Louisiana Cajun Woman speaking Cajun French Interview

[@lizziebutdiff698]

Like if Gambit's Accent lead you to this

[@The_Feral_man]

😂me

[@mmancino1982]

😂

[@porteenbois503]

our curiosity is really

[@AndrewLowe-Lowebrew]

I hate you for knowing

[@jaj1738]

Youknowhowshebeenwaitingforthis? Whoosheisabouttomakeanameforherselfovaheear!

[@nikaya632]

I am a French native speaker and I perfectly understand her cajun French. Shes has, of course, some idioms, but easy to understand, and her swinging accent is lovely!

[@quokka_yt]

@abouasaadmoshe7878 He says he's French

[@Roumi89]

It sounds like broken french but very understandable

[@azelo7952]

@@Roumi89 broken French!! her French is pretty good with an accent you're not familiar with

[@Roumi89]

@@azelo7952 it's pretty good. But as a French native I see it directly

[@AnimatedBlast]

Her French sounds dreadful. French isn’t my first language, but I speak it better than her.

[@juanbotello1]

They’re a rare breed. I live in Houston and I always heard of them speaking French in Louisiana but I never met them. I finally did but they’re out in the rural areas of the state. I was amazed. It should be taught in schools statewide. Don’t let it die, guys. It’s cool to know more than one language. I wish I could’ve learned a third language myself.

[@cheriem432]

Based on your name, is your second language Spanish? If you speak Spanish, it should be easy for you to pick up another romance language!

[@juanbotello1]

@@cheriem432 Spanish is my first language. Then English. I’m almost 40 years old, I don’t know if I can learn a third language. I wish I would’ve learned Russian or German.

[@victorates965]

@@juanbotello1 with help by a native speaker or a professional you can learn without age

[@floodlime8620]

You can definitely learn another language if you want to!

[@juanbotello1]

@@floodlime8620 you think? I’m almost 40 years old and I’m not sure I could find native German or Russian speakers in Texas.

[@davelapointe8742]

This sounds almost identical to Acadian french in New Brunswick (Canada). Even though they are separated by nearly 250 years (ca. 1775), the accent has remained almost unchanged. I’d be really curious to hear both a Cajun and Acadian speaking together

[@DesidiosumCorporosumHominis]

I haven't been to New Brunswick yet but she sounds exactly like an English Montrealer who is fluent in French

[@M_SC]

@@DesidiosumCorporosumHominisno she doesn’t. I am annenglishnmontrealer fluent in French. You can hear that aneriytwang.

[@potatopoison1130]

That French Revolution blood runs through the veins

[@northernlite3368]

@@DesidiosumCorporosumHominis Montreal located in Quebec, not in New Brunswick. The french language spoken in Montreal and the french language spoken in the Acadian communities of New Brunswick are fairly different only in the pronunciation or intonations. All community members can however easily understand each other.

[@Ziraffo]

@@DesidiosumCorporosumHominis haha absolutely not. acadian and english montrealer both have english tones but her accent isn't remotely close to english montrealer speaking french

[@Angell_Lee]

As a Quebecer, I thought she is one of us 😆

[@kurttate9446]

Well, the word Cajun comes from the word Arcadian, the old French province just to the east of Quebec, from whence they came.

[@nerfgunner2327]

As a quebecer wouldnt the lack of hard d in place of “th” give it away in 5 seconds? Lol

[@brendensangster3571]

Acadian not arcadian, and theres still acadians here in new brunswick.

[@kurttate9446]

@@brendensangster3571 I knew that 🤨. I missed the typo. Thanks for the catch.

[@DjWellDressedMan]

Tabarnak

[@jonathansgarden9128]

This is what i'm doing too. I grew up in Pennsylvania but my momma knew some French phrases, she's from Lafayette and 100 percent Cajun. Pawpaw, her daddy, spoke French fluently... so i'm learning it now to give it back to my lineage

[@TSC997]

Keep it up brotha 🤙 I’m New Orleans born and currently on the same mission to formally learn the language myself

[@QUINTUSMAXIMUS]

@@TSC997 That's cool that you're learning. How much progress have you made? I can understand Quebec and Parisan French and can pick up stuff Cajuns say to some extent if they speak a refined kind of Cajun.

