"qui ti vas cuire pour souper?" "pas rien de tout!" "éyoù (et où) ti vas dormir à soir? quel lit ti vas coucher?" "je vas me coucher dans lit en arrière, et toi devant" haha I'm not from here but I love the Louisiana French language(s).
If you guys ever get a chance to visit La. take 167 south out of Lafayette to Ester then 82 west to Forked Island, Thats where my family is from. Cross the BIG bridge and stop at Stelly's for some boudin, you'll experience some of the richest cajun accents and friendliest people.
Laissez les bons temps rouler (Let da good times roll) Keep your heritage alive
I'm from Quebec and you're right it doesn't sound like us when we speak french but more like New Brunswick's Acadian french. Perfectly understandable both french and english. Speaking of thick accents have ever heard scottish accent ?
Sounds just fukin' like North Ontario French folk. I shit yaz not. Come up here and go to Sturgeon Falls a.k.a Virgin Stalls. It seems the French have a lot of daughters and many of them end up stripping in bars. Ask anyone around, they'll tell you. Better yet, go to strip joints in Sudbury & North Bay & Timmins Ontario. Better bring an interpretuer.
That's beautiful, I would love to learn it. Although when I was in the west indies I learn I bit of patia. And French in Quebec. I guess it just training the ear to the accent.
que tu vas cooker ce soir" in Cajun "qu'es ce que tu vas cuisiner ce soir" in Modern french. The difference is not much and very understandable by modern french speakers. The word Cajun came from Acadien (Cajun pronounce the letter D close to the letter J) so the term became Acajun. Most of these people were kicked out of their homeland Acadia in Canada after the British took it over. They didn't want the Catholics there so they kicked them out; initially to the Carolinas and then to Louisiane.
They look very cute together. When they speak french, they kinda sound like the farmers in my region in France (Nort-West). Very sweet and heartwarming.
During the mid-18th century, French explorers and Canadiens born in French Canada colonized other parts of North America in what are today Louisiana (called Louisianais), Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan as well as around Detroit. French Canadians emigrated massively from Canada to the United States between the 1840s and the 1930s in search of economic opportunities in border communities and industrialized portions of New England.
The Expulsion of the Acadians (also known as the Great Upheaval) was the forced removal by the British of the Acadian people from present day Canadian Maritime provinces: N. Scotia, N. Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island (Acadie). The Expulsion (1755–1763) occurred during the French and Indian War. The Expulsion started by the British deporting Acadians to the Thirteen Colonies and then, after 1758, the British sent them to France. Approximately 11,500 Acadians were deported.
Indeed! During a trip to Acadie I had the chance to read some of the letters from the deported to the King of England, begging him to feed their family and not let them die.
@purplehaze216 So tell me what dialect do Hispanics and Muslims speak? You have no idea what you are talking about. Can you tell the difference in a language, dialect, or accent, I doubt it.
@isabellehebert I believe some of the french Canadians moved from the Montreal area down to the bayou area of Louisiana, so Cajuns are actually decendents of French Canadians.
@kismanie12 That's right. Your grandmothers are french canadians :) Also, there was a short time period when Louisiana and the area was part of the french territory.
@nigelholland3 Don't take offense because it does remind you of West Indien accents from like Haiti, Bahamas, or Trinidad sort of. The way Gambit sound it the exact idea and African language, french, english all put into one. :)
@omfgCantGetaUsername Makes sense, that kind of patois occurs in places that were so busy as trade centers that it was easier to mix the languages together as the local "lingua franca"
I love this accent, I think it's among the loveliest of all North American dialects. It also sounds a THOUSAND times nicer than when Quebecois speak English! I hope younger generations are embracing it and not trying to blend into the mainstream, because if Cajun English is lost it will be a linguistic tragedy.
My uncle talks just like that!! I live in Texas now and in English class we were reading a book and this boy was trying to have an accent and my teacher asked him if he was from Louisiana! On Monday ima show her this video sha an ima tell her this is the beautiful Louisiana accent down south
@TJthebig96 It's actually closer to Bourbon French (or Acadian French to be more specific) than modern-day Metropolitan French. Think of it as going back in time and hearing how Louis XIV spoke. May be a bad example but it's the best I could surmise quickly. Far from "broken french" as you put it.
Reminds me of my grandpa and grandma. We as kids called them paw paw and maw maw. When my paw paw cooked something good, he would say "C'est bon!" I wish I spoke cajun. Damn shame sha...
yep --- kind of folks I grew up around. I'm not Cajun myself (by blood) but culturally it feels like home. It wasn't uncommon as a kid for me to go to a friend's house and wake up on Saturday morning to sounds of his parents speaking in Cajun French with Cajun music on the radio.
cajun french "is "..combination of french { spoken in "napolean s time ..."peasant french'.. and english. being from louisiana..my parents spoke to me and my siblings.. in french ..."only.
ya they beat my grandpa with a cane or ruler for speaking french in school and now they r trying to teach french to us wat was the point in beating people who spoke a diffrent language if their gonna teach it in the future
Sounded great to me - check out the accents and old fashioned words used by Acadians - very similar to Cajuns speech. Acadians were expelled from the east coast of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada and brought by the British to places up and down the east coast. Thousands ended up in Louisiana.
