How Louisiana Plans To Save Their French

How Louisiana Plans To Save Their French

[@mt0881]

I'm surprised speaking french was seen as low class. Wasn't the language associated with being educated and rich back in the day?

[@ThePussukka]

In Europe yes, but not in US and Canada where they were seen as religious rural hicks.

[@Grav648]

Depends on the region. As in most cases its classy when the rich do it, if the poor do it however... Here it seems the french speakers were mostly farmers and not the ruling elite. Thus its seen as lower class. Where as when england was conquered by the normans it was the elite which spoke french and the locals spoke an early form of english. Thus speaking french was seen as classy

[@biggie_smoke_00onig33]

In Louisiana the French language had a different stereotype , the french speaking Louisianans were described by other Americans as stuck in the past and too clingy to a culture that doesn't fully claim them and just the fact that Louisianans didn't fit the American typical way of life simply for their non English way of speech and their slightly different culture. *Edit : the Explanation is simply cultural and doesn't go into the financial situation of the french originated Louisianans.

[@timr.2257]

If you go to Paris you'll see how poor it is 😂😂

[@MiggerPlease]

@@biggie_smoke_00onig33I'm gay ok

[@ThomasSselate]

I am French and I am baffled how France doesn’t care about French speaking regions. It is a tragedy. We should have a strong relationship with Louisiana. I mean every school should exchange students. We should learn our history. We should have movies about it, we should have TV channels in common, TV shows… I don’t understand why the connection is so weak between us

[@Louisianish]

Le Président de la République nous a rendu visite ici en Louisiane et nous a même adressé en français mais ça faisait pas trop de différence. 🤷‍♂️

[@moreaupascal56]

Everybody knows that louisiana was French it is learned in school and there is a big francophonie bond with all French speaking countries but I agree that we should encourage more French in Canada and usa

[@patrickmiller6530]

I am from Louisiana. I learned French, my kids will learn French. It’s part of our culture and identity. I’m proud of my states rich and diverse history and hope to see it carried on for generations to come.

[@EuropezonUruguayo1]

Thats awesome, man

[@BK_718]

Tres bien ✊🏼

[@user-mrfrog]

Je vous félicite ! 🙂

[@sgt.mcgillicuddy2948]

Same here my guy. Learned as an adult because it struck my as my older relatives were dying that they were the last francophones in my family

[@FF-ct5dr]

Merveilleux!

[@hismajesty6272]

I’m 110% on board. I’m a Cajun youth. My great grandmother speaks Cajun French, but all the generations after her lost that dialect. I want to protect and revitalize my culture.

[@ProgressiveGoldbug]

As long as proper French is taught, I totally support this. No child should be taught a bastardized form of the language.. Teaching “cajun” French is about as culturally beneficial as teaching “Ebonics” English.

[@hismajesty6272]

@ProgressiveGoldbug “Proper French” is for the pretentious French of Europe. Cajun French is the culture here, and I’m not going to bend to some foreigner’s demands on how we talk.

[@Yougotcaged102]

​@@ProgressiveGoldbugWhat are you yapping about dawg

[@DaDa-ui3sw]

@@hismajesty6272 hey we're not all that pretentious, en tout cas moi j'aime que les Cajuns se réapproprient leur langue et leur culture française d'Amérique !

[@ProgressiveGoldbug]

@@hismajesty6272I guess appearing uneducated by speaking this abortion of a dialect is culturally appropriate

[@revinhatol]

*FUN FACTS:* 1. Parts of Acadia were even found in northern Maine. 2. Missouri's French dialect is also on the verge of resurgence. 3. The first Mardi Gras in North Ameirca happened in Mobile, Alabama.

[@3x157]

Mobile Alabama was originally a Spanish colony.

[@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781]

No French 🥖 ​@@3x157

[@JosephShemelewski]

Neat

[@3abductee]

@@3x157 Mobile was the first capital of French Louisiana.

[@bigmoneylost]

​@3x157 Nope it was founded by Iberville in 1702

[@benedictt.1050]

As someone with a Cajun background, I wish I had learned French as a kid. I guess it's never too late to learn

[@monrow1961]

Je suis moitie Quebecois moitie Acadien, j'ai toujours voulu visite mes cousins de Louisianne. Un jour si le seigneur est bon!

[@hismajesty6272]

You’re welcomed to come down here and stay if you want, cousin. We Cajuns love other French speakers. God bless.

[@anthonypowell4240]

Just don't go to new orleans

[@maysonguy]

@@anthonypowell4240 yeah the crime rate is pretty bad, so is baton rouge. i reccomend lafayette

[@IchabodvanTassel98]

@@maysonguywhat’s up with that? Does that city also voted to defund the police?

[@maysonguy]

@@IchabodvanTassel98they changed it from 10% to 25% reduced funding i think

[@The_Beautiful_Ones]

I’m a Louisiana Creole born and raised in Louisiana, though I no longer live there. Thank you for your video on a rarely discussed topic, though I must correct a huge inaccuracy and oversight. Creoles, and that language in Louisiana did not originally descend from the people in the Caribbean(though there were some that came from that area later). The word was used to mean native born in the colony in Louisiana. The term was originally applied to the direct descendants of those from France and Spain, and later also to their mixed race descendants, the Creoles of color. The majority of the French speakers of the state early on were Creoles, with a Cajun minority coming in later from their Canadian expulsion. Now, most of the Creoles are creoles of color, and are generally the ones who speak that dialect. The original French and Spanish only Creoles later intermarried with the Cajuns and are now mostly indiscernible in language. The French language was declining already by my mother’s generation, who was a baby boomer. She told me they could be beaten for speaking it in school. She understood it and could speak some but that was it. I’m Gen X/Xennial. When I was a little girl she would teach me a few words here and there, but intentionally did not teach me more and put me in Catholic school in one of the major cities so I would not have an accent. I have a standard American/west coast accent now. My grandparents and some of my relatives used to switch to French around me and my cousins when they didn’t want us to know what they were talking about. Of course we still knew some words, which helped one of my cousins hide from a spanking one day 😂 CODOFIL has pretty much been a massive failure because of previous rules discouraging people from speaking it for so long and also because of the kind of French they teach. It was supposed to protect and teach French as it is spoken in the region, but as my grandmother(maman) said, that’s proper French and it isn’t the same. Fun fact, apparently the language that is projected to be the most spoken language in the future is said to be French! Au revoir 😊

[@jasonhaven7170]

Most Creoles are Black, and a very large proportion are Afro-Antillean.

