Old Cajun English Accent
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2007
- This is what the old Cajuns sound like. Young Cajuns have a more Americanized accent but it's still thick nevertheless.
This video is from Louisiana Story. The film stars Joseph Boudreaux and Lionel Le Blanc. It was filmed in and around Abbeville, Louisiana.
french accent + southern american accent = cajun accent
dragonaut do you live in south Louisiana?? Most of everyone still sounds like this
Yep!
Jarrell Jones that's...pretty accurate. Keep in mind though, there are a lot of different Southern American accents.
Everyone still sounds like this! My grandpa does
Adam Hovey It was a summary. I'm sure she knows there are many southern accents.
"I eat when I'm hungry and I drink when I'm dry. If whiskey don't kill me I'll live 'til I die."
Irish folk song
Irish ☘️
if you want a good Cajun folk song, try la dance du Mardi gras
Cajun french was my mom's first language. They paddled the kids in school if they spoke Cajun French instead of english. Luckily in the 1980's programs came in and Cajun French is now taught in the schools! laissez les bon temps rouler!!
Alors!
Ave,Gallico Louisiana
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i was born in New-Brunswick Canada next to the Acadian peninsula no less then 30 min from Quebec and my father had to go to catholic school because there were no French public schools most boys would drop out by the time they were in 6th grade. now we have a French school district and every English school has French emersion vivre l'Acadie!
Savez-vous qu'il y a toujours des Acadiens au Canada ? Ils parlent un français wrecked-là, yessir.
Same thing happened in Ireland with Gaelic it changed pretty recently I’m pretty sure
My great grandmother (1908-2009) spoke cajun french... She sounded just like this. Amazing woman and amazing life. She never learned to drive and she was the first to get a telephone in her neighborhood. I have no accent, unfortunately, because of education and exposure(tv) to media. We can't let this die because it's a link to the past. Talk to and listen to the elderly... They are living libraries...My only regret is not recording the wealth of knowledge she possessed.-Livin' and lovin' NOLA.
wow that guy rolled a cigarette faster than anyone ive seen
Bob Votava I have seen the pros do it one handed.
Bout as fast as I do. Can't do it one handed though.
Logan Stroganoff Fuck off
I roll about that fast lol
looked like a Bull Durham ciggie but I can't tell for sure
The father of Gambit.
I like this guys accent. Wish I had one.
414MrMilwaukee yaasss!!!
Yeah, the Cajun accent is awesome
Truuuuuust me lol, from someone from Louisiana, it gets old fast
Even has a stack of cards(I think?).
Mon ami!!
We appreciate and welcome people who are interested in our culture!
One of my heroes when I was growing up in Brooklyn, NY was baseball pitcher Ron Guidry who was from Lafayette. It was said that one set of his grandparents never learned to speak English, that they only spoke Cajun French. Have you ever interviewed Ron? I wonder if he ever learned to speak that language.
I live in east coast Canada where cajuns were originally from (acadians at the time in the 1700s) and the when the french people here now speak english (as we are a bilingual area) sound almost exactly like the old man in the video.. mind boggling!
It is the Acadians sire!
Yeah seriously, this dude sounds like mononcle Wallace.
I perked up when he started to sing because I've heard that song before on an old record of Irish drinking songs my grandfather had. 😂
Cajuns are basically country folks who have a French twang in their voice. They’re real easy going, a lot of them have lived in poverty for years but still somehow have fun most of the time. They don’t mess with anyone, but don’t take kindly to people messing with them. They love to hunt and fish, and take pride in their heritage.
same for Acadians in the Maritimes but it his more complex than that Cajuns come from Bordeaux, France settled Acadie now nova-scotia and went through forced deportation by the British in 1755. they were dropped to die in Louisiana but survived in the bayou and the word Acadian became Cadian and then Cajun. they are French pilgrims who were forced to settle Louisiana after their land got robbed from them, so they are French people with a southern twang in their voice*
My grandpa sounded just like this.
SnowEclipse mine too!
lol mine too but he from alabama/florida
SnowEclipse hes is cajun?????
Mine too.
So did my great-grandfather.
I love the South. It's quite a culture.
MrRetroville it's multiple cultures, it's quite different here in South Carolina, than it is in Texas. We don't sound like the folks from Louisiana, although because a lot of redbones moved here, we do have similar accents. It's kind of interesting. The United States is very diverse, and where the South begins is actually a matter of dispute. For my money, the South begins south of St Louis. I very much consider most of Missouri, and about the southern part of Illinois, to be where the South begins. On the other hand, that means I disagree with the US Census Bureau on the definition of the South, because they consider Delaware to be a Southern state. But not Missouri.
I love Cajun accents so much. 😂😂
K.Poe.Edwards _
RUclips "Justin Wilson cooking" and enjoy. Sounded just like this guy and had cooking shows for 40 years where he mostly told funny stories.
I've known plenty of young Cajuns who still speak with strong accents. Actually, this old guy's accent is pretty mild compared to many.
wow! I can clearly hear the french Canadian accent behind his.
