Studied Foreign Languages in the U.S.

>> <<Ton IP montre que t'as une sieste à Madrid.>>

what language is it ? I don't know, it seems like an exotic dialect of Spanish. >>

You're right because Spanish is an exotic dialect of French. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

The French language in Louisiana is GREATLY overstated. A very small population, of mostly elderly people (60 y/o +), are native french speakers.

Modern day ethnic Cajuns and Creoles, are anglophone people.

The French language in Louisiana is GREATLY underestimated. A very large population (40 y/o +), are monolingual native french speakers.

But the younger generation now participate in French Immersion Program under CODOFIL and now they can now speak to their monolingual elders and they vow that they will teach it to their children to make up for the lost generations who were denied to speak French known as "Heure de la honte".

French is now the medium of instructions in elementary and high school for science, math, social studies.

No such similar program exist in New Mexico where all the hispanics there are monolingual in English because they are ashamed of Spanish and they see it as the language of uncouths.

<<The French language in Louisiana is GREATLY underestimated. A very large population (40 y/o +), are monolingual native french speakers. >>

?? No.

Monolingual french speakers, literally number in the HUNDREDS (if thats what you consider large)...they few and far in between, and are usually rural elderly people, in small isolated communities.

Louisiana is not the Quebec of the united states, although some people would like it to be so. You will seldom come across anybody that speaks french with any facility. French is the historical language of lousiana, thats nearly gone.

There are, however, alot of wanna-be french speakers(anglophone Cajuns, and Creoles who study french and wish they spoke the language of their ancestors), and a fanatical CODOFIL, desperate to keep french alive in the state by forcing it on children; but thats pretty much it.

Modern day ethnic Cajuns and Creoles, are anglophone people

Really? poor them. Being absorbed in stupidland

<<?? No.

Monolingual french speakers, literally number in the HUNDREDS (if thats what you consider large)...they few and far in between, and are usually rural elderly people, in small isolated communities.

Louisiana is not the Quebec of the united states, although some people would like it to be so. You will seldom come across anybody that speaks french with any facility. French is the historical language of lousiana, thats nearly gone.

There are, however, alot of wanna-be french speakers(anglophone Cajuns, and Creoles who study french and wish they spoke the language of their ancestors), and a fanatical CODOFIL, desperate to keep french alive in the state by forcing it on children; but thats pretty much it. >>

?? Yes

French speakers in Louisiana are being revived and begin to increase again.

On the other hand Spanish speakers in New Mexico have all gone now because not even Mexico that is right next the border could not sustain and finance for the education of the long time hispanics in that state because they are so poor that they could not even afford to help its people who are living in poverty eating just one meal per day instead of three. That's why Spanish speakers there chose to become English speakers because they realized that being hispanic would only make them poorer because the legacy that they gotten from the hispanic world is LAZINESS and INDOLENCE. Look at them, they are living under the subsidy of the US government.

STATUS OF SPANISH IN NEW MEXICO

On June 10, 1910, Congress passed an enabling act which provided for the calling of constitutional conventions. The act required the Arizona and New Mexico state constitutions to include two provisions which would limit the use of the Spanish language as an official language. First, the public schools must be conducted in English: "That provisions shall be made for the establishment and maintenance of a system of public schools, which shall be open to all children of said state and free from sectarian control, and that said schools shall always be conducted in English."

Second, knowledge of the English language was a prerequisite for holding state offices and positions in the legislature: "That said State shall never enact any law restricting or abridging the right of suffrage on account of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude, and that ability to read, write, speak, and understand the English language sufficiently well to conduct the duties of the office without the aid of an interpreter shall be necessary qualification for all State officers and members of the State legislature."

Nevertheless, the draft of the New Mexico constitution, completed on November 21, 1911, contained three provisions which protected the rights of the Spanish-speaking. One related to voting:

Sec. 3. Religious and racial equality protected; restrictions on amendments. The right of any citizen of the state to vote, hold office, or sit upon juries, shall never be restricted, abridged or impaired on account of religion, race, language or color, or inability to speak, read or write the English or Spanish languages as may be otherwise provided in this Constitution; and the provisions of this section and of section one of this article shall never be amended except upon the vote of the people of this state in an election at which at least three-fourths of the electors in the whole state, and at least two-thirds of those voting in each county of the state, shall vote for such amendment.

The other two related to education:

Sec. 8. Teachers to learn English and Spanish. The legislature shall provide for the training of teachers in the normal schools or otherwise so that they may become proficient in both the English and Spanish languages, to qualify them to teach Spanish-speaking pupils and students in the public schools and educational institutions of the State, and shall provide proper means and methods to facilitate the teaching of the English language and other branches of learning to such pupils and students.

Sec. 10. Educational rights of children of Spanish descent. Children of Spanish descent in the State of New Mexico shall never be denied the right and privilege of admission and attendance in the public schools or other public educational institutions of the State, and they shall never be classed in separate schools, but shall forever enjoy perfect equality with other children in all public schools and educational institutions of the State, and the legislature shall provide penalties for the violation of this section. This section shall never be amended except upon a vote of the people of this State, in an election at which at least three-fourths of the electors voting in the whole state and at least two-thirds of those voting in each county in the State shall vote for such amendment.

SO PATHETIC THE SPANISH LANGUAGE THAT THEY WERE EVEN REGULATED BY THE NEW MEXICO STATE GOVERNMENT ITSELF AND IT DOES NOT HAVE A PLACE IN EDUCATION.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jwcrawford/nm-con.htm

Jimmy C. Newman, un Louisianais chante "Lâche Pas La Patate!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB4GtsNvykg&feature=related

Louisiana Cajun French Video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=y7nkXYwWwoI

Spanish Language Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PeXjGfictg

Arrêt de faire le baboune, hispanic dung beetle!

French language video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BJw3ncYynF8

Arrêt de faire la saloppe, French dung beetle!

Arrêt de faire le baboune, hispanic dung beetle!

French IQ (LOL):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dMFsuBlkoIQ