I'm so happy to watch this video! Because i can understand what they said. I'm come from Martinique French West Indies and i speak creole too. Trinidad patois is like my creole (or patois)! Amazing!
When I was a kid in Trinidad my French teacher , who learned what is known as " patois"(pronounced pat-wah for those who have no idea of French pronunciation) as a kid himself, told me that the Haitian creole is the same as Trinidad patois . He knew this because he temporarily hosted a Haitian from their national soccer team who tried to seek asylum from Trinidad and perfectly communicated with him in his Haitian Creole . My point is ,I now realize that the broken French that evolved into patois is generally the same throughout the Caribbean nations that were at some point colonized or influenced by the French.The only difference is that it may be called creole in Haiti , which as everyone knows , broke political ties with France over two hundred years before .Even though the British later took over some islands ( as in the case of the islands Trinidad , St Lucia and Grenada) , the patois dialect survived. Nevertheless , it seems that ( from what people have said here and elsewhere )someone from any of the the islands just mentioned can easily communicate with someone from Martinique or Guadeloupe , which are islands that not only remained with France but are now French provinces, enjoying citizenship rights as much as those from the mainland . Unfortunately in Trinidad where I'm from (which technically, was not a colony of France but had an influx of French colonizers with slaves in the 1780s that populated the island under an agreement with Spain ,who themselves seemed little interested in living there themselves ) relatively few people still speak it there. My understanding is that until the 1930s, most of the Trinidad population actually spoke patois as a first language even under British rule . It's a shame that, as of today ( December 2016) I haven't learned the patois / creole tongue , but I will. My intermediate knowledge of French should be helpful.
That shouldn't be a surprise because Creole was brought to Trinidad from French islands and former French colonies like Grenada, Martinique, St. Lucia, Haiti , St.Vincent and Dominica so it is derived from those creoles and therefore sounds like them.
I'm so happy to watch this video! Because i can understand what they said. I'm come from Martinique French West Indies and i speak creole too. Trinidad patois is like my creole (or patois)! Amazing!
When I was a kid in Trinidad my French teacher , who learned
what is known as " patois"(pronounced pat-wah for those who have no idea of French pronunciation) as a kid himself, told me that the Haitian creole is the
same as Trinidad patois . He knew this because he temporarily hosted a Haitian from
their national soccer team who tried to seek asylum from Trinidad and
perfectly communicated with him in his Haitian Creole .
My point is ,I now realize that the broken French that evolved into patois is generally the same throughout the Caribbean nations that were at some point colonized or influenced by the French.The only difference is that it may be called creole in Haiti , which as everyone knows , broke political ties with France over two hundred years before .Even though the British later took over some islands ( as in the case of the islands Trinidad , St Lucia and Grenada) , the patois dialect survived.
Nevertheless , it seems that ( from what people have said here and elsewhere )someone from any of the the islands just mentioned can easily communicate with someone from Martinique or Guadeloupe , which are islands that not only remained with France but are now French provinces, enjoying citizenship rights as much as those from the mainland . Unfortunately in Trinidad where I'm from (which technically, was not a colony of France but had an influx of French colonizers with slaves in the 1780s that populated the island under an agreement with Spain ,who themselves seemed little interested in living there themselves ) relatively few people still speak it there. My understanding is that until the 1930s, most of the Trinidad population actually spoke patois as a first language even under British rule . It's a shame that, as of today ( December 2016) I haven't learned the patois / creole tongue , but I will. My intermediate knowledge of French should be helpful.
That shouldn't be a surprise because Creole was brought to Trinidad from French islands and former French colonies like Grenada, Martinique, St. Lucia, Haiti , St.Vincent and Dominica so it is derived from those creoles and therefore sounds like them.
they sound like st.lucians wow
yes!
Subtitles would be encouraging to the viewer..
Fout mwen konten tennis moun palé kréol.
M'en cé menmay Matnik
Grandparents need to teach the kids otherwise it will die off
+TRAY NICE. Pour de vrai.
it is dying out sadly
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