Saturday, December 22, 2012
Reading Rainbow by Levar Burton is Back as an App and on iTunes
Thursday, December 20, 2012
EZHaitianCreole Helps You Learn Creole for Free: Listen to Creole Audio
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Storytelling: 2 Haitian Tales - 2 Kont Ayisyen
Haitian Foods - Manje Ayisyen
Thanksgiving Meals Audio
Free Sample Download of Haitian Creole CD
Introduction to Haitian Creole
Questions and Greetings in Creole - How are you? Kijan ou ye?
Haitian Creole Expressions
Audio for Body Parts in Creole
Popular Haitian Creole Expressions: Sa-k Pase? N-ap Boule….etc.
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Review of Creole Nasal and Non-nasal Vowels
The Clothes We Wear:
New Year’s Eve Celebrations - Reveyon
Basic Creole Grammar Rules:
How do you say…..in Creole? Kouman nou di…. an Kreyol?
Spanish / Creole Lessons: Del Creole al Espanol
El Bicentenario de Mexico - Bisantne Meksiko
El habito de mascar goma en los Estados Unidos
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Listen to Lesson #3: Creole episodes
Listen to Lesson #6: Body parts
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Listen to Dodo Tipitit, Popular Haitian lullaby
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Listen to Lesson #10: Review of nasal and non-nasal vowels
Listen to Lesson #11: Creole Lesson for President and First Lady
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Listen to Lesson #16 - Seasonal Clothes We Wear…
Listen to Lesson #16 - Popular Haitian Children’s Songs and Church Hymns
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Listen to Lesson #18: Listen to a sample of Acappella Songs of Hope
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Listen to Lesson #31 - How Do You Say … in Creole: Haitian Holiday Celebrations
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
Aprendan el Creole Haitiano - Learn Haitian Creole, Learn Creole
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“Alo! - Hola! - Hello!: Los Verbos y Las Palabras Para Aprender El Creole Haitiano” Este libro fue escrto en Espaňol e Inglés para los que quieren aprender el Creole Haitiano. Fue preparado por Sr. Joseph J. Charles, escritor de “Learn Haitian Creole in one Week – Aprendan el Creole Haitiano Dentro de una Semana… y “¿Que Tal? - Sak Pase? / N-ap Boule! - Bien! What's Up? / We Are Doing Well!
Alo! Hola! Hello! Los Verbos y las Palabras Para Aprender el Creole Haitiano
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Sunday, October 7, 2012
Friday, September 28, 2012
How Much Worse Can It Be in Haiti? Bouki and Malis Get Smuggled to Miami, Florida: Bouki Finally Outsmarted Malis
"Bouki and Malis Turned Boat People - Bouki ak Malis Pran Kanntè"
Authors, Charles J. Desmangles and Kevin Levin, have done a great job writing this novella in Haitian Creole, Spanish, and English. Bouki and Malis Turned Boat People:Bouki ak Malis Pran Kanntè. It is based on the plasticity and richness of the Haitian folklore. Two of the most recognizable characters of Haitian folktales play a central role in this story.
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In this novella, the authors show Bouki's desperation and push factors contributing to his agreement with a sleek, sophisticated local criminal and people smuggler / trafficker known as 'Captain Katastwòf Natirèl.' Bouki was deep in debts because he wanted to maintain a lifestyle he could not afford on the meager catches of a fisherman. Caught and deported several times by U.S. Border and Coast Guard, Captain Katastwòf Natirèl (Captain Natural Catastrophe) was on a black list. Bouki thought he was smart enough to pull this trip on his own. He refused to be known as the butt of his brother's jokes, a simpleton, a fool. He did not want Malis, his intellectual brother, to know about the details of that trip. All the while, Malis never hesitated to put him down and make him realize that he needed his expertise, language skills, and critical thinking.
Charles J. Desmangles and Kevin Levin interweave elements of the Haitian culture in this remarkable Haitian Creole, Spanish, English novella. Things must have been really harsh in Haiti if these two famous characters of the Haitian folklore finally decide to leave the country on a perilous raft to cross illegally to the U.S. shores. When faced with an upcoming storm, Captain Katastwòf Natirèl led his crew to Santiago, Cuba to seek temporary refuge. He forced everybody to learn Spanish in order to pass for Cuban refugees. Will Booki, Malis and Captain Katastwòf Natirèl make it to the dry grounds of Florida?
This story is set against the backdrop of Haiti's devastated agriculture, political upheavals, insecurity, presence of UN troops or Minustah, series of natural disasters such as hurricanes and 2010 earthquake, barren lands and tree-less mountaintops causing widspread floodings, destroyed ecology, infrastructures and educational institutions with a local population that depends more and more on imported goods and used clothes euphemistically known as 'pèpè.'
In this novella, the authors also implicate and relate the complicity of the catholic church whose priest, Father Francois, refuses to use Haitian Creole and French in his mass in his dogged efforts to cater to a dwindling but rich and powerful group of Latin language enthusiasts, les Bourgeois Commercants Mulattres (native Haitians of Syrian, Lebanese and.. descent). He did not heed Professor Malis' advice to start leading mass in Creole just like the Voodoo priests and protestant churches do all over the country with great success. What's worse is that Father Francois never said a word or raisee his stubby pinky finger against the clandestine smuggling and chaperoning of Haitian children who took these rickety boats to get reunited with their parents in Miami. Sister Marie Lafontant made her money chaperoning children and paid the priest under the table without counting her generous tithes to the church.
