Is it possible to get by in Montreal without speaking French? Or will you just look like a rude American?

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Socially? Yes, quite possible, basically everyone is bilingual and especially downtown. We have lots of tourists and there's no great hatred of them. Business-wise, you will almost certainly be expected to become conversational in french unless you've landed at one of a very small and shrinking number of companies

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I agree with the above that socially speaking it will be easy. Montréal is a bilingual city. Work wise it might be harder to find a good job, in terms of salary. Many companies that are English only pay low. 100+K jobs usually require advanced French and English.

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Hey ! Many people in Montreal don't speak French at all. They are some areas where English is the main used language. I don't think you'll have any problem:)

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As a Recruiter/HR person, most of our clients require french speaking employees. I have to agree with the other comments. Socially no worries, professionally could be difficult.

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It's possible.
But for all french speak speaking person, you gonna look like an anglo that don't do any effort to integrate yourself in a french speaking country

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