Louisiana Cajun speaking Cajun French
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- Warren Perrin Cajun Interview
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Cajun French, Cajun Accent, Louisiana French, Louisiana Accent, Creole French, Creole Accent, Louisiana Creole, Louisianese French
No problem understandig this gentleman, greetings from Normandy, where some.of us oldies speak Norman French
same here from french acadian speaking region of nova scotia
Channing Tatum visited this video 😂
don't ever lose this. if america loses acadian culture we will have lost a treasure indeed.
M. Perrin, j'ai eu le plaisir de vous rencontrer à New Orléans il y a déjà plus de trente ans. J'avais à ce moment fait parvenir des documents à Antonine Maillet pour vous. Merci pour ce que vous avez fait pour le peuple Acadien.
Perrin is a legend and he does a lot for Acadians in Louisiana. The CODOFIL as a whole does a great job with limited resources but some very dedicated people in an environment that is very challenging. The french-language never had it easy in an American setting even if Acadians/Cajuns in Louisiana have an extremely rich culture/music which helps keep the language alive.
I must admit, Perrin French is quite good and I always was impressed by how some Cadiens kept their language in Louisiana considering the historical oppression in schools and how the language was sadly shunned. I am myself a native French speaker, my grandfather is an Acadian from the Gaspésie région in Quebec (he went too to the First World Acadian Congress) and there are some similarities between the Acadian accent spoken in Eastern Canada and Louisiana. Of course, this is not really surprising as the Acadians in Louisiana have Acadians from Canada as ancestors who were deported south to the bayou by force. What is incredible is that Cadiens kept their language and very rich culture for generations and generations.
If Cajun is a form of French, then would not the culture's essential "francicité" be preserved even if standard French wins out?
@@MacKenziePoetyes but it loses a lot of history and culture Cajun French while legible to French speakers is still a unique language and should be preserved for my part as someone who never got to learn any Ives been using LSU’s free resources and went to a class a bit ago
French with a drawl. I love it
It's sad that the cajun French language is gonna die with that generation. My dad speaks it fluently and it'll be lost with him too. He also got in trouble in school only speaking cajun French.
Et tu fais rien
Give it your all to grasp that language man, that torch ain't dead just yet. Carrying on traditions ain't worship of ashes, but preservation of fire.
@@barghastov je vien de sunset Louisiane et je parler le langue tout le temps avec moi-meme donc ca je apprendre il plus je suis un Creole/cajun Francais est pas mon premier langue mais je sera essayer a garder apprendre il tout
It won't die if people make an effort to keep it alive. I speak standard French, but I understand Quebecois French. I am Canadian. I could teach someone the basics if they want to learn.
@@QUINTUSMAXIMUS I'm interested
You sound the same as us here, in southern Nova Scotia
Yep ancestors from there ❤
Moi j’habite près de Vermilion en Alberta. Salutations à mes frères Cajuns de Louisiane.
Bonjour, pas beaucoup à Vermillon mais environ 600 francophones habitent à Wainwright 60Km au Sud. Au nord de moi à Bonnyville, Saint-Paul, Plamondon et Cold Lake, ça parle beaucoup français. Ils ont des écoles francophones, une radio locale bilingue et un journal hebdomadaire francophone.
His french is incredible it gives me shivers. Y sonne pas mal comme du mondes icitte au Qc
Va prend une drive au new brunswick tu mon parlera back
@@atv950 t'en fait pas mon chum, déjà été plein fois.
Tu ton souvien
Every time j’embarque le char je bang ma tête au bord du door.
America is almost compete in destroying another rich and vibrant culture. My grandfathers first language was Cajun French, from Rayne, Louisiana. It’s dying out, sadly. I do wish I’d have been able to learn when he was alive and I wish we all still spoke this language.
France have done the same with breton language.
My grand parents said they were punish at school for speaking their native language .
They say me breton were unusefull and for have sucess better was to speak french.
Now breton is disapear practilly.
It s weirds state do all is possible for destroy their language interior but let others languages .
Arabish is very welcome in france for migrant . Spanish in america very welcome.
Man please dont let this language die 🙏 please learn it
Merci pour votre témoignage mR. Perrin. Je suis canadienne française du Québec
Pour quelqu'un né en 47, t'as l'air en forme ! 💪
PS : j'ai tout compris de ce qu'il a dit ! 😊
Salutations de Paris. Ne lâchez rien. Existez, prouvez que vous résistez.
très bien, M. Perrin : ne pas lacher la patate !!!
