An outsider explaining without condescending is so refreshing. Merci bien

Je viens du nord de la France, on dit aussi nous aut’, kekchose, pis,etc… beaucoup de similitudes en fait et je comprends assez bien les Québécois

Tu expliques et comprends mieux les différences entre le français Québécois et le français de France que la majorité des youtubeurs français qui tentent de faire des vidéos du genre. Good job, mon chum!

Hey! Another French Canadian here. A few tips/heads up that could prove useful if ever: 1) We have some strange habbit within certain sentence forms to repeat or simply add pronouns to accentuate questions. Thus "Tu comprends ce que j'te dis?" becomes "Tu comprends-tu c'que j'te dis?" to sound more Natural. The additionnal "tu" acts is a sort of similar way to the "Ka" question marker in Japanese or "ma" in Mandarin, but at the beginning of the sentence. 2)I know you probably did, but I can't help for encourage you further: the "ʁ" sound compared to the english "r" sound is the single biggest accent mark coming from your speech. What I find fascinating is how you sometimes land it and sometimes don't (the "respectueuse" was splendid, for example). But hey, an amazing job regardless when it comes to that phoneme. 3)"Que les autres genRES" (we couldn't hear the "ʁ") 4) As weird as it may seem, we don't connect the "mais" 's "s" in "mais en même temps", we pronounce it "Mais/ en même temps." My assumption is that a comma would separate the words. Not sure about that one though. 5)Last one: instead of translating "Quebec City" we just say "Québec," as it often is quite clear out of context or from the use of prepositions which one between the city or the province is refered to (Ex: Je vais à Québec ("à" only applying to the city) vs. aller au Québec ("au" meaning the more general, in this case, the province)) I know it's a long comment, and please don't take this as a presumptuous critique or as an attempt at Gatekeeping. I'm really happy to have learned about my own language through your unbridled curiosity. Cheers, pi bon courage mon chum!

I'm from New Brunswick, and growing up the French I learned was heavily influenced by Acadian French. When I entered the Canadian Forces, I went to CMR-St-Jean, and myself and a fellow New Brunswicker (who was Acadian) sometimes got grief from the Québec-raised francophones due to our accents. Then we had some French officer-cadets from St-Cyr come over for a visit and it was hilarious: they made comments about what they considered the ridiculous French spoken in Québec, but the two of us got a pass because, as far as they were concerned, we were speaking a totally different language anyway.

Bilingual anglophone Canadian here! C2 is not as scary as it seems and you only need 50% to pass. I majored in French in university, practiced a bit out side of class time just out of pure interest, and then got 83/100 in C2 one year after college graduation. I actually barely studied for the C2 exam at all and was still able to pass by a large margin, so I think you’ll be absolutely fine

Je suis un Québécois francophone et les premières minutes de votre vidéo révèlent que votre français est très bon. Très compréhensible. En fait, prendre une bière en français avec vous doit être le fun : )

I've seen so many youtubers talk about Quebec language clearly without knowing anything about it. Very refreshing and informative video, you know your stuff.

C’est très intéressant d’entendre une analyse de sa langue maternelle. Y’a beaucoup d’élitisme autour de la langue française. Disons juste qu’on se fait regarder de haut par les français à cause de notre accent. Ton français est excellent et même si tu as un petit accent qui confirme que c’est pas ta langue maternelle, c’est très facile de te comprendre. Dans la portion où tu parle avec l’accent québécois, j’pense que tu réussis bien à réduire le gap entre le français métropolitain et le français canadien. On est capable de voir que tu comprends bien les nuances. Bon travail !

I'm from Ontario and when I was in high school they taught France French and Canadian French, it alternated randonly depending on the teacher you had that year (they didn't do this on purpose btw). All of our labels are in Eng and Fr so we end up with exceptional reading skills with inconsistent pronunciation. So I've got a weird French accent.

