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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
A surprising number of Americans (and non Canadians in general) think that you need to know French to get by in Canada across the country, even if they are aware that the whole country doesn’t always speak it.
You see posts on Reddit all the time asking questions like “I’m going to school in London, ON, do I need to know French?”… which is just hilarious from a Canadian perspective.
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Years ago when I told my French teacher at a suburban high school outside Houston that I had lived in Canada, she asked if I’d attended a
lycée. I didn’t even know what a lycée was at the time. I told her that in suburban Toronto what I had attended was called a “secondary school.”