Where are you from?

[swimmer_spe]

Originally Posted by urbandreamer

A more interesting question would be: where are your parents and grandparents from?

Depending on the side, new immigrants or old immigrants. On one side, my grandparents emigrated her. On the other, they have been here as long as Canada was a country. However, they did emigrate here.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by FrAnKs

Are you totally fluent in French?

I was. French is my second language, but we only spoke English at home as my parents were not very good at speaking French. I can understand 100% when reading/listening but I tend to speak with considerably less facility than I did in my early 20s (when I was fluent), half a lifetime ago. When I get together with French-speaking members of my family, after about 4 hours it all starts coming back, and I can converse quite well (allowing for mangled verb tenses and some mixups with word order). My children are both in French Immersion so I am brushing up on my French. Otherwise, there is little opportunity for me to use it in London. I did work for years in almost exclusively francophone environments, and that is the best way to get you to think in French (which makes it much easier to speak, than to 'translate' in your head). I can enjoy French programming on the TV and watch movies in French without missing anything, and I certainly get by very well when in Quebec/France.

[urbandreamer]

My mother and grandmother speak/spoke French, both having learned it from the same tutor in Aix-en-Provence. My grandmother lived/worked in both Montreal and Paris although she was a Canadian-born Anglophone. My father was multilingual: English, Old English/Norse, Spanish, German and Latin, with French and Hebrew reading comprehension. I was terrible at languages although in junior high did suddenly pick up a bit of French: being a poor listener/ASD results in poor language skills.

[MolsonExport]

Aix-en-Provence is very lovely. I spent some time there when I was based in nearby Marseille.

[Black Star]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Aix-en-Provence is very lovely. I spent some time there when I was based in nearby Marseille.

Also know as Hell lol

[Proof Sheet]

Originally Posted by p_xavier

I'm from New Brunswick but currently resides in North Glengarry, Alexandria part. Decided to stay into a rural community because of the communists that are invading cities, barely exagerating here. I don't drive but manage to do everything on foot. People find that weird but I don't care.

I know Alexandria and would think you are one of a handful who don't get around by car/F-150. There is a train station there on the Ottawa/Montreal line I believe.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by Black Star

Also know as Hell lol

?
What is also known as Hell? Some place that you have never been to?
what is the lol for? You are actually laughing out loud? At what?
lay off the sauce.


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[thenoflyzone]

Born and raised in Montreal. Currently residing in Laval.

Originally Posted by lio45

Neither - I'm pretty sure the spirit of the question is "where do you receive your important mail / where does the CRA believe you live".

(That wording makes the difference between me answering Vancouver or Sherbrooke, and I'm pretty sure the answer Truenorth seeks is the latter)

How is it neither?

If where you live (most of the time, in the case of several properties) isn't the same as where the CRA believes you live, you're doing something shady !

[esquire]

I think QAnon memes on Facebook have fried Black Star's brain.