Hey. I’m an anglophone from Western Canada who moved to Montreal 15 years ago. I learned French in my early 30s. I work in French now, though I’m not what most people would consider to be “bilingual”, although I certainly get by. It was interesting to hear your experience with Quebec French. As it was the genre of French I learned and am surrounded with, I have the opposite problem as you: I find that Parisian French is difficult to understand. For example, I am rewatching the first two seasons of Lupin on Netflix, and I need French captions to be able to understand them: they speak so fast and they use funny slang and their accents are as cute as a button! But I can watch a Quebecois TV show or movie without difficulty. Particularly in regard to Quebecois films and TV, it’s my personal experience that often times people will exaggerate regional accents, while the people you talk to in the street have a more neutral accent, particularly younger people. A good example of this is a TV show like Tout le monde en parle: actors will often come on promoting a movie and talk quite clearly, but when talking about growing up they will put on a regional accent. It’s like if someone were to speak with a Texan accent with their family when they go home for Christmas, but when they go to work every day they speak a more neutral Hollywood English. Even when my wife is speaking with her friends, 95% of the time she is speaking a very neutral Quebec French, then one sentence with have a stereotyped accent, and then she goes back to speaking more neutrally. It’s a cultural phenomenon that doesn’t really have an analog in English. As non-Quebecer, it can be difficult navigating these different registers of Quebec French when speaking (or listening). I tend to find that people prefer it when I don’t try to imitate Quebec French. Even when doing it respectfully, it can sound sometimes to some people like they are being mocked. It’s like if you went to the UK and tried to speak with a British accent, but we’re mixing up Scottish and Welsh and Manchester and London. There’s a lot of nuance, and if you don’t get the nuances right it can be confusing.

Français de France ayant vécu au NB et maintenant au QC, j'ai gardé mon accent métropolitain mais pogné des expressions d'ici. Vive les différents accents ! Québec, Ontario, Louisiane, Alberta etc. Tout est beau et chacun a son histoire ❤

in french we don’t say « ville de Québec », we’ll just say à Québec for the city and au Québec for the province. « city » isn’t part of the name in french unlike english where the name is literally « Quebec city »

I'm a French native speaker from Quebec and I know the struggle! I'm working on my Texas accent in English and I hope to pass my C2 exam in a texan dialect by the end of this summer!

I was afraid when I first saw your video that it was going to be another condescending speech about French Canadian French. Very interesting and well done. Merci Je suis Montréalais et ma famille est au Canada depuis 1662.

Thanks. I took four years of high-school French in Vancouver and we learned not one iota of Quebec French. Everything was pure Parisian or perhaps some quaint town near Grenoble. When I made it to Montreal and even worked there, I found it far easier to talk in English. If my teachers had taught what you are teaching then I could embrace more true culture de Canada.

Swiss French here and I’m fascinated with Québecois. The vowels are wild to me. Well, will be living near there soon and get to start working on mon québecois!

I've been casually looking for this kind of comparison video for years and this has been the best one by far.

I grew up in Maine surrounded by both local French speakers and tourists from Quebec Province. The difference in their accent was quite noticeable. My grand mamere’s family were polish/french from Picardy via Quebec. They all spoke a Parisian style accent and were quite contemptuous of local speakers using “ Franglais “. Languages are such a living entity.

Bonjour from Québec city. Thank you for understanding and respecting the french canadian language. You are doing good. Welcome to Québec anytime.

Mon ancêtre est arrivé de Paris en 1663 et s’est établit près de la ville de Québec. Ce qui me frappe le plus est que notre langue se soit maintenue aussi bien pendant tout ce temps. Je n’ai vraiment aucune difficulté à échanger avec les cousins francophones de partout dans le monde et j’en suis reconnaissant à tous ceux qui, au fils des siècles, ont contribué à la conservation et à l’évolution du français ici au Québec. Je ne suis pas certain que toutes les affirmations faites par l’auteur de cette vidéo soient entièrement justes. Sa connaissance du français parlé au Québec ne me semble pas très approfondie, mais c’est un bel effort et ses commentaires sont très intéressants. Bravo!

if THIS was the french taught to the rest of canada, québec relations would be improved 40%

French Canadian here. Honestly some of your pronunciations here were so dead on! I would probably mistake you for a bilingual anglo west islander or a Franco Ontarian if we were to speak French together. Awesome job!

