Montreal grocery store helps newcomers learn French

Provigo frenchification coordinator Martine Coulombe says newcomer employees wear a button that reads, "J’apprends le Français. I'm learning French," as the store offers hires free French lessons during work hours. Anastasia Dextrene reports.

[Amerigo_Vespucci]

2hrs a week to improve French on company time - The company is doing the right thing

[EugWanker]

That's great. I guess it helps being on the South Shore. An Anglo from Western Canada, I tried taking a French Immersion course in downtown Montreal, but whenever I would speak my broken French, people would switch to English, even the Francophones. Maybe a "I'm learning French" badge would have helped. 🙂

[yuzon]

I agreed with the owner or manager of the store with their pin buttons. I had said to my bf that quebec should still hire english or non french speakers but with tag that says “english speaking only” or learning french

[Marcus-ssgn]

As an immigrant in Canada, I applaud this. Well done, ma'am. We should create more ways for people to integrate into Canadian society, rather than newcomers creating their own cultural ghettos. This is important for unity, national identity, inclusion and Canadian economy in general.

[XBCoolz]

Wow, this is actually really cool. Great to hear of such a thing.

[d]

Great job, this is how it should be in any country. Once you accept immigrants, you need to be prepared too :)

[Spad]

Absolutely awesome . Lego should learn from this and not be a dictator like trump . Lol

[glintrhmj]

This is infringing on my freedoms of using English like the rest of the world and Canada does anyways. I’m offended 😂😂

[rck_frsh]

Yeah francisation is offered in elementary for kids who have no knowledge of french. Now my kids speak better french than me. I do agree Quebec needs to preserve their french language more. There is a loss of culture somewhere. Although many quebecois can already speak English I think it should be more practices to preserve the language.