I agree. It will regain its place in Louisiana but it won’t be Cadien/Cajun that’s spoken by the young generation but Parisian (île de France) variety. Even still it’s French. We can only hope they recoup that part of their heritage. Hope the culinary part never goes away though. That’s something that would be most tragic...
@Kate Louque The southern region called Acadiana should be its own US state and French should be the official language (along with English). Then every single primary school could be a French immersion school and secondary schools could be entirely bilingual. It's not difficult to to revive a language.
@@terioze9 That would never happen, Marijuana is going to be legal in all 50 states, and all territories, before Louisiana French, or French in general is taught as a main language at school. Actually, you might be high right now for even thinking that is a possibility.
Kate Louque I don’t agree at all.. I am a native French speaker from france, For some reasons I understand Québec French, and French creole of the west end indies.. i can tell you that if some research are made about how Cajun dialect got created and from what different influences he has been exposed and curved , it would be pretty easy to recreate it at less 95% , it’s not a dead language yet.. by the way the more i listen to cajun the more understand it
People of Louisiana please keep fighting to preserves your language it’s beautiful and it Deserves respect ✊ I believe the United States 🇺🇸 is stronger when there is more diversity and more than one language being spoken if anything being bilingual actually helps advance a nation not breaks it down. Louisiana forever. P.S. love from Florida
@Stephen Jenkins Yeah, most anglophones tend to feel that way, but they wouldn't if their language was the one threatened. There is nothing wrong with bilingualism, and identity within the united states and a lingua franca like english, but the complete destruction of culture and language is unnecessary and objectively wrong
@Stephen Jenkins The quebecois are just defending their culture in a nation of anglophones that tried for years to strangle the life out of their language. Anglophones are the only group I can really think of this side of the hemisphere that refuse to live alongside other languages, I don't know where you get the french being like that, but if you're that deluded then that's you.
@Stephen Jenkins I mean having rules for anglophones to know french in a bilingual nation is pretty much just common sense anyway, you seem pretty confused
@ foued 38 Je confirme. En effet, sans vouloir offenser nos amis et cousins canadiens francophones, du Québec, d'Acadie et d'ailleurs, je comprends globalement mieux nos cousins francophones de Louisiane. Cela dépend peut-être des régions et des accents du Québec et d'Acadie... Mais j'avoue que les Louisianais francophones et les Cadiens parlent plus clairement. Vive la langue française et vive la francophonie ! Amitié et soutien d'un cousin de Belgique francophone.
@@TheNmecod Je comprends pas non plus.. Pour moi les francophones du Canada sont pas très compliqués à comprendre (même si y a des accents plus compliqués que d'autres mais globalement ça va). Les cajuns je comprends quand ils parlent mais je trouvais que c'était quand même plus compliqué.
@@itsanixela Je pense que en general les cajuns parlent si lentement en comparaison avec les Quebecois mais je ne peux pas dire que c'est plus facile pour moi de comprendre les Cajuns. Quand meme, il y a beaucoup de similarites entre le Quebecois et l'Acadien. Bien sur c'est un avantage quand les gens parlent plus lentement mais les francais de France parlent si vite aussi et il y a beaucoup d'accents en France.
The absolutely sad part is that the French language and culture was specifically taken from the Cajuns and Creoles because most of them were poor and the rich Louisianans realized that you can’t control someone you can’t understand. Sadly they seem to have succeeded for the most part. Louisianans should recognize that the main differentiator between them and the rest of the states (the French heritage) is vital - I hope Louisianans mandate their elected officials to mandate classes about French heritage and language in schools. The heritage will die otherwise, without a doubt.
im an anglo from quebec. I believe the french language should be the first language in Quebec and Louisiana, Thats what our ancestors wanted and died for. . Respecting the language is what keeps families united.
It's interesting considering the U.S. has no official language. Funny how times change, from forcing people to speak english to now encouraging bilingualism.
The Cajun One, I'm curious to hear about how Cajuns feel regarding immigrants coming to the u.s. and speaking their native tongues. Personally, I don't care what people speak so long as they're respectful to their community and understand that not learning English is not doing them favors. Here in West Texas, you can get by with just Spanish and like I said, as long as you're respectful, most people don't mind. I hope Louisiana French, and all regional dialects, are here to stay.
@@adrianordonez8800 You should definitely learn enough English to communicate. Ignorance is not an excuse for breaking a law, so it would be reasonable to learn enough language to understand the laws and converse with people on at least a basic level.
Silas Bishop yes I have. This would be different. Let me be more clear, French would be mandatory but English would also be allowed to be spoken unlike Quebec.
@@user-cw3hq3kz1n If you believe that, you don't know what you are talking about. The Language law has Language Police. These "police" make doing business in QC difficult for international companies. They are forced to work in French. You will be fined if you don't. Hundreds of thousands of QC Anglophones have abandoned the province.
@@silasbishop3055 I know all of that lol i still think its a good thing for them. In korea a lot of people wish we had that kind of law to force people to speak korean to customers because most of the time the customers dont understand english
As the last generation in my family to speak French ( and I struggle with fluency personally) I have wondered this very thing. I particularly appreciate in this video the different accents.
I'm a self-proclaimed Franco-phile and speak enough French to get by. I've been lucky enough to travel to France as well as visit countries that speak French and they have always wondered why an American speaks French. The reality is that America is made up of many cultures and languages and in these dark times when this is not celebrated, it's important to remember that we are better when we appreciate each other. I admit that I did have a harder time understanding this French than other regions I've been to but I really LOVED the idea that it's celebrated in LA. I was in Ethiopia a few years back on a flight home from South Africa. A woman working at the airport was trying to speak English to a woman from France and it was not going well. Finally the woman at the counter saw that we were "westerners" and wondered if any of us spoke French to help. I was able to translate for both women who were each very grateful. One of my prouder moments to use my love of the French language to make the world a little smaller. Peace!!!
About 10 years ago we stopped at a restaurant in Lafayette. The young woman attending our table spoke slow and somewhat strained English. We could hear the Cajun/Creole she was trying to overcome.
Russell Solomon I understand your fervor, but be careful in passing judgement. My grandfather found that he couldn’t find a job and support his family because he didn’t speak English. Teaching himself to read and write in English wasn’t easy. The decision to teach my father’ s generation anglais premiere was a deliberate effort not to do them the disservice of starving.
Laura Daigle Muller Sorry about that. Cajun French and Louisiana Creole are such beautiful languages. It's a shame that English completely took over Louisiana and forced native speakers to learn English and turn their back on their heritage.
This really reminds me of my relatives in Quebec. The accent is different, but as you know, there is a difference between the English spoken in Boston and the English in Memphis too.
French is an important language and should be taught everywhere. I'm glad I'm Lebanese and got to speak french as my second language since I was very young.
Je ne sais pas. Je suis de Californie. Un mec cajun de Louisiane m'a dit que seulement un peu des gens de Louisiane ont parlé le Français Louisiane. D'habitude les gens vielles qui habitent au bayoux. Mais C'été il ya 20 ans. A cette epoque l'etat de Louisiane a "immersion schools". J'avais entendu que les jeune cajuns préferent le Français et pas l'Anglais. C'est problement parce qu'ils habitent dans l'èpoque de globalization. Deux langues sont supérieur qu'un. Français est un langue qu'est parlé de plus que 100.000.000 des gens du monde. L' Afrique a plus francophones que l'Europe.
@ Jim Strope Petite précision : selon les statistiques de l'OIF, en 2021, le français est parlé quotidiennement par plus de 300 millions de francophones sur les 5 continents. Selon des précisions de l'OIF, ce nombre doublera en 2050.
Je suis louisianais et un produit d’une programme d’immersion - la maternelle jusqu’à 10ème niveau. Mon français est loin de parfait, mais je l’utilize parfois. Je peux parler avec mon barbier, qui est Cajun, et une fois j’ai aidé quelques dames de la Côte d’Ivoire dans un magazin. Je peux aussi comprendre et expliquer quelques mots et expressions Cajun que des gens utilizent, meme si ils parlent anglais, par example “comme ca” ou “comprend?” ou “lache pas!” Mais c’est vrai. Tout la monde parlent anglais. C’est principalement une chose culturelle.
My maternal Great Grandmothers parents were born in Sicily, and the language was never passed down to us. My paternal grandfather was from Rayne Louisiana and his first language was Cajun French, and he never passed it down either. I wish so badly that I’d hav been able to learn those languages.
