French vs. Haitian Creole

Dive into the unique differences between Haitian Creole and French. Discover if Creole is merely fragmented French, and whether Creole speakers comprehend French. Interestingly, the French 'La crème' translates to 'krèm' in Haitian Creole! #CreoleVsFrench #HaitianCreoleVsFrench #LanguageDifferences

[Njoofene]

I love Haitians 🇭🇹 Love from Senegal 🇸🇳 and Gambia 🇬🇲

[dollfaceddiaries]

My husband is from Côte D'Ivoire so his first language is French . He can understand a lot of Haitian Creole . Some of his Haitian friends also speak French as well.

[Duc]

Tire as kaouchout makes sense, it's like the french word for rubber (caoutchouc)

[e.jthompson]

Pye bwa makes sense. Pyé in the sense that it’s the roots. Bwa means wood. Wood comes from trees

[dekishajones]

Moral of the story, language evolves just like everything else!

[captivatedlunt]

Creole sounds so beautiful. It’s such a lively language & rhythmic.

[kidscanreadtv]

In St Lucian creole we use the same words for tree, house as the haitians do. Very similar.

[josephottavi-perez]

love the centuries of African-isms and blending of cultures that create Haitian Creole. not to mention distance from France

[mikeberry]

That was fun. I could watch a half hour of this.

[sergpie]

Kaothcou (Cauchu/Caochu) comes from the term for rubber derived from trees, which is what tires were originally made from.

[michelhoareau]

Seychelles Creole

House: lakaz
Plate: lasyet
Air conditoning: erkon
Tree: pye dibwa
Tyre: larou
Lotion: lakrenm

Rubber: karoutsou

[Fabiopdfse]

In brazilian portuguese, we say "pé de manga" to refers mango tree, although the word "pé" has same meaning the word "foot".

[akbarthabeet]

“Kay” is closely related to “kaya”, a word found in many Bantu languages and it means “homestead”.

[medyllenajoly]

There is multiple different way to speak creole, I'm from the Réunion island and it's pretty different, but I love hearing the difference 🤩🤩

[frexelsio]

In French we can say air conditionné. The word caoutchouc also exists !

[GuerdaGuerda-bt]

Mw renmen sam we bon travail 😂❤❤❤

[margholtz]

Ikhaya is the word for house in Nguni South African languages, so probably was preserved from African heritage of the Haitians .

[missboo]

Kaoutchou очень похоже на каучук по звучанию, думаю сразу понятно😂😂а вот pneu я бы никогда не поняла)

[MrKennyBones]

Assiette, that’s interesting. It’s the same word in Norwegian

[andreevaillancourt]

Many Creole French languages are based in Colonial, pre-Revolution French language. It's an older version, which does not include any of the newer Post Revolution adjustments, of which their were quite a few. Pretty much turned it into a whole other language over time.
Compare Quebec French, to France French today. And 🇨🇦 has several other little pockets of French speakers throughout our country, coast to coast.
Gotta say that I love the sound of the Creole. 😊🧓🏽✌🏽🇨🇦