>tfw French in Louisiana is at risk of dying out >it's

>>55062966
We aren't, its just natural assimilation because there isn't protection for french as far as I know

We will send language peace keepers from Quebec

>>55063024
it should at least be taught in schools in my opinion. It's an important part of Louisiana's history

>>55063066
please do

>55062966
>it's no longer taught in schools
Other than being blatantly wrong, your statement is inflammatory at best.
http://www.nolafrancaise.com/la-french-immersion-schools/
>no schools
ok Piere DeLousiana, calm down

There are plenty of movements to support Louisiana French but I don't see why they want to preserve their own dialect seeing as it's very different then standard french.
I agree that it's an important part of their history and culture but at this point it's useless having a state or even city with a native population with a language other than English, that would just create a sentiment like that in Quebec today.
Seeing as the second most spoken language at home in New Orleans is Spanish, they should be pushing teaching spanish in public schools as well.
>"""As of 2010, 90.31% of New Orleans residents age 5 and older spoke English at home as a primary language, while 4.84% spoke Spanish, 1.87% Vietnamese, and 1.05% spoke French. In total, 9.69% of New Orleans's population age 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English.[97]"""

>>55062966
>caring this much about a language with no practical value in the region
Just let >>55063024 take its course

>>55062966
Louisiana """French"""
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPs_KSdRcnY

PAGING PIERE
Question for any FIL DE FRANCE
1) Can you understand most of this
2) Do you consider this """french"""
3) Is it worth saving (why or why not)
4) Would you ever speak to anybody who spoke like this meaning would you immediately know that this was a French Louisianan or would you assume it was just an American stumbling his way through french.

>>55063582
1) Yes
2)No, they speak like a one-year-old child or a person with severe mental retardation (and have a funny accent to boot)
3) I don't really care
4)I would assume it's an American trying to speak French

>>55063582
They have pretty weird grammatical structure and the r rolling sounds really peasant like

>>55062966
>France is dying slowly,so what Louisiana!

>>55063582
His R is disgusting

>>55063792
Can you give me a text and I try to read it in first a proper French sounding accent (to the best of my abilities) and then in an accent closest to what i heard on the interview?
I'll vocaroo of course

>>55063582
1. Yes it's very easy to understand. Some words sound strange grammatically but nothing crazy.
The accent is a bit strange but it is the same for people from Canada, we're just not used to it.

2. Yeah I think. It's not that different from variations you find in Québec or Islands like Mauritius / Réunion.
Accent sounds like a peasant a bit but hey, he's catching goats for a living so it fits.

3. Why not ? If he speaks a good english it's more an asset than anything else for him, he can interact with french people without any troubles.

4. Because of how the grammar is, I would assume it's someone trying to speak french OR someone from a secluded part of Canada. But again it's very easy to understand imo, more than french talked with a very heavy american accent.

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>>55063582

>>55063918
putain, c'est quoi cette théories sur l'accent, il ya des paysan set d'autres qui passe dans les médias, on ne comprend rien. you put (sujet verbe complément) ok!

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>>55063792
>the r rolling sounds really peasant like
t.frog
>>55063918
>Accent sounds like a peasant a bit but hey, he's catching goats for a living so it fits.
t.frog
>>55063998
>absolutely disgusting
t.buttmad Canadian
>unironically hating it more than real french speakers
>unironically not being as lenient of french as other real native speakers are
>mfw

>>55064512
I didn't mean it in a condescending way.

People would think "hey he's a peasant because he has a rural accent" and if they talk about their work they won't be surprised.

>>55062966
la Louisiana es española 2bh

>>55063582
1)Yes all of it
2)Yes it sounds close to québecois, i'd say it's "french colons fench"
3) Obviously, world culture must be saved
4)It doesnt sound like an american seaking french and i couldnt recognise where this accent could come from.

>>55063582
1. Yes
2. Yeah I guess
3. Yes, for comedic value
4. Worse than a Quebecois. I'd imagine a Quécois listen to it and be like "haha what a silly peasant language lol" which is exactly what we think of them in the first place

>>55063144
If they mandated it I really doubt most would actually remember it, at most they would probably understand:
"Je m'appelle anon, je suis un gros fagot."
and thats it


Sorry French-speakers if this is awful, I have poor French, but thats the point

There is literally nothing wrong with a "peasant accent"

>>55065839
"fagot" means a faggot of wood. You can use une tapette, une tarlouze, une pédale, un PD...