Oui je dis oui !!!! C'est notre langue commune, c'est aussi une trace de l'histoire de la Louisiane. Bravo a vous de permettre à la langue française de perdurer sur ce continent américain. 👏👏👏👏🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
That’s up to the Cajun. Fight for your language. All the street signs should be in French and English as well. Every publication in Louisiana should be in Cajun French and English
It’s sounds a mix between Quebec French and creole french ( a pidgin used by Mariners who settled in the West Indies “Guadeloupe Haïti Martinique “and in the other french colonies at a lesser extend like in the Indian Ocean “ reunion,Île Maurice “and pacific “ Tahiti, nouvelle caledonie “..probably the French pidgin used by louisianers was really similar to other French creoles but got massively impacted by the Acadian dialect when they ve been deported from Nova Scotia... when i refer to dialect Iam pointing out that quebecers & acadians where native french speakers for generations, while pidgin is based on a language but empirically forged by mostly non native speakers from different countries to understand each other.
La franco-créolophonie louisianaise est effectivement une riche mosaïque caractérisée par sa diversité et composée de différents accents et expressions.
This is proof of the melting pot and diversity in America not just in race or what we see in mainstream media but in ethnic backgrounds. I hope all backgrounds, cultures, and languages that are part of a culture in the world are preserved as much as possible. It's not easy but hopefully there can be a good balance with English and French in Louisiana. The language from videos I have seen looks beautiful and should be more protected and preserved by people there especially those who still speak it. I think allowing more groups of people in America who speak different languages and respect/build their communities can help this country in many ways.
Can Louisiana French Be Saved? Not unless they revive "their" version of french and make it cool to the kids to speak and write (social media platform) and open immigration to countries like France, Quebec, Africa and Haiti...also banning english in schools in certain parishes would help (don't laugh, the anglo's prohibited french to be spoken or taught in schools not that long ago)
Enfant, j'ai choisi d'apprendre le français en première année. Je suis resté avec le français jusqu'à ce que j'atteigne la 7e année pendant l'été de ma 6e année, ils ont supprimé le français. J'ai appris le français pour parler au côté de ma mère, surtout à elle, afin que nous puissions parler. L'Illinois a supprimé le français à l'école parce que peu d'entre eux prenaient le français. J'ai donc dû passer à l'apprentissage de l'espagnol. J'ai trouvé cela facile, mais je me demande souvent si je continuerai à être professeur de français. La Louisiane continue d'apprendre et de garder le français. Jusqu'à plus tard - Eduard C
C'est frustrant de regarder ceci parce que à la personne, les gens qui sont interviewés se lamentent la perte de "leur" accent, de "leur" vocabulaire, de "leur français", disant que le français qu'apprennent les jeunes vient des profs belges, français, ou canadiens. Or, sans cette intervention internationale depuis 1968, PLUS PERSONNE en Louisiane âgé de moins de 50 ne parlerait français !! PLUS. PERSONNE. Et pourquoi ? Parce que les Louisianais eux-mêmes n'ont pas fait l'effort de transmettre "leur" accent, "leur" vocabulaire, ou "leur" français à leurs enfants ou petits-enfants. Ce n'est pas une question "d'apprentissage," c'est une simple question de tout simplement PARLER SA LANGUE. Il est certes difficile de prendre le blâme sur soi, mais que l'on se responsabilise et que l'on assume pour une fois, merde ! Pour avoir une meilleure idée de comment les Louisianais de langue maternelle française ou kréyol parlaient avant l'intrusion linguistique anglophone, je vous invite à découvrir cette belle archive d'émissions diffusées dans les années 1980 et 1990 : ladigitalmedia.org/video_v2/sublisting/LFRAN/1 (J'en parle en connaissance de cause en tant que Franco-Louisianais depuis 10 générations).
Joseph, il n'y a qu'une personne qui a dit ça ... et même elle a dit ça d'un ton optimiste..."c'est pas la même mais on se comprend..." Les autres disaient seulement que c'etait triste de perdre la langue ... ils distinguaient pas entre le français de Louisiane et le français de France etc.
I am an American of Quebecois descent and I love the Cajuns like cousins. Im thinking about moving down to Louisiana when I retire. I speak Canadian French with a southern dialect and want to be a crazy displaced Cajun.
I'm a francoamerican of french descent and I want to move to Quebec, my family used to live in cajun country though and if I was there I would have stayed, but living entirely surrounded by my culture seems preferable
LingQ is the best program to become fluent. Its not about grammar but uses comprehensible input method. Im 1/3 way through for french. DId spanish in just over a year and never travelled. You can emerse yourself everyday
Je vois que vous avez ouvert une école d'immersion! C'est du progrès. Vivre les Acadiens et les locuteurs créole de la Louisiane! En ce qui concerne le cajun ou le français d'immersion. En fait, le français c'est la base. En suite c'est aux aînées de faire passer la culture et le langage proprement Acadien aux jeunes immersés
Si, en 1921, on avait demandé leur avis aux habitants de Louisiane, ils auraient certainement opté pour l'apprentissage des deux langues. Et la Louisiane aurait eu un atout de bilinguisme qui aurait servi au reste du pays. Comme quoi, les simples citoyens ont souvent plus de bon sens et de pragmatisme que leurs dirigeants. Une militante du RIC en France.
katarmor J'avais entendu l'histoire des gens cajuns pendant la guerre civil, (la guerre des confédérés). Les hommes cajuns ont dû échapper aux tentatives de conscription des deux côtés. Beaucoup des hommes cajuns devenus "Jayhawkers" Déserteurs.
Rien à voir. En 1921 le peuple pensait que le français était une langue du passé et que si on était moderne, il fallait parler anglais. La sagesse populaire a bien été prise en défaut. Heureusement que Pompidou est intervenu. Méfions nous des réflexes populaires qui sont à contresens de l’histoire.
Le problème c’est que la langue n’a pas beneficé de l’union des trois sources du français: l’élite française de la nouvelle Orléans, fermée sur elle-même qui parlait un français identique à celui de la France, le cajun et le créole en provenance des Antilles et d’Haïti après 1814. Ces courants se sont juste posés mais pas mélangés, ce qui a affaiblit la langue face à l’anglais.
Excuse my ignorance, but why is French not taught in Louisiana schools? I understand that for many years French was not allowed to be spoken, but that was years ago, we’re in another era now. Keep French alive down in Louisiana, matter of fact, Louisiana should be like Quebec and make French their oficial language, Love from New York City
French is taught in Louisiana, to varying degrees, though it's not mandatory. There's actually thousands of students enrolled in French language education in Louisiana, which is probably the best hope for the language long term.
YES!!! IF THE WELSH LANGUAGE WAS REVIVED IN WALES AND MADE IT MANDATORY TO SPEAK IT , WHY NOT LOUISIANA FRENCH ? I SUPPORT THIS IDEA SO MY ANSWER IS YES , IT CAN BE PRESERVED AND THAT'S THE WAY IT SHOULD BE
personnellement en t en que québécois si ta envie de gardé une langue qui date des année 1600 bonne chance au Quebec on est aussi acadien on a un très beaux language qui a beaucoup changé et ces t en mieux avec un un accent vraiment spécial nous aussi mais compréhensible l important ces de parlé notre langue le français en Amérique du nord selon mon arbre généalogique le plus loin que suis allé mes ancêtre sont arrivé a Montréal au début des année 1650 je parle encore français toute ma famille aussi ces ca l important vive le français
@@myerwerl - Le créole est adossé au français depuis toujours. Par conséquent, le kouri-vini n’a aucune chance de survie en Louisiane sans une présence francophone significative. De ce point de vue, le créole et le français cajun sont pareils. - _Creole has always leaned against French. Therefore, Kouri-Vini has no chance of survival in Louisiana without a significant Francophone presence. From this point of view, Creole and Cajun French are the same._
Please do everything possible to keep French alive. Look at what happened in Ireland. Centuries of English domination lead to the demise of Gaelic. Don't let the same thing happen in Louisiana or Maine.
@ axiloverice Axiloverice Détrompez-vous : on assiste à une réelle renaissance du français en Louisiane ces dernières années. Il y a plusieurs raisons d'être optimiste pour l'avenir: 1) le CODOFIL, le programme d'enseignement du français en immersion fonctionne bien et commence à porter ses fruits. Même des parents anglophones inscrivent leurs enfants dans ces écoles en immersion afin que leurs enfants soient des citoyens louisianais bilingues. 2) De nouveaux médias francophones apparaissent dont Télé-Louisiane qui fait un travail formidable depuis trois ans. Elle diffuse notamment des dessins animés en français louisianais. 3) la fierté de parler français est retrouvée. Il n'y a plus de honte à parler le français en Louisiane. De plus en plus de jeunes s'expriment en français. La mentalité a changé et la mondialisation favorise le bilinguisme voire le multilingue... Tout profit pour la francophonie en Louisiane ! 4) L'État de Louisiane est officiellement membre de l'OIF, Organisation internationale de la francophonie depuis 2018, ce qui constitue un signal fort et une reconnaissance de la Louisiane au sein de la famille francophone. En outre, cette adhésion permet désormais à la Louisiane de tisser des liens et de nouer de nombreux partenariats avec les autres pays francophones. 5) Le nombre de locuteurs francophones ne semble plus régresser en Louisiane depuis quelques années mais au contraire semble légèrement augmenter. Le chemin reste long à parcourir et certes parsemé d'embûches. Beaucoup d'efforts restent à faire pour que le français devienne réellement la deuxième langue officielle partout dans l'État de Louisiane mais l'heure est à l'optimisme 😊👍🏻 Vive la Louisiane francophone ! Vive la francophonie ! Vive la langue française ! Salutations amicales d'un cousin francophone de Belgique 🇧🇪😊👍🏻
@@LeJoyeuxCarnavaleux Bonjour, je suis content d'apprendre que toutes ces actions entreprises portent leur fruits, et que le français cajun semble renaitre aussi dans la jeune génération. Il est vrai que cela fait déjà 13 ans que je ne suis pas allé en Louisiane, et à l'époque mon ressenti était que les jeunes ne s'exprimaient pas du tout en français cajun. J'espère qu'il on tous la même belle vision que Jourdan Thibodeau, et que la honte de parler français, imposé par l'école, disparaîtra. Si c'est le cas, le cajun perdurera. Meilleures salutations de Romandie !
