As a french canadian, im happy that my long lost brother's are trying to keep the traditions alive like we do in the north. Long live to the French Americans minorities!
And to think that they are doing it the way that it should be, through family and sharing culture, unlike Quebec where they feel that it must be forced on everyone.
@@michaelwilson6898 it’s more complicated than that. You anglophones always attack French Canadians. Face the reality. Quebec was New France. They are a different people and you anglophones invaded their territory. Anglophones and francophones are historically enemies so it’s more complicated than what you’re saying
French must be preserved and gain greater status in Louisiana. Everyone in school should be required to take French courses from kindergarten abd have to take some full immersion courses in middle and high school and there should be incentives to speak French at home and offer French only education. They owe it to us. It's our heritage. Our people. The English changed much of our historic liberal values. I'm only half French and not from Acadia... They came from France!
Culture has little to do with genetics, it's all about who you know you are. Most Cajuns aren't even 100% French, but they are still French Americans, as are Acadiens and descendants of french immigrants that still identify with their ethnicity
I'm a proud Cajun, raised in the heart of Cajun Country. Growing up, I heard French Cajun French spoken everyday by someone.. You could not go to a store a gas station a bar a doctor's or dentist office and not hear Cajun French... Those days aren't completely gone... but they almost disappeared entirely. History one's heritage nationality culture and upbringing... matter more and more as we age.. A rich vibrant culture... The Cajuns... of Southern Louisiana.
As an anglo from Texas who wants to learn French, this is wonderful! I had hoped that someone was working to preserve the beautiful French language in Louisiana. Also, glad to hear that you are preserving Cajun French!
Go for it, French is my first foreign language as a fellow Anglo Texan and I have a lot to work on but it's an extremely rewarding language and truly is the perfect second language for English speakers. It is quite easy to learn vocabulary as we took over 50% of our words in English from French/Latin words. The long hatred between England and France lasted over a thousand years and finally ended in the 20th century, it's only fitting to learn each other's language and extend that olive branch of respect between the Anglophones and the Francophones.
Theodicist Eddie Try to learn if you can, even if you yourself isn’t from Louisiana. I was born and raised in Texas but my grandparents are from Louisiana and spoke French. I made an effort to learn it after I realized how important it is to preserve. I found that learning standard French first, and then learning the Louisiana dialect works best since there are more resources for standard and after that you just have to get the differences down. It’s enriched my life so much, not just from being able to enjoy and appreciate my Cajun heritage, but it has also opened up all of the media, music, art, and culture of France, Quebec, Africa, and all over the world as well. Being bilingual in English and French truly does improve your life and opens up so many opportunities for you.
In Ireland, thanks to the Brits, we had "an bata scóir" ('the score stick'). Teachers used to hang sticks around the children's necks and they made a notch every time a child said something in Irish. At the end of the school day, the number of notches meant the number of whacks... d'un plus grand bâton.
As an American of French descent, this is amazing. I always thought there should be a group effort amongst Cajun/Creole, French, and Quebecois. Also, to recognize we are all French and that the diversity is just an ingredient in the recipe. For the video, I would also keep in mind French people didn't stop immigrating with Arcadians. The French came well into the 1900's. Anyway, I'll make sure to send my support your way.
Hi guy ! I am french, i would like to know, honestly, do arcadians feel a connection with france ? Do you keep up a bit with the news in France ? To sum up, do you know a bit about french culture ? If you don't i really understand, it certainly seem very far for you 😊
@@nacimsouni8539 yeah I think there's some connection to our French roots, but mostly in the way French ancestry shaped our culture here. One example is that to some extent we still follow Napoleonic Law( or French Law) but I doubt it much resembles the laws you follow in France today. Certainly people are proud of their French heritage but I don't think very many Louisiana folks follow current events in France, or even know much at all about the current culture in France. And the Louisiana French language of the old days has several dialects in of itself and is sometimes very different from "proper" French, so much so that you couldn't guarantee you'd be fluent in one if you speak the other. I speak the French I learned in school, but not the "Louisiana French" my grandparents spoke. So few people speak the old school dialects these days, and since I it was a largely spoken language, there's little written record of how to speak it(kinda like what happened to the original Hawaiian language) so that as the resurrection of the French language grows in Louisiana, it's evolving into a somewhat different dialect(today people learn more standard and"proper" French) our French ancestors certainly helped shape Cajun and Creole culture here but so did a lot of other ancestries, that's what makes our home unique. But I dream and pray for the day when when everyone across the state of Louisiana speaks French as easily as English and we continue to develop the special culture we have here. I hope that helps answer your curiosity.
@@nacimsouni8539 je sais pas si ça peut t'aider mais durant la coupe du monde 2018. Les maillots les plus vendus en Louisiane étaient des maillots français. :)
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We totally agree! A few weeks ago, we got to participate in a networking week sponsored by the Centre de la Francophonie des Amériques with other Franco-American entrepreneurs. Follow our page to learn more about Louisiana French and our efforts to keep it alive and accessible to all.
My momma didn't learn French though her daddy spoke it fluently in Lafayette and Lake Charles. I have taken it on myself to learn Cajun French and i just bought a fiddle at age 38 because i'm going to celebrate the culture
I'm back from a trip to Louisiana. What stroke me is how French language is absent from the public space. I was incidentally lucky enough to speak French with local people but I've never heard local people speaking French together. Even in Lafayette, you don't hear French on the street. I spoke in Vermillion village with a few animators, one who can speak French told me he happened to speak French with a local 2 weeks ago. I tried to use French in Breaux Bridge but they'd look embarassed so I never tried to use French anymore unless someone initiate the talking in French as it happened amazingly in Houma House plantation when the lady I asked a question showing my guide in French suddenly said : 'je suis cajun de la Louisiane'. Then she explained me the way to get somewhere. I can't really tell much about the situation of French language in Louisina but when I read the stats that says that in 1970 there were 1 million French speaking and now less than 150k, sadly I can't help thinking French language is dying in Louisiana. Espérons que non!
@Michael Ulrich I'm from Louisiana, and yes, the French and Louisiana Creole are pretty much dying languages unfortunately. There's some people trying to learn like, but overall, most people don't make the effort to learn or speak it.
@@@JLDReactions : yes and it was banned once from the school and kids were looked down and punished, even sometimes physically when they spoke French. So that for generation French was associated to pain and shame. So they didn't pass it to their own kids. Merci pour ta réponse.
@@Todd Foret : Ok c'est noté! C'est sur que j'ai pas non plus passé beaucoup de temps dans le pays Cajun pour vraiment me rendre compte. Peut-être à une prochaine fois. Merci
En 1803 la France a vendu la Louisiane aux états unis , pour 15 million de dollards et a ainsi aidé les US a devenir une grande puissance. De plus nous les avons aidés a foutre les vilains anglais dehors !!