You made yourself a buddy here! Bienvenue au Québec anytime!

Not bad at all and a reasonable summary of the quirks of our dialect! Your Canadian French accent was pretty reminiscent of the French spoken many of my native English speaking colleagues in the federal civil service who have put in genuine effort to perfect their French. Interestingly, you sounded like you had a Canadian English rather than an American accent in your French while doing your Canadian French but an American accent to your French while speaking with your Metropolitan French.

Seen a lot of attempts at explaining our QC french on KZfaq this one is definitely the best I have seen so far Nicely done!

Expat friends of mine from northern France have often commented how Canadian French sounds like the French spoken by their grandparents or even great-grandparents. For reference, as a Québécois myself, I found it a lot easier to understand the ch'timi dialect (Picard - the region, not the famous captain - French), as is spoken in the Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis movie, than many of my other French friends. I also learned recently that the word freit (pronounced like "fret" and often now written as "frette" by Canadians) is the old form of froid (cold). It's still in use in Quebec, but it is now often used to indicate something that is very cold. So "y fait freit" can mean that the temperature is colder than just cold, if not quite glacial.

A couple of notes on that top 10 as I think there are some misconceptions: 1) Obstruent + liquid clusters also simplify in European French! /formidab/, /tab/ and /prop/ (these are not phonematic transcriptions it makes just them stand out) are heard in European varieties all the time in informal settings. In fact it would be weird if we didn't per the principle you explain. I wanted to highlight this one as it makes it sound like Europeans speak better than Canadians because we mysteriously don't simplify those clusters, it's a really pervasive idea and one that should be rigorously avoided. 2) In that same vein the deletion of l in "quelque chose" (and also "quelque part") isn't a Canadian innovation, it's a pronunciation that has been heard in Europe for centuries and was once even accepted in formal settings (cf: TLFI and Martinon, 1913). 3) Canadians speakers may correct me on this but /o/ only became /u/ in very specific circumstances like "beaucoup" or before nasals ("zone" often sounds like "zoune" [zũn] to my European ears) otherwise the two vowels are kept strictly apart. Canadians speakers do nasalize long vowels before nasals incidentally, a phenomenon also heard in Belgian French (very recognizable trait). 4) I'm pretty sure the Canadian speaker in the video says [twæ] for "toi" and [tχwɒ] for "trois" but the thing is "toi" and "trois" have different vowels in Europe too! per assimilation of backness. Though in Europe it's purely allophonic as the distinction Canadian French maintains between "poil" and "poêle" is long lost for European speakers (general phenomenon, even for speakers that contrast "patte" and "pâte" still). 5) As a recent video highlighted "char" for "car" is a very colloquial term and it's weird that it comes up so often and so quickly. Here in Europe we say "bagnole" but nobody ever insinuates it's the very normal word for "car" (the normal word in Europe and in Canada being "voiture", of course). Good luck in your endeavor to trick Canadian French speakers anyhow

i loved this video! im an anglophone ontarian but i went to school all in french and still work in the francophone community. i hear a ton of different accents here as we're a very anglo town and many french speakers come from out of town. theyre mostly canadian accents i hear but it surprises me how different they all can be even within the country (especially compared to the pretty uniform english), to the point i have trouble understanding some people even though ive been speaking the language as long as i can remember. really its the east coast accents that im less familiar with, maybe acadian french could be a follow up video if you feel like tackling that!

Bonne description. Je m’y suis reconnu 😂. Bravo et très bon contenu

I'm really excited for this! All my education was Metro French and all the work I do now is au Quebec. I had to learn all this on the fly 12 years ago. Needless to say, even the accent you're learning is a metropolitan accent. I've heard some pretty neat accents across the province and recommend you explore outside the normal tourist areas.

