I remember talking to a guy from Québec once who said he always imagined a special link between Québec and France and he expected to feel really at home in France. Until he actually went to France. After a while he realised he really had more in common with English speaking Canadians than French speaking Europeans. It rang a bell because I'm English and when I first went to the USA I realised how much more I have in common with many non-English speaking Europeans than with Americans.

I am married to a Québécoise, and we did our honeymoon in France. We found decided differences between Paris, and out in the country. In Paris, there were several restaurant staff that seemed to rather talk to me (an American) in English, than listen to my wife's Québécois French. But we also did a wine tour of the Loire valley, and she was treated as a long-lost cousin.

This is like asking Torontonians what they think of the UK

Wow this was very interesting and i like that you not only interview tourists or anglophone students from abroad but also quebecois people. Quebecois people are rarely asked about their own vison of their society or about their culture in english KZfaq video. Most of the time, people who are interested about Quebec or Montreal will only get an anglophone perspective on things and rarely a Quebecois perspective. We are often painted as racists or xenophobic because of our language laws and because most information about Quebec coming out of Canada are from anglophone newspaper or TV station such as the Gazette or the Globe & Mail and they naturally have a biased position on who we are and what we decide for ourselves. Its a shame because we are stuck with how the world see's us without us never having a say.

I am a bilingual person from Québec that has traveled and lived in many places in the World and recently spent a lot of time in France for work. To me, the main difference in mentality is that in France everything seems to be "compliqué" (complicated) while people see things in a much simpler and straightforward way in Québec. Meetings that take 30 minutes in Montreal take an hour and a half in Paris (because people need to talk so much), there is much more protocol and class awareness to just about everything, and constant "debates" that would be called arguing in Canada go on as par for the course. That being said there is a depth in the quality of education, culture, and food in France that is undeniable. So I LOVE to visit, but I probably wouldn't want to live there.

judging from this video Montreal seems so beautiful, peaceful and cozy

I think the biggest mistake pople make when they visit France is they only go to Paris. There are so many beautiful regions & the people are much nicer outside of Paris.

As a Quebecer living in the States, this video made me miss Quebec so much.

Quebec people are Americans with French culture. It means they have the American way of living (like baseball, American football, ice hockey, skyscrapers, highways, etc.) but inherited French specificities like laicité, are more philosophical than consumerist, are also good like French in engineering (high speed trains, power turbines, aero spatial industry, etc)

I'm from Bangladesh and love Quebecois. They are friendly, open minded and love to celebrate. I really love French-Canadian culture. God bless you guys ❤️

I just discovered your channel and I love the vibe. So chill and sincere, just trying to get people's thoughts across without annoying music or cutting people off

Hi Dan, you are on a roll with these Montreal videos. I tune in to your channel mostly because of them 🇬🇧

I feel like I say that everytime you post a video but your videos are super cozy and laid back feels nice ty for uploading

Wow! Great idea to go around Montreal asking people a somewhat profound question. Montrealers are so interesting too! I hope you keep it up through the winter too.

Je suis en France présentement. La semaine dernière, j'étais à La Flèche un village dont plusieurs de nos ancêtres sont partis pour la Nouvelle-France (Montréal). Hier, j'étais à Bordeaux ; aujourd'hui à Toulouse. Les français sont très accueillants ; il s'agit de ne pas les aborder d'une manière trop frontale. De plus, il faut faire attention, Paris, ce n'est pas la France. Il y a quelques années, dans des voyages précédents, je les trouvais très chiants. Cela a changé dans les dernières années ; les comédiens (stand-up) ont permis de faire apprécier les beaux jurons québécois. Il y de nombreux artistes québécois qui sont connus en France, dont notre diva nationale, Céline Dion. Un point qui nous rapproche de la France est la langue et le fait que nos intellectuels ont toujours été très influencés par les courants idéologiques français. Et, contrairement à ce que certains anglophones peuvent penser, même après la conquête, des liens ont été entretenus. Ciao.

