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
2 ай бұрын
Thats awesome, man
@BK_718
2 ай бұрын
Tres bien ✊🏼
@user-mrfrog
2 ай бұрын
Je vous félicite ! 🙂
@sgt.mcgillicuddy2948
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
Merveilleux!
@mt0881
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
In Europe yes, but not in US and Canada where they were seen as religious rural hicks.
@Grav648
2 ай бұрын
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
@timr.2257
2 ай бұрын
If you go to Paris you'll see how poor it is 😂😂
@IamNiggler
2 ай бұрын
@biggie_smoke_00onig33I'm gay ok
@s.r.7602
2 ай бұрын
I feel like it's always dependent on who holds power at the time. Once america took hold of Louisiana it makes sense (power wise) that they would brand french speakers as lesser.
@MarsM13
2 ай бұрын
My parents were forced to kneel for hours on dried corn if they were caught speaking french in school.
@onikamaraj1239
2 ай бұрын
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
Ай бұрын
What is your country? And why do they do that to people at this point in the century we live in?
@MarsM13
Ай бұрын
@@jorgeomarjaimesviafara6061 America. And it's not "at this point". It happened to my parents.
@yaush_
Ай бұрын
Holy shit
@Dornan77802
Ай бұрын
Yep, it’s unfortunate, but as much as we are a cultural melting pot here in the states, English is the preferred majority language and a lot of languages have been suppressed over the years through various means. After-all, some like German (which my family spoke a few generations ago) were highly discouraged to the point that it’s all but disappeared except for certain communities. There‘s actually a video of a guy on here where he explains a similar story where his parents (who were Cajun) had taught his older brother but ended up refusing to teach him because of his brother‘s experiences in school as well as his father being convinced (by his time as a soldier in World War 2) that English was better and more patriotic.
@revinhatol
2 ай бұрын
*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
2 ай бұрын
Mobile Alabama was originally a Spanish colony.
@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781
2 ай бұрын
No French 🥖 @@3x157
@JosephShemelewski
2 ай бұрын
Neat
@3abductee
2 ай бұрын
@@3x157 Mobile was the first capital of French Louisiana.
@bigmoneylost
2 ай бұрын
@3x157 Nope it was founded by Iberville in 1702
@hismajesty6272
2 ай бұрын
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.
@hismajesty6272
2 ай бұрын
@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
2 ай бұрын
@@ProgressiveGoldbugWhat are you yapping about dawg
@DaDa-ui3sw
2 ай бұрын
@@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 !
@lewiitoons4227
2 ай бұрын
@@ProgressiveGoldbug Cajun French is the local French, no such thing as a bastardised language nor is there anything less culturally relevant about aave, in fact, in modern media it’s becoming more and more culturally relevant. Languages in all forms are just as complex and historically dense no need for elitism
@SiPakRubah
2 ай бұрын
@@ProgressiveGoldbugThat's like asking Spanish speaking LATAM community to learn European Spanish instead of their own version of Spanish
@monrow1961
2 ай бұрын
Je suis moitie Quebecois moitie Acadien, j'ai toujours voulu visite mes cousins de Louisianne. Un jour si le seigneur est bon!
@hismajesty6272
2 ай бұрын
You’re welcomed to come down here and stay if you want, cousin. We Cajuns love other French speakers. God bless.
@anthonypowell4240
2 ай бұрын
Just don't go to new orleans
@maysonguy
2 ай бұрын
@@anthonypowell4240 yeah the crime rate is pretty bad, so is baton rouge. i reccomend lafayette
@IchabodvanTassel98
2 ай бұрын
@@maysonguywhat’s up with that? Does that city also voted to defund the police?
@maysonguy
2 ай бұрын
@@IchabodvanTassel98they changed it from 10% to 25% reduced funding i think
@gavindoyle692
Ай бұрын
As an Irishman, who is a French teacher living in Mexico, I found this an interesting video. I would encourage Louisianans to keep up their efforts. Learning languages is great. I grew up in Dublin, a monolingual English-speaking city (token signage in Irish and compulsory teaching in school notwithstanding). But now I am a fluent French, German, Italian and Spanish speaker. You’re never too old to start to learn a new language!
