Cajun Talk: Best. Video. Ever.

This is Evan's grandfather. He plays the accordion, cooks, and apparently speaks Cajun better than me. This is the coolest thing that I've ever seen.

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[canuckartist]

@jolanwix I can assure you I won't let my heritage die out, my son speaks my grandmother's Acadian french. We all have to keep our roots well planted and be proud of where we come from :) I'm an Acadian still living in our ancestral lands in atlantic Canada and proud of it! :) C'est la joie de vivre qui nous permet de survivre.

[BlindTom61]

America is trading this for McDonalds... crime of the century.

[frizzzzzzal]

I don't know how I got here. I was orginally watching videos on tattooing

[harrisonjamez]

tony cherere!

[MalikaNunn]

il parle francais (:

[MonsieurMercredi]

@NightKitchenQueen, write and speak the French words aloud with English sentences. (French is not always arranged the same as an English sentence) Example: I hate you Sarah! Je vous deteste Sarah Or, Sarah, je vous deteste But start with using one French word in a English sentence: J'adore Cajun foods (i.e., I love Cajun foods) Terry left avec Steven (i.e., Terry left with Steven) His pere and his frere are malade! (i.e., his father and his brother are sick) Take your time learning.

[TehChickAshley]

I can't understand a lot of what he's saying, but this makes my heart absolutely melt.

I'm a cajun and this is what I was raised around. :)

[MonsieurMercredi]

@NightKitchenQueen, but it doesn't have to be the extent of your French. You have the rest of your life to learn it, and you can learn it at your own pace.

I took French in high school, but I forgot it. I had to relearn it because I was meeting many people from North Africa, and Montreal Canada. It's was not fun, nor was it easy, but I was determined to learn it.

Lean your verbs first. Use them in sentence daily. Next learn adjectives and adverbs.

[MonsieurMercredi]

@BirdogL19, you must write in English, so Anglophones understands you!

For English speakers:

He's telling you that the dish-food is good eating (tastes good). He thanks someone named Virginia--I guess she is the creator of the recipe. BirdogL19 goes on to tell you that his father was a Quebecois (from Montreal, Quebec--Canada).

I'm NOT french, I'm not Cajun, and I'm not Creole, but I do read, write, and speak French. I love everything about true French--I don't like butchered French slang.

[chrsmcwtrs]

hahahaa.... what?????  hahahaaa...

[PolskaProdigy]

@mvleblanc I wish I could understand!!

[PolskaProdigy]

I love it !!! 1/2 French + 1/2 slang french and English!

[cmprquickshot]

WTF!!???got here from urban dictionary

[scampbellcarlton]

He so sounds like my daddy did.... oh, how I miss this.

[mvleblanc]

I understood every word of that. Once you get past the accent, he's very easy to understand. His French is quite good, not a lot of slang. Cool old guy.

[GeranBeast]

I'm from Denham Springs, Louisiana and both my grandpa and my grandma are Cajun.  I used to wake up every morning to Cajun music and my grandparents cooking me breakfast. Those were the happiest times in my life. :)

[BirdogL19]

Le ragout d'écrevisse, c'êst du bon mangée. Merci de Virginia. Mon Père était Quebeçois.

[59nfw]

@toughcookie128 I would say 99% ;) "Ça fait une bonne" what?

Une ___d'écrevisses

[masbeer]

Cool old fellow. My French friends have told me that Cajun sounds like French from the 17th century, which is precisely what it is. My Grandpa would get slapped with rulers at school by his teachers, who considered Cajun backwards and subversive, so he never used it around us kids (except when swearing!). Thank goodness we have moved past stupid sh*t like that years ago, and Cajun culture will persevere! Cest bon!

[huntermeaux08]

I'm from Lafayette,La also and now live in Iowa and make the best Gumbo and Jambalya in our community, My dad was from Forked Island and spoke cajun we had some french exchange student and they could communicate but some words were different, kinda like different dialics of spanish. Love my heritage and roots, planning a trip to Lafayette and New Orleans for my daughters 16th BD, MARDI GRAS four weeks away. Geaux Saints

[BriarVaen]

Its like he's speaking jazz.

[FallenDestiny1218]

I was trying to learn the recipe but to hard to understand for me. Maybe next time but I loved this video!!!

[LaCriollaRoja]

@bigtrilla817 Thank you! Can you scream this from the mountaintops of YouTube again, please? :)

[jdogmoney]

I understood "bell pepper".

[toughcookie128]

Curiously some people speak with thicker accent and some very close to standard french.