Canadian French - the French language as spoken in Quebec, Canada Walloon - a dialect of French spoken in Belgium and adjacent parts of France patois - a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard France, French Republic - a republic in western Europe; th...
Changes in the possession of colonies, for example, in Quebec, caused different sorts of rivalry. An important part of the struggle between great legal languages has always taken place in the field of international relations: diplomacy and treaties between states. In this field, the rivalry ...
In the recent campaign, Legault promised to cut middle-class taxes to blunt the impact of high inflation on Quebec's 8.5 million people and vowed to protect the status of the province's official French language. Legault was a minister for the separatist Parti Quebecoi...
1. a Romance language spoken in France, parts of Belgium and Switzerland, and present or former French or Belgian possessions, as Quebec, various islands of the Antilles and the Indian Ocean, and countries of the Maghreb and West and Central Africa, where it functions as an auxiliary language...
in the local language, and discuss local events when drinking "un café et croissant" in Paris. French art, museums, literature and film also take on a new dimension when you speak the language - and you'll be able to connect with those relatives in Canadian Quebec for the first time ...
Owing in part to a law that has made French the official language in Quebec, Anglophones have flocked to bilingual education programs with aspirations of becoming functionally bilingual. With minor adjustments according to parental demands, curricular objectives are designed first to meet Anglophone ...
According to my speaker, French has only 1 phonemic open vowel /a/, it is more retracted than the cardinal vowel /a/ (similar to the vowel a in Mandarin). But some varieties of French, such as Quebec French, have a contrast between open vowels: /a/ vs /ɑ/. The central vowel /...
French is one of the Romanic languages, spoken in France, Luxemburg, Haiti, Western Cantons of Switzerland, Belgium, Monaco, Quebec in Canada, as well as in over 15 African countries. It is the second language in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Lebanon, etc. As the first language it has aroun...
Whereas the Assemblee Nationale du Quebec recognizes that Quebecers wish to see the quality and influence of the French language assured, and is resolved to make French the language of Government and the Law, as well as the normal and every-day language of work, instruction, communication, comme...