2006-08-10 06:41:11 · 3 answers · asked by Jeremy W 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Montreal is a fully bilingual city. I've worked 5 years in a fully english environment and I have no doubt that there are many similar establishments.
Yes, it's much easier to get a job speaking french, but I don't think it's that hard if you don't speak french.
2006-08-10 06:46:40 · answer #1 · answered by Lyvy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2016-07-23 07:11:33 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very difficult in the recent years with the PQ taking power and the Language Police out everywhere. I swear, if it were Belgium which is also officially bilingual, you wouldn't have "Language Police" out everywhere making sure that Flemish took its "rightful" SECONDARY place...even in Brussels. The Quebecois seem to hate the English language even more than FRANCE does. Also, it's not really French, people. It's Quebecois which is slang and called "joual" and if they can't understand YOU because you speak proper French, i.e. like Switzerland or Belgium or Luxembourg, then you will forever be dubbed "you don't speak French!!" I kid you not: I heard them do that to some people from GENEVA. And of course, Brussels. Maybe because most Brusselites speak three languages and Quebec is so overwhelmingly illiterate that they assume that French isn't one of them, I don't know. I met people from Brussels there who told me that yes, it WAS racism.
That being said, West Island is predominantly Anglophone. Problem is that unless you have a car, West Island job places aren't really accessible by public transportation. Fortunately cars seem to be relatively cheap there.
2017-01-10 06:29:29 · answer #3 · answered by choctawmicmac 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