Dan, keep these videos coming. These videos are natural and show the real, average Joe and Jane Doe in Montreal; something that most channels and news broadcasts fail to do. Seeing and hearing the stories from average people is what brings about understanding and empathy among fellow humans.

us leaving the interview like "we're never gonna make the cut" then we're on the thumbnail 💀

Something that i really enjoy when i watch your videos ? The thing that,you are actually introducing myself to the French language. I will move in the city,i'm not a french speaker(wish i will learn it as soon as possible) In a "frame" i can listen an english speaker and keep practicing with english and a second later i can listen the french speaker . Thank you very much Dan 👌👌

Go to France, for it's culture , history beauty , sophistication, food . Go to Québec, kindness , vast space, positivity , tolerance . Although I really like the Québécois mindset, i do admit the confrontational and snob french are more honest , direct and less superficial in their interaction.

I’m Canadian and I have only been treated with extreme kindness and helpfulness in both Québec and France. I’ve only had people help me with my accent, verbiage.

Je suis québécois mais j'ai habité près de 2 ans en France. Pour moi c'est évident que au Québec on est une culture distincte, entre européens et nord-américains. Ça m'a un peu frappé en arrivant en France. Les interactions avec les gens sont assez différentes. Déjà je dois juste préciser que le québec est une province de 8 millions d'habitants, les montréalais de l'ile sont très différents des québécois de la banlieue montréalaise. Ainsi de suite les gens de Québec sont assez différents que ceux de Montréal et les gens des régions différents des deux villes. J'adore constater ces différences en voyageant au Québec. En France j'ai vécu près de 6 mois à Grenoble et je croyais que toute la France était comme cela mais c'est faux, chaque région peut être considérée comme un petit pays. Les lillois sont hyper amicaux et adorent socaliser, à Paris il y a de tout donc il ne faut pas généraliser; comme touriste les gens peuvent paraitre chiants mais en restant longtemps on se rend compte que les gens viennent de partout en France et ne sont chiants que lorsqu'ils ont leur carapace de parisien. Au québec beaucouo de français m'ont dit qu'ils ont de la difficulté à intégrer des grouopes de québécois, on serait assez gentil au premier regard mais les amitiès ne se développent pas plus. En France j'ai beaucouo aimé que après connaissance les français invitent en soirée et j'ai trouver que ka culture française est assez inclusive et collectiviste tandis qu'au québec on est peut être un peu plus sectaire et très renfermé sur soit même et ce qu'on connait. C'est plus lent se faire des amis en France mais une fois les rapprochements fait c'est des amis pour la vie tandis qu'au Québec les interactions sont souvent plus superficielles. Je ne me suis jamais sentit exclu en France on m'a toujours demandé au taf ou à l'école ou aux sports si j'étais intéressé à participer ou à aller chez quelqu'un ou sortir. La drague est aussi un peu différente, en France les mecs approchent et c'est un peu ce que les femmes s'attendent tandis qu'au Québec c'est plus des approches amicales, qui viennent assez souvent de la fille et qui tournent en flirt. En France souvent c'est un peu plus direct. Il y a moins de chit-chat en France, dans les villes du moins. Aussi les français ont bel et bien une culture de joie de vivre et de fêter la vie, tout évènement doit être célébré et fêté peu importe l'âge et on en profite tandis qu'il y a un peu une mentalité au québec plus cassanière surtout dans la vie adulte et de toujours penser que il faut être productif et que flâner ou relaxer est fainéant.

I love watching these videos and hearing people of Québéc speaking French… reminds me of my late grandparents who moved to Rhode Island then California but were born and raised in Quebec. I do not speak French but from listening to my grandmother speak I could tell the difference in accent and intonations when I listen to people speaking French in France versus Quebec. My grandmother was the only one of 11 children to ever make it into the US and eventually the west coast. French sounds more romanticized in France where as Quebecois sounds like it’s sportier, quick cousin. I love the sound and will listen to these videos when I want to hear the sound. When I asked her to teach me French she handed me a novel in French and told me to read it. When she came to the US that is how she learned English, by reading a huge French English dictionary. She was brilliant! She could never kick her heavy accent and French.

As a Québécois from Montréal, I think this video was pretty accurate (okay I know it's convenient because it mostly paints us in a very good light haha). Something to consider however, Montréal is different in many respects than other parts of Québec. The video is mostly comparing Montréal and the Montréalais to France and French people. That is more or less balanced because it's a comparison of a single city and its residents to a whole country and all of its residents. I'm sure certain places in France are perhaps more like Montréal than let's say Paris for example... Nonetheless, great video!