"Bouki and Malis Turned Boat People - Bouki ak Malis Pran Kanntè" is a book that will make you laugh and cry in the same sentence or paragraph. This book should be a required reading for anybody who wants to understand Haiti and the 'Boat People' phenomenon. Definitely, it should be required reading for any NGO, tourist, international workers in Haiti. It should be a required reading for any sociology students. This novella is edited by Prof. Joseph J. Charles
Now you can find out whether Bouki shows any signs of intelligence here:
"Excerpt from "Bouki and Malis Turned Boat People.."
“They said that I am supposed to pass the shark test too,” Bouki said to Malis.
“What are you talking about?” Malis asked.
“I was told that it is a test developed by the American authorities to separate Cubans from Haitians. They say that sharks like Haitians’ blood and flesh. They eat Haitian migrants whose boats capsize in high seas between Haiti and Bahamas. “
“Come on, Bouki, think straight. Respect yourself. It looks like you are losing your consciousness, you are coming in and out of consciousness. It appears that the waves of the sea and the crossing made you lose your mind. Americans are not like that! Where can they find these sharks?”
“Malis, I am not crazy. You always think I am crazy!”
“Crazy people hold this kind of talk!”
“I am a fisherman, but I am afraid of sharks. Their teeth are like saws.”
“Hello Bouki, you are no longer on the ocean now. You are on firm U.S. soil!”
End of excerpt
Saturday, August 25, 2012
How do you say Happy Birthday in Haitian Creole?
M se enfimyè ou – I am your nurse
Bòn fèt de nesans – Happy birthday
Bòn fèt – Happy birthday
Gato – cake
Ice cream – Krèm
*** tap tap - a pickup with two long benches to carry passengers. It is a common form of public transportation in haiti ***
Makònen – twisted, knotted, entangled
Mele – implicate, involve, tangle, mix up, confuse (has several synonyms): pran nan twa rwa, tonbe nan traka, pran nan mera, pran nan konfizyon, bare, bloke, enplike
Examples: Pa mele-m nan zafè politik say o – Do no involve in these political affair.
Tifi-a mele! The girl is confused!
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Most Popular Haitian Children's Choruses, Church + Play Songs CD and Bonus Pack
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The release of this new CD, 'Most Popular Haitian Children's Church Songs in French and Creole' is in response to the many requests obtained from U.S and Canadian Churches with missionary work in Haiti. Many missionaries have also written me about this CD.
Thanks for your long wait. I hope that many of these songs and choruses will help you worship, sing along and deepen your learning of the culture and Haitian languages.
As you may have already known this, Haiti has two official languages. While we are currently focusing on the language spoken by all Haitians, we will also pay attention to the other language, French. Creole and French exist side by side in Haiti. It makes sense that some of the popular songs are in French or both of the languages.
Most Popular Haitian Children's Songs and Choruses will get you acquainted with this bilingualism that exists in Haiti.
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'Most Popular Hiatian Children's Church Songs and Choruses CD' has been released. Please use it to familiarize yourself with the Haitian culture and music scene. Acappella is doing very well in Haiti. Most churches have Acappella groups. Once again, the human voice is the greatest instrument that exists on earth!
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
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5. Poukisa ou bay manti konsa? Why do you tell lies like this?
6. Ansanm ansanm nou va triyonfe – Together we will triumph
7. Sezon Kanaval la gen tan kòmanse nan Trinidad ak Brezil – The Carnival season has already started in Trinidad and Brazil.
8. Tout moun ap ri, voleponpe, epi danse muzik Soka (nanm Kalipso). Everyone is laughing, jumping, and dancing Soca music (soul of Calypso).
9. Eske ou pral Kenskòf oswa Boutilye? Non. M pral Montay Nwa – Are you going to Kenskoff or Boutiliers? No. I am going to Montagne Noire
10. Yon fwa tranblemantè a fin pase. Debri ak fatra pran Pòtoprens, capital Ayiti – Once the earthquake took place (passed). Rubble and trash take over Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital
11. Pi gwo vedèt Soka muzik rele Machel Montano. Li fèk lage trantsenkyèm albòm li alvèy konkou populè ki rele Soca Monarch – Soca Music’s biggest star’s name is Machel Montano. He has just released his 35th disc on the eve of the popular competition named Soca Monarch.
12. Trinidad ak Tobago gen yon lòt vedèt ki rele ‘Ras Star’ Franklin. Li fèk sot jwe pou komunote Cocorite oswa Coco Sweet. Yonn nan chanson li chante rele ‘Soca Fire.’ – Trinidad and Tobago has a new star whose name is ‘Ras Star’ Franklin. He has just played for his community named Cocorite or Coco Sweet. One of the songs he sang is ‘Soca Fire.’
