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Fat Lola said:
No, more Latinos in Montreal
However he's in the construction business and most people speak Portuguese Italian and Spanish.
My exHusb was/in construction as well and altho he's fluent in English he says he spends 90% of his day communicating with people in Portuguese.

In Toronto there are tons and tons of Indians and Pakistanis
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Thank god he's not a stereotype. At least being a Latino who works construction and doesn't speak English he's really breaking the mold.
 
Fat Lola said:
My French sucks but Kiko is learning it soooooo fast lol
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i use to travel to Quebec a lot when I was younger on fishing trips with my Dad up in the Maniwaki and Grand-Remous area. Back then the language barrier was huge at times, none of the locals spoke English or if they could refused to. I got to high school and decided I would take french so I could at least understand what people were saying when I was up there. Three years of French and when I went back up there...WOW! LOL! I could still hardly comprehend what anyone was saying. I remember feeling like I had accomplished something when I figured out a waitress was telling me my pizza would take 20 minutes to cook.
 
Montreal, in a nutshell:

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helenabear said:
Even now it is a real PITA for a lot to immigrate to the US. I watched a few friends have their family try to and one couldn't get her husband here for a few years. It sucks sometimes. I was reading (not sure how accurate it is as there wasn't a real source) that at least 2/3 of those who come to the US speak it really well. Maybe not 100% fluent but good enough.

English is tough to learn, but I'm not convinced that people who move here (at least legally) don't at least try.
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I guess it depends. My brother in law immigrated from south Africa and it was a slam dunk for him to get a 10 year green card. He said it was just paperwork and an interview to make sure it wasn't a sham marriage and boom, citizen.
 
CletusJones said:
I guess it depends. My brother in law immigrated from south Africa and it was a slam dunk for him to get a 10 year green card. He said it was just paperwork and an interview to make sure it wasn't a sham marriage and boom, citizen.
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It really does depend. Your BIL married an American right? That does make a difference from what I understand. Though in the case I know of and obviously being vague just because it isn't my life - she wasn't born in the US. They didn't get married in the US either because if they did it would've made it harder. She was a naturalized citizen of the US though.

Because they were both from somewhere else it wasn't cut and dry like for your BIL or for a friend from the UK that I know of (similar married=green card no plans to be a citizen though) She also had her mom's visa denied after the birth of her 2nd son to come visit. So not everywhere is as easy as that. I think it absolutely sucked too that her mom was denied a visit too. Her mom had to wait until the boy was well enough to travel (birth defects = surgeries) to their home country to finally meet him in person.

I've seen others struggle too as international students moving to the US permanently and becoming citizens. It can really suck.
 
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fly said:
Anyone who thinks there aren't areas of the US where English isn't really spoken should be with me in Texas right now.
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:lol: habla espanol, Nina?
Un pequito
*Spanish at 50mph*
Fuuuuuuuuu

Doesnt help we are across the street from Mexico right now.
 
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