Some Cajuns embrace the term, and are proud to be called a coonass and some take great offense to it. Personally I’m proud to call myself a coonass, born and raised in south Louisiana. My grandfather, who’s first language was Cajun French had a license plate of a raccoon bent over and it said “certified coonass” lol
It would take a concerted effort to save the old Acadian dialect from the 1600's. It's a beautiful dialect. It doesn't help that the new immersion schools in Louisiana are teaching Parisian french from teachers with accents and vocabulary from France, Belgium, Africa, etc. At the same time, I understand it's very difficult to find qualified local teachers who speak Francaise Cadien. Acadian French is being replaced, not reintroduced. Is SOME French better than no French? Moi je connais pas. Well, maybe, but is it worth erasing our unique Acadian culture? I'm NOT French. I'm Acadian with a distinct cultural identity.
Well, I strongly believe that the young people learning standard French today will soon get back to the original Cajun French when they have the possibility to speak with the older people. Lâche pas la patate mon frère!
Le français devrait être obligatoire en Louisiane. Ils sont très attentifs au français, dès qu'ils vous entendent parler, ils s'approchent de vous. 13:20 it's sounds like Amadou and Mariam from Mali 🇲🇱
It’s real easy you speak French to your kids, I know my ole lady is from Columbia she spoke Spanish to my kids when they were little along with English and they speak Spanish and English . It’s
Anglos destroyed the language through self hatred instilled in cajuns at a young age, they were taught that if they spoke French they were lesser people that could never make it in the future. If you think passing on your language is a sentence to poverty and neverending shame no amount of pride can overcome that
French is not going anywhere, and even if it does all it takes is a small group of people to relearn, reteach and create a interest in the community, the community passes it down to the next generation. That's how many things are relearned. We have alot of old information that was lost due to modernization, etc that is now being relearned and preserved. Maybe the language has to die in order to revive it completely lol French is one of the worlds largest spoken languages next to Spanish and English. The native American languages needs to desperately make a big comeback!!!!!
galactic reform they didn’t forget it. Neither did the German families/speakers. It was beaten out of them and became stones around the neck. People were killed and lynched for speaking german. Even in Illinois and the Midwest, thousands spoke then original fur-trading french into the 21st century but were treated as outcasts and stupid
@@Ian-dn6ld True, but a lot of French/Creole speakers gave up their languages because they wanted to be seen as ¨Americans¨. This was a particularly strong sentiment after WWII I believe. Give up your culture and be American. Soon after, people in Louisiana realized this error, and now we are struggling to keep the languages alive. I don´t know why people just couldn´t be bilingual like French Canadians.
Joshua LeonardoASMR It was WW1 and also during french relations and as stereotypes began to grow, people began to associate the French speakers here with stupidity and backwardness which is the top reason for why Midwest French fell out of use
If Louisiana French wants to be saved then do what the Irish did. Bring it back in a modern way. Makes modern music with it. Teach it in school. Don't get some. Professor either. Get a good. Ole. Boy from the bayou to teach em their heritage and how great it is.
A Haiti ils parlent le vrai créole qui est une langue différente du français. Là les gens parlent le français avec un accent et des mots différents mais un français peut les comprendre.
C’est quoi, le « vrai créole » ? Les Haïtiens parlent évidemment un créole haïtien, pas très éloigné du kourivini louisianais. Certains sont capables de s’appuyer dessus pour parler un français plutôt standard, international, voire carrément châtié.
J'aurais vécu à leur époque : je serais devenu tueur en série contre mes profs☠️Comment on peut forcer les gens à faire l´impossible ? C'est comme demander à un serpent de marcher avec des pieds ! Force à vous, les Louisianais ! De la part d´un européen à moitié Kréol !
The problem is that it is a non- written language, n'est-ce c'est pas comme ça? Tu apprends cet version de Français "seulement" si tu parles, mais lire et écrire une langue est aussi importante, peut-être plus importante, n'est-ce pas vrai?
8:46 Voila qui démontre clairement que la perte de la langue française ou française cajun est bien de la faute des cajuns eux-mêmes !!! Si les enfants étaient censés ne pas comprendre le français, cela signifie que les parents ne leurs parlaient pas en français. Dans ces conditions, ils ne doivent pas se plaindre de la disparition de cette langue.
the sad thing is that I don't see a real conversation I just hear the same words "parle". "anglais", "francais", "grandpere" and "granddmere" ... french should be cooficial and LA should promote the franchophone inmigration towards LA ...
They should teach it in schools. Just don’t do what Canada did. They’re overran by French. It should just be a type of culture in Louisiana. I myself speak some French so it’s great seeing more people in the US speak it. We need to learn more languages.👌🏼🇺🇸
What do you mean don't do what canada did, Quebec is overran by french because it is a french province. In french regions people speak french and they are free to speak only french if they wish
I’m bored, so here’s my thought. Most of the ideas behind saving Cajun French and any variety of colonial or pre 20th Century French of the US are from older people as far as I know. This is the first problem. People in my age group aren’t entirely interested in listening to accordion music all the time. To be honest I almost ignored my own german-american family base because everyone who is about their heritage in that way kept crowing about tubas and oompa music and lederhosen. Sure they’re traditional to regions in Germany but when it’s the only thing that we associate with the language and heritage, it becomes something more or less of a slight embarrassment with all of this “ice on my wrist” and other influences of masculinity, rap, and the idea of “all-American” this and that that fills certain regions of the US. These ideas of lack of education and of being old-fashioned for speaking French aren’t necessarily applicable to our generation. We’re more likely to go after the idea of “this is a legitimate social group. French-American (or german-american in my case). It’s got to be from someone who is willing to take the French of Louisiana or Missouri or Illinois and create something we can more align with. (Someone under 25)For example there’s been a rise in music artists who’ve been creating more 2018 styled rap in Swiss German dialects which are primarily mainly spoken in Switzerland. Normally, these dialects are more prone to being overrun by the standard high german of Germany. Even Nashville-like country music in Cajun French varieties would probably be popular. You can market it to us as “this is heritage” but if there’s nothing that is deeper that actually attracts the younger generation or promotes the use of the language so that people find it cool or actually to be more like an original American (a “real american” so to say) it’s going to end up fading fast. Literally, this is how you do it. ^^ Sure keep the accordions and violins but promote modern Cajun French music that reflects more mainstream music even if you have to borrow music from France like Louane, Stromae, or any other enjoyed French modern artist.
ian WELL I’ll love to explain from someone who’s CREOLE and doesn’t speak the language and I’m struggling learning right now because only so many of my family members speak it to this day. It is MUCH DEEPER than just zydeco music... yes it has a name and a genre already it’s not necessarily county music... big artist FROM LOUISIANA like Lil Boosie has been on zydeco music. And it ties more into the racial and socioeconomic and stigma MOST blacks in the US had and STILL have I learned and studied my butt off to learn Spanish and yet there’s no stable resources for me to learn MY Families’ FIRST language. Yet half the time the people talking and shaming blacks speaking other languages is BLACKS! I LOVE BEING BLACK DONT GET ME WRONG BUT CREOLE/CAJUN ISNT DEFINES BY RACE ITS AN ETHNIC GROUP. FORMED IN TWOOOO DIFFERENT WAYS CREOLE WAS THE ORIGINAL FRENCH SPOKEN AND COMMONLY USES WHERE CAJUN IS A DIALECT WHICH HEAVILY RELIES ON STANDARD FRENCH. So that’s the issue and the target market to get a change the CREOLES/CAJUNS of COLOR! Some people can’t afford immersion programs and private French tutors & LASTLY NOONE EVERRRR ACCOUNTS FOR THE CREOLE/CAJUN POPULATION OUTSIDEEEE OF LOUISIANA WHERE A lot of the globalization of the diaspora has taken place! U have a lot of valid points and I don’t mean to come off as a troll but I’d rather educate and explain than ignore and or bash your comment. Pas un bon jour misyé!