Very interesting documentary. Unfortunately I did not meet any Louisiana-French speaking person when I visited Louisiana a long time ago. Many people and institutions of Louisiana are doing a great job in preserving and encouraging the French heritage. 👍🏻 Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭, another French speaking area of the world. Patrick
Very interesting documentary! Documentaire très intéressant! Salutations de France!😀
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Born & bred in Forked Island,LA. about 15 miles from gulf of Mexico,,we spoke French before english, wasn't what they teach in schools now,,was the REAL CAJUN FRENCH..very different from what they tried to teach in school..I speak fluent cajun french,,unfortunately my kids never picked it up...only the cuss words!! My grandfather went to school but quit same day cause he couldn't understand english,,he never went back! And that was that for him,,he was a very talented carpenter, not knowing one word of english..those were what we call 'the good ole days' God bless y'all! 🙏
Ca me fait trop plaisir de voir un Franco Ontarien ici :o Je suis française mais je suis pas mal ce qu'il se passe en Ontario pour les francophones (j'ai vécu à Toronto aussi même si j'ai dû rentrer le mois dernier). J'ai même mon drapeau franco accroché dans mon appartement :)
La Louisiane est un des Etats les plus pauvres d'Amérique. Elle aurait intérêt à développer son identité francophone pour sortir de son sous-développement. Il faudrait expliquer qu'apprendre le Français ouvre aussi des opportunités économiques vers l'étranger, notamment l'Afrique francophone et que connaitre le Français permet ensuite d'apprendre très très facilement l'Espagnol. Cette ressource est plus précieuse que le pétrole qui n'a de toute façon pas d'avenir ! Louisiana is one of the poorest states in America. It would be in its interest to develop its French-speaking identity to get out of its underdevelopment. It should be explained that learning French also opens up economic opportunities abroad, especially in French-speaking Africa, and that knowing French makes it very very easy to learn Spanish which is a very important language for America. After all, here in France, learning at least two foreign languages is mandatory, it is not such a terrible educational requirement, even if the results are not always great, I admit. This cultural resource is more precious than oil which has no future anyway!
As Bad As The Nazis Were In France The French Children Could Speak Their French Language In Their Schools. At That Time In Germany French Was The 2nd Language Taught In German School . Hitler Changed The 2nd Language Taught in German Schools To English. Many Of The German People and Soldiers At That Time In World War Two ( 2 ) Could Speak French As It was Taught As A 2nd Language In Germany. Americans Giving PUNISHMENT And SUSPENDING French Children From School Because They Spoke Their Mother Tongue Makes Americans In This SCENE Of The French Language WORST Than The Nazis Were In France...In WW2...BY THE WAY.. THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT HAVE A OFFICIAL LANGUAGE AT ALL. A Excellent Video.. Highly Recommended.. Thank You Very Much For Sharing..
Because the English are a racist Germanic race as well. They want to come off as saviours against the nazis. But the truth is the English people are a racist Germanic race
@@truthseeker9963 Well that's normal. "England is an Empire, Germany a race; France is a person." Jules Michelet (1861). Histoire de France. I'm French. German was always a race. We call Germany "Allemagne" because they come from the alemanis or alemans tribe. Still to this day, some think the Franks (French ancestors) since they were germanic are germans. This is wrong. As the gallo-romans were romanized, they adopted latin and its culture. The Franks converted to christianity, the only germanic tribe to do it at the time and were latinized, adopted the culture from the gallo-romans, forgetting their previous frankish language. That's the point I was trying to make. France is a nation: "France is not a race, like Germany; it is a nation" Jules Michelet. The british, the wasps and the aryans made war by superiority of their race. Frenchmen never did that. They made war because they fought to be superiour because they were frenchmen, as a nation, as a state, as a culture, as a language (due to french being the lingua franca, the new latin for a long time, and culturally exceptional).
I am not French nor do I know anyone of French heritage but I am a huge history major and I wrote a paper on the French and Indian War and once I learned of the expulsion of the Acadians and how modern day Louisiana would be a save heaven for many French men and women after the fall of the French monarchy And empire I always felt so bad for the French people who were stuck in the middle of war and well..Britain. But to learn that the French culture is still alive in Canada and America makes me really happy, from an American to my French readers I'm glad your our nations oldest ally 🇫🇷🇺🇸
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I was in Lafayette and surrounding areas a week ago and although I did not hear too much Cajun or Creole spoken but I also feel that those who do speak it won't unless *they know* you speak French. For example, Jacqueline who runs a restaurant in Beaux Bridge spoke French to some French-speaking tourists, as well as some tour guides at Vermilion. Many of the older folks I encountered could speak it and threw French words into their sentences to help describe things for me. Younger folks often learn it through music and may only speak English but dance to French (Cajun/Creole) music at bars and other concert spaces :) Some fluent speakers host "French Tables" around the area to help teach others and dedicate a space for speaking it. Although I got the impression many locals do not speak it regularly, it was impressive to see how much of the Cajun/Creole cultural ways (beside language) has been preserved well and how unique and different this region of our country is. As someone said to me "This is the only place in the country where playing the accordion makes you cool." And it's 100% true!
Le français se perd peu à peu au Québec au profit de l'anglais. Longtemps mise à l'écart à cause de ses velléités de liberté dans les années 70/80, Montréal semble regagner de l'intérêt de la part des anglophones canadiens et les investissements se sont accrus au Québec ... Tant mieux pour eux... J'en suis très content !
I’m a native of Louisiana, born in New Orleans. My paternal side of my family were from St, Martinville & since the late 1700’s. In the early 1700’s my grandmother’s were from Africa/New Orleans & my grandfather was from France.⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️ I love family history❤️
N’oubliez jamais que l’on parle d’une langue qui nous réuni. Pas d’un pays ou d’une ethnie. Les Américains actuellement sont très curieux et tolérants vis à vis des nouvelles langues. P.ex. L’espagnole au NM, TX et Ca. Avec la possibilité de les enseigner à l’école. Ici en Suisse il y a 4 langues nationales. On en parle au moins 2 (hormis l’anglais), et on en est très heureux. Merci pour ce reportage.
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Darius Teixeira Oui, Je habite en Californie. Il ya beaucoup des gens qui parlent l'Espagnol. La familie de mon Pere est de l'Etat de Pennsylvania. Il ya un peu peuple là qui parlent l'Allemand. Il ya beaucoup de gens francophones de l'Afrique ou je habite en Californie aussi. Ces gens sont du Congo, Zaire et Burhkina Faso. Ils parlent "le Camfranglais", ce langue est Français avec des mots anglais et Africain.
Exactement. Louisiane, créole, québécoise, métropolitaine, africaine, insulaire, n’importe où, nous parlons tous français. J'aime que nous parlions tous une langue avec notre propre épice. Nous partageons un langage et un héritage communs qui nous unissent tous. Je suis fier d'être Américain et je suis fier de parler le cajun, mais surtout, je suis fier de ma langue française et de mes ancêtres.
J'étais dans la région de Lafayette il y a 2 ans et c'est vrai qu'on entend pas beaucoup parler français, sauf si les gens comprennent que vous êtes francophone. Alors, les langues se délient et c'est un vrai plaisir partagé de parler avec eux. Je suis encore en contact avec Jennifer du CODOFIL et avec Jesse Guidry de l'Office du Tourisme de Lafayette. Je les salue cordialement.
46:00 Dreaming in a foreign language shows that you really have a connection with the culture and the language. It also provides for more interesting dreams with a whole new cast of characters.
You're part of that history. I remember talking to a Creole lady who was proud of her heritage. She loved saying " Il fait très frette" to say it was chilly.
It's pretty sad what happened to Louisiana French. My grandma is a French Cajun from Lafayette and she had to stop speaking French when she was in school. I know a good bit of French but probably not enough.
My ancestors are Scotts and Irish, the Celtic language was hammered out of my ancestors, The music, the legends, customs and stories, the soul of my ancestors all lost to me and countless others. Don't loose your Language.
@@vincentlefebvre9255 Diversity word in the mouth of anglo-saxons unfortunately are always lies. Don't fall for it. It's a shame, they don't need to. English is the lingua franca, the new french, there's no need to kill off languages.
