I'm an Eastern Cherokee from Tennessee, and speaking French is actually something connected to us as a people, due to the historical links. You'd be surprised as to how many of us learned the language and are still learning.
Revival of French instruction in public & private schools started back years ago & continues to grow. Reference, Codifill & Alliance Francaise statewide & Le Lycee school in New Orleans
@@victorparker308 If it keeps up I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if by the 2050s at least 10% of Louisianans are fluent French speakers and by the start of the 21st century, French would be just as commonly spoken as English.
@@dfirth224 Fun fact, Quebec is not officially bilingual but only French spoken. The official bilingual Canadian province is New-Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick) 🤓
The United States is not just an English speaking world as a matter of fact over 50 million Americans speak Spanish as a second language and over 18 million Italian. Moreover in the City of New York one finds over 200 different languages and dialects thank you very much and have a great day 🇨🇵🇺🇸
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions That is undoubtedly true while at the same time we have our multicultural and hence multilinguistic fabric. Thank you very much and enjoy your afternoon 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇦🇮🇹
@@fredsimchawang6327 Multicultural, sure. Multilingual? Not really. The level of non-English language learning and that translating to bilingual people is basically nil. The vast majority of people that don't speak English in the U.S. are from the immigrant generation. Governments just have to accommodate them just enough, hence Babel notices at government agencies and hospitals in case the public need interpreters. But, it's pretty much guaranteed the children of the immigrant generation will be monolingual English speakers and nothing more. Even Spanish struggles to create new speakers outside Puerto Rico (maybe also New Mexico, the most Hispanic state percentage-wise).
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions Mind you as you might glean I am perfectly fine with that as English by all means is my principal operative language. In addition though I do speak several other languages such as French, German, Dutch and Spanish. That having been said I am not an advocate for replacement of the English language in the United States rather the opposite I am very comfortable with it. Thank you very much and have a great afternoon 🤗🤗
Very interesting piece. I'm a southerner living abroad and married to a French speaking wife with two children whose mother tongue is French. It's nice to showcase the diversity of my home country (even if relatively archaic today). Hope my children see this as well as the German speaking towns in south Texas.
Correction...the Hill Country area of Texas...west of Austin, which is Central Texas...in Fredericksburg, Gruene, Boerne, and Johnson City. There is also a Czech area in Central Texas...to the east of Temple and Waco...towns like Zabcikville and Heidenheimer.
French was outlawed in Louisiana between the 1920s until 1968. Since then over 25 French immersion schools have opened, and Macrons visit is coinciding with the opening of French school in the town of Montegut, serving a primarily indigenous community.
J'ai étudié la français en Louisiana public écoles and universitiés and that was in the late nineties-early 2000's. It was our first choice for a required language elective. Years later as a Louisiana native, I am still not as fluent as I want to be. #2023GOAL I second all comments in support of this initiative.
If Louisiana has ballot initiatives, people should start one making English and French the official languages of the state or if it doesn't then vote in legislators that would do so. Because, while it's fine that the French president's visit highlights the French roots of Louisiana, the French language also needs to be promoted statewide from the top as well as the bottom!
Making it an official language won't change anything. They are doing the right thing. They don't have enough money for now to build immersion schools from 6th grade but what they're doing until elementary school is already great and people need to speak French at home. Another 10 years to see the result of what they already started lately.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions Why? Making a language official is only a status problem. The government doesn't have to fund programs in both languages. A programme is the same regardless of the language used. I am not sure about what you mean. Moreover if French is made an official language in Louisiana that will be the only official langage. There is no official language in Louisiana and in the US.
I'm french Canadian so can help a bit here. When Quebec got colonized, it was the french from the 1600's our french parted ways from there...France's french changed our stayed truer to what it was then. The people who were sent to Louisianna did the same thing. Their french dates from a certain period but stayed even truer to the french from back then. France's french pronunciation has changed a lot over the years to where some pronounce a lot of aound the same way even if spelled differently which to me is losing their french. Ex. En and an for them sounds the same
Les Américains qui passent leur temps à protéger les "minorités" pourraient en effet commencer à protéger leur minorité francophone... Ce serait une bonne initiative... On verra ce que ça donne dans quelques années. Est-ce que les actes suivront les paroles ?
the city "Desmoines" is a french word, there are other places in the states with french names: "La Nouvelle Angoulême" became "New Amsterdam" then "N.Y". "La Porte" in Texas, a lots of mountains are called with french names as "Bouton frenchman" in Kentucky, also the states Vermont and the Maine is a river in France.
