{"id":31242,"date":"2019-04-09T05:30:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T03:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=31242"},"modified":"2019-04-05T04:16:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T02:16:37","slug":"french-music-canadian-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-music-canadian-style\/","title":{"rendered":"French Culture – Canadian Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

While my taste in all things French tends to run to the France French, if you’ve read me before you know that I have family in Qu\u00e9bec and I go there from time to time<\/a>. I also like to keep up when I can with how the culture is evolving up there. This week I happened to come across two tidbits I wanted to share with you.<\/p>\n

Les nouveaux immigr\u00e9s\u00a0<\/strong> \/\u00a0The new immigrants<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>With high unemployment, European and domestic turmoil, and uncertain future, more French are leaving France today for Qu\u00e9bec than just about anytime since the early days of Nouvelle France. There are no so many in and around Montreal, in fact, that the cultural differences of these long lost\u00a0cousins<\/strong> (cousins<\/em>) is (playfully) causing friction. From sports (soccer vs hockey) to beverages (wine vs beer) to even\u00a0les rapports entre les sexes<\/strong> (the relations between the sexes), <\/em>it seems the years and the miles that have separated these two groups have driven them apart. This great song<\/a> from a few years back (written and performed ironically by an actual French person in Montr\u00e9al) laments “[Il] y’a trop de Fran\u00e7ais \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al […] qui font monter les loyers et viennent niquer nos femmes.<\/strong>” (There are too many French in Montreal […] who drive up the rents and steal our women.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Fun fact: According to a recent New York Times op ed piece about Brexit<\/a>, there are over 300,000 French citizens living in London, making it one of the world’s largest French-speaking cities!<\/div>\n

\u00a0C’est l’accent<\/strong> \/ It’s the accent<\/em><\/p>\n

I learned my French in France. Over the years though, I’ve learned to adapt to the Qu\u00e9becois accent and vocabulary<\/a> (which in the end, isn’t all that different; I think if you know the difference between American English and British English, you’ll get the picture … though sometimes the Canadian accent does veer a bit towards Scottish and then I get lost!). The song below by the French Canadian group LGS (Le Groupe Swing) is not only fun, but is a great example of that accent and some unique vocabulary.<\/p>\n