RedEyedParrot
Lt. Junior Grade
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Hi everybody !
First of all something about me. I spend one month in Los Angeles, CA while traveling along the westcoast, including San Francisco, San Diego (this city was suprising !! positivily) and last but not least Las Vegas. Although it was just one month, I really become acquainted with the american culture, behaviors and just living.
But to come to the point and the intention of post, I would like to tell slow1 about my experiences I did in Canada. I spend one semester in Vancouver, British Columbia (West Coast), besides travelling within the whole country.
While flying over the country, only the view out of the window of the plane verified my expectations of Canada and even strengthen them. It its just a wonderful country, including the astonishing nature of woods, lakes, mountains and very variegated animal kingdom !
I lived in Maple Ridge, a less beautiful suburb of Vancouver. In the first days I visited Vancouver and I was just amazed how wunderful it is. There is a mixture of modern architecture with consuetudinary, canadian styles. Lovely parks, stunnig beaches, pretty streets with small cafes with a kind of atmosphere u have to experience. I can't really express... It is just a wonderful, lovely city I had never seen before.
But to repsond your questions. As I already mentioned, I travelled through the whole country. Therefore I recommend to take the west coast closer to your plans, besides I rather like to talk english than french ! =)
But in my view, the french speaking population is kind of seperated from the english part. But without any reason. In Quebec there is a very national party ruling aggressively against any integration into the system. They even suggested to get really independent and they are kind of racist against english speaking ppl. - but this besides the fact of the wonderful nature....
But in the case u want to visit the west coast, u should be aware of the fact, that there is a massive amount of asian population. There a just quartes for rich asians, in which nobody speaks english. Same thing in the opposite - there is a kind of "china town" but it is not meant for tourists or even public. The Asians aspired as well the position of the criminals.
Regarding the temperature I would rather prefer the west coast. In the summer it is very hot in comparison to european standards and in the winter its very cold. But this difference makes it interesting - in the summer u can go swimming in the ocean and even on the same day u can go skiing in the mountains nearby. For example Whistler, a very popular place to be for many celebrities like Tom Cruise, is just 2 hours to go from Vancouver.
In the case you want more things in detail just ask me !
I really like reading this thread, besides the fact, that there is a very large difference between speaking and writing, which let me think about the way I wrote this
Have a nice evening ! So long !
First of all something about me. I spend one month in Los Angeles, CA while traveling along the westcoast, including San Francisco, San Diego (this city was suprising !! positivily) and last but not least Las Vegas. Although it was just one month, I really become acquainted with the american culture, behaviors and just living.
But to come to the point and the intention of post, I would like to tell slow1 about my experiences I did in Canada. I spend one semester in Vancouver, British Columbia (West Coast), besides travelling within the whole country.
While flying over the country, only the view out of the window of the plane verified my expectations of Canada and even strengthen them. It its just a wonderful country, including the astonishing nature of woods, lakes, mountains and very variegated animal kingdom !
I lived in Maple Ridge, a less beautiful suburb of Vancouver. In the first days I visited Vancouver and I was just amazed how wunderful it is. There is a mixture of modern architecture with consuetudinary, canadian styles. Lovely parks, stunnig beaches, pretty streets with small cafes with a kind of atmosphere u have to experience. I can't really express... It is just a wonderful, lovely city I had never seen before.
But to repsond your questions. As I already mentioned, I travelled through the whole country. Therefore I recommend to take the west coast closer to your plans, besides I rather like to talk english than french ! =)
But in my view, the french speaking population is kind of seperated from the english part. But without any reason. In Quebec there is a very national party ruling aggressively against any integration into the system. They even suggested to get really independent and they are kind of racist against english speaking ppl. - but this besides the fact of the wonderful nature....
But in the case u want to visit the west coast, u should be aware of the fact, that there is a massive amount of asian population. There a just quartes for rich asians, in which nobody speaks english. Same thing in the opposite - there is a kind of "china town" but it is not meant for tourists or even public. The Asians aspired as well the position of the criminals.
Regarding the temperature I would rather prefer the west coast. In the summer it is very hot in comparison to european standards and in the winter its very cold. But this difference makes it interesting - in the summer u can go swimming in the ocean and even on the same day u can go skiing in the mountains nearby. For example Whistler, a very popular place to be for many celebrities like Tom Cruise, is just 2 hours to go from Vancouver.
In the case you want more things in detail just ask me !
I really like reading this thread, besides the fact, that there is a very large difference between speaking and writing, which let me think about the way I wrote this
Have a nice evening ! So long !
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) cool or something like that, it sucks. Cause in "Matura" (=Abi), which I have in about 3 weeks, I got to speak formal english, and I'm not used to it. 
I neither was in an english speaking country but due to my academic career i am able to read, write and speak in this language. Unfortunately practising speaking english is possible for me in a very limited way. As a result my ability to speak won't get better at all. In my job speaking english is very recommended cause many seminars and meetings are in english. Hearing and understanding is not a problem, but if i have to say something, this often ends in a slow and stuttering conversastion. Learning by doing is the only way to improve this problem. 