Courage ! restez forts, unis, et continuez à préserver autant que faire se peut, vôtre langue, à travers les générations futures en rendant l’apprentissage dynamique, amusant et utile pour la vie et culture active
Hi! I'm LPB's archivist. LPB & CODOFIL partnered in the 1980s to produce a French-language series called En Francais. You can stream episodes on LPB's archive here: ladigitalmedia.org/video_v2/sublisting/LFRAN
To be upfront, I have a degree in Linguistics. Acadian French (mostly Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) and the subsequent Louisiana Cajun French IS an older French dialect originating from the Poitou region in the 1600's. There are different verbs, different grammar, different word choices, different pronunciations from Modern french. Consider these two sentences, which mean "I don't know." Je ne sais pas vs. Moi je connais pas. Both are perfect French, just a different dialect. In our dialect we roll our "R's". We don't make the distasteful "hairball" sound for the "R" that modern French speakers do. Kidding... :) I believe the two dialects, modern and old, have more in common than not and you'll hear different reports of how difficult or easy it is to understand each other. Acadian French remained virtually unchanged for the 150 years before the deportation, which started in 1755. I don't see myself as French anymore than an American would see themself as British. We have a distinct cultural identity. Just like the Acadians and their descendants do. BTW, I'm 2nd generation American, 11th generation Acadian - (depuis l'annee 1632, Pierre de Comeau). My dad speaks modern french because he was raised in Maine in an orphanage and taught by visiting nuns. But he also knows some of the older dialect that was spoken in his family. He passed a little on to me. I'm trying to regain the French, but I have no interest in learning modern french. I want to regain and preserve OUR dialect that distinctly marks us as Acadian. As far as teaching modern french in southwest Louisiana - Would you hire British English teachers to teach your American kids to speak English? They would come home speaking British English and have a British accent. Not the end of the world, but it's not who we are. There's pros and cons with the importation to southwest Louisiana of French teachers from France, Belgium, even Nigeria. I understand it's difficult to find qualified Cajun french teachers from Acadiana. If the kids in the immersion programs can't go home and speak with their me'me' et pe'pe' ( may-MAY and pay-PAY if you're from New Brunswick), what good is that? Nous sommes pas Francaise - Nous sommes Acadian! I'm aware that there's other groups of French speakers in Acadiana, but the descendants of the Acadian survivors should be speaking OUR old dialect. Vive L'Acadie! BTW, you REALLY should see all 3 short films by Director Phil Comeau covering Acadian history. The first and longest features Mr. Zachary Richard on a trip to visit his ancestral lands in Nouvelle Ecosse. The 2nd and 3rd involve the descendants of Acadian exiles on Belle Isle, France, who STILL see themselves as Acadian. These films are emotional and a MUST SEE for all the descendants of the Acadian exiles. Fierte' Acadienne.
In France, we also have other old langues d’Oïl like Picard, Normand, Gallo… they tend to disappear unfortunately but just to say that they are exactly in the same position than Cajun and all of them are as French as Parisian French is.
I am excited to see this. My grandmother's parents were Accadians and I would love to able to get into some type of French Immersion programs but I live in Texas.
You could learn online. I could teach you. I am pretty advanced and always advancing. I know French from France and to some extent know French Canadian. I can understand Cajuns when they speak a decent French and closer to what their ancestors spoke.
To anyone who lives in Louisiana. You can clean a lot about how to preserve and promote the use of French by watching videos about the ekastolas of Basque Country. One method is to speak to children by looking at them directly in the eyes and speaking to them in the target language. Their parents, if they don't speak the language might be spoken to in their most comfortable language but without looking at the children in the eyes unless it's the target language. In Israel, children were educated away and they taught their parents. Israel has championed in reviving Hebrew, literally from 0 native speakers and Quebec has championed teaching French to immigrants.
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Ils ne sont pas nos cousins, ils sont nos frères. Ils parlent le plus vieux français du monde et la diversité de la langue française et l'humanité (quand des langues disparaissent tous les jours) ont besoin de ce travail de préservation. No french or canadian teachers. We need cajuns and créoles teachers. We're there before americans and we'll there after they left. Sorry for my english ; i'm a cajun from France. Historic Louisiana from Louisiana state today to Washington state is French. Onontio will come back. V.L.XX.
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I am not French nor Cajun, am Puerto Rican, and looking what occured in Louisiana, in regard to language laws, I understand now why Puerto Rico has been resistance to statehood. We are a people proud of our heritage and history, which includes the Spanish language, and to be told that in some how that my native language is inferior to the mainstream would anger the whole populous. I think more should be done to not only preserve French but to expand it in the state of Loiuisiana, there should be charter schools that instruct in French. There should also be free public courses for adults to learn the language. Also there should be an emphasis on speaking French at home, and within the community. I know that Cajuns are proud of their celebrations, cuisine, and culture, that should include their language. More oppurtunities should be explored to expand that use of the language. My native language is Spanish, I was born and raised in Connecticut, and depite that, I still speak and read Spanish fluently. French has to be spoken at home for it to survive and thrive. If French is lost in Louisiana, then different perspective of the American experiment is lost.
It’s really sad that they took the language out of the schools and now you would have to learn it by taking a class for it.. I am a whole gumbo mixed with many things. My grandmother spoke French but she never taught us. And her mother also did -100% French. They were creole women of color but they their French sounded to me like they were straight from France. It’s weird. Anyway I’m trying to learn it. ♥️🇫🇷⚜️♥️🇫🇷⚜️
I used to listen to both sets of my grandparents speaking French and my great-grandparents too. I only know a couple words of the Cajun French. Whenever I visit my friend down the bayou she has to interpret for me because I don't understand what they're saying. I sure wish I would have learned how to speak the Cajun French as a child. My mother can speak it and understand it but you have to go slow but my father never learned. It was their generation where they could not speak the French in school and were punished if they did.
The Canjun flag is an exploit in itself, like the National Acadian flag, which was also a "tour de force" to accomplish. the Acadian flag being from the lat 19th century, it is the oldest flag in continual use in all of Canada.
Amazing when you realize that in Europe students learn four language at a start... English, French, German and their local language....we Americans would do ourselves a good deed to learn a few more languages....it would be very helpful....
At least include both English and Spanish and have one optional language like French and German as a standard for the US. Being multilingual is such a boon to one's livelihood.
In Europe neighbor countries speak different languages and the land area is small compared to the United States. They do not teach, for example, Polish in Italy or France. They in general teach English as it is done in schools in Latin America from the first grade. The US is the only country that does not teach foreign languages in elementary school. One year or Spanish or French in high school is useless and is an elective.
Cody K Oui, Je suis descendu de Roger DeLisle. Il a écrit le Hymne nationale de la France. Les DeLisle ont habité dans l'etat du Texas. Je ne sais pas s'ils étaient cajun.
Si les De Lisle ont habité aux USA c'est peut-être grâce à la soeur de Rouget De Lisle : Jeanne Rouget. Mais je suis vraiment étonné que vous descendiez de Claude-Joseph Rouget De Lisle. Il est mort emprisonné pour dette en 1836. Avait-il des enfants qui seraient partis aux USA ??? Pourquoi pas... Quelques aristocrates Français sont partis en Amérique mais très peu.... L'immigration française aux USA est très très minoritaire par rapport aux Allemands, Italiens, Anglais, Hollandais..... Les Français partis aux USA ont été complétement intégrés à la population . Du Pont de Nemours, Nicolas Martiaux (arrière arrière grand père de Georges Washington) etc....