I understand them well enough because I also speak creole. This French is old and a bit creolized with native American languages instead of African. So similar outcome. I also technically can read all Latin and Germanic languages. Now it's time to learn Asiatic and Arabic languages. ;)
@@Limedea It would be! But dont forget the Francophones in Maine, vermont & other parts of New England! There are still people alive who attended schools in French, the children of Francophones! They werent learning French as anglophones but as Francophones. Here in western Mass we had a sizable group French-Canadiens, struggling to keep the culture, the language.
Actually, it is very similar to French spoken in the Maritime provinces of Canada, where Louisiana Acadians used to live until they were deported by the British.
You'll find this French in fishing villages across France, just not in places like Paris or Nice. Of course those places have their own "Posh" slang lol.
In Quebec and Canada, they teach the universal French in school, but most Francophones still speak their dialect. Visit Northern Ontario for a taste of French in dialect! LOL it can be quite a bit different than even Quebec French! (but I am no expert there)
People's ancestors from the old times in louisiana are clapping their hands at the descendants for speaking the french language as first time brought back to where Lewis And Clark have started since their expedition began.
Forgive me, but I was taught the Lewis and Clark Expedition began in St Louis MO..a city founded by the French and named for King Louis XIV. My hometown of Kansas City, MO was partly founded by French traders from St Louis. Our Missouri state flag is not red white and blue for the colors of the U.S. flag, but based upon a horizontal version of the French 'tricolour'
Learning French and its contribution to crisis medicine could serve as a means for the world's physicians to unite for peace in strife stricken areas if only we physicians could be inspired by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders.
Moi, je soutien le president et j’espepere pour une system social q’elle le survivamce de la Lange francaise. Et. Auctocotrect. My phone is in English and I’m a native English speaker.
@@inconnu4961 faux mais vous vous êtes fait à l'idée à force de vous l'entendre répéter. Ce qui est courant c'est d'entendre des anglophones en terrain francophone vous reprendre sur les mots en anglais, par moquerie, par impression d'être là en conquérant, ou juste par pure ignorance ou notion de respect envers les populations qui n'entrent pas dans leur conception monoculturelle du monde. On est dans un pur cas de retournement de la charge.
Of the major languages, french and russian have less people speaking it year after year. Russian because of the declining population and young people in eastern europe not learning it while their soviet era grandparents and parents die off. French because of africa, where young people are learning english instead. Canada has the same issue where almost everyone who speaks french there also speaks english, so in a generation or two it will flip
I would actually very interested in seeing any documentation about the rate of French usage in Africa declining. Most projections I've seen has French speakers globally increasing my hundreds of millions, despite demographic changes in Canada. Could you provide me with a link?
Also while Québecois is at risk I would say, unless the Québec government magically becomes radically less concerned with their language laws, Canadian French, while it will likely decline, will likely not disappear as soon as you predict.
@@marseillais2687 French will not disappear in Canada, but you are going to see the younger generation pick up English first. And it is really the same with French in Africa. The countries that speak French are growing, but you have more and more younger people using english as it gives more accessibility to the world. I was in the military in Korean in the mid-90s, and I would moonlight teaching english at Samsung, and then all the businessmen would hire me to practice english with their kids also. I'm not talking a lightswitch, i am talking about a generational thing.
@@PeterSedesse French has been declining in Canada because of immigration policies of the last 200 years by the British and Anglo Canadian governments. Francophones kept their numbers up thanks to high birth rates. Now, finally, the Canadian government has decided to increase the number of francophone immigrants. But I dont think this will convince Mr Sedesse of anything because I sense a certain anglo supremacy on his part and on the part of others who play this numbers game. Quite frankly, I see anglo countries turn their backs on the rest of the world (Brexit, US border wall, etc) and I see the anglo world eventually turn inward and create this select white anglosphere. The english language is not dominant because there are more spanish speakers and much more chinese speakers in the world. The one language ambitions of anglos is just a dream.
