Anonymous asks: 

 there are horror stories about coyote wolves and grolar bears plus even the herbivores win fights with cars!

and i guess racoons can be intimidating with their little demon hands and  bandito attitudes

but i think we have it pretty easy almost nothing poisonous mostly just a lot of squirrels and pigeons ahah

OH RIGHT and our national animals are pretty pernickety you think oh what a pretty bird why is it hissing oh my god how does its neck do that is it charging??? at me ?? yeS? jesus wHAT!!!?

Anonymous asks: 

canadian french has a different accent and intonation/pronounciation than European french sooo in Quebec, the ain/en sounds in words like ‘pain’ (bread) and putain (aha) are pronounced with a sort of nasal-y “ain” (which i cant do, to my shame)

someone from France would pronounce it with a more open(?) ‘ahn’ or ‘en’ sound

do i sound biased well neither is right or wrong or worse or better theyre just different 

i hope this helps :)

Anonymous asks: 

not even a little bit

Anonymous asks: 

WELL

there is no wrong way its language and words and accents are fluid etc

but in quebec they pronounce it differently, with the last syllable being a “tsin” rather than teen

Dont worry about it. Poo teen just sounds super anglo but so is most of the world.

ALSO she may have been joking because Putain means whore and sounds a bit look pou-tan so…. careful everyone

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haveyou-metted asks: 

Hmm well the accent is completely different, sometimes i can hardly understand Quebecoise

one common misconception is that it (it refering to Parisian French) is “purer” or w/e which is just silly there is english vocabulary as well its just .. different. Where i stayed people called e-mails “un mail” because well, french simply doesnt have that same number of words as english, especially modern ones

and some french words mean different things like in school here we are taught “soulier” means shoes but in france thats an older word that means an especially fancy shoe, so you may get some funny looks

also very different swear words

i cant think of more specifics right now and feel like this is already kinda long but its certainly a different dialect 

Edit: also to my shame i cant make some quebecoise sounds i cant do the “ain” just en sorry guys

Anonymous asks: 

Anonymous asks: 

I took french immersion from grade 1 all through high school and last year i spent three months in France.

It has certainly slipped since then but i consider myself (mostly) fluent, the French say i have an english accent, and anglophones say its parisian but i can certainly communicate. 

The other mod speaks french as well, she grew up in Quebec.

Anonymous asks: 

that’s the PROBLEM i just want my complimentary biscuits and competent professionalism i don’t want tO PLAY PASS THE TOILET PAPER