@kamikazes03
Ай бұрын
But the issue here is not only language but culture. Louisiana Cajun's closest kins are actually located on the east coast of Canada. When they visit each other, they have a sense of déjà vu, although they have been separated for more than 250 years, courtesy of the British Empire.
@leviturner3265
28 күн бұрын
Interesting that you did not learn Gaeliga. I do not know how to say it in Irish but Gaelic, or I guess Irish. Just as much as Louisiana should continue their efforts with Cajun French it seems to me that Ireland should continue with Irish, and Scotland should continue with Scots Gaelic. I have learned a bit of Scots. It is difficult because the only main language learning source is actually Duolingo. Irish on the other hand is much more spoken, and available to be learned. It is available on Rosetta Stone, unlike Scots.
@gavindoyle692
27 күн бұрын
@@leviturner3265 oh we were taught Irish in school, but never used it after that. But I took the Romance languages like a duck to water. Probably due to having studied Latin for six years.
@user-gy7zh9dh6p
7 күн бұрын
I'm french and visited Louisiana this summer going to three towns: Lafayette, Bâton-Rouge and New Orleans, it is a splendid state with a so overwhelming cultural background due to all the ethnic group present at the same place that it makes it a must go in the USA and I hope that they will conserve their culture and traditions!
@GoldwaveGT
2 ай бұрын
As a Louisianan, even though I’m not Cajun at all, I still know some French. Edit : I learned some more French and I just reached level 2A! Merci France, de Louisiane!
2 ай бұрын
Yeah we use so many French words in English, so it's hard not to!
@joaog.9497
Ай бұрын
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
@lesamisdelacuisineprovenca9534
Ай бұрын
Voilà !
@voiceofreason2674
23 күн бұрын
The truth is most Louisiana people arent Cajun even the ones with French last names like me. Some people with my last name call themselves Cajuns but the truth is no Acadians ever had my last name. Cajuns kept the language the longest and thats to be commended but I cannot in good conscience call myself that when none of my family ever lived in Acadiana or would have called themselves Cajuns. White french speakers in New Orleans integrated into Wasp culture pretty seemlessly. But yea i can get by in French it's a family tradition to know basic phrases mainly regarding cooking and construction
@clairebreuleux2928
11 күн бұрын
Any language is nice to learn , it's important to understand the world and a wealth . All language is precious and shouldn't be forgotten in the name of our historical past witch tells us where we come from to help us carry on toward our futur.
@Someguyfromthebeststatela
2 ай бұрын
As someone from Louisiana I actually have zero French blood (I still want the French culture to still be here)
@hismajesty6272
2 ай бұрын
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.
2 ай бұрын
Ouais it's about culture and identity not blood.
@KamBar2020
2 ай бұрын
Make BAGUETTE Great Again 🥖
@Thetraumaneverleavesyou
12 күн бұрын
Sure u have ,do DNA test i garentee u have at least 20%
@user-fz5iv4sv3m
12 күн бұрын
Chers cousins du continent Américain, le sang Français n'existe pas, l'histoire de la France est un brassage des peuples durant plusieurs milliers d'années (Gaulois, Francs, Celtes, Anglo saxons...) je suis né et vie en France mais j'ais des arrières grands parents anglais et Russe. Ce qui nous unit c'est la culture française.
@The_Beautiful_Ones
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
Most Creoles are Black, and a very large proportion are Afro-Antillean.
@thekreyolcadet
2 ай бұрын
@@jasonhaven7170most afro creoles have ancestors that came straight from africa. a good chunk are afro antellian but not most..
@A.LeBlanc
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
@@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
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
Whats funny is that the US doesnt even have an official language _de jure_
@maryelizamoore7870
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
@maryelizamoore7870 new Mexico is the only state with Spanish as a coequal offical language
@MCKevin289
2 ай бұрын
You mean de facto. De Jure means by law. De facto is by practice.
@janthegeek
2 ай бұрын
@@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
2 ай бұрын
@@maryelizamoore7870louisiana has no official language louisiana
@just_a_turtle_chad
2 ай бұрын
I feel like governments need to do more about preserving unique cultures from going extinct.
@user-yh1nm1vy3i
2 ай бұрын
Well no shіt, sherlock.
@timr.2257
2 ай бұрын
Ask the Canadians what they actually think about the French.
