Louisiana - Cajun French

Basic greetings - part 1

The following items are covered Snowman a small corner store a sharp knife What does that mean? Remember: Our culture can only be saved by those of us living it today. Please join the effort www.facebook.com/groups/cajunfrench

Our culture can only be saved by those of us living it today. Join the effort at www.facebook.com/groups/cajunfrench

A short lesson on Louisiana French (Cajun French) on direction and proximity. Thank you Phoebe Trotter for the lesson. Join the effort to preserve our language and culture at http://www.facebook.com/groups/cajunfrench

I was going kind of fast. Sorry about that. But it's a video so the pause and rewind work great! :)

covered in this video: amarrer, après tout, dépêche, cabri, chaque, causer, charrette, couette, couteau, croire, à la même heure, c'est chaud, ça c'est dommage, ça va faire, ça fait pas rien, quoi c'est ton nom Merci Randal Menard

Another installment of our word of the day graphics put to audio - part 10

Cajun French - Daily Graphics - Part 9

Another installment of our word of the day graphics put to audio

Another video with different word of the day graphics put to audio

This is the first in what we hope will be a series of videos helping people who are trying to learn the Cajun language. Thank you to the volunteers who are making this possible.

The second of hopefully many more to come. I kind of rushed it so please forgive some of the inconsistencies and errors. Many thanks to the volunteers helping save the Cajun Language and culture.

As the title says, "Things you might say to children". As always, thank you to the volunteers lending their voices and their time to helping preserve our Cajun Language and culture. https://www.facebook.com/groups/cajunfrench

How do you feel today? / Comment tu sentez aujourd'hui? We'll see you later / on voir à plus tard Later / plus tard How's it going? / comment ca va? What are you doing? / Quoi tu apres faire? What time are you coming? / Quelle heure tu venir? What time are Y'all coming? / et quand vous-autre venir? When are you coming? / et quand tu venir? What time are we going? / et quand on va aller? When are we going? / et quand on va aller? As always, thank you to the volunteers lending their voices and their time to helping preserve our Cajun Language and culture. www.facebook.com/groups/cajunfrench

Rooms of the house The future of our culture can only be saved by those of us living it today. As always, thank you to the volunteers lending their voices and their time to helping preserve our Cajun Language and culture. https://www.facebook.com/groups/cajunfrench/

Merci Bien to Ms. Phoebe Trotter for narrating this video.

Made through the all volunteer efforts of members in the Facebook Group - VIrtual Table Français. - www.facebook.com/groups/cajunfrench

Small clip demonstrating the slight pronunciation differences with the Louisiana phrase "Mais-là"

A small video demonstrating regional variations in peoples pronunciations of the French word Jamais.

Comment ça va? Ça va bien Ça va pas du tout Comment les affaires? Quelque chose Tout quelque chose une autre chose l'autre chose www.facebook.com/groups/cajunfrench

I'm coming off of a cold doing this, so I apologize from some of the difficulties with understanding some of my speech. Thank you to Floyd's record shop for permission to read from Cajun Self Taught. You can buy Cajun Self Taught here: http://www.flattownmusic.com/Cajun-Self-Taught-Book-by-Rev-Jules-O-Daigle-P192.aspx You can buy the Dictionary of Louisiana French here: http://www.flattownmusic.com/Dictionary-of-Louisiana-French-by-Albert-Valdman-Kevin-J-Rottet-Book-P3202.aspx

Thank you Phoebe for the lesson! Thank you to our volunteers for your time and your voices. We can no longer wait for someone else to save our language and our culture. It's up to US. www.facebook.com/groups/cajunfrench ************* POUVOIR: TO BE ABLE TO is conjugated like this: je peux: I can. Tu peux: you can. Il peut: he can. Nous pouvons: we can. Vous pouvez: you can. Ils peuvent: they can. Je peux pas aller au bal. I can’t go to the dance. Tu peux me passer le sel? Can you pass me the salt? Il peut pas parler français. He can’t speak French. Nous pouvons tous aller ensemble. We can all go together. Vous pouvez nous joindre pour souper. Ils peuvent pas danser. They can’t dance.

Lots of thanks going out to the people lending their voices and their time to the effort of preserving our Cajun Language.

This guide is not endorsed or sponsored in any way by the authors, editors or publishers of the Dictionary of Louisiana French. It is a voluntary effort to help people utilize this amazing reference. As always, thank you to the volunteers lending their voices and their time to helping preserve our Cajun Language and culture. https://www.facebook.com/groups/cajunfrench

The future of our culture can only be saved by those of us living it today. As always, thank you to the volunteers lending their voices and their time to helping preserve our Cajun Language and culture. https://www.facebook.com/groups/cajunfrench/