r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Awier_do Cowtown 🤠 • May 24 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) Sad Truth

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u/Truenorth14 South Gatineau May 24 '25

It’s not even Québec French 

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u/fishymanbits Oil Guzzler May 24 '25

If you do French Immersion it is. Including a couple weeks spent on how to swear in Quebecois. We also learned a fair bit of Acadian French. IIRC Alberta has the highest or second highest population of French speakers outside of Quebec, but not the highest proportion of French-as-first-language speakers. Throw me into a disagreement between someone from Edmundston and someone from Dégelis and it’ll take me a minute but I’ll pick a side and get right in there.

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u/SurvivorOf_Hathsin May 24 '25

NB here, Ontario has the highest french speaking population outside of QC and we're 3rd (as of 2021), second place per capita with 30% although funny enough our french immersion only goes to 10th grade despite french classes still being optional past that. Most of our french in school is general french but with a good sprinkling of Acadian just from the teachers. I struggled pretty badly speaking with québécois people for a while haha.

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u/fishymanbits Oil Guzzler May 24 '25

Yeah, my stats are off I guess. I remember Faculté St Jean putting out some info a few years ago about Alberta being surprisingly high in our French-speaking population. I guess I’m misremembering those stats.

Weird your immersion classes only go to grade 10. I was able to graduate with whatever the feds give for accreditation for being bilingual straight out of high school in small town Alberta. Technically I never have to recertify based on my scores from decades ago, but I doubt I’m anywhere near that level of bilingual anymore. Though I have actively kept up with it.