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Indeed let's hope it was basically a mistake; right now I have a few French (from France) friends doing phds at the same university, and I'm pretty sure that th

• friendlybus 7y ago
  Do they comment on Québécois French? I hear it is closer to 19th century French than modern France.
  • jefft255 7y ago
    Sure they do, but usually it is only a few weeks of adaptation. The differences are well documented, look them up! It's still the same language.
  • umanwizard 7y ago
    That's a bit of a myth. The dialects have been evolving separately since that time; you can't say either is closer to the branch point than the other. The reason French people believe this is because yes, there is some old vocabulary like souliers retained in Quebec, but on the other hand there are also some features that they've lost over time that are retained in France, like using si instead of oui to contradict a negative.
• 908B64B197 7y ago
  The student in the article was warned years ago her thesis wouldn't waive her requirement to pass a standardized test. All they have to do is add either a test or transcripts for 3 years of high school in French. Over time I've known many folks who obtained permanent residency through the exact same program (some of them after completing PhD almost exclusively in English). All they had to do was a test.
  • jefft255 7y ago
    Thanks for the info I’ll make sure my friends are aware of this!