French Quebec

Author : Steve Timmins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995-11-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015050757643

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French Fun by Steve Timmins Pdf

If you grapple daily with spoken Québec French, are thinking of visiting or doing business in la belle province or would like to communicate more effectively with your Québécois friends and colleagues, French Fun is the book for you. With lively illustrations and hilarious literal translations, it introduces you to the French language of Québec through a collection of some of the most common and colourful idioms heard in Québec today. These are words from the real spoken French of Québec — some standard, some informal, others with a fascinating linguistic or cultural story behind them. The perfect complement to all French programs, French Fun is a must for anyone wishing to have a more intimate acquaintance with the French language of Québec and the people who speak it. Ce livre constitue un recueil des mots et expressions les plus courants et colorés de la langue québécoise de tous les jours. En le publiant, l’auteur veut partager cette richesse linguistique avec les anglophones de partout. Bien que s’adressant principalement aux anglophones, cette oeuvre peut aussi être intéressante et utile pour les francophones.

Author : Pierre Levesque
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 136637357X

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Learn Canadian French by Pierre Levesque Pdf

Learn Canadian French and speak with a beautiful aged accent of colonial France that has stood the test of time, exceeding 400 years in North America. This book provides countless expressions, idioms, and typical French Canadian words, explaining the differences between Parisian French and Canadian French, with many grammar tables. This book also contains one chapter featuring French-Canadian medium to high impact coarse language. This second edition also includes downloadable audio files, provided in the link inside the book. Once downloaded, you may listen to various chapters and practice your Canadian French oral spoken skills by repeating the sentences and pronunciations. You will also find that the words include English transliteral pronunciations of the French words, which helps the reader tremendously in understanding the French-Canadian accent.

Author : Edward M. Corbett
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421435374

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Québec Confronts Canada by Edward M. Corbett Pdf

Originally published in 1967. The nationalistic sentiment of French Canada was starkly dramatized by the Montreal terrorist bombings in the spring of 1963. Admittedly the work of extremists, that eruption of violence was an offshoot of the profound social, political, economic, and cultural transformation—an accelerated evolution rather than a revolution—that Quebec has undergone since the end of World War II. This revolution tranquille is characterized by a new sense of self-confidence among French Canadians, an eagerness to reject what they regard as any hint of second-class citizenship, and a determination to take full share in all aspects of Canadian life—without, however, sacrificing their French culture and heritage. A threat to the Canadian Confederation is implicit in the growing reluctance of modern French-speaking Canadians to abide the "tyranny of the majority," however enlightened or well-intentioned it may be. This first book-length study in English of the conflict between French and English Canadians provides a thorough treatment of French-Canadian complaints against English Canada, and of their implications for Canadian unity. Dr. Corbett devotes the first part of his study to an analysis of the ferment within the French-speaking population of Quebec during the postwar period. He discusses the relation between French-Canadian nationalism and other nationalisms and the roles played by the language barrier, the church, and the separatist movement. In the second part of the study he considers the political, economic, and social implications of separatism, with particular regard to the proposals for adapting the Constitution to Quebecois demands. After tracing the evolution of the ambivalent English-Canadian concept of Canada's national identity, he concludes that the future of the Confederation will depend on how far the English majority is willing to go in meeting French demands.

Author : Daniel Kraus
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781532002519

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Speak Québec! by Daniel Kraus Pdf

Regarde a! As-tu dj vu a? Tu me crois-tu? Speak Qubec! is a fun and practical handbook designed to help both native English and French speakers understand and speak Qubcois, the common tongue in Qubec. Comprising over three thousand commonly used words and expressions, Speak Qubec! provides a dynamic and accurate reference for daily Qubec conversation, including clear examples of common sayings heard around the Province. It also includes a complete history of the language, and a guide to differences in pronunciation and grammar from International French. Designed for quick reference and practical usage, Speak Qubec! is a terrific way to understand and appreciate one of the oldest, richest, and most inspired cultures in North America.