I'm from the Washington DC area and have never actually been to Louisiana but I just wanted to say that I love this accent. I think it's so pretty and unique. I could listen to someone speak like this all day.
Unfortunately, I think the idea of getting a French language requirement in Louisiana is a non-starter. That would cost money, & like other Deep South states, Louisiana doesn't want to spend shit on public education.
A nickle is a lot to spend on public education, public health, public welfare, or anything public, by the predominant standards of Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, or any other Deep South state. Those states are full of underfunded public schools & segregated private schools. A whole lot of conservative whites there don't want to pay taxes to fund public schools open (as public schools are) to blacks, but want to defund them & send their own kids to white private schools.
Please don't generalize ALL of the South... Our public education is poor, but by no means does that GUARANTEE that we are going to be stupid. We have books and internet, and I am, in fact, a member of the Communist Party, USA, and I am white, and I regard all races as family. In fact, I have African blood. I have English, Spanish, African, and North Germanic blood. (My dad's side on that last one, as he is from Minnesota). My great Grandmother was full Cherokee. I'm in GA.
HAhaha. This is kinda funny. Im actually Cajun myself. This accent is correct for the older ones, who have spoken the Cajun French language at a young age. But most of us down here don't have that heavy of an accent
My grandfather spoke cajun french and that's all his parents spoke. This video brings memories. He also told us that in school they would punish the children if they spoke it. They wanted the children to only speask english. Now very few speak it, what a shame.
Unfortunately, no. I'm a young Cajun personally. The Cajun French language is popular among the ages of about... 50 and up. Bellow that age a little, some know it, and further down the line of like, 30 - now, most have no idea of French.
It is a shame, and why so many people from my generation were sent to speech therapy classes in school so we could "unlearn" the accent and "speak correctly." Sad to see the death of such a familiar and locally beautiful way of speaking.
@ Niteboy82. It's a common homogenizing/imperializing thing. Tell a group of people that their particular culture or ethnic group "speaks improperly" and must be re-trained to suit the dominant standard. It destroys diversity.
The same imperalist mecanism happened in France after the French Revolution untill the early 20th century... But my grand-father still used to speak his mother tongue after school when he went home with his brothers... Some people of the young generation are learning regional languages at school now...
TV normalizes certain behaviors and cultures. Schools as well have taught children around the world that the way they grew up speaking is incorrect. It's been used as a colonial tool for centuries.
@jpc8896 Good idea, wrong way to enforce it....In my opinion, everyone should learn to speak English in this country, however Foreign Languages are important for intellectual devlopement....they should teach Cajun French in schools down there as a requirment....
@jpc8896 That's what my grandfather told me also. He grew up in Houma and by the time he was old enough to go, he had to know English well enough to go to school all day, because he and his brothers and sisters would be punished for speaking in French at all. By the time I came along he would rarely speak in French, you had to rile him up first, and then it was words that weren't really fit for childrens' ears! A lot o fthe schools in southern LA now are starting immersion programs.
That's the way it was with Texas Germans in Central Texas. Until the World Wars, many schools taught in Texas German, but anti-German sentiment forced schools to teach exclusively in English. Now, unfortunately it is a dying German dialect. I heard from one of my old professors that was raised in the area, that since there were almost no blacks in the area in the 40's and 50's the KKK mostly just harassed Texas Germans and Czechs.
@HoboZombie This is true, I live in a town that is 98% Czech/German in Texas and my grandpa is 99. He used to speak German just like his father but he said all the Germans were discouraged from speaking the language due to fears of German influence during WWII.
@lupnthe3rd does the name schlitterbahn ring a bell? I visited TX once and and went tubin down a river right near that park. They said there was lots of germans there.
@jpc8896 Yes, all foreign-speaking children were punished in schools everywhere. As all left-handed children were also punished/tortured. We couldn't speak our German or Slovenian in PA schools, either, and were called "Hunkies". We got over it because we did learn English and went to law school and took over the school board. I'm always amazed at how uninformed Louisiana French people are about how all US schools were handled. I expect that your children are all learning Spanish now.
@Goethefemme No...It's different because Louisiana was a FRENCH COLONY, and the people had been speaking French for at least 300 years already. Americans came in and made us change our language. It wasn't that we were immigrants trying to assimilate into a new culture. It's the same as if the U.S sold wherever you live to China, and the Chinese came in and only allowed you to speak Mandarin. You would be pretty pissed about it.
