Grandmother's Cajun French Voicemail

[24RedRosePetals86]

My ant; I'm just textin how I speak; she has the accent.. we grew up in New Orleans; now she lives in Harvey; still carries that evy accent deaux

[Rachulie]

wow i took french for 3 yrs and cajun and haitian french is just a whole nother story

[jennybebee]

Aww, love this! My mom grew up speaking exclusively Cajun French and this sounds a lot like her when she gets on a roll... though she's forgotten some over the years! My grandmother and her siblings sounded EXACTLY like this, but sadly they're all gone now. :-c I bet those fried shrimp were good!

[zombiepooflinger]

Aww this reminded me of how my mawmaw used to talk to my mom and aunts. They all spoke Cajun French to one another. I used to love listening to them, although they didn't speak it enough for me to learn it growing up

[fabizio]

Je suis français et j'ai tout compris ou presque :) En France en Suisse et en Belgique aussi il y a des différences importantes dans la façon de parler le français, surtout l'accent mais aussi beaucoup de mots.

C'est très original le cajun, vous mélangez des mots d'anglais et de français.

Est ce que le cajun est encore parlé couramment en Lousiane ?

[shreve99]

@fabizio Mais oui! Et Creole aussi! L'accent Creole est plus pres du francais qui s'est parle a la France. On trouve l'accent Creole a la cite de Natchitoches, Baton Rouge et aux environs de la Nouvelle-Orleans.

[blackneworleanscat]

pretty cat :)

[PlainzRyder]

I'm French Canadian and I can understand her very well. She's saying that she came home late last night, she heard the anniversary greetings on her voice mail, but it was too late to call back.

There are people in New Brunswick who still speak that same French mixed in with English. In French, we call it Chiac. Thanks! You made my day!

[00JakeR00]

Can French people understand this?

[GuerreroBestEver]

@00JakeR00 I do. I'm from Montreal. Its very nice too. I really like the accent.

[tidaliumpelo]

Très beau Français!

[claudiapatx]

My Mawmaw talked just lke her!

[justmusicandme]

Tres charmante!

[stalkingwolf1954]

thereare cajuns in the gulf coast of s alabama and mississippi

[ridgerunner721601]

@stalkingwolf1954 A lot of us in southeast Texas too. Lots of Cajuns from Orange to Houston.

[MagicAavelyn]

@ridgerunner721601

Yep! Port Arthur, Texas has Mardi Gras and I am a true blue cajun! Gotta love it.

[ridgerunner721601]

@MagicAavelyn Good to meet another Cajun on here : ) I'm working in Lake Charles now, right on the TX/LA state line but I still have a lot of friends on the west side of the Sabine too.

[MagicAavelyn]

@ridgerunner721601 Lake Charles is fun, I've been there before. :)

[ridgerunner721601]

@MagicAavelyn Yeah, I like it. It's not bad. And best of all, I can still catch most of the Astros games on TV, although I wish they were winning more games this year. : )

[paullesoudeur]

we as acadians are losing our language also ...je suis francais et je reste francais pour le reste de mes jours ...un francais ACADIEN,,,,mais...but ...most of my family...meaning cousins married english people ...as i look to there kids well ...they will not speak french ...pretend french isnt a language ...even my so called cousins speak english to there kids ...i find it sad ...we all went to a french school together ..yet they are hiding the fact that french is in our blood.

[isjackal]

voici donc à quoi ressemble l'ancien français... very interesting :)

[websoupe]

C'est un beau français que vous avez là. Mais heureusement que tu as retranscrit le message parce qu'avec le son du téléphone, l'accent et les mots anglais j'avais du mal à suivre. Continuez. Gardez votre belle langue.

[solfree012]

Je pense que français en général est une belle langue. Je l'aime je voudrais parler. J'adore l'accent Cajun, et j'aime le fait qu'ils sont capables de parler français. J'aime la culture, ainsi il est si riche et belle et profondément enracinée. Je voudrais bien savoir un moyen d'apprendre le français qui lui permettrait de rester. Eh bien peut-être un jour.

[ThaigherLilie]

she sounds like my mother!!!!!

[hunterpontiff]

Elle m'en parle. :) malheureusement je suis le seul grand-enfant qui parle français. Un jour, mes amis, mes enfants vont parler notre langue.

[rogerkhorn]

@hunterpontiff

Salut - Merci - c'etait fantastique! Ma grandmere aussi, elle parlait francais mais malheureusement la generation de mon pere ne parle pas un mot. Do you have any resources to help preserve the dialect? Roger

[OlivierSt]

A ta grand-Mère: "Bonjour Madame, un francophone de Belgique vous félicite d'avoir, peut-être malgré vous, réussi à faire perdurer une culture qui hélas semble s'éteindre petit à petit. Parlez à vos petits-enfants, parlez-leur de leurs origines, afin qu'ils en soient fiers".

