The Department of French and Italian will add a Haitian Creole course taught by Lecturer Johnny Laforêt in Fall 2025 or Spring 2026. The new course follows interest in the language by students who ...

Creole is the mother tongue in Haiti, but children do most of their schooling in French. Two hundred years after Haiti became the world's first black-led republic, is the use of French holding the ...

Explore the rich cultural tapestry of Creole languages, peoples, and traditions shaped by historical interactions and diverse ...

In 2018, Louisiana became the first U.S. state to join l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), a global organization of more than 90 countries, governments and states united by French ...

The first thing you realize when you enter the classroom filled with eager 5th graders is that, though the school is in the heart of New Orleans, no one is speaking English. “Quel est cet objet?” ...

The Clark County Public Library has added new resources in response to the increase in Haitian-Creole speakers in the community. Patrons at the library will soon be able to access more French language ...

Heritage languages mold the existence of the United States of America. According to Dr. Carreira, people speak over 350 languages other than English at home. And more than 67 million people speak a ...

Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. Juliet and Lana attend École Pointe-au-Chien, a new public French immersion ...

When Télé-Louisiane was founded in 2018 as a multi-lingual media platform, the goal was to tell more of Louisiana's stories in French, Creole and the other languages that create the state's diverse ...