@@kamikazes03 It is just about GDP. nothing racist. The USA and UK combined have about a third of the worlds GDP. Throw in english speaking canada, austrailia, india etc.. And then the other major big economies all have different languages. japan, china, russia, germany, brazil, mexico, south korea, france...all different languages. It is not ego, it is just a fact, the more globalization there is the more everything is going to move towards standardization.
different local dialect similar to how Arabs from Egypt cannot understand Moroccan Arabic for example but when they start speaking standard Arabic they can communicate with each-other but this has only been possible because of The Quran which the standard Arabic language is based on. french does not have anything comparable to The Quran and so in time french in african countries and other places around the world will form their own local dialects which will be very different to each-other and french in france and will one day seem as though they are different languages because they will not be able to understand the other dialects. this is how languages evolve, change and die. the same will happen to english in time, especially if the english speaking countries lose contact with one another and other languages in these different countries and around the world start to be used more, like for example Spanish in parts of the USA or malaysian in Singapore or chinese in hong kong, etc.
To be honest local Americans prefer to hear and speak French than hearing and speaking Spanish. Spanish language in the US always see as negative light they see it as language of illegal immigrants.
@@retnavybrat He was trying to poke fun that their English-speaking ability! This is why we should all write sarcasm alerts when we speak in sarcasm. We could avoid this confusion!
Okay. They are in Louisianna. They are speaking french. They speak a kind of french. They are in the United States. They are in a state. They have Louisianna as the state. They have it starting with L. They have it ending with A. They are with 7 other letters. They are at the bottom of the United States. They have french starting with an F. They have it ending with H. They are with 4 other letters. They have 9 letters in Louisianna. They have 6 letters in french. They border Texas to the west. They border Arkansas to the North. They border Mississippi to the East. They border Gulf of Mexico on the bottom. They are in North America. They are north of South America. They are west of Europe. They are west of Africa. They are west of Aisa. They are west of Austraillia also known as Oceania. They are north of Antarctica. They are South of the North Pole witch is not a continent. This is information.
different local dialect similar to how Arabs from Egypt cannot understand Moroccan Arabic for example but when they start speaking standard Arabic they can communicate with each-other but this has only been possible because of The Quran which the standard Arabic language is based on. french does not have anything comparable to The Quran and so in time french in african countries and other places around the world will form their own local dialects which will be very different to each-other and french in france and will one day seem as though they are different languages because they will not be able to understand the other dialects. this is how languages evolve, change and die. the same will happen to english in time, especially if the english speaking countries lose contact with one another and other languages in these different countries and around the world start to be used more, like for example Spanish in parts of the USA or malaysian in Singapore or chinese in hong kong, etc.
@@muslimresponse103 Tkx for most interesting comment. Once I asked which arabic would be the most beautiful to learn my teachers answer was the arabic spoken in Lebanon. Sorry to say - I didnt compleate the course.
He be better off at home in France and try to get the lmmegrants to speak and write french. Not going to happen though... Few can read the squiggly writing
@@yonatanbehar3322 Chevrolet is a French name not English. I assumed that's why we shortened it. Do you want to hear me try to pronounce Citreon and Peugeot? Pew got and sit ron.
Sixty percent of the world's population speaks AT LEAST two languages. You can't travel out of your country if you don't learn a few words of the country you cant to travel to....
Bien merci encore à France 24 for covering French speaking Louisiana!
Merci à vous pour votre contenu sur la Louisiane francophone !
De rien. Vive la Francophonie. N'oubliez pas notre langue française 🟦⬜🟥🇫🇷
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 Nous parlons francaise en Nouvelle Angleterre aussi!
I'm an Eastern Cherokee from Tennessee, and speaking French is actually something connected to us as a people, due to the historical links. You'd be surprised as to how many of us learned the language and are still learning.
C'est très touchant.
That's amazing! How many would you say also speak Cherokee and French?
It's good to know French Language is spoken and will be taught once more in this State...
Revival of French instruction in public & private schools started back years ago & continues to grow. Reference, Codifill & Alliance Francaise statewide & Le Lycee school in New Orleans
@@victorparker308 If it keeps up I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if by the 2050s at least 10% of Louisianans are fluent French speakers and by the start of the 21st century, French would be just as commonly spoken as English.
@@tommoore2012 that would be nice😊
Louisiana should be bi-lingual like Quebec.
