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		Québec French is often considered to be a poor relation of Parisian French, the latter meaning, I suppose, French as spoken by the cultivated élite of Paris.
		For instance, in a French Québécois enterprise, power tends to be centralized and in the hands of the plant director as opposed to decentralized and shared with immediate managers as would generally be the case in a comparable English-Canadian enterprise.
		In a French Québécois enterprise, the immediate supervisor has very limited powers, his role being limited to supervising the implementation of decisions made by his or her superior, whereas, in an English-Canadian enterprise, the immediate supervisor has discretionary powers and is encouraged to show initiative.
	www.educ.uvic.ca /faculty/hfrance/french.htm (5019 words)

	French language
		Even if French it's not anymore the universal language of politics as in the past, the fact that it enjoys great health and that it is in a period of expansion and reaffirmation from cultural groups that use it as their native language cannot be denied.
		In Africa, French works as a neutral communication medium between the different ethnic groups who own each one their own language at the same time as the language of the administration and the government, as much as in diplomacy and even in education.
		Furthermore, French is also still spoken by some in Vietnam, which used to be the French colony of Indochine, and in the French territories of Nouvelle Caledonie and other islands of Oceania, giving it the distinction of being spoken in the five continents.
	www.orbislingua.com /eac.htm (653 words)

	Canada - MSN Encarta
		Halifax, Nova Scotia (380,800), is a seaport and the economic center of the Atlantic region.
		The remaining French Canadians are thinly scattered through the rest of Canada, but there are a few concentrations, such as the Saint Boniface district of Winnipeg.
		Many, if not most, of them regard Québec as the center of their society and culture, and their effort to preserve it has led to a movement of French Canadian nationalism that has taken several forms.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563379_6/Canada.html (1410 words)

	French as a Minority Language in Bilingual Canada
		However, it is still French, and it is not creole, dialect or patois, and it is not a regional French.
		Québecers whose mother-tongue is French comprise 82% of the local population, thus being a linguistic majority in the province.
		However, French is now in the majority in both social and economic life, with 68.3% of companies with 100 or more employees being francophone, and 84% of those with 50 to 99 employees (Grenier, 2001).
	www3.telus.net /linguisticsissues/french.html (1419 words)

	tremblant quebec Hotel Mont-Tremblant, accommodation and lodging
		The French Canadian majority in tremblant quebec increasingly thought of itself as secular, predominantly urban, and middle-class.
		French Canadian writers and performing artists have used their language to create a uniquely modern and diverse artistic culture.
		Many French Canadian writers turned to themes and critical approaches reflecting the complex social, cultural, and class structure of modern French-speaking communities in tremblant quebec and elsewhere.
	www.hotelmonttremblant.com /ang/tremblant-quebec.htm (1000 words)

	Vive Le Quebec Libre!
		That is the date many Quebecois (what most of the French population of Quebec refers to itself as) refer to as the date of conquest.
		The large French populations in those three states are largely a legacy of that emigration from Quebec.
		Many people of French heritage in Quebec couldn’t speak the language, the Roman Catholic Church was under assault, as were the French institutions such as education and law that were fundamentally different from those of their Anglo counterparts.
	www.geocities.com /ludahai/md020624.html (1135 words)

	Le francais quebecois
		The French that is spoken in Québec is very different from all the other varieties of French that exist in the world.
		It is not a regional French either, since this term only applies to a variety of French spoken in a region of France.
		French will be seen as an old poetic language, a stranger to technological progress (since all new technologies are acquired from England and the United States) and business.
	www.republiquelibre.org /cousture/FRANC2.HTM (937 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Style Live: Travel
		In a city where two-thirds of the locals claim French as a first language, the windows of bakeries are laden with croissants, and fashionable women step onto the sidewalks as if from a page of Elle, the mistake is easy for a casual observer to make.
		In a place settled and built alternately by French, English and Canadians, one particular skill of Montrealers is their ability to balance between the English and French languages as if on a tightrope.
		One answer may be that the Quebecois have begun to assert their identity with a new-found boldness in the past couple of years.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/travel/destinations/montreal0426.htm (1979 words)

	Québécois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In French, the word Québécois generally refers to a native or resident of the province or of Quebec City.
		One of the problems inclusive Quebecois nationalists (those who reject ethnic nationalism) face is that the history which they claim defines the "Quebec nation" is derived from the collective experiences of an ethnic nation - the French-Canadians.
		Have French as a mother-tongue (representing 83% of the provincial population according to the 2001 Census)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebecois (1060 words)

