Companion
Two Languages: French Creole
You translate for your grann at the school meeting.
Kreyol was made by people who needed a way to hold on. You still carry that.
For the young Haitian American or Antillean person who translates French Creole for their family — carrying the work of two languages and the identity that lives in the space between them
The Name It First Experience
You speak Kreyol at home and English everywhere else. You carry the weight of translating not words but meaning — the thing your grandmother says in Creole that arrives with a whole history attached. Your Creole Language Bridge maps your language identity: what Kreyol holds that English cannot, what English holds that Kreyol cannot, and what it means to live in the space between them. Work through the language identity inventory, build your bilingual practice map, and sign Your Creole Language Bridge.
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Sample questions
- What does your family do to maintain Creole as a living language — and what has been hardest?
- What do you want the next generation to understand about your Creole language and why you've worked to keep it alive?
- What does French Creole mean to you — the connection to Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, or another Creole-speaking place, and what the language carries?
- What does Kreyòl or another French Creole carry that French or English cannot — the specific cultural knowledge, the resistance it carries, the way it sounds in your family?
Research basis
Grounded in Haitian Creole linguistics research by Michel DeGraff, language brokering studies by Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, and bilingual identity work by Ofelia Garcia.
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