@davidlefranc6240
2 ай бұрын
@@timr.2257 Depends where you are from, bitches exist everywhere !
@gamervox1707
2 ай бұрын
"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
2 ай бұрын
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.
@robertwaguespack9414
2 ай бұрын
Je suis de Louisiana et je suis fier d'etre Acadien.
@edmerc92
2 ай бұрын
*Louisiane
@ajbaha948
2 ай бұрын
@@edmerc92😅 C’est une dictée ou quoi ?
@RegentDeMarquis005
2 ай бұрын
Je suis de le Washitaw. Proud to be Washitaw Al Moroccan 🇲🇦🇺🇲🇲🇦💚💜💛🏹🏹🏹🏹🐝🐝🐝🐝
2 ай бұрын
Vive la Louisiane !!!
@raphaelgaucher3917
2 ай бұрын
Lâche pas :)
@benedictt.1050
2 ай бұрын
As someone with a Cajun background, I wish I had learned French as a kid. I guess it's never too late to learn
@bikesfrench8524
Ай бұрын
bien sûr 😊
@terioze9
Ай бұрын
Il n'est jamais trop tard pour apprendre à parler français :) It's never too late to learn how to speak French :)
@CreolePolyglot
Ай бұрын
exactly! we got some Louisiana French speakers on Discord, if you really wanna get started!
@ommsterlitz1805
Ай бұрын
Always remember that english itself is 50% French words
@jesseflores9087
Ай бұрын
Start now....I taught myself the native Mexican language at 30 y/o
2 ай бұрын
Proud to see dozens of our episodes featured in this video! We are the only Louisiana French media outlet. Subscribe to our channel to learn more about our unique language, culture, and people.
@3x157
2 ай бұрын
I'm obsessed with French culture in Louisiana. Very fascinating.
@JacobMartinolich
2 ай бұрын
Merci beaucoup!
@KamBar2020
2 ай бұрын
Make BAGUETTE 🥖 Great Again 🥐
@jeffkardosjr.3825
2 ай бұрын
Speaking of French media, when possible, listen to AM radio stations from Quebec.
@ThomasSselate
2 ай бұрын
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
Ай бұрын
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
Ай бұрын
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
@Gluteus.Maximus
Ай бұрын
Quebec canada is also loaing french language. I wonder as a french citizen, how much do you know about Quebec and how much connection is there with frnace? Theyre starting to come up with very weird laws to protect the language there
@moreaupascal56
Ай бұрын
@@Gluteus.Maximus there is definitely more links with quebec than louisiana bc lots of French lives in Montreal, history is known but not precisely overall I think Other regions of Canada speaking French are not known though
@kristus20
Ай бұрын
Well France has had extremely aggressive language policies within its own borders already, killing any language other than French, even though French started as a minority language in what is now France. It’s surprising to see the French don’t try the same overseas as much.
@guillaumedumont1559
Ай бұрын
Acadia is not just Nova Scotia, it also is New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Maine . :)
@kamikazes03
Ай бұрын
SURTOUT le Nouveau-Brunswick, mais il ne faut pas oublier non plus certaines parties du Québec (Ïles de la Madeleine et la Gaspésie).
@PierreCarbonneau-ln6ey
16 күн бұрын
@@kamikazes03 Il y a actuellement plus de Québécois d'origine acadienne qu'il y a d'Acadiens au Nouveau-Brunswick...
@tototomato1748
2 ай бұрын
I Hope than our cousines of Louisiana will keep their culture 🇫🇷
@patrickmiller6530
2 ай бұрын
❤🇫🇷
@whitebeans7292
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
El idioma Español es superiora en Louisiana
@tototomato1748
2 ай бұрын
@@whitebeans7292 c’est super félicitations
@RedMentalHM
2 ай бұрын
Rdr2 people
@loumcast
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
Based🇺🇲
@badezour
2 ай бұрын
@@pliniojr95 👉🪳
@J0seph13
2 ай бұрын
@@pliniojr95 npc
@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
@@pliniojr95 Idiot.
@archimade
2 ай бұрын
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 😊
@TurLuTuTuTuLasDansLeQ
22 күн бұрын
Jack kerouac
@erinjohnson1124
2 ай бұрын
Proud New Orleanian Creole, et je parle français, é mo parl kréyol Lalwizyan. Thank you for this video.