[@sgt.mcgillicuddy2948]

Same cuz. Grandparents spoke around me with the purpose of not being understood. Many of the older folks I knew have passed on but I’m learning to keep it alive

[@mhebert4781]

I love how you spelled "Paw paw". If I can ever hear a word when I read it, that's one. Hebert from Canada here. Lâchez pas la patate.

[@mhebert4781]

@@sgt.mcgillicuddy2948 Lâche pas, lâche surtout pas. Le français a été rendu difficile pour rien. Mais faut continuer.

[@franghan]

"Faisait à croire", "asteure". "keke chose". J'adore les similitudes avec l'accent Québécois. Much love from Montréal!

[@regentmartin4854]

C'est que ces mots viennent du Patois Normands !.....La langue de nos ancêtres communs.

[@love_pets1363]

D'ici 50 ans on va parler cajun aussi au Québec.

[@love_pets1363]

@@regentmartin4854 Jacques Cartier était Breton pas Normand.

[@regentmartin4854]

@@love_pets1363Mais Jacques Cartier n'a pas eux d'enfant au Québec!? Ce sont les colons venant de Normandie qui nous ont transmis le patois Normands.Avec les Bretons

[@love_pets1363]

@@regentmartin4854 Samuel de Champlain était de La Rochelle, c'est en Charente-Maritime, donc ni Normand, Ni Breton. Il est considéré (par les historiens) comme le père de la nouvelle france.

[@RivenCloud-ss7di]

i'm italian and i speak french, i understood almost all of what she said!

[@Christophe-pl5xu]

I can understand lot of italian sentences just because i speak french.

[@Aenygma_]

I have to visit Louisiana someday. Cajun people are the cousins of my people, the Québécois. We love you franco cousins :D

[@cheriem432]

Interesting . . . when I was visiting Montreal I went to different businesses and shops and spoke French to the people there. *No one* would answer me back, or talk to me at all. I was very confused and saddened by this, and could not wait to leave. It turned out a friend of ours, from France, was there at the same time and went through the same experience.

[@stevenjefferys10]

@@cheriem432 That even happens to other Canadians in Montreal. Visit Northern Ontario, New Brunswick, or Western Quebec near Ottawa and it'll be better. My wife is from western Quebec and her first language is French. FYI that when we went to France and my wife spoke French there the French would respond to her in English. Safe to say she wasn't impressed.

[@brycecollier7590]

Canadians and cajun people would not get along. This has been said from a redneck, I am not against those in Quebec I just don’t know how well y’all get down and dirty 😂😂

[@cheriem432]

Ils sont mes cousins aussi - Acadie.

[@jeanjacques9365]

@@cheriem432 Montréal is the worst representative city of Québec... English is just as if not more prolific as French especially in commerce and Anglophones rarely learn to be confident enough to speak French or care to learn at all. If you go anywhere else you could have the opposite issue of no one speaking English. Now for people from France (really mostly the Parisian region but it gets generalized as the whole country) are seen a condescending snobs that discredit the value of North American French so the reception to them is usually not great. Any complaint about that state of affairs shall directly be transferred to your Parisian compatriots of Le Plateau.

[@morzhed-hoqh732]

She say she learned Cajun instead of standard French, but the truth, she learned French! Cajun isn’t a dialect, it’s a form of the standard French. When I listen to it, I hear standard French with a Cajun accent. For a Frenchman that’s French! We have dialects in France. Most of them are extinguished. I mean dialects of the “langue d’oïl”. It is very hard to understand these dialects. The vocabulary, the prononciation, everything is different. Sure! Cajun is very good french! Learn it and go to spend your holiday in France with it.

[@ninpobudo3876]

Cajun IS dialect of French!!! But yes it's French! Louisiana-Creole is French based but considered a different language

[@morzhed-hoqh732]

@@ninpobudo3876 Pourquoi tu me contredis ? Tu parles français ? Dans les années 70 les dialectes d’oïl n’étaient pas encore tous anéantis. Il était alors très dur pour un parisien de comprendre une conversation en lorrain ou en vendéen. Je ne parle même pas de l’Arpitan et de l’occitan qui sont des groupes de dialectes d’autres langues. Ce qui frappe avec le français d’Amérique du Nord comparé avec les dialectes d’oïl, c’est ça proximité avec le français de Paris. Ce n’est que pure réalité ! Le créole est encore un cas à part...

