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  • West coast Canadian who is proud of Canada’s French history but can’t speak French.

    Language needs to be used in daily life for a lot of people.

    I’ve met countless immigrants who can’t speak very good English after being here for years because they just don’t speak it at home, only when they need to put in public.

    Which is no different than me learning French from grade 6 to 8 and not being able to learn it, though I do understand it more than I expected that one time I was in Quebec City for 2 weeks (absolutely lovely city, and the Thai soup I had from Don Vegan, the cities first vegan only restaurant, was the best Thai soup I’ve ever had. DELICIOUS! But I digress) It’s just a symptom of not needing it in your life because I’m just not around it. I’m not a super outgoing person either and I’ve never been good at getting a conversation going so my own hurdles are certainly part of this, but I’ve worked with a lot of immigrants and I think in spite of my bias, it’s pretty accurate.

    America isn’t much different in that regard, unless you are on a southern border there’s significantly less opportunity to have other languages be part of the fabric of the average americans personal lives. Not impossible but just a lot less likely














  • I saw them in Vancouver last year too.

    I think she’s perfect on the new music but her singing the old stuff just isn’t there yet.

    Which is fair, she will improve on that but I think she just needs more of her own music before she will get a fair response from the crowd. Which is just a matter of time so this isn’t even a complaint




  • I don’t know who the main character is on the show so I might need some help with this one from you fine folks.

    The show was Shameless(US) season 3 the episode was where Frank actually takes the blame so Carl doesn’t get arrested for heist they pulled at the foster parents that wanted to adopt Carl and Liam(they were happy to take Carl, but they wanted a bi facial baby and were keen on keeping Liam)

    So uhh who’s the main character and what does that make my job?