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Quebec French has been available on Google Translate since October 22, 2024 (illustration)
GOOGLE – Tabernac, my boyfriend, my girlfriend, shopping… Since Tuesday, October 22, the popular American translation tool Google Translate has introduced a new language: Quebec French. With a tone that leaves something to be desired.
To find it, just go to the page Translate google.fr Select “French (Canada)”. An opportunity to rediscover the linguistic characteristics of the Quebecois population and get rid of the English vocabulary. Because for example in French-speaking Canada, a “weekend” is called a “weekend.” logic.
Google translate screen capture
Google translate screen capture
It is also possible to listen to the translated sentence to hear the Quebecois accent. However, Google has some progress to make in this area, because it can barely be heard by the ear.
New integrated accents
If you're going to Canada and want to learn some of the peculiarities of Quebec French, this is the tool for you. But it will also be very useful for Quebecers who had to comply with European French language dictates to use Google Translate.
That's not the only new thing in Google Translate this Tuesday. Many dialects have been added and are now on top of the hundreds of languages already available. Among them: Jamaican slang, Balinese, Mauritian Creole, Seychellois Creole, Fijian, Lombard, and even Greenlandic.
At the end of June, 109 languages such as Occitan, Cantonese, Assyrian and Wolof were added. This was welcomed by Isaac Caswell, a software engineer working on the translation tool Western France : “This update is the most important in the history of Google Translate.”
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