Author: Léandre Bergeron

Publisher: Lorimer

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 232

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In Quebec, we don't speak "real" French. We speak much more than that. We speak Quebecois - a living, gut feeling language that includes the modern French one finds in Larousse, plus thousands of words and expressions that have flourished during the three hundred years our fore-bearers settled along the St. Lawrence, hunted and plowed their way through Amerindian territory, survived British colonialism and gave us a sole inheritance a national identity, and with it a language our very own way of saying, for instance, it's raining (i mouille), stop bugging me (achale-moue pas) and I love you a lot (ch't'aime en titi). In this work Leandre Bergeron has gathered together over 6,000 of the most popular words and expressions so that English speakers can discover and enjoy Quebecois- the "real" language of Quebec. And now, let the Quebecois words sing in your ears.