I love the sound of Montreal. It sounds so chilled and the fact that so many people speak at least two languages and are so open-minded is lovely.(French is on my hitlist after I attain a better level in Spanish). I love your channel by the way. Keep up the great content! Merry Christmas and happy new year too! Big love from Spain. :)

What a great idea and a great video! Congrats!

Interesting questions and answers! Liked and subscribed!

I visited France when I was 12 and parisian people reaaaally liked to start swearing at me en québécois? "Hon hon hon estie de calisse de tabernacle de sacrement hon hon hon je suis si drôle" It was sooo weird and invasive. I remember vividly a waiter at a café doing that and I was like :'( I just want my croque-monsieur svp. Ironically I didn't swear yet at 12 yo lol On the other hand, in Normandie old people would come out of nowhere to hug us because they remembered french canadians being first line at the débarquement de normandie

It’s nice to hear most people who have been to France or are from France think that the Québécois are generally nicer people. I don’t speak French and took a bit of French in high school but can’t carry on a conversation in French. I drove truck between Quebec and Ontario based out of Toronto but I never had a problem getting directions even from non English speakers in Quebec. If I tried just a few words in French they would try to give assistance. I’m sure there are those that may be opposed to Anglaise but that could be anywhere you travel.

I enjoyed this very much. Thank you.

I love the squirrel @6.30 elle est trop mimi 🥜

First time I was in Montréal visiting from the States, I was in an elevator with my bilingual Québécois friend. A man gets on and says something to me. Not realizing he was telling me (not politely *asking* me) to push the button of the floor he wanted, he mumbles something rather rude en Français under his breath. My Québécois friend ripped him to shreds - both of them were going at it. Finally the rude gentleman gets off on his floor. I asked my friend what that was all about. He said, “Don’t worry about it. He’s from Paris.” What a great friend. 🥲 ⚜️💙⚜️

Interesting interview Dan!!

I love the vibe of this video. The editing, the lack of background music or "loud influencer shouting at camera". Very nice. The algorithms did good showing this to me.

Great reportage. Thanks. I just think that 2 different cultures joined by a common language. It is like if you've done a similar video with the Cajuns from Louisiana and the Québecois.....I'm a Québecois and have visited France 🇫🇷 dozen of times. I was always welcomed and had no problem with people understanding me.

having visited lots of american cites, a few french cities and lots of small villages in and around the alps, and a fair bit of canada during short and long trips (only montréal in québec), it immediately struck me how similar montréal felt to the upper midwest of the US with some of the best parts of old french culture that you won't find in most anywhere in the US: almost like chicago without the a-holes (so what an american might call "midwest nice"), but with neighborhood markets all over the island (which you really don't find in such a fashion in the US; imagine a very very large farmers' market open daily), so you'd never need to go to a chain supermarket, better transit generally than most US cities. frankly though the food culture isn't as great in montréal vs most regions in france i've visited (a bit more like the upper midwest of the US in this way)...of course there are some exceptions (jewish delis and bagels are notable in yul). but better craft beer than in most parts of france (the scene is growing in paris, but still in it's infancy).

This was very interesting and compelling. Thank you for posting.

Je suis franco-ontarien, et j'ai vécu en France pendant trois mois. J'ai adoré ça et les gens étaient vraiment super!

Very fun video!

I’m English Canadian and went to Paris. I heard they were rude but I didn’t experience that. And I don’t speak French but people were helpful and polite

Thank you for showcasing my culture from an english perspective in a non-biased way. Quebec is generally a really open minded yet gets pictured as the opposite in anglo media. Also props for learning to speak french.

The squirrel at 6:29 looked like he was ready to fight. Lol. As someone in the process of waiting for permanent residency from the U.S., this was really insightful. Thanks!

Great video!

