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u/TheBlueDaNoob · 1 pointr/Quebec

Sorry in advance, this sort of... turned into a wall of text before I noticed.

It might sound strange, but L'histoire du Québec pour les nuls was very well received. It was written by historian Eric Bedard who's well know of the public and whose work is respected. Sociologist Mathieu Bock-Côté says he enjoyed the book. Lionel Groulx's Notre grande aventure is more detailed and focused on the 1535-1760 period. It is an overview. I have learned about history through reading the works of Lionel Groulx (Nos luttes constitutionnelles), journalist Pierre Duchesne's excellent biography in three volumes of Jacques Parizeau who was minister of finances during the first referendum and prime minister during the second. There is also Laurent-Olivier David's Les patriotes de 1837-1838 which covers the attempted revolution of 1837. I recently read professor Guy Laforest's Trudeau and the end of a canadian dream which analyses Trudeau's Machiavellian actions in the aftermath of the first referendum and during the process that lead to the repatriation of the Canadian constitution in 1982 (which included a Charter of rights and an amendment procedure) against Quebec's will in spite of Trudeau's campaign promise to renew federalism in favor of Quebec in the event of a No vote.

Social media is a powerful tool. The mainstream media often favors established institutions. Having parallel networks that spread information can definitely help those who work for change. We've witnessed the same phenomenon but on a smaller scale a couple of years ago during what has come to be called Le printemps érable or Maple spring in somewhat clumsy reference to the Arab spring. It was a very large mainly student-based movement opposed to the government's decision to raise tuition fees and demanded not only that the fees stay the same, but also that the whole philosophy behind the higher education system be reviewed. During months, people took to the streets in protest. My university's faculty of law did not participate in the strike. I wasn't exactly opposed to the raise, but I did oppose the government's intransigent position. I followed social media as much as I could. Gatherings spontaneously happened as people tweeted they were starting a protest at this park or on the corner of those streets. It was beautiful to see the will of the people expressed in such a clear and simple way. A real breathe of fresh air in the morose and grey times of post-referendum national discouragement. It wasn't a nationalist movement. It was a left-wing one. But it was encouraging to see that there were still idealists out with convictions and democratic principles strong enough to keep their opposition to the established order mostly civil and peaceful.

If only I had had more time I would have loved to study literature. I try to read a good classic once in a while. What are you currently reading? I should really learn more about Scottish history. I have very vague notions of a William Wallace being a national hero but I don't think having seen Braveheart is really enough to claim knowing anything about it really! If you have recommendations in history or novels you really like, I'm always looking for new books however big the ''unread'' pile may already be!

u/abusque · 6 pointsr/Quebec

It's best to learn as much as you can on your own before you move to the province. Otherwise, especially if you're in Montreal, you might be tempted to keep speaking English because you feel your French is not yet good enough, and that's a vicious circle.

There are lots of free or cheap resources out there to learn French, so it shouldn't be a problem. If you're looking for online lessons, I recommend you check out duolingo. It's completely free. I haven't tried their French course, but the Spanish one is great, so I guess it should be fine.

If you're looking for books, I suggest you look into Hippocrene Beginner's French, Colloquial French, or Teach Yourself French.

Given that I'm a native speaker, I haven't tried these specific books, but those series are extremely well made, so I assume the French ones are equally good.

Anyway, best of luck to you in learning French. Don't give up easily. It might seem hard at first, but with practice you'll see it is in fact a fantastic language.

u/[deleted] · 0 pointsr/Quebec

That's a two volume set that explores the historical and political underpinnings of French colonialism. Best if you ignore it - can't see how that could be relevant to the conversation (I know you trade mostly in sarcasm - so that's just for you).

Here's something else for you to dismiss out of hand for no reason:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801888379/hnetreview-20?dev-t=mason-wrapper%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2

"Largely aimed at diffusing the “popular myths” surrounding French colonization in the Great Lakes region that revolves around the benevolent Jesuit missionary and heroic fur trade trapper carving out a French empire in North America while enjoying harmonious relations with indigenous peoples, Skinner instead posits the imperial designs of the French in Canada and the Illinois country as violent and factious, and a site of constant negotiation and conflict with other Europeans, native populaces, and even the varying factions of the French themselves."

u/Bidouleroux · 5 pointsr/Quebec

It will expose you to French and force you to use it, but you won't become fluent in French in five weeks nor will your vocabulary/pronunciation/whatever have time to improve significantly unless you do something pretty drastic.

The thing is, unless you spend six or more months living, working and sleeping in French, immersion alone won't do much. Otherwise you have to take a rational approach to learning and use your five weeks as a kind of real life test or laboratory.

Try this :

  • First, make sure you know at least the 5000 most frequently used words in Quebec French (maybe use something like this and add Quebec slang from something with a word list and examples, like this). Give precedence to the second, spoken Quebec French list as it will be more useful during your stay.