@@dfirth224 Fun fact, Quebec is not officially bilingual but only French spoken. The official bilingual Canadian province is New-Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick) 🤓
The United States is not just an English speaking world as a matter of fact over 50 million Americans speak Spanish as a second language and over 18 million Italian. Moreover in the City of New York one finds over 200 different languages and dialects thank you very much and have a great day 🇨🇵🇺🇸
Sure, but English is the overwhelming majority at around 320+ million people solely speaking it.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions That is undoubtedly true while at the same time we have our multicultural and hence multilinguistic fabric. Thank you very much and enjoy your afternoon 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇦🇮🇹
@@fredsimchawang6327
Multicultural, sure. Multilingual? Not really. The level of non-English language learning and that translating to bilingual people is basically nil.
The vast majority of people that don't speak English in the U.S. are from the immigrant generation. Governments just have to accommodate them just enough, hence Babel notices at government agencies and hospitals in case the public need interpreters.
But, it's pretty much guaranteed the children of the immigrant generation will be monolingual English speakers and nothing more. Even Spanish struggles to create new speakers outside Puerto Rico (maybe also New Mexico, the most Hispanic state percentage-wise).
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions Mind you as you might glean I am perfectly fine with that as English by all means is my principal operative language. In addition though I do speak several other languages such as French, German, Dutch and Spanish. That having been said I am not an advocate for replacement of the English language in the United States rather the opposite I am very comfortable with it. Thank you very much and have a great afternoon 🤗🤗
@@fredsimchawang6327
Okay.🤷♂️
Very interesting piece. I'm a southerner living abroad and married to a French speaking wife with two children whose mother tongue is French. It's nice to showcase the diversity of my home country (even if relatively archaic today). Hope my children see this as well as the German speaking towns in south Texas.
Correction...the Hill Country area of Texas...west of Austin, which is Central Texas...in Fredericksburg, Gruene, Boerne, and Johnson City.
There is also a Czech area in Central Texas...to the east of Temple and Waco...towns like Zabcikville and Heidenheimer.
French was outlawed in Louisiana between the 1920s until 1968. Since then over 25 French immersion schools have opened, and Macrons visit is coinciding with the opening of French school in the town of Montegut, serving a primarily indigenous community.
This is so awesome!!! 🇫🇷❤🇺🇸
La France et L'etats Unis amitie!
It's very good as French Language to become widly used again in New Orleans especially tourism.
J'ai étudié la français en Louisiana public écoles and universitiés and that was in the late nineties-early 2000's. It was our first choice for a required language elective.
Years later as a Louisiana native, I am still not as fluent as I want to be. #2023GOAL
I second all comments in support of this initiative.
As long as the French learned is pure Cajun French, then this is wonderful news
Ah, dialects are learned in the home. Everyone in every country is thought the standard literary language of the official/majority's language.
Hard to find teachers who speak the "pure" dialect. But at least they will learn French.
Tres bien! I think this is a good idea.
Thank you Macron
If Louisiana has ballot initiatives, people should start one making English and French the official languages of the state or if it doesn't then vote in legislators that would do so.
Because, while it's fine that the French president's visit highlights the French roots of Louisiana, the French language also needs to be promoted statewide from the top as well as the bottom!
There’s no official language in Louisiana but French is recognised and has a special status
@@ajorbista
Yes, that's why I wrote what I wrote.
Making it an official language won't change anything. They are doing the right thing. They don't have enough money for now to build immersion schools from 6th grade but what they're doing until elementary school is already great and people need to speak French at home. Another 10 years to see the result of what they already started lately.
@@puccaland
How would it not change anything? It would put a higher burden on the government to fund programs in both official languages!
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions Why? Making a language official is only a status problem. The government doesn't have to fund programs in both languages. A programme is the same regardless of the language used. I am not sure about what you mean. Moreover if French is made an official language in Louisiana that will be the only official langage. There is no official language in Louisiana and in the US.
It sounds pretty archaic to me, I don't speak the best French but this seems so different to me than regular French.
I reckon Murican english sounds perty archaic to me, different than the Queen's English.
That s true.
I'm french Canadian so can help a bit here. When Quebec got colonized, it was the french from the 1600's our french parted ways from there...France's french changed our stayed truer to what it was then. The people who were sent to Louisianna did the same thing. Their french dates from a certain period but stayed even truer to the french from back then. France's french pronunciation has changed a lot over the years to where some pronounce a lot of aound the same way even if spelled differently which to me is losing their french. Ex. En and an for them sounds the same
@@juliec5309 Votre texte n'a aucun sens.