Jeremy Gobert you seem to have grossly and completely misinterpreted my comment 😂 I’m saying that from what I can see, there’s no push from these societies to actually reinstate French usage outside of the walls of the organizations through the use of reaching out to local small stores and restaurants and requesting and even helping in the creation of French signage, menus, advertisement, etc. to become more involved in communities in this way aside from the regular service hours that they regularly do. From what I’ve heard and seen, it’s still underground for the most part today and is becoming a romanticized version of what New Orleans should be. I’m criticizing how people go to these events and don’t actively really push to relearn things or to strengthen what they do know. For the most part outside of the codofil program, it seems to be tailored to older people when to expand, they ought to also focus more on pushing for more attention from youngers by spotlighting younger people but not in a cringy way. So before you go and get all up in arms about how creole is powerful and how I don’t know what I’m talking about, how about you first understand even more about what I was saying because yeah. I know it’s more difficult to learn the first language of your elders however what I’m saying above is that these organizations ought to be doing more than what they are doing I think.
@@Ian-dn6ld I understand what you're saying and I'm not disagreeing with you but what I'm saying is it ties into something deeper than music and it's about the representation and structure of the culture and language. which of course falls on the organizations but the major reasons MY FAMILY AND PEOPLE AROUND US barely speak it was because of the SHAME THAT MOST BLACKS FELT BEING & SPEAKING CREOLE due the society around them which were primarily African Americans. everyone is entitled to their opinions but when u said" I'm bored" and decided to comment it makes it seem less than genuine when it's a REAL ISSUE!
Jeremy Gobert I get what you mean ma famille is from Louisiana. I wouldn’t blame other black people that came from mainly English speaking areas though...you know cause slavery and whatnot...they just spoke what they knew and you can’t deny that English is a major language in the States. That goes back to what the OP was saying it just lost it’s overall appeal to the younger generations of every race with their backgrounds. I will say this though I used to help my grandma out, she lost both of her legs, when I was little and she would teach me creole words and phrases growing up. Sadly I live in North Florida so I didn’t have a lot of people to practice with like in South Florida I’d at least hear some variation of creole with the Haitian population so I lost a lot of creole, but in 8th grade my teacher was giving a segment on France and she heard me pronounce words in class and asked how do you speak and pronounce your words well like that? And I explained my background and she understood instantly and she started teaching me Parisian French or what is known as Modern French. I’m still not fluent to this day because I need to be more persistent on practicing, but there is hope for younger generations if they truly care enough to find passion about a language other than English.
Jeremy Gobert one more thing on why it isn’t spoken. The Louisiana government made it illegal to speak any French dialect in schools so that’s another added thing
On parlera encore une fois français et c'est ça que je vous jure. On essaie d'enseigner le français et beaucoup de paroisse créent des écoles bilingues. On n'oubliera jamais notre culture et on va reprendre le pouvoir pour qu'on puisse réintroduire le français icitte. Crois-moi. ;)
Look chaps we all like to think we are different in some ways, I get it. However the Tower of Babel happened a long time ago, and I feel sure that no one is going to be building anything much higher then we already have so why don't we all just stick to speaking God's own language, which if you did not know is ENGLISH? Don't you think it may be a rather nice idea if we could all understand what each other are saying without having to learn another language or have to refer to a book simply to order breakfast? Sounds like common sense to me, how about you?
C'est frustrant de regarder ceci parce que à la personne, les gens qui sont interviewés se lamentent la perte de "leur" accent, de "leur" vocabulaire, de "leur français", disant que le français qu'apprennent les jeunes vient des profs belges, français, ou canadiens. Or, sans cette intervention internationale depuis 1968, PLUS PERSONNE en Louisiane âgé de moins de 50 ne parlerait français !! PLUS. PERSONNE. Et pourquoi ? Parce que les Louisianais eux-mêmes n'ont pas fait l'effort de transmettre "leur" accent, "leur" vocabulaire, ou "leur" français à leurs enfants ou petits-enfants. Ce n'est pas une question "d'apprentissage," c'est une simple question de tout simplement PARLER SA LANGUE. Il est certes difficile de prendre le blâme sur soi, mais que l'on se responsabilise et que l'on assume pour une fois, merde ! Pour avoir une meilleure idée de comment les Louisianais de langue maternelle française ou kréyol parlaient avant l'intrusion linguistique anglophone, je vous invite à découvrir cette belle archive d'émissions diffusées dans les années 1980 et 1990 : ladigitalmedia.org/video_v2/sublisting/LFRAN/1 (J'en parle en connaissance de cause en tant que Franco-Louisianais depuis 10 générations).
@@goofygrandlouis6296 Les Québécois était des millions de personnes à parler français et qui plus est, à 99% blanc. En Louisiane on était beaucoup moins nombreux mais plus diversifiés et la ségrégation raciale a joué et continue de jouer un rôle inestimable par rapport à la perte de nos langues.
@@dourtandouar1318 : Dur peut-être, mais vrai. Transmettre une langue c'est la même chose que transmettre n'importe quel autre aspect culturel, une recette familiale, une chanson, comment jouer du violon, comment faire la chasse, etc. C'est la responsabilité de l'aîné de transmettre et la responsabilité du jeune de recevoir, d'accepter et de porter la transmission. J'ai deux enfants qui ont dix ans de différence d'âge. Mon fils, l'aîné des deux, ne parle pas français parce que MOI-MÊME je n'ai pas fait l'effort d'insister et de lui parler uniquement dans cette langue. Ma fille, par contre, se débrouille pas mal parce que j'ai pris la responsabilité sur moi de toujours lui parle seulement en français.
@@josephdunn_louisiane On a faire un peu le meme avec nos deux garçons chez nous (New Orleans, Houston,Paris). Papa toujours en anglais et Maman toujours en français. Disconcerting pour nos inviteés mais quand meme. Les boys sont completement bilingue.Tu habites ou Joseph?
French should be required to be taught in every LA public school.
I agree. It will regain its place in Louisiana but it won’t be Cadien/Cajun that’s spoken by the young generation but Parisian (île de France) variety. Even still it’s French. We can only hope they recoup that part of their heritage. Hope the culinary part never goes away though. That’s something that would be most tragic...
@Kate Louque Unless Louisiana French is the main language taught at school.
@Kate Louque The southern region called Acadiana should be its own US state and French should be the official language (along with English). Then every single primary school could be a French immersion school and secondary schools could be entirely bilingual.
It's not difficult to to revive a language.
@@terioze9 That would never happen, Marijuana is going to be legal in all 50 states, and all territories, before Louisiana French, or French in general is taught as a main language at school. Actually, you might be high right now for even thinking that is a possibility.
Kate Louque I don’t agree at all.. I am a native French speaker from france, For some reasons I understand Québec French, and French creole of the west end indies.. i can tell you that if some research are made about how Cajun dialect got created and from what different influences he has been exposed and curved , it would be pretty easy to recreate it at less 95% , it’s not a dead language yet.. by the way the more i listen to cajun the more understand it
People of Louisiana please keep fighting to preserves your language it’s beautiful and it Deserves respect ✊ I believe the United States 🇺🇸 is stronger when there is more diversity and more than one language being spoken if anything being bilingual actually helps advance a nation not breaks it down. Louisiana forever. P.S. love from Florida
I hope you understand why French Canadians, esp in Québec, are in the same battle.
they shouldn’t have closed french only schools. hopefully french speaking schools will open again
@Stephen Jenkins Yeah, most anglophones tend to feel that way, but they wouldn't if their language was the one threatened. There is nothing wrong with bilingualism, and identity within the united states and a lingua franca like english, but the complete destruction of culture and language is unnecessary and objectively wrong
@Stephen Jenkins The quebecois are just defending their culture in a nation of anglophones that tried for years to strangle the life out of their language. Anglophones are the only group I can really think of this side of the hemisphere that refuse to live alongside other languages, I don't know where you get the french being like that, but if you're that deluded then that's you.
@Stephen Jenkins I mean having rules for anglophones to know french in a bilingual nation is pretty much just common sense anyway, you seem pretty confused
I'm French, I understand their French more than the French in Canada, bravo 👍🇨🇵
Tu niaises ? Il a environ trois-quatres personnes qui parlent nativement le français dans le vidéo.
@ foued 38 Je confirme. En effet, sans vouloir offenser nos amis et cousins canadiens francophones, du Québec, d'Acadie et d'ailleurs, je comprends globalement mieux nos cousins francophones de Louisiane. Cela dépend peut-être des régions et des accents du Québec et d'Acadie... Mais j'avoue que les Louisianais francophones et les Cadiens parlent plus clairement. Vive la langue française et vive la francophonie ! Amitié et soutien d'un cousin de Belgique francophone.
@@TheNmecod Je comprends pas non plus.. Pour moi les francophones du Canada sont pas très compliqués à comprendre (même si y a des accents plus compliqués que d'autres mais globalement ça va).