I love,it, I love your Accent. French.Vie . HUGE Respect. ❤❤❤❤❤.
Merci mon cousin éloigné. Merci de garder confiance envers nous, les vieux Acadiens. Je fais partie de la 10e génération en Acadie. Gardons notre culture vivante et fière. Proud to be a 10th generation Acadian, still in Nova Scotia and still mindful of our history.
Bravo M. Perrin lâchez pas
Je ete parler Francais pour quelque ans mainante Francais est pas mon premier langne mais il est ammusment et devrait toujours etre ici
Vive les Cadiens & Cadiennes ... salut de l'Irlande
Merci John, continues et fait passez le message.
born and raised In Terrebonne. My friends parents are the last to speak French. I wish I could.
Why not learn
Vous êtes un Acadien. Je suis une Francophone Ontaroise.❤
Being an Acadian myself, it makes me extremely happy to see our traditions, cultures and language live on in other parts of the world after they tried to essentially erase our whole existence back in 1755.
I understood 90% of what he said with my rudimentary metropolitan French...and I didn't cheat by reading the subtitles!!!!!
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Il y a beaucoup de Perrin en Bourgogne !
Le grand blond avec la chaussure noire !
Ne lâche rien mon poulet ! courage !
Bravo 🎉Ton français est parfait ❤❤❤
French is my third language, but I understand him far better than most French people, because he sounds out the words more, and it’s less of a continuous flow 😅
Acadian French born in Aberdeen Scotland!
He just sounds like an american who speaks intermediate french to me
Acadians are Cajun french & origin From Canada by Quebec but got slave by the British & send to Louisiana to become cajuns & turn they homeland Acadia into nova Scotia The Spanish are also mix in Louisiana when they bought it from the french & supplies came through mexico to guamanla from peru
He’s speaking really clearly for the sake of the video. If you hear other native Cajun French speakers having a casual convo I think it will be a little bit more distinct
Oh it is lol
living in Montreal; does not sound like an American to me.
He said he was raised speaking English, unlike his brother. He rediscovered his Acadian ancestry
Merveilleux et félicitations
My ancestors sounds like my great great granny
Moi je suis acadienne, de l'isle du prince edouard. Mes enfants attends une école franco qui encourage la cuture acadien. Un jour, je veux visiter louisian pour rencontrer ma famille cajun ❤
Je suis Québécois de Montréal. Le Français de M Perrin est totalement limpide à mon oreille! 🙂
Félicitations
tres bien ❤❤❤
no French speaker should dare to complain when France has done everything in its power to erase its regional languages.
It’s so much like south Quebec slang french
Il parle le Francais 1600 a 1900 en français français parisien ont remplacer depuis 1900
He sounds like any American or English speakers when speaking French and I can understand as a native francophone
Dear shalbec,
To me the gentleman doesn’t sound necessarily like an English speaker but rather more like someone who has received a language that has been corrupted by outside influences and so we have verbs conjugated with “avoir” instead of with “être” and an occasional English word pronounced “à la française”.
@@georgesotiroff5080i concur
Vive la France 🇨🇵 vive la Louisiane ✊
I love this.
C'est très intéressant. Je suis un Canadien Anglo que apprend le français pour comprendre mes frères Francophones mais c'est triste je trouve l'accent Mr. Perrin plus facile de comprendre que le français québécois. Merci pour le vidéo! 😃
Bravo Camarade!
il a l'air très jeune pour sa génération
Il parle bien le Français. Par contre c'est dommage que ses parents n'ont pas transmise les deux langues. Ça aurait été possible.
La faute n'est pas exactement la leur. Le français était supprimé à cette époque-là, comme il explique. Ils voulaient sans doute le meilleur pour leur fils
@@kourii C'est a cause de la mentalité a l'époque. S'ils savaient combien il serait un grand atout être bilingue ils auraient sûrement leur parler français a leurs enfants.
Parce qu'il avait beaucoup de discrimination, en ce temps-la. Astheure, on pourrait parler le francais en Louisane représailles. Mais avant ils ont frappé les enfants s'ils parlaient le francais. Le français était supprimé. La langue était essentiellement illégale dans les écoles. Il fallait apartenir au melting pot americain pour ainsi dire.
C'était comme ça à l'époque.
Il s'est passé la même chose en France avec les langues régionales. Le breton fût interdit à l'école et c'est ainsi que les générations suivantes on perdu la langue, car les parents ne l'enseignait plus à leurs enfants.