La différence principale repose en effet sur la mentalité plus "nord américaine" des québecois comparé à la France, qui est bien européenne. Fait que ça se ressent sur la culture culinaire et la qualité des produits, sur la culture automobile, le libéralisme plus prononcé (bien que le Québec se distingue ici par son état assez protecteur), et les relations entre les personnes. Mais sur ce dernier point je suis pas forcément d'accord avec l'idée générale que les québécois sont plus sympathiques. Avec des inconnus, oui, certainement, mais il est plus facile de se livrer et de se confronter en France, on se fait aussi plus facilement et rapidement des amis proches, alors qu'au québec, je trouve les amitiés plus compartimentées, et surtout il est plus difficile de s'entourer de personnes de confiance. Les problèmes de sociétés sont aussi différents entre les deux, la France souffre d'un haut de taux de chomage alors que le québec souffre d'une pénurie d'emploi, la france est en situation de domination linguistique sur son territoire alors que le québéc est directement entouré d'anglophones, et doit se battre pour son indépendance. Le harcèlement de rue est plus prononcée en France alors qu'il est assez rare au Québec...

Pure French Canadians have their roots from Northern Brittany, France. And a bit of Normandy. Quebec City is really similar to Saint Malo, Brittany. Apart from this region, Quebec is very different from the rest of France As a Northern French, I feel closer to Brits than I’m from French Canadians. I really love Quebec though ❤. And their difference is what makes it such a lovely place IMO

la différence est enorme alm, bon video!

I loooove these videos !

Honestly, I really loved Quebec when I visited from Michigan, back in the early 2000s. Unfortunately, I have not yet visited France, but people in my family have and have narrated to me their experiences. Francophone culture is SO exquisite, and I can see that beauty everywhere on the streets of Montreal. So impressive was their own rendition of the Notre Dame. I wish I could go back for more. I recall it being tough navigating Montreal as an English speaker with no French knowledge, but that was a part of the thrill! No way am I vocal about the whole anti French sentiment from ruffled English speakers! The French immersion was delightful even when you don't understand a damn thing! Really. [I was sucre sucre sucre all the way on the ride home.]

Native Quebecer here.. when I went to Paris I made random friends and I was just there for 3 days. They loved my anglo/quebecois accent! They're huge partiers though like too hardcore and drink a ton.

Pondicherry, never heard of it until now! Wow, interesting! Good video!

Wow informative video. I really love those two young men! They are looked great, and are very beautiful!

I am a Canadian (born and raised in the west) living in France for the last 13 years. What I noticed is that a majority of French can tell where a person is from in France never mind if you are from Quebec (each region has its own accent and cultural differences.) Plus you can come from Quebec or another French-speaking part of the world and they can tell where you are from by how you speak French. I have been to Quebec and if I ever had to live in Canada again I would live in Quebec as I really love it there.

Hey Dan, thanks for doing this. It quite enlightening. As a native anglo Montrealer, I've noticed that the Québecois and French people have a somewhat different temperament. The Québecois are more down to earth. I think it has something to do with th English-speaking Canadian and American cultural influence which affects Quebecers much more directly than French citizens. It's inevitable, since the French-Canadians have influenced English-speaking Canadian society, that some of the influence would flow the other way also.

Every part of France is different. Where I live Normandy, people here warm and friendly

really interesting video

I once stopped at Montreal airport and loved hearing French. My dream is to go back one day to visit the city.

I think I saw you in the subway this week, but I was too shy to come say hi. Nice video!