[@kthomas3280]

Years ago I met a man who was from Algiers in Northern Africa who when he found out I was from South Louisiana said where you’re from they speak an ancient French. I said yes you’re correct, Cajun French is a very old French. Another man from Acadiana said that when he went to France he had a hard time understanding the Parisian French but when he got the French hamlet of Fuselier, France (that’s where his family had come from) 🇫🇷 he said the French there was the same French he spoke in Louisiana except for a few words. He said the dialect in Paris was different but understandable. Mr. Fuselier said it was like a southerner going to Boston or New York and trying to understand what they are saying, it is indeed English but dialect is very different.

[@ninpobudo3876]

@@kthomas3280 There's no language as Cajun-French it's Louisiana-French which is/was/are spoken by many Francophone people who arrived in the Louisiana colony.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

@@kthomas3280 Fuselier is not an Acadian surname, it is a french creole surname (people of colonial Louisiana European French descent in Louisiana) this is documented in colonial Louisiana immigration records. Many French Creoles married into Louisiana Acadian families (Acadian Creoles, now called “Cajuns”) and Fuselier entered cajun families that way. Same for the surnames LaFleur, Soileau, Fontenot, Delahoussaye and many others. Cajuns used to be called Acadian Creoles before Cajun so many Cajuns are a mixture of Acadian creole and French creole which are both white creole types not to be confused with “Creoles of color” which are mixed race mulatto type people. Creole historically was used to call the Louisiana born people of the Louisiana colony before US statehood and after US statehood, their descendants.

[@briscoedarling3237]

There was a DAILY French-language newspaper in New Orleans until the mid-1960’s.

[@kajunkong3113]

I grew up in VP. Grandparents spoke it and I regret not learning. Breaks my heart that our culture is slowly fading away

[@annecaro.3956]

lâchez pas la patate, les amis ! Votre français est bien meilleur que celui des français de France qui n'ont pas honte de le pétrir d'anglicismes navrants propagés par des medias encore plus navrants. Longue vie à toutes vos initiatives culturelles francophones, et vos rencontres en ligne. Vous êtes un bon complément de TV Louisiane !

[@QUINTUSMAXIMUS]

You could still learn it. Nothing's stopping you, mon. Tu peux bien apprendre si tu veux astheure. On a l'internet.

[@EternalEmperorofZakuul]

Best advice is to have contact with your brethren in Canada and France and time to time, have meetings and learn French with each other

[@ThePerksdeLeSarcasmeSiorai]

Send your children or nephews & nieces to French immersion schools if you have the means. Try learning bits by bits by yourself. Make this your life mission instead of a goal that would later be forgotten. Even if your version of Cajun French isn’t the same as your grandparents’, it’s totally okay because languages evolve anyway.

[@Seashellsbytheseashore21]

It’s not too late. Learn! 😊

[@gaetagro]

Bravo Ashlee! Si plus de jeunes cadiens pouvaient faire comme vous, ça serait formidable de voir renaître votre belle langue.

[@emmanuelkoszul6621]

Celà donne envie d'aller vous voir. Votre accent est extraordinaire. Vive votre région !

[@annepicaud3556]

Moi qui suis une française du poitou, je la comprends a la perfection et les expressions " cajuns" sont les mêmes que mon " patois" charentais.

[@jeromefaulle]

En Gaspésie on parle un patois casi identique au vieux Charentais

[@cheriem432]

Cool!

[@kevinflynn4519]

I forwarded this to my friend Marshall who is an award winning film maker who won an award for his film about the French speaking residents of Louisiana.

[@cromandum217]

wow cool that makes you so cool

[@stayhungry1503]

whats the film called?

[@cromandum217]

@@stayhungry1503 the movie is called pretentious commenter

[@cheriem432]

And . . .?

