wow, if you can't speak french, mcgill is a horrible place to be!

<p>Trois-Pistoles is such a nice town--my extended family is from there and we go on vacation there every summer.</p>

<p>No, I didn't know anything about the Explore program. She is attending International Language School of Canada. She is a big city girl, and wanted the freedom to explore on her own if she didn't want to do the afternoon activities. 4hrs/day of class.
The Explore program sounds wonderful, tho. Too late to switch- already paid up.</p>

<p>I'm not a student there yet, but it's been my experience from the few days I stayed in Montreal that if you choose to venture off campus, there's not reason you shouldn't be at least partially immersed in French. Restaurant menu's are in french. Most conversation you hear on the street will be in french, and more importantly there's a plethora of french TV and radio stations, so you can just sit in front of the tube and start directly soaking it up.</p>

<p>I think you get the idea...The immersion is a completely voluntary thing (ie you're only immersed as you want to be). Just be conscious of the culture around you, and you'll start to pick it up.</p>

<p>Student1 is crap. He probably got rejected and he now speading lies to boost his self-esteem.</p>

<p>I find it ironic that he or she would be complaining about having a hard time being served in English when the local population has been complaining for years that the downtown core is predominately English and they themselves have a hard time being served in French.</p>

<p>The only thing all French is the signs which was disconcerting at first!!! The people all spoke beautiful English - in fact I mistakenly asked a few if they were Americans and they explained the faction that occurred years back very tolerantly, lol.</p>