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You sir, win the best comment award. Congrats.

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I quit drinking 20 years ago. I sound exactly like this driving by a 7-11.

We must be brothers......

I believe it. Met family I never knew I had from the swamps all I ever understood was eat. Smoke. Drink. Kinfolk.

@@melissamissy5129 Probably semi-intelligible for both dialects

There's a good vid on YT with ppl comparing 3-4 diff french/creole dialects

@@officalkingkrab1912 not really, Louisiana creole comes from original French immigrants from the late 1700s mixing with African and native populations. Cajun (the language in this video) comes a from a migration from French speaking Canada in the 1800s. Cajun peoples did not mix with other cultures nearly as much, and their language has remained similar enough to modern metropolitan French for them to be intelligible. Louisiana creole on the other hand is a full on creole language, similar to Hattian creole, with little intelligibility with Modern French and Cajun.

That's awesome. I hope French in Louisiana will live on, but it'll probably die out in a few generations

Incroyable merci. Je me posait la question de si j'étais pas fou où si c'était bien un mélange entre français anglais et kreyol Je suis français j'ai aussi réussi à comprendre pratiquement tout. J'ai aussi quelque base de kreyol haïtien.

Same here lol

@@justjust3429 thats exactly what it is. plenty of French influence in Louisiana, hell the three most well known cities are New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette

Parlez le Francais des ancetres.From Brlgium with love.

Somethin’ wrong with his medulla oblongata!

@@austindorf83 That’s not what mama said Colonel Sanders.

Mamma was wrong again 🤣🤣

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No, you're wrong Colonel Sanders !😁

yeeeeaaaa boi

You know it

If you can hear the banjos, paddle faster

😂😂 stop

That gut dont lie

That's really interesting. It makes me realize how much I don't know about this country.

No way

I went to Central Lafourche. Graduated almost ten years ago now.

I went to that Parish to go fishing with my grandpa. Wonderful people, and no one seemed to use English except to talk to outsiders.

I love that!❤

It’s Cajun creole is a people

@@JoeBuchanan1346 creole is an artificial language that is the amalgam of multiple languages. So no Creole is the language the people are called cajuns/Acadians

@@allseeingeyesb2289 yep

he is not speaking “real creole”. creole is very different. in this parish, they speak french ... it’s an unwritten 18th century version of french. they speak creole in new orleans amd surrounding parishes.

@@eveelsbury8341 You're the lucky person to find Creole speaking in New Orleans. You'd more likely find French speakers before a Creole speaker in New Orleans. In St. John The Baptist yeah, Orleans parish no.

LOL this is how my french sounds

Corrupted.

I speak French and English very well and I also understood him perfectly! ;-)

No you didn’t

He speaks French slowly, so I could understand him fairly well.

Creole

Me too!!!

Moi aussi

Im québécois and kinda understand him

Imagine that

People could still save the language if they started to organize like they did in Canada! Speak French in public if you care, let people know that you must speak French to be Acadian. Too much of this defeatist mindset in Louisiane, of course it'll die if you people don't even try to teach their kids or speak in public. Not tryin to be rude, I would just love for people to stop acting like it's a lost cause. There's like a duality of being proud to be Franco Louisianan, but believing all the myths. Saying it isn't real French/it's already dead/or acting like it's plum too hard. People need to wake up, the culture's dying fast if no one tries to stop it. They youth need to be encouraged, they need to be francophones first and foremost, and they need to be raised to see it as important to their identity, people need to fight before the ship sails.

Yeah you Correct ,I'm from Golden Meadow n proud.

@@skinnylong2023 Thank you for saying this. People will say they're sad at the current state of French in Louisiana, but at the same time, they won't do anything about it. Young people will have living grandparents that speak French but they don't even try to learn it from them, and old people will act like its a shame the language is dying but won't recognize that its on them for not passing it down.

@@RiverParish And it has to be said that people wouldn’t even have to relearn French if it weren’t for a certain generation that loves to wax poetic about their culture they claim to love using French as a code language at best. I don’t get the mindset, keeping the music, the food, the label, everything except the backbone of the entire identity. It can be saved though, as I said, people just have to start realizing that there is no cajun/creole without French. Canada was able to save it, Louisiana could too if there was political will

My Bourgeois ancestors from France migrated to Nova Scotia then settled in Donaldsonville Louisiana near the Mississippi to farm tobacco. Us Cajuns are the only ones who can pass our language & heritage on. Best to all.🦞⚜️🐊

if I remember correctly, Quebecois is actually closer to old/medieval french that didn't change with the times, think shakespeare compared to modern english

So true!