[@GiaGDixon]

She's a gem keeping the tradition alive. 💗

[@loubecarut2192]

Bravo, vous avez raison de voulir retrouver la langue de votre histoir. Nous aussi occitans, bretons, basques, corses, catalan, flamand, platts, alsaciens, arpitans, sur la métropole française nous voulons retrouver la langue de nos parents et la transmettre à nos enfants!

[@antoinelerie4452]

Pour ça, il faut remplacer la République par une Monarchie. Le régime républicain n'a JAMAIS été en faveur des différentes cultures de France.

[@benoitvadeboncoeur3473]

La France est vraiment composée de petites nations unies par la langue commune du français. Cela dit, il est extrêmement important de préserver, promouvoir et transmettre les langues régionales à vos descendants.

[@lir9875]

Unfortunately, our language is dying in Louisiana.

[@bitchette]

​@@antoinelerie4452 la monarchie non plus n'aime pas les autres langues que celle qu'elle parle. En cela la monarchie est souvent pire, puisqu'on ne fait que ce que veut le roi. Alors que de nos jours, les gens apprennent les langues qu'ils veulent à l'école, y compris le breton, le nissart, l'occitan, etc...

[@doobybrother21]

Flamand ici et le flamand se porte tres bien merci beaucoup :)

[@TrulyTedd]

mon prof de français à beau chene 2020!

[@ninpobudo3876]

Çé bon! Vou habbit en Louisiané?

[@TrulyTedd]

Ninpo Budo oui je vis à opelousas mais je vais à l'école à arnaudville

[@rogersmith6193]

Je suis français, j'ai beaucoup de respect pour vous mes amis de Louisiane

[@cheriem432]

Et Nouvelle-Ecosse, peut-etre?

[@rogersmith6193]

@@cheriem432 bien sûr

[@naseemamaria]

Wow..son accent est Acadien du Canada. Elle a un look acadien. On est tous une grande famille, les Acadiens et Cajuns.

[@seansteinhorst542]

Merde tu vas laisser de côté les créoles ?

[@Angell_Lee]

Which is so interesting, since the Acadians were the one deported to be sent to Louisiana. It's there forefathers.

[@cheriem432]

You are right. We are one great wonderful family

[@bobduvar]

Madame Michot, son époux et leur bébé... LA FAMILLE BONHEUR EN AMERIQUE... Ca dégouline de bonheur et c'est adorable !

[@sylvestre.rawminey]

Nous avions prévu de venir faire un tour en Louisiane cet été... Bon, ça sera un peu plus tard ! Mais tout ce que je vois donne VRAIMENT envie de venir vous voir, nos (pas si) lointains cajuns ! Salutations amicales d'un français de France !

[@deshenesmario5646]

Felicitations votre français est excellent, ça donne une belle intonation de plusieurs région du Québec ,Canada .Nous sommes fiers de notre français au Québec.

[@jamesthurber4730]

No it isn't. The accent and pronunciation are nothing like Quebecois. I understand her perfectly, while I found it difficult to order a coffee in Quebec because of the slang, accent, and poor pronunciation. I finally asked my server if there was someone there who spoke French. He was unimpressed.

[@maximej-s7397]

S'il vous plaît, continuez a parler français en Louisiane, on vous aime nos cousins américains

[@custisstandish1961]

Good for that young lady. We should never allow regional languages or dialects to die out. Thank you for keeping Cajun French alive.

[@marsjupiter8336]

Grâce à la francophonie, le français des états Unis continuera à vivre ; en tout cas, je l'espère !

[@CampDogOutdoors]

So nice to hear this... thank you

[@afterhourscinema782]

This is what I LOVE about America ❤ We all come from different backgrounds and we're all so unique. But at the end of the day, out of many people, 1 nation ❤

[@genehenson8851]

This is absolutely not what America is like.

[@drinkmoreagua8984]

@@genehenson8851then what’s it like? This is quite literally America

[@bobroberts2217]

@genehenson8851 The phrase E Plurbis Unum is written on the money that’s jingling in your pocket. It translates to “Out of Many, One”. Not only does it mean we are a Nation above the rest but it also signifies exactly the reason that makes this Nation different. That we a conglomeration of the entire world. So it seems like YOU have absolutely no idea what America is like.