  • When you learn words, learn them with their determinant since you always need one in French anyway (learn "la chaise" instead of "chaise (feminine)").

  • Learn the stupid French grammar and its plethora of exceptions. Just accept it for the pile of shit it is and don't give it too much thought at first. Most of the really stupid parts don't apply to speech anyway.

  • Learn verb conjugation. Concentrate on the spoken forms if you must, they are much easier. What is important : indicatif présent, passé composé, imparfait; conditionnel présent; subjonctif présent; participe passé (usually the same as in the composé). For the future tense, the modern tendency in spoken French is to use "aller", conjugate it in the indicatif présent, then affix the future action verb in the infinitif présent or passé. For example, instead of "je conduirai" (I will drive), you say "je vais conduire", "je vais avoir conduit" for "I will have driven". You can also use "j'allais conduire" (imparfait + infinitif) for "I was about to drive". Btw, "I will go" and "I was about to go" would be "je vais (y) aller" et "j'allais (y) aller" (drop the "y" when making a statement, i.e. "je vais aller à Québec" vs. "je vais y aller à Québec!"). No one says "j'irai".

  • To practice your pronunciation, use some real sentences from French TV (better something real like news even if it's read because it's more natural than most drama dialogues) and shadow them, that is repeat them aloud as the speaker say them, with half a second delay, and try to match the rhythm, pitch and accent (in order of importance). The accent or the actual pronunciation of each syllable in a word in the French way, can be practiced in isolation and differs in every French dialect. You should have already done a lot of that, but if you don't feel confident, practice each word from the example sentence independently before shadowing it.

  • Think reading aloud is hard? Try it in a second (or third) language! Buy both the audiobook and the written version of some modern French or Quebecois piece of literature and try reading it aloud while comparing to what it sounds like when read by a native Frenchman. Or use it as a shadowing tool if you think your pronunciation still sucks too much at that point.

  • Go in the real world and speak some French like a boss (confidence is key).
u/PasswordIsntHAMSTER · 5 pointsr/Quebec

Viens visiter Montréal :) C'est intéressant de voir la séparation linguistique des différents quartiers, de 99% francophone (Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Rosemont?) jusqu'à 99% anglophone (Westmount, McGill Ghetto) en passant par des variétés de bilinguisme (Centre-ville, Saint-Henri, NDG).

Recommended reading: http://www.amazon.ca/The-Anglo-guide-survival-Qu%C3%A9bec/dp/0920792332

u/BisP48 · 3 pointsr/Quebec

I'm not sure for which period you are looking for, but this book gives a good historical context.

The Social History of Ideas in Quebec, 1760-1896 by Yvan Lamonde (Sorry second link is in French)

u/asteurmatur · 1 pointr/Quebec

Faut lire le livre "On a clear day, you can see General Motors", de Zachary De Lorean (oui, ce même De Lorean là), où il explique que les deux seuls département qui comptent, c’est le départment du style (parce qu’on peut pas parler de "design") et le département du calcul des coûts. Absolument tout le reste est subordonné à eux.

u/cpbreton · 2 pointsr/Quebec

>Wtf? Ya pas de différence entre le Congo sous les Belges et le Québec (autrefois canada-français) sous l'Angleterre.

Oui, c'était exactement la même chose. Et c'est moi qui faut apprends mon histoire...tu peux commencer ici http://www.amazon.com/King-Leopolds-Ghost-Heroism-Colonial/dp/0618001905

>Parler français...Être indépendantiste...

La Charte n'a rien de faire avec parler Français ou l'indépendantiste. Si tu es un Anglophone fédéraliste qui soutien la Charte je dirai la même chose.

u/Analyzethegacts · 13 pointsr/Quebec

Taylor est en train de détruire sa propre réputation à force de faire des exagération irrationnelles.

Bref, on se rend compte que ce n'est pas un philosophe "ordinaire", c'est un philosophe Catholique... Nuance, Taylor ne peut imaginer une société où Dieu n'est pas présent...

Allez lire ses bouquins:

u/gnuvince · 1 pointr/Quebec

> Elle repose sur le dos de quatre éléphants qui sont eux-mêmes sur le dos d'une tortue géante qui se promène dans le cosmos.
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Pas le contraire? https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Computer-Science-Principles/dp/0716782847/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465989941&sr=8-1&keywords=foundation+of+computer+science

(En passant, le texte de ce livre est disponible légalement et gratuitement sur le site d'un des auteurs: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html. C'est un des meilleurs livres de CS que je connaisse.)

u/dpc59 · 2 pointsr/Quebec

politics as usual, vous devriez lire confessions of an economic hitman, ca parle de comment les corporations américaines forcent les pays à les laisser faire ce qu'elles veulent

u/konnektion · 2 pointsr/Quebec

Achète-lui ce livre

C'est un mème, mais ça permet d'identifier pour vrai les essences et ainsi identifier la bonne technique de restoration.

u/Gargatua13013 · 1 pointr/Quebec

Gronk

Si ça se trouve y'a des versions pdf qui circulent...

u/frenchlitgeek · 2 pointsr/Quebec

Oui, ça sert juste à mettre en lumière ds situations sociales difficiles vécues de manière disproportionnée par un groupe social en particulier. Ça n'implique pas que ceux et celles qui n'appartiennent pas à ce groupe particulier sont directement (mais ça peut être le cas) des causes de ces situations difficiles, des vecteurs d'injustice envers d'autres personnes.