Thank you Dan for all your videos and to share your passion about journalism, and creating new mind sets about culture and people . I am french canadian from Quebec( province ) and my ancestors arrived in Canada in 1610 ( 412 years ago) from Paris ( France ) . My step family is from England (UK) . First of all , we speak french in Quebec the same grammar rules and international french words as in France, Switzerland, Belgium , Africa ( Maghreb : Algeria,, Morocco, and Tunisia ) . Depending on your education, region, and roots , the accent can be different but still french language. Each time i am in the United Kingdom , my step family also have difficulties to understand some British accents in their own country . Same for anglophones in USA and Canada . What bothers me the most is when you interview anglophones fro Canada that does not speak french and make a comment on our culture and french language in Quebec . I have never had any issues in any french coutnries on earth with my french that i consider to be more international than local . Yes Quebec is a distinct society in Canada because of our culture, bilingualism in french and english . We have amazing international artists , athletes , scientifics well known in both official languages .and some only in tfrench countries ... and they understand us . What it is sad is some international artists are not known in english canada because the anglophone sin Canada speak only english and then watch USA movies, Tv , food ( fast food) and shows and their culture is very USA nothing european . A language is more than words , it iis a culture it is a soul. Recently i met a group of 10 people from France now living in Montreal . They said they have moved to Quebec because of our open minded society ( you can be yourself ) , nicer than the french in general ( yes there are good people in France ) , Quebec is more tha the Montreal region . Quebec is the biggest province in Canada and very rich in ressoces ( wood, electricity, food products and minerals ) . Very diversify ecosystem from North to south , mountains , water flower and animals ... France like , Italy, Spain, england are old countries with a lot of history and culture . French people are very elegant ( teh way they dress ) and more natural ( they accept themselves aging naturally ) . The TV series are less violent and the scenery of all regions in France are amazingly beautiful and diversified . A s for the ffod we now make international well known cheese and we have international chef with local products as good as in France

I really wanna visit Montreal now! Wow!!

Keep going 😊 in the winter too

I’m from the US. I love Quebec because people are kind, open minded, and diverse. I went to Paris twice, it’s seems so cliche to say, but fell deeply in love with the City. I expected Parisians to be more brusque in temperament and impatient with my guide book French, but was surprised to find that this was a myth. I found Parisians to be very nice and, as long as you try to initiate conversation in French, readily willing to switch to English to talk or take your order if that was easiest.

When I lived in Montréal as an anglophone from BC trying to pick up what French I could. I found the people from France I met and spent time with were quite different from the québécois I knew but that many of them said themselves that they appreciated the more laid back atmosphere of Montréal, noting the contrast with life in Paris and maybe French cities in general.

I agree with everything that everyone has said in this video. It's also good to hear the English. Montreal is a great place to live. J'adore.

wow this is very nice video about cultures

As a mexican that have known both regions I Can Say in my perspective that québécois are more chill and open, they have for sure a different mentality, other thing are the social tensions that are very strong in France between comunities, religions, social clases and sometimes even polítics.

I am Québécois and a native french speaker and I have done an international student exchange in Taiwan. I got along alot better with people from nordic countries such as Sweden and Finland than France. It is interesting how even if we didn't speak the same language our culture was really similar aspects such as climate, sports etc. Also, I met a Finish guy who was from the swedish speaking part of finland. It was amazing to see how we related on alot of things being language minorities in our own countries.

loved it!

Thank you for doing this. It was interesting to hear different perspectives, albeit all within Quebec. I am now suddenly curious what French people in France say about Quebec. Would they opine out of experience or out of stereotypes?

In Montreal, definitely more opened to weird things or things out of the norm. Artists are more welcomed. They get looked down less. The life seems more chill. Definitely more chill than Boston. Than NY. Than even LA. And MTL is even WAY more chill than LA. I know this because if you go to a beach with friends. It’s just the tempo is A LOT slower in Montreal. (Even traffic. How fast/crazy people drive in the highway in a major city is a great reflection of its tempo) I think it’s cuz life priority is different. They really value “relax time”. A person is more a person. And speaks more like a person when he/she talks. Less filter. So, feels a lot more connection when talking to someone in MTL.

VERY interesting as we are currently traveling through Quebec and find the people VERY friendly wherever we go. We will be in France in a well and can then compare 😎

French here, from Paris, who has visited Montreal 7 times. So not a local by any mean but I feel like I'm kind of starting to get a grasp of the city. What strikes me the most watching this video and what actually surprised me the most when in Quebec is how the whole Montreal "openness" thingy is a façade. Yes, people are less judgmental, clearly don''t care about appearances and there are people from all walks of life. In fact many french speakers from either France (more than 100K actually), Africa or the Caribbean but they, in fact, just don't mix with the locals. I have been to birthday parties, weddings and so forth and there always were at best 1 or 2 Quebecois, if any. Meanwhile in Paris, where we are supposed to be cold & rude, communities do mix and match. I feel like maybe it's more of a North America thing (where you have italian , chinese, filipinos, polish neighborhoods etc etc) when we don't really have that kind of divide over in Europe (tho we very much have social and economic divides don't get me wrong).