[@thekreyolcadet]

@@jasonhaven7170most afro creoles have ancestors that came straight from africa. a good chunk are afro antellian but not most..

[@A.LeBlanc]

Louisiana Creoles are different than the black/afro Caribbean people. Louisiana Creole is our ethnic community, there are white people that identify as such that have no African heritage at all. It’s a shared identity among primarily White, black, native, and all the mixes between them.

[@user-xb6rn7qy2x]

​@@jasonhaven7170Creole just means you're a French speaking person native to the region (meaning you weren't coming from abroad). It comes from the Spanish word criollo and before the English-speaking Americans took over Latin-based Louisiana, there was no distinction between white and mixed race creoles. The concept of Cajunism came about after the purchase when English-speaking segregation replaced French-speaking assimilation and White creoles realized they could get further in life and society by distinguishing themselves from other creoles. Similarly, the afro-creole BS came about when African Americans from other Southern states moved in and introduced the one drop rule and their concepts of panafricanism.

[@Unovey]

Just correcting, it will become the most spoken mother tongue* not the most spoken language by 2050 (although they will be top 3 compared to being top 5 currently; it'd still be way way behind English which is projected to be 2 billion by then), this is due to many countries in Africa having population booms where French is the most spoken language (it's projected over 85% of French speakers will be from Africa by 2050)

[@chrisalex82]

Whats funny is that the US doesnt even have an official language _de jure_

[@maryelizamoore7870]

The US makes languages the responsibility of individual states. Many states have English as their official language. Still, having an official language does not mean that people aren’t allowed to speak other languages.

[@coolandhip_7596]

​@maryelizamoore7870 new Mexico is the only state with Spanish as a coequal offical language

[@MCKevin289]

You mean de facto. De Jure means by law. De facto is by practice.

[@janthegeek]

​@@coolandhip_7596 New Mexico doesn't have any official languages but Spanish has "special recognition" according to the state constitution. Thus making Puerto Rico the only jurisdiction in the US where Spanish is an official language.

[@skrrtdotcom9120]

​@@maryelizamoore7870louisiana has no official language louisiana

[@just_a_turtle_chad]

I feel like governments need to do more about preserving unique cultures from going extinct.

[@user-yh1nm1vy3i]

Well no shіt, sherlock.

[@timr.2257]

Ask the Canadians what they actually think about the French.

[@davidlefranc6240]

@@timr.2257 Depends where you are from, bitches exist everywhere !

[@gamervox1707]

"unique cultures" hill billies that speak friench. yea no one with you on this case. Rather some native American culture is restored then some weird colonizers that do not have a pretty history.

[@returnnull3476]

To what extent? You could get government aid, but voters are usually highly skeptical of programs like that. Especially if there's no dividend or return.

[@Signal.Services]

French must be spoken at home for the language to thrive.

[@GoldwaveGT]

As a Louisianan, even though I’m not Cajun at all, I still know some French.

Yeah we use so many French words in English, so it's hard not to!

[@joaog.9497]

Learn it dude,make an effort even though youre not cajun or creole i bet most people in the parishes would be more than happy to help you learn

[@louisiana-alabama_ball]

As someone from Louisiana I actually have zero French blood (I still want the French culture to still be here)

[@hismajesty6272]

My mom was full Britonic, but she was adopted into a Cajun household, and took on their mannerisms. It isn’t too late for you to throw one or two Cajun French phrases into your lingo.

Ouais it's about culture and identity not blood.

[@KamBar2019]

Make BAGUETTE Great Again 🥖

[@loumcast]

The US government did the same thing in the Philippines when it took over the Islands in 1898, they banned the Spanish language in all schools and withing 50 years they had switched the language of the Filipinos from Spanish to English.

[@pliniojr95]

Based🇺🇲

[@badezour]

​@@pliniojr95 👉🪳

[@J0seph13]

​@@pliniojr95 npc

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

Actually, while the U.S. did try to get rid of Spanish what actually got rid of the language was the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. Because of the many people that died due to the massacre that they inflicted, a large percentage of them were Spanish-speaking. Given that the Spanish weren't able to fully hispanize the archipelago the vast majority of Spanish speakers in the Philippines were located in cities. The rest of the archipelago mostly spoke their various autochthonous languages that had been spoken prior to Spanish colonization, but now have been heavily influenced by the Spanish language because they were still educated and preached to in it.

[@mobiletaskforceepsilon1172]

​@@pliniojr95 Idiot.

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[@3x157]

I'm obsessed with French culture in Louisiana. Very fascinating.

[@JacobMartinolich]

Merci beaucoup!

[@KamBar2019]

Make BAGUETTE 🥖 Great Again 🥐

[@jeffkardosjr.3825]

Speaking of French media, when possible, listen to AM radio stations from Quebec.

[@tototomato1748]

I Hope than our cousines of Louisiana will keep their culture 🇫🇷

[@patrickmiller6530]

❤🇫🇷

[@whitebeans7292]

Je fais de mon mieux, j’ai appris le français et mon p‘tit frère peut me comprendre (même si il peut pas parler encore). Mon père et grand-père le parlent, et si j’ai des enfants, ils vont savoir

[@olliehooley]

El idioma Español es superiora en Louisiana

[@tototomato1748]

@@whitebeans7292 c’est super félicitations

[@RedMentalHM]

Rdr2 people

[@dakotathedoctor6882]

I am a Cajun myself. I lived here all my life in Acadiana. I was not privileged to pick up on french whenever I was young but I hope that both myself and my home will bring back another unique aspect of our culture!

