How is Canadian French different from French spoken in France?

Answer 1

Canadians live in Canada. The French live in France.

If you mean the difference between Canadian French and French French, they have very different accents and vocabulary. French Canadians use many English terms and some words that are considered archaic by the French. They have also retained vowel sounds that have disappeared in continental French.

Answer 2

Really the biggest difference is just the accent. The accent difference is fairly strong. Just as somebody from New York City might have a pretty tough time understanding someone from a small town in Scotland, people from France sometimes have a hard time understanding us. There are a few words here and there that are different (like how in England, an apartment might be referred to as a flat- those kinds of differences), but spelling, grammar and everything else is the same.

Answer 3

First, there's the pronunciation that's pretty different. I speak French fluently (mother tongue) and sometimes I can't understand half of what a Quebecois says.

Then the expressions are totally different too.

Answer 4

The people that grew up as French Canadians have developed, over the generations, a Canadian twang to pure French.
The same can be said about British English and American English, and British English and Australian English. Charles Darwin would have said that isolation allowed the development of separate language differences.

Answer 5

french canadians are smarter, speak more languages, are more generous and have céline dion and simple plan while english canadians have Justin Bieber and Avril Lavigne