[Commentarian1]

It is a very nice dialect, I think. It is French without the pretense. People from the South are also very capable of a Brittish accent that occurs naturally. There are many factors that contribute to this. Language exists beyond region just as much as, in this global society, regions exist beyond language.

[chamboubou19]

Tu peux dire à ta mamie qu'elle parle très bien le français cajun.

You can tell to your grandma' she speak Cajun french very well. ^^

[stone35077]

awsome

[RICPOIRIER1]

Ça donne une bonne idée! Au N.-Brunswick et en Nouvelle-Écosse, ç'est du "chiac" lorsqu'on mélange les mots anglais et français... Merci pour ce témoignage direct!

[dannylherisson]

Le 'bon français' n'existe pas, tout dépend d'ou tu viens, le français canadien restera toujours le français canadien, tout comme le français provenant de la france restera le français de la france. Le français cajun est différent, point bar.

[mina1066]

THANX!That's the point - I was trying to make.Merci beaucoup!

[PierreBraquemard]

le français cajun ressemble plus au français de france que le français canadien. cette dame ne parle pas cajun elle parle simplement français avec des mots anglais.

[mina1066]

No,Cajun French is not 'proper French',cher!Alohrs pas,coo yon!It's an ancient dialect,a derivation of modern French,mixed with Indian,African,German and Spanish dialects, as well as many others.

[hunterpontiff]

Mina, I think you're a little delusional. And let's not name-call, couillon.

[mina1066]

hunterpontiff Why do you think I'm delusional,cher?Because I know the historical culture of the state I live in,and you don't?Faites attention!Taken from wikipedia:

Cajun French is almost solely derived from Acadian French as it was spoken in the French colony of Acadia (located in what is now the Maritime provinces of Canada and in Maine), however a significant amount of cultural vocabulary is derived from Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole.[3].

I've proven my point.C'est tout.

[hunterpontiff]

Mina, true as that may be, the vast majority (somewhere in the 90% range) is still French, and is techincally a more preserved version of "proper French;" I would venture to say, at times, more proper and more preserved that French in France today. I wouldn't necessarily call it ancient, either, it's only about 300 years old--when I think "ancient," I think 2000 BC. Also, Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, anywhere; it's not a reliable source.

[hunterpontiff]

En plus, si tu veux tellement t'associer avec notre culture à nous-autres, il faudrait peut-être arrêter de jêter des mots comme "cher" tout partout et juste parler français cadien. ;)

[mina1066]

hunterpontiff.......Will do.Cajun french is a beautiful language.

[mina1066]

lol!True.....300 years seems ancient to me though!lol!At any rate,I love our State,culture,food,language and all!Louisiana is like NO other!We are a mixture of all kinds blended together and we're unique.

[hunterpontiff]

Good! Glad we agree! .......now please get a spacebar! :D

[grosenestrie]

Ca ressemble beaucoup au parler de chez nous. A l'algerien qui comprend rien, qui dit qu'on doit parler du 'bon français' messemble que l'arabe que vous parlez n'est pas parfait non plus là...

[noblebird9094]

Je comprendre Francais et anglais et ma langue maternal, mais je ne comprendre pa votre grandmere, alas.

[hejaNdj1051]

i love the creole accents :).. im from the west so were pretty boring :)

[colourfastt]

@hejaNdj1051 After living in Lafayette for 15 years I can tell you that was was NOT a creole accent; she was definitely cajun.

[hejaNdj1051]

well whatever it was i like the way they both sound

[algerienbrahim]

I speak French and I don't understand Cajun French: Cajun French's accent is too anglicized and there're too many English-rooted words.

[inumarudurglaur]

its a mixture of french proper, english, and spanish. i cant understand a damn word in french proper.

[algerienbrahim]

Well, so Cajun French is not French.

Let's learn proper French!

[Galeande]

No Spanish in that. I mean in what was said. Was 80% French, 20% English.

[inumarudurglaur]

no, i meant cajun french in general, not this particular message.

[Galeande]

You musn't speak French well or have the ear for the language as a native speaker. I'm French and a native speaker and i understand every single world, it's like Québécois mixed with occasional english to me.

[PierreBraquemard]

its more french from france with occasional english words to me. personally this french variation sounds better than the canadian french. :)

[disasterpiece805]

vive les acadiens

[delamotteh]

Et puis on t'aime beaucoup ! Bye ! Adorable Grand-Mère !