@@kamikazes03 OUCH! Was that sarcasm necessary? LOL
I think this is pretty cool
Chevrolet, Cadillac, Limousine....french.
Lesson 2: bonjour hello! lesson 3: Tabernac, Ostie, Calice (just dont use those words around granny or your priest!)
@@inconnu4961 Why not?
Les Américains qui passent leur temps à protéger les "minorités" pourraient en effet commencer à protéger leur minorité francophone... Ce serait une bonne initiative... On verra ce que ça donne dans quelques années. Est-ce que les actes suivront les paroles ?
Of course the French speakers should be protected, they are Catholic. I am Hispanic Catholic and I would always support other Catholics!
I had no idea this existed in the US
Now you know.
You really need to travel more brother
the city "Desmoines" is a french word, there are other places in the states with french names: "La Nouvelle Angoulême" became "New Amsterdam" then "N.Y". "La Porte" in Texas, a lots of mountains are called with french names as "Bouton frenchman" in Kentucky, also the states Vermont and the Maine is a river in France.
Nice
Bien.
D’ac
I speak French but this Louisiana French is thick ! I can't understand everything !
I understand them well enough because I also speak creole. This French is old and a bit creolized with native American languages instead of African. So similar outcome. I also technically can read all Latin and Germanic languages. Now it's time to learn Asiatic and Arabic languages. ;)
@@TemplarX2 As I posted earlier, it is archaic French. It is also spoken in the Maritime provinces in Canada and it is different from Quebec French.
@@kamikazes03 So what part of France would it originate? Picardy? The southern twang added some difficulty as well.
Great ...
I speak french and I understand most of what they say :)
Another Francophone enclave like Quebec?
Another lowest common denominator fan?
That would be great !
@@Limedea It would be! But dont forget the Francophones in Maine, vermont & other parts of New England! There are still people alive who attended schools in French, the children of Francophones! They werent learning French as anglophones but as Francophones. Here in western Mass we had a sizable group French-Canadiens, struggling to keep the culture, the language.
Ouais
The French spoken there sounds a little like Spanish from a distance.
Nothing like Spanish. Just an old style of French and a bit creolized with native languages. I understand them fine.
Actually, it is very similar to French spoken in the Maritime provinces of Canada, where Louisiana Acadians used to live until they were deported by the British.
You'll find this French in fishing villages across France, just not in places like Paris or Nice. Of course those places have their own "Posh" slang lol.
as a french it sounds as old french
@@xanderunderwoods3363 This French? No you won't.
We barely speak english 😄
Thats ok, mec, we wouldnt listen to you in either language! LOL/MDR Laissez le bon temps roulez!
@@inconnu4961 tais-toi
It's a dialect of the language. That would be like England sending the same here to learn the correct English. Rather than our dialect
In Quebec and Canada, they teach the universal French in school, but most Francophones still speak their dialect. Visit Northern Ontario for a taste of French in dialect! LOL it can be quite a bit different than even Quebec French! (but I am no expert there)
Everyone learns their dialect at home and in the streets. Every school teaches the standard language of the majority no matter where one is at.
So French is OK but not Spanish?
Is this what Xmen's Gambit sounds like?
vive la Louisianne !!!
Ça c’est bon like dat comme ça!!! Tonnerre mais ça c’est bon!!!!
It is extremely difficult to understand their French
People's ancestors from the old times in louisiana are clapping their hands at the descendants for speaking the french language as first time brought back to where Lewis And Clark have started since their expedition began.
Forgive me, but I was taught the Lewis and Clark Expedition began in St Louis MO..a city founded by the French and named for King Louis XIV. My hometown of Kansas City, MO was partly founded by French traders from St Louis. Our Missouri state flag is not red white and blue for the colors of the U.S. flag, but based upon a horizontal version of the French 'tricolour'
Learning French and its contribution to crisis medicine could serve as a means for the world's physicians to unite for peace in strife stricken areas if only we physicians could be inspired by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders.
intresting
faire parler Français Louisiane à nouveau!
Sound like portogues
Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont are other states where French was dominant as well.
Moi, je soutien le president et j’espepere pour une system social q’elle le survivamce de la
Lange francaise. Et. Auctocotrect. My phone is in English and I’m a native English speaker.