13. Pa gen lekòl Jodi-a – There is no school today (school is out today).
14. Jodi-a se yon jou fèt. Pa gen travay – Today is a holiday – there is no work.
15. Pa chita sou chèz sa-a. Li rezève pou prezidan konpayi a – Do not sit on this chair. It is reserved for the president of the company
16. Paran timoun yo pa ka (pa kapab) ba yo manje. Pase yo kite yo mouri grangou, yo voye timoun yo bay moun ki ka elve yo – The children’s parents can not feed them. Instead of letting them die of hunger, they give them away to those who can raise them.
17. Al fè pwovizyon nan mache Petyonvil maten an – Go shopping at the Petionville market this morning.
18. Eske ou pral nan legliz katolik la Jodi-a? - Are you going to the catholic church today?
19. Non, m pa pral nan okenn legliz – No, I am not going to any church.
20. Poukisa ou mare sentu byen di konsa? Pa tounen yon pongongon. Pa anmède-m – Why did you tie your waist like this? Do not be a pain in my butt. Do not bother me
21. Doktè a ekri yon lòt (nouvèl) prescripsyon pou nouvo medikaman an – The doctor wrote another (new) prescription for the new medication.
22. Alèkile tout moun vin fou pou yon ayfonn (iphone), oubyen yon aypad (ipad). These days, everybody goes crazy for an iPhone or an iPad.
23. Kanaval Rio se gwo koze. Tout moun degize epi yo chante, danse, ak bwè bwason toupatou – Rio Carnival is a big deal. Everyone wears mask, sings, dances and drinks beverages everywhere.
24. An 2010, pa-t gen (pa te gen) Kanaval an Ayiti akoz tranblemantè a ki te two frèch sou nanm tout moun nan peyi a – In 2010, there was no Carnival in Haiti because of (due to) the quake that was too fresh on everybody’s soul in the country.
25. Ane sa-a, gen rara nan vilaj Ayiti. Gen kanaval nan gwo vil yo tou – This year, there is popular dance/celebration in the villages of Haiti. Carnival takes place in the big cities too.
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
French Phrases, Des Phrases de Creole Haitien, Algunas Frases de Espanol, English Phrasebook Audio
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10. M kriye paske-m kontan – Je pleure parceque je suis heureux. – Lloro porque estoy feliz – I cry because I am happy
11. Eske ou fè manje / kwit manje chak jou ? - Est-ce que tu fais la cuisine tous les jours ? - Cocinas cada día ? – Do you cook every day ?
12. Rele timoun you. Se lè pou yo pran dine – Appelez les enfants. C’est l’heure de prendre le diner. – Llamen a los chicos. Llega la hora de cenar. – Call the children up. It is time to eat dinner.
13. Kite timoun yo li liv yo – Laissez les enfants lire leur livres – Dejen a los niños leer sus libros – Let the kids read their books.
14. Ki kote / kote ou rete? – Où demeures-tu / où habites-tu ? – Dónde vives ? – Where do you live ?
15. Ki moun k-ap danse nan lakou-a ? – Qui danse dans la cour ? – Quién baila en el patio ? – Who is dancing in the yard ?
16. Kisa ou vle ? -Que veux-tu ? Tu veux quoi ? – Qué quieres ? – What do you want ?
17. Men de chapo. Kilés ou vle mete ? – Voici deux chapeaux. Lequel veux-tu porter ? – Aquí están dos sombreros. Cuál de ellos te gusta llevar? – Here are two hats. Which one would you like to wear?
18. Se konbyen sa koute? – C’est combien ça coûte ? – ¿Cuánto cuesta eso ? – How is that? How much does this/that cost?
19. Kijan ou rele? Kòman ou rele? Kouman ou rele ? Ki non ou ? Ki jan yo rele w ? – Comment t’appelles-tu? Quel est ton nom ? – ¿Cómo te llamas ? / Cuál es tu nombre ? – What’s your name ?
20. M rele m’sye Tchipi Kantiflas – Je m’appelle Mr. Chipi Cantiflas – Me llamo Don Chipi Cantiflas – My name is mr. Chipi Cantiflas
21. Ki moun ki te ba ou kalite non sa-a? – Qui t’a nomme ainsi ? - Quién te dió este tipo de nombre ? – Who gave you this kind of gargantuan name?
22. Poukisa ou pa vle jwe avèk nou? – Pourquoi ne veux-tu pas jouer avec nous? - Porqué no te gusta jugar con nosotros ? – Why don’t you want to play with us ?
23. Se pouki moun liv sa-a ye ? - A qui appartient ce livre ? - ¿De quién es este libro ? – Whose book is this ?
24. Ki kote ou prale / Kote prale la-a ? – Tu te rends oú ?/ Oú vas-tu ? – ¿A dónde vas? – Where are you going?
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Listen to Haitian Creole Phrases, Sayings, and Expressions: Tense Markers
What is on this podcast post?
Greetings in Haitian Creole
Creole Tense Markers
Creole Phrases, Sayings, and Expressions
Additional Resources:
1st List of Haitian Creole Phrases:
List of Haitian Creole phrases and Expressions
2nd List of Creole Expressions and Phrases:
Second List of Creole Expressions and Phrases
