Sunday, December 22, 2013

How To Speak Cajun

One of the Cajuns in the RV park gave lessons at Happy Hour. "Cajun looks a little like French but sounds different. You don't use periods, commas, exclamation points, question marks or parentheses. You leave no pause between words and you drop any letters you think are unnecessary. A paragraph should sound like one word. Now you are speaking Cajun"!


  1. Cajun comes from the word Acadien and the two dialects are still very close even after so many centuries of separation. I completely agree with your neighbour about how to speak Acadien/Cajun. People from New Brunswick are just as hard to understand!

    1. We talked to an Acadien from NB the other day. He said he could converse with the Cajuns just fine as long as they slowed down and separated their words. When they were talking to each other, he could not keep up. He said the fact that he spoke English well helped. He said people who speak only French had a harder time for some reason.