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Would natives Americans' languages be encouraged too? Just asking, rumor has it Russian will be taught in Alaska to keep traditions. I love The United States. What a United Cultures.
I agree but if you may have to use old french language nobody will understand you.... And in France you'll be just ridiculous.... But i agree : preserve your fantastic heritage !!!
I have watched a couple video clips from Louisiana where people spoke Louisiana French. Sorry but not sorry, the Louisiana French is not old French, it is very close to the French spoken in Québec or France these days. So close that I had no problem to understand them (I live in Montréal).
Cajun French is to Parisian French, as American English is to British English. No one calls US English "old" English, but it does preserve "older" sounds that UK English lost. US English is older English that evolved differently while retaining some older sounds. American French (Cajun/Quebec) isn't older, it just evolved differently from an older French.
Modern French, either from Paris and Quebec, are not Cajun French. Cajun French has Spanish, English, and Native American languages blended in with the French. It’s really it’s own thing, and once it’s gone it’s gone. So if you really want to preserve it, you should go to the nursing homes and get it while you can, because in about 10 years or less it’s going to be gone. We’re losing more and more native speakers every day! This aspect of Louisiana/Cajun culture needs to be preserved! But you can’t do that by looking to France or Canada. Spend time with your elderly! Not only will they appreciate the time spent, but they will be thrilled to learn their descendants care so much for the ways of their ancestors after all!
Unfortunately, the last place to learn a language is in a school setting. Believe me, I grew up in Quebec and attended English schools which failed to impart fluency in French. Languages must be learned at first orally (mother's knee, friends). Introducing the written form at the same time only confuses the brain.
Writing gendered nouns on a blackboard with the "le" and "la" divides the word in two and most people learning French have trouble successfully recombining them later. They remember the main word but aren't sure whether to use "le" or "la". Learned exclusively orally the "le" and "la" are simply part of the word. If the language is learned orally the brain can formulate its own mnemonic pathways rather than being confused with text. If you were teaching children to sing a song would you not sing the music but not expect them to "read" the sheet music?
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I was born and raised in Houma Louisiana. I only know one or two words of Cajun French. You never had any classes in my elementary school that taught us the Cajun French. So I'd like to know what schools or parishes this was in.
Wait. How do they know in which language they're dreaming ? ^^' I'd never be able to tell you if I dream in French or in English (most of the time I don't even know which one I'm speaking)
The USA needs to have mandatory "foreign" language courses for at least 6 years during the first 12 years of school, Assuming American English is the norm and not allowing the grade, good or bad, to effect one's grade average until one is in secondary schoolings such as college or university. Many European countries do this, but they may make the mistake of having these courses effect one's grade average.
I think mandatory bilingualism should include not only foreign languages but also indigenous languages and other heritage languages that Americans have lost over the past 100 years due to forced assimilation of indigenous languages and immigrant languages alike. For instance in the Dakotas, the German language was banned and repressed as a result of WWI, while the Sioux language was literally beaten out of kids at closed boarding schools. And other immigrant languages were lost due to strong social pressure to fit in and parent's desire to give their kids a head start by speaking flawless English without an accent.
Sad french was suppressed for centuries to force unification. French were a majority for a long time in America as France and Louis XIV owned 2/3 of America then.
You can be an American ... no problem with that, but you need to be Cajun before being American, you have to respect yourself. I am in Canada here, I am Acadian before being Canadian. When you hold a culture that is more authentic than the state that manages you... you don't drop it what you have to hold something that is less of an explanation of what you are.
My mama would be whipped in school for speaking French.. But at home my grand parents couldn't speak English... When I was a kid I asked my mama, why my aunts and uncles were Mexicans?! LOL!!
As a french canadian, im happy that my long lost brother's are trying to keep the traditions alive like we do in the north. Long live to the French Americans minorities!
And the French Language in General
Vive les Francophones!
And to think that they are doing it the way that it should be, through family and sharing culture, unlike Quebec where they feel that it must be forced on everyone.
Not long lost colonial brothers 🥴
@@michaelwilson6898 it’s more complicated than that. You anglophones always attack French Canadians. Face the reality. Quebec was New France. They are a different people and you anglophones invaded their territory. Anglophones and francophones are historically enemies so it’s more complicated than what you’re saying
Sad french was suppressed for centuries.
French were a majority for a long time in America as France and Louis XIV owned 2/3 of America then.
French must be preserved and gain greater status in Louisiana. Everyone in school should be required to take French courses from kindergarten abd have to take some full immersion courses in middle and high school and there should be incentives to speak French at home and offer French only education. They owe it to us. It's our heritage. Our people. The English changed much of our historic liberal values. I'm only half French and not from Acadia... They came from France!
Culture has little to do with genetics, it's all about who you know you are. Most Cajuns aren't even 100% French, but they are still French Americans, as are Acadiens and descendants of french immigrants that still identify with their ethnicity
J M a lot of black people are of French culture in Louisiana.
Augustin Théoleyre Ye
@@augth You're talking about the Creoles and many of them aren't even black actually.
Cajun French is not Metropolitan French.
C'est un miracle qu'il subsiste encore des francophones en Amérique du nord. Bravo à toutes ces personnes de faire vivre leur culture.
Vive la Louisiane!!
I'm a proud Cajun, raised in the heart of Cajun Country. Growing up, I heard French Cajun French spoken everyday by someone.. You could not go to a store a gas station a bar a doctor's or dentist office and not hear Cajun French... Those days aren't completely gone... but they almost disappeared entirely. History one's heritage nationality culture and upbringing... matter more and more as we age.. A rich vibrant culture... The Cajuns... of Southern Louisiana.
Vive la langue française et vive le peuple Cajun !
I am still learning but I think I need to try harder.
As an anglo from Texas who wants to learn French, this is wonderful! I had hoped that someone was working to preserve the beautiful French language in Louisiana.
Also, glad to hear that you are preserving Cajun French!
Did you know that the veteran with the most seasons with the Dallas Cowboys is a guy from Québec ? His name is Louis-Philippe Ladouceur .
Jbtex...look up Kirby jambon
Go for it, French is my first foreign language as a fellow Anglo Texan and I have a lot to work on but it's an extremely rewarding language and truly is the perfect second language for English speakers. It is quite easy to learn vocabulary as we took over 50% of our words in English from French/Latin words. The long hatred between England and France lasted over a thousand years and finally ended in the 20th century, it's only fitting to learn each other's language and extend that olive branch of respect between the Anglophones and the Francophones.
My grandmother was from there...I called my grandma "mamere," ...and my son calls my mom that.
Theodicist Eddie Try to learn if you can, even if you yourself isn’t from Louisiana. I was born and raised in Texas but my grandparents are from Louisiana and spoke French. I made an effort to learn it after I realized how important it is to preserve. I found that learning standard French first, and then learning the Louisiana dialect works best since there are more resources for standard and after that you just have to get the differences down. It’s enriched my life so much, not just from being able to enjoy and appreciate my Cajun heritage, but it has also opened up all of the media, music, art, and culture of France, Quebec, Africa, and all over the world as well. Being bilingual in English and French truly does improve your life and opens up so many opportunities for you.
Ou mamie ou mémé....
Awesome!
Love it 😂😊
In Ireland, thanks to the Brits, we had "an bata scóir" ('the score stick'). Teachers used to hang sticks around the children's necks and they made a notch every time a child said something in Irish. At the end of the school day, the number of notches meant the number of whacks... d'un plus grand bâton.