@Goethefemme Yes, my ancestors were Cajun French and they were allowed to speak French in school where my dad is from in Avoyelles Parish. But where my mom was from in Jeff Davis Parish a lot of yankees ended up coming there and they would punish the kids for speaking French in school. As for Spanish, the only reason to learn it is to understand what your enemy is saying. The Mexican invasion going on is just as much an act of war as Japan bombing Pearl Harbor was.
I was raised in Louisiana n moved to galveston tx, it seems like we talk different to eachother. like i mix better with people in louisiana I dont get it
This makes me proud to be from Louisiana personally I think the French - Cajun accent will live on however I think that being able to go from an accent to full on french will most likely fade out
but at least we have people like my grampa who are still passing on the family tradition of trying to keep the accent and language of our culture alive
This accent is very similar to the Acadian in New-Brunswick...after all we're from the same descendants. Cajun is basicly a misspell of "Acadien".
They kinda sound like Quebecois but they are not related to Quebec in anyway, these guys have been deported from the maritimes back in 1755 and they kept the language. I find that amazing.
@dswynne That is a great suggestion! Some places do teach it. Learning new languages is great for children's development and just a cool asset to have in general. But its also about the heritage. The French they teach in schools is Formal or Parisien French. Each country or parish has its own tradition and dialects. They might be similar, but it means a lot more when its generational. Its important to keep the culture alive.
Unfortunately you're right. Especially north Louisiana where I'm from. And with the evacuees from south Louisiana (which is mostly cajun / french) displaced all over the country, the culture and the language could completely die out which would be a shame. The one thing I love most about Louisiana is our unique french culture and history that is unique to our state. And the food, but that's another subject.
What do you mean they don't sound Quebecois. If you go to northern Quebec and Ontario the accent sounds identical to to this. They really sound like Northern Canadians even when they speak English and gesture. The Timmins area has an accent like this when they speak English.
Lol they don't sound awkward =P It's just the accent they have down here ^^ (I live in Louisiana) That's just one of the different types of southern accents that are here, that one is just more Cajun. I'm used to that accent and all ^_^ it's pretty much just in the old people, which is sad cause it sounds cool lol
ah, that accent takes me back! i miss louisiana.
TexasLatte 2 weeks ago
"qui ti vas cuire pour souper?" "pas rien de tout!" "éyoù (et où) ti vas dormir à soir? quel lit ti vas coucher?" "je vas me coucher dans lit en arrière, et toi devant" haha I'm not from here but I love the Louisiana French language(s).
johnnyfwhite 2 weeks ago
If you guys ever get a chance to visit La. take 167 south out of Lafayette to Ester then 82 west to Forked Island, Thats where my family is from. Cross the BIG bridge and stop at Stelly's for some boudin, you'll experience some of the richest cajun accents and friendliest people.
Laissez les bons temps rouler (Let da good times roll) Keep your heritage alive
huntermeaux08 2 weeks ago
I'm from Quebec and you're right it doesn't sound like us when we speak french but more like New Brunswick's Acadian french. Perfectly understandable both french and english. Speaking of thick accents have ever heard scottish accent ?
toughcookie128 3 weeks ago
I'm part Cajun...I wish I had the accent, I love cajun accents.
Narod17 3 weeks ago
MUSIC TO MY EARS CHER!
bandaidbunny729 1 month ago
Y'all should hear what people sound like in Orange, Texas. It's like a blend of Texan and Cajun. To put it simply, it's amazing.
Skizzor09 1 month ago
did they just start speaking french at the end?
reydelacosa 2 months ago
I love Cajun accents <3
kreativekoils613 2 months ago
Sounds just fukin' like North Ontario French folk. I shit yaz not. Come up here and go to Sturgeon Falls a.k.a Virgin Stalls. It seems the French have a lot of daughters and many of them end up stripping in bars. Ask anyone around, they'll tell you. Better yet, go to strip joints in Sudbury & North Bay & Timmins Ontario. Better bring an interpretuer.
treblejunkie 2 months ago
I...Am...CAJUN!!!!!!!
Lafourche4747 2 months ago
I love cajun accents and cajun peanuts
AnaBanana311 3 months ago
It sounds similar to Haitian (creole) accents but mixed with some American South.