Author : Chantal Bouchard
Publisher : Guernica Editions
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132233128

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Obsessed with Language by Chantal Bouchard Pdf

A fascinating study of the French-Canadian dialect, this insightful analysis examines the intimate relationship between Quebec and its heartily defended dialect, from 19th-century Parisian French to the joual of the 1960s.

Author : Hubert Charbonneau
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0874134544

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The First French Canadians by Hubert Charbonneau Pdf

This book is the culmination of an enormous project aimed at the identification of the original French migrants to Quebec and their descendants in the form of a computerized population register.

Author : Raleigh Morgan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110810585

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The Regional French of County Beauce, Québec by Raleigh Morgan Pdf

Author : Peter N. Moogk
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870135286

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La Nouvelle France by Peter N. Moogk Pdf

On one level, Peter Moogk's latest book, La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada—A Cultural History, is a candid exploration of the troubled historical relationship that exists between the inhabitants of French- and English- speaking Canada. At the same time, it is a long- overdue study of the colonial social institutions, values, and experiences that shaped modern French Canada. Moogk draws on a rich body of evidence—literature; statistical studies; government, legal, and private documents in France, Britain, and North America— and traces the roots of the Anglo-French cultural struggle to the seventeenth century. In so doing, he discovered a New France vastly different from the one portrayed in popular mythology. French relations with Native Peoples, for instance, were strained. The colony of New France was really no single entity, but rather a chain of loosely aligned outposts stretching from Newfoundland in the east to the Illinois Country in the west. Moogk also found that many early immigrants to New France were reluctant exiles from their homeland and that a high percentage returned to Europe. Those who stayed, the Acadians and Canadians, were politically conservative and retained Old Régime values: feudal social hierarchies remained strong; one's individualism tended to be familial, not personal; Roman Catholicism molded attitudes and was as important as language in defining Acadian and Canadian identities. It was, Moogk concludes, the pre-French Revolution Bourbon monarchy and its institutions that shaped modern French Canada, in particular the Province of Quebec, and set its people apart from the rest of the nation.

Author : Sir James MacPherson Le Moine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNUU3R

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Glimpses of Quebec During the Last Ten Years of French Domination, 1749-59 by Sir James MacPherson Le Moine Pdf

Author : Camille Laurin
Publisher : Éditeur officiel du Québec, Service de la reprographie
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Bilingualism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038736455

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Québec's Policy on the French Language by Camille Laurin Pdf

Author : Olivia Walsh
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266736

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Linguistic Purism by Olivia Walsh Pdf

This book represents the first in-depth, comparative investigation of linguistic purism in modern French. It investigates the relative prevalence of purist ideology in France and Quebec. Both experience influence from English and have similar language legislation, but they differ in their social, political and economic history. Three different levels of society are examined (official, group and individual), allowing a comparison of the ‘voice from above’ and the ‘voice from below’. This is a key element in recent discussions of language planning but is rarely provided in studies of French. The study is also the first to apply to empirical data Thomas’s widely cited theoretical framework for describing linguistic purism (1991), and has evaluated and refined this, enhancing the theoretical underpinnings of the field. The book will be of interest not only to French scholars and sociolinguists, but also to scholars of language planning, language policy and language ideologies in all languages.

Author : Richard Y. Bourhis
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0905028252

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Conflict and Language Planning in Quebec by Richard Y. Bourhis Pdf

This book presents a coherent picture of Quebec's efforts to make French the only official language of Quebec society. This book provides many answers as to why Bill 101 was implemented by the Quebec Government but it raises numerous questions when it comes time to evaluate the impact of the Charter on different sectors of Quebec society.

Author : Michel Gratton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002231767

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French Canadians by Michel Gratton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Québec (Province)
ISBN : HARVARD:HNI48X

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History of the French in America by Anonim Pdf

The title is misleading. The work is actually an account of the author's life in Quebec with extracts of many letters from relatives, his opinions on many subjects, and many adverse comments on Catholicism.

Author : John Hewson
Publisher : München : Lincom Europa
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : French language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112268979

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The French Language in Canada by John Hewson Pdf