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Lord_Tony

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IRCC has actually lowered CLB7's definition for TEF from advanced B2 to lower B2. This makes it relatively easy for a lot of folks to score CLB7 in french.

I know way too many who reached advanced B2 in 6-9 months. We've so many examples on this forum alone from 2022 when learning french wasn't even this popular, I get pings from 2-3 people each month on how I learned french, surprisingly these folks are already at B1/lower B2 and were trying to reach advanced B2. Indians, Chinese, Filipinos make a very competitive cohort imo and they live a relatively distraction free, goal oriented life. Even a small fraction of them is enough to consume the significant francophone quota. If we set lambdas aside, IRCC has opened up accessible CRS to ~3B people who previously never took significant interest before.
I was wondering, like Africa or south America, are there not parts of India that were French colonies or something, If yes don't the people in those regions speak French? Like the Quebec francophones, we have a small Spanish speaking and very tinier Portuguese speaking population in the Philippines, legacy of the Colonizers, but the population is going down and almost vanishing, unlike the Quebec government there is no political interference to grow or revive that.
 

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Learning French for 2 years just to boost your CRS score with no guarantee of ITA is stupid, JEE decides future for kids, something completely different IMO.
Well, we are talking about desparation here and not rationality. The kind of things certain Indians do to immigrate out of india into few western countries (UK Canada and Australia). Is it sane? Nope! Is it popular? absolutely! I mean people grind away at ielts for years. If they know french gives better chance, they will be prattling "Voulez vous du beurre?" all night long!

 

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Submitting webform or ordering gcsm note , can cause ghost update on gc key ? Or its sth else
There is no official answer to this. Webform, depending upon what it is can and will unlock the application if it was stuck in some requirement. GCMS, officially nothing because it is dealt by a different set of people. I have seen ghost updates and no ghost updates when I put my GCMS. Lastly, GU are unreliable. In past I found out a way to generate GU at will. Needless to say it was of no use to predict the progress of my application. Just a glitch.
 
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I was wondering, like Africa or south America, are there not parts of India that were French colonies or something, If yes don't the people in those regions speak French? Like the Quebec francophones, we have a small Spanish speaking and very tinier Portuguese speaking population in the Philippines, legacy of the Colonizers, but the population is going down and almost vanishing, unlike the Quebec government there is no political interference to grow or revive that.
AFAIK, very minor in small silver of land called Puducherry with very small population. Will they retain french skills? Nope. Indians retained english skills because it has been unofficial official language of India even after independence.
 

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AFAIK, very minor in small silver of land called Puducherry with very small population. Will they retain french skills? Nope. Indians retained english skills because it has been unofficial official language of India even after independence.
Many shops have french names in Puducherry. People can understand french a bit, but they cannot speak fluently. My french teacher at school was from Puducherry.
 

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Maybe 0.00000000001% of the people. Reaching CLB7 in French will take two years of dedicated study, not easy at all.
Indians will go to any extent for survival and French is least of their worries. If French test becomes the new normal to crack Canada PR, don't be surprised if Indians crack it easily. I mean thousands of Indians are learning Japanese and German for work visas, so French, a language that looks like English, is not going to stop ’em
 

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Indians will go to any extent for survival and French is least of their worries. If French test becomes the new normal to crack Canada PR, don't be surprised if Indians crack it easily. I mean thousands of Indians are learning Japanese and German for work visas, so French, a language that looks like English, is not going to stop ’em
I saw my teenage cousins speaking in Korean back in Mumbai for some absurd reason... So I am sure if pushed in corner, Many folks in and around delhi will learn french.
 
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Lord_Tony

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Indians will go to any extent for survival and French is least of their worries. If French test becomes the new normal to crack Canada PR, don't be surprised if Indians crack it easily. I mean thousands of Indians are learning Japanese and German for work visas, so French, a language that looks like English, is not going to stop ’em
I have lived in Japan for a few months for work almost 15 years back it is not pleasant working there without speaking in Japanese.
 
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Indians will go to any extent for survival and French is least of their worries. If French test becomes the new normal to crack Canada PR, don't be surprised if Indians crack it easily. I mean thousands of Indians are learning Japanese and German for work visas, so French, a language that looks like English, is not going to stop ’em
I'm a native french speaker and yeah surely both use latin letters, but god knows how easy is English compared to french. But again with A LOOOT of practice and perseverance, people may reach an acceptable level within a year's time frame.
 
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