Magnifique vidéo, très belle analyse, merci. Enjoy your day.

Merci pour la vidéo, c'était super intéressant. D'ailleurs je savais pas que blonde venait du "vieux Français". btw on comprend bien votre français parlé et j'ai bien aimé vos observations! Have a nice day and I wish you the best for your test!! aw men.... now I feel like I have to keep learning korean... anyway for all of those who are learning a language keep going I believe in you it opens so many doors even if it's just for fun it's worth it !!💜

I'm not a language levels expert, but to me, C2 was always like the level of super duper talented speakers of language and not something your average language learner is ever going to reach. I hear C2 and I think of lawyers, journalists and politicians (the smarter ones, at least). Personally, I don't consider myself C2 in any language, but maybe I'm selling myself short

Calisse! Jviens juste de commencer ton vidéo pi jai hâte de voir ce qui va arrivé😂

I am from Normandy, I currently live in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, I will highlight a few points : 1. I am familiar with all of these pronouns. The [ Y ] for [ il ] and the [ A ] for [ elle ] are still very much alive in Normandy. These are regionalisms born in Normandy not Québec. 2. Table = Tab' Lièvre = Lièv' ... That feature is heard everywhere in Nord-pas-de Calais. Again, this is not a pronunciation trait unique to Québécois French. It is an element of pronunciation in the North of France too. 3. [ PIS ] for [ et puis ] is just colloquial casual speech in France as well, heard all over. 4. So many specificities wrongly labelled as unique to Canada are just slightly aged/dated form of speech in France, regionalisms or colloquial/casual prononciations. 5. The informal Québécois word [ UN CHAR ] is to be compared to France's informal word [ UNE CAISSE ]. 🚗 In neutral speech both Québec and France use the same word [ voiture ]. 6. Regarding the affrication of [ Di/Du ] Quebecers do [ Dzi/Dzu ] but note that young French people (under 30) have now developed something very similar. The [ DI ] become [ DJI ] in their mouth. Eg. -La différence now becomes -La djjjjifférence Pay attention to younger speakers in France and you will notice this evolution. It's a very similar phenomenon. Great video!💥

Merci d'avoir fait cette vidéo, c'est génial 🎉❤

Gros merci, I liked that analysis :)

This is extremely hard what you did. And you pulled it off nicely.

I am from Montreal and I am really glad to see your interest in our French! Interesting linguistic analysis of the sounds. I think most people used to metropolitan french will be overwhelmed by the sound of Québec french at first but, after some exposition, it becomes quite intelligible (after that it is mostly words and expressions). In your example sentences, I would favor "amis" to "chums", because it sounds very informal inside a formal syntax ... To be more natural in this informal version, you should say it probably with even more emphasis like: "... s'fair des chums...". By the way, the first meaning of "chum" would be boyfriend (vs "blonde" for girlfriend). The meaning of friend for "chum" is valid (in informal situations) but, out of context, most people would say that it means boyfriend at first. Also, "char" for car is frequent, but a lot of Québécois would just say "voiture". Honestly, most Québécois will understand metropolitan french since we have a lot of exposition, I don't think you need to fully imitate the accent to be understood overall. For Ontario, I wouldn't bet that you can receive services in French at restaurants for instance in Toronto (I personally just speak English to avoid back and forth, most of time it is not possible to be understood in French). Even in our capital Ottawa, it can be tough to ask anything in French based on my experience ... If you go in the french Ontario regions (named in french "l'Ontario Francophone"), it should be fine and the accent is also different and interesting. I would recommend going to Saguenay or Gaspésie in Québec if you want further brain buzzes!

This was pretty good and very entertaining. When will you release your Ottawa trip video?

Well done! Bravo pour l'effort! 😀

I can't wait for the video of language jones speaking canadian french on the street. Be sure to wear a 360 camera that renders your face and body comically distorted - then we'll know its legit.

Thanx for having me learn that much about my own language!!! Steph from Quebec!