TazHall 3 months ago
That's beautiful, I would love to learn it. Although when I was in the west indies I learn I bit of patia. And French in Quebec. I guess it just training the ear to the accent.
bronxsea 4 months ago
im from louisiana!
krazykiddmusicstar 5 months ago
@krazykiddmusicstar ur frikkin awes! =) cajiun accents are the shmex
summerluvzgermx 4 months ago
@summerluvzgermx haha ikr???
krazykiddmusicstar 4 months ago
que tu vas cooker ce soir" in Cajun "qu'es ce que tu vas cuisiner ce soir" in Modern french. The difference is not much and very understandable by modern french speakers. The word Cajun came from Acadien (Cajun pronounce the letter D close to the letter J) so the term became Acajun. Most of these people were kicked out of their homeland Acadia in Canada after the British took it over. They didn't want the Catholics there so they kicked them out; initially to the Carolinas and then to Louisiane.
hmejja1 5 months ago
I love it <3 Just makes me feel at home, and I'm not even from there.
th1nkp1nk91 5 months ago
I love how they talk. They remind me of my grandparents. Mine spoke more French than English.
kellih1986 6 months ago
They look very cute together. When they speak french, they kinda sound like the farmers in my region in France (Nort-West). Very sweet and heartwarming.
bennyfromthe72 6 months ago
During the mid-18th century, French explorers and Canadiens born in French Canada colonized other parts of North America in what are today Louisiana (called Louisianais), Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan as well as around Detroit. French Canadians emigrated massively from Canada to the United States between the 1840s and the 1930s in search of economic opportunities in border communities and industrialized portions of New England.
isabellehebert 6 months ago
@isabellehebert I could easily tell french colonization took place throughout the Mid-west from all the french named states and cities. :)
omfgCantGetaUsername 4 months ago
@isabellehebert
The Expulsion of the Acadians (also known as the Great Upheaval) was the forced removal by the British of the Acadian people from present day Canadian Maritime provinces: N. Scotia, N. Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island (Acadie). The Expulsion (1755–1763) occurred during the French and Indian War. The Expulsion started by the British deporting Acadians to the Thirteen Colonies and then, after 1758, the British sent them to France. Approximately 11,500 Acadians were deported.
toughcookie128 3 weeks ago
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Indeed! During a trip to Acadie I had the chance to read some of the letters from the deported to the King of England, begging him to feed their family and not let them die.
isabellehebert 3 weeks ago
I live in arizona and have a heavy cajun dialect, and when told that i talk funny, i say "no you talk funny"!
grabbermavman 6 months ago
I live in arizona and have a heavy cajun dialect, and when told that i talk funny, i ay "no you talk funny"!
grabbermavman 6 months ago
I'm from Louisiana and saying they sound like black people is very insulting. Suck my ding dong you prick. To me they sound retarded.
mrdante361 6 months ago
sad to think that those dialects are dying out... soon to be replaced by hispanic in the US and muslim languages in europe
purplehaze216 7 months ago
@purplehaze216 So tell me what dialect do Hispanics and Muslims speak? You have no idea what you are talking about. Can you tell the difference in a language, dialect, or accent, I doubt it.
azmike38 5 months ago
Its sounds very similar to the french canadian accent. I live in Montreal, but in the country they sound very much like this.
isabellehebert 7 months ago
@isabellehebert I believe some of the french Canadians moved from the Montreal area down to the bayou area of Louisiana, so Cajuns are actually decendents of French Canadians.
kismanie12 6 months ago
@kismanie12 That's right. Your grandmothers are french canadians :) Also, there was a short time period when Louisiana and the area was part of the french territory.
isabellehebert 6 months ago
they sound like black folks when speaking in English
cdub153340 7 months ago
@cdub153340 Its offensive to both sides because I dont sound like that...The accent is only among Cajun speaking people..
nigelholland3 6 months ago
@nigelholland3 Don't take offense because it does remind you of West Indien accents from like Haiti, Bahamas, or Trinidad sort of. The way Gambit sound it the exact idea and African language, french, english all put into one. :)
omfgCantGetaUsername 4 months ago
@omfgCantGetaUsername Makes sense, that kind of patois occurs in places that were so busy as trade centers that it was easier to mix the languages together as the local "lingua franca"
lunhil12 4 months ago
They talk like one of my teacchers from 7th grade his accent was like that
nigelholland3 7 months ago
favorite accents.
DANACABANA 8 months ago
They sound like creole Haitian where I live <3 amazing
TangFiend 8 months ago
damn that is some thick cajun accent
Ascalon94 8 months ago 16
sound kinda like quebeque
10katie789 9 months ago
I looked this up because of Gambit from the X-men :) I love it!
Purplpocadots13 9 months ago 2
wow, never heard this version of cajun, it sound slike they come from another country, AND THAT GUY DOESNT EVEN SPEAK ENGLISH!
but you gotta love it though
scotfreak 9 months ago
Thanks for the entertainment
barbsreviews 9 months ago
i will hopefully be taking my college grad trip to louisianna. all i can say is i can't wait to get a taste of this and the gumbo baby:)
read4truth 9 months ago
FUK DID THEY SAY
Corbo905 9 months ago
dya gon dun slympin in ohn dya mbnyak bet nyah!.... translation:...... what?
gamerman001 9 months ago
he ask me what I'm cookin' fo' dinnah I tellem nuthin' lol <3 this
MadamPsycox3 9 months ago
Nuthin like tha Cajun accent. ~PrOuD CaJuN~
XxCaJuNsNiPeRxX 9 months ago
I love this accent, I think it's among the loveliest of all North American dialects. It also sounds a THOUSAND times nicer than when Quebecois speak English! I hope younger generations are embracing it and not trying to blend into the mainstream, because if Cajun English is lost it will be a linguistic tragedy.