[@genehenson8851]

@@bobroberts2217 😂😂😂😂😂😂 - if there’s one thing America is known for is it’s being welcoming to other people, right? Get a clue brother.

[@Drewstir68]

@@genehenson8851 There are 330 million people here bro, is it really that hard to believe there are instances where people are welcoming? Wow a video showing you evidence that people are nice, must be fake and a coverup to try to convince people Americans actually have a heart and soul. The irony of you to laugh and say get a clue... Don't get me wrong, plenty of rude people, but welcome to society

[@raphbrightpainting1235]

Bravo madame pour cet effort de continuer à parler le français !!! Vous parlée très bien

[@drindroldog]

Félicitations pour une telle motivation. Longue vie à tous les Cajuns et laissez les bon temps rouler!

[@tornadodee148]

I noticed you have some expressions that resemble some of ours in Québec like "asteur" to say "right now". Its so interesting to learn of a different yet similar style of French!!

[@kamsitodelanoche3492]

Yes, I was really surprised when I heard "asteur" because it is also an expression used in "saintongeais" or "patois charentais" which is a french dialect spoken in the majority of the department of Charente-Maritime, France. After some research, it turns out that according to wikipedia "saintongeais strongly influenced the Acadian and consequently, by «ricochet», the Cadien" so this explain that. I didn't know these varieties of the French language until today, it’s fascinating.

[@Leopold_van_Aubel]

​@@kamsitodelanoche3492"Asteure" is also used in Wallon. It's common in all oïl languages.

[@dmitripogosian5084]

@@kamsitodelanoche3492 They did a good job in France unifying the language and suppressing local dialects, so it is surprising hearing some

[@fruitfulness]

Does that come from ‘à cette heure’ in original French, do you think?

[@mbrown4778]

​@@fruitfulnessThat connection would make sense.

[@louis-philippebordeleau7883]

Bravo Ashlee, une belle source d'inspiration! Paix, amour et solidarité

[@estebanmiguel6019]

I miss living in central Louisiana. Fishing for sacalait in the Boeff river and catching crawfish in rice fields. I mostly miss the cool southern people and the various accents down there.

[@Alex-jb5tb]

Super klasse ! All the best from Germany.

[@AlexanderVasilyevichKolchak]

I love our cajun brother from an accadian who live in quebec

[@cheriem432]

Je suis une Acadienne qui vive en Californie.

[@arnaudlavoie1473]

Louisiane le Québec vous aime ! MAFA Make America French Again !!!

[@josephrifflart7163]

Arnaud, aimes aussi les wallons du wisconsin. Magnifique. Tu vas adoré, salutations jo

[@lesamisdelacuisineprovenca9534]

@@josephrifflart7163 Sans parler des Barcelonnettes de Mexico... LOL....

[@tomsd8656]

Mais non! However, I would rather have more French speakers in the US than Spanish ones, for selfish reason. I am much more familiar with French than Spanish.

[@trith72]

I have lived in Louisiana all my life and she just sounds like anyone else we see day in and day out. I can't speak French, but down here if you want to be able to interact with some people you have to at least learn creole, and most of us do to the level we can understand most things in a day to day environment. Not everyone from Louisiana sounds like this though, in fact very few actually, but there are enough it becomes important to establish mutual understanding. I would say casual interactions outside of creole homes are a lot more steeped in English than French, more akin to they way you hear Troy from Swamp People speak on tv. Troy is capable of falling back into heavy French creole if he needs to, but what you hear on the show is his everyday speech to get along with the rest of us down here. Troy is also a really nice guy, met him in a hotel in Lafayette years ago, very friendly.

[@Evyeve6582]

I would love to take her French class. Please do a KZbin channel for learning Cajun French ❤

[@simonbennatan8257]

Vous devriez faire comme 10 enfants. Bravo pour les louisianais qui font des familles francophones.

[@arnaudlavoie1473]

Dans un Québec souverain et indépendant du Canada Anglais, j’espère qu’on donnera l’accès à la citoyenneté aux descendants français de Louisiane.