Salut! late to respond (happy new year) I feel like French culture is more a "self-study and self-exploration" cause when I went to visit France (Paris to versaille area) what we learned in North America about France (French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, Les Miserables, Guillotine, and taking French courses in highschool or college) will be of use since French people are more individualistic when it comes to tourism. If you ever visit the museums (Louvre, Versaille, and others) things are pre-recorded, display guides are in French, signs are in French (sometimes or rarely in English), restaurants are empty unless you walk in to eat outside (there was a server who opened a table for my family and we were the only one eating, the server gave us a look knowing tourists dine in to sit outside). If you walk around the city, those artists selling portraits and paintings along the river (is it the seine?) will discuss properties in France being so expensive like apartments in Paris are really a luxury to have knowing its petite living. So yeah, France is really a cultural and etiquette based society. One has to be familiar with French culture because they wont just share information freely since they know its expensive to live there.

je t'aime le québec, depuis le sud-ouest de la france! 😍😍😍😍

The person who said France was like Britain and Quebec like american cowboys is a good explanation when it comes to the difference in accent. It sounds either like very heavy texan accent or another very strong southern accent. In spanish, it would be like the spanish accent from Spain versus a very rural accent somewhere in mexico or honduras. I remember in switzerland, there was a quebequois show they aired on tv and it had subtitles cause many ppl didnt understand it the accent cause they thought it was too thick hahaha

Montréal is so beautiful in the spring/summer

Shout out montreal I been, November 2019!!! ❤. Definitely sparked a interest of French culture for me. Como sa va😅

Viva Montreal and it's people I like their French accent. My wife and I are planning to visit Montreal, and Quebec. As a Mexican I feel we share some cultural aspects.

As a black Caribbean-American who’ve spent months living in Quebec and France for work (aerospace), I’ve had 10x better experience with the people in Quebec. My experience is quite unique and I gotta say the french are kinda mean, whether they are trying to be or not.

I went to Canada for a business trip several years ago, spent 1 week in Montreal and 1 week in Toronto. The first week it was hard to understand where I am - in Canada or in France)) So many people speaking French (and I don't understand a single word), sometimes it was hard to find the subway, because many people don't even speak English. Anyway, the country is so lovely, and the people are so friendly, that was a wonderful experience for me. Best wishes from Kiev, Ukraine.

I met so many Quebec people in Varadero . Majority of them keep their distance and roam in their own kind but did meet wonderful ones too so can’t be judged on whole

Belgian here, I've got an outside perspective on both Québec and France. Actually I think that both cultivate strong stéréotypes that are not neccessary true on themselves and each other. I think that what is true is that the french hate themselves too much, they tend to think that everything is better abroad. They propagates false ideas like "Paris is so dirty" while most of them have nerver lived nor been there while it's one of the cleanest major city in Europe (and 40 million tourists a year it's a lot to handle too) if you compare Paris to Marseille, Marseille is a shame for all european cities. What is true is that Québecers don't like confrontation and in Belgium we are even more Bold than the french and are not scared to say what we think and it's something that I have been able to see while speaking to québecers (and for strange reasons quebecers tend to feel closer to belgians that fench people). What I don't agree whith is that Montreal would be more creative because of two cultures. Yes there is a lot of foreigners from all arround the world and from the neigbouring anglo-saxon territories and it's more laid back but it don't neccessary means that it's more creative. France is already a patchwork of different cultures and traditions and is in the middle of Europe between different countries that have themselves different cultures + the immigration from all the different ancient colonnies. I would say that Québec especially Montréal tend to fall in the anglo-uniformisation while France will continue as it as always been to produce ideas, arts that will diverge and provoke scandals.

If I ever learn French, I'm going to learn it with a Quebec accent. For maximum Canada solidarity.

22:24 I didn't know that squirrels approached you in Canada, my heart melts like ice cream in the sun

That squirrel that you took a close up of - man he looked mean and as if he was gonna beat you up!

