Canada Sucks

[lochinvar]

I actually thought folks in Quebec were really nice, so long as I didn't try to speak Fronch. ("And to drink... Peru!")

Yeah, I've noticed that most people are flattered if you make any attempt to learn their language, no matter how you might mangle it.

Not the French, or French-speakers. They just give you a pained expression and say, "Let's switch to English. Your French is 'orrible!"

Oh, well. C'est la vie.

[kalivor]

I actually thought folks in Quebec were really nice, so long as I didn't try to speak Fronch. ("And to drink... Peru!")

Strange ... it always seems to me that (outside of Montreal), if you *try* to speak French they'll immediately switch to English and treat you nicely. If you don't even bother, they'll pretend not to understand a word.

Though not always with me ... by the end of a weekend in Quebec, people will occasionally have half a conversation with me before switching over to English. I don't know if I have a Quebecois accent when speaking French, or if I just sound really funny. In any case, eventually they figure out that my slow speach and lack of vocabulary isn't (just) because I'm a moron, but because I don't really speak French, and switch over.