	Quebec travel guide - Wikitravel
		Quebec (French: Québec; [1]) is a province of Canada, the largest in size and second to Ontario in population.
		Predominately French-speaking (French being the official language), Quebec is located in the east of Canada and is situated east of Ontario; to the west of Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island; finally, to the south of the territory of Nunavut.
		Many Quebecois celebrate the beginning of summer with backyard barbecues and parties at home, but there are also large public events in almost any town in the province, and huge public concerts in Montreal and Quebec City.
	wikitravel.org /en/Quebec (2035 words)

	Learning Village Educational Software Review of The Rocking Chair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		French oral and written comprehension, matching tests, and complex sentence reconstruction from beginner to advanced.
		The centre piece and starting point of La chaise berçante is watching "Crac", the story of a quebecois woodsman who builds a rocking chair from the biggest tree in the forest.
		And finally there is a 1000 word multimedia lexicon of vocabulary and even a set of quizzes that introduce you to the Quebecois "joual" of the 19th and early twentieth century.
	www.learningvillage.com /html/rLaChaise.html (852 words)

	Wikinfo \| French language
		French (Langue Française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered only by Spanish and Portuguese.
		French is the 11th most spoken language in the world, spoken by about 77 million people as a mother tongue, and 128 million including second language speakers, in 1999.
		It is the official and only language for instruction in schools in Comoros, Republic of the Congo, French Polynesia, Gabon and Mali.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=French_language (511 words)

	Canadian vs. Parisian French \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		French Canadian uses autobus scolaire for 'school bus' which is a loan translation for English but Parisian French doesn't really seem to have a word for it.
		I'm not sure what is meant by "new England French." In the County I'm from in New England, something like 25% of the population is of Quebecois origin, but the only people who actually speak the language natively are the small percentage of recently arrived French-Canadian immigrants and a few older people.
		I think that you consider the "official" french of televisions and medias to be "french french".
	www.antimoon.com /forum/posts/6809.htm (2251 words)

	The Squid's Ear
		The central problem for the Quebecois is in pursuing a national project based mainly on preservation and of a French-language heritage and the evolution of identity within an overwhelmingly English-speaking environment culturally and economically dominated by the United States.
		Tresor immediately foregrounds the difference between Quebecois French and the French spoken in France, as the first interlocutor is a woman from France who says that it is important to speak French in Quebec but that she has difficulty understanding the Quebecois dialect.
		A central thesis that emerges in Tresor is that the Quebecois identity is itself a metissage of French, English, native, German, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Haitian, and North African elements.
	www.squidsear.com /cgi-bin/news/newsView.cgi?newsID=24 (1124 words)

	Learn French in Canada, in Quebec, Montreal
		Haughty French roll their eyes - and may even make disparaging comments, but do not for a moment let that put you off.
		Bouchereau Lingua International Language School is a reliable, well-run French language school in Quebec.
		Point 3 Centre de Langues is a good place to learn French in Canada if you want to experience the buzz and excitement of Montreal.
	www.learn-french-now.com /learn-French-in-Canada.html (553 words)

	CASTE OF CHARACTERS
		The French have always been zealots about language, though the nature of the obsession differs on either side of the Atlantic.
		In France, traditionalists still take their cue from L'Académie Française, established 365 years ago under Louis XIII with the object of making French "pure and comprehensible by all." In Quebec, where the approach to language is more heterodox, francophones obsess less about the gradual corruption of French than about the threat of an English onslaught.
		The French Parliament passed a law in 1949 prohibiting the showing of foreign films dubbed outside of France; in 1984, French television networks, in an agreement with the actors' unions, ensured that dubbed TV programs would remain similarly pure.
	www.omnivore.org /jon/orwell/caste.htm (883 words)

	Quebec in the Electronic Passport
		The people of Quebec are very protective of their French culture and language and work hard to protect it.
		Quebec has strict language laws that are enforced by "language police." Laws dictate that all road signs in Quebec must be written in French, despite the fact that most Quebecois speak English and that English is the dominant language of the rest of Canada.
		The language laws were enacted to protect the minority status of French Quebecois in the face of the dominant English speaking culture of Canada, but that argument has recently been used against the French Quebecois.
	www.mrdowling.com /709-Quebec.html (470 words)