[@hismajesty6272]

As another Cajun, me too.

Jamais trop tard sha.

[@erinjohnson1124]

Proud New Orleanian Creole, et je parle français, é mo parl kréyol Lalwizyan. Thank you for this video.

[@marlene97280]

Salut de la Martinique

[@matthieumenard8149]

That way of expellong French from schools feels infuriating. But at the same time the French elites did exactly the same thing to eradicate all the regional languages. Some survived like Breton but barely hanged on

[@user-wr2cd1wy3b]

Yeah that large of a piece of land that existed for such a long time, and before the existence of hyper-travel/hyper-communication, meant that languages just went their own direction. BTW I don't know what the French elite over on another continent have to do with it, these are completely different people.

[@nokari458]

Navajo and Crow barely held on. Many natives speak that

Oui c'est le même combat !

[@steve810]

I am literally in new Orleans LA as we speak, trucking.

[@kattapp]

Man things went downhill after trump for you didn’t they Mike.

[@KingSosa97]

@@kattapp🤣

[@naumprihodyaschy8629]

@@kattapp yeah it's definitely this evil Trump who is trying to destroy French language in Louisiana

[@Bakarost]

i am from nawlins, me

[@mildlydispleased3221]

That is the most American sentence I've ever read.

[@archimade]

Bonjour de Bretagne, France d'ou provient une partie des colons de l'époque qui ont tous quitté pour une nouvelle vie au Quebec et en Louisiane 😊 Hello from Bretagne, France where some of the colonist back then came from and who left evrything for a new life in Quebec and Louisiana 😊

[@robertwaguespack9414]

Je suis de Louisiana et je suis fier d'etre Acadien.

[@edmerc92]

*Louisiane

[@ajbaha948]

@@edmerc92😅 C’est une dictée ou quoi ?

[@RegentDeMarquis005]

Je suis de le Washitaw. Proud to be Washitaw Al Moroccan 🇲🇦🇺🇲🇲🇦💚💜💛🏹🏹🏹🏹🐝🐝🐝🐝

Vive la Louisiane !!!

[@raphaelgaucher3917]

Lâche pas :)

[@MarsM13]

My parents were forced to kneel for hours on dried corn if they were caught speaking french in school.

[@onikamaraj1239]

Same thing is happening in my country today well not at that extreme but if you are caught speaking French at school you get suspended for some hours and reprimanded

[@jorgeomarjaimesviafara6061]

What is your country? And why do they do that to people at this point in the century we live in?

[@MarsM13]

@@jorgeomarjaimesviafara6061 America. And it's not "at this point". It happened to my parents.

[@auriel8300]

Maine have the same problem. Fun fact, there was more Ku Klux Klan member in Maine only than in the entire south. And they wanted to clean Maine from the French Speakers.

[@MrHam0117]

Throughout the 1990s my grandparents and my uncle worked tirelessly to expand the teaching of the Cajun French language through southeastern Louisiana, specifically Terrebonne and Lafourche parish. Unfortunately, they failed. Outside of the Lafayette/Acadiana region of Louisiana, the Cajun French language and culture is dying rapidly. The area I live is referred to as “Louisiana’s Cajun Bayou” yet you aren’t even offered to learn French in some high schools. Only Spanish. Cajun culture is beautiful and unique, and I wish I lived in a time when the local governments did more to embrace and preserve it.

[@voiceofreason2674]

I know what you're talking about and unfortunately That's cuz prairie Cajuns don't view y'all as real Cajuns. I've heard them they think y'all and the new Iberia Cajuns are something lesser called the hadeyas

[@MrHam0117]

@@voiceofreason2674 if they do think that, I just pity them, because it’s sad, self-defeating, and misinformed to think that way. And any Cajun from the bayou parishes would proudly defend themselves to anyone thinking of them in any way as “lesser”. It’s deplorable that people are actually like that.

We helped open the first Indian/Cajun French school in Pointe-au-Chien. Coming soon to Lafourche...

[@chrisheisler2669]

That was a horrendous pronunciation of Nova Scotia, I can’t even finish this video after hearing that

[@EricLight]

100%

[@alperena1675]

SUCH an original and well thought out topic still presented without pretension! Fantastic, loved how community perspectives were included alongside the broad range historical context. Keep it up man!

[@Durahan82]

That's the fate Quebec is trying to avoid .

[@jorgeomarjaimesviafara6061]

In fact, it will happen! French taught and learned by imposition, not by choice; But English is the one spoken and the most used by taste, necessity and priority. What is not used is forgotten. Quebec is destined for Louisianaization. R.I.P.

[@yannislaurin-kamouche]

​@@jorgeomarjaimesviafara6061english is not the most used in québec pls stop making up fake nonsense😅

[@marlene97280]

Because their resist

[@Durahan82]

@@marlene97280 No shit Sherlock

[@bradjbourgeois73]

I grew up and still live in Louisiana, My grandparents spoke French a lot, I mostly only learned the cuss words, lol! When I joined the military in the early 90's, my first roommate tried to speak French to me and told me I had the thickest French accent he has ever heard. I had to say sorry, I don't know what you were saying! One thing I did notice was that despite only learning English as a kid, I did retain parts of French grammar, I caught hell for it in the air force too!

[@schalitz1]

Louisiana is by far one of the coolest states, both culturally and historically. The only two states I'd say that beat them out are Alaska and Hawaii.

[@RomeoSears-wt8nt]

Only the southern area.

[@adamelghalmi9771]

hawaii cause its literally a sovereign nation we ate, alaska cause it has lots of russians?

[@schalitz1]

@@adamelghalmi9771 And the Natives.

