re: Do you speak French?

Oe, je parle français mais pas pcq de ma famille

Aussi, cajun-français est très difficile

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Because it's a weird flex. And German's way better than pussy arse French so wanting to shite on all your French fagg0ts.

J'en parles pas français mais je suis en train d'approndre.

I've been trying to learn French but as an old man it is very very difficult. I do a lot of family genealogy and can read some French but conversationally I'm completely lost.

There are at least four different lineages from France on my mother's side, most through Martinique, and I do have Acadian ancestors but I never claimed myself as a Cajun, primarily because I consider it a culture more than a genetic inheritance.

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I’ve been fascinated with the story of the British expulsion of Acadians

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If you want to read more about the expulsion of the French from Nova Scotia I highly recommend this book:

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

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In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it.

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It's disgusting to me that many British are proud of what they did. I've grown to despise them, particularly after reading this book.

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Do you speak French?

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Really not a good place to ask this question. Most posters here don’t live in Louisiana and they hate Louisiana with a passion.

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Imagine La without cajuns. It would be Alabama.

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Not even close. Louisiana was heavily settled by the French who were not from Acadia.

No. I'm American so I speak English.