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ThisCool1422 2 weeks ago
This, my friends, is why I love living in Louisiana.
And if you LOVE hearing this accent, go to New Orleans!
MyOwnLittleWorld123 10 months ago 3
@MyOwnLittleWorld123 Fuck dat! Come to thibodaux!
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somaliwarrior1990 11 months ago
My uncle talks just like that!! I live in Texas now and in English class we were reading a book and this boy was trying to have an accent and my teacher asked him if he was from Louisiana! On Monday ima show her this video sha an ima tell her this is the beautiful Louisiana accent down south
cmrider97 11 months ago
wtf?
Desimunda92 11 months ago
Im proud to be a cajun!
ForeverTheBeatles1 1 year ago
wouldn't itbe creole??
Black555Angel 1 year ago
@Black555Angel Cajun and Creole are different, similar origins though.
SignoraArcobaleno 1 year ago
CAJUN FRENCH!!!!! Yeaa, dats how we speak around Kaplan!
LsuPG13 1 year ago
lol they're speakin in broken french
TJthebig96 1 year ago
@TJthebig96 To say they are speaking in broken French is the same as a Brit saying an American speaks broken English. It is not broken; it just is.
Dalai0Lama00rocks 11 months ago 4
@TJthebig96 It's actually closer to Bourbon French (or Acadian French to be more specific) than modern-day Metropolitan French. Think of it as going back in time and hearing how Louis XIV spoke. May be a bad example but it's the best I could surmise quickly. Far from "broken french" as you put it.
cochise1874 10 months ago
did anyone undersatand these ha?
fitzy545 1 year ago
Old people from Quebec speak like this hahaha
XxMusclecarsxX 1 year ago
N'oubliez pas vos racines, votre langue !
Jironi87 1 year ago
Haha, this is such a cute couple :-)
PhilWithCoffee 1 year ago
It reminds the oil in my shrimp guy in South Park.
98bigbutt 1 year ago
SOUTH BOY!!
MARIO61197 1 year ago
Reminds me of my grandpa and grandma. We as kids called them paw paw and maw maw. When my paw paw cooked something good, he would say "C'est bon!" I wish I spoke cajun. Damn shame sha...
Catinjungle 1 year ago
yep --- kind of folks I grew up around. I'm not Cajun myself (by blood) but culturally it feels like home. It wasn't uncommon as a kid for me to go to a friend's house and wake up on Saturday morning to sounds of his parents speaking in Cajun French with Cajun music on the radio.
jaegerhund 1 year ago
cajun french "is "..combination of french { spoken in "napolean s time ..."peasant french'.. and english. being from louisiana..my parents spoke to me and my siblings.. in french ..."only.
gittar1 1 year ago
ya they beat my grandpa with a cane or ruler for speaking french in school and now they r trying to teach french to us wat was the point in beating people who spoke a diffrent language if their gonna teach it in the future
DameianBoudreaux 1 year ago
I got "bed" out of all that.
Illyria23alyssa 1 year ago
J'adore,un jour j irais rencontrer les cajuns!
tibotibo1976 1 year ago
mais c'est facile à comprendre qund on parle français!
pleoj 1 year ago 4
They are so cute.
heartofsouth 1 year ago
who cares
Mundy307 1 year ago
I share dis one cuz itz so cute. An old couple speaking both the Cajun French and English with da Cajun accent. Very sweet.
Tyger262 1 year ago
i hear this and i remember gambit from xmen animated series straight away
very cool
Gambit the fictional cajun ambassador.....ROFL
NigerianRocker 1 year ago 56
@NigerianRocker I'm trying to find more about cajun yet there isn't anything that resemebles the way he speaks
finnsia 9 months ago
Sounded great to me - check out the accents and old fashioned words used by Acadians - very similar to Cajuns speech. Acadians were expelled from the east coast of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada and brought by the British to places up and down the east coast. Thousands ended up in Louisiana.
cajunnb1 1 year ago
I'm from the Washington DC area and have never actually been to Louisiana but I just wanted to say that I love this accent. I think it's so pretty and unique. I could listen to someone speak like this all day.
914512 1 year ago 91
@914512 thank u
jantzensly 1 year ago
@914512 Im from DC too, I feel the same way. lol
sloanetaytay 1 year ago
@914512 i have lived in louisiana my whole life and this is just Cajun talk
nick9saints 1 year ago
@914512 lol i have this accent and most people hate it
DBro222 10 months ago
@914512 Awwwsx..Thanksx!! i'M 4rm New Orleans, La. MOst oF uSx Either Speak French oR We Either Have A Cajun Accent....
