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蒙蒙"为什么不离开这里?"
《礼记.檀弓》记载的一个故事是这样的：孔子从泰山旁边经过，有个妇人在坟前哭。孔子让子路去问她为什么哭。妇人回答说，她的公公、丈夫和儿子都被老虎害死了。孔子说：“为什么不离开这里呢？”妇人说：“这里没有苛酷的统治。”孔子对他的学生说：“你们记住，苛繁的政令或繁重的赋税比老虎还凶啊！”         

s_wt

蒙蒙:
Good question. For me, I have a job there that I can not find any whereless in Canada now. If I left QC my family's total income would be reduced. But I never stop to seak the opportunity outside of Quebec.

One more comment on bilingual issue. Someone said that Montreal is the best place to learn English and French languages. That is not true. Actually wether your kid can be bilingual dependes on your capability to access English education. Montreal does have a lot of bilingual persons but you have to know that most of them are Anglophone and the new generation of immigrants. Ordinary French Quebecers barely have real bilingual person. Why? English education is not freely accessed while French one is. And the English school teach much more French than the English taught by French school. There generally are two ways to access English education one is let your kid go to English private school then gained the right of enter English school. This will be closed soon. The PQ goverment will no longer allow you do this. The second one is sending your child to a good Frech private school at lest from secondary level. That means money! There also some Chinese students they do not attend any private school and speak both languages well. But you'd better to ask their parents how they educated their childre and how those students studied. Not every one can do that. Personally, I know some Chinese students who grown up in Montreal they speak some English but far from enough to attend a English university outside of Quebec. So, live in Montreal does not mean that your child will be naturally and automatically be bilingual. A good example is the ADQ leader Mr. Mario Domond. He is a French Quebecer. He even graduated from Concordia University. How good his English is!

Other thing you may interested is the Quebec's education system. The pre-university education is 13 years long and rest of canada are 12 years. And in Quebec, new immigrantions need to attend Welcome Class instead going to regular class directly. A lot of Chinese students have to stay in the some grad for two years (one in Welcome class and others in regular class. called double) simple because the French problem.

Bilingual in Quebec is expensive and not promising. It may cost your child's future.

Think about it.

bumpkin

s_wt，好！

这里很久没有如此明智中肯的贴子了。

glee

这里最大的优点就是气候"太好啦"!
一年两季节,冬天和夏天.温差才70多度,绝对是摄氏度!
潮湿的问题绝对没有,保证你的衣服穿在身上发出达到安全电压的静电放射,并能产生悦耳的批里扒啦的音响效果.如果你是正年轻的女性,这里绝对会让你早日成熟的.两年下来,脸上的皱就跟菊花似的.如果你习惯了生活在清洁的环境中,那这里正是帮你去掉这个小资习惯的最好选择.看看这里大街上的人们脚上的鞋子和裤腿儿就让你找到感觉了.如果你一定要来,那我告诉你必带的东西吧:长长短短的羽绒服若干,长筒雨靴短筒雨靴若干双.所有的体面的衣服全放在国内,想送到街道给革命老区扶贫的衣服就不要捐了,全带到这里来就行了!

tmd 4

glee, 你说得不对，其实低温环境有杀菌作用，让人的代谢减慢，衰老得反而慢。我的一个朋友回国探亲，大家都说她越来越年青了！倒是热带的地方，紫外线太强，皮肤容易粗糙老化。  :cool:  

我发现这里的干燥其实是暖气的问题。我现在的房子可以调节暖气，就一点都不干。怕干的朋友（特别是包暖的朋友），最好家里放些水。上海虽以潮湿闻名，但冬天比这里静电得厉害！  eek!  

nightcat朋友，可别号召大家去领救济呀！咱大多数移民还是自食其力，就算上学领点补助，也是为了找更好的工作。

Jelaime

各位蒙友，大家好。
蒙城的冬天有多冷？几个月？最低几度呢？有俺老家东北那旮沓冷吗？比如哈尔滨。蒙城的居住条件应该比俺那儿好吧？
法语？没的说，既然打算去那儿安营扎寨，哪能不学。入门容易，提高不易啊。

各位蒙友，说到蒙城气候和语言问题，能否再说说蒙城人quebecois(e)，这可不能忽略。听说.... en general, quebecois(es) sont tres gentils. C'est vrai?
重要的是人际环境、与人相处啊，中国人、魁省人.....

HaHa

给你发此贴时，蒙城室外是零下二十五度，风速下是零下三十七度

Jelaime

HaHa,真的很冷。

看来要准备全套的棉服....棉衣棉裤、棉鞋棉帽、棉手套棉口罩，棉......

蒙城冬天，银装素裹，蒙友们不会都猫冬，呆在家里吧。一定有没什么令人兴奋的、在温哥华享受不到的活动，比如滑冰、滑雪或其他什么。

蒙蒙

Thanks for all of friends here, especially s-wt, I will reconsider all of your suggestions. Thanks again.
Anyway I will have a visiting there at least once, see how good or how bad is it.
Happy Valentine's day to everybody.

node

蒙城很适合居住，但你的问题不是重在你儿子语言问题吗？ 他在蒙城会学会一口流利的乡村法语，再加上一点不流利的英语。如果他将来打算待在蒙城，流利的乡村法语和一点英语是很够用了，但要去别的地方，操这样口音的法语难免有被人嘲笑的可能，而且英语要不好在美洲也很麻烦呀。
我有个在法国留学的朋友，她来这后就说魁北克的法语很多用词都很过时了，而且口音很不好听。
当然，要说其他，蒙城是一个很不错的地方，很适合生活。