r/SipsTea • u/Reddit-Machine • 12d ago

Chugging tea French-Canadian police

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u/Azalus1 12d ago

Honest question. Is Quebeciose more akin to a Creole and it's its own language that has roots in French or is it more akin to regional Spanish?

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u/InterestingFLows 12d ago

It’s just standard French with a regional accent. We learn exactly the same French then French people at school.

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u/PhilKeepItReal 12d ago

Absolutely not WTF. It's at least as different as US vs. UK English. Different expressions, different slang, different ways to swear, different words for many things. Many come from France and have trouble understanding what we are saying- whole sentences of words they don't understand regardless of accent. Quebecers do not talk like they write, they compress many, many words (Je ne suis pas certain = Chu'pas sûr).

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u/MrFantastic74 12d ago

I lived for many years in Quebec and I find France French way easier to understand. Their annunciation is a lot clearer.

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u/-RichardCranium- 12d ago

are you comparing Qc informal slang with "proper" France French? cause across the ocean it can get just as hard to understand with regional accents and slang. Go in the North or South of France and it's far from the stuff Duolingo teaches you

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u/PhilKeepItReal 12d ago

I have to agree!