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Haitian Kreyol and Heritage

Haitian Kreyol spoken at home and with family in Haiti, the standard spelling and grammar, soup joumou and Sunday dinners, the Revolution and its dates, kompa and rara, Kreyol for children, and support for relatives back home.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Haitian Kreyol and Heritage, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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50

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200

Starter tasks

🌴 Caribbean Life & Diaspora

Haitian Kreyol and Heritage

Keeping Haitian Kreyol and heritage alive abroad: language at home, food, music, history, community groups