Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]French Albertans speak "Franco-Albertan". All of these dialects are closely related to what was spoken in Brittany a long time ago. Present local Briton dialects are more closely related to Quebecois and Franco-Albertan than they are to Parisian French. John Collier On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 09:07 AM, Jack McLain wrote: > I also spend a lot of time in Montreal and Quebec. They tell me that > their > dialect of french is actually a very old version, Arcadian in origin > (16th/17th century) and has diverged from the european significantly > since > then. > From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com> > >> Is that French or Quebecois they speak and teach up there >> in Alberta ? - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html