[govteach51]

Those of you from Canada must remember, we are you "cousins." We started off in Canada 300 years ago before we were moved to the Louisiana area. ( My families names include Peveteaux, Broussard, St. Amant, among others.)

[fmagalhaes1521]

govteach51: Mes ancetres sont de la France. Le nom de ma famille materne etait , "Brisson". Seulement j'espere que je peux visiter La Lousiane pour connaitre les gens, la couture et la langue acadienne apres de mourir. (Pour les non-francophones.)

govteach51: My ancestors were from France. The name of my maternal family was "Brisson". I only hope that I can visit Lousiana to know the acadien people, the culture and the language before I die.

[bengeneva]

Hey there! merci d'avoir posté l'enregistrement...c'est hyper enrichissant, j'adore son accent et le vocabulaire. Thanxx for posting the recording! Awesome! La bise à tout le nouveau continent :)

[CizzarGX]

Oula a part "happy aniversary j'ai rien compris ...

Elle parle en language SMS lol XD

[alkaro2]

Wow, those Cajun people sounds almost like french-Canadians (I am one). It's really interesting to see how 2 group of people who live thousands of milles away from each other can still sound the same!

Vive les Québécois, Les acadiens et les Cajuns!!!!!

[JonyBoyHache]

I think it sounds Chiac, but with an English influence.

[delamotteh]

C'e'st quoi Chiac ? What is Chiac ?

[fmagalhaes1521]

Vive le Club de Hockey Canadien...

[ChefChipDes]

The best part is the cat understood the whole ting! Bye, cher!

[garriguette84]

Love it ! génial !

[yes4albert]

charming

[CaeserOct]

Je taime the random mixing du anglais et francais.

[cjleger337]

alot of older cajun french speakers do this.

[sybarite]

comme c'est bizarre!! mais c'est beau aussi, mais merde- s'il n'y avait pas la petite transcription... oh la la!! j'adore son accent en anglais aussi, c'est trop mignon. :)

[octavehergebelle]

Ca claque! Mon arriere grand mere parlait comme elle.

[KRG11988]

c'est un bien bel accent qu' vous avez là-bas, j'espère que la langue ès' perd pas trop (c'est beau d'espérer hein)

[wsc983]

Ça fait bon tcheur d'entendre ste français. Ça rappelle fort l'accent de par chus nous en l'ancienne Acadie, comme si c'était ma propre grand-mère qui parlât. Vive la Louisiane cadienne !

[andrewd104]

J'me sens comme si ej viens inke de discoverer un auter (:-) monde. How many french-speakers in Louisianna?

[sawyerKissin]

around 100 000 people

[angouleme97]

C'est trop cool l'accent. Et ton accent? How about a video interview with your grandma?

[jerpic208]

Go grandma! :)  Very nice, merci.

[LutinBleuAzur06]

Salut j'adore la Lousiane et les Cajuns!! Vive la Francophonie!

J'adore l'accent de ta grand mère et j'ai compris sa conversation à part quand elle dit des mots en Anglais.

Et quand elle parle de "soupe aux chevrettes" looool !

Je connais un peu le français cajun pour savoir que c'est "une soupe aux crevettes"

Le français Cajun est très original et savoureux, j'espère que la langue ne s'éteindra pas :)

Et moi je suis du Sud de la France :)

[leathercase]

Aww, mais, dis makes me miss mah grandparents in Cottonport, yeah cher!

[LAFILLEdead]

my family is from cottonport too. bizarre.

[sortego]

oh mais c trop cute la

[maclasch]

Ah, this makes me happy. :) Music to my little cajun ears.

(I didn't get the accent though. Moved away when I was 13 and never really picked it up) :(

[mattboy88]

Ça sonne pas mal :p

Mais c'est difficil de comprendre quoi elle dit, néainmoins.. J'espère pyus de té graind-mère...

[nandyjane]

Hunter, il faut que tu transcrives ça qu'elle dit pour que le monde qui connaît pas bien le français cadien peuve le suivre. Merci de l'avoir posté. Je vas m'en servir dans les classes.

[hunterpontiff]

J'ai ajouté la transcription en dessous de la déscription. Sers-toi de ça sans hésitation. Je vais essayer d'en télécharger d'autres.

[maclasch]

Sounds just like my grandmother. The way she said anniVERshree.

Makes me smile.

[PrinceNoirAmericain]

Wow j'arrive même à comprendre là lol, c'est cool. Il faudrait que je fasse des recherches sur le français cajun. En tout cas bravo pour la vidéo.

[affairescadiennes]

Ça, c'est bien bon! Tu devrais en faire d'autres!

[mss455]

omg ... lol ... too cute !!!