[@natio927]

@@arnaudlavoie1473 rattachement du Québec à la France.

[@arnaudlavoie1473]

@@natio927 Tour d’abord, le Québec, l’Acadie et la Louisiane!

[@natio927]

@@arnaudlavoie1473 la Louisiane n'est plus francophone comme l'Acadie.

[@francoispalin3321]

Cinq ans déjà que cette vidéo a été publiée, je trouve ça fantastique que tu aies appris le français, Ashlee, et c'est encore plus beau et vivant à la manière Cajun ! J'espère que Julien sera aussi fier que toi de ses origines, et que vous continuerez de converser en Cajun ! Beaux bonjours du Québec ! Vous viendrez nous voir, non est pas sorteux ! ;-)

[@vzmax]

Bravo Mme Michot d'avoir donné un si joli prénom français à votre adorable enfant ! Et merci de lui transmettre cette belle langue qu'est le français dont est d'ailleurs issue une grande partie du vocabulaire anglais !

[@BigMH25]

Ryl

[@blumobean]

Some of the finest people on earth. The best friend you will ever have is a Cajun.

[@totolecretin]

Ne changer rien Ashlee. Vous êtes formidable!

[@violette4841]

What an attractive family they are - mom, dad and baby. I thought she was speaking French. Good that she is teaching and keeping her culture alive.

[@henrivaillancourt301]

Ch'uis ben fiere de vousautres ...ca m' fas plaisir de voire les jeunes qui s'interesse a parler la propre langue de leur patrimoine !!!

[@tamarakonczal6350]

I am Maine Acadian. How I wish I could speak "our" French! Good for you, Sister!

[@cheriem432]

I'm Nova Scotia Acadian; Hi, cousine! You do know we're all related, right? The Acadian french my mother spoke was 30% english. What are some of your Acadian surnames? Maybe I can figure out how we're related! My gf is a Cottreau and my gm is a LeBlanc.

[@CallistoMahadoo]

it’s crazy to hear the preserved trilled ‘r’ that was a trait of pre-18th century French

[@DomDom-tw5jk]

Bravo Ashlee ! It is so nice to hear you speaking that way, c'est tellement agréable de vous entendre parler de cette façon !

[@yacawntmiss]

Keep it going. The Cajun culture is too important to South Louisiana to lose. When my mother-in-law was growing up, they weren't allowed to speak Cajun French in school although it was spoken at home.

[@billwilson-es5yn]

The State of Louisiana wanted the Cajun kids to learn English so they could go to work in the oil and gas industries.

[@Tonton-Flingueur]

C'est magnifique de voir nos frères continuer la langue !

[@kaerwald]

Bravo Ashley, c'est super de voir que le français est encore parlé et appris outre-atlantique, continue et bon courage !!

[@kikii-bg3727]

Très agréable de voir notre belle langue à travers les continents

[@plainoolong]

Very cool! I'm learning standard French, but my grandmother speaks Quebecois French. I love to see people celebrating our French heritage in America!

[@exacompto]

Je découvre cette chaîne. C'est tellement touchant d'entendre ma langue parlée si loin... Merci

[@markmorris3579]

Here in Maine we had a lot of French Canadians immigrate here in the late 1800's to work in the textile mills.It's a shame that their language and culture are almost gone.

[@hatersgotohell627]

Yup my grandparents born around 1939 were from biddeford maine and the saddest thing the school system did was tell them if they passed down French instead of just English their kids would be dumb and suffer in school etc etc.. so they were fooled into depriving their kids ( 5 of them) of their own language and passing it down. From what they told me biddeford maine use to be entirely a French speaking community but not now.

[@markmorris3579]

@@hatersgotohell627 -That's a shame. When I started school there a few kids who only spoke french.By the time they got to high school they knew only English.

[@ChachouLP]

Bravo c'est bien de lui apprendre le français comme ça il sera déjà bilingue :)

[@Gooner_711]

So gambit accent is real 🗣️🗣️

[@wildswan221]

Fascinating! It’s not as different as I thought it would be. Thanks!