My experience having lived in Montreal and Vancouver is that in Montreal, people are genuinely nice. The joie de vivre is real. I felt it and I miss it. In Vancouver people are nice in the fakest way possible, and the politeness is meant to push you away, and some people actually quite evil while displaying perfect manners.

I am from the UK and speak French to a reasonable level. I understood the French being interviewed without any problems, but I had to on occasion look at the subtitles when listening to the Québécoise. It's like French with an American accent. I don't think it would take long to adjust to.

I liked the interview overall, coming from France I've spent 3 amazing years in Montréal. I missed my country deeply though for different reasons and I moved back home like most of us who tried the "Canadian dream". It would be interesting to know why so many of us don't stay. To me despite the usual "food/weather/landscape/homesick" reasons it was also the 35 hours work week and 5 weeks vacations that we get here and the cultural differences that define us in a way from the Québécois. For some reasons french immigrants would often tell it's hard to make friends with the locals. On top of it this experience really help me understand what it meant to be french (good or bad) and even sometimes being ashamed of my homies :D ! Long live Québec anyway, amazing people and amazing country.

Would be great to ask the same question in France

En tant que bilingue de la CB bien que j’aime bien mes amis français c’est avec les québécois et d’autres franco-canadiens que je ressens vraiment une connection sociale et culturelle

It was funny when the lady say that if you understood everything they said they are probably from France😂, this is " vraiment vrai " 👍👍👍👍

I spent 3 weeks in Montreal last year and the people were great but i just didn’t like being there in general and I will probably never return. But i‘m grateful for the experience.

When it comes to culture and history, you can't really compare anything Europe to NA. C'mon! Even in my native country of Korea, a historical building that's 500-600 years old is considered young. Notwithstanding indigenous cultures, the Canadian and American histories are relatively young and so are their historical monuments and architectures. The oldest commercial street in NA, Rue de Petit-Champlain is only 388 years old. But I think the people in Quebec are amazing, so warm, and they really are chill. They really work to live, and living is more important...

Vivre au Québec ou Vivre en France d'un coté comme de l'autre il faut s'adapter ! Il aurait été interessant de poser la question non pas a des jeunes mais des retraités pour avoir un point de vue interessant ou des Francais qui vivent au Québec depuis de longues années ! Living in Quebec or living in France on either side, you have to adapt! It would have been interesting to ask the question not to young people but to retired people to have an interesting point of view or to French people who have been living in Quebec for many years!

My mother is French, but I was born and raised in Southern California, I still have family in France. I think it would have been great if I had spent time in Quebec and learned some Québécois when I was younger. In the Americas, English,French,Spanish and Portuguese, are the main languages that are spoken. I believe we speak the older form of our perspective languages. 👉🏻🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷 👈🏻👏👏👏👏👏👏

J'ai trouvé que le gars à 8:40 avait des choses vraiment intéressantes à dire et une vraie perspicacité...

6:30 "You want some of this? Come get some!"

Comme américaine qui a appris le* français et je va maintenant passer quelques mois à Montréal, j’apprécie cette vidéo. Je suis curieuse de comprendre la gravité du problème entre les francophones et les anglophones. C’est évident par les publicités & affiches politiques, mais comment les gens se sentent vraiment? Une idée de vidéo si vous êtes courageux ☺️ Aussi, j’étais choquée d’entendre combien de personnes trouvent le français 🇫🇷 pas aimable. Je n’y ai jamais habité mais chaque fois que j’y visite, les gens sont hyper sympa! Surtout à Toulouse et Bayonne. Bof 🤷🏼‍♀️

I've lived in Montreal for nearly a year now and am working to learn French (lived elsewhere in Canada before) and I will say the Quebecois are more likely to try and work with my sometimes butchered French whereas people from France will often not even get past the first setence before they try English (which is sometimes worse than my French lmao)

We tend to take for granted that a common past and culture/language would mean a closer relation. Many times what you find is quite the opposite

Omg the French guy at 11 min is so cute ❤❤❤

I've visited France many, many times as a turist (I live in Spain no far from border) and I love it. The food, the countryside, the historical sites, the popular arquitecture....Very diverse and fantastic everywhere I've been. Nothing to complaint about people either. They are kind and helpfull (except in Paris). So... if Quebec people is even better, they have to be really awsome.