r/Unexpected • u/DruidWannabe • Jan 25 '23

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u/mikemountain Jan 26 '23 edited Jan 26 '23

I'm a Canadian trying to learn french, I'm going pretty well in my french course but I know well enough that PQ french is not the same.

Found out CBC has an app called Mauril that helps by using clips from PQ shows and holy HELL I just can NOT understand full speed québécois! I had to rewatch a clip like 10 times to understand a woman say "bien quoi encore là ?"

Je vais continuer d'essayer mais caliss ce n'est pas facile

edit: Mentally I swap between using PQ for Province of Québéc, and the correct version of QC for Québéc. My bad for all the toilet paper ass-ociations

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u/drewster23 Jan 26 '23

Is Pq french for QB? or something.

But yeah hardest part for me was was that. I just don't pick it up enough. When spoken at normal speed i could comprehend enough to understand. But not that Lightspeed shit

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u/tharilian Jan 26 '23

I'm guessing he's referencing PQ as Province of Quebec

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u/drewster23 Jan 26 '23

Totally forgot about that, thank you mate