[@yann4601]

Magnifique! Continuez à transmettre et à faire vivre cette langue fabuleuse!

[@fredcharay]

Bonjour, le fait que les Cajuns parlent français me donne l’impression que, d’une certaine manière, ils font vivre des fois d’anciens mots français malgré les péripéties de l’Histoire. J’aime cela. Merci

[@undefinedfr-fr]

Ce ne sont pas de plus anciens mots que d'autres, c'est juste que nous avons arrêté de les utiliser de ce côté de l'Atlantique :) Mais c'est vrai qu'à nos oreilles ça rappelle un français qu'on ne parle plus guère, et c'est absolument charmant.

[@rudyf8436]

It just touchy and fabulous to hear French so far from France. I just hope they could keep the Cajun for long time....Merci a vous les parents du continent américain!!

[@alainouellette8660]

Bravo !! Il faut continuer à se battre pour conserver notre belle langue en Amérique du Nord. Vous êtes un exemple de persévérance et de ténacité. Félicitations!!

[@fredericjanelle]

Un vidéo très intéressant. L'Acadien de Louisiane est similaire au Québécois ;)

[@MidlandTexan]

Wonderful!

[@cotepierre68]

Son français est tellement semblable à celui des acadiens! Je suis content vraiment d’entendre ça. (Québec, Canada)

[@lolahernandez6871]

I'm Canadian from Quebec and I understand everything she says. ❤❤

[@robr4596]

I appreciate you. Pass the language to anyone who is willing to learn. Let the good times roll!

[@dwilson540]

Several years ago I owned a barge terminal in Baton Rouge. When a south Louisiana area code showed up on my phone I always took a second to adjust my brain to Cajun!

[@alsacienvincent1061]

super bonjour de la France

[@dt-gp2vg]

she sounds like an american who speaks french after living in quebec for 5 years.

[@holskitchenCanada]

Oh I love this, I understand this more than any other French I've heard.

[@gauhdrung]

I am so glad to see more people speak French in Louisiana. This is more opportunities for me to practice French. I studied French in Vietnam since 1st grade. When I immigrated to the US as a refugee, I continued studying French in high school and college. Since I did not practice speaking French, I began to lose it. I really want to be able to practice speaking French with people here in Texas.

[@overlordnahak]

Amazing. Great job by this mother.

[@bwilldagreat1211]

J'rapelle sa Mademoiselle Michot Beau Chene High je ja mais appris le francais dans l'ecole avec sa juste en mon vie vivi dans Acadiana autour mon Grand mere et les amies

[@RaeAnnClaire]

Does anywhere that they offer Cajun French lessons for the community? Or maybe even books with pronunciations? I know some French but would like to speak like my grandparents who have passed.

[@justinjoubert6081]

Have you found anything? I found a book on Amazon but that’s about all I can find

[@RaeAnnClaire]

@@justinjoubert6081 Only thing I've seen is Fred Charlie's "You Can Speak Cajun French Vol. 1 & 2" and "You Can Speak Cajun French 3 & 4 CD Album (Cajun from the Vermillion Parish)". I haven't checked it out yet but I assume there's not much, especially with pronunciation.

[@justinjoubert6081]

@@RaeAnnClaire Lafayette has some classes every week but it sells out within the day. It’s crazy how the resources to learn are just nonexistent

[@s.b.1814]

I just watched a video about a guy who created an app to help him understand his grandparents, I think it’s called Learn Cajun

[@nealdaigle894]

What a beautiful dialect! Wish I would had the opportunity to learn to speak it!

[@Allen-a-tor]

Growing up with my grandparents in plaucheville la, that’s all they spoke. I miss it and unfortunately, I just know some phrases and a few words of cajun French. But this has inspired me to learn.

[@DrJLP55]

Magnifique! Lâches pas!

[@andyw6702]

I've worked in the southern parishes over in Louisiana with cajuns. Fine people for the most part. They certainly know how to have fun. I remember in the mid 80's to the mid 90's driving between Jennings and Eunice some of the AM radio stations were French. Couldn't understand a word until the commercials came on and the one in particular I remember was "SATURDAY, SATURDAY NIGHT, ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE PURPLE PEACOCK IN EUNICE LOUISIANA!!! An attorney in Lafayette, maybe 75 years old now, told me that when he was in school the outlawed the teaching and speaking of French in the public schools.