Turns out Macron o my needed an excuse to meet secretly with Elon Musk
Cajun speaking
En français SVP
They Should be speaking their natives Indian language not their coloniser language.
But the French-speaking population of Louisiana have French as their native language.
So why in the north of Magrebh they speak arab by their colonisators from Saudite Arabia ?
Yes you right Akhbar they should learn their native american language
French has been their native language for centuries now.
Hell yea give me some money monsiuer macron
He could start by teaching basic good manners to French people twords visitors who don't have perfect French.
Thank you!
Sadly this is a feature in a lot of francophone areas. My friends from Northern Ontario also have this complaint when visiting Quebec
@@inconnu4961 faux mais vous vous êtes fait à l'idée à force de vous l'entendre répéter. Ce qui est courant c'est d'entendre des anglophones en terrain francophone vous reprendre sur les mots en anglais, par moquerie, par impression d'être là en conquérant, ou juste par pure ignorance ou notion de respect envers les populations qui n'entrent pas dans leur conception monoculturelle du monde. On est dans un pur cas de retournement de la charge.
Of the major languages, french and russian have less people speaking it year after year. Russian because of the declining population and young people in eastern europe not learning it while their soviet era grandparents and parents die off. French because of africa, where young people are learning english instead. Canada has the same issue where almost everyone who speaks french there also speaks english, so in a generation or two it will flip
I would actually very interested in seeing any documentation about the rate of French usage in Africa declining. Most projections I've seen has French speakers globally increasing my hundreds of millions, despite demographic changes in Canada. Could you provide me with a link?
Also while Québecois is at risk I would say, unless the Québec government magically becomes radically less concerned with their language laws, Canadian French, while it will likely decline, will likely not disappear as soon as you predict.
@@marseillais2687 French will not disappear in Canada, but you are going to see the younger generation pick up English first. And it is really the same with French in Africa. The countries that speak French are growing, but you have more and more younger people using english as it gives more accessibility to the world. I was in the military in Korean in the mid-90s, and I would moonlight teaching english at Samsung, and then all the businessmen would hire me to practice english with their kids also. I'm not talking a lightswitch, i am talking about a generational thing.
@@PeterSedesse French has been declining in Canada because of immigration policies of the last 200 years by the British and Anglo Canadian governments. Francophones kept their numbers up thanks to high birth rates. Now, finally, the Canadian government has decided to increase the number of francophone immigrants. But I dont think this will convince Mr Sedesse of anything because I sense a certain anglo supremacy on his part and on the part of others who play this numbers game. Quite frankly, I see anglo countries turn their backs on the rest of the world (Brexit, US border wall, etc) and I see the anglo world eventually turn inward and create this select white anglosphere. The english language is not dominant because there are more spanish speakers and much more chinese speakers in the world. The one language ambitions of anglos is just a dream.
@@kamikazes03 It is just about GDP. nothing racist. The USA and UK combined have about a third of the worlds GDP. Throw in english speaking canada, austrailia, india etc.. And then the other major big economies all have different languages. japan, china, russia, germany, brazil, mexico, south korea, france...all different languages. It is not ego, it is just a fact, the more globalization there is the more everything is going to move towards standardization.
Give me money to speak french 😂 Ivory coast speak french also, go there 🤷
Have you ever been there yourself?
“We need funding”
There it is. College kid looking for an angle to make a buck.
Does not sound like french to me tho
different local dialect similar to how Arabs from Egypt cannot understand Moroccan Arabic for example but when they start speaking standard Arabic they can communicate with each-other but this has only been possible because of The Quran which the standard Arabic language is based on.
french does not have anything comparable to The Quran and so in time french in african countries and other places around the world will form their own local dialects which will be very different to each-other and french in france and will one day seem as though they are different languages because they will not be able to understand the other dialects.
this is how languages evolve, change and die. the same will happen to english in time, especially if the english speaking countries lose contact with one another and other languages in these different countries and around the world start to be used more, like for example Spanish in parts of the USA or malaysian in Singapore or chinese in hong kong, etc.
Sounds perfectly french to me ( as a Frenchman )
@@18Don don't be kidding. The last dude is speaking French but the others are speaking a very strong accent or something.