J'aime La Louisiane.
J'aime ma maison.
OmgItsMe2k12 9 months ago
@914512 well then don't go to baton rouge, gonzalas,new orleans,and pretty much every city with pop over 200,00
Bbrosvideos 9 months ago
sounds like he says he wants to swab her Clinique coochie @ 0:32
bigrobdeezey 1 year ago
Boy, do I love Louisiana.
DANGangelina 1 year ago
Cute!
gshunw 1 year ago
"Il va coucher dans l'eau" 0:35 ^^
chamboubou19 1 year ago
By foreign I take it you mean languages other than English?
Nirtak57 1 year ago
C'est genial!! Il ne faut pas que le cajun se perde! Ce sont des restes historiques du français du 18e siecle!
great! cajun language mustn't disapear! Like memories of an old 18th century french, cristalized in the other part of the world.
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stupid white trash americans with your cultureless stupid dumbness!!!
mariostud 1 year ago
Go fuck yourself. There is no thing as "culturelessness". There is only culture of which you approve, and culture you're too much of a snob for.
Vive l'acadie.
auitane 1 year ago 2
@mariostud : Speaking of culture, how can a mother love her son with a name deriving from Mary? Goodness... You have low life and no class.
Hatorah 1 year ago
i love cajun people...my brother's moved from louisiana but they still have those crazy accents
rootsm3 1 year ago
How sweet!
Stikznstemz 1 year ago
I think it's beautiful and amazing that America has so much world culture that has influenced and left an impression in the fabric of our country.
mexnuk 1 year ago
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i think these people are a mix of african redneck french and drunk all at the same time
stsknight321 1 year ago
thats so weird
soccerkjr 1 year ago
Thats right im from Mississippi and My folks are from the N.O. and thats exactly how my grandma and paw paw talk
jrakahollywood 1 year ago
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They're speaking French ebonics. I once sucked an alligator's dick. i sucked the cock roux right outta its scaly dick.
RandomSpewBros 1 year ago
what?!? Thats fucking random.. but hillarious
Cacacacacaroo 1 year ago
Unfortunately, I think the idea of getting a French language requirement in Louisiana is a non-starter. That would cost money, & like other Deep South states, Louisiana doesn't want to spend shit on public education.
loupgarou5z3w 1 year ago
hello? im from louisiana and yes we do spend stuff on public education in fact we spend alot
ZyriaLuvWG 1 year ago 2
@ZyriaLuvWG
A nickle is a lot to spend on public education, public health, public welfare, or anything public, by the predominant standards of Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, or any other Deep South state. Those states are full of underfunded public schools & segregated private schools. A whole lot of conservative whites there don't want to pay taxes to fund public schools open (as public schools are) to blacks, but want to defund them & send their own kids to white private schools.
loupgarou5z3w 1 year ago
@loupgarou5z3w
Please don't generalize ALL of the South... Our public education is poor, but by no means does that GUARANTEE that we are going to be stupid. We have books and internet, and I am, in fact, a member of the Communist Party, USA, and I am white, and I regard all races as family. In fact, I have African blood. I have English, Spanish, African, and North Germanic blood. (My dad's side on that last one, as he is from Minnesota). My great Grandmother was full Cherokee. I'm in GA.
JayceMearesShit 1 year ago
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ma sha hes gonna give her his big boudin tonite
niggitynignig 1 year ago
HAhaha. This is kinda funny. Im actually Cajun myself. This accent is correct for the older ones, who have spoken the Cajun French language at a young age. But most of us down here don't have that heavy of an accent
murloc14 1 year ago
I speak (French) French a second language and I didn't find it hard to follow. The Cadien speech has a great deal of charm.
irateofwatford 1 year ago
lol i saw this video in my cultural anthro class
ndrocksteady 2 years ago
My grandfather spoke cajun french and that's all his parents spoke. This video brings memories. He also told us that in school they would punish the children if they spoke it. They wanted the children to only speask english. Now very few speak it, what a shame.
jpc8896 2 years ago 51
I'm from France and I understand them very well. That's amazing. I was told Cajuns were speaking a different French but they don't... wow :)
domjuan75 2 years ago
actually it could be the grand parents of my friends in the French country... no big difference ^^ do young people still speak Cajun French?
domjuan75 2 years ago
Unfortunately, no. I'm a young Cajun personally. The Cajun French language is popular among the ages of about... 50 and up. Bellow that age a little, some know it, and further down the line of like, 30 - now, most have no idea of French.
murloc14 1 year ago
It is a shame, and why so many people from my generation were sent to speech therapy classes in school so we could "unlearn" the accent and "speak correctly." Sad to see the death of such a familiar and locally beautiful way of speaking.