[@frenchtranslator]

On comprend très bien. C'est parfaitement clair, les nuances de language donnent un coloris particulier très sympa 👍🏻 Ma grand-mère et la génération de mes parents, (ma famille étant de la Mayenne, et de l'Orne ) employaient ou emploient encore des expressions comme "à cette heure" pour dire "maintenant, aujourd'hui, de nos jours". C'est beaucoup moins utilisé"à c'heure" globalement mais on le comprend parfaitement.

[@sirerot2130]

j'approuve, je suis Mayennais et je comprend très bien ce que dis cette dame, et oui je confirme que l'ont parle toujours comme ça, sans l'accent Anglo-Saxon, on a juste de légère nuance d'expression, comme avec les Quebecois que l'ont comprend super bien aussi, même les petit papy Quebecois, notre Français est le même, c'est juste une affaire de petite nuance parfois, et d'accent, sinon c'est la même

[@shirleyjhaney1041]

That’s a fun high school name to have on your certificate and for job apps her accent sounds lovely to me❤

[@fmagalhaes1521]

LIstening to this video reminds me why my wife won’t permit me to go to Louisiana by myself. She is afraid that I will go to the Bayou and will not won’t to come back home.

[@AleLau-z1t]

I'M FROM FRANCE AND LOVE TO SEE THAT WE HAVE STILL BROTHERS IN LOUISIANA ⚜️🇨🇵✝️

[@jean19591000]

Quel beau témoignage! Quel accent divin! La langue française avec une saveur de mer et d’aboiteaux! ❤❤❤

[@Thefrenchrunningkid]

C'est une fierté pour nous, français, de savoir que vous parlez français depuis les états unis !

[@thierryroullier8401]

Merci madame!

[@cimmerianbloke8421]

I am currently reading a book about the Mississippi, this accent is amazingly beautiful, it's spoken history. ❤

[@OilBaron100]

Lovely video

[@lovelyreen9936]

My dad is Cajun and Creole, my mom is Black French Creole and Avogel/Avoyelle - dad’s side dropped their French a generation ago (dad is 81, so I suppose those born around the 19-teens) because that was too associated with the “black folks” whilst my mom’s side never dropped it - French was her first language and she had to be taught it in school! In America! Isn’t that something… That’s splendid that this lady is keeping the language going. It’s a cool heritage.

[@vondahe]

French was the fourth language I learned and not only do I understand everything she says, I find her thick, American accent amusing and giggle at how she says the letters KVPI in American English instead of the French she purports to speak. Actually, her French reminds me of Chevy Chase’ character Clark Griswold in the 1985 comedy *National Lampoon's European Vacation* .

[@nicolas4747]

J'adore

[@Snorkl7879]

That’s just normal French pronounced with a complete American accent. It sounds exactly like a first semester American student reading a script in French class.

[@TaigiTWeseFormosanDiplomat]

：０

[@LoonieSylver]

I'm French Canadian from Québec and i totally understand her...

[@pminiger9278]

Sounds beautiful!

[@HandleGF]

Vive ce monde ... salut de l'Irlande :-)

[@mamabear5478]

She doesn’t sound like Cajun French as my grandparents spoke the language. Even my mother who spoke very little Cajun French pronounces words different than her. All I’m saying is it’s not the Cajun French I grew up with.

[@hamiltonwalters1642]

excellent

[@karenfindlay4185]

My family is from Quebec and they speak French this way; it’s a casual, everyday way to speak rather than formal French.

[@fmagalhaes1521]

I have been speaking French for 35 years and Spanish.I have seen the comments that there are different dialects. There are different dialects in almost every language. For native English speakers, just thing of Queen’s English, Aussie English and US English. The point is not to get too hung up on the idea of dialects. Just listen and you will understand.

[@andreacalmado5429]

As a french it's really nice to hear french cajun, it sounds like a mix of Québécois and some local patois/accent we have here, especially in area like Vendée, Poitou, La Rochelle.