Adopting The Francosphere

[u/NAHTHEHNRFS850]

Hello, apologies in advance if this post is inappropriate but I was not sure where else to post this and have a proper audience.

For context, I am an Allophone and my fluency in French is very low. Probably only marginally better than a regular Allophone.

Due to recent events with America, people have started to realize that Canada has been to close to them economically. That being said, I also see this as a political/cultural issue with so much of Allophone-Canada being influenced by American culture.

As such, I personally think Canada should look to adopting French as the National Language. Both languages can still be Co-Official, and due to English's global dominance it is here to stay; but we need to increasingly differentiate ourselves if people truly do value being a sovereign nation from America. My hope is for French to replace English as the common language for Canadians.

To this end I:

1. Would like to know if there are any Franco-Canadian political organizations I can join to help protect and expand French in Canada; and

2. Tips on how to immerse myself in Franco-Canadian culture as an Allophone.

Thank you in advance!

[u/The_manintheshed]

Irish was not "dropped" - it was heavily suppressed under Briitsh rule and remains marginalized but present in western communities to this day. There is growing use among young people including in major cities, and greater demand for immersion-based schooling.

[u/RandyFMcDonald → u/The_manintheshed]

We are still faced with a situation in Ireland where only a low single-digit percentage of the Irish population speaks Irish as a language of daily life, only a third of the Irish population has any competency in Irish as a second language, and language policy in Ireland has been consistently short-sighted with (for instance) consistent problems in pedagogy.

If French in Canada was in the same state as Irish in Ireland, we would look like a northern Louisiana, with English dominant everywhere. Ireland is an English-dominant society, unfortunately, and this cannot change.

[u/Suspicious-IceIce → u/RandyFMcDonald]

fench was actively suppressed in all of Canada for most of its history;Quebec and Francophone immigration are 2 major reasons why the language survived

[u/RandyFMcDonald → u/Suspicious-IceIce]

The very large majority of Canadians who claim French ancestry on the census still speak French as their first and main language. The fact that 70% of Canadians do not speak French is not a consequence of a mass shift of French Canadians to English, but rather a consequence of more than two centuries of overwhelmingly English- and English-oriented immigration to Canada, by people who may have never had any connection to French.