@marlene97280
Ай бұрын
Salut de la Martinique
@steve810
2 ай бұрын
I am literally in new Orleans LA as we speak, trucking.
@kattapp
2 ай бұрын
Man things went downhill after trump for you didn’t they Mike.
@KingSosa97
2 ай бұрын
@@kattapp🤣
@naumprihodyaschy8629
2 ай бұрын
@@kattapp yeah it's definitely this evil Trump who is trying to destroy French language in Louisiana
@Bakarost
2 ай бұрын
i am from nawlins, me
@mildlydispleased3221
2 ай бұрын
That is the most American sentence I've ever read.
@Filmreel1094
8 күн бұрын
“50,000 French used to live here. Now it’s a ghost town.”
@dakotathedoctor6882
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
As another Cajun, me too.
2 ай бұрын
Jamais trop tard sha.
@matthieumenard8149
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
Navajo and Crow barely held on. Many natives speak that
2 ай бұрын
Oui c'est le même combat !
@Schlabbeflicker
Ай бұрын
Nothing more French than suppressing the regional minority language
@BananaBlooD9517
28 күн бұрын
@@SchlabbeflickerThe Brits & American were master at repressing other languages too 😂. Everywhere there was another language the Brits & Americans did everything to kill the language.
@Joseph-ax999
Ай бұрын
I'm not from Louisiana but after meeting a group of French students one summer I decided that French would be a good thing to know. It's one of the best things I've ever done. And it's allowed me to understand a country that previously had been a bit of a mystery.
@lavieestunsonge4541
Ай бұрын
Ma langue maternelle est l’anglais mais je préfère à parler, écrire et lire français. Parce qu’il est une langue plus belle que l’anglais, à mon très-humble avis.
@bikesfrench8524
Ай бұрын
L'anglais est une langue d'origine française et c'est la réalité
@lavieestunsonge4541
Ай бұрын
@@bikesfrench8524 Assurément, beaucoup des mots anglais sont d’origine française, bien sûr, mais ce serait comme dire, la langue française, anglais, italien, et les autres langues sont les mêmes choses comme Latine, et Grecque ancien.
@FyL43
4 күн бұрын
*elle
@excolo3290
3 күн бұрын
Beaucoup de mots sont effectivement d'origine française, le vocabulaire ayant été influencé par l'invasion normande, mais foncièrement c'est une langue d'origine germanique du fait de l'invasion anglo-saxonne.
@alxthiry
27 күн бұрын
Il faut faire vivre et rayonner la Francophonie. Bonjour de Belgique francophone. 🇧🇪🇫🇷
@auriel8300
2 ай бұрын
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.
@leviturner3265
28 күн бұрын
I am assuming it was dependent on the time period. I mean that it was during the second phase of the Ku Klux Klan. The one that was the largest, and was around from approximately 1915 to the late 1920's. At that time there was not a large Ku Klux Klan presence in the South. It was much more prevalent in places like Indiana, or Colorado, or other northern states.
@bouchacourtthierry8506
12 күн бұрын
😂😂😂
@bradjbourgeois73
2 ай бұрын
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!
@micahparker6924
2 ай бұрын
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
Ай бұрын
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.
@MrHam0117
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
@@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.
2 ай бұрын
We helped open the first Indian/Cajun French school in Pointe-au-Chien. Coming soon to Lafourche...
@alperena1675
2 ай бұрын
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!
@rcolonn63
2 ай бұрын
I was born in Houma, Louisiana. My great-grandfather started the first newspaper. It was in French. I have a copy of it.
@bikesfrench8524
Ай бұрын
Continue Bat toi la garde ne se rend pas😊
@Signal.Services
2 ай бұрын
French must be spoken at home for the language to thrive.
@schalitz1
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
Only the southern area.
@adamelghalmi9771
2 ай бұрын
hawaii cause its literally a sovereign nation we ate, alaska cause it has lots of russians?
@schalitz1
2 ай бұрын
@@adamelghalmi9771 And the Natives.
@Dim.g0v
2 ай бұрын
@@adamelghalmi9771 How many Russians are living in Alaska?