Merci beaucoup pour cette analyse de ma langue. Pour la première fois, je comprends les difficultés du francais québecois vu par un étrangé. Votre compréhension des spécificités de ma langue est d'une grande justesse. Voyez vous, le maintien de la langue francaise sur le continent nord américain avec plus de 375 millions d'anglophones est un défis quotidien. J'aimerais tellement que notre petit coin d'amérique ou environs 8 millions de gens parlent francais soit vu comme une richesse et une curiosité nord américaine qui ne doit pas disparaitre. Continuez votre travail, il est très utile.

Such a small world! Je regarde tes vidéos depuis longtemps et par coïncidence, j'étais aussi un étudiant de Lambert! J'suis de Singapour mais je vis à Montréal maintenant, et je comprends bien les difficultés avec l'accent québécois. J'ai commencé à apprendre le français avec un accent français standard mais après que mes plans m'ont dirigé au Canada, j'ai decidé d'apprendre cet accent. Étant donné que tu as un accent auquel tu es déjà habitué pis en si peu de temps, je pense que tu as fait une job impressionnante! Bonne chance pour tes cours, c'est toujours un sentiment très satisfaisant quand les gens sont surpris par ton accent (:

That's excellent! The "ent" in différent sounded very English. And "Histoire" sounded more like Acadian French than Quebec, but otherwise, I think you nailed it. I'm Acadian from Nova Scotia and I don't think I can do the Québec accent half as well as you can.

I went to school in Canada (BC, not Quebec) but took some French courses and heard some French on trains etc… so when I started learning French in the US I was very confused because it’s metropolitan French, especially the words with “ble” at the end like you said, the Canadian pronunciation is so much easier. Also, I’ll never say « maintenant » with three syllables after hearing it so much on the buses etc.

Intéressant, merci de votre ouverture aux différences.

Scary how the KZfaq algorithm has brought you to me. But, I'm glad it has. I've subscribed, clicked the like button, commented on both videos I've watched, and clicked the notification bell to aid you on your quest of "Linguistic world domination " 😂

i had a good time listening to your video. TY.

Great analysis. It's always interesting to see analysis of ones own speech from an outside perspective. We don't tend to analyze it when your in it. Like.. fish don't see water...

Impressive! I can see you have put a good amount of time and effort and being french canadian my self i respect that. I give this video 5 out of 5 good job brother! Oh btw bad idea for Quebec accent in c2😂

As a french canadian from Québec I must say you are pretty spot on. French in Québec is highly influenced by english. As US english and British english is the same language but with so much difference in the way to pronounce it. US tend to abreviate British english as we do for french in Québec. We have something called joual in Québec wich could be comparable to the Texan accent in the US. The important thing in the end with all those difference is that we can understand eachother and share together what make us all the same as human. It's great to hear you explain those language differences with respect.

I'm thinking that if you want to really set yourself a difficult challenge, you may want to go further from the Quebec/Ontario border, such as Quebec City or even a smaller town, to try to pass as a French Canadian. Ottawa is more than 60% English with a lot of bilingual people with accents. I would expect most French in the region would be used to French with an English accent (and vice versa) and so may be less likely to pick up on small details. From having many people in my family with different accents, I know such a phenomenon happens with me for English; accents need to be thicker for me to notice them. Quebec City is 90% French and so I expect they would be more likely to notice smaller differences due to accent. Also, there are a lot of regional varieties (perhaps even dialects?) throughout Quebec, Northern Ontario, and New Brunswick that can vary a lot. While my French is not particularly good, I find some of the regional varieties to be significantly harder to understand than standard Quebec French. As an example of the difference: in one regional variety from Northern Ontario, to say "when it is convenient for you" one can say something like (in IPA) "mĩk sɛ ta dɔn". The KZfaqr maprofdefrançais has some videos on the varieties, as well as a pronunciation course on standard Quebec French.

