Les Québécois vs. Les Acadiens

What's the relationship like between the Quebecers and the Acadians? Friendly rivalry? Mutual intelligibility? Which province is your favo(u)rite?

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• nouveau brunswick
• new brunswick
• quebec
• les quebecois
• les acadiens
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• wilfre lebouthillier

[Rushxtanker]

acadiens for the win calice cose tu parle wilfred radio radio

[insegnilo]

@Rushxtanker Heh - Cliche' Hot!

[REDEMBTION]

moi je viens de l'acadie faque j'ai de la famille du Quebec sooo,, LOL on va l'accueuillir avec toute ses amis... puis les tourrists la plupart du temps on les faits decouvrir le peit coin de part chez nous ;) / If you want than I translate I can 4 you ::)

FROM REDEMBTION :)

hope than i help you with this question :D

[insegnilo]

@REDEMBTION Is it really all that rural over in New Brunswick? I mean...everything I read says it's kind of the 'middle of nowhere'. That's probably what helped preserve the language in the earlier days but how is it today? Lots of urban bilingualism like there is in Montreal?

[jcc92xo]

La relation québécois-acadiens est bizarre. Les québécois semblent adorés l'Acadie et l'accent acadien, tandis que les acadiens trouvent que les Québécois s'aiment trop et qu'ils se pensent meilleur que tous le monde. En même temps, la majorité des touristes au NB sont Québécois et les Néo-Brunswickois les ont besoin pour que leurs entreprises fonctionnent bien de plus, les acadiens savent que sans le Québec, ils seraient probablement devenu anglophones ou n'auraient pas d'école francophones...

[mpg895]

Il ne faut pas oublier que plus de 70% des québécois ont du "sang" (même si on a relativement les mêmes origines) acadien et qu'en gaspésie, il y a plusieurs villages acadiens!!! Je suis montréalaise et je trouve dommage que le québec soit aussi renfermé politiquement (souverainistes, indépendantistes et d'extrêmes nationalistes je dirais)...parfois, j'ai l'impression qu'ils oublient qu'il y a d'autres communautés francophones en dehors du québec!!!Soyons unis! hahaha!

[tsireal]

@thejourneyoflife I'm an Islander and though Anglophone, did all my schooling in French. However, when I first started speaking with Quebecois(e) they would always trash my accent and tell me they could tell I was English. Turns out, after making some Acadian/Brayon friends, and travelling parts of French Europe that most of what they were complaining about were because most of my teachers were Acadian (and thus my accent), and the books (and thus my words) were largely from France...

[coldwhitesky]

@insegnilo Most of the French community's in New Brunswick are rural, with the exception of Moncton, which is 30% french and has urban population of over 100 thousand people, though because the majority speaks English, most French people speak fluent English and a French dialect called Chiac, which is like French with English words mixed in, but the structure is French.

[thejourneyoflife]

So I'm acadian from new-brunswick, my first language is french. Everytime I go anywhere outside a city in quebec and speak french to them, they tell me in a very bad french accent "I speak inglesh" as they pronounce it. Working in the customer service industry in NB, Many tourists from quebec come down and as much as we smile and be nice, they are super rude. maybe it's just the people i've spoken too but it's a very common thing for acadians to dislike the quebecois. 

[DroppinTheBeats]

@akropiss this is true. I am half quebecois half polish. Many french quebecers and acadians (i think even more acadiens) are also from La Rochelle and the west coast of france. I know my direct ancestors came from there.

[YukiNekoPrincess]

You were high as fuck when you recorded this, weren't you? :)

[tipierre666]

@jcc92xo je ne crois pas que cest juste .....mon chers sans vouloir commencer un debat les acadien se sont toujours battu tres fort pour avoir les ecoles en francais et plein de gens sont mort dans la guerre contre les anglais pour quon puisse avoir acces a leducation en francais donc les acadiens se serait debrouiller sans le quebec sur ce point !! mais je te donne netierement raison sur le point economique !!

[StreetBmxMonster]

the diference the quebecois think their the only one who speak french well.. us acadian we dont care we speak the way whe speak and were proud of it !!!

[REDEMBTION]

@insegnilo if I understand well your question, than Yes ! they have some region that is totaly french , and totaly english. like from where I live, by only 1 hours of difference we can see than its begining to be english and french.

[REDEMBTION]

@insegnilo what you mean....