Americans and Canadians culture Q&A Thread.

[Buzz Rules]

ESPN owns 30% and Disney 80% of ESPN. I don't think Disney of too involved with CTV.

As for the Bachelor, it is actually owned by Warner Brothers, Disney has the US broadcast rights.

ESPN is seen as a Disney station here, just like ABC. NBC and USA network is seen the same with Universal Studios.

 

[Buzz Rules]

How much content does CTV mainly produce of its own compared to American television show properties?

 

[Buzz Rules]

Canadians, do most students take French as a second language in K-12 or is Spanish just as popular?

 

[fab1976]

Canadians, do most students take French as a second language in K-12 or is Spanish just as popular?

I don’t know anyone who takes or took Spanish. Spanish isn’t an official language, whereas French is. French begins in grade 3 in Ontario for those who aren’t in a French immersion program, and continues to grade 9. Mandatory. Most kids stop taking it after grade 9. My son actually found he liked it in grade 9 and continued into 10, and is taking it this year in 11.

French immersion programs are very popular here. They are where a kid is taking a percentage of the day in French. It changed from year to year and my own kids aren’t in it, so not sure how exactly it works. It may be 100% at some point. It starts in grade 1 in the area I’m in, and is not guaranteed entry for anyone. There’s also a late entry in grade 7. So you either start in grade 1, or grade 7. You can drop out of it, but you can’t randomly join FI.

 

[Disneylover99]

I don’t know anyone who takes or took Spanish. Spanish isn’t an official language, whereas French is. French begins in grade 3 in Ontario for those who aren’t in a French immersion program, and continues to grade 9. Mandatory. Most kids stop taking it after grade 9. My son actually found he liked it in grade 9 and continued into 10, and is taking it this year in 11.

French immersion programs are very popular here. They are where a kid is taking a percentage of the day in French. It changed from year to year and my own kids aren’t in it, so not sure how exactly it works. It may be 100% at some point. It starts in grade 1 in the area I’m in, and is not guaranteed entry for anyone. There’s also a late entry in grade 7. So you either start in grade 1, or grade 7. You can drop out of it, but you can’t randomly join FI.

Yeah. I don’t think Spanish is even offered at all in Ontario highschools.

 

[Buzz Rules]

I don’t know anyone who takes or took Spanish. Spanish isn’t an official language, whereas French is. French begins in grade 3 in Ontario for those who aren’t in a French immersion program, and continues to grade 9. Mandatory. Most kids stop taking it after grade 9. My son actually found he liked it in grade 9 and continued into 10, and is taking it this year in 11.

French immersion programs are very popular here. They are where a kid is taking a percentage of the day in French. It changed from year to year and my own kids aren’t in it, so not sure how exactly it works. It may be 100% at some point. It starts in grade 1 in the area I’m in, and is not guaranteed entry for anyone. There’s also a late entry in grade 7. So you either start in grade 1, or grade 7. You can drop out of it, but you can’t randomly join FI.

Yeah. I don’t think Spanish is even offered at all in Ontario highschools.

Interesting. In the USA, Spanish, Italian, and French are all usually offered in high school.

 

[fab1976]

Interesting. In the USA, Spanish, Italian, and French are all usually offered in high school.

I took German in high school! I think there was Latin as well. There may have been Spanish.

But, think about it this way. We have USA to the south of us, where your predominant language is English (I googled before making that statement!). You have Mexico to the south, so Spanish. And Canada to the north, which has official languages of English and French. So, it kinda makes sense to offer all 3?

 

[Buzz Rules]

I took German in high school! I think there was Latin as well. There may have been Spanish.

But, think about it this way. We have USA to the south of us, where your predominant language is English (I googled before making that statement!). You have Mexico to the south, so Spanish. And Canada to the north, which has official languages of English and French. So, it kinda makes sense to offer all 3?

Latin is taught here too.

 

[tvguy]

I took German in high school! I think there was Latin as well. There may have been Spanish.

But, think about it this way. We have USA to the south of us, where your predominant language is English (I googled before making that statement!). You have Mexico to the south, so Spanish. And Canada to the north, which has official languages of English and French. So, it kinda makes sense to offer all 3?

