Exercise 3

To answer your questions about VOAnews.com: When you go on that site, you must select "Creole" from the language prompt to hear the news in Creole. They have many different programs in Haitian Creole.

Your homework this week is to listen for these specific words when you listen to the News in Haitian Creole at VOAnews.com:

Listen for:

Yo - they

Pa - (negation)

gen or genyen - to have

te - indicating past. You will hear it after a pronoun (mwen, ou, li, nou, yo)

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Let's translate a couple of sentences. Do not neglect your article. Take notice of the verb tense. if you need to, go back and review the corresponding lessons. Here it goes. Happy translating!

1. I went to a party yesterday. The music was too loud. The food was bad. And there was no dancing. I had an awful time.

2. I read a book last month. It wasn't too bad. It was a good story.