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Originally Posted by urbandreamer
A more interesting question would be: where are your parents and grandparents from?
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I'm not sure, but I believe Molson can speak a tiny bit of French, though he's far from comfortable with the language.
I've never seen or heard him, but I've been a member of this site for long and somehow, there are things or people like him that hit my brain and my memory.
I can't explain how or why. I've just always known he's from Montreal and lived in Marseille at some point.
Once you've got a serious taste of the French language, it turns out an addiction. It's like an open door to all other Western European languages. At least Romance ones and English. These are not too hard to get to us.
German, Dutch and Scandinavian languages are a bit far fetched, though. It's not like they'd be so easy. But when you speak French, you get a rather easy access to English, Spanish Castilian and Catalan, Italian or Portuguese. Even possibly Romanian that's another Romance language, though I don't know shit about it.
Anyway, that's quite convenient. You take a look at France's location, then you see why it's been some sort of northern Romance thing. The country is like at the crossroad of Western Euro nations.
I came to think that we never really invented our own language. It was given to us by our neighbors.
Finally, some people in Montreal must have some old English ancestry and now find the English language kind of annoying. They must be too used to French.