Canada

Geographical situation.

Canada  is a country in located in North America. Canada occupies much of the continent of North America, sharing land borders with the contiguous United States to the south, and the US state of Alaska to the northwest. Canada stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic Ocean.

Spoken languages in Canada.

The official languages of Canada are English  and French, which "have equality of status and equal rights and privileges as to their use in all institutions of the Parliament according to Canada's constitution. In Canada, english is spoken by 59.6% of total population and french is spoken by 21.3%. Here you can see the most spoken languages in Canada.

How did english become an official language in Canada?

English has been a language of government in each of the porvinces since their inception as British colonies but it has always benn different from British english. This is something that we are going to see later. In 1931, Canada reached the independence by the Statute of Westminster. 

 Differences between canadian english and british english in grammar and pronunciation.

Some of the differences in the Canadian english grammar and british english are these:

When writing, Canadians may start a sentence with As well, in the sense of "in addition"; this construction is a Canadianism.

In speech and in writing, Canadian English speakers permit a transitive form for some past tense verbs where only an intransitive form is permitted in most other dialects. 

In pronunciation we can find many other differences:

If you click this link you can watch two girls, one is american and the other is canadian, each one will say the same sentences with her pronunciation and there is where you can see the obvious differences.

If you click here you will find a video where a girl will teach us some canadian vocabulary.


By: Javier Tomé Roldán