[@Dim.g0v]

​@@adamelghalmi9771 How many Russians are living in Alaska?

[@adamelghalmi9771]

@@Dim.g0v i think its something like 50k. not russian russians, like russian descendants, but relative to it's population, thats a pretty large chunk. i think alaska also has a decent native population

[@jeffersonaraujoelcristiano]

As a French-descendant living in Peru, I feel really proud for this language.

[@PoluxCity]

As a French man who lives near Paris, I would like to visit the States !

[@jalbijiek4856]

As an American I recommend visiting anywhere except Cali New York Florida or Texas.

[@pokemata1035]

If you want to get some good food visit us in superior Virginia! Charleston, Wheeling, and the Panhandle are all great places!

[@RegentDeMarquis005]

As a creole national and tribal native who grew up in Gentilly area. I grew up on Paris avenue and France Rd. Paris is my birthright! The bourbon estate is my birthright and France needs to return to its monarchy ASAP. One day I'll walk the streets of my 3rd estate holdings. For now I'm content with Mon grandmeres.

[@nokari458]

How do you say "blessings, be careful, bests to you" in French maybe two words?

[@pokemata1035]

@@RegentDeMarquis005 Your romanticizing the Bourbon Monarchy?! Who would you even want to be the king!?!

[@aleistergwynne]

I'm sure a lot of people are wondering, "why did things turn out differently in Canada?" I think it mainly comes down to relative populations. The United States has always been overwhelmingly majority Anglophone, therefore, they could suppress minority languages with impunity. However, in Canada, the Francophone population has always been much larger as a proportion of the overall population. As a result, the British/English-Canadian ruling class had to come up with strategies to appease the French-Canadians enough to prevent them from rebelling, because they could and would have broken free from the English if they were treated badly enough. While Canadian governments haven't always encouraged the French language (and currently they do, which also helps), they have never tried to suppress it. Furthermore, it helps that a large chunk of Canada's core territory has always been majority Francophone, meaning that, in those areas, French is just as useful as English in everyday life, if not more so. This is sadly not the case anywhere in the United States, where French is everywhere a minority language.

[@edmerc92]

Most of Canada treated Francophones exactly the same way as Louisiana did. Only Québec recognized the language for a long time. That’s because the Anglophones never managed to become a majority of the province’s population.

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

They didn't suppress the language? Tell that to Manitoba.🙄😒

[@borisguillen31]

Canada treated the french canadian the exact same way, this is why they almost disappeared everywere ☺️

[@dehavillandcanadatwinotter9621]

They did try to suppress French in Canada. There was the whole Acadian deportation. And even in Quebec it changed hands from British to French and vice versa many times.

[@shadowsensei9040]

​@@edmerc92**quebec and new-brunwick.

[@CarleAge]

And that's also what happened with every other language spoken in France a century ago beside French.

[@galileogalluccio6289]

From France, I would love to visit this state. It could be interesting to see french influences in the US

[@Kowjja]

As a metropolitan French, Cajun french to me almost sounds like its own language and it would be indeed very sad if it disappeared.

[@Bernat_Pascual]

It's crazy that these assimilation methods were the exact same that metropolitan France used against their many own languages (Catalan, Breton, Dutch, Occitan, German, Arpitan, Alammannic, etc). It started during the XV century where the many Autonomous Councils were forced to only write in Francien (the Parisian dialect of that time) . Then during the French Revolution the French revolution, French would become the only official language of France, and the other languages started to be persecuted by the state, sin e they were seen as there at to the Republic's unity. A tactic that was commonly employed was the internal immigration, where young people from non French speaking regions were almost forced to travel to northern provinces where education and job opportunities were created, whilst the Parisian government was leaving the local infrastructure old fashioned, and even cut of resources like light or gas dorm remote places. In the other hand, people from these Northern territories that spoke one of the many frnhc dialects, were given facilities to retire back down in the south, where they could being their children. This demographic movement forced the different communities that now found themselves together to use a common language of communication. Since universal education didn't really reach everywhere until after the Revolution, in all the schools you would be only taught in French, by a teacher of Northern descent. In those schools you might be physically and verbally punished for speaking any other language, teachers cracked out deminisging jokes against their own student's culture, and reduced their own people's pride. When these Northern immigrants came in, it was only natural that people would speak to them, in (a badly spoken) french. Meanwhile the young men that came to northern cities to study, had even more preasure to learn and get good at speaking French, since they were already mocked for being southerners or farmers, they didn't want to be even more looked down upon for speaking peasants French. In addition, the parents of many non French speakers started speaking them in French since they were born, and told their kids to get good at the language to not face the same repercussions they did before, and because they were sold the idea that "earning French will get you better opportunities in life". The last straw was with the world wars, which not only united many people that would come back home from all over France, but it'd create a national sentiment (that had already been built up since the French revolution) of a unique identity opposed to other countries's.

[@HereComesTheStormTrooper]

You're gonna copy paste this on every video, dude ?

Même combat !

[@Nordisk11]

Womp womp

[@japeri171]

I hope they can maintain their language and culture

[@moledaddy]

My grandpa was from Nova Scotia, and an American Indian. He told us about stories of Acadian treasure buried in Nova Scotia.

[@VOTE_REFORM_UK]

When Louisiana is planning to save French more than actual France…

[@maryhildreth754]

As long as LSU keeps winning.

[@KamBar2019]

Make BAGUETTE Great Again 🥖

[@HealingfromtheBayou]

Merci et merci Tele Louisiane 💙🧅🫑🌶️

Pas de quoi ! On ne lâche pas.

[@KamBar2019]

Slava 🥖

[@unbreakableunion]

Louisiana French will never recover due to lack of incentive to learn it. People there rather learn Spanish because it is more useful inside and outside of Louisiana.

[@collectivelyimprovingtrans2460]

Easy French should go to Louisiana and explore what's left of the French language

[@neptune1525]

Haha so funny! 😊

[@behindyou666]

Some Norwegian guys actually made a docu where they travelled throughout the midwest exploring bastions of Norwegian-American culture, mostly small towns.

