Can't if the French people are replaced with demographic changes

@@slickboxingidentityveritas1932 yeah. Too many English speakers. It's snuffing out the Cajun/Creole culture

Bien sür.

@@slickboxingidentityveritas1932 retard.

slickboxingidentityveritas1932 Nah, we can get English speakers in Acadiana to pick up some Cajun customs, like the cuisine, Mardi Gras, and crawfish boils. I’m the north, it’s hopelessly uncultured, but there’s a chance I’m the Cajun heartland.

I just learned yesterday that we used Cajuns in WWII, in Operation French Underground, because the Germans couldn't tell the difference between Cajun French and the French spoken in rural France. They could easily identify Belgian Canadian French speakers, which is what made Cajuns so valuable for covert communications between allied forces (a lot like the Native Americans who acted as "Windtalkers" for communications in Japan at the time).

Really?! Wow!! I love this information. My grandparents grew up speaking Cajun French. They used to get in trouble when speaking this in the school yard. They were only allowed to speak English. It is my dream to preserve this beautiful language through my children.

@@camgood3097 That is fascinating

@@camgood3097 do you have a source for this information? I want to read more about it as I’m Cajun myself !

I'm from East Texas and I've been around English and French speakers with Cajun accents and when i watched my first québécois movie, i realized that the grandfather character sounded just like a Louisiana French speaker

Pour le mélange, il faut écouter Daniel Lanois, p.ex. Jolie Louise, tu vas aimer...: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZmZnsuEstOtcmQ.html

Ou encore O Marie...: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abBpqceVq9q4caM.html

What was your pépère’s last name?

Please, can you define "modern French"? Because it sounds a lot like the French I speak everyday!

@@nic12344 I was gonna say, it sounds a lot like the french I speak all day everyday (I'm from Québec).

@@Dirtdiver325 Yep. I'm from Quebec too! They speak a similar French in New Brunswick also...

@Dera Kio I never said it was modern french in France. However, it does have a lot of similarities between modern french in Québec.

@Dera Kio Are you okay? Where in the hell did you read that I was trying to undercut her opinion. I was agreeing with another reply that was saying it sounded a lot like the french that person speaks everyday. Never once did I assume I was an expert. You must be fun to have conversation with.

Because that's where they came from after the british victory in canada...they were forced to move down and settle in the south like Louisiana...

@@johnpatricklim4509 Exactly! I know of their tragic history!

Il n’est jamais trop tard!;-)

It wasn't against the law.

Our parents and grandparents were punished for speaking French in schools and were classified as not as intelligent as the the English speaking person

Same for my family. I wanna learn and teach my boys.

@@snnetteachexnayder63 Yes, my grandparents as well.

They are a unique group to say the least. Most French immigrants are not Cajun My ancestors immigrated from France to PA. So the subdivisions are interesting as well.

@@griffin3578 The matter deserves a cncioud historic study,in order to establish a correct historic recopilación of French ancestors in the USA!!

Same with me, both maternal and paternal families spoke cajun french. My parents spoke as well but were not allowed to speak french at school they would be punished. French wasn't passed on to us although we could all understand it. Just weren't confident in speaking.

C'est pratiquement le même français que celui parlé au Québec. Quoi qu'il faut le dire, le français du Québec est presque pareil qu'à certains patois du nord de la France.

Stéphane Roux Oui, beaucoup d'anglicismes. "trapper", en lieu de "piéger". "trawle" en lieu de "pecher". Et aussi des mots Amerindiens- "le bayou" en lieu de "marais".

From Madawaska now I live in Montreal. My dad was from Ste-Agathe Maine and my mom is from St-Jacques New Brunswick. They do remind me of people from back home.

Awe that’s so cool!!

MrsTee Barber ur beautiful

Au bout du compte on se comprend.

+Juanito Ferrero Ce n'est pas du tout du vrai français, c'est un patois purement Cajun.

+Juanito Ferrero Il était carrément pas comme ça à l'ancienne époque, couillon ^^ Ç'a vachement évolué, surtout avec une influence aussi forte de l'anglais.

j'aime bien les gens qui insutlent les autres sans avoir la moindre idées de ce dont ils parlent. Donc pour ton info, l'étude de l'évolution de certaines langues montre que les petits groupes d'immigrés sont parfois plus conservateurs que les gens du pays d'origine, parfois parce que c'est une façon de renforcer leur identité. Moralité: il est possible que certains aspects du cajuns ou du québecois ou autre soient plus proche du français parlé il y a quelques siècles que le français actuel. Source: je suis linguiste.

Palheta Source ; tout le monde est linguiste sur internet. Et puis tu as pris le " couillon " pour une insulte ? Oulah, chez moi ça avait plus l'air d'une appellation un peu taquine, ça se voit qu'il y a pas de méchanceté dans sa réponse, linguiste peut être mais tu sais pas trop lire entre les lignes on dirait.

***** ben écoute si t'es mentaliste je m'incline... Quant aux internautes linguistes, je suis pas sûr qu'ils aient passé les diplômes qui me donnent ce statut...

Cajun French should be expected since Louisiana was a French colony. :P Sadly, though, it's about to die out. There's also a place in Texas where locals speak Czech and another place in Texas where the old folks speak what's called Texas German. They're also working on dying out. As it turns out, English is what you're expected to speak here so other languages are going by the wayside. It's a bit of a shame since things like Pennsylvania Dutch or Cajun French are just as much American as American English is.