rouler jusqu'à ce que le Français ivre batte un Irlandais

creole and quebecois are old school king french before french revolution

@@magmat0585this is just a myth. Only some of their words are old French but it’s mostly just a mishmash of French and English (Franglais). Drives my French (from France) husband crazy. He’s constantly telling them “That’s not a French word! It’s just an English word said with a French accent!” 😆

Can Haitians do a Louisiana accent in English? That'd be super cool to see

@@helicocktor Their accent for English is interesting. It’s like a mix between French/African and English. But the most distinct for me is their R’s turn ti W’s…For example “problem” gets pronounced as “Pwoblem” Also T’s Sometims sound like D’s so “The” will turn into “Duh” This is pretty much what I’ve observed when interacting from Haitians (I’m not Haitian myself but worked in a Haitian community so learned the language)

@@__Crispy___ huh interesting. Pretty curious how these two creoles evolved to sound similar. Might be stupid of me but I was thinking maybe if they had the some vowels and stuff sound the same in one language, maybe it could sound the same in another.

@@helicocktor Yeah it’s weird. I’m not sure how Louisiana Creole evolved. But as for Haitian Creole the language was made when it was a French slave colony. The slaves didn’t know French and only spoke their local dialect from Africa. They essentially made Creole by listening to the French speak. For instance I cannot read French at all, but if a French person says a word, if I replay that word in my head I can sometimes equate it to the Creole word. Like my friend in French is “Mes amis” in Creole it’s “Mwen Zanmi” they sound the exact same but the Creole spelling is way more phonetic due to the circumstances the language came from

CAUSE ITS ALL FRENCH YOU FUCKING IDIOT

La palme du meilleur commentaire sous cette vidéo. 💯

Where exactly is she from?

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Hell!! I've been married more than 50 years AND STILL don't understand this woman. O well to late to even try. I just go with the flow, most of the time.

And some English thrown in!

It is French with a Cajun accent. Cajun is the age old south Louisiana term for an Arcadian ( Canadian) French person.

Factsssss same here....Ayiti 🇭🇹

I get the French words but I’m from lil Haiti in Miami but this is stressful and stretching my vocabulary to compute this. My dad would get it mf speak Spanish French, creole, broken English...my old g just speak creole

Ahh bon, ce bien

I don’t!

I understood that too... from the CC button lol

How did you understand that

@@louisianalloyd2076 closed captions my dude bottom right of the video next to the full screen button if youre on a computer

@@louisianalloyd2076 im puerto rican, my language is spanish but i dedicate my life to studying creole languages. That's how i can u derdtand him, it is extremely similar to other caribbean french based creoles. If you understand one, like haitian creole, you can understand most of the others. Think of it as one language with distinct dialects

@@inebriatedfowl3197 Si......

In the 1970s the French government began a program in Louisiana called CODOFIL, to teach standard French in the Cajun schools. At the time, Cajun was considered a substandard language, and the intent was to bring up succeeding generations of Cajuns to speak pure French. This program is still in effect in Louisiana. A similar program was started in Quebec Province in Canada to eradicate Old Quebecois, which was considered declasse. These programs continue today, so if you can find someone who speaks Old Cajun, treat him kindly.

@@borissavinkov440 A similar program was started in Quebec???? You obviously don't know what you are talking about!!! I am from New Brunswick, we have different French dialects in that small province and our own French schoolboards and we are proud of our culture and way of speaking French, which is not dissimilar to Louisiana Cajun because we too are Acadians. Furthermore, it pays to speak French. I work as a translator and earn a very good living, thank you.

Many ignorant Americans can’t even speak English.

@@borissavinkov440 Cajuns/Creoles spoke normal french too, they also had creole languages scattered the same as in Canada but just like up there we spoke French. Look, even creole musicians like Amede ardoin used to sing in French.

I am Quebecois French and could understand most of what he said but its old acadian french they relocated down the ohio valley when the English prosecuted them into leaving they are very much part of my ancestors

Lmao that shit funny 😂

I understood more BEFORE i rewatched with english captions. My Mother said after the Americans took Paris during the war , they were assigned a Cajun translater at the main telephone exchange where she worked. She said he'd be talking and then would use a word or phrase that left them all stumped. Something not used in France in a hundred years. The old way of speaking French. They'd all get a good laugh out of it once they figured out what was said or ment. Sacre bleu ...

Secondly lamp oh boy!

The auto generated ones I was like... WHUT. 😂

Lmao!! Wow

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I believe he was talking about how his dad use him as alligator bait.

Bears are more cordial than the French.

He is struggling with the words. I wouldn't be surprised like most folks he learned it around his grand folks but rarely actually uses other than times like this so he's translating in his mind while speaking. Also France is like anywhere else. You have the jerks and the nice folks. When I lived there outside the metro areas everyone was nice. Of course, like Americans, French folks are proud of their country and won't take kindly to people bad mouthing them.

