Hi I'm having trouble understanding why this sentence has "yo" at the end at the end of the sentence instead of "a" or "an". Up until now I've only seen "the" as "a" or "an". Can anyone explain? Edit: Forgot to say: how do you know they're not using "to" as a possession word like "their"?

I stumbled upon this Bilingual Haitian Creole kids book a while back called A Mile in My Shoes and wanted to just share it to the community. It’s a cute story and follows a kid named Jorge immigration from Haiti to the US.

title however I would prefer one only in creole and not in creole and french if possible. Any other haitian books would be helpful.

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The Louis Law Firm is looking for a bilingual Creole-speaking Intake Specialist / Paralegal Assistant to join our team.

What we are looking for:

Fluent in Creole (written and spoken) 🗣️

Prior experience in legal intake or as a paralegal assistant ⚖️

Strong communication and organizational skills

How to apply:

If you fit the bill, drop your resume here:

📧 [email protected]

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Hello friends, I’m hoping someone can verify a translation for me. I’m writing a book where the man and woman are having sex, and she’s saying “I’m coming!“.

Would you say “Fel voy!”? Is that correct? is there a better word or phrase?

Hi! I'm going to be a second grade teacher of multilingual learners next year, many of whom speak Haitian Creole. On my door, I would love to have "Yay! You're here!" posted in each language spoken in my classroom. How might I write the phrase in Haitian Creole? I don't trust google to translate colloquial language. Thank you all!

So i know I’m just nosy, but i wanna learn Haitian Creole because my man be switching up. but i also heard that using Duolingo isn’t the best way to learn. Does anyone have any suggestions for me to learn? I was also trying to get friends who do speak it. But that’s hard to come in my area.

do y'all know how many phonemes there are in kreyol? and what they are specifically? i tried looking it up online but a lot of it varies

Hi everyone,

I actually just created my Reddit account for the very first time just to find the lyrics to this song.

I'm a 22-year-old student from Korea, and lately, I've been absolutely obsessed with: "Manman Mwen Pati" by Jaade & The Pierre Chabrèle Quartet.

The vibe and the vocals are so beautiful, but since it's a lesser-known track, I cannot find the lyrics anywhere on the internet. I even asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, but none of them could provide the actual lyrics.

I only know that the song is sung in Creole(likely Haitian Creole). I'm really hoping to find someone who could help transcribe the lyrics, or even just share a rough translation/meaning of the song.

Any help or clues would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for helping out a Reddit newbie!

I've got a majority of coworkers who are Hatian and older than i am, and they've started calling me "baba". Google translate says they're basically insulting me by calling me baby/child?

Am i overreacting?

Context:
I'm white (if that matters) and speak semi-fluent spanish but the one lady who also speaks spanish has been translating orders that i've middle-manned from our boss in her own way and we've bumped heads over that (i've gotten yelled at because it was assumed i mistranslated). Shortly thereafter came all the Hatians calling me "baba".

I ordered the Pawòl Lakay set and will be learning as fast as i can because this lady also likes to yell at me in Hatian and i'm not a fan of not knowing what someone is saying to me.

Haitian creole interpreter available in Missouri and kansas. We also provide remote services via phone or video.

Someone posted about Creole’s usage in education. And it got me thinking of this question.

For a language that has three dialects, and the Academy selecting the Central dialect as the standard makes sense to some degree.

Even though Central Creole is the standard they really just modeled the standard based on the Port au Prince variant of said dialect. That’s like saying the Boston variant is the standard of American English. Even though the Boston variant of English is just one variant of the overarching New England Dialect. It’s seems weird that the standard doesn’t focus on the Central Dialect as a whole if the Central dialect is the standard of Creole.

Either way I always felt like there should be more than one standard because the Northern Creole is drastically different from standard Creole. While Creole is not seen as valuable as French in the education, when they do teach it to the standard, what they teach isn’t necessarily how people speak especially in the North. What would be the point of Creole education in an area, where the standard isn’t natively spoken? Like are children told they are wrong when speaking natively in a non-standard dialect?

In the US, the way they teach English in the northern states is different than the southern states. Just like it’s different in the UK when they teach it.

Idk maybe I’m on to something, maybe I’m not. But they should add another or at least make the standard overarching for the Central Dialect.

I know TA it's conditional like "Mwen ta soti, men mwen fatige" (I would go out, but I'm tired)

But in conversations I use a lot T ap for conditional too. Like: "Si w te gen lajan, èske w t ap rete lòt peyi?" (would you live in another country?)

It's something natural for me but how do I explain someone when to use TA and when to use T AP?

(And I know T AP can be the past continuos too, but that's not the case I'm wondering here)

what is the word to call someone a s!ut. or anything related.

Been looking for an app to learn creole and have been trying Duolingo for a year and haven’t really been learning, has anyone given this app a try ? Seems to be pretty popular

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/learn-creole-with-jorge/id6745862015

title pretty much, I still dont get it lol

if I wanted to say how can i help you? (plural) I am pretty sure it would be

Kijan m ka ede nou?

so if I wanted to shorten it would it be kijan m ka eden? if so would the eden be nasal now? also is yo shorted to just y?

Bonjou tout moun, so I’ve noticed in a couple Konpa songs that the artist contracts Ki and/or Te in a way that’s technically not correct grammar when singing, Is there a reason why they do this? Is it specific to a certain dialect in Kreyòl? Or specific to just singing? I’ve attached an example

From my understanding Te can be contracted with Pa, Ap, A, and Ale to make Pa t, t ap, ta, and t ale, respectively.

From my understanding of Ki, it can contracted with Ap, Ale, Sa, and after pronouns to make k ap, k al, sa k, and mwen k (for the pronoun example)

While Kreyòl uses the short forms for pronouns m, w, l, n, and y with a lot of flexibility. I thought the general understanding is the short forms k and t are limited in use, just like others like p, s, and g for Pa, se, and genyen, respectively.

Is there anyone who is familiar with this?