French Tables are plentiful in the area. Like French Immersion in our schools and Cajun food at home or in a restaurant, you can find a time and place to enhance your French language pretty much ...

I have a rep as “controversial” on the race scene. It is less well known that I am equally “controversial” in my original field. I have studied creole languages, usually formed when African plantation ...

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 ...

It was another hot, humid August day in Eunice. A 12-year-old Nathan Rabalais sat across from his Mawmaw at the restaurant, waiting for their to-go order to make it home before her soap opera started.

Sunset's historic former high school, vacant since 1991, is being renovated into École Saint-Landry, a French immersion ...

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 ...

CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, HaitiCROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti — Teenagers in blue-and-white uniforms pour out of classrooms of this boarding school at the edge of Haiti’s capital, chattering in their native ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (WAFB) - The unique language, music, and culture of Creole Louisiana is the focus of a museum in an area of Lafayette known as Freetown. Erica Fox is a musician and artist who helped ...

BREAUX BRIDGE, La. — Corey Ledet, lead singer in Corey Ledet and His Zydeco Band, belts out lyrics to an old zydeco tune in Louisiana French while literally bending the accordion to his will and ...

IN AN airy first-floor study, Eldred Jones, who is 93, takes a break from his Braille Bible to talk about how he first left Sierra Leone to study at Oxford. Later he became principal of west Africa’s ...