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In these days, Canada is likely to be serious with bilingual expression. Many countries with multiple official languages may learn of this movement to qualify local product names, signage, government notifications etc.
Soonthon L.
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Merab Dekano Spain Member (2014) English to Spanish + ...
You cannot judge if you've not been there
Jul 22, 2015
I’ve spend weeks in Canada, more specifically, near Montreal. I only met one (1) bilingual person. The remainder of the people were all basically monolingual, i.e. French speaking. Their English was very poor, generally. And they were not willing to speak it.
To my understanding, they are French speaking anyway. It would not do them any harm to learn English tiny bit better. It’s not a political statement, just business.
By the way, they have a charming accent whe... See more
I’ve spend weeks in Canada, more specifically, near Montreal. I only met one (1) bilingual person. The remainder of the people were all basically monolingual, i.e. French speaking. Their English was very poor, generally. And they were not willing to speak it.
To my understanding, they are French speaking anyway. It would not do them any harm to learn English tiny bit better. It’s not a political statement, just business.
By the way, they have a charming accent when they speak French and even some words are quite different from the continental French. ▲ Collapse
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neilmac Spain Local time: 14:16 Spanish to English + ...
Consequences
Jul 23, 2015
They're going to need bigger labels...
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