	Ottawa XPress - News - Canadian French for better travel
		Quebecois traces to the dialect of French utilized by the French during the 17th century including the King of France himself.
		So Quebecois contains many things from the French of that time, so it is not quite simply ebonics, because ebonics does not contain words from old style English as far as I know, while Quebecois does when it comes to French.
		Those who have been exposed to Quebec French their entire lives have no idea how difficult this language is to learn for outsiders.
	www.ottawaxpress.ca /news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=887 (1291 words)

	North American French
		The term North American French is what I use to designate people of French ancestry living in Canada or the United States of America.
		French Canadians living in Ontario are often referred to as Franco-Ontariens, while those in Manitoba are called Franco-Manitobains.
		If you have ancestry from these exotic lands, or your French family came over since 1803 (the year Louisiana was purchased), then you can still benefit from understanding how French records are used in North America, as there was some overlap in record-keeping practices across the French empire.
	habitant.org /franco.htm (1378 words)

	NIH: Quebec Nationalism in a Nutshell
		Concern for the purity of the French language in Quebec goes to the length of maintaining a government office to protect linguistic purity, and there is also the annual ritual of the wringing of the hands over the latest report of the language commissioner.
		As always, French is endangered by the incursion of the dreaded English.
		In the nineteenth and early twentieth century French Quebeckers were taught that they practised the purest form of Roman Catholicism, that the greatest threat to this pure religion of theirs was English protestantism, and that the next greatest threat was everything else that came from outside Quebec.
	pages.interlog.com /~jfitzger/shell2.htm (787 words)

	Vive Le Quebec libre \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Section 133 of the Act recognized the use of French in the Quebec legislature and courts as well as in the federal courts and parliament.
		French was made the official language of work, while "foreigners," including English speakers from elsewhere in Canada, were required to send their children to French schools.
		A Quebecois woman tourist whose car broke down in an upscale Vancouver neighborhood was brutally beaten by thugs who spotted her Quebec license plates.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/t271-840.htm (6080 words)

	Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's allymcbeal.html
		The reasoning, apparently, was that French dubbers don't grasp American comic sense, Jerry Lewis notwithstanding, whereas Quebecers, with their long-standing familiarity with and fondness for American pop culture, do.
		Some films are dubbed into both Parisian French and Québécois on the assumption that, at least in the case of Quebec, there are greater box office rewards to be obtained by issuing a film in a language more accessible to the target market.
		That's because the release of the French French version of the film is not slated until June, whereas in Quebec, in compliance with laws designed to protect Quebec's dubbing industry, the Québécois version will be released May 19, the same time as the original English version.
	www.tomifobia.com /allymcbeal.html (768 words)

	Quebec WebQuest
		This culture was predominantly a French speaking, Catholic, and rural population that eventually was forced to survive in an increasing sea of Anglophones (English speakers).
		More often than not, French and Quebecois explorers developed friendly relationships with Indians, maintained a strong connection to their French language and culture, and they were almost exclusively in the fur trade and farming until very late in the eighteenth century.
		Different Indian, French, and Anglo cultures merged to form a confederacy of people that is still challenged by their dissimilar cultures.
	www.milton.k12.vt.us /WebQuests/SChristensen/quebec_webquest.htm (511 words)

	(French) Canadien Words, eh?
		The main difference between French (from France) and Quebecois is the accent.
		Common words such as niaiseux for stupide (Stupid, but I guess you know that) or pantoute for pas du tout (not at all) are not understandable in France althought the French spoke them about 300 years ago.
		The weird thing about French Canadian Southern Ontarians is that even though many (especially those born in Ontario) speak better French than English, there is a touch of English accent in their French.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/life_in_canada/32225 (484 words)

	French (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Introduces you to the French language by an intensive study of important aspects of pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar through the use of audio-visual techniques such as flashcards, slides, video tapes and the multimedia laboratory.
		Prerequisites: French 12 or FREN 101 and FREN 102, or
		This is a one-semester course, conducted entirely in French, enabling students to speak as fluently as possible and to understand rapidly spoken French from different Francophone countries and regions.
	www.ucfv.bc.ca /calendar/2000_01/Course_Descr/french.htm (985 words)

	Quebec French - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With the onset of British rule in 1760, Quebec French became isolated from European French.
		Another potential factor is that in Quebecois French, curse words are frequently of religious (specifically Roman Catholic origin), whereas in Metropolitan French, the words are more harmless; ex:Quebecois will say câlisse ('chalice') where the French would say merde ('shit').
		In Europe, Quebec French has been rediscovered as a variety of French that is sometimes difficult to understand: vous entendre parler, c'est comme écouter une chanson ('hearing you speak is like listening to a song').
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec_French (3513 words)

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