@adamelghalmi9771
2 ай бұрын
@@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
@Durahan82
2 ай бұрын
That's the fate Quebec is trying to avoid .
@jorgeomarjaimesviafara6061
Ай бұрын
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
Ай бұрын
@@jorgeomarjaimesviafara6061english is not the most used in québec pls stop making up fake nonsense😅
@marlene97280
Ай бұрын
Because their resist
@Durahan82
Ай бұрын
@@marlene97280 No shit Sherlock
@boptillyouflop
Ай бұрын
@@jorgeomarjaimesviafara6061 Quebec is still vastly predominantly French speaking. It hasn't happened yet and if we can have our way, it ain't happening soon.
@tmen1476
Ай бұрын
Damn, English Americans really discriminated against everyone huh
@RSC1123
Ай бұрын
I am a Louisiana native from St. Martin Parish. I took french grammar class and was taught science and social studies in french since kindergarten. I am glad I got to have this experience, you don’t think about it as a child but now that I am an adult I understand how important it is for us to carry our culture into the next generation. Although I can’t really speak creole like my parents and grandparents, I speak the France dialect of French very well and and gratful to pass on such a huge part of our culture. Our French is fading but I speak to my son in French and will absolutely make sure he learns too. Love my culture, love where I’m from.
@MFedericoMoreno
28 күн бұрын
I am from California, and I am very disappointed my state government hasn't taken similar initiatives to preserve our Spanish-speaking heritage. I support Louisiana. Soy Californiano y siento mucha vergüenza de que mi gobierno estatal no está trabajando de preservar nuestra cultura latina e hispanohablante. Ojalá lo harán pronto. Apoyo Luisiana
@adamdefibaugh9674
2 күн бұрын
Oh please. It's in no threat of dying out anytime soon. Nobody is trying to get rid of Spanish in California.
@CarleAge
2 ай бұрын
And that's also what happened with every other language spoken in France a century ago beside French.
@BananaBlooD9517
28 күн бұрын
Not like the languages in the British Isles are doing much better... Or in any other part of the world where a country expanded & took control of new territory.
@HealingfromtheBayou
2 ай бұрын
Merci et merci Tele Louisiane 💙🧅🫑🌶️
2 ай бұрын
Pas de quoi ! On ne lâche pas.
@KamBar2020
2 ай бұрын
Slava 🥖
@jeffersonaraujoelcristiano
2 ай бұрын
As a French-descendant living in Peru, I feel really proud for this language.
@pbilk
Ай бұрын
It would be helpful that the State started printing signs in both French and English.
@brianbullard8291
Ай бұрын
Actually they do at the border. The welcome signs.
@Kowjja
2 ай бұрын
As a metropolitan French, Cajun french to me almost sounds like its own language and it would be indeed very sad if it disappeared.
@mixtapemania6769
2 ай бұрын
As Haitian 🇭🇹 I see Louisiana as our american cousins and their creole is kind of similiar to ours, although more frenchified.
@alexandrejassoud3123
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
Le français est une langue "folklorique" pour eux.
@lesamisdelacuisineprovenca9534
Ай бұрын
C'est un coup de com' ! Pour attirer les touristes américains (exotisme) et français en leur faisant croire qu'il y a un revival de leur culture... Alors que tout est faux !!! Personne n'apprend le français aux USA.... Trop compliquée et pas assez usitée dans le monde. L'espagnol est largement préférée à toutes autres langues étrangères aux USA.... La proximité du Mexique et des pays d'amérique latine rend la langue plus intéressante et les débouchés économiques plus grands....
@lesamisdelacuisineprovenca9534
Ай бұрын
@@guyl9456 Complètement oui !! C'est un peu d'exotisme.... Comme nous nous entendons parler l'anglais, cela nous charme l'espace d'un instant et puis nous lasse... Eux c'est pareil...
@unbreakableunion
2 ай бұрын
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.
@flxdz7103
14 күн бұрын
It is the learning of Spanish that lack incentives because all Hispanic countries are in 3rd world and it's absent when it comes to science and technology 🤪😝🤣😁🤭 FYI, French is not just spoken in France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Louisiana. It is also spoken in Upper NY/Maine/VT/NH and even in MA, CT, and RI. French is also very much spoken in Francophone African countries. So the Hispanics should learn French instead of Spanish 🤪😝🤣😁🤭
@Mainer207
2 ай бұрын
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.