Lol. Merci beaucoup ma Cher.

"he people in Louisiana are way nicer and more pleasant that the people of France, take my word for it." Must been two days in France in his whole life and still has time to spout BS.

@@uglyfrog7263 so true

Classic

Scooby doo?

If you weren't raised their how are you from there???!! 🙄🤡 Just say you were BORN there..

@@AnastasiaBeaverhousn If you don't want Cajun and Louisiana Creole cultures & language to die, you have to erase that mindset immediately. Some places are in your blood and you're still from there; it's very important, especially for Black Americans because we ended up moving/displaced all over the country for safety and opportunity in the 20th century. We have to ensure people removed from the region still have interest in maintaining the culture of their ancestors, instead of fully and permanently retaining only the culture of where they settled.

@@sonozaki0000erase what mindset !! To allow it live , creole Cajun or for it to die ??

@@winniejohnson5559 I can't answer you because I can't understand what you're trying to say, your sentence is riddled with errors

@@winniejohnson5559you are a gay

The opposite might not be true. When I listen to creole, I can pick up French words here and there but verbs and grammar seem different. There certainly is an african influence in Creole.

Translate it to English. I have no idea.

If that's your real photo, Haiti making beautiful people then.

No you didn’t

@@giqwaju3691 imagine if you knew what cocomordon was......

It's honestly so depressing how many self proclaimed cajuns/creoles/franco louisianians either don't know a thing about their culture, the language, or proudly get it wrong. It really is on the way out if a movement doesn't start soon. If you're a fluent speaker, you are an asset, if you aren't already speaking it with beginners, or publicly I hope you will

Did you notice he is conversing with two other people off camera? They don't speak Cajun French, they are from Canada, YET they are having a conversation....

@@skinnylong2023 there are words we picked up from other cultures like coush coush which west African is what we eat for breakfast. And bouqi and his compair lapin is a old west African story, about the hyena and his friend the hare, , but we changed the spelling to bouqui. We have Indian influence as well for instance when you met someone like ma maman who was a traitueuse, that’s a healer that believes in God but uses Native Louisiana Indien tradition. I like the uniqueness of Louisiana cajien and French people. And that we have other culture we have used words or phrases from. I am cajien and love the culture and unique history and language. We are different than quebecois language. I had to explain that when a friend asked me to look at their shirt which had a vulgar phrase on it. I said oh, that’s quebecois Cher Bebe, I should have said that to my old French teacher who was quebecois and said I did not speak my own language right! Lol. I was just a kid though and that would have been shocking to use a vulgarity. Lol. If you call someone down in Louisiana cajien a catin you mean doll. But in Paris that means hooker!

@@foxibot Similar to the differences found in american vs british english, just dialects of one language, and some separate creoles spoken alongside the French language that connects francophone peoples

Rockin Cajun you speak Cajun French?

Did you learn? I'd be happy to teach you. Anyway, there are Cajun groups on Facebook. I know European French and Quebecois and familiar with some Cajun expressions.

@@Bazza5000 Only a few words

@Lucrezia 1955 it is definitely more beautiful in person. Just make sure that you come when the trees are in their full green....during the warmer months

Florida attracts a lot of French speaking tourists from Canada in winter. If the State gov. took the trouble of trying to convince some of them to spend their vacation time in Louisiana, it would be a win-win situation. Seems to me Louisiana is afraid of French.

It’s cuz young people don’t embrace their culture anymore

Sad but true👆 its dying because everyone who did speak it is or has passed away and us young ones😔 will never know the language

@@sl5346 Rumours about the death of Cajun culture have been greatly exaggerated.

Y’all should’ve taught y’all Children 🙄 better yet write the language down so it can be learned

Well this man is a Cajun who is speaking creole, aka Kouri Vini. You can tell bc he says Mo gain (creole) instead of J’ai (Cajun French). Some Cajuns speak creole especially the Cajuns who are from the Cajun prairie area north of I-10 around the Opelousas area.

Cajun French

He's a white guy- he's speaking Cajun.

@@Tedthib no he’s not. He’s a white guy who’s speaking creole. Listen to the words. Am I dealing with a racist? Languages don’t know black or white. He is speaking CREOLE!!! If you don’t know that then you are not a French speaker.

@@tlandry9689 easy big daddy- no race issues here. It's simple- white guy french descendant + acadian (exiled) + living in Acadiana = Cajun... Haitian + French Descendant + New Orleans area = Creole. In Language- just because you pick up a few words doesn't mean you've changed who you are. Cajuns speak Cajun- doesn't matter what slang or twist they use.

