2024-03-04 21:54:52
The decline of French in the metropolis has been at the heart of the news for years. Instead of talking about “decline,” shouldn’t we rather talk about the complete erasure of Molière’s language?
In a discussion on Mathieu Bock-Côté’s podcast, author Claudia Larochelle sounds the alarm: if our high school students do not learn to love French better, we risk losing it completely within 10 years.
Indeed, the main threat to the sustainability of the French language is in secondary schools, according to the author.
By accumulating testimonies and personal experiences, Claudia Larochelle notices that primary school students consume much more Quebec culture than secondary school students.
“What causes us to lose them along the way?” she asked herself.
Mathieu Bock-Côté discusses the future of the French language with journalist and author Claudia Larochelle, at QUB:
According to her, the answer is quite simple: young people are taking more and more pleasure in mastering the English language.
Basically, speaking English is much more popular than speaking and consuming content in French. And this, even if students who come from French-speaking families prefer to communicate in English in the corridors!
Teachers can no longer stand playing French police, says the author.
“Even the teachers gave up,” reported Claudia Larochelle.
However, the author wanted to emphasize that young people do not abandon French and Quebec culture intentionally and consciously.
“I don’t think there is any conscious ill will,” she clarified.
She also remains hopeful and considers that, despite the predictions of certain experts who estimate that Montreal will no longer speak French within 10 years, our young people have the power to revive French in Quebec.
She concluded the discussion by mentioning that we must never give up on French and that we must instead focus all our efforts on our high school students.
“Maybe I have rose-colored glasses, but I think we can do it.”
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