Les cajuns je comprends quand ils parlent mais je trouvais que c'était quand même plus compliqué.
J'imagine que c'est parce qu'ils parlent plus lentement donc leur patois n'est pas aussi mâchouillé que le nôtre au Québec.
@@itsanixela Je pense que en general les cajuns parlent si lentement en comparaison avec les Quebecois mais je ne peux pas dire que c'est plus facile pour moi de comprendre les Cajuns. Quand meme, il y a beaucoup de similarites entre le Quebecois et l'Acadien. Bien sur c'est un avantage quand les gens parlent plus lentement mais les francais de France parlent si vite aussi et il y a beaucoup d'accents en France.
The absolutely sad part is that the French language and culture was specifically taken from the Cajuns and Creoles because most of them were poor and the rich Louisianans realized that you can’t control someone you can’t understand. Sadly they seem to have succeeded for the most part.
Louisianans should recognize that the main differentiator between them and the rest of the states (the French heritage) is vital - I hope Louisianans mandate their elected officials to mandate classes about French heritage and language in schools. The heritage will die otherwise, without a doubt.
im an anglo from quebec. I believe the french language should be the first language in Quebec and Louisiana, Thats what our ancestors wanted and died for. . Respecting the language is what keeps families united.
They beat and shamed the language away from us but they want us to press "1" for English now. Save our language.
It's interesting considering the U.S. has no official language. Funny how times change, from forcing people to speak english to now encouraging bilingualism.
The Cajun One, I'm curious to hear about how Cajuns feel regarding immigrants coming to the u.s. and speaking their native tongues. Personally, I don't care what people speak so long as they're respectful to their community and understand that not learning English is not doing them favors. Here in West Texas, you can get by with just Spanish and like I said, as long as you're respectful, most people don't mind.
I hope Louisiana French, and all regional dialects, are here to stay.
@@adrianordonez8800 You should definitely learn enough English to communicate. Ignorance is not an excuse for breaking a law, so it would be reasonable to learn enough language to understand the laws and converse with people on at least a basic level.
@@SladeDemesne Much respect from Quebec !!!
Ben Martinez if only the US felt the same about Spanish speaking natives
Louisiana should be like Quebec. French should be mandatory
Have you ever been to Quebec? Do you understand the problems that exist their due to the Language laws?
Silas Bishop yes I have. This would be different. Let me be more clear, French would be mandatory but English would also be allowed to be spoken unlike Quebec.
@@silasbishop3055 there is no problem due to the language law lol
@@user-cw3hq3kz1n If you believe that, you don't know what you are talking about. The Language law has Language Police. These "police" make doing business in QC difficult for international companies. They are forced to work in French. You will be fined if you don't. Hundreds of thousands of QC Anglophones have abandoned the province.
@@silasbishop3055 I know all of that lol i still think its a good thing for them. In korea a lot of people wish we had that kind of law to force people to speak korean to customers because most of the time the customers dont understand english
Bravo, magnifique accent, sauvez votre culture les cousins!
As the last generation in my family to speak French ( and I struggle with fluency personally) I have wondered this very thing.
I particularly appreciate in this video the different accents.
Pass it on, you won't struggle with fluency if you can speak with your kids, and it gives them an identity to be proud of
Highly agree, I will do this with my language even if it’s not very fluent.
I'm a self-proclaimed Franco-phile and speak enough French to get by. I've been lucky enough to travel to France as well as visit countries that speak French and they have always wondered why an American speaks French. The reality is that America is made up of many cultures and languages and in these dark times when this is not celebrated, it's important to remember that we are better when we appreciate each other. I admit that I did have a harder time understanding this French than other regions I've been to but I really LOVED the idea that it's celebrated in LA. I was in Ethiopia a few years back on a flight home from South Africa. A woman working at the airport was trying to speak English to a woman from France and it was not going well. Finally the woman at the counter saw that we were "westerners" and wondered if any of us spoke French to help. I was able to translate for both women who were each very grateful. One of my prouder moments to use my love of the French language to make the world a little smaller. Peace!!!
About 10 years ago we stopped at a restaurant in Lafayette. The young woman attending our table spoke slow and somewhat strained English. We could hear the Cajun/Creole she was trying to overcome.
I'm from France and i said, take back the white house! and make the French language official haha ;) love the accent.
Nô krèyol é kadjin lakilti viv!
Teaching My grandsons as much as I can so They hopefully keep it going even if it's between them and Me . Very special .
Teach your kids French
You have to know French yourself to be able to teach your kids, and sadly only a very small portion on the Louisiana population know Cajun French
Cajuns did a great disservice by not passing down Cajun French to the current generation! Don’t let it die! It’s a cultural treasure of Louisiana!
Russell Solomon I understand your fervor, but be careful in passing judgement. My grandfather found that he couldn’t find a job and support his family because he didn’t speak English. Teaching himself to read and write in English wasn’t easy. The decision to teach my father’ s generation anglais premiere was a deliberate effort not to do them the disservice of starving.
Laura Daigle Muller Sorry about that. Cajun French and Louisiana Creole are such beautiful languages. It's a shame that English completely took over Louisiana and forced native speakers to learn English and turn their back on their heritage.
@@m2c175 you can be bilingual
@@wackyruss Bigotry and forced integration can do that tho
Russell Solomon government did a great disservice by taking it out of schools
What a beautiful thing! I appreciate and respect these people. Keep up the effort.
This really reminds me of my relatives in Quebec. The accent is different, but as you know, there is a difference between the English spoken in Boston and the English in Memphis too.
I am French and i am so happy to hear a cajun thank you so much 🇺🇸🙏🏻🇫🇷
French is an important language and should be taught everywhere. I'm glad I'm Lebanese and got to speak french as my second language since I was very young.
Je ne sais pas. Je suis de Californie. Un mec cajun de Louisiane m'a dit que seulement un peu des gens de Louisiane ont parlé le Français Louisiane. D'habitude les gens vielles qui habitent au bayoux.
Mais C'été il ya 20 ans. A cette epoque l'etat de Louisiane a "immersion schools". J'avais entendu que les jeune cajuns préferent le Français et pas l'Anglais. C'est problement parce qu'ils habitent dans l'èpoque de globalization. Deux langues sont supérieur qu'un.
Français est un langue qu'est parlé
de plus que 100.000.000 des gens
du monde. L' Afrique a plus francophones que l'Europe.
@ Jim Strope Petite précision : selon les statistiques de l'OIF, en 2021, le français est parlé quotidiennement par plus de 300 millions de francophones sur les 5 continents. Selon des précisions de l'OIF, ce nombre doublera en 2050.
@@LeJoyeuxCarnavaleux c'est encourageant pour nous autres français 😁 c'est même un honneur.😉
Je suis louisianais et un produit d’une programme d’immersion - la maternelle jusqu’à 10ème niveau. Mon français est loin de parfait, mais je l’utilize parfois. Je peux parler avec mon barbier, qui est Cajun, et une fois j’ai aidé quelques dames de la Côte d’Ivoire dans un magazin. Je peux aussi comprendre et expliquer quelques mots et expressions Cajun que des gens utilizent, meme si ils parlent anglais, par example “comme ca” ou “comprend?” ou “lache pas!”
Mais c’est vrai. Tout la monde parlent anglais. C’est principalement une chose culturelle.
Henry, thanks for making such a beautiful video about our Louisiana French language.
My maternal Great Grandmothers parents were born in Sicily, and the language was never passed down to us. My paternal grandfather was from Rayne Louisiana and his first language was Cajun French, and he never passed it down either. I wish so badly that I’d hav been able to learn those languages.
Allo de l’Ontario !
Bonjou shær! Ça va???
Mo un kréyol Lalawizyann épi wé nô langaj çé bèl bouku! Mo parl pou mô piti-yé dan kréyol touléjou é mô lakilti va viv enhò!
Oui je dis oui !!!! C'est notre langue commune, c'est aussi une trace de l'histoire de la Louisiane. Bravo a vous de permettre à la langue française de perdurer sur ce continent américain. 👏👏👏👏🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
Kudos to you guys !!! Luv yer accent
That’s up to the Cajun. Fight for your language. All the street signs should be in French and English as well. Every publication in Louisiana should be in Cajun French and English
It’s sounds a mix between Quebec French and creole french ( a pidgin used by Mariners who settled in the West Indies “Guadeloupe Haïti Martinique “and in the other french colonies at a lesser extend like in the Indian Ocean “ reunion,Île Maurice “and pacific “ Tahiti, nouvelle caledonie “..probably the French pidgin used by louisianers was really similar to other French creoles but got massively impacted by the Acadian dialect when they ve been deported from Nova Scotia... when i refer to dialect Iam pointing out that quebecers & acadians where native french speakers for generations, while pidgin is based on a language but empirically forged by mostly non native speakers from different countries to understand each other.
La franco-créolophonie louisianaise est effectivement une riche mosaïque caractérisée par sa diversité et composée de différents accents et expressions.