​@@h3lblad3 If you check out max Kade institute's american german dialects page and archive, theres a crap ton more than just Pennsylvania Dutch and Texas German... Tbh it's not exactly exact to just say Pennsylvania Dutch because there are multiple dialects that got thrown into the whole umbrella term.To speak another language is to be "more american" than the average anglophone despite what they'd like to think. A little over 100 years, the US was a powerhouse of this french, german and the german dialects, norwegian, swiss-german, swedish, and others. Not even 200 years ago (4 generations?), Irish was heard regularly in NYC just as Italian and everything else. Even spanish has been here since before the creation of the Constitution.

Ian Wow! I didn't know all that. Thanks for sharing! I'm gonna learn more about this now.

Morgan Carroll there’s limited information on them all so what’s there isn’t even all of it at all. I mean for example that lady in who they have as non-Amish sounds like just a Schwäbisch speaker even though they say she has lines from the Pfalz area of Germany. Stinkkotz/Stinkkatze is thought to be in only Texas but it’s also in Wisconsin (stinkchaatze) Indiana, and probably other states. There’s limited info that is unbiased but what you can find on KZfaq and other places without having archival access to informations out there. Keep in mind that many people aren’t fully aware of the complexity of Germany and the dialects that were and are still spoken in the US and in Germany. One simple way to understand things that you won’t find on general websites is that North American German just like North American french in Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana, etc is older. Many forms are not used in Germany anymore so it’s not exactly wrong german or French. It’s merely older. Sure sometimes the hard r pronunciation from English permeates but in enclaves where these languages survived the discriminations of the 20th Century, they sound relatively unchanged while other older words survive.

@Paul Angeli, try, it's never too late :-) Maybe you could try with a Germanic language, the words are similar :)

What is a "Black Cajun", I've never heard of such.....you might be referring to Black CREOLES who speak a form of French dialect. 😉

+Isabelle FLICHET "quand ça les arrange" pas "quand ça les arrangent" excuse-moi mais comme les commentaires seront lus par des Acadiens....Merci de ta compréhension

Germain Le Chapelain Je ne sais pas. Je suis Americain. Je parle le Français comme une vache Espagnol. Je peux le parler, mais Je ne peux pas l'entendre.

Jim Strope Comme un Basque l’espagnol.

Remuted That's cuz it is very much Acadi.But just like everything else en Louisiana it's a mix.

It is from Acadia

@@ninpobudo3876 i'm acadian from the maritimes in Canada and they say "moa" instead of "moi" just like us. The way they say the words is the same way we do it except that our French is fluent and theirs not so much.

The word 'Cajun' comes from ' _Acadiens_

David Briand ont les comprend tous très clairement....Abitibi 😘

Brandon Duet It is basically just Acadien french. Which is a dialect of French. If you start learning french then surround yourself in French Lousianian culture you will easily pick it up

Brandon Duet I’m sure that there is an app somewhere

You Can Speak Cajun French Vol. 1 & 2 by Fred Charlie (CD) et Fred Charlie - You Can Speak Cajun French 3 & 4 CD Album (Cajun from the Vermillion Parish)

Its literally just french.

Brandon, I’m not sure where you live, but I can’t tell you that Cajun French is actively being taught at LSU and UL Lafayette. The reason some many people under 60 don’t speak it is because our grandparents were forbidden to speak it in school and were taught that it meant you were of lower status (bs!) So they didn’t teach their children. It’s really atrocious that the language is dying out, but there has been a movement in the past 20 years to try and preserve it. It really is striking how similar it is to a Canadian French.

They don't use the European French formal « vous » for 2nd person singular just the familiar « tu ». There is no concept of "vouvoiement" in Louisiana French. You = Tu / toi We = Nous autres Y'all = Vous autres

yes i think most of elders who still talking french are like that, they aren't very fluid because the last generation who was fully fluid were their parents today deceased.

They speak a very close version of modern French from France. We can understand them very well. They even use "chui" (instead of "je suis") which is a very common way of speaking in France. I don't know when French people start to say "chui". Maybe since 17th century ? :)

oui il y'a beaucoup de similitude, c'est quasiment pareil à part quelque mots

Haha elle est bonne.

MsAnon4223 it does

I would say no. Hearing a English native speaker speaking French is very different for me.

Not one bit. It sounds very round and rich, if that makes sense but to me it doesn't sound influenced that much by English at all. They sound exactly like people from the South sound in English but in a French way.

French canadian quebecor is really focked up believe me.

Ryan Lacasse This french definitely has some english mixed in but its still 95% french

Ryan Lacasse we include words from Spanish, African languages, Mobilian Choctaw, and Houma

C'est facile à comprendre quand meme-

We speak Cajun French it's nothing like how yall speak

Hello, In the French language (from France), "tu" means 'you' and is used to speak to one person that you know well / close to your own age /who has the same status from you. We would use "Vous" to speak to a group of people and also in a more formal occasion (to your boss, to an unknown employee).

Merci mais je parle français pis je connais la difference entre le tutoiement pis la vouvoiement. ;) Je me demandais si en français cajun, on se tutoie presque toujours, même entre deux personnes, car dans ce clip-ci, l'intervieweuse tutoyait bien que ce situation demande l'utilisation du vouvoiement.

Josh Andallo The interviewer is known to them. That is why the informal use of "tu" is used throughout. People do use vous in more formal situations.

nInAg114 Yes, but it seemed as though some of the questions were directed to both of them. In Standard French, regardless of formality/informality, when you are addressing two people, the vouvoiement is always used. My question is whether in Cajun French, the tutoiement can be used in virtually any situation. In other words, not only in a formal/informal context, but a numerical one as well.

I think it may just be force of habit on the interviewer's part. She sounds like she is native English speaker. I'm not from Vermillion, my grandparents are from Donaldsonville and 7th Ward NOLA, but they used "vous" for more than 1 person; just not sure if that was due to taking French class or part of native dialect.