As fans of “Degrassi,” poutine, and aggressive politeness are aware, the Canadian accent is very similar to the American one—particularly the Upper Midwestern region (you betcha!). Still, several ...

The French of Paris or the French of Quebec? It’s a question that the Union des Artistes, the main actors union in the Francophone province, has been wrestling with for years. The Dec. 9 launch of ...

Half a year ago, Seven Days published its first Québec Issue. On June 21, 2023, we filled an entire edition of this newspaper with stories about our Canadian neighbor. In the past we’d written on ...

French has the reputation of being a monocentric language, in contradistinction to languages such as English and Spanish, which are polycentric (i.e., they have several standard varieties). Throughout ...

What keeps Vermonters from venturing to Québec more often? Whether they admit it or not, for most Anglophones, it’s the official language of: French, aka français — and not the kind you learned in ...

I was recently listening to a teaser for a just-launched Montreal podcast when I was once again reminded of how disconnected Quebec politics often appears to be from our city’s cultural and linguistic ...

The French Charter was adopted in 1977 by the Quebec government to protect the French language. Through the French Charter, the French language holds status as the official language in the province of ...

My whole family is British, so my sister and I can fake English accents on command. So, when we were heading off to college, where no one knew us, we jokingly said, "We should fake British accents!

Most Americans don’t need to fly across an ocean to immerse themselves in the French language. There are millions of French speakers just to our north in Canada. 1. CANADA IS OFFICIALLY BILINGUAL (AND ...