That’s our roots, Cher 🥰
Here after the new deadpool?
Met a girl in my graduate program who is from the heel of Louisiana. Her mom is from France and her dad is Cajun. Her accent is strikingly similar, but she has a deeper French accent on account of her immediate French family. It's beautiful to hear. My great great grandfather was Canarian-Cajun from Beaumont, TX near Louisiana.
My Daddy who was born in 1929 deep in the bayou and spoke no english until age 16 when they were forced to learn it in school that year. He raised us kids in Southern California (thank you Daddy!!) and to this day he has a very thick Cajun accent. One of the many things I love about him. And Damn if he seriously isn't one of the smartest cats you'll ever meet. Good people down there trust me.
Here after Deadpool and wolverine lol
So wonderful to have this amazing history documented❤️
I have to say there are many dialects from village-to-village in Britain. I lived in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales for a time and travelled around Britain and the difference from one area to another is amazing.
my dad was born in Abbeville Louisiana and my mom was born in Franklin Louisiana. I'm from Houston but i spent alot of summers in Abbeville eversince i was 1yrs old. My fathers parents sound just like the old man. I would come bk to Houston with this accent when summer was over and couldnt help it! I love the Louisiana people.
My grandfather we called “Big Daddy” was from Church Point, LA and he sounded just like this. He grew up on a farm and said they’d only do business in French. It’s a shame that there was so much effort to eradicate that language and culture but I’m grateful to see a resurgence in reclaiming it!!
Brings back memories of my childhood when the old people sounded like this.
What a treat to find this clip on here. My mom is from south Louisiana and this guy sounds so much like my grandmother. Love the way he says "alliGATa." Mais I wish I talk like dat, me! This is a beautiful film, by the way. Gorgeous cinematography.
That’s such a pleasant, easy going way of speaking. Thank you.
gambit 😭
Reminds me of my father, CD Menard. How i loved to hear him speak both in Cajun French and in English.
My Mom started school in the 60's and spoke Cajun-French. In those days, they punished you until you learned English. My, how times have changed.
Yep. School was spretty rough on some kids. My Grandmother was left-handed and was told to use her right hand. She refused so the teacher tied her to the chair so only the right arm was free. Southern Michigan or Northern Indiana early 1900s. She left school at the earliest point she could legally do so as a result.
I remember when I was younger, I wanted to be an actor so I practiced this because I wanted to play Gambit one day lmao. I watched this back in 2020
one of my favorite sounds.
So relaxing reminds me of my great grandparents and great uncles
Makes me miss my older family from down south Louisiana... Love and miss y'all we'll meet again in heaven.
Awe! What a nice guy! I like his accent! He seems so easy going too!
you should do a video family tree and keep it alive, you owe it to history and the memory of your past to keep this way of life fresh in the mind of others. there is a whole world of cultures that want to know how this life was lived and you can do your part.from Scotland. keep history alive.
I'm so glad to be born & raised in Louisiana :) + my grandmother-(father's mom) have this accent =)
30-odd years ago in Augusta, Georgia, a window repairman visited our home. While he was working, I chatted with him. He was in his late twenties and had a very pronounced Cajun accent. I asked him where in Louisiana he'd grown up. His reply stunned me: "I'm not from Louisiana -- I was born and raised in Frankfurt, Germany!" When I asked him where he'd acquired his Cajun accent, he explained that the fellow who'd taught him English was from Louisiana!
Great story!!!👍
I grew up in E TX very close to Louisiana! My Grandpa talked like this. I don't know who he learned it from, but I have heard that song many times.
When I was little I had a major crush on Gambit from X-Men
his accent reminds me of my grandmother.
My great great great great great etc. grandfather settled in abbyville before the Louisiana purchase, his name was Ale Dan le blanc, that property is still in my family and there a street down there named after him. I need to get back to my roots and go to Louisiana
i love the way they talk
I never thought I’d hear my great grandma’s accent again
wow this sounds exactly how my dad talks.... ahh, love Louisiana...
What people don't realize is that you can't necessarily "go back to Canada" to get back to your roots since Cajun culture was technically developed in Acadiana.... because.... you know....
ya that's cause the British send a hole bunch of french acadien down in Louisiana on 1755 so they could take their land .
I love that he twisted one up during the interview… and how the camera keeps cutting to some lady casually churning butter over in the corner.
I will always love N’awlins….. That place will put a spell on you.
Home!!!
This is music to me. I love my people and Louisiana.
I will never live anywhere but Acadia.
I have cajun cousins who sound kind of like this, and I also take guitar lessons down in Hammond where I see a lot of old people with this kind of accent a lot.
I'm quarter cajun myself and I wish I could learn french and have this accent. I've moved around a lot in my life and I've only been in Louisiana a couple of years now, but I've grown to love the culture here more than anywhere else I've been.
hello are you alive???
