Learn Cajun French
I’m extremely excited! I’ve been a bit down lately about not knowing how to speak my mother’s first language, Cajun French and last Tuesday, I decided to do something about it.
For many years, I’d hear my mom speak French to her friends and accuse her of “talking about us in French so we couldn’t understand”. I always thought that French was something you learned as an adult, not as a kid. After 26 years of waiting, I realized that my teaching was long overdue. Since having my mom teach me Cajun French would be impractical, I decided I’d have to learn it myself from a book — preferably an audiobook.
After reading a few reviews at Amazon, I decided to order “Cajun Self-Taught” by Rev. Jules O. Daigle. While Amazon was cheaper than the cover price, it was going to take one to two months for delivery! I thought it’d be better to support an independent record shop anyway and went with the oldest in Louisiana — Floyd’s Records. After waiting about a week, the book and CDs were delivered to my office in Los Angeles!
I’ve always wanted to share the sound of a Cajun accent with my friends on the Internet and now I finally can! I took the liberty of encoding Rev. Daigle teaching about telling time in Cajun French or as he calls it “Cajun.” Listed below is a 7 minute clip in Windows Media Format 
If you don’t yet know Cajun French and like the idea of learning it, you can buy the audio cassetts or CDs and the book from FloydsRecords.com. Just do a search on their page for Cajun Self-Taught and include all words.
I’ll keep you all updated on my progress 
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I’ve got about the same situation, my dad was cajun, I was born in Louisiana, but never got the opportunity to learn, Other than a few words. would like to learn the language and introduce it to these cowboys here in Nebraska, they think I talk funny now with just a heavy country english,and a few words that I remember from my childhood. wait until they hear true cajun.
et moi, yall. My granddaddy spoke cajun french, but I too thought itbwas for grown-ups. Now here is me trying to find an easy way to learn. (And know there is no easy way) Good luck and thanks for the help
cool entry, I came across your blog cuz I was lookin for pictures of Rev Jules.
I have the book too!
I got the audio tracks from the Lafourche Parish Public Library.