[@ismaela50]

New Mexico should preserve the nm dialect of Spanish

[@Egr-et6ar]

Spnish isn’t from the region either. More about preserving a foreign language in a foreign region, rather than preserving the language in its own region lol.

[@j.h.8595]

And Colorado

[@ismaela50]

@@Egr-et6ar people have been speaking spanish in new mexico since 1598

[@Egr-et6ar]

@@ismaela50 Yeah the small group of foreigners. Majority of Mxicans still spoke majority of their own languages before so called “Mxican” independence, it was after “Mxican” independence that a certain unassimilating group decided to Hispanicnize Mxico. In contrast, it’s own their own languages have been in the land for over thousands of years plus.

[@Bapterion01]

The Canadian province of Québec and the American state of Louisiana + former states of the former French province of Louisiana have to save the french language, if we French have the international permission we can propose that French will be the official language in these territories for administration, education, social and everyday life, we've to reinstalled the French in our former territories of America as cultural exception. If the Canadian government and the American government loved us so more they will have already accepted it but in reality they didn't loved us so more as we think they broken the French language in these territories to reduce the French influence in America but this is our legal right to build an commonwealth of French speaking nations and territories for enlightened the french language in the World.

[@rcolonn63]

I was born in Houma, Louisiana. My great-grandfather started the first newspaper. It was in French. I have a copy of it.

[@chippie_von_poiznan]

Acadia is also New Brunswick and parts of east Quebec, not just Nova Scotia, then again, it never had official borders and is now just our ideal ancestral homeland where we used to live in harmony with the Mi'kmaq people.

[@zyxxlar]

The music at the beginning of the video sounds like you where going to introduce some kind of crime or conspiracy theory lol. 10/10

[@bpdbhp1632]

This is great news👍 keep your language and indentity

[@mylohebert1777]

I as someone from Louisiana, will Keep our culture alive.

[@imagographics5096]

It's not easy to do justice to the history of Louisiana French in 15 minutes, but this was a very nice overview. It's a fascinating topic, with lots of detail and nuance.

[@applimu7992]

I always support states putting their own identities above a national identity

[@SquidMonke4]

I dont like that. Makes states like texas more radical. Soon it will just be “states of america”

[@hismajesty6272]

That’s the secret, the national identity is a vague smudged version of all the subcultures. As a Cajun, I care more about Louisiana culture than broad American culture.

[@CreoleLadyMarmalade]

@@hismajesty6272As a Louisiana Creole, I definitely agree. If I could identify as “Louisianais” over American, I would.

[@hismajesty6272]

@CreoleLadyMarmalade You can and you probably should. Louisiana is part of America, so identifying as a Louisianan doesn’t undermine appropriation for the whole country, it’s just local pride.

[@CreoleLadyMarmalade]

@@hismajesty6272 That’s true!

[@awesomeman116a]

1:48 I’m not sure if anyone has commented this but you didn’t pronounce Nova Scotia correctly This comment isn’t trying to be a hate comment or anything, I just wanna point this out for the future 👍

[@sdocax]

Yes, it's pronounced "skosha".

[@obteniendose]

This is exactly how they got spanish out of New Mexico, which used to have way more Spanish. Discrimination and English being required in schools.

[@KC-MarechalDavout]

Vraiment trop bien, je ne commente que rarement des vidéos sur youtube en général mais je me dois de référencer celle-ci ! Excellent travail et merci à toi Versed de faire une vidéo au sujet de la langue française en Louisiane.

[@kennethaguilar2159]

Even though the video its about french in Louisiana, why don't mention that between 1762 with the Treaty of Fontainebleau and the Treaty of Aranjuez of 1802 Louisiana was spanish?

[@PaJeanSott]

The rulers were Spanish but they allowed Louisiana to keep French and Creole as the languages of the land unlike the Americans lol

[@micahparker6924]

I live in Lafayette. Theres a lot of effort about bring french into the mix. A lot of street signs are in French, the airport gives announcements in English and French (Cajun french. I dont speak it but you can tell the difference). I work at a hotel. My coworker was in french immersion school. She blew it off as a kid but she still knows and understands a lot. We host a lot of guests from French Canada and France, and truthfully thats about the only time I ever see french come up in day to day. Shes good at speaking it but theres a lack of opportunities for practice for her, and like he said in the vidieo its what they call Parisian French, or official French, not the cajun dialect. Im from Honduras originally and I speak spanish and that just comes up to be useful way more. I highly doubt that figure of 160000 Spanish speakers is accurate, I feel like you have to at least double that. Im working on my French skills. I love the culture here. I dont have that native Cajun connection here like that but I still love Louisiana and everything about it.

[@bernhardschmalhofer855]

Yes, it is astounding that not even in Lavayette there is a bar where one gets funny looks when not speaking French or Kouri-Vini.

[@Mainer207]

There's a lot of similarities that Maine has faced with our Acadian French language dying. The language being banned from 1919 to 1960 really held it from being passed down and taught to children by their parents and grandparents. Recently in the past few years there have been programs to restore the lost French culture, especially in Aroostook County.

[@senddeee1451]

I’m so upset because I was raised with French speaking grandparents in the atchafalaya basin in south Louisiana. Cajun culture is what I’m born and raised in. For some reason tho, I never learned to speak it. I remember that the grandparents would talk in French so the kids couldn’t know what they were saying. It’s a beautiful language and culture that we must do whatever we can to preserve.

[@thundra8798]

i'm suprise he didn't talk about Quebec. lots of comparison could have been made.

[@spaghettiisyummy.3623]

Next year: how Pondicherry plans to save French. /hj

[@JamesDelanoMcCarthysecondacc]

They are Indian not French

[@spaghettiisyummy.3623]

@@JamesDelanoMcCarthysecondacc Pondicherry was colonized by France. And, the people there still view France pretty Positively.