The comment by @Kaletar is bang on. I am an Acadian from the Maritime provinces and we have many different accents in our version of French. I think that being exposed to different accents is the key to understanding the language. But one must be open to the difference. There is a concept called ''linguistic Insecurity'' which is basically the feeling of being somewhat inferior because of the accent with which you speak your language. Although I felt it at one time, I don't anymore. Maybe it's because I am now very fluent in English and my French accent is still there when I speak so I became immune to criticism in some way. But my main goal remains successful communication, not trying to impress, in French or English. As a kid, I was exposed to French TV shows from Quebec and French movies from France. Because of this, I never had difficulties understanding people from these areas. I went to France in the mid-90's and had no problems communicating with people. I also adjusted my language a little to make sure they understood me but I didn't try to hide my Canadian accent. Your situation was different because you were not really exposed in the same way so it was obviously difficult to understand. Kudos for learning to understand Quebec French. But, honestly, you don't have to try to talk like this as it sometimes sounds a little fake and people will pick it up fast. There are those who will try to make fun of an accent but it's because of their own ignorance of the variety of the language. It could be frustrating but once they realize that all you want is to communicate, most will stop. Those who persist are not worth your time.

Great show bud!

Good job, bonne job!👍

I'm a French Canadian, grew up in Quebec's north (in Abitibi). I now work in Montreal, mostly in english, with people from all over the world. Accents and language always fascinates me and I loved your analysis of my own accent and French. Learned a lot! Thanks :)

I appreciate your video. You are also describing Louisiana French when compared to Cosmopolitan French--with the Nous autre (aut'), etc. Qu'eq' chose, as opposed to quelque chose, ... Love it. ---from Louisiana

Very interesting! A straightforward gringo's take on Québec French. Super informative, thanks. Saludos desde México ...

For the influence of English in Québécois, I have a little anecdote. Some years ago, I went to Quebec, and played hangman with my brother and a québécoise. The only rule was, French words only. And then she tried to make us guess soccer, because to her that was a French word

As a French Canadian, I'm impressed ! About the vocabulary: it's been noted that the differences are mostly in the colloquial register, but also, it goes both ways. As you discover words and usages that are unique to French canadian, you'll see that at the same time, colloquial words or expressions that are common in other French dialects may be understood by Canadians, yet rarely used.

I've been learning French for the past year and a half or so, since I live a couple hours from Quebec. I didn't start by learning Canadian French though! I, like everyone, learned Parisian/metropolitan French, starting with apps, and graduating to various French vloggers/streamers etc. I've found duolingo helps introduce you to words and concepts, or to "prime the pump" if you will. Time has passed, and I have gotten to a comfortably intermediate level of comprehension. I didn't bother to study or listen to much Canadian French unfortunately until recently, as I thought "how different could Canadian French really be?" Well, now it sort of feels like I have to learn the language all over again!

Bravo pour cette vidéo très instructive et aussi pour ton excellent français. Français de France j'ai souvent eu des contacts avec des Canadiens francophones et nous n'avons eu aucun problème de communication. A la radio Québécoise c'est pareil aucun problème pour comprendre c'qui dzisent.😀 Par contre à la télé quand je regarde les séries québécoises je dois tendre l'oreille car souvent les expressions utilisaient sont bizarres, voir comique pour un Français d'Europe (on va jaser un peu, j'suis tombé en amour, j'en ai mon voyage...). C'est pareil en France, quand je vivais à Montpellier, en tant que Français du nord, j'ai dû m'habituer à leur accent et aux idiomatismes languedociens. Bonne continuation.

To be honest with you, your international french is good. If you understand us and keep you international french. Nobody can't judge your French in Quebec. We will appreciate that you speak French. And if we can understand each other, we can have a beer or coffee together. Merci l'ami de faire connaître notre langue.

Your french is very good, easy to understabd--keep practicing and you'll improve if you wish. Just a little thing--we have several varieties of french inside Canada. Of course here in Québec, but in New Brunswick, there are also french speakers (Acadiens) but with a different accent from Québec. And some other provinces have their own slang & accent as well. For your level, hard to evaluate (I'm not a teacher), but you could come here and make yourself understand very well, without any problem. Have a nice day.