German was a popular foreign language in my High School, behind Spanish and French.
One of the High Schools offered Esperanto as a foreign language. This was the early 1970's and I bet most folks have never heard of it. It is an invented language that no nation uses. Some saw it as the new international language which is why if was offered. But as an Austrian businessman told a College German class overseas trip I was part of....." I don't know why Americans learn any foreign language, you speak the International language". He was in the printing business in Eastern Europe and did business in Russia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia and all his business was done in English.

 

[tvguy]

Latin is taught here too.

Taught here too, mostly at the College level.

 

[NAB]

Took French just for 2 years in school . Grade 7-9 . So I definitely don’t talk French.

Only speak English. Never ran into a problem my whole life . Saying this this is why I’m scared to travel somewhere that speaks a different language. I butcher my English language trying to pronounce somethings. My husband laughs at me when I read some signs when traveling.

 

[Moliphino]

Interesting. In the USA, Spanish, Italian, and French are all usually offered in high school.

In my district, we could pick French or Spanish starting in 7th grade. In high school there were sometimes more options, if enough kids signed up for the class. I tried to take German one year, but not enough people signed up so it was dropped from the schedule and I had to take something else.

 

[declansdad]

French Immersion is popular here but the government keeps screwing it up. Never heard of a Spanish class until I got to university.

 

[ronandannette]

Took French just for 2 years in school . Grade 7-9 . So I definitely don’t talk French.

Only speak English. Never ran into a problem my whole life . Saying this this is why I’m scared to travel somewhere that speaks a different language. I butcher my English language trying to pronounce somethings. My husband laughs at me when I read some signs when traveling.

I’m firmly unilingual also and always a little embarrassed when I can’t communicate. When we visited Europe we were in France, Italy and Spain. I tried to learn at least a few basic phrases in each language, so I at least could be polite. They were all so similar-yet-different; I made a mess of even very simple things.

 

[prairie_girl]

Spanish is not offered here, either. And really, why would it be? I took French up until Grade 12, because my parents thought I should. I definitely couldn’t hold a conversation in French but could probably pick up enough words to get the jist of it.

 

[Aladora]

I was in French immersion all the way through from K-12. For K-3 I was in Quebec and then the rest in Ontario.

DS was taught French starting in grade 6 here in BC, but he was only required to take it through grade 8. Optional classes were offered in high school, French being the most popular, however BC has some really interesting options depending on what school district you are in. Some of the options are: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Punjabi, and many of the Indigenous Languages.

For grades 10-12 he was at an IB school and they offered French, Spanish, or Mandarin as second language options.

 

[mort1331]

I don’t know anyone who takes or took Spanish. Spanish isn’t an official language, whereas French is. French begins in grade 3 in Ontario for those who aren’t in a French immersion program, and continues to grade 9. Mandatory. Most kids stop taking it after grade 9. My son actually found he liked it in grade 9 and continued into 10, and is taking it this year in 11.

French immersion programs are very popular here. They are where a kid is taking a percentage of the day in French. It changed from year to year and my own kids aren’t in it, so not sure how exactly it works. It may be 100% at some point. It starts in grade 1 in the area I’m in, and is not guaranteed entry for anyone. There’s also a late entry in grade 7. So you either start in grade 1, or grade 7. You can drop out of it, but you can’t randomly join FI.

So we are just outside of Toronto. All families that want French immersion can get in, but yes need to start in grade 1., Not sure about late entry, unless coming from somewhere else. My girls are both in it. From grade 1 to 4,,,100% all courses French. After 4 -8 about 50-50 split. Once in highschool if they continue there is 3 out of 8 courses that need French.
It is amazing how quick they pick it up.

 

[SirDuff]

My high school (public in Toronto) had French, Spanish, Latin (and I think now has Mandarin).

In addition to French Immersion, we also had "French as a first language" schools that were part of the public school board. And, of course, private French language schools where the kids would graduate with both the Ontario diploma and sit the French Bac. I assume that there also schools in other languages, but I'm most familiar with the Toronto French School.

 

[Moliphino]

I wish we had more widely available immersion programs in the US, or even just started foreign languages earlier in schools. It's so much easier to learn a language if you start young.

 

[fab1976]

So we are just outside of Toronto. All families that want French immersion can get in, but yes need to start in grade 1., Not sure about late entry, unless coming from somewhere else. My girls are both in it. From grade 1 to 4,,,100% all courses French. After 4 -8 about 50-50 split. Once in highschool if they continue there is 3 out of 8 courses that need French.
It is amazing how quick they pick it up.

I’m in Mississauga