[@brigittelacour5055]

​@@spaghettiisyummy.3623there are still french schools and they can pass the baccalaureat.

[@reyespena1013]

The could just introduce French in school and LET EVERYONE TAKE IT NO MATTER THE PATH IT SHOULDNT ONLY BE COLLEGE BOUND I was denied Spanish even though I had three extra hour as a senior just because it was college bound

[@baronblitzer2125]

New Orleans holds a major part of my life as someone from Mississippi my town even has French architecture like Nola

[@deanfirnatine7814]

I hope there are similar efforts in Madawaska in Northern Maine to preserve their Native French language. I would love to see efforts to preserve Basque in its enclaves in the Great Basin as well as more efforts to preserve Native American languages.

[@alexandrejassoud3123]

Quand je suis allé a la Nouvelle Orleans, j'ai été étonné que la culture Cajun et française ai été mis en avant mais que pas une personne ne connaissait un seul mots en Français.

[@guyl9456]

Le français est une langue "folklorique" pour eux.

[@luv2sail66]

This is awesome! A major strength of American culture is embracing the language and culture of our diverse backgrounds. My wife is Chinese American and still enjoys the language and cultural traditions of the country where she grew up. I’ve learned a lot from her and see the world differently than I did before I met her. That doesn’t mean either of us are any less loyal to the United States. But if we are going to be citizens of a more globalized world, having the ability to understand how world affairs appear to other countries (whether or not you agree with their interpretation), increases understanding among the other countries we share our planet with.

[@Techgnome21]

I'm glad to see efforts being made to safe the language and culture. Language is not something just spoken, there's history behind everyone of them.

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

It is sad, but, Too little, too late. Louisiana PES has chronic issues teaching basics. Not a chance they’d be able to approve a Quebec style dual-lingual system when math is a greater indicator of success. Then there’s the principle of all foreign language courses: Use it or lose it. you’d have to have plentiful access to French animated and regular shows, and books in stores and still remain profitable. You’d likely have to make the internet domain of Louisiana French so that they were daily encouraged to type in French and hang out on French chat-boards. You’d need to speak French in public. They’ll never get back what they lost.

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

I mean, the state government could have encouraged the transmission of French language programming from all francophone countries throughout the 20th century, first via radio, then television, and obviously nowadays via the internet. But, yeah, that stuff ain't going to reverse all of that unless the state pushes French as the sole language in the areas that have the most speakers of it. Because, it'll be harder to convert those who don't have francophone households, but it'll be easier to fortify what already exists! However, that's still difficult! Those people would still interact with the rest and even if all government services were in French that doesn't mean private businesses will. The best that could be hoped for would be bilingual signage and the attempt to import products from Canada that will be in English and French. But, even what I mentioned isn't even being attempted!

[@simix6915]

The solution is easy. Give Louisiana to the Belle Province.

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

@@simix6915 They would never take it! It'll mean too many anglophones to deal with.

[@shadowsensei9040]

​@OpinionesDieJACCsOpinions I think is possible again. I explain. I borned in quebec. I speak french and english. But... if you see quebec story. Et là, je parle français. Le Québec n'a pas vus son français sur le déclin jusqu'à la révolution industrielle. A ce moment là, avec toute les mesures d'assimilation de l'époque. Le français aurait pus etre perdu si les reformes des années 60 (révolution tranquille) n'avaient pas eu lieu. (Lois 101, qui est détesté par le reste du canada) Et encore là, ce ne fut pas gagné. Le Québec a se battre pendant longtemps pour revenir a un bon niveau. Et ça continue aujourd'hui avec les vagues migratoires actuel. So, i think is not the end for french in louisiana. I know they love her heritages. Do, good luck.

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

@@shadowsensei9040 Louisiana lost its francophone majority back in the 19th century. The reforms that Quebec did in the 60s would have had to be done in the late 1800s to early 1900s for it to have any positive effects. Today the best that could be hoped for is protecting Acadiana by implementing what is constitutionally possible in the United States. Commercial signage is protected by the first amendment, so having french predominantly in the streets can't be done here like it can be done in Canada. Even implementing something like what Ontario has done with the French Services Act would be preferable, but even this isn't what Louisiana has been doing! I don't know French at all, I used a translator to understand what you were saying.

[@gj1234567899999]

Spanish speakers have a much easier time picking up French than native English speakers. So maybe if Louisiana forces students to take up French as a language to study, the Spanish speakers will have an easier time.

[@davidlefranc6240]

Not really accurate there's at least 30k french words in english .

[@FOGGYlama123]

@@davidlefranc6240 Spanish is still more similar

[@fabianustertius6460]

Linguistically yes, french is quite similar to spanish, pronunciation however is very diferent, im a native spanish speaker and i find italian and romanian more easy and understandable than french, i do spoke english quite fluent, but the idea of forcing people to learn french is not the point its the culture behind it, the spanish empire once hold lousiana as well as florida and the midwest, during that period, french started to swip to spanish, then the lands go back to france and ultimately solded to the u.s and the anglofication begun

[@davidlefranc6240]

@@FOGGYlama123 Nah i speak french everyday maybe some pronounciations but at this state its a regional thing !

[@3x157]

@@davidlefranc6240 It way more similar to Spanish and Latin than English and Germanic languages. We have a lot of similar words the only difference is pronunciation. I actually know Spanish and Catalan which helps me to read French. I can actually understand Southern French in France since they have a more latin pronunciation. I can also understand Italian without even know what the hell they are saying. We just some how understand each other. It's harder to understand French from Paris as their pronunciation is that of Germans trying to speak Spanish and that is probably how they got their accent. German tribes that could not pronounce all the Latin words. The French will always be our Latin brothers sisters of Southern Europe.

