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Nil d


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Much has been said about the Habs now not having a francophone Quebecois goalie for the first time in over 40 years - since the Worseley/Hodge days (ironically, both Anglo-Quebecois).


Now we have two non-Quebecois goalies, but both francophones!  Huet from France proper, and Aebischer from a part of Switzerland where both French and German are spoken, I believe.  I'm anxious to hear Aebischer interviewed, to hear the accent he has.


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Question for Chris:  Do I have that right about Aebischer's roots?  Would he speak German primarily, with French as a second language, or the other way around?  Or both in equal doses?


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-- Edited by Nil d at 18:56, 2006-03-11

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i think i can answer your question Nil d. David would probably speak Swiss-German - which is completely different from German, and then speak french and english as 2nd and 3rd languages. Depending on his parents.

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Looking on hockeydb, Aebischer is born in Fribourg, and played his first club hockey there. Now I'd have to get Chris's confirmation on this, but I think Fribourg is a mostly French-speaking town (judging from my initial google-researching), but probably it's originally a German town name (like Strasbourg in France), so probably a mixed area. So I bet he speaks French and (Swiss) German.

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