Ça attire l'attention sur des trucs moins visibles et, personnellement, ça me donne le goût de savoir comment je peux utiliser mes privilèges pour améliorer les choses pour d'autres qui ne jouissent pas de ces privilèges-là.

C'est un concept abordé par Ta-Nehisi Coates dans Between the Wolrd and Me quand il parle du "Rêve blanc" (il va par contre plus loin en soutenant que celui-ci, aux States, est construit et possible étant donné l'oppression d'autres citoyen.ne.s qui n'ont pas accès à ce Rêve de la même manière).

u/BeornPlush · 3 pointsr/Quebec

Beaucoup d'idées pop en éducation, beaucoup de tape à l'oeil, très peu de révolution réelle. Quelqu'un de charismatique montre un produit, oui c'est cool, mais l'apprentissage ne se fait pas parce que quelque chose est dans un beau paquet bien vendu. Souvent, au final, ça relève de la pensée magique; ça accroche ceux qui n'y sont plus et n'ont plus les efforts à faire pour enseigner ou apprendre.

L'enseignement et l'apprentissage, c'est beaucoup de temps, beaucoup d'attention, beaucoup d'efforts. Ces fausses innovations peuvent amener bien des réformes mais bien moins de résultats.

Sources:

(Plus accessible): http://www.iflscience.com/technology/why-has-technology-not-revolutionized-education qui l'exprime avec beaucoup plus de charisme et d'éloquence que moi.

(Plus complet): http://www.amazon.com/Visible-Learning-Teachers-Maximizing-Impact/dp/0415690153 qui parle de stratégies pour maximizer notre effort en éducation. Indice: un travail conscienscieux et régulier. Un contact constructif et régulier avec l'enseignant pour s'assurer que le progrès va dans la bonne direction.

Pour paraphraser Churchill: I have nothing for you but blood, and sweat, and tears, and plusieurs longs cahiers d'exercices à remplir chaque semaine pour bien consolider votre progrès.

u/Jeremy_Belanger · -1 pointsr/Quebec

Ta vision de l'échiquier politique est complètement ridicule. Franchement, la droite à l'extrême droite... Va en Autriche, en Grèce, en Afrique du Sud, au Pérou, au Danemark, tu vas voir ce que c'est un échiquier large... L'échiquier politique québécois est malheureusement peut-être? Très très standard.

Ton argument sur PKP maintenant, je n'ai qu'une suggestion à te faire, la lecture de ce livre:

http://www.amazon.ca/The-Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller/dp/0691136408

Tu veras comment une simple idée peu complètement démanteler des syndicats les plus puissants du monde. Comment à certain moment, des révolutions dans certaines industries viennent complètement changer les règles du jeu pour les employés. Je ne dirais pas que la situation est aussi pire dans l'industrie des médias, mais avec les journaux ouverts, les médias sociaux et les blogues les règles du jeu ne sont plus les mêmes ici. PKP est un visionnaire qui a d'ailleurs compris ces phénomènes émergents dans les années 2000. Je ne vais pas aller plus loin la-dedans, mais voilà... Il faut avoir une certaine profondeur pour comprendre tout cela, bonne chance.

u/redalastor · 3 pointsr/Quebec

> Mon premier réflexe est d'utiliser des yubikey (je crois que c'est la version 5 qui a fido2, pas besoin de nfc) car c'est les seul que je connaisse... Mais elles sont plus cher que 25$. As-tu d'autre fabricant a conseiller?

Il y a deux séries de Yubikey récentes. Celle à 60$ qui a FIDO2 plus une tonne d'autres trucs et celle à 25$ qui a juste FIDO2 à laquelle je faisais référence. Pour l'instant il n'y a pas de d'autres manufacturier mais FIDO2 a été accepté comme standard par le W3C et le WhatWG donc ce n'est pas une technologie propriétaire. Aussi bien la Yubikey à 25$ qu'à 60$ est compatible NFC.

La clé à 25$ sur Amazon : https://www.amazon.ca/-/fr/Yubico-s%C3%A9curit%C3%A9-Fido2-USB-Prouver/dp/B07BYSB7FK/

Et Yubico vend aussi à rabais des paquets de clés mais je sais pas si c'est le cas au Canada vu qu'on ne peut pas commander directement d'eux et qu'on doit passer par Amazon et compagnie.

Correction: La clé à 25$ ne fait pas NFC, c'est 10$ de plus pour ça.