As an American of French descent, this is amazing. I always thought there should be a group effort amongst Cajun/Creole, French, and Quebecois. Also, to recognize we are all French and that the diversity is just an ingredient in the recipe. For the video, I would also keep in mind French people didn't stop immigrating with Arcadians. The French came well into the 1900's. Anyway, I'll make sure to send my support your way.
Michaël Gisclair no, dis moi si vous plait!
Hi guy ! I am french, i would like to know, honestly, do arcadians feel a connection with france ? Do you keep up a bit with the news in France ? To sum up, do you know a bit about french culture ?
If you don't i really understand, it certainly seem very far for you 😊
@@nacimsouni8539 yeah I think there's some connection to our French roots, but mostly in the way French ancestry shaped our culture here. One example is that to some extent we still follow Napoleonic Law( or French Law) but I doubt it much resembles the laws you follow in France today. Certainly people are proud of their French heritage but I don't think very many Louisiana folks follow current events in France, or even know much at all about the current culture in France. And the Louisiana French language of the old days has several dialects in of itself and is sometimes very different from "proper" French, so much so that you couldn't guarantee you'd be fluent in one if you speak the other. I speak the French I learned in school, but not the "Louisiana French" my grandparents spoke. So few people speak the old school dialects these days, and since I it was a largely spoken language, there's little written record of how to speak it(kinda like what happened to the original Hawaiian language) so that as the resurrection of the French language grows in Louisiana, it's evolving into a somewhat different dialect(today people learn more standard and"proper" French) our French ancestors certainly helped shape Cajun and Creole culture here but so did a lot of other ancestries, that's what makes our home unique. But I dream and pray for the day when when everyone across the state of Louisiana speaks French as easily as English and we continue to develop the
special culture we have here. I hope that helps answer your curiosity.
@@nacimsouni8539 je sais pas si ça peut t'aider mais durant la coupe du monde 2018. Les maillots les plus vendus en Louisiane étaient des maillots français. :)
We totally agree! A few weeks ago, we got to participate in a networking week sponsored by the Centre de la Francophonie des Amériques with other Franco-American entrepreneurs. Follow our page to learn more about Louisiana French and our efforts to keep it alive and accessible to all.
Salutations québécoises à nos cousins et cousines de Louisiane. 💓⚜️
My momma didn't learn French though her daddy spoke it fluently in Lafayette and Lake Charles. I have taken it on myself to learn Cajun French and i just bought a fiddle at age 38 because i'm going to celebrate the culture
I'm back from a trip to Louisiana. What stroke me is how French language is absent from the public space. I was incidentally lucky enough to speak French with local people but I've never heard local people speaking French together. Even in Lafayette, you don't hear French on the street. I spoke in Vermillion village with a few animators, one who can speak French told me he happened to speak French with a local 2 weeks ago. I tried to use French in Breaux Bridge but they'd look embarassed so I never tried to use French anymore unless someone initiate the talking in French as it happened amazingly in Houma House plantation when the lady I asked a question showing my guide in French suddenly said : 'je suis cajun de la Louisiane'. Then she explained me the way to get somewhere. I can't really tell much about the situation of French language in Louisina but when I read the stats that says that in 1970 there were 1 million French speaking and now less than 150k, sadly I can't help thinking French language is dying in Louisiana. Espérons que non!
@Michael Ulrich I'm from Louisiana, and yes, the French and Louisiana Creole are pretty much dying languages unfortunately. There's some people trying to learn like, but overall, most people don't make the effort to learn or speak it.
@@@JLDReactions : yes and it was banned once from the school and kids were looked down and punished, even sometimes physically when they spoke French. So that for generation French was associated to pain and shame. So they didn't pass it to their own kids. Merci pour ta réponse.
@@Todd Foret : Ok c'est noté! C'est sur que j'ai pas non plus passé beaucoup de temps dans le pays Cajun pour vraiment me rendre compte. Peut-être à une prochaine fois. Merci
En 1803 la France a vendu la Louisiane aux états unis , pour 15 million de dollards et a ainsi aidé les US a devenir une grande puissance. De plus nous les avons aidés a foutre les vilains anglais dehors !!
Merci !
Very interesting documentary. Unfortunately I did not meet any Louisiana-French speaking person when I visited Louisiana a long time ago.
Many people and institutions of Louisiana are doing a great job in preserving and encouraging the French heritage. 👍🏻
Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭, another French speaking area of the world.
Patrick
Very interesting documentary! Documentaire très intéressant! Salutations de France!😀
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Salutation! From Québec, 🇨🇦
-J'espère que cette partie de l'histoire sera préservée!
-Hopefully this part of history will be preserved!
Force à vous nos frères Cajun 🔥🇫🇷💙
Louisiane, pour toujours..❤
Born & bred in Forked Island,LA. about 15 miles from gulf of Mexico,,we spoke French before english, wasn't what they teach in schools now,,was the REAL CAJUN FRENCH..very different from what they tried to teach in school..I speak fluent cajun french,,unfortunately my kids never picked it up...only the cuss words!! My grandfather went to school but quit same day cause he couldn't understand english,,he never went back! And that was that for him,,he was a very talented carpenter, not knowing one word of english..those were what we call 'the good ole days' God bless y'all! 🙏
Salutations d’un Franco Ontarien!
La Londe.... Les Maures... C'est mon village en France...
@@bobduvar ah cest cool! Jai toujours voulu visiter La Londe en Normandie. Mon encêtre a partie de la dans les 1600 pour la Nouvelle France.
Ca me fait trop plaisir de voir un Franco Ontarien ici :o
Je suis française mais je suis pas mal ce qu'il se passe en Ontario pour les francophones (j'ai vécu à Toronto aussi même si j'ai dû rentrer le mois dernier).
J'ai même mon drapeau franco accroché dans mon appartement :)
French ancestors from Canada or Louisiana should get a French passport because we have the same history
La Louisiane est un des Etats les plus pauvres d'Amérique. Elle aurait intérêt à développer son identité francophone pour sortir de son sous-développement. Il faudrait expliquer qu'apprendre le Français ouvre aussi des opportunités économiques vers l'étranger, notamment l'Afrique francophone et que connaitre le Français permet ensuite d'apprendre très très facilement l'Espagnol. Cette ressource est plus précieuse que le pétrole qui n'a de toute façon pas d'avenir !
Louisiana is one of the poorest states in America. It would be in its interest to develop its French-speaking identity to get out of its underdevelopment. It should be explained that learning French also opens up economic opportunities abroad, especially in French-speaking Africa, and that knowing French makes it very very easy to learn Spanish which is a very important language for America. After all, here in France, learning at least two foreign languages is mandatory, it is not such a terrible educational requirement, even if the results are not always great, I admit. This cultural resource is more precious than oil which has no future anyway!
Precisely what I thought while listening to the documentary. Either Louisiana or neighboring Mississippi are the poorest states in the Union.
Cajun music, zydeco, is ultimately nothing but pure happiness. C'est pour moi une bonheur pouvoir apprécier cette culture et langue de très loin.
Viva a língua francesa! Um abraço do Brasil.
As Bad As The Nazis Were In France The French Children Could Speak Their French Language In Their Schools. At That Time In Germany French Was The 2nd Language Taught In German School . Hitler Changed The 2nd Language Taught in German Schools To English. Many Of The German People and Soldiers At That Time In World War Two ( 2 ) Could Speak French As It was Taught As A 2nd Language In Germany. Americans Giving PUNISHMENT And SUSPENDING French Children From School Because They Spoke Their Mother Tongue Makes Americans In This SCENE Of The French Language WORST Than The Nazis Were In France...In WW2...BY THE WAY.. THE UNITED STATES DOES NOT HAVE A OFFICIAL LANGUAGE AT ALL. A Excellent Video.. Highly Recommended.. Thank You Very Much For Sharing..