Je trouve ça beau et émouvant !
This is proof of the melting pot and diversity in America not just in race or what we see in mainstream media but in ethnic backgrounds. I hope all backgrounds, cultures, and languages that are part of a culture in the world are preserved as much as possible.
It's not easy but hopefully there can be a good balance with English and French in Louisiana. The language from videos I have seen looks beautiful and should be more protected and preserved by people there especially those who still speak it.
I think allowing more groups of people in America who speak different languages and respect/build their communities can help this country in many ways.
Yes it can be saved! Contacter nous pour de l'aide!
Can Louisiana French Be Saved? Not unless they revive "their" version of french and make it cool to the kids to speak and write (social media platform) and open immigration to countries like France, Quebec, Africa and Haiti...also banning english in schools in certain parishes would help (don't laugh, the anglo's prohibited french to be spoken or taught in schools not that long ago)
Sauvez votre culture ! vous êtes magnifiques :)
Lache pas la patate ! Vive la langue française !
You got to teach your children
it's very important for us the french to have the cajun people,Thanks to you, we can keep the roots
Enfant, j'ai choisi d'apprendre le français en première année. Je suis resté avec le français jusqu'à ce que j'atteigne la 7e année pendant l'été de ma 6e année, ils ont supprimé le français. J'ai appris le français pour parler au côté de ma mère, surtout à elle, afin que nous puissions parler. L'Illinois a supprimé le français à l'école parce que peu d'entre eux prenaient le français. J'ai donc dû passer à l'apprentissage de l'espagnol. J'ai trouvé cela facile, mais je me demande souvent si je continuerai à être professeur de français. La Louisiane continue d'apprendre et de garder le français. Jusqu'à plus tard - Eduard C
Allez, les Louisianais !
French should be thought it's in the heritage!! Bon a vie Louisiana
The same for Spanish on Florida there are many of Spanish descent
Im the last french speaker from my cajun family - 12 yrs in usmc until i retire
Faut pas lâcher la patate!
C'est frustrant de regarder ceci parce que à la personne, les gens qui sont interviewés se lamentent la perte de "leur" accent, de "leur" vocabulaire, de "leur français", disant que le français qu'apprennent les jeunes vient des profs belges, français, ou canadiens. Or, sans cette intervention internationale depuis 1968, PLUS PERSONNE en Louisiane âgé de moins de 50 ne parlerait français !! PLUS. PERSONNE. Et pourquoi ? Parce que les Louisianais eux-mêmes n'ont pas fait l'effort de transmettre "leur" accent, "leur" vocabulaire, ou "leur" français à leurs enfants ou petits-enfants. Ce n'est pas une question "d'apprentissage," c'est une simple question de tout simplement PARLER SA LANGUE. Il est certes difficile de prendre le blâme sur soi, mais que l'on se responsabilise et que l'on assume pour une fois, merde !
Pour avoir une meilleure idée de comment les Louisianais de langue maternelle française ou kréyol parlaient avant l'intrusion linguistique anglophone, je vous invite à découvrir cette belle archive d'émissions diffusées dans les années 1980 et 1990 : ladigitalmedia.org/video_v2/sublisting/LFRAN/1
(J'en parle en connaissance de cause en tant que Franco-Louisianais depuis 10 générations).
Joseph, il n'y a qu'une personne qui a dit ça ... et même elle a dit ça d'un ton optimiste..."c'est pas la même mais on se comprend..." Les autres disaient seulement que c'etait triste de perdre la langue ... ils distinguaient pas entre le français de Louisiane et le français de France etc.
I am an American of Quebecois descent and I love the Cajuns like cousins. Im thinking about moving down to Louisiana when I retire. I speak Canadian French with a southern dialect and want to be a crazy displaced Cajun.
I'm a francoamerican of french descent and I want to move to Quebec, my family used to live in cajun country though and if I was there I would have stayed, but living entirely surrounded by my culture seems preferable
J M Vous êtes bienvenue je suis Canadian français et fière de mon accent
LingQ is the best program to become fluent. Its not about grammar but uses comprehensible input method. Im 1/3 way through for french. DId spanish in just over a year and never travelled. You can emerse yourself everyday
LingQ is good. I'm using it for French now
Je vois que vous avez ouvert une école d'immersion! C'est du progrès. Vivre les Acadiens et les locuteurs créole de la Louisiane!
En ce qui concerne le cajun ou le français d'immersion. En fait, le français c'est la base. En suite c'est aux aînées de faire passer la culture et le langage proprement Acadien aux jeunes immersés
Si, en 1921, on avait demandé leur avis aux habitants de Louisiane, ils auraient certainement opté pour l'apprentissage des deux langues. Et la Louisiane aurait eu un atout de bilinguisme qui aurait servi au reste du pays. Comme quoi, les simples citoyens ont souvent plus de bon sens et de pragmatisme que leurs dirigeants.
Une militante du RIC en France.
katarmor
J'avais entendu l'histoire des gens cajuns pendant la guerre civil, (la guerre des confédérés). Les hommes cajuns ont dû échapper aux tentatives de conscription des deux côtés. Beaucoup des hommes cajuns devenus "Jayhawkers" Déserteurs.
Rien à voir. En 1921 le peuple pensait que le français était une langue du passé et que si on était moderne, il fallait parler anglais. La sagesse populaire a bien été prise en défaut. Heureusement que Pompidou est intervenu. Méfions nous des réflexes populaires qui sont à contresens de l’histoire.
Le problème c’est que la langue n’a pas beneficé de l’union des trois sources du français: l’élite française de la nouvelle Orléans, fermée sur elle-même qui parlait un français identique à celui de la France, le cajun et le créole en provenance des Antilles et d’Haïti après 1814. Ces courants se sont juste posés mais pas mélangés, ce qui a affaiblit la langue face à l’anglais.
Frenchallthewayblessfamilyforever
What is the song at the beginning??
bonjour à vous de Paris on vous aime les cajuns !
Cajun French should be offered as a Language elective in all Louisiana schools
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Excuse my ignorance, but why is French not taught in Louisiana schools? I understand that for many years French was not allowed to be spoken, but that was years ago, we’re in another era now.
Keep French alive down in Louisiana, matter of fact, Louisiana should be like Quebec and make French their oficial language, Love from New York City
French is taught in Louisiana, to varying degrees, though it's not mandatory. There's actually thousands of students enrolled in French language education in Louisiana, which is probably the best hope for the language long term.
It is taught, but it is Parisian and Canadian French, it’s not Cajun French which is our language.
YES!!! IF THE WELSH LANGUAGE WAS REVIVED IN WALES AND MADE IT MANDATORY TO SPEAK IT , WHY NOT LOUISIANA FRENCH ?
I SUPPORT THIS IDEA SO MY ANSWER IS YES , IT CAN BE PRESERVED AND THAT'S THE WAY IT SHOULD BE
Bonjour Mon Amis . Mon famile vient d' Oriocourt , France l'origine .
YES!
love cajun people. they are the sweetest and most welcoming people on earth. please perverse you culture.
They have very attractive women too
Is that the Acadian flag around 3:17 ?
Those are actually pennants of the Acadian flag. The Acadian flag is the French tricolor with a yellow star (Stella Maris) in the upper left corner.
personnellement en t en que québécois si ta envie de gardé une langue qui date des année 1600 bonne chance au Quebec on est aussi acadien on a un très beaux language qui a beaucoup changé et ces t en mieux avec un un accent vraiment spécial nous aussi mais compréhensible l important ces de parlé notre langue le français en Amérique du nord selon mon arbre généalogique le plus loin que suis allé mes ancêtre sont arrivé a Montréal au début des année 1650 je parle encore français toute ma famille aussi ces ca l important vive le français
Anyone know their names?
almost the same as our acadian french here
Creole and cajun french is not the same!
En Louisiane, quand le français tousse, le créole meurt ; when the French language cough, the Creole one dies. Creole and French, same battle !
@@maximilienzorobabel277 sorry i dont get this.
@@myerwerl - Le créole est adossé au français depuis toujours. Par conséquent, le kouri-vini n’a aucune chance de survie en Louisiane sans une présence francophone significative. De ce point de vue, le créole et le français cajun sont pareils. - _Creole has always leaned against French. Therefore, Kouri-Vini has no chance of survival in Louisiana without a significant Francophone presence. From this point of view, Creole and Cajun French are the same._
Yes for sure, Creole is not a language like French Cajun but a dialect limited in expression.
Please do everything possible to keep French alive. Look at what happened in Ireland. Centuries of English domination lead to the demise of Gaelic. Don't let the same thing happen in Louisiana or Maine.
