"If I failed it, when I'm French, I can understand how someone who is Mexican, who doesn't speak French, could fail," said truck driver Yohan Flaman.
If someone from France can fail Quebec’s French test for immigrants, how hard is it for a non-francophone to pass?.
Yohan Flaman, 39, a truck driver from Limoges, France, who came to Quebec in 2018 under the Quebec Experience Program, wasn’t too nervous about taking the French test set by the department of Immigration, Francization and Integration.
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But much to his surprise, when he took the test more than a year ago, he flunked.
“If I failed it, when I’m French, I can understand how someone who is Mexican, who doesn’t speak French, could fail,” he said in an interview Sunday.
Flaman noted when he first arrived in Quebec, he had passed the test for his professional Quebec driver’s licence entirely in French. »