It's such a unique accent. I love it. Makes me with is was Cajun
French cousins salute you Cajun people ❤️ laissez les bons temps rouler
you can see where the French influenced the English
The French influence is the most obvious in U.K. English! :D
林老虎 shout out to the Normans
Not really its more Germanic influence in south of England south west Celtic and Nordic in the north east
@@ashab1 The Southern English diaclet is very French
Classic Louisiana talk slooooowwwww :) miss hearing that
wow that brings me way back to that good talk. I miss those days where everything said in the house was Cajun....bon temps.
@SyllaRa I think you're right. I come from Norway, which is a country with less than 5 million people in total. Yet, the variety of accents in our country is no less than what is found in England. I think the reason is that Norway is a vast country, so people have been living very isolated from eachothers, and so accents developed VERY differently, almost to the point of it being different languages. I'm from the east country, and there are western accent I don't understand properly.
@wz3d My Family is from Eunice, Im a Manuel. My Grandpaw past away a few years ago. He played cajun music. His name was Shelton Manuel. I love my culture sha!
Right away I noticed the similarity with my Father's and his friends' accents - all Irishmen speaking English. Then, when the song started up...?
Btw, this guy lived in New Iberia. As did my grandpa and they sound similar.
I love this accentttt
Makes me miss my family. :)
We still sound the same here, it's good to know. I hear people talk this way everyday of my life and I am proud of that
Yep, when Bobby Hebert played QB for the New Orleans Saints the center had to translate what play he called in the huddle. I have a lot of stories about Bobby and other famous Cajuns that I'll be posting on my blog. Cajunreview is the name of it!
thats one funky nice accent...
when my maw-maw I.E.grandmother went to school back in the early1900's in avoyelles parish louisiana her first language was cajun french in school she was force to learn english and would be punished for speaking her native tongue!
i can't wrap my head around the fact that some people don't understand what he's saying
What a glorious accent, sometimes it sounds French but sometimes breaks into north country English like with the ' throat and the nose ' bit.
Fantatic Song.
This is what Gambit from X-Men sounds like.
I agree, the irish have a huge influence accent- wise. Many of our relatives are of Irish decent within the afro-american community in New Orleans, can't speak for everybody else but yeah. Jamaicans also, many say they speak British English but I hear more of the Irish dialect when I hear them speak.
I've always noticed that too. Sounds like the northern Ulster accent to my ears.
My grandma is a French speaking Lebanese Jew that smokes. She’s not from Louisiana, but she sounds like this gentleman. 😹😹
sound good the acent, very sage.
When he sing i thought he's drunk man singing... Man I think am falling in love with Cajun accent.
its crazy I only found out about Cajuns through my knowledge of Gambit
@nrlsky That depends on what part of the U.S. you are in. The longer the place has been settled, the more closely packed the accents are. Most of the east coast and old south has a great deal of accent variation, having had as long as four hundred years, in some cases, to develop regional variation. Most of the western half of the U.S. was settled all at the same time, about 150 years ago, so naturally those places share the same accent. But it depends on where you are.
Culture is beautiful
the name of the song he was singing is drunkards hiccups
Reminds me of my Cajun grandmother from Houma haha
I live in Thibodaux!
New Orleans!
My Dad used to sing that 🎵!
dude is a rolling machine
if you want to go back to your root, you must come here in Caraquet (new-Brunswick Canada) in the 15 august (acadian Holiday). Here is where you gonna find almost all acadian ancestor.
btw, one of my best friend last name is "Leblanc" like your ancestor
Louisiana represent!!!
If you ever smell somebody boilin some crawfish, don't worry your not dead... But I promise if you eat some... You'd swear that you died and went to heaven... Crawfish are a gift from the seafood God's..There's no better smell or taste, than a pot of crawfish and crab boilin... I guarantee it...
I have the new school cajun english accent. I don't sound exactly like him but I say words like dey (they), aks (ask), da (the), and dey (they). I didn't really notice until I went to college and I thought everyone spoke much different than me a few parishes (it's a called a county in all the other states) away.
Awesome
@Wingandaprayeruk Actually, I think you're right about the land worker commonality. In my experience, apart from anything else, people fae rural areas in general often tend to speak more slowly than city folk.
I’m just hear to see if Gambits accent is actually accurate
Exactly what I’m doin
My grandmother is from upstate... Monroe but she has that thick ass LA accent too :-)
I love how he says “old man”
"I like ta died." ... haven't heard that one in a while lol
My grandpa sounds just like this
Wow what a unique accent. Like I can't even really follow it
My grandmother sounded like this, the female version of course. RIP.
This is how we talk where I’m at
Welcome to the family son!
lovin old man rolling a cigarette
I’d give anything to have my great grandpa teach me French
Simple is not always bad. 👍
Reminds me of my pawpaw
I showed this to my friend in Serbia. He said this is what happens when a French man is trying to adapt to life in the Old West hahaha.
LOL!!! Yes indeed!!!
Doc Roe brought me here. It also sounds like Eduard Delacroix from The Green Mile.