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  2. Joual - Wikipedia

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    While Joual is often considered a sociolect of the Québécois working class, [2] many feel that perception is outdated, with Joual becoming increasingly present in the arts. [ 1 ] Speakers of Quebec French from outside Montreal usually have other names to identify their speech, such as Magoua in Trois-Rivières , and Chaouin south of Trois ...

  3. Quebec French lexicon - Wikipedia

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    courses/Faire des courses / Faire les magasins The word for "shop" or "store" in all varieties of French is le magasin. In Quebec, the verb magasiner is used for "shopping", and was naturally created by simply converting the noun. In France, the expression is either faire des courses, faire des achats, faire des emplettes, or faire du shopping.

  4. File:WIKITONGUES- Maxime speaking Québecois French.webm

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    Maxime’s native variety of Québecois French, sometimes known simply as Québecois, is spoken by about seven million people, primarily in the Canadian province of Québec. Like other varieties of North American French, such as Acadian and Louisiana French, Québecois has diverged considerably from European varieties, retaining 18th-century ...

  5. Quebec French - Wikipedia

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    Quebec French (French: français québécois [fʁɑ̃sɛ kebekwa]), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada.It is the dominant language of the province of Quebec, used in everyday communication, in education, the media, and government.

  6. Accent (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual. [1] An accent may be identified with the locality in which its speakers reside (a regional or geographical accent), the socioeconomic status of its speakers, their ethnicity (an ethnolect), their caste or social class (a social accent), or influence from their ...

  7. Does your name have an accent? Not in California, where they ...

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    A California Assembly bill would allow the use of diacritical marks like accents in government documents, not allowed since 1986's "English only" law which many say targeted Latinos.

  8. French orthography - Wikipedia

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    French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.

  9. List of Quebec films - Wikipedia

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    Y’a des fois où j’aimerais me trouver sur une île déserte: Eli Jean Tahchi [207] The Sticky Side of Baklava: La Face cachée du baklava: Maryanne Zéhil [208] Target Number One (a/k/a Most Wanted) Suspect numéro un: Daniel Roby [209] There Are No False Undertakings: Il n'y a pas de faux métier: Olivier Godin [210] Underground ...