Vue l’âge des interrogés, malheureusement, je pense que non. 😢
@ axiloverice Axiloverice Détrompez-vous : on assiste à une réelle renaissance du français en Louisiane ces dernières années. Il y a plusieurs raisons d'être optimiste pour l'avenir:
1) le CODOFIL, le programme d'enseignement du français en immersion fonctionne bien et commence à porter ses fruits. Même des parents anglophones inscrivent leurs enfants dans ces écoles en immersion afin que leurs enfants soient des citoyens louisianais bilingues.
2) De nouveaux médias francophones apparaissent dont Télé-Louisiane qui fait un travail formidable depuis trois ans. Elle diffuse notamment des dessins animés en français louisianais.
3) la fierté de parler français est retrouvée. Il n'y a plus de honte à parler le français en Louisiane. De plus en plus de jeunes s'expriment en français. La mentalité a changé et la mondialisation favorise le bilinguisme voire le multilingue... Tout profit pour la francophonie en Louisiane !
4) L'État de Louisiane est officiellement membre de l'OIF, Organisation internationale de la francophonie depuis 2018, ce qui constitue un signal fort et une reconnaissance de la Louisiane au sein de la famille francophone. En outre, cette adhésion permet désormais à la Louisiane de tisser des liens et de nouer de nombreux partenariats avec les autres pays francophones.
5) Le nombre de locuteurs francophones ne semble plus régresser en Louisiane depuis quelques années mais au contraire semble légèrement augmenter.
Le chemin reste long à parcourir et certes parsemé d'embûches. Beaucoup d'efforts restent à faire pour que le français devienne réellement la deuxième langue officielle partout dans l'État de Louisiane mais l'heure est à l'optimisme 😊👍🏻
Vive la Louisiane francophone !
Vive la francophonie !
Vive la langue française !
Salutations amicales d'un cousin francophone de Belgique 🇧🇪😊👍🏻
@@LeJoyeuxCarnavaleux Bonjour, je suis content d'apprendre que toutes ces actions entreprises portent leur fruits, et que le français cajun semble renaitre aussi dans la jeune génération. Il est vrai que cela fait déjà 13 ans que je ne suis pas allé en Louisiane, et à l'époque mon ressenti était que les jeunes ne s'exprimaient pas du tout en français cajun. J'espère qu'il on tous la même belle vision que Jourdan Thibodeau, et que la honte de parler français, imposé par l'école, disparaîtra. Si c'est le cas, le cajun perdurera.
Meilleures salutations de Romandie !
8:30 Que signifie "Coonass" Coonasses" ?
French 97-4 It´s an old derogatory term for Cajuns although some people use it as a term of endearment nowadays.
@@JLDReactions kinda like "Chicano" for Mexican Americans. A lot of older generations hate that word
Some Cajuns embrace the term, and are proud to be called a coonass and some take great offense to it. Personally I’m proud to call myself a coonass, born and raised in south Louisiana. My grandfather, who’s first language was Cajun French had a license plate of a raccoon bent over and it said “certified coonass” lol
Vive la longue français viva la France
It would take a concerted effort to save the old Acadian dialect from the 1600's. It's a beautiful dialect. It doesn't help that the new immersion schools in Louisiana are teaching Parisian french from teachers with accents and vocabulary from France, Belgium, Africa, etc. At the same time, I understand it's very difficult to find qualified local teachers who speak Francaise Cadien. Acadian French is being replaced, not reintroduced. Is SOME French better than no French? Moi je connais pas. Well, maybe, but is it worth erasing our unique Acadian culture? I'm NOT French. I'm Acadian with a distinct cultural identity.
Well, I strongly believe that the young people learning standard French today will soon get back to the original Cajun French when they have the possibility to speak with the older people. Lâche pas la patate mon frère!
Le français devrait être obligatoire en Louisiane.
Ils sont très attentifs au français, dès qu'ils vous entendent parler, ils s'approchent de vous.
13:20 it's sounds like Amadou and Mariam from Mali 🇲🇱
It sounds like French spoken w like an American Italian accent
Even in Quebec less and less people speak French - Anglicization of the globe
It’s real easy you speak French to your kids, I know my ole lady is from Columbia she spoke Spanish to my kids when they were little along with English and they speak Spanish and English . It’s
Anglos destroyed the language through self hatred instilled in cajuns at a young age, they were taught that if they spoke French they were lesser people that could never make it in the future. If you think passing on your language is a sentence to poverty and neverending shame no amount of pride can overcome that
COLUMBIA? LOL
Mo linm porté-cila akoz fenm-la avek chapo te parl Kouri vini. Mo gin fyær pou wa.
French is not going anywhere, and even if it does all it takes is a small group of people to relearn, reteach and create a interest in the community, the community passes it down to the next generation. That's how many things are relearned. We have alot of old information that was lost due to modernization, etc that is now being relearned and preserved. Maybe the language has to die in order to revive it completely lol French is one of the worlds largest spoken languages next to Spanish and English. The native American languages needs to desperately make a big comeback!!!!!
they are americanized french people. so sad they forgot their main language as many german origin people in usa.
galactic reform they didn’t forget it. Neither did the German families/speakers. It was beaten out of them and became stones around the neck. People were killed and lynched for speaking german. Even in Illinois and the Midwest, thousands spoke then original fur-trading french into the 21st century but were treated as outcasts and stupid
@@Ian-dn6ld True, but a lot of French/Creole speakers gave up their languages because they wanted to be seen as ¨Americans¨. This was a particularly strong sentiment after WWII I believe. Give up your culture and be American. Soon after, people in Louisiana realized this error, and now we are struggling to keep the languages alive. I don´t know why people just couldn´t be bilingual like French Canadians.
Joshua LeonardoASMR It was WW1 and also during french relations and as stereotypes began to grow, people began to associate the French speakers here with stupidity and backwardness which is the top reason for why Midwest French fell out of use
Germany never had colony in US
France éternelle huh? No one ever said that
If Louisiana French wants to be saved then do what the Irish did. Bring it back in a modern way. Makes modern music with it. Teach it in school. Don't get some. Professor either. Get a good. Ole. Boy from the bayou to teach em their heritage and how great it is.
Maybe but only if Haitian nationals are the interpreters....
Louisiana must be Quebecs worst nightmare
A Haiti ils parlent le vrai créole qui est une langue différente du français. Là les gens parlent le français avec un accent et des mots différents mais un français peut les comprendre.
C’est quoi, le « vrai créole » ? Les Haïtiens parlent évidemment un créole haïtien, pas très éloigné du kourivini louisianais. Certains sont capables de s’appuyer dessus pour parler un français plutôt standard, international, voire carrément châtié.
Il n'y a pas de "vrai créole", il existe seulement plusieurs créole différents
Et le creole a t'il été sauvé?
Quand le français s’efface, le créole se meurt.
J'aurais vécu à leur époque : je serais devenu tueur en série contre mes profs☠️Comment on peut forcer les gens à faire l´impossible ? C'est comme demander à un serpent de marcher avec des pieds !
Force à vous, les Louisianais !
De la part d´un européen à moitié Kréol !
VIVE LA LOUISIANE LIBRE !!!
That accent is as thick as gumbo.
A nation needs a common language, but the disgusting way they went about it here was not right.
Do it like the Canadians - One in English, one in French. Most Canadians have at least a rudimentary knowledge of French.
No, it will not be saved.
Not going to lie...... this is way better than Canadian French. Much love to the Québécois still ❤️
The problem is that it is a non- written language, n'est-ce c'est pas comme ça? Tu apprends cet version de Français "seulement" si tu parles, mais lire et écrire une langue est aussi importante, peut-être plus importante, n'est-ce pas vrai?
8:46 Voila qui démontre clairement que la perte de la langue française ou française cajun est bien de la faute des cajuns eux-mêmes !!!
Si les enfants étaient censés ne pas comprendre le français, cela signifie que les parents ne leurs parlaient pas en français. Dans ces conditions, ils ne doivent pas se plaindre de la disparition de cette langue.
the sad thing is that I don't see a real conversation I just hear the same words "parle". "anglais", "francais", "grandpere" and "granddmere" ... french should be cooficial and LA should promote the franchophone inmigration towards LA ...
They should teach it in schools. Just don’t do what Canada did. They’re overran by French. It should just be a type of culture in Louisiana. I myself speak some French so it’s great seeing more people in the US speak it.