Because the English are a racist Germanic race as well. They want to come off as saviours against the nazis. But the truth is the English people are a racist Germanic race
@@truthseeker9963 Well that's normal.
"England is an Empire, Germany a race; France is a person." Jules Michelet (1861). Histoire de France.
I'm French. German was always a race. We call Germany "Allemagne" because they come from the alemanis or alemans tribe.
Still to this day, some think the Franks (French ancestors) since they were germanic are germans.
This is wrong. As the gallo-romans were romanized, they adopted latin and its culture. The Franks converted to christianity, the only germanic tribe to do it at the time and were latinized, adopted the culture from the gallo-romans, forgetting their previous frankish language.
That's the point I was trying to make. France is a nation: "France is not a race, like Germany; it is a nation" Jules Michelet.
The british, the wasps and the aryans made war by superiority of their race.
Frenchmen never did that. They made war because they fought to be superiour because they were frenchmen, as a nation, as a state, as a culture, as a language (due to french being the lingua franca, the new latin for a long time, and culturally exceptional).
Extrêmement touchant et émouvant ! Merci infiniment pour cette vidéo.
Yes, this is emotional and touching....we need more of this and other languages.
I am not French nor do I know anyone of French heritage but I am a huge history major and I wrote a paper on the French and Indian War and once I learned of the expulsion of the Acadians and how modern day Louisiana would be a save heaven for many French men and women after the fall of the French monarchy And empire I always felt so bad for the French people who were stuck in the middle of war and well..Britain. But to learn that the French culture is still alive in Canada and America makes me really happy, from an American to my French readers I'm glad your our nations oldest ally 🇫🇷🇺🇸
Préserver la langue Française Cajun
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I was in Lafayette and surrounding areas a week ago and although I did not hear too much Cajun or Creole spoken but I also feel that those who do speak it won't unless *they know* you speak French. For example, Jacqueline who runs a restaurant in Beaux Bridge spoke French to some French-speaking tourists, as well as some tour guides at Vermilion. Many of the older folks I encountered could speak it and threw French words into their sentences to help describe things for me. Younger folks often learn it through music and may only speak English but dance to French (Cajun/Creole) music at bars and other concert spaces :) Some fluent speakers host "French Tables" around the area to help teach others and dedicate a space for speaking it. Although I got the impression many locals do not speak it regularly, it was impressive to see how much of the Cajun/Creole cultural ways (beside language) has been preserved well and how unique and different this region of our country is. As someone said to me "This is the only place in the country where playing the accordion makes you cool." And it's 100% true!
Salutations du Québec. Greetings from Québec !
Le français se perd peu à peu au Québec au profit de l'anglais. Longtemps mise à l'écart à cause de ses velléités de liberté dans les années 70/80, Montréal semble regagner de l'intérêt de la part des anglophones canadiens et les investissements se sont accrus au Québec ... Tant mieux pour eux... J'en suis très content !
I’m a native of Louisiana, born in New Orleans. My paternal side of my family were from St, Martinville & since the late 1700’s. In the early 1700’s my grandmother’s were from Africa/New Orleans & my grandfather was from France.⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️
I love family history❤️
N’oubliez jamais que l’on parle d’une langue qui nous réuni. Pas d’un pays ou d’une ethnie. Les Américains actuellement sont très curieux et tolérants vis à vis des nouvelles langues. P.ex. L’espagnole au NM, TX et Ca. Avec la possibilité de les enseigner à l’école.
Ici en Suisse il y a 4 langues nationales. On en parle au moins 2 (hormis l’anglais), et on en est très heureux.
Merci pour ce reportage.
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Darius Teixeira
Oui, Je habite en Californie. Il ya beaucoup des gens qui parlent l'Espagnol. La familie de mon Pere est de l'Etat de Pennsylvania. Il ya un peu peuple là qui parlent l'Allemand.
Il ya beaucoup de gens francophones de l'Afrique ou je habite en Californie aussi. Ces gens sont du Congo, Zaire et Burhkina Faso. Ils parlent "le Camfranglais", ce langue est Français avec des mots anglais et Africain.
Exactement. Louisiane, créole, québécoise, métropolitaine, africaine, insulaire, n’importe où, nous parlons tous français. J'aime que nous parlions tous une langue avec notre propre épice. Nous partageons un langage et un héritage communs qui nous unissent tous. Je suis fier d'être Américain et je suis fier de parler le cajun, mais surtout, je suis fier de ma langue française et de mes ancêtres.
@@arftejano2284 Je suis Belge et je parle le Français qui est ma langue maternelle
I said the same thing that in Europe 4 (four) languages are taught.
J'étais dans la région de Lafayette il y a 2 ans et c'est vrai qu'on entend pas beaucoup parler français, sauf si les gens comprennent que vous êtes francophone. Alors, les langues se délient et c'est un vrai plaisir partagé de parler avec eux. Je suis encore en contact avec Jennifer du CODOFIL et avec Jesse Guidry de l'Office du Tourisme de Lafayette. Je les salue cordialement.
46:00 Dreaming in a foreign language shows that you really have a connection with the culture and the language. It also provides for more interesting dreams with a whole new cast of characters.
Louisiana was Spanish too.
As a native Spanish speaker I can understand a lot French.
New Iberia in Louisiana was named after Spain's peninsula Iberica.
I love Louisiana history. It's good to learn about Cajun French culture even though I am Creole (African American living in Louisiana).
You're part of that history. I remember talking to a Creole lady who was proud of her heritage. She loved saying " Il fait très frette" to say it was chilly.
Vive la francophonie!
It's pretty sad what happened to Louisiana French. My grandma is a French Cajun from Lafayette and she had to stop speaking French when she was in school. I know a good bit of French but probably not enough.
My ancestors are Scotts and Irish, the Celtic language was hammered out of my ancestors, The music, the legends, customs and stories, the soul of my ancestors all lost to me and countless others. Don't loose your Language.
Pict language has been wiped out. As for gaelic language ...well 🙄. In Québec it is still a struggle .
@@vincentlefebvre9255 Diversity word in the mouth of anglo-saxons unfortunately are always lies.
Don't fall for it.
It's a shame, they don't need to. English is the lingua franca, the new french, there's no need to kill off languages.
Bien le bonjour aux francophones du sud 🖐🖐 de vos frères du nord (Québec , Canada)
On est là!
Well I'll be darn, I understood that.😊😏
@@elaineburnett5230 if you understand that you are on a good way to learn French 🙂. (Sorry for my shitty english)
Salutations d'un français de France
Courage ! restez forts, unis, et continuez à préserver autant que faire se peut, vôtre langue, à travers les générations futures en rendant l’apprentissage dynamique, amusant et utile pour la vie et culture active
I am french and i am so admirative about your fight for your culture, big respect!
Chapeau bas à mes cousins de Louisiane ! Vous êtes un exemple !
Bravo pour votre force à vouloir garder votre culture vive le peuple Cajun.
Hi! I'm LPB's archivist. LPB & CODOFIL partnered in the 1980s to produce a French-language series called En Francais. You can stream episodes on LPB's archive here: ladigitalmedia.org/video_v2/sublisting/LFRAN
Great video. Please use the subtitles as spoken.
