[Verse 1]
English mother tongue, French is the working tongue
Sixty-five and over, clientèle — lungs full, battles won
Quebec City, Montréal, Laval, the Laurentians too
B2 minimum fluency — that's the baseline, that's the clue
You're a psychologist, a social worker, maybe a sexologue
Occupational therapist running down the catalogue
Your French is functional, advancing, not a tourist phrase
You're building therapeutic bonds across a generational maze
[Chorus]
¿Quién es el cliente? — el mayor, el francophone
Soixante-cinq et plus, practise in their mother zone
Это наша аудитория — therapist, know your ground
Advanced practitioners serving elders, Quebec-bound
¿Quién es el cliente? — therapist, pin it down
Francophone seniors, that's the crown, that's the crown
[Verse 2]
Guidance counsellors, psychotherapists — the whole constellation
Every regulated profession touching mental restoration
The word is *vellichor* — that strange ache for a world you didn't live
But your elderly clients lived it all — Depression, war, the gift
Of colonial French, joual dialects, the cadence of the Quiet Revolution
You need more than grammar drills — you need cultural absolution
French isn't decoration on your clinical report
It's the vessel for the trust you're building, port to port
[Chorus]
¿Quién es el cliente? — el mayor, el francophone
Soixante-cinq et plus, practise in their mother zone
Это наша аудитория — therapist, know your ground
Advanced practitioners serving elders, Quebec-bound
¿Quién es el cliente? — therapist, pin it down
Francophone seniors, that's the crown, that's the crown
[Bridge]
Predominantly French-speaking — not occasionally, not sometimes
When your client's eighty-two and grieving, every syllable rhymes
With dignity or distance — choose the one that heals
CEFR B2 or higher, that's the deal that's real
The word is *saudade*? No — even rarer: *apanthropy*
The quiet withdrawal from human company — that's what isolation be
When elders lose their language mirror, they lose the room
So you show up fluent, present, cutting through the gloom — that's your bloom
[Verse 3]
Not just survival French, not ordering a café au lait
We're talking cognitive assessments, grief work, what the body can't say
Sexologue addressing intimacy in a francophone elder's terms
Occupational therapist rebuilding routines — the scaffolding affirms
That your advanced French isn't showing off, it's showing up
Every conjugation conjugates the care inside the cup
Quebec law, Quebec culture, l'Office québécois de la langue
You're not just bilingual — you carry both worlds in your sang
[Chorus]
¿Quién es el cliente? — el mayor, el francophone
Soixante-cinq et plus, practise in their mother zone
Это наша аудитория — therapist, know your ground
Advanced practitioners serving elders, Quebec-bound
¿Quién es el cliente? — therapist, pin it down
Francophone seniors, that's the crown, that's the crown