@gordonchilde2679
18 күн бұрын
"Make Louisiana French again" 😂 God bless you dear Americans brothers, from France
@japeri171
2 ай бұрын
I hope they can maintain their language and culture
@Bernat_Pascual
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
You're gonna copy paste this on every video, dude ?
2 ай бұрын
Même combat !
@Nordisk11
2 ай бұрын
Womp womp
@Libertaro-i2u
29 күн бұрын
@@Bernat_Pascual It was inevitable that after settling the region, that the French, and later American colonists would develop a culture different from that of the parent country, including linguistically. For example, it didn't take long for Louisiana French to start deviating from Metropolitan French (the variety of the language that's spoken in France itself), nor did it take long after large American immigration to the area that Louisiana began developing its own variety of English.
@PoluxCity
2 ай бұрын
As a French man who lives near Paris, I would like to visit the States !
@jalbijiek4856
2 ай бұрын
As an American I recommend visiting anywhere except Cali New York Florida or Texas.
@pokemata1035
2 ай бұрын
If you want to get some good food visit us in superior Virginia! Charleston, Wheeling, and the Panhandle are all great places!
@RegentDeMarquis005
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
How do you say "blessings, be careful, bests to you" in French maybe two words?
@pokemata1035
2 ай бұрын
@@RegentDeMarquis005 Your romanticizing the Bourbon Monarchy?! Who would you even want to be the king!?!
@hollingsworth_hound
2 ай бұрын
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.
@Bapterion01
2 ай бұрын
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.
@aleistergwynne
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
They didn't suppress the language? Tell that to Manitoba.🙄😒
@borisguillen31
2 ай бұрын
Canada treated the french canadian the exact same way, this is why they almost disappeared everywere ☺️
@dehavillandcanadatwinotter9621
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
@@edmerc92**quebec and new-brunwick.
@thundra8798
2 ай бұрын
i'm suprise he didn't talk about Quebec. lots of comparison could have been made.
@didierlemoine6771
Ай бұрын
i spoke with a guy from Louisiana in San Francisco in french, his french was perfect and he had never been to France :)
@henryboy004
2 ай бұрын
Very American to get rid of something that isn’t Anglo-Saxon related
@Da_Gr88
Ай бұрын
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.
@RaffleRaffle
Ай бұрын
@@Da_Gr88Southern culture has more spanish elements such as cowboys, than french elements don't forget, that most of mainland us was part of Spain
@Da_Gr88
Ай бұрын
@@RaffleRaffle Sure but that shows up much more from Texas and the SW rather than the plantation South.
@RaffleRaffle
Ай бұрын
@@Da_Gr88 well if ur talking about south east plantation states then the very south of Alabama and Mississippi too had a larger spanish presence than a French presence, because they were part of the Florida territory but idk how well that translates to culture because I've never been there.
@bearonaromp7473
2 ай бұрын
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.
@chippie_von_poiznan
2 ай бұрын
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.
@KC-MarechalDavout
Ай бұрын
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.
@hunter5502000
Ай бұрын
As a Cajun, it's a very good video from an outsider. My great-grandpa served in ww2 and talked about being promoted because he could speak French and was stationed in France.
@debranchelowtone
Ай бұрын
Even in France itself there are more and more advertissements and business names that are in English, even local bands prefer to sing in very basic English; and this trend accelerates. Bon courage à nos cousins d'Amérique, et vive notre belle langue et ses dialectes !
@zyxxlar
2 ай бұрын
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
@Paul-kd4dx
2 ай бұрын
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.
@senddeee1451
2 ай бұрын
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.
@awesomeman116a
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
Yes, it's pronounced "skosha".
@bpdbhp1632
2 ай бұрын
This is great news👍 keep your language and indentity
@SergioRPerez
2 ай бұрын
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.
@moledaddy
2 ай бұрын
My grandpa was from Nova Scotia, and an American Indian. He told us about stories of Acadian treasure buried in Nova Scotia.
@galileogalluccio6289
2 ай бұрын
From France, I would love to visit this state. It could be interesting to see french influences in the US
@maryhildreth754
2 ай бұрын
As long as LSU keeps winning.