Of course they don't because they are caricatures. It's sad.

Leah Rabeaux I'm sure Troy Landry can speak Cajun French. However he never does on SWAMP PEOPLE! The only time I ever heard Troy Landry speak it was when he said "Tonnerre mais ça c'est bon!" on a Tony Chachere's commercial for spicy sandwich sauce!

Troy does speak French, or at one time he did. His parents barely knew any English and only spoke French. However, like many including him they have not passed it down to their children, so it's unfortunately dying out.

I’ve been studying French for 1.5 years and I understood it too!

What about living in NC has anything to do with Cajuns or French? I've heard of and probably visited almost every "small" town in NC, and there's nothing but Lumbee Native Americans, Descendants of Slaves, Undocumented immigrants, Poor Scottish descendants, and soldiers/airmen/vets...And please don't mention "Fayetteville" because that doesn't count.

same as west coast of newfoundland, its so funny to be around as a person that only took high school french.

You should have seen the English subtitles.....

I wonder if The Louisianers also pretend not to speak English when everyone knows goddamned well they can. Then after they bully you into trying to remember French they loudly talk shit about you after they finally let you buy a coffee.

@@jcarry5214 only a very small amount of people in Louisiana speak French. Almost none.

@@jcarry5214 ahh i see you been through.. like what kinda ass backwards power trip are they on... "OIII AREN LA BEST" fuck off no one knows wtf your even on about

There are plenty of ways to learn French on the Internet, would take about 600 hours of your life to understand fluently. I started learning English simply by watching Bugs Bunny and other cartoons on Saturday morning tv and now I am a professional translator. How hard is that?

Learn French now, if you're proud of your heritage you have motivation to protect it. Spread that mentality too, or it'll be gone for good in no time.

Weeee neevvvrr paaa oonn rruuu ddaaaayyy

Lol love it

i came looking for a waterboy reference, and it was worth it.

@ DJ Deckard 😂😂😂

Me too

Indoda ecebile. Isiko elicebile.

That’s not Cajun French he’s speaking I promise you

I'd imagine so in the land of the frenchy

@@iamthepappy4232 Canada is not the land of the frenchy. We have unilingal English and French people as well as bilingual people who speak both languages.

No you don’t

@@johnmorgan8274 yes he does

@@johnmorgan8274 yes he does

@Nature Mysteries no...

It is so sad I've tried to teach people simple words and they have no interest but you have your Louisiana government new age people thinking that it's not so good we speak this old language because the language makes us seem a little less uneducated but to know your peoples true heritage language is not only your honor but it's highly intelligent to speak multiple languages what you going to do you can't fix stupid and when the older generation was whipped for speaking it they got what they wanted a little less authentic a little less southern Louisiana little more mainstream makes me want to puke

The US government killed this culture to the point people don't even know Cajuns spoke French, the generations of kids beat and punished in schools for being francophones kind of destroyed any bit of pride left in the people that could spur a movement to protect French in Louisiana. This type of defeatist mindset is why it's on the way out, in Quebec they said the same thing, now French is protected and they are a wealthy province with self determination. The younger generations should have learned french at home, but the older generatiom gave up. There’s still time if you care enough though, and try to save it

Bad French with some english mixed in? That's not a " language"....... just like ebonics is not a language, it's just bad grammar

@@kurtrussell5228 People in Louisiane mainly spoke actual French. There is also a creole language called Kouri Vini, but this guy speaks kind of an in between that some people spoke colloquially on the bayou. Cajuns speak French though generally when they still have their language, not Kouri Vini, even creoles usually spoke real French, or at least knew it.

Franglish is alive and well in New Brunswick Canada

He may be cajun, but you can tell he's speaking creole because of the grammar. Its different from cajun French. There are creoles that speak cajun French and there are cajuns that speak Louisiana creole. That's what's happening here.

@@DD-dg4tw Correct. We call it broken French here.

@@kirneyc.thibodeaux649 That's kind of a disservice though. Cajun French and Louisiana Creole are distinct dialects all their own. They deserve more than to be called "broken French" lol

@@DD-dg4tw I totally agree with you but thats the way its been for many years past. Its just like the false statement that all Cajun people are stupid. Im 62 years old ...ex Army ranger wit a degree in business administration and 2 other diplomas. There are quiet a few here with higher educations that you will never hear about. Its a shame.

This is Creolized French, not Louisiana French. It ain't Kouri-Vini though, it's the more creolized bayou french

Was it Community Coffee by any chance? We love our Community! Lol

@@anged5142 Gotta ask Mr. Breaux. Sure was a fine cup of joe...