[@SergioRPerez]

When I visited New Orleans I went to see The Cabildo building and then I learned that Louisiana was also Spanish for many years and the influence is visible nowadays. New Orleans and the Louisiana territory under Spanish control played a huge roll in the Revolutionary War. Also, in that period of time there were a lot of people who moved to Louisiana from the Canary Islands. In conclusion the history of Louisiana is more complex this video explained.

[@Paul-kd4dx]

It probably happened because the „Fraktur“ font is almost not readable for someone who is not German and even for some of us it is hell to read, but in 4:02, when the covers of the constitutions are shown, the „German variation cover“ is actually the cover of a regular book written in German called „General Butler in New Orleans“. Not to downplay your video, it‘s fantastic, but just to point that out and to clear things up for people who might wonder about that.

[@thekreyolcadet]

I genuinely don’t understand how there are so many videos about the history of Louisiana pre-US but they barely ever touch on the creole language or the creole people. Which honestly baffles me because creole used to be the lingua franca of Louisiana And pre-Louisiana purchase creole was the identity of all of the people born in Louisiana. The Cajunization of Louisiana came also with the Americanization, in an effort to separate white creole from black creoles. There are plenty of cajuns that to this day have zero Acadian ancestry and people who literally define creole as black and cajun as white. let’s not rewrite history because Louisiana was already a colony with people living there with a whole culture before the exile of the Acadians

[@thekreyolcadet]

10:00 I’m so confused because you even showed video clips of creoles talking about the creole language and how it functions but it wasnt covered at all

[@asscheeks3212]

because it's unrealistic for Europeans to care about indeginous who often war against each other. I don't blame them, I'm Asain and even we don't care about the indigenous we colonize. Neither do the Turks or Arabs care. If you care, then you talk about them. It's that simple.

[@asscheeks3212]

Europeans care about Europeans, which I'm for. I'm Asain, I support Asains. Not hard

[@Rooster664]

Great video on my state.

[@nycmitch]

fascinating discussion, many surprises about the Cajun journey

[@didierlemoine6771]

i spoke with a guy from Louisiana in San Francisco in french, his french was perfect and he had never been to France :)

[@SomethingSpecial.]

Finally a video on this topic! If you go even further back to the late 1800s and early 1900s it's estimated over 70% of Louisiana spoke French. The decline happened because the state banned French and used the same methods on French Louisianians it did on the Natives: Beat the French out of them, literally. So many children got corporal punishment for speaking French, the state purposely brought in English-only speakers and it just went down from there. The ban on teaching French only ended in the 70s.

[@borisguillen31]

Fun fact : Ontario and Louisiana banned french at the exact same time. Coordination 😎

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

@@borisguillen31 Wait, do you mean the teaching of French that happened in 1912 that was later lifted in 1927?

[@lewiitoons4227]

it would need to be standardised as a language in its self to be properly taught in schools ideally based on records of native speakers id think.

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

That's like saying U.S. English is a separate language from the rest of English. They need to be taught French and from there they'll make it more Louisianan. No one is really taught a specific variant of the language, the standard is taught and by living in the local language people speak like everyone around them, that's how it happens.

[@lewiitoons4227]

@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions if you want to save any dialect in extreme regression it needs to be standardised to be successfully revived, there is no real difference between a dialect and a language other than standardisation, the us English could be considered another language if that’s how the culture of United States saw themselves, go ask the north Germanic languages

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

@@lewiitoons4227 If the people of Louisiana are trying to save French within their state, then being educated in standard French is what the next generation has to be educated in. Otherwise they're not trying to save French. You're missing the part where they would be making the language more Louisianan the more they speak it! They can't really bring back what they had, at least not if they don't do something radical like making French-only areas in the places were francophones are most concentrated. The next best thing would be making any and all (legally) possible signage becoming bilingual in English and French. Meaning changing all street signs to something like Mᴀɪɴ Sᴛʀᴇᴇᴛ • Rᴜᴇ ᴘʀɪɴᴄɪᴘᴀʟᴇ, doors saying Pᴏᴜssᴇʀ/Tɪʀᴇʀ • Pᴜʟʟ/Pᴜsʜ, open or close signs saying Oᴘᴇɴ • Oᴜᴠʀɪʀ/Cʟᴏsᴇ • Fᴇʀᴍé, stops signs saying Aʀʀêᴛ • Sᴛᴏᴘ, etc. But they aren't doing anything remotely like this! When being educated in English schools teach the standard. They teach about Shakespeare and his works, but also of the works of Edgar Allan Poe as well as also of other important literary creatives of the English language. Yes, they do tend to focus on authors that made their mark in the U.S. either because they were born and raised here or because they moved here and then made their magnum opus, but don't shy away from other authors from elsewhere. The same should apply to French in Louisiana. But as for the accent and idiosyncrasies of the language there, that's something that really happens at home and the community around the pupils. But, at some point they're going to have to okay that the next generation isn't speaking the French that was spoken on Louisiana for generations. Because too much damage was done to it for it to effectively be passed on to most of the current population, but also because the next generation will always change the language to be more like them. Unless they're okay with it being just niche, then that's a different matter altogether.

[@peabody1976]

I know someone specifically who is from Louisiana, and was not a native English speaker for the first six years of his life. He is now over 50 and can't really speak Cajun French anymore, though he has said his parents and family used to speak it.

[@MegaGlupe]

Im am a french Canadian, one important aspect you didnt mention in your video was that unlike English, French is a regulated language. Even though accents / dialects have cultural importance. In an education setting standard french is always taught

[@jimjimmers8571]

This. We learned a bit of Québécois terminology in the schools I went to, but I was always told we were learning France’s French instead 😭 I would much rather learn the beautiful language of our provincial neighbours (that would 100% be a more useful dialect to learn) than a different, more distant version from a place I never intend to visit or study well.