Cajun lache pas... Formidable programme dans les ecoles
We can help to translate LPB website in French. PLease
To be upfront, I have a degree in Linguistics. Acadian French (mostly Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) and the subsequent Louisiana Cajun French IS an older French dialect originating from the Poitou region in the 1600's. There are different verbs, different grammar, different word choices, different pronunciations from Modern french. Consider these two sentences, which mean "I don't know." Je ne sais pas vs. Moi je connais pas. Both are perfect French, just a different dialect. In our dialect we roll our "R's". We don't make the distasteful "hairball" sound for the "R" that modern French speakers do. Kidding... :) I believe the two dialects, modern and old, have more in common than not and you'll hear different reports of how difficult or easy it is to understand each other. Acadian French remained virtually unchanged for the 150 years before the deportation, which started in 1755. I don't see myself as French anymore than an American would see themself as British. We have a distinct cultural identity. Just like the Acadians and their descendants do. BTW, I'm 2nd generation American, 11th generation Acadian - (depuis l'annee 1632, Pierre de Comeau). My dad speaks modern french because he was raised in Maine in an orphanage and taught by visiting nuns. But he also knows some of the older dialect that was spoken in his family. He passed a little on to me. I'm trying to regain the French, but I have no interest in learning modern french. I want to regain and preserve OUR dialect that distinctly marks us as Acadian. As far as teaching modern french in southwest Louisiana - Would you hire British English teachers to teach your American kids to speak English? They would come home speaking British English and have a British accent. Not the end of the world, but it's not who we are. There's pros and cons with the importation to southwest Louisiana of French teachers from France, Belgium, even Nigeria. I understand it's difficult to find qualified Cajun french teachers from Acadiana. If the kids in the immersion programs can't go home and speak with their me'me' et pe'pe' ( may-MAY and pay-PAY if you're from New Brunswick), what good is that? Nous sommes pas Francaise - Nous sommes Acadian! I'm aware that there's other groups of French speakers in Acadiana, but the descendants of the Acadian survivors should be speaking OUR old dialect. Vive L'Acadie! BTW, you REALLY should see all 3 short films by Director Phil Comeau covering Acadian history. The first and longest features Mr. Zachary Richard on a trip to visit his ancestral lands in Nouvelle Ecosse. The 2nd and 3rd involve the descendants of Acadian exiles on Belle Isle, France, who STILL see themselves as Acadian. These films are emotional and a MUST SEE for all the descendants of the Acadian exiles. Fierte' Acadienne.
That's so cool, I thought Quebecois was the oldest, I hope to learn the Cajun French language
In France, we also have other old langues d’Oïl like Picard, Normand, Gallo… they tend to disappear unfortunately but just to say that they are exactly in the same position than Cajun and all of them are as French as Parisian French is.
I am excited to see this. My grandmother's parents were Accadians and I would love to able to get into some type of French Immersion programs but I live in Texas.
You could learn online. I could teach you. I am pretty advanced and always advancing. I know French from France and to some extent know French Canadian. I can understand Cajuns when they speak a decent French and closer to what their ancestors spoke.
To anyone who lives in Louisiana. You can clean a lot about how to preserve and promote the use of French by watching videos about the ekastolas of Basque Country. One method is to speak to children by looking at them directly in the eyes and speaking to them in the target language. Their parents, if they don't speak the language might be spoken to in their most comfortable language but without looking at the children in the eyes unless it's the target language. In Israel, children were educated away and they taught their parents. Israel has championed in reviving Hebrew, literally from 0 native speakers and Quebec has championed teaching French to immigrants.
BRAVO LES COUSINS
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Ils ne sont pas nos cousins, ils sont nos frères. Ils parlent le plus vieux français du monde et la diversité de la langue française et l'humanité (quand des langues disparaissent tous les jours) ont besoin de ce travail de préservation. No french or canadian teachers. We need cajuns and créoles teachers. We're there before americans and we'll there after they left. Sorry for my english ; i'm a cajun from France. Historic Louisiana from Louisiana state today to Washington state is French. Onontio will come back. V.L.XX.
Écoutez la radio cajun française de Ville Platte, en Louisiane! classichits925.com/la-tasse?play_file=76374
Merci Andrew, très sympa.
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En ce moment, ils parlent en anglais !
Merci beaucoup, c'est très amusant. Mon professeur de français va apprécier ça.
I am not French nor Cajun, am Puerto Rican, and looking what occured in Louisiana, in regard to language laws, I understand now why Puerto Rico has been resistance to statehood. We are a people proud of our heritage and history, which includes the Spanish language, and to be told that in some how that my native language is inferior to the mainstream would anger the whole populous. I think more should be done to not only preserve French but to expand it in the state of Loiuisiana, there should be charter schools that instruct in French. There should also be free public courses for adults to learn the language. Also there should be an emphasis on speaking French at home, and within the community. I know that Cajuns are proud of their celebrations, cuisine, and culture, that should include their language. More oppurtunities should be explored to expand that use of the language. My native language is Spanish, I was born and raised in Connecticut, and depite that, I still speak and read Spanish fluently. French has to be spoken at home for it to survive and thrive. If French is lost in Louisiana, then different perspective of the American experiment is lost.
@Joshua Cordero very well said & very true..thank u for sharing!
It’s really sad that they took the language out of the schools and now you would have to learn it by taking a class for it.. I am a whole gumbo mixed with many things. My grandmother spoke French but she never taught us. And her mother also did -100% French. They were creole women of color but they their French sounded to me like they were straight from France. It’s weird. Anyway I’m trying to learn it. ♥️🇫🇷⚜️♥️🇫🇷⚜️
I used to listen to both sets of my grandparents speaking French and my great-grandparents too. I only know a couple words of the Cajun French. Whenever I visit my friend down the bayou she has to interpret for me because I don't understand what they're saying. I sure wish I would have learned how to speak the Cajun French as a child. My mother can speak it and understand it but you have to go slow but my father never learned. It was their generation where they could not speak the French in school and were punished if they did.
Power to beeing whom we are! La vérité est éternelle😎
Learning French as I am moving to Louisiana ❤️
Not to worry, they speak English there.
The Canjun flag is an exploit in itself, like the National Acadian flag, which was also a "tour de force" to accomplish. the Acadian flag being from the lat 19th century, it is the oldest flag in continual use in all of Canada.
Nova Scotia's flag is older than the Acadian flag, with its first use dating to about 1858. It became the official flag of Nova Scotia in 1929.
@@EdinburghFive it depends then, when one counts... officially adopted in 1929, but the acadian flag was officially adopted in 1884.
The first time that I heard Zydeco music, I really felt the New Orleans culture.
Zydeco is a South western Louisiana thing,Jazz and Blues are more of a New Orleans thing
not new orleans but south louisana
Amazing when you realize that in Europe students learn four language at a start... English, French, German and their local language....we Americans would do ourselves a good deed to learn a few more languages....it would be very helpful....
I agree with you.
At least include both English and Spanish and have one optional language like French and German as a standard for the US. Being multilingual is such a boon to one's livelihood.
In Europe neighbor countries speak different languages and the land area is small compared to the United States. They do not teach, for example, Polish in Italy or France. They in general teach English as it is done in schools in Latin America from the first grade. The US is the only country that does not teach foreign languages in elementary school. One year or Spanish or French in high school is useless and is an elective.
Salutations de France ❤️
my grandparents were from Germany, but spoke Cajun French.
i was born in 68 .. why didnt yall teach me french ?? how can i learn now ?
Cody K
Oui, Je suis descendu de Roger DeLisle. Il a écrit le Hymne nationale de la France. Les DeLisle ont habité dans l'etat du Texas. Je ne sais pas s'ils étaient cajun.
