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I skipped my 10 year and I felt like I regretted it. I grew up in Opelousas and it looked like they had a GOOD 'ol time :lol: might go to the next one

There are French tables all throughout Acadiana (and outside, too) you can join. I'm in BR and i attend 3, plus there are a handful online through Zoom and Discord.




If anyone's interested in learning our French, here's a list of resources I've put together for people before:

[Practice]
First, I strongly recommend attending virtual or in-person French tables:
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There's a Discord for Cajun French that has a weekly chat on Sunday night:
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[Courses]

Kirby Jambon's YT videos are a great start.
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Josh Atwell at cajun-french.com runs courses


[Immersion Resources]
In addition to lessons, you'll want to immerse yourself and listen to our French as much as you can.

Boudini et Ses Ami is a good start for that:
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Josh Atwell has started to make some videos for beginners.
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You can find a lot of information on the LSU Cajun French website:
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LSU also has a series of interviews with transcripts and translations:
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L'académie Cadienne is great but since they're conversations it can be difficult for beginners.
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cajun-french.com has a table of immersion content that you can filter by parish:
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I highly encourage anyone to listen to Bonjour Louisiane on KRVS. The show is live at 5AM, but their website and app has it available for streaming 24/7. Colby Lejeune is great and he speaks for a few minutes every 15-20m. I love to just put it on while I work in the morning and stop and listen to him talk. He has guests sometimes. He has access to the ULL archives so there's often old music, stories, and conversations on there you won't hear anywhere else.

Basically all of Télé-Louisiane, but especially the interviews playlist has been my favorite (the LaCréole interviews also!!!):
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And La Veillée
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Brad Nations yt has quite a lot
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[Books]
As for books, there are a few.

There's the bible of Louisiana French:
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Cajun Self-Taught (fair warning: it was written a long time ago by an old man. Some of his views are very dated, and he created his own phonetic system that nobody else uses... but the meat of the book is still very useful)
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This little dictionary is great for what it is. Good to keep out on an end table and just pick up and read.
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Been putting off running the genny because I'm lazy as frick


Guess it's time to get my arse in gear

Whoever thought it was smart to put evening games during Louisiana late spring/summer but then refuse to play during a chance of rain is... Not familiar with Louisiana

I shower at night and I work from home. If I stink it's just me in my home office :dunno:

When I was 21 I lived with my 1st cousin and we both worked in the kitchen at DeAngelo's part-time. We were broke as shite. We look back and laugh now but it sucked, we lived on oatmeal with peanut butter, tortilla chips with a big can of nacho cheese, beans, and whatever one-off stuff his mom (my aunt) would bring us from time to time.

Serious snow in BR. This is amazing. My kids love it and don't want to go in lol

Valley Wings for various flavors. Spicy lemon pepper is a favorite of mine.


Best traditional buffalo wings: chimes, hands down. With their blue cheese dressing :drool:

Roman's pita and their homemade hot sauces really make it my favorite, this sucks. At least there's the hammond aire location, and it's pretty clean and seems well-run. The writing's been on the wall at the gov't location for some time.