For those with English eligibility, those can be French second-language courses — so, classes that just teach how to speak and write in French.

About 400,000 people working in Quebec today do not speak French and would need between 1,000 and 1,500 hours of training to learn it. Dubreuil makes a series of recommendations.

Will I need to speak French to take part in paid internships through the Co-op program? Our Co-op students, from Quebec and beyond, do paid internships in Montreal, across Canada and around the world.

If a 40-year-old newcomer to Canada who had only just mastered English as her third language could dedicate herself to learning French as a fourth, surely I should take courage.

That a person could enter 24 Sussex Dr. speaking only English was a sign of the second-class status accorded the country's other principal language in national life.

About 400,000 people working in Quebec today do not speak French and would need between 1,000 and 1,500 hours of training to learn it. Dubreuil makes a series of recommendations.