[enrique_tng]

Hi everyone.
I'm very new at this forum as you all can see (maybe).I'm Enrique from Peru and I'm learning French on my spare time since most of my time I use it to learn Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan, country where I have been living for the past 3 years.
I'm dating an Quebecoise gal who will be back in Taiwan for during two weeks in May.
I wanted to let you know that , if it is Ok for all all the members, I will be asking you questions about French, particularly about Quebecois, i eally hope you can help me solve my doubts.

Here is the first one:

I was checking some Online Quebec Dictionaries and I noticed that in most of the expressions "Y" is used quite often.Could you tell me how to use it?

Here some examples:

y'é ben bon pour en faire accraire au monde.
quand y'a d'la buée, les vitres de mon char arsuent.

Thanks a lot.

BTW, i'm not beginner, but intermediate student of French.

[Streaker]

It's a kind of contraction of "il".

Your first example : Il est bien bon....

Your second: Quand il y a de la buée....

[ShepherdsDog]

Where in Taiwan? I'm down in Kaohsiung.

[snookums]

enrique_tng wrote:

y'é ben bon pour en faire accraire au monde.
quand y'a d'la buée, les vitres de mon char arsuent.

Accraire?
Arsuent?

WTF is that? I'm from Québec, my first language is French and you would NEVER see me massacre French like that. That's actually disgusting - I can understand the 'Y', but the accraire and arsuent??????

[enrique_tng]

I'm in Taichung. About the examples,I just copy and pasted them from a Website.

Thanks for the explanation!!!

[Durandal]

Accraire ? Sure. À-croire.

Arsuent ? Maybe, never heard it. Perhaps Y-suent.