The French language in Louisiana is becoming obsolete — a fate comparable to the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. A Cajun foreign language and bilingual expert spoke last week to students at Lehigh ...

When Janice Prejean was growing up, if she wanted to speak with her grandparents, she had to do it in French. To crack the code of the private conversations and jokes that flew over the heads of ...

Every Thursday evening, a group of about 10 students gathers at Houma's Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum with workbooks and hefty language dictionaries. They practice speaking to each other in local ...

JENNINGS, La. (AP) - Two Jefferson Davis Parish men’s dream of a radio station dedicated to providing a special place to the local French-language Cajun music is a reality with the launch of Cajun ...

MAMOU, La. — It’s 9:30 a.m., and the drinking and dancing already are raging at Fred’s Lounge, a fais do-do of Cajun French music, waltzes and two-steps, with cans of Miller Lite the breakfast of ...

There's a little radio station in south Louisiana. It's been on the air for nearly 70 years, doing everything it can to keep alive a dying language. That's Cajun French. On Saturday mornings, it ...

Parlez vous Cajun? If you think you do, or if you wish you could, speak and understand the nuances of the Cajun dialect, you can check out what is going on at the Martha Sowell Utley Memorial Library ...

Robert LeBlanc spoke Cajun French as if his life depended on it, because it did. LeBlanc, 94, served the U.S. military in World War II as a member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a ...

Channing Tatum starred in "Deadpool & Wolverine" as Gambit, a homeless character within Marvel Comics who lives on the streets of New Orleans. In the comics, Gambit is a Cajun and speaks both Cajun ...

MAMOU, La. - It’s 9:30 a.m., and the drinking and dancing already are raging at Fred’s Lounge, a fais do-do of Cajun French music, waltzes and two-steps, with cans of Miller Lite the breakfast of ...