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Not a native speaker, but Quebecois, especially spoken, can involve pretty deep differences in grammar and syntax. Much more than the difference between British and American English.

Example:

Contractions: "M'va le mettre s'a table." = "Je vais le mettre sur la table."

Shortenings: "J'avais plus de nourriture faque chui allé à l'épicerie." = "J'avais plus de nourriture donc je suis allé au marché."

Question particle: "Il veut-tu quelque chose à manger?" = "Veut-il quelque chose à manger?"

I think it's closer to African American Vernacular English (AAVE) or Scots. Most people who speak AAVE/Scots can code switch to standard British or American English, but not vice versa. Some people even seem to hold similar class and discriminatory connotations, unfortunately.

From what I heard, Québécois have no problem understanding European French accents due to exposure to French media. On the other hand, a lot of French people find Québec accents a bit difficult to understand because of the lack of exposure to it.

French here, and I've been to Quebec before. Many French consider the Québéquois accent funny. It's a but more nasal. That being said, I didn't have much trouble understanding people there.

I'm Canadian and (somewhat) speak Canadian French. My online friend is English and he is fluent in European French. We understand each-other fairly well but there's a time every so often where we need to explain what a certain word or phrase means because it's unfamiliar. Quebecois is almost like slang, if that makes sense.

As a french canadian, I do see it similarly to American/British English. It's two dialects of the same language that have evolved separately over 400 years. So of course a lot of idioms and some words are different, but we do understand each other verbally with a bit of effort and easily by text. If someone told you had a parisian accent, then yea they mean you sound like european French.