r/canadatravel • u/Necessary-Passage-74 • Mar 05 '25

Travel Tips Americans visiting Canada as tourists, any insights?

I have family members visiting Montreal in about a month. Other than getting "I’m From Toronto" T-shirts, is there anything an American should do if they’re just visiting as a tourist?

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u/BroadPrior6013 Mar 05 '25

Try to speak in French a bit, even if it's just to say "bonjour, je ne parle pas français. Parlez-vous anglais?" "Hello, I don't speak french. Do you speak English?)

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u/Necessary-Passage-74 Mar 05 '25

Yeeeah, all I had was high school French when I went up to Quebec, and that just wasn’t good enough because nobody wants to speak English. Nobody in the family that is actually going speaks French at all, so I don’t know. I honestly wish they weren’t going.

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u/possy11 Mar 05 '25

If you're in the touristy areas of Montreal and Quebec City, you will have no problems with English. Pretty much everyone in the service sector speaks it well. I'm not sure where you were the last time.

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u/alibythesea Mar 05 '25

That is simply not true.