Me and my wife working in Montreal for last 2.5 years. We have basic knowledge of French. If your profession is either engineering or software you can still survive though finding jobs is a bit difficult.lemans207 said:well I am in montreal. rare you find people talk French, specially downtown area,
regarding jobs, they make it hard for you because no jobs or they don't want to pay.
They request for French, and Canadian experience and Canadian degree, because they don't want to hire, no jobs.
English is the business language, all import exports you need English, you have to admit it.
All headoffices are in Toronto. if you need spare parts you must call Toronto.
If you have to deal with people in day to day work then it's very very difficult. I know people who came here, could not get job and moved out to different province.
Now a days most of business understand that English is business language not language of conquers. The change in attitude is opening up jobs for anglophones. My wife use to get only few job offers when she was searching for jobs 2 years ago. Now more anglophone jobs with basic French are more in software.
I go to French school in evenings and I see a lot of health care professionals studying French. The career growth and new offers come only if you know french. No french no promotion for few.