@KamBar2020
2 ай бұрын
Make BAGUETTE Great Again 🥖
@MovieRiotHD
Ай бұрын
I have a very strong opinion on local culture/langauge, I hope it will survive! Just like many European languages (Bretagne, Basco, Alsaciennes, Gaelic)
@kennethaguilar2159
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
The rulers were Spanish but they allowed Louisiana to keep French and Creole as the languages of the land unlike the Americans lol
@morningwine2624
2 ай бұрын
Vous pourriez accueillir des immigrés francophones en Louisianne, mais de vrais européens éduqués et diplômés (Bac + 5) qui ont marre de la France et la Belgique avec leur taux fiscal collosal. Vous pourriez même les faire profiter d'une exonération fiscale s'ils montent une entreprise. Le slogan sera "Venez en Lousinanne, parlez français et prospérez"
@anticoluomo
2 ай бұрын
Thank you , french is a very beautiful language
@thekreyolcadet
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
Europeans care about Europeans, which I'm for. I'm Asain, I support Asains. Not hard
@MegaGlupe
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@SomethingSpecial.
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
Fun fact : Ontario and Louisiana banned french at the exact same time. Coordination 😎
@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
2 ай бұрын
@@borisguillen31 Wait, do you mean the teaching of French that happened in 1912 that was later lifted in 1927?
@IncredibleStan
2 ай бұрын
Si vous vivez en Louisiane, je recommande que vous appreniez la langue. Je ne viens pas de Louisiane mais j'apprends la langue.
@pitrris
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
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.
@BackWhereYouStarted
28 күн бұрын
Acadian French from New Brunswick here. thanks for this video ❤️
@Radtadlol
2 ай бұрын
Can you do videos on other American dialects, my favorite is Wisconsin German it’s extinct tho
@adamelghalmi9771
2 ай бұрын
"UNT FGOM VISCONSAN"
@juliangang2018
2 ай бұрын
Loving all the Louisiana love recently!
@mikefruge8589
28 күн бұрын
Wow! I did not realize this! Thank you for sharing!
@mylohebert1777
Ай бұрын
I as someone from Louisiana, will Keep our culture alive.
@deanfirnatine7814
2 ай бұрын
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.
@transitimprover
2 ай бұрын
Easy French should go to Louisiana and explore what's left of the French language
@neptune1525
2 ай бұрын
Haha so funny! 😊
@behindyou666
2 ай бұрын
Some Norwegian guys actually made a docu where they travelled throughout the midwest exploring bastions of Norwegian-American culture, mostly small towns.
@gj1234567899999
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
Not really accurate there's at least 30k french words in english .
@FOGGYlama123
2 ай бұрын
@@davidlefranc6240 Spanish is still more similar
@fabianustertius6460
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
@@FOGGYlama123 Nah i speak french everyday maybe some pronounciations but at this state its a regional thing !
@3x157
2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@Math_0402
2 ай бұрын
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.
@obteniendose
2 ай бұрын
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.
@TheWolverine01
2 ай бұрын
Force à vous cousins Lousianais d'un cousin Québécois
@MCKevin289
2 ай бұрын
There used to be a dialect in Dutch spoken in my state.
@hismajesty6272
2 ай бұрын
Learn Dutch and try to revive what you can of it.
@sethfrisbie3957
2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@julianasotomayor106
Ай бұрын
I’m French Canadien and remember I went to the US with my school when I was younger and was speaking French with my classmates - some older gentleman came up to us and asked if we were speaking French, he was so happy to speak to us and told us that he went to school in French as a child but that it was so rare to find Francophones nowadays. This was Salem.
@nobilesnovushomo58
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
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
2 ай бұрын
The solution is easy. Give Louisiana to the Belle Province.
@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
2 ай бұрын
@@simix6915 They would never take it! It'll mean too many anglophones to deal with.
@shadowsensei9040
2 ай бұрын
@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
2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@ericbouv4070
2 ай бұрын
Bienvenue chez moi en France aux Louisiannais qui parlent français. Pas tous à la fois, hein...
@user-jq2jp7cn3f
27 күн бұрын
Hang on to the french culture. It's what makes New Orleans
@DrandelSheep
2 ай бұрын
Theres so much wrong about the graph at 0:10 that it hurts.
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