Québécois French · one sentence a day
French that sounds like Montréal, not a textbook
One sentence a day, graded against how it would be said in Montréal or Québec City — mon char, magasiner, c'est plate, pantoute — with the local version shown next to yours. Free, no account needed.
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What Québécois French actually sounds like
Québécois French has its own vocabulary, its own rhythm and its own relationship with English. A few of the differences the grader listens for.
| You want to say | Textbook French | How it's said in Québécois French |
|---|---|---|
| My car | Ma voiture | Mon char |
| My girlfriend / my boyfriend | Ma petite amie / mon petit ami | Ma blonde / mon chum |
| To go shopping | Faire des achats | Magasiner |
| That's boring | C'est ennuyeux. | C'est plate. |
| Not at all | Pas du tout. | Pantoute ! |
| It's fun | C'est amusant. | C'est le fun ! |
| Pretty good | Assez bien. | Pas pire ! means "pretty good", not "not worse" |
| The weekend | Le week-end | La fin de semaine |
What changes when you set your variety to Québécois
- Vocabulary — char, blonde, chum, magasiner, dépanneur, fin de semaine — and the grader marks France-only words like week-end, shopping or parking as imported.
- Anglicisms and calques — Québec resists anglicisms France loves (courriel, stationnement, fin de semaine) while everyday speech borrows others (c'est le fun, checker, chill). The grader knows which is which, and flags calques like "prendre une marche".
- Grammar and register — tu for almost everyone, the question particle -tu ("Tu viens-tu?"), "pantoute", "c'est plate", "pas pire" — and déjeuner, dîner, souper for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
- Swearing, handled carefully — sacres like tabarnak and câlisse are part of the soundscape. The grader knows them but never puts them in your mouth, and tells you how strong they land.
How RateMyFrench trains your Québécois French ear
Graded against the local version
Translate today's sentence and get an instant 1–10 stamp. The grader is set to Québécois French, so correct-but-foreign phrasing loses points and you see exactly why.
See how a local would say it
Every result comes with the sentence the way someone from there would actually put it — Québécois French vocabulary, register and rhythm, not a neutral translation.
Sentences at your level
Set the difficulty on the card, from Beginner to Master. At the top end every sentence demands nuance — idiom, register, the subjunctive, tu versus vous — instead of ordering a coffee for the hundredth time.
A one-minute daily habit
There's one new sentence every day, and an optional morning email so you don't miss it. Sounding local is a hundred small corrections, not one big lesson.
Common questions
I'm already fluent. What does this add?
Fluent and local are different things. Plenty of fluent French is grammatically clean but placeless — every native speaker can tell. Today's sentence is graded against how it would be said in Québécois French, with the local phrasing shown next to yours, so you close that gap one sentence a day.
Is this Montréal French or all of Québec?
The grader targets general Québécois French — what you'd hear in Montréal and Québec City and on Radio-Canada. It avoids heavy joual and rural features, and it will tell you when a phrase is very informal.
Can I switch varieties later?
Yes — the variety is picked on the card and you can change it any time (Metropolitan, Québécois, Belgian, Swiss or West African). Your stamps stay with you, and every variety is free to play.
How much does it cost?
Today's challenge is free every day, in Québécois French or any other variety, no account needed, and so is your rating. The tutor's written correction is free on your first result and twice a week with a free account; the pass opens every correction, along with extra rounds and the archive of past challenges.
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