A cette époque, le gouvernement souhaiter centralisé la langue française et l'impose aux régions. Afin de combattre les mouvements indépendantistes aussi.
Why didn’t Americans want people to speak French?
Respect ❤
That’s northern Ontario French. Glad you found your Canadien roots!
Is it mutually intelligible with Canadian French and Mainland France French?
Yes , i understood it fully. It's like someone speaking like the fifties with a strong accent. (I'm french).
100% inter-intelligible but with its own accent and some colloquialisms.
oui, acadien icitte qui le comprend a 100%
Oh this sounds like a mix of French and Dutch
Dans ma ville de Nantes, il y a une grande peinture murale. Elle dépeint une scène des Acadiens quand ils sont passés par ce port après avoir été chassés de leur pays. De là ils sont partis en Louisiane.
Y a dans le sud de la Louisiane
Et dans un coin du Canada
Des tas de gars, des tas de femmes
Qui chantent dans la même langue que toi
[...]
Tous les Acadiens, toutes les Acadiennes
Vont chanter, vont danser sur le violon
Sont Américains, elles sont Américaines
La faute à qui donc? La faute à Napoléon
Why are the Louisiana Spanish rarely mentioned? They had influence on Louisiana as well.
Not really
Look at the food. And pockets of Louisiana have Spanish ancestry. If you are well traveled , you'll see Spain almost everywhere in this world. Saludos! Je parle Francais also.@@vista8863
We really need to talk about this Cajun thing. The “Cajun”-identified group of people in Louisiana are not Acadians (Cajuns) in this day and age. When the Acadians arrived in Louisiana over 200 years ago they intermarried with the French Creoles of Louisiana (the original French speaking white settlers of Louisiana of ancestry from France and Québec). We can see this from the vast amount of surnames of the group that came direct from France and Québec to Louisiana that existed in Louisiana before the arrival of the Acadians to Louisiana. This man Warren Perrin’s surname arrived in Louisiana direct from France, not Acadie (Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) and even folks in Louisiana with Acadian surnames are of mixed European based ancestry the same as most all other white Americans, it’s just the bulk of it is a mixture of ancestry from France, Acadie and Québec (Acadian+Louisiana French Creole). The “Cajun”-identified people group in Louisiana are white Louisiana Creoles.
Most of the surnames among the group are of French origin (from France, Acadie and Québec with a minor of them from white French Caribbeans), however some of the surnames are of German or Spanish origin from colonial origins in Louisiana and a few are even of British/Irish, and Italian origin. Look at many of the famous “Cajuns” like Justin Wilson, Chef Paul Prudhomme, Chef John Folse, Edwin Edwards, Dennis McGee, Nathan Abshire, Chef Isaac Toups, James Carville etc. none of those surnames are Acadian. The food and culture being claimed as Cajun is not Acadian either and is a mixture of different Louisiana ethnic group influences. Same with the French language that exists in Louisiana. Let’s talk about it.
Have you ever heard of a diaspora?
@@mayorjoshua Yes, why what’s your point?
@@IslenoGutierrez They are an Acadian diaspora.
@@mayorjoshua Who is an Acadian diaspora?
@@IslenoGutierrez Cajuns: that's who we were talking about, right?
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I wonder why their parents made them attend school since they were punish for their language. Seems to me they would have argued about it changed that mess
It's the first time that I hear French language spoken with a US accent. Cool.
That's not a US accent but a true old french accent.
Brandy Marroy
les traces des canadiens ça , on l’entend dans son accent
"J'ai parti" or "Je suis parti"? Fr. Daigle says Cajun is not ungrammatical French. But is that true? "J'ai eu l'opportunité d'aller" or "J'ai eu l'occasion d'y aller."? Are anglicisms like "opportunité" actually allowed in Cajun? Could it be that the Cajun of Warren Perrin today is different from that of Fr. Daigle?
“Allowed” is a very Académie Française way of looking at language. It’s prescriptive and not how linguists would look at it.
Cajun French uses avoir in passé composé for everything. Using être for some verbs and avoir for others is a distinction without a difference. It exists as a rule, but there’s no reason other than it’s a rule. English used to make this distinction for some verbs but we lost it. No one says “I am come” anymore. It’s a natural linguistic evolutionary process at work. Spanish and Portuguese had this distinction too and lost it. If French had standardized 100 years later, it likely would have lost it as well. But Cajun French was never subject to that standardization and evolved past it.
