Interviewer: Um, and do you speak any French. Speaker: No, not anything beyond you-know high-school French, ah well, yeah high-school primarily yeah. Little bit of elementary I think you-know um core French was brand new when I was in elementary-school it's came in when I was already part way through, so what you would remember as always being there right those French classes in oh I'm assuming you went to an English school sorry.

Speaker: So you can take some Fre-- c-- ah, French courses. There's core French and French-immersion. Interviewer: Oh, oh. Speaker: Core is like- Interviewer: For the kids who didn't do the French. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Yeah, okay. Speaker: And then French-immersion is- Interviewer: For you guys. Speaker: Yeah.

Ah but I was an Ontario-Scholar and for somebody who had a real struggle, I was an Ontario-Scholar and I had- I th-- I'm pretty sure I got an award for French. For core French and Spanish 'cause I excelled in languages. I found my- my niche so I had applied to Laurentian-University ah for translation 'cause I thought, you-know, I was going to be an interpreter, you-know.

Interviewer: So you speak English and French? Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: And English is your first language? Speaker: Yeah, and French- my parents- my mom she took core French so she just took like the French that like English people would take in high-school. Um well she took more courses of French in high-school but it was more for beginner sort-of thing and when she went to university, she took French too I think ...