>>55066042
I don't know curses, I had to look faggot up. Back when I learned it my teacher refused to teach me and my class curses insisting we would never need them

>>55066109
Well you would never use an equivalent of faggot unless you want to get into a fight

>>55066027
there is nothing wrong with any accent when you think about it
it's just odd when you're not used to it

>>55063582
His cadence is fucked f a m.

>>55066196
Does it carry really bad connotations in France? Me and my friends irl constantly just casually call each other all sorts of things like faggot when we are hanging out.

>>55066560
Well you usually use things like "enculé" (literally fucked in the ass), son of a bitch, bastard, insult mothers... Not many race based insults like "nigga" and you call people faggots in their backs, like "Pierre est un gros PD" but you wont meet Pierre face to face to call him a faggot

>>55066885
enkulé de rire

>tfw until my grandmother moved out my family lived in a French speaking village in New Hampshire for generations

At least I know that our relatives who stayed up there remained poor and stupid while my grandmother got the Irish dick that would make my family successful

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>>55067335
>Irish
>In america

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>"Why are Americans so hell bent on destroying it's own history and culture"

You cannot destroy what you never had.

>>55062966
it's not dying out it's been dead for nearly a century. nobody speaks that retarded fag surrender speech anymore aside from high school sluts that want to be contrarian and not learn spanish cause muh paris is so romantic. They're too stupid to know that france dead and just another muslim shithole

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>>55063582
1) Sure. It sounds a bit rough and rural, the grammar is a bit fucked up and some words are neologism like "graduaté" but it's almost perfectly understandable.

2) Of course.

3) Of course. It's the cultural heritage of the region, it should be preserved at all cost. At least teach French at school at an early age, and do some Cajun and Créole cultural events in schools in the entire state, and work particularly hard to preserve Cajun culture and language in counties with a large Cajun population.

4) It doesn't sound like an American trying to speak French. I wouldn't be able to be sure of where is accent is from and would probably assume he's from some rural part of Québec. But now I know what Cajun French sounds like, so if someone that spoke like this came to talk to me, I would recognise it as a Cajun French accent.

It's no coincidence that the region with the best food and culture was French

Cajuns are bro tier, but their French sounds nothing like real French so the French don't care about it.
Colonial French is even more in danger: it's been in Louisiana longer than Cajun yet it's almost entirely gone, and only exists as a merged version of some Cajun dialcets.
Read here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_French

Also I live in New Orleans so AMA

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>>55062966
Because America is english clay

>>55071241
Why do you pronounce Orleans wrong

>>55071511
The same reason you say "Normandy" different than the frogs: nobody wants to sound like a faggot.

>>55071846
Piss off m8

>>55072124
Why can't Frenchies accept that their language sounds gay? I admit that a disproportionate amount of Americans are stupid (including me because I probably misspelled "disproportionate" and "misspelled"), Brazilians begrudgingly admit that they aren't white, why do the French think they're so special and they're the only perfect nationality?

>>55072482
French sounds great. Go kill yourself

>>55072482
>why do the French think they're so special and they're the only perfect nationality?
that's just pure fantasy, no french person ever thought that, it's just what other people think about us.

>>55072946
Well you all seem to deny the most obvious flaw of the French nationality: the language

>>55072895
You clearly have heard very little of the French language. Either that or you're a French proxy.

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>>55073159
>t.person with Cajun relatives

I also watch the Qmjhl and Montréal French broadcast pretty often. French is a pleasant sounding language.

Stop calling people who don't agree with your opinion a proxy. That's some tumbler type shit

why would they speak French in Louisiana?

is it some hipster europhile shit?

>>55073408
>is it some hipster europhile shit?
the opposite actually

>>55072482
I don't think French sounds gayer than English, Spanish or Italian.

>>55062966
Are there whites left who are naturally francophone in Louisiana?

>>55074266
But sounds gayer than German for sure.

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>>55073298
>>55063582
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlZfn7T3Nc8
I think it's funny to see and hear other french speaking people outside of europe

>>55072946
your Rs sound like someones deepthroating
gay as fuck

>>55075146
You sound like the faggot for associating sounds with a cock in a throat.

>>55074646
German is manly af, copain !

>>55073298
I hear mainland France all the time hear from people who went to immersion school. They have teachers from France so the accent is just like hearing a real frog talking. I had to hear it every day at school from my friends, and French is undeniably gay sounding. Also
>Bienvenue au welcome to New Hampshire
>Welcome to welcome to New Hampshire

>>55074587
In the South, yes, but only if you consider French/Québecois to be white.

>>55074266
Then you need to travel more.

