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Montreal is a bilingual city the largest in the world, is in addition toFranceParisIn addition to the world's largest French city, the two language search, Montreal people subconsciously have forgotten this is two different languages.

In the streets of Montreal, a parade of bilingual begging. They generally to passers-by and held out his hand to the first sentence is: "Sir, do you speak English or French?" Then according to each other speak language say their begging words. Or, simply without even asking, begging the English and French words say it again. In this case, if you want to pretend not to know and not money that no way. In recent years Montreal beggars strive for further improvement in the language, see the Chinese face, it is the enthusiasm of the Chinese word "hello!" You want to say, he knows neither English nor French path is blocked.

Montreal is a bilingual city the largest in the world

"Bonjour" as "Bye"

Montreal is known as theCanadaThe second big city, but from the Chinese perspective, she had only moderate scale, no modern skyscrapers, also not a few likeBeijingAndShanghaiAs a busy street jostle one another on the way. Let Montreal people are proud of, is her multicultural environment.

Historically speaking, French explorers and fur traders early in 1642 established the Montreal prototype, and make it become a European development at the North American continent. ThenBritainPeople create prosperity in more than 200 years, making it one of the most important city in North america. Because of the influence of mutual wrestling, British and French are worried about their own culture to become vulnerable in the face of another culture, usually more love to complain about the national culture are treated unfairly, but despite the contradictions, but Montreal will not become another Belfast.

Montreal people face two major cultural conflict is flat and even humorous. They live in their own communities, working side by side in the same company, with the two language. On weekends, they work together in the hockey field to represent their city's ice hockey team barracking, to win or lose or tread with deep hatred and resentment, and this is called "the Canadian ice hockey team".

Looking for the French charm in Montreal

Linguistically speaking, Montreal is a bilingual city the largest in the world. A population of 3000000 in 38% of the residents speak French, 10% people speak English, the other 48% of the residents can speak French and english. In this sense, she is in French Paris outside the world's largest French-speaking city.

Montreal city is located in Quebec Province, in order to maintain the cultural tradition, the new arrivals have special requirements in the language, the provisions of the new immigrant children must be French school. It makes some new immigrant Chinese English-speaking parents worried, afraid of children lose the study english. In fact, the children either French or English school is school, grew up in a bilingual environment, over the past few years, these new immigrants children either French or English speaking is do a job with skill and ease, finally let parents headache is children forgot their native language.