Can you understand french-canadians; for us French , its difficult...more for you?

Answer 1

The easiest people for me to understand speaking French are fellow non-francophones, who speak slower and are easier to follow.

Next up is a Quebecoise woman I know who has lived here in the states for decades. I understand her just fine.

If I'm listening to a francophone, I used to find French people easier to understand, and that is generally still the case, but I'm having better results with Quebecois lately.

Answer 2

As a primarily english speaker who learned french in school *(grades 4-12), I have an easier time understanding someone from France speaking french than I do a Quebecor.

Answer 3

That is alot of the probelm, the french we are taught in school is based on Parisian or Continental french, I have friends and did work in Quebec and the French Canadian language, has deveolped over the years, with gaelic, acadian and others based in the area since Quebec was discovered and settled in the 1500's.

Answer 4

Who is "us"? The French from France?

I work and live in Quebec, and our company has a number of clients in France. We do not seem to have any problems making ourselves understood, and we also can understand their French quite easily.

There are naturally some slangs and local dialects in Quebec, and the culture has developed with a less formal language, so when meeting people we are more likely to use the informal "je" and "tu" rather than "nous" and "vous". Even in Quebec, if a Montrealer were speaking with someone from La Gaspesie or Saguenay, they each will notice a distinct accent, much like someone from Boston speaking with someone from Dallas.

J'ai compris votre question, meme si l'anglais n'etait pas exacte. Je pense qu'avec du temps, vous allez comprende mieux la langue Quebecois. ;-)

Answer 5

Sometimes it's question of attitude... I'm a Quebeccer / French Canadian or whatever some frustrated people want to call us...

Some Parisian people we met doesn't seem to want to understand us (ooohhh ! vous vouliez dire du beuuuurrre et non du bEur - clairement le serveur a fait exprès pour nous "donner une lecon" mais heureusement c'était l'exception, nous avons beaucoup aimé les autres Parisiens :)

And when I travelled south-east, people were friendly and except for a few expressions really seem to easilly understand. We had some difficulties to understand some people from deep country too, I guess it's just normal (pas loin de Lamontélarié, fascinant d'entendre le vieux monsieur :)

Quebeccers feel uncomfortable sometimes and can talk too fast but usually they try to help and if they're asked to slow down they will do it.

Si je me fie à mon impression avec les Anglais d'Angleterre, d'Écosse ou autre (leur anglais m'est difficile à suivre aussi par rapport à l'américain), on s'habitue après quelques minutes.

If you can watch Quebec's DVD, it will help :)

Answer 6

Pardon. I only understand Canadians.