niteboy82 1 year ago
@ Niteboy82. It's a common homogenizing/imperializing thing. Tell a group of people that their particular culture or ethnic group "speaks improperly" and must be re-trained to suit the dominant standard. It destroys diversity.
hazelfo 1 year ago
The same imperalist mecanism happened in France after the French Revolution untill the early 20th century... But my grand-father still used to speak his mother tongue after school when he went home with his brothers... Some people of the young generation are learning regional languages at school now...
domjuan75 1 year ago
Television is one of the liquidators of diversity.
hazelfo 1 year ago
yes, TV is a way to control people so that they can't realize anything...
but before that, regional languages were forbiden in France at school (even Occitan)...
domjuan75 1 year ago
TV normalizes certain behaviors and cultures. Schools as well have taught children around the world that the way they grew up speaking is incorrect. It's been used as a colonial tool for centuries.
hazelfo 1 year ago
yes. you're totally right...
that's a part of the world's History...
domjuan75 1 year ago
@jpc8896 Good idea, wrong way to enforce it....In my opinion, everyone should learn to speak English in this country, however Foreign Languages are important for intellectual devlopement....they should teach Cajun French in schools down there as a requirment....
CecilCollins34 1 year ago 5
@jpc8896 That's what my grandfather told me also. He grew up in Houma and by the time he was old enough to go, he had to know English well enough to go to school all day, because he and his brothers and sisters would be punished for speaking in French at all. By the time I came along he would rarely speak in French, you had to rile him up first, and then it was words that weren't really fit for childrens' ears! A lot o fthe schools in southern LA now are starting immersion programs.
coonassblondie 1 year ago
@jpc8896
As a young cajun person you should learn it, I am from Canada and I have few Cajun friends and I speak French with them. :P
killerguitar44 1 year ago
@jpc8896
That's the way it was with Texas Germans in Central Texas. Until the World Wars, many schools taught in Texas German, but anti-German sentiment forced schools to teach exclusively in English. Now, unfortunately it is a dying German dialect. I heard from one of my old professors that was raised in the area, that since there were almost no blacks in the area in the 40's and 50's the KKK mostly just harassed Texas Germans and Czechs.
HoboZombie 1 year ago
@HoboZombie This is true, I live in a town that is 98% Czech/German in Texas and my grandpa is 99. He used to speak German just like his father but he said all the Germans were discouraged from speaking the language due to fears of German influence during WWII.
lupnthe3rd 8 months ago
@lupnthe3rd does the name schlitterbahn ring a bell? I visited TX once and and went tubin down a river right near that park. They said there was lots of germans there.
darrenedesignedu 7 months ago
@jpc8896 Yes, all foreign-speaking children were punished in schools everywhere. As all left-handed children were also punished/tortured. We couldn't speak our German or Slovenian in PA schools, either, and were called "Hunkies". We got over it because we did learn English and went to law school and took over the school board. I'm always amazed at how uninformed Louisiana French people are about how all US schools were handled. I expect that your children are all learning Spanish now.
Goethefemme 1 year ago
@Goethefemme No...It's different because Louisiana was a FRENCH COLONY, and the people had been speaking French for at least 300 years already. Americans came in and made us change our language. It wasn't that we were immigrants trying to assimilate into a new culture. It's the same as if the U.S sold wherever you live to China, and the Chinese came in and only allowed you to speak Mandarin. You would be pretty pissed about it.
sambo861 1 year ago
@Goethefemme Yes, my ancestors were Cajun French and they were allowed to speak French in school where my dad is from in Avoyelles Parish. But where my mom was from in Jeff Davis Parish a lot of yankees ended up coming there and they would punish the kids for speaking French in school. As for Spanish, the only reason to learn it is to understand what your enemy is saying. The Mexican invasion going on is just as much an act of war as Japan bombing Pearl Harbor was.
ridgerunner721601 1 year ago
They're just like my neighbours in Duson.
colourfastt 2 years ago
@colourfastt
HAHAHA duson is the shit
RottenTreat 2 years ago
Je ne comprendre pas.
noblebird9094 2 years ago
xD
Oh man, every time I hear the cajun accent, I can't help but smile
LilytheFrilly 2 years ago 7
J'adore, bravo au cajun d'avoir conservé leur langue française! Et beau petit couple aussi !
PatrioteduQuebec77 2 years ago 2
omg sooo kool i really want to go to Louisiana and they r a funny couple
happybunny240 2 years ago
Quoi tu vas cuire pour souper? Pas rien du tout!!
sansnom 2 years ago
I was raised in Louisiana n moved to galveston tx, it seems like we talk different to eachother. like i mix better with people in louisiana I dont get it
awefuckit 2 years ago 4
What part of Louisiana?