[@FF-ct5dr]

@@jimjimmers8571 Québécois here. French is regulated by the Académie de la Langue Française, whose rules we also abide by, and the way we speak doesn't constitute a "dialect" per se; it's merely an accent alongside a slightly different familiar vocabulary. You will have no trouble getting understood, and no trouble understanding us unless you stumble upon our equivalent of US rednecks.

[@WhoisMyut]

Hi i’m cajun and i think its interesting that lafayette regional airport plays boarding messages in french but no one speaks it outside of french class. I very seriously doubt french will ever make a comeback here. The only people i know that are fluent are great grandparents and my friend who’s a Haitian immigrant

[@LevisH21]

do old generation of Haitians in Louisiana practice the voodoo cult?

[@D0GGy333]

Regarde télé Louisiane

[@AlexTannertv]

Can you do videos on other American dialects, my favorite is Wisconsin German it’s extinct tho

[@adamelghalmi9771]

"UNT FGOM VISCONSAN"

[@bearonaromp7473]

Although I'm not French, I've had to learn to read in French because of my interests. Not easy- but overall not a problem.

[@Math_0402]

Acadia also included PEI, New Brunswick and, as someone already stated, part of Maine. Also, the Acadians did pledge allegiance to the Crown. But the crown didn't trust their new subjects, thinking that, in a futurewar with France, they will support their cousins from Quebec.

[@pitrris]

Mate, you haven't mentioned at all that Lusiana belonged to Spain before the Luisiana Purchase. Indeed, street names in New Orleans are written in Spanish, relfecting its Spanish past!

[@nigelbaddock]

True, Louisiana was part of the Spanish Empire from 1762 to 1801 following Spain's acquisition of it after the 7 Years War. It then became part of France before America bought it.

[@henryboy004]

Very American to get rid of something that isn’t Anglo-Saxon related

[@Da_Gr88]

Anglo-Saxons were the biggest white population by 1830, so naturally English becomes dominant, but it isn't like the culture changed, it is still the same, and is still the only US State with a French legal system. Southern culture was always a good mix of Engand and French.

[@erraticonteuse]

They could try attracting Haitian and West African immigrants, though that would change their French too.

[@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136]

Or they could just try to preserve their culture, you don’t always need immigrants.

[@TickleMeChelmno]

Oh yes more immigrants. That always helps lol

[@erraticonteuse]

@@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136 If the culture they want to preserve is centered on a language, they need working class speakers. Their issue is that they beat it out of the American working class speakers. So immigrants are the next best thing.

[@erraticonteuse]

@@TickleMeChelmno Immigrants actually do help promote multilingualism!

[@steelbiceps]

But black people nah u tweakin​@@erraticonteuse

[@Allaiya.]

I think it would be good to preserve it. It helps make it it unique!

[@juliangang2018]

Loving all the Louisiana love recently!

[@mixtapemania6769]

As Haitian 🇭🇹 I see Louisiana as our american cousins and their creole is kind of similiar to ours, although more frenchified.

[@paytonpryor]

Mobile, Alabama is considered the birthplace of modern-day Mardi Gras in the United States, with the first recorded organized celebration taking place in 1703. In 1830, Mobile also hosted the first formally organized Mardi Gras parade in the country.

[@imagographics5096]

Lent can range from early February to mid-March because it's based on the Easter calendar, which is lunar. That's why Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday, and Easter have variable dates.

[@PoppopPoppipappaa-vo7in]

You forgot the brief era of spanish rule over lousiana before it was sold to the french who sold it to the americans

[@hismajesty6272]

Well that didn’t affect too much, since the governing was loose.

[@MCKevin289]

There used to be a dialect in Dutch spoken in my state.

[@hismajesty6272]

Learn Dutch and try to revive what you can of it.

[@sethfrisbie3957]

@@hismajesty6272 I am learning Irish. Tae agus caca le do thoil means tea and cake please in Irish. I am one of your fellow Americans with Irish as the most dominate ethnicity within my genetics.

[@damianlopez7630]

Movie Jeremiah Johnson comes to mind. A classic Frontiersman Movie with Robert Redford. Awesome Movie. There were French Speaking Native Americans Featured in the Movie.

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

It should start with making programs that can teach and translate every dialect of French, and make them available by anyone. Speaking to the other states that have french history and once had large french speaking populations (missouri/maine/vermont) and working together to save the languages.... Getting a hold of France and other French speaking countries to become closer in all aspects of life would make it the most successful as business and religion bodies and money can bring the distant groups together.

[@Bruhdaughhh]

Just get more French immigrants, plenty of space since everyone is leaving Louisiana anyways.

[@hismajesty6272]

No. Immigrants won’t help. It’ll actually deal the final blows to the Cajun dialect.

[@neetfreek9921]

@@hismajesty6272 If you actually want to revitalize the culture, the only way you're going to do that is by teaching it through the school system. Don't punish immigrants over your pipe dream.

[@hismajesty6272]

@neetfreek9921 I’m saying adding a ton of people who speak different dialects of French and don’t even know English isn’t going to save Cajun French. It’d more likely overshadow it and speed up the loss of the distinct dialect. Adding outsiders isn’t a fix. I’m not saying it’s evil or anything, but throwing masses of people at it won’t revitalize Cajun French.

[@neetfreek9921]

@@hismajesty6272 If immigrants are going through the same school system then there would be no difference towards your language. Whether they know English, standard French, or Mandarin. It has zero impact on the baseline of people that know your language. All of their children would eventually be on the same track to learning the language just like any other native person who only speaks English.

[@trgscorpion9532]

​@@hismajesty6272 The final death blow you say? Based

[@MidnightsDeluxe]

It would be sad to see it go

[@allysonb4303]

One thing thats never brought up in our history was the acadians that were enslaved in camps in the carolinas, nor the us government seizing land and forcing us into sharecropping to survive. My grandfather was raised working cotton fields for no salary in the 1960’s

[@haydenmcwhorter6363]

Yeah, could we save Kouri-Vini first? Much more endangered than French here. Louisiana is not only Cajuns, like some might think.