Haitian Creole

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

plate

plate (a dish for food) - plat or asyèt

example:
yon plat manje - a plate of food
yon asyèt manje - a plate of food
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plate (flat or thin piece of metal) - plak
example:
plak machin nan - the car's tag

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If you won a million dollars what would you do with it?

This is never going to happen to me. So why plan on it?

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le maten le soley leve,se kok la mape tann chante,pou madanm pote kafe pou mwen,se le sa lape di mwen,yereswa mwen pa domi,tout lannwit la kok la ap chante,ay mwen pa kapab anko,edem kriye edem rele,kokoriko...

This looks like a lyric to a song...

"When the sun comes up in the morning, the rooster crows for my lady to bring me coffee. She says she did not sleep well last night, 'cause all night the rooster crows ----- I can't any more, help me...."

Well this is definitely a song. I wish i could hear the music though.
Don't you think roosters make the nicest alarm clocks?
I didn't mind them during my school days in Haiti, except that sometimes they'll crow all day long. God bless them.

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i tend to forget (ing) words in my sentence, is this a Haitian thing or I need to practice more.

Is this a Haitian thing?! - I don't think so.

Why are you "forgetting" these words?

Is it because you don't know where they belong?

Is it because you don't know which words to place in your sentence?

Or is it because you plainly do not know the words?

I tell you one thing, no matter what method you use to learn a new language, nothing will help you more than to practice speaking it daily with either a native or someone who knows the language very well. For it is in daily practice that your brain remembers the tone, the accent, the flavor, and the "place" of a word. So start networking, and start remembering :)

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