Très bonne vidéo . Merci de Montréal au Québec !

I've been living in Quebec for a little under half a year now and to my understanding "chum" is slang for boyfriend, rather than pals, although I live in a more northern region so it might be a regional thing. Also they call hotpot "fondue Chinoise" here which makes me chuckle every time

Tu es très respectueux dans ton approche, je te lève mon chapeau!

We also have a lot of borrowed words that come from the english domination starting with the british conquest of 1763 to the mid 20th century. For example, back house became bécosse, man hole became ménaule and so on. Also a lot of word from various industries didn't have a translation until big reforms were made in the 80s-90s to protect french in quebec. Nowadays you won't find an english word in your car's manual to describe a part like back in the day but you're still more likely to hear your average joe say the english word for it with it's own twist of pronunciation. My favorite by far being wind shield becoming winsheer. For more recent words, since we already have the laws to protect french, they all have translations that you'll hear more often than for older words. It does depend on how the translation sounds tho, a good rule of thumb is the more international french it sounds/the longer it is, the less likely you'll hear it in your day to day and vice-versa. For example, you'll hear email and courriel interchangeably (courriel being the combination of courrier and électronique, or mail and electronic) while clavardage, the transaction for texting (wich literally translates to typing on a keyboard to chat) will be pretty much only used by french teachers, new anchors, polititian or in any king of formal speach. What you'll hear in your day to day is texter.

A lot of what is considered peculiar to Canadian French is also present in other varieties of French but they are seen as improper or too colloquial. In Gabon, where I am from, using words such as ‘pis would automatically put you in the uneducated lower class category. I personally like the way Canadian French sounds because it has a non monotonous rhythm, similar to English, with stresses on different syllables. Standard French is very linear.

Merci Vraiment intéressant

Being French Canadian myself, I appreciate the attempt to explain the differences. Well done.

Excellent progress overall. Two notes: (1) You could refine your R's as they sound Parisian; either shorten them or trill them (though the trill appears to be in slow decline in urban parts). (2) "chum" takes a hard ch as in Spanish or English. Have fun! I am sure you will get by just fine in Montreal with what you have.

If my english were as goog as your french, I would consider my level as higher than advanced. What you describe here is what makes any spoken language alive and kicking to mirror the identity of a community. I recall my first trip to New York where their spoken english made me feel the exact same way as you toward canadian french. Merci beaucoup pour ce regard très instructif, "pis à bientôt mon chum!"

J'ai vraiment aimé comment tu parles de nous, très respectueux et ouvert d'esprit, bravo mon chum! Viens donc vivre au Québec, on a besoin de gens comme toi chez nous!

I’ve spent time in Quebec, and I do speak French moderately well, get along in France just fine! I noticed that in France one would say poutine, like, “poo-teen”, where les Quebecois say, “poo-tin”. I had a Quebecois friend tell me, while in France, they told him to “speak English”, he was very offended! But I get that pronunciation in French is very important! So if they do all those transitions you mentioned, and I recognized, no wonder the Francais were baffled!

"Way" this explained a lot. Belle toque!

Growing up Anglophone in Manitoba, I was exposed to both. French in St. Boniface is essentially Quebecois, but the French taught in grade school is Metropolitan French. So neither sounded foreign... just different from each other.

T'es pas pire mon homme, ton vidéo est juste. Tu as du potentiel bravo 👍

Fantastic job! .. Im a french Quebecer who's had many anglophone friends who tried and failed to learn.. I now live in gaspesie where the accents and dialiects vary from village to another.. You'd make a great teacher!

From a native french canadian, Amazing video!! felt like you got pretty much everything right! Plus the accent is surpisingly good, not perfect i would have some tips if you inquire, but very very good! Subscribed!

Merci du vidéo et du respect accorder à notre langue!