Next, plenty of French use opportunité in the same manner as English and they have forever. It’s where English got the word from in the first place. That usage might be proscribed by the Académie and textbooks now, but it doesn’t stop people from speaking that way.
Cajun French isn’t “ungrammatical French” because it’s its own perfectly grammatical and valid variety of the language. Does it agree with the Académie’s rules 100% of the time? No. But why should it?
The only reason France isn’t a cornucopia of dialects and languages is because they’ve spent 200+ years trying to eradicate them. And yet I’m sure you can find people all over the country, especially older people, who speak French very differently from the Parisian standard. But those varieties are all valid in their own right and not perversions of the language as the Académie would have everyone believe.
@@mattchtx Can you name a Cajun playwright who is the equal of Molière, a Cajun poet who is the equal of La Fontaine, a Cajun philosopher who is the equal of Montaigne, or a Cajun novelist the equal of Balzac? My point is this: It is not about validity or legitimacy. It is about the idea of civilization, which is utterly dependent upon the continuity of standards over time. Lovely to have a hodgepodge of constantly changing dialects, but you get nothing like civilization out of that. You evidently never studies the origins, development or significance of the Académie.
@@MacKenziePoetOne of the reasons English is so rich is because it absorbs everything. It is said that English lures others languages into a dark corner, hits them over the head, and rifles their pockets for anything of value. We have countless synonyms, because of this linguistic theft. While learning French I am discovering the meaning of English words I have often heard but never understood. A good example is calumny, to libel or slander. French and German have a purity that is alien to English. French is also very centralised. An acquaintance in Montreal was going to a language class, and the teacher said she would teach standard French, and not the minor dialect spoken in Canada. Such chauvinism is surprising but commonplace among some French people.
@@MacKenziePoetBTW The Cajun population is tiny compared to France, hence no great artists, and it never had the rich elite willing to pay for French literature.
@@StillAliveAndKicking_ Edwin Muir believed Scots was not a language to write in for reasons you have just stated about the odd power of English. As a traditional lyric poet, I find euphony difficult in English, whereas Scots is rich in sounds of every kind. But these dialects are not gaining ground simply because modernism and the Marxist-atheist critique of literature prevailing in academia has essentially lobotomized any potential poets connected to them. So even the idea of a great poet resurrecting a dialect (such as William Neil's translation of Homer into Scots) is defunct when the world is hard pressed even to produce properly literate people... Did Burns fail to keep Scots going, in the end? He certainly wrote quite a number of poems in English...
Meme chose avec mes parents acadien a l'ecole primaire. Il a falu paz parler francais et pas ecrire avec la main gauche. La main du diable les soeurs disait dans ces temps la.
Do your homework on this guy. And his family.
What about them?
His surname came from France rather than Acadie.
Great language and this guys are latinos as well all who speak language that come from latin we could call latinos no only people who speak Spanish in iberoamerica.
Faites quelque chose pour sauver votre langue, au lieu de dire《 c'est trop triste 》! C'mon, at least Cajun French is still a variant of French, one of the most influential languages
in the world. It will go a long way to connect to th wider francophone world while retrieving the Cajun heritage. If the Cajun Louisianes really wanna do something to save it, there are a thousand ways to do it. It's not like those struggling to save a dying aboriginal language, which may only be spoken by a handful and not related to any other widely spread languages.
Louisiana French, the only French dialect that pronounces the r…
In the south of France people pronounce the r as the
alveolar trill you’re used to.
I’ve always wondered how french would sound if they pronounced the R. I actually really like it!
In Quebec, in many regions in the western country side as well as in Montreal itself, people historically rolled their R's. My grand-parents were born around 1920 and grew up in a village 130km north of Montreal . They both rolled their R's. Some of the older folks still do, like my oldest uncle, but it has been dying out since the 1960s or so.
I wish it would make a comeback!
New Orleans French that was spoken always used the r similar to Paris, never like the one in southwest Louisiana. Sadly, it died out and only a few very elderly people can speak it today and they themselves are on their way out so it will be 100% dead after they’re gone.
He dem speaka dat creole mon amie
Parlez vous Francaise? That's French for " I'll have a burger and fries thanks."
He aint a native speaker and it shows in the accent
There are some native speakers in Louisiana that have no trace of an American accent, but they are usually very elderly.
This doesn't sound "true"
Yeah yeah yeah. Nothing worth making a video about in my opinion.
Nothing worth reading that comment. But i watched the entire video.