We need to learn more languages.👌🏼🇺🇸
What do you mean don't do what canada did, Quebec is overran by french because it is a french province. In french regions people speak french and they are free to speak only french if they wish
Vive le francaise
I’m bored, so here’s my thought. Most of the ideas behind saving Cajun French and any variety of colonial or pre 20th Century French of the US are from older people as far as I know. This is the first problem. People in my age group aren’t entirely interested in listening to accordion music all the time. To be honest I almost ignored my own german-american family base because everyone who is about their heritage in that way kept crowing about tubas and oompa music and lederhosen. Sure they’re traditional to regions in Germany but when it’s the only thing that we associate with the language and heritage, it becomes something more or less of a slight embarrassment with all of this “ice on my wrist” and other influences of masculinity, rap, and the idea of “all-American” this and that that fills certain regions of the US. These ideas of lack of education and of being old-fashioned for speaking French aren’t necessarily applicable to our generation. We’re more likely to go after the idea of “this is a legitimate social group. French-American (or german-american in my case). It’s got to be from someone who is willing to take the French of Louisiana or Missouri or Illinois and create something we can more align with. (Someone under 25)For example there’s been a rise in music artists who’ve been creating more 2018 styled rap in Swiss German dialects which are primarily mainly spoken in Switzerland. Normally, these dialects are more prone to being overrun by the standard high german of Germany. Even Nashville-like country music in Cajun French varieties would probably be popular. You can market it to us as “this is heritage” but if there’s nothing that is deeper that actually attracts the younger generation or promotes the use of the language so that people find it cool or actually to be more like an original American (a “real american” so to say) it’s going to end up fading fast.
Literally, this is how you do it. ^^ Sure keep the accordions and violins but promote modern Cajun French music that reflects more mainstream music even if you have to borrow music from France like Louane, Stromae, or any other enjoyed French modern artist.
ian WELL I’ll love to explain from someone who’s CREOLE and doesn’t speak the language and I’m struggling learning right now because only so many of my family members speak it to this day. It is MUCH DEEPER than just zydeco music... yes it has a name and a genre already it’s not necessarily county music... big artist FROM LOUISIANA like Lil Boosie has been on zydeco music. And it ties more into the racial and socioeconomic and stigma MOST blacks in the US had and STILL have I learned and studied my butt off to learn Spanish and yet there’s no stable resources for me to learn MY Families’ FIRST language. Yet half the time the people talking and shaming blacks speaking other languages is BLACKS! I LOVE BEING BLACK DONT GET ME WRONG BUT CREOLE/CAJUN ISNT DEFINES BY RACE ITS AN ETHNIC GROUP. FORMED IN TWOOOO DIFFERENT WAYS CREOLE WAS THE ORIGINAL FRENCH SPOKEN AND COMMONLY USES WHERE CAJUN IS A DIALECT WHICH HEAVILY RELIES ON STANDARD FRENCH. So that’s the issue and the target market to get a change the CREOLES/CAJUNS of COLOR! Some people can’t afford immersion programs and private French tutors & LASTLY NOONE EVERRRR ACCOUNTS FOR THE CREOLE/CAJUN POPULATION OUTSIDEEEE OF LOUISIANA WHERE A lot of the globalization of the diaspora has taken place! U have a lot of valid points and I don’t mean to come off as a troll but I’d rather educate and explain than ignore and or bash your comment. Pas un bon jour misyé!
Jeremy Gobert you seem to have grossly and completely misinterpreted my comment 😂 I’m saying that from what I can see, there’s no push from these societies to actually reinstate French usage outside of the walls of the organizations through the use of reaching out to local small stores and restaurants and requesting and even helping in the creation of French signage, menus, advertisement, etc. to become more involved in communities in this way aside from the regular service hours that they regularly do. From what I’ve heard and seen, it’s still underground for the most part today and is becoming a romanticized version of what New Orleans should be. I’m criticizing how people go to these events and don’t actively really push to relearn things or to strengthen what they do know. For the most part outside of the codofil program, it seems to be tailored to older people when to expand, they ought to also focus more on pushing for more attention from youngers by spotlighting younger people but not in a cringy way. So before you go and get all up in arms about how creole is powerful and how I don’t know what I’m talking about, how about you first understand even more about what I was saying because yeah. I know it’s more difficult to learn the first language of your elders however what I’m saying above is that these organizations ought to be doing more than what they are doing I think.
@@Ian-dn6ld I understand what you're saying and I'm not disagreeing with you but what I'm saying is it ties into something deeper than music and it's about the representation and structure of the culture and language. which of course falls on the organizations but the major reasons MY FAMILY AND PEOPLE AROUND US barely speak it was because of the SHAME THAT MOST BLACKS FELT BEING & SPEAKING CREOLE due the society around them which were primarily African Americans. everyone is entitled to their opinions but when u said" I'm bored" and decided to comment it makes it seem less than genuine when it's a REAL ISSUE!
Jeremy Gobert I get what you mean ma famille is from Louisiana. I wouldn’t blame other black people that came from mainly English speaking areas though...you know cause slavery and whatnot...they just spoke what they knew and you can’t deny that English is a major language in the States. That goes back to what the OP was saying it just lost it’s overall appeal to the younger generations of every race with their backgrounds. I will say this though I used to help my grandma out, she lost both of her legs, when I was little and she would teach me creole words and phrases growing up. Sadly I live in North Florida so I didn’t have a lot of people to practice with like in South Florida I’d at least hear some variation of creole with the Haitian population so I lost a lot of creole, but in 8th grade my teacher was giving a segment on France and she heard me pronounce words in class and asked how do you speak and pronounce your words well like that? And I explained my background and she understood instantly and she started teaching me Parisian French or what is known as Modern French. I’m still not fluent to this day because I need to be more persistent on practicing, but there is hope for younger generations if they truly care enough to find passion about a language other than English.
Jeremy Gobert one more thing on why it isn’t spoken. The Louisiana government made it illegal to speak any French dialect in schools so that’s another added thing
C'est foutu, c'est trop tard. Ils ne parleront plus jamais Français.
Disons que c'est compliqué.
On parlera encore une fois français et c'est ça que je vous jure. On essaie d'enseigner le français et beaucoup de paroisse créent des écoles bilingues. On n'oubliera jamais notre culture et on va reprendre le pouvoir pour qu'on puisse réintroduire le français icitte. Crois-moi. ;)
@@doigtsfrancaisfroids3962 super 👍. Et Bonne Année 2020.
Look chaps we all like to think we are different in some ways, I get it. However the Tower of Babel happened a long time ago, and I feel sure that no one is going to be building anything much higher then we already have so why don't we all just stick to speaking God's own language, which if you did not know is ENGLISH? Don't you think it may be a rather nice idea if we could all understand what each other are saying without having to learn another language or have to refer to a book simply to order breakfast? Sounds like common sense to me, how about you?
Apprenez le Francais a vos enfants, moi je parle Francais a mes enfants et ils le parle, a la maison c'est Francais!!!!
C'est frustrant de regarder ceci parce que à la personne, les gens qui sont interviewés se lamentent la perte de "leur" accent, de "leur" vocabulaire, de "leur français", disant que le français qu'apprennent les jeunes vient des profs belges, français, ou canadiens. Or, sans cette intervention internationale depuis 1968, PLUS PERSONNE en Louisiane âgé de moins de 50 ne parlerait français !! PLUS. PERSONNE. Et pourquoi ? Parce que les Louisianais eux-mêmes n'ont pas fait l'effort de transmettre "leur" accent, "leur" vocabulaire, ou "leur" français à leurs enfants ou petits-enfants. Ce n'est pas une question "d'apprentissage," c'est une simple question de tout simplement PARLER SA LANGUE. Il est certes difficile de prendre le blâme sur soi, mais que l'on se responsabilise et que l'on assume pour une fois, merde !
Pour avoir une meilleure idée de comment les Louisianais de langue maternelle française ou kréyol parlaient avant l'intrusion linguistique anglophone, je vous invite à découvrir cette belle archive d'émissions diffusées dans les années 1980 et 1990 : ladigitalmedia.org/video_v2/sublisting/LFRAN/1
(J'en parle en connaissance de cause en tant que Franco-Louisianais depuis 10 générations).
Un dure commentaire Joseph quand meme.
+1 D'accord avec vous. Les Québècois sont davantage rebelles, d'ailleurs ils ont gagné.
@@goofygrandlouis6296 Les Québécois était des millions de personnes à parler français et qui plus est, à 99% blanc. En Louisiane on était beaucoup moins nombreux mais plus diversifiés et la ségrégation raciale a joué et continue de jouer un rôle inestimable par rapport à la perte de nos langues.
@@dourtandouar1318 : Dur peut-être, mais vrai. Transmettre une langue c'est la même chose que transmettre n'importe quel autre aspect culturel, une recette familiale, une chanson, comment jouer du violon, comment faire la chasse, etc. C'est la responsabilité de l'aîné de transmettre et la responsabilité du jeune de recevoir, d'accepter et de porter la transmission.
J'ai deux enfants qui ont dix ans de différence d'âge. Mon fils, l'aîné des deux, ne parle pas français parce que MOI-MÊME je n'ai pas fait l'effort d'insister et de lui parler uniquement dans cette langue. Ma fille, par contre, se débrouille pas mal parce que j'ai pris la responsabilité sur moi de toujours lui parle seulement en français.
@@josephdunn_louisiane On a faire un peu le meme avec nos deux garçons chez nous (New Orleans, Houston,Paris). Papa toujours en anglais et Maman toujours en français. Disconcerting pour nos inviteés mais quand meme. Les boys sont completement bilingue.Tu habites ou Joseph?