American Gets Laughed Out of Canada When He Tries Speaking French

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I always found it fascinating that the instant you cross the border from the Northeastern United States into Canada, many people start speaking French as their first language and many of them don’t speak English. And less than a 2-hour drive from the United States is the last major city in North America where over 90% of residents speak only French as their first language, which believe it or not is actually a greater percentage than speak French in Paris.

But people from France have historically looked down on Quebec French as nonstandard and rustic, but having learned my own very basic French more from West Africans, Haitians, Cajuns, and Canadians than French people, I was perfectly okay coming to Quebec City to practice my French, even if people did think it was kind of strange that this random American tourist sounded like a rural Quebecois lumberjack.

0:00 Introduction
1:43 French people cannot understand her accent?
4:34 "I speak trash French"
6:37 "We don't want English to take over"
7:33 Getting drunk at ice bar
10:36 This toboggan is too fast
11:22 My first time trying poutine
14:27 Quebec man shocked at my profanity
15:53 She does ice sculptures with a chainsaw
16:49 They swim in the winter here?!?!

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