@@jvdp9660 of course but still, it's understandable
@Whodun it whatever
To be honest local Americans prefer to hear and speak French than hearing and speaking Spanish. Spanish language in the US always see as negative light they see it as language of illegal immigrants.
Yes. Hence why I’m apprehensive at learning Spanish. I have French heritage and I would love to learn the language of my ancestors.
🙄
@@MerlodicaLearn both then
@@rjp2755Please stop selling your Spanish Language Privilege.
Seems kind of cruel to dump a second language on Louisiana when most residents manage to barely be intelligible in just the one.
This is lil weezyana now
French has been present in Louisiana long before it became a territory of the US, never mind a state.
@@retnavybrat He was trying to poke fun that their English-speaking ability! This is why we should all write sarcasm alerts when we speak in sarcasm. We could avoid this confusion!
It’s called an accent genius
Okay. They are in Louisianna. They are speaking french. They speak a kind of french. They are in the United States. They are in a state. They have Louisianna as the state. They have it starting with L. They have it ending with A. They are with 7 other letters. They are at the bottom of the United States. They have french starting with an F. They have it ending with H. They are with 4 other letters. They have 9 letters in Louisianna. They have 6 letters in french. They border Texas to the west. They border Arkansas to the North. They border Mississippi to the East. They border Gulf of Mexico on the bottom. They are in North America. They are north of South America. They are west of Europe. They are west of Africa. They are west of Aisa. They are west of Austraillia also known as Oceania. They are north of Antarctica. They are South of the North Pole witch is not a continent. This is information.
That first couple speak a weird French 😅 that accent 😅😅
Thats not french,its a dialect.
different local dialect similar to how Arabs from Egypt cannot understand Moroccan Arabic for example but when they start speaking standard Arabic they can communicate with each-other but this has only been possible because of The Quran which the standard Arabic language is based on.
french does not have anything comparable to The Quran and so in time french in african countries and other places around the world will form their own local dialects which will be very different to each-other and french in france and will one day seem as though they are different languages because they will not be able to understand the other dialects.
this is how languages evolve, change and die. the same will happen to english in time, especially if the english speaking countries lose contact with one another and other languages in these different countries and around the world start to be used more, like for example Spanish in parts of the USA or malaysian in Singapore or chinese in hong kong, etc.
@@muslimresponse103 Tkx for most interesting comment. Once I asked which arabic would be the most beautiful to learn my teachers answer was the arabic spoken in Lebanon. Sorry to say - I didnt compleate the course.
There are multiple dialects of French, it doesn't make it any less French. I come from Acadia and I have zero issues understanding their dialect.
That is what I say also about American English.
Considering I speak to french people from all over the world with my louisiana french on a weekly basis just fine. I can promise you we speak french.
In USA french will never catch on in any form
It's already been spoken in Louisiana for 300 years ... try again.
He be better off at home in France and try to get the lmmegrants to speak and write french. Not going to happen though... Few can read the squiggly writing
He can make the French speak Arabic and save some time.
The people featured in this video are all Americans, not French citizens.
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We cant even say chevrolet we shortened it to chevy. The French should just learn english.
French people also shorten words and so do English speaking people and so does everyone who speaks a language on a daily basis
@@yonatanbehar3322 Chevrolet is a French name not English. I assumed that's why we shortened it. Do you want to hear me try to pronounce Citreon and Peugeot? Pew got and sit ron.
Cadillac and Limousine is also french.
Actually american cars are mostly french hahaha
@@manatnew Interesting I didnt know that. I would make a bet Ford isnt French though.
@@ashleyhill6697germanic I believe
ENGLISH is best ♥️
Stick with English🏴👌
Sixty percent of the world's population speaks AT LEAST two languages. You can't travel out of your country if you don't learn a few words of the country you cant to travel to....
PLUTÔT CREVER !!!!!
How about no. En parle français ici.
@@LukeMornings
A hillbilly language is so low brow, look up at the stars 😐
Yes
They should speak English. Respect the country you are in. The US should introduce a Seperatism bill.
The US have no official language and Louisiana was already French speaking before become an American state
You should speak the language of the Native Americans. You are in their lands. Go back to Europe.
Your argument is self defeating.
You should respect the history of the country.
Ok derp lol
IDOIT
lol at the subtitles
I had some trouble understanding it myself! Turn on Radio-Canada, and i will tell you what they are saying. Accent was a bit thick for me.