EdwardXVI 2 years ago
Lafayette, and Cecilia thanks for asking, N thanks for the thumbs up!
awefuckit 2 years ago
Awesome.
Lobsterlady2362 2 years ago
Wooow .. my favorite accent in the world! lol
lovelykia92 2 years ago
reminds me of my grand parents
j'adore ma culture fracnchophone
laurenbop 2 years ago 3
I do have one question for those who hear or speak with a cajun accent. If you were to write it like it sounded, how would it look?
ex. I change most of my T's to D's, or make them soft, so water sounds like "wadder" , and Mountain is "Mounin"
JaganshiKitsune 2 years ago
I love accents...
And the Cajun accent has a special place in my heart. But I feel like an idiot because I get about 4 in every 10 words
JaganshiKitsune 2 years ago
This makes me proud to be from Louisiana personally I think the French - Cajun accent will live on however I think that being able to go from an accent to full on french will most likely fade out
but at least we have people like my grampa who are still passing on the family tradition of trying to keep the accent and language of our culture alive
ECWfan112 2 years ago 4
SEXAY But on young hot guys tho
ALW9876 2 years ago
Et où tu vas dormir l' soir ? Et où tu vas coucher ? Great people ! And they are proud americans , I like that !
delamotteh 2 years ago 4
"Que cé que tu va cookouer pour souper !?"
BWAHAHAHAH XDXD
Meilleure quote ever !!! :D
finaltorment 2 years ago
ce couple de cajun est beau
yezziryessir13 2 years ago
This accent is very similar to the Acadian in New-Brunswick...after all we're from the same descendants. Cajun is basicly a misspell of "Acadien".
They kinda sound like Quebecois but they are not related to Quebec in anyway, these guys have been deported from the maritimes back in 1755 and they kept the language. I find that amazing.
Ph4nToM890 2 years ago 5
Ouais, c'est vrai! On parle la langue française encore icitte en Louisiane!
Check out some of my videos to hear more Cajun French being spoken!
CadjinGisclair 2 years ago
Better enjoy Cajun French while it lasts. Louisiana is becoming more and more anglicized.
seth4404 2 years ago 32
Seth, thats a cryin shame
charlitunaman2002 2 years ago 4
Why not petition the state government to require French in schools?
dswynne 2 years ago 4
@dswynne That is a great suggestion! Some places do teach it. Learning new languages is great for children's development and just a cool asset to have in general. But its also about the heritage. The French they teach in schools is Formal or Parisien French. Each country or parish has its own tradition and dialects. They might be similar, but it means a lot more when its generational. Its important to keep the culture alive.
dharmapunk777 1 year ago
@seth4404
Unfortunately you're right. Especially north Louisiana where I'm from. And with the evacuees from south Louisiana (which is mostly cajun / french) displaced all over the country, the culture and the language could completely die out which would be a shame. The one thing I love most about Louisiana is our unique french culture and history that is unique to our state. And the food, but that's another subject.
badgyrl310 2 years ago
The food is also a good subject. I'm French and I like Cajun cuisine ^^
domjuan75 1 year ago
@seth4404 its phisically dissappearing
mynameisgodihateyou 1 year ago
@seth4404 thats cool. Im Acadian, but Cajuns are Acadian so were all the same blood man!
M1dnightSou1 1 year ago
@seth4404 you call that anglicized southern English sucks the oil in the golf of mexico cajun french is better for fuck sake
ericssson 1 year ago
@ericssson your not a smart person.
jeb1022 1 year ago
That man sounded exactly like my grandpa, not just the accent, but the voice too! I call my grandpa papa though lol.
070292 2 years ago
i wish i had a grandpa who sounded like that! lmao
magister92 2 years ago 2
Tres mignon.
irinanotevil 2 years ago 3
I LOVE THIS ACCENT!!!!!!!!!!!!
heathermcd89 2 years ago 6
What do you mean they don't sound Quebecois. If you go to northern Quebec and Ontario the accent sounds identical to to this. They really sound like Northern Canadians even when they speak English and gesture. The Timmins area has an accent like this when they speak English.
shirehorse9 2 years ago
As wagonburnt says, it's derived from the French in Accadia. The term Cajun comes from the adjective 'Accadian'.
patton1138 2 years ago
Not really Quebecois... more Acadian french.. which considering the original settlers were from from Nova Scotia, it would make sense.
wagonburnt 2 years ago
wow, when they speak french they sound normal, when they speak english they sound awkward (i live in quebec JE PEU PARLE EN FRANCAISE TABARNAC)
poynterlove123 2 years ago
Lol they don't sound awkward =P It's just the accent they have down here ^^ (I live in Louisiana) That's just one of the different types of southern accents that are here, that one is just more Cajun. I'm used to that accent and all ^_^ it's pretty much just in the old people, which is sad cause it sounds cool lol
lilmace49 2 years ago 4