>>55075750
Bienvenue au/welcome to, numbnuts

>>55075809
?

>>55075750
That's YOUR OPINION.
If I think Finnish sounds gay, it doesn't mean it is gay (no, I don't think it is !)

>>55074913
>Cajun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoqlATD6ups

Unfortunately not in french though.

Even we have mandatory French in our curriculum...

>>55076175
Why mandatory French?

>>55075899
>Bienvenue au/welcome to, numbnuts
I know that's what it means to say, but the formatting is autistic.
>?
I'm saying that French is clearly a gay language to anyone who has had a significant amount of experience with other languages. Therefore, I'm concluding that you have not.

>>55076026
I share this opinion with many other people around the world. It's pretty much reached a consensus.

>>55063582
This Nigga is speaking Louisiana French with Lwizyan Kreyol much like these people.

https://youtu.be/9E9iHs6S47w

Why are comments on his video calling it Cajun lol

>>55076350
M'yea ok...
Tell me why, now ?

>>55076102
Pure shit if you ask me.

Have some more joyful music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYxKWA25fPQ

>>55062966
Good. The sooner Louisiana """"culture"""" is stamped out, the better. Louisiana, and the South in general deserve nothing less than a nuclear holocaust.

>>55076666
Kill yourself

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>French in irrelevant
>And stupid
>Oh, and it is gay !

Everything went wrong :'^)

>>55076472
The phonemes of French sound gay to the rest of the world. That's just how it is.

>>55076451
>>55062966
>>55063582
Did you heard about those "kinda french" speaker in wisconsin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUtzAbfkeEQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lLLWgjIfJQ

>>55076666
We are literally the most cultured state in this country. We were run by 3 different countries, we are made up of many different ethnicities, our people have spoken many different languages (and still do), our architechture is the best in the country, etc. Need I go on?

No, please, tell me about all the corn you state harvested and all the unarmed savages that you grandpappy killed in order for you to build you shitty commieblock house in your shitty flyover state.

>>55078315
Hell, stop saying "for da world"

>>55062966
Meh, before the US joined world war 1 there were a lot of cities in the Midwest that spoke more German than English, if we have to assimilate then so do you... and the goddamned beaners too.

>>55078450
Did your little sister cry when you broke her hymen you inbred swamp faggot?

>>55078450
>only 3 countries
>not 6
Texas is laughing at you, swamp person

>>55078661
No but your mom did, cried even harder when I left her after we found out about you

>>55078770
West Florida is a meme, and I'm counting France as one country despite the changes in government making it technically two different ones. And the Confederacy wasn't a country because it lost its war of independence.

>>55078597
It is, though. It's not just America.

>>55078957
Yea, ok

t. a gay, apparently

>>55076256
Normans are a hell of a drug

>>55078661
t. Arizona

>>55062966
let it go extinct
almost every culture that ever existed is dead, just let it go

>>55079070
Alle Österreichern sollen Ungarnisch lernen, uezs.

>>55079205
Spoken like a true culture cuck

>>55063582
>icitte

Ha! I thought only us said that. It's easy to understand though, just the few short words that change like de où (from where) to ayou. We should do more to bring back French language in Louisianne.

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http://blackburnnews.com/bri-national/2016/02/03/how-louisiana-cajuns-preserve-french-culture/

Wow, allez chier mes osties de blokes sale...je vous déteste chaque jour un peu plus et ne parlerais et n'écrirer plus jamais votre langue...

>>55085956
She has on old school sort of look imo

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I grew up speaking Cajun in Lafayette Louisiana. AMA

>>55087204
Do you listen to Québećois music and tv shows? Can you type in French?

What is best dish, jambalaya or gumbo?

>>55062966
Culture is racist anon

>>55087204
How well is your french

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>>55087204
C'est actuellement bien écris, sickening!

>>55063024

We can be reckless in assuming "natural" assimilation. I only recently found out about the intense targeted pressure my German ancestors received to abandon their German identities the moment they stepped off the boat. No one after the first generation even learned German, according the census records.

>>55087981

good

>>55072482
> Why can't Frenchies accept that their language sounds gay?

What sort of question is this? You may as soon ask

> Why can't Frenchies accept that their language sounds Green?

>>55087204
When i was a kid i watched Caillou, which was Quebecois, and Asterix, which was French

ouaiii....évidemment je peux taper en français

Jambalaya easily

>>55087884
Perfect by Cajun standards, by French standards probably shit

>>55087968
Bienvenue :^)

>>55088153
>green

Delet this