Si les De Lisle ont habité aux USA c'est peut-être grâce à la soeur de Rouget De Lisle : Jeanne Rouget. Mais je suis vraiment étonné que vous descendiez de Claude-Joseph Rouget De Lisle. Il est mort emprisonné pour dette en 1836. Avait-il des enfants qui seraient partis aux USA ??? Pourquoi pas... Quelques aristocrates Français sont partis en Amérique mais très peu.... L'immigration française aux USA est très très minoritaire par rapport aux Allemands, Italiens, Anglais, Hollandais..... Les Français partis aux USA ont été complétement intégrés à la population . Du Pont de Nemours, Nicolas Martiaux (arrière arrière grand père de Georges Washington) etc....
documentaire intéressant et réjouissant..
Merci pour tes gentils mots! Si le français louisianais vous intéresse, abonnez-vous à notre chaîne, la seule plateforme audiovisuelle en français louisianais. #LâchePas
Salu! A San Diego, Californie, on support revivre la langue française en Louisiane!
Vive la Louisiane ! Vive la Liberté
Would natives Americans' languages be encouraged too? Just asking, rumor has it Russian will be taught in Alaska to keep traditions.
I love The United States. What a United Cultures.
Most native languages in the US did not have an alphabet.
Evangeline.... Like Agelina Jolie mother;.. she was a francophonic canadian and she died some years ago
Il faut beaucoup lire en français pour bien apprendre.
VIVE LA LOUISIANE LIBRE !!!
Decdended from the first Acadian Coast colony in Louisiana, aaiyeeee.
My God I mess this so much my mom and popw spok French and I speak it to but I am 53 and I am the last my kids don't speak it 😢from LA 👣
Yes, preserve the old French, not replace it with modern French.
I agree but if you may have to use old french language nobody will understand you.... And in France you'll be just ridiculous.... But i agree : preserve your fantastic heritage !!!
Le français cajun est tout aussi moderne que celui de la france.
I have watched a couple video clips from Louisiana where people spoke Louisiana French. Sorry but not sorry, the Louisiana French is not old French, it is very close to the French spoken in Québec or France these days. So close that I had no problem to understand them (I live in Montréal).
@@bobduvar I live in France, and the "French" spoken here is anything but the one people imagine. It's a language that gets butchered every day.
Cajun French is to Parisian French, as American English is to British English. No one calls US English "old" English, but it does preserve "older" sounds that UK English lost. US English is older English that evolved differently while retaining some older sounds. American French (Cajun/Quebec) isn't older, it just evolved differently from an older French.
As a French Canadian, I like pancakes 🥞😋😀
Modern French, either from Paris and Quebec, are not Cajun French. Cajun French has Spanish, English, and Native American languages blended in with the French. It’s really it’s own thing, and once it’s gone it’s gone. So if you really want to preserve it, you should go to the nursing homes and get it while you can, because in about 10 years or less it’s going to be gone. We’re losing more and more native speakers every day! This aspect of Louisiana/Cajun culture needs to be preserved! But you can’t do that by looking to France or Canada. Spend time with your elderly! Not only will they appreciate the time spent, but they will be thrilled to learn their descendants care so much for the ways of their ancestors after all!
Unfortunately, the last place to learn a language is in a school setting. Believe me, I grew up in Quebec and attended English schools which failed to impart fluency in French. Languages must be learned at first orally (mother's knee, friends). Introducing the written form at the same time only confuses the brain.
Writing gendered nouns on a blackboard with the "le" and "la" divides the word in two and most people learning French have trouble successfully recombining them later. They remember the main word but aren't sure whether to use "le" or "la". Learned exclusively orally the "le" and "la" are simply part of the word. If the language is learned orally the brain can formulate its own mnemonic pathways rather than being confused with text. If you were teaching children to sing a song would you not sing the music but not expect them to "read" the sheet music?
Excellent reportage! Si le français louisianais vous intéresse, abonnez-vous à notre chaîne, la seule plateforme audiovisuelle en français louisianais. #LâchePas
Mon Grandprere est Vieux Francois d'Oriocourt , France en Grandmere est Acadiennes . Bonjour Mon Amis de Nouvelle Orleans .
19.47...who are these guys and does anyone know the song?
Chanson A Boire III
Que Bâville me semble aimable,
Quand des magistrats le plus grand
Permet que Bacchus à sa table
Soit notre premier président !
Trois muses, en habit de ville,
Y président à ses côtés :
Et ses arrêts par Arbouville
Sont à plein verre exécutés.
Si Bourdaloue un peu sévère
Nous dit, Craignez la volupté ;
Escobar, lui dit-on, mon Père,
Nous la permet pour la santé.
Contre ce docteur authentique
Si du jeûne il prend l’intérêt,
Bacchus le déclare hérétique,
Et janséniste, qui pis est.
Nicolas Boileau. Mille six cent soixante-douze.
Vous ne pouvez pas parlez en français dans cette capsule "video"?
I wish I could be in a codofil program 🤔
Alors j'ai en gros rien compris, si c'était possible de traduire en français.
I was born and raised in Houma Louisiana. I only know one or two words of Cajun French. You never had any classes in my elementary school that taught us the Cajun French. So I'd like to know what schools or parishes this was in.
The documentary says the Cajun Parishes in the South, around New Orleans.
Wait. How do they know in which language they're dreaming ? ^^'
I'd never be able to tell you if I dream in French or in English (most of the time I don't even know which one I'm speaking)
The USA needs to have mandatory "foreign" language courses for at least 6 years during the first 12 years of school, Assuming American English is the norm and not allowing the grade, good or bad, to effect one's grade average until one is in secondary schoolings such as college or university. Many European countries do this, but they may make the mistake of having these courses effect one's grade average.
I think mandatory bilingualism should include not only foreign languages but also indigenous languages and other heritage languages that Americans have lost over the past 100 years due to forced assimilation of indigenous languages and immigrant languages alike. For instance in the Dakotas, the German language was banned and repressed as a result of WWI, while the Sioux language was literally beaten out of kids at closed boarding schools. And other immigrant languages were lost due to strong social pressure to fit in and parent's desire to give their kids a head start by speaking flawless English without an accent.
Continuez de râper la Lune pour en faire des étoiles. Un Calédonien à Paris.
Americanization does not equal monoligualism, actually the opposite is true. E pluribus unum.
Bonjour! Chu en Québec!
Sad french was suppressed for centuries to force unification.
French were a majority for a long time in America as France and Louis XIV owned 2/3 of America then.
You can go for years without hearing french in louisiana
Bo misti pwesebi e langaji Fwanse Kajun et e Kweyol Lwishan.
You can be an American ... no problem with that, but you need to be Cajun before being American, you have to respect yourself. I am in Canada here, I am Acadian before being Canadian. When you hold a culture that is more authentic than the state that manages you... you don't drop it what you have to hold something that is less of an explanation of what you are.
Tenez bon !
Bonjour a mes freres et soeurs de Louisiane. Lachez pas
Amities du Quebec !
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My mama would be whipped in school for speaking French.. But at home my grand parents couldn't speak English...
When I was a kid I asked my mama, why my aunts and uncles were Mexicans?! LOL!!
Mexican lol
That was funny.
You know Spanish & French are related each other.
I never study French I understand a lot of French.
Mesme si j'admire ces gens qui luttent pour préserver le Français, je doutent que leur entreprise puisse avoir du succès dans les États Unis.
Vous vous tromper, mon fils. Comme d'habitude.