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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Listen to Free Creole Audio

Free Random Audio of Creole Lesson Episodes:

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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Listen to Kids’ Kreyol - Koute Kreyol pou Timoun

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

Escuchen el Creole Haitiano Gratis - Listen to Haitian Creole for free

List of Free Direct Downloads of Haitian Creole Episodes

Welcome to Haitian Creole in no Time Podcast Intro

Listen to Lesson #1: Greetings

Listen to Lesson #2: Bilingual questions 3 languages

Listen to Lesson #3: Creole episodes

Listen to Lesson #4

Listen to lesson #5

Listen to Lesson #6: Body parts

Listen to additional Lesson #6: Sa-k Pase? N-ap Boule

Listen to Lesson #7: Popular and Useful Creole/English Expressions

Listen to Dodo Tipitit, Popular Haitian lullaby

Listen to Lesson #8: News, Nouvel, Noticias

Listen to Lesson #9: Kreyol Pou Timoun Audio Sample

Listen to Lesson #10: Review of nasal and non-nasal vowels

Listen to Lesson #11: Creole Lesson for President and First Lady

Listen to Lesson / Leccion #12 - Creol en Espanol Gratis: Que Tal? Sa-k Pase…..

Listen to Lesson / Leccion #13 - Extracto Gratuito del Manual ‘Que Tal? - Sa-k Pase?

Listen to Lesson / Leccion #14 - Kreyol por Espanol

Listen to Lesson #15: Additional List of Haitian Creole expressions, phrases, and greetings

Listen to Lesson / Leccion #15 - Kreyol por Espanol, Del Creole al Espanol

Listen to Lesson #16 - Seasonal Clothes We Wear…

Listen to Lesson #16 - Popular Haitian Children’s Songs and Church Hymns

Listen to Lesson / leccion #17: Creole por Espanol - to like, to love, renmen, querer, gustar

Listen to Lesson #18: Listen to a sample of Acappella Songs of Hope

Listen to Lesson #19: Listen to Creole Verbs and Tense Markers

Lesson #20: Sing / Chante / Canten con nosotros - Debout Sainte Cohorte..

Listen to Lesson #21: Faith Builds Haitian Resilience - Sing / Chante / Canten con nosotros - Chantons du Sauveur

Listen to Lesson #22: Free Downloads of ‘Ann Pale Yon Ti Kreyol - Let’s Speak a Little Creole’

Listen to Lesson / Leccion #23 - Listen to ‘El Bicentenario de Mexico - Bisantne

Listen to Lesson #23 - Sing / Chante / Canten con nosotros - Ne Crains Rien, Je t’aime…

Listen to Lesson #24 - Listen to the free sample of ‘Sa-k Pase? N-ap Boule Textbook, pages 7-12

Listen to Lesson #25 - Sing / Chante / Canten con nosotros - Quelle Assurance Je suis sauve..

Listen to Lesson #26 - Listen to free Downloads of ‘Quick Haitian Creole Grammar Reference’ Textbook

Listen to Lesson #27 - Listen to ‘Tools and Supplies Vocabulary’

Listen to Lesson #28 - Listen to ‘Free Haitian Creole Download of Foods, Spices, and Fruit etc

Listen to Lesson #29 - Listen to ‘New Year’s Eve / Alavey Nouvel Ane..

Listen to Lesson #30 - Listen to Review of Basic Creole Grammar Rules, Pronunciation…

Listen to Lesson #31 - How Do You Say … in Creole: Haitian Holiday Celebrations

Listen to Lesson / Leccion #32 - Kreyol por Espanol - El Habito de Mascar Goma - Koutim Manje Chiklet…

Listen to Lesson #33 - Listen to Word Market Carnival…

Listen to Lesson #34 - Listen to Haitian Creole CD

Listen to #35 -Listen to Krik! Krak! Haitian Tales / Kont Ayisyen

Listen to Lesson / Leccion #36 - Como Criar a un Bebe… en Creole

Listen to Lesson #37 - Vwala Se Te Yon Fwa / Once Upon a Time…Haitian Tales / Kont Ayisyen

Listen to Lesson #38 - Free excerpts of ‘Quick Haitian Creole Grammar Reference’

Listen to Lesson #39 - Free Excerpts of ‘Quick Haitian Creole Grammar Reference’ Dialogue Pages 180-186

Listen to Lesson #40 - Listen to story ‘The Godfather’s Mercy - Parenn, Pran Pitye…

Listen to Lesson / Leccion #41 - Lista Gratuita de Verbos y Expresiones de Creole

Listen to Lesson #42 - Free excerpt of ‘Sa-k Pase? N-ap Boule Textbook’ - Chapter 1

Listen to Lesson #43 - Free excerpt of ‘Sa-k Pase? N-ap Boule Textbook’ - Chapter 2

Listen to Lesson #44 - Free Excerpt of ‘Sa-k Pase? N-ap Boule Textbook’ - Chapter 3



Monday, November 5, 2012

French Made Easy Through Podcast: Just Listen to and Learn French Online

Chez; Voici; Voilà

Chez (au domicile de – at somebody’s place – home, at home, at someone’s house, at the home of) is a preposition. It is used to indicate a place or professions. It means (au magasin, cabinet de) Chez is used to mean (dans la famille de, dans le pays, la region de, le groupe, parmi - among, dans la personalité, dans l’œuvre de – in)

Examples / Exemples:

Bienvenue chez moi – Welcome to my home

Bienvenue chez nous – Welcome to our home

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Voici – Here is, this is. C’est une préposition. Example: Voici mes parents – Here are my parents. Use voici to make a presentation or to present somebody or something.

Example: Voici la clé de la voiture. Tu conduis maintenant – Here is the key to the car. You drive now.

Voici ma fille – Here is my daughter / She is my daughter.

Voilà – That’s why, that is why, there’s why (adv.)

Voilà – There is, there are

Example: Voilà deux mois que je travaille ici – I have been here for two months.

Voilà ma mère – Here comes my mother

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Friday, September 28, 2012

ListenToAudioStories Recommends "Bouki and Malis Turned Boat People," A Contemporary Smuggling Saga with Hungry Sharks, Folklore Characters in High Seas

"Bouki and Malis Turned Boat People - Bouki ak Malis Pran Kanntè"

Sharks, Seas, Summer, Sun, Storm, Smugglers and more!

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

Monday, August 6, 2012

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