when you check every language like that finish dying one day because it lose the cultural part of the language . thats why french and other language are so strong even with the importance of english . most people dont really care about english . they just learn it for a tools not for a cultural thing . compare to like my self im french speaker i learn english because is pratical but i more interest to learn like spanish because is a cultural thing. exemple of pratical language who die ... latin the language die because latin become less and less cultural everyone speak it thats why so much diverge from it and french was create by aristocrate women who cant write and read latin because they want to create a language more diverce from latin

@@townsley2 "for the past 500 years" That's about 100 years longer than there have been any European settlements in Canada. Perhaps you should be learning Montagnais, Naskapi, Inuktitut, Cree, Algonquin, Atikamekw, Mohawk, Abenaki, and Micmac out of respect for the people that lived there for ten thousand years before the first French settler showed up.

C’est exagéré car pour avoir un bon emploi il faut parler français.

Je connais beaucoup plus de francophones qui parle pas l’anglais que d’anglais qui parle pas le français.

le 'probleme', french people in montreal speak english lol. You mean, les francos in mtl are educated . To protect something, you dont need to force it. if you force it ben voila. people love freedom including yourself. now your guys are forcing the indigenous people to learn your language. please. cest pire que North korea.

@@defensivedriving6597 Le problème beaucoup anglophone apprennent le français par force mais refuse de se faire servir en français comme consommateur !

Haha yes, travel RU-vid means butchering basic pronunciation around the world!

Why don't you add french into your sentences? You hate french???

@@tersangkabidah7928 yes

what job specifically may i ask ?

@@denizuzunkaya3802 A product manager. But its a remote job so I can move anywhere in Canada :)