Your accent is impecable. I must say I enjoy all of your videos I lean something and I enjoy them, I rarely comment on videos so take this as a compliment indeed--smile Yours sincerely. Dan the man

Good informative video, your Frenchis great. I'm an anglophone Quebecer, and your accent is definitely more internationa than mine. My accent kind of joual. Often when I'm speaking French, people think that I'm a francophone from the maritimes. Keep up the good work.

french canadian here your stuff is on point i appreciate you learning our joual , and you are getting good at it frankly , good job my friend . if you want to practice french canadian IRL make sure to grab some molsons it might help :) té sua coche mon chum laches pas hahaha !

Talking about code switching, ce qui est amusant c'est que lorsque je parles avec quelqu'un comme toi, je suis déconcerté de prime abord par ton usage de mots typiquement canadien français, et je vais peut-être penser avoir mal compris ce que je croyais etre un français de l'hexagone avec un accent américain. It's surprising, fun and it honestly makes us smile to hear things like pis, fac, don'ben from a non native speaker.

Just blew my mind that that’s where bookoo came from! I’ve always heard it but I never considered that could be a loan word from French -native AAE speaker

I pride myself on my school book French accent and I understand what's going on with the Quebecois accent. You speak French well, with an American accent, but your Quebecois sounds even better. I just can't make those sounds easily without thinking about it. Kudos to you for making it look so easy.

Thanks for enlightening us on the mechanics of Canadian French. The segment on dropping the final syllable reminded me how Italians in the NY/NJ area do the same. ex. Mozzarella becomes mozzarel, Prociutto becomes prociut. But Pizza remains pizza. But I digress. When I attended high-school in the late 60s, the French Canadian students had as hard a time in French class as did the anglophones. It wasn't until I took French at university that I learned how different the language is from 'Parisian' French. I had noticed a difference in pronunciations, but never gave much thought to it.

Tu sonnes vraiment comme un acadien à mon oreille. Mais vraiment c'est génial t'écouter et tu sembles définitivement comprendre les nuances. C'est pas tous les jours qu'on entend quelqu'un analyzer le québecois comme ça, j'ai bien aimé écouter ce vidéo! Je ne m'attendais pas dutout à ça à soir. Ça me rapelle mes cours de linguistique au cégep. En début de première session, on se faisait passer des textes classiques québecois et on devait délibérer sur les nuances de leurs prononciations, et l'inverse quand on se faisait présenter des extraits audios et on devait délibérer sur comment on l'écrirait pour être authentique. C'était un éxercise très divertissant. Tu devrais l'essayer avec des québecois. Le premier texte qu'on s'est fait donner était "Les triplettes de Bellevile".

Loved your video. In written form, it abides by the same grammar and vocabulary, so it is in fact the same language. In spoken form, its "shortcuts" are indeed different from the ones used in Europe, but that is just as true for american English and Spanish.

Félicitations ce vidéo est très bien fait, good bilingual bro!

I'm french Canadian, your spoken french is amazing.

Tabarnak! Nice vidéo.

Un Québécois ici. Je suis impressionné par ta compréhension de la langue française au Québec. On parle tous avec certaines variations dans le Canada. Les Franco-albertain et les francophones de la Saskatchewan ont un accent quelque peu différent et n'utilisent pas tellement les variations linguistiques utilisés au Québec. L'accent acadien est également très différent et n'a pas vraiment de comparaison. Ton français québécois est vraiment bon. Je dois avouer que si je te croisait et avait une discussion, j'aurais de la difficulté à comprendre d'où tu viens. Tu parles très clairement avec les usages de la langue québécoise, mais c'est rare de rencontrer quelqu'un qui connaît si bien les détails de la langue (ou l'accent) si bien.

Very good crash course, now how about explaining the funky phenomenon going on at Ontario/Quebec border towns we call Fringlish ou Franglais. Best listened to in the morning coffee time rush of any fast food joint. Les mum's y sont hilarious a écouter with ton morning café.

The guy in this video speaks beautiful French, Bravo!

Très bon vidéo! C'est plaisant voir une perspective de l'extérieur.