US Native born French Speakers...... in America?!?!?

[The~Kid]

Pretty crazy and you almost forget about them in Louisiana but Creole is a type of French

 

[MadAsAHatter]

Pretty crazy and you almost forget about them in Louisiana but Creole is a type of French

I live in South Louisiana and grew up around people speaking creole. Kinda like the girl in the video... Some Creole has enough crossover for a French speaker to understand and some of it is like a completely different language.

I learned enough Creole as a kid to pick up on what my Creole relatives were saying, but I haven't retained any of it. I don't know many people who speak it as more of their main language anymore. It's mostly just bits and pieces of phrases now. I'm sure once you get down more into the "swamp" area people may still speak it a little more regularly.

 

[Floyd Eye]

I didn’t forget about them.

I live in South Louisiana and grew up around people speaking creole. Kinda like the girl in the video... Some Creole has enough crossover for a French speaker to understand and some of it is like a completely different language.

I learned enough Creole as a kid to pick up on what my Creole relatives were saying, but I haven't retained any of it. I don't know many people who speak it as more of their main language anymore. It's mostly just bits and pieces of phrases now. I'm sure once you get down more into the "swamp" area people may still speak it a little more regularly.

I used to hunt in Colorado every year with a couple guys we affectionately called the “ coon asses”
Great guys. And funny as hell.

 

[Findthetone1]

I think there used to be a fair amount of US born people in Minnesota that speak French. Though it seems that is being replaced by Somali and Arabic.

 

[VonBonfire]

There are parts of Maine up near the Canuckian boder that are also majority french speaking

 

[Wetordry]

Spanish is kinda popular too.

 

[70 Mach 1]

shes hot and so is her accent

 

[The~Kid]

I live in South Louisiana and grew up around people speaking creole. Kinda like the girl in the video... Some Creole has enough crossover for a French speaker to understand and some of it is like a completely different language.

I learned enough Creole as a kid to pick up on what my Creole relatives were saying, but I haven't retained any of it. I don't know many people who speak it as more of their main language anymore. It's mostly just bits and pieces of phrases now. I'm sure once you get down more into the "swamp" area people may still speak it a little more regularly.

That's pretty cool, yeah apparently it's a dying laguange in America even though it's wholey an American language ironically.

There are probably other languages too like Native American ones, the Amish have a type Dutch/German they speak.


I always just remember that bit from Joe Dirt though and I never really knew about Creole until that movie that and I think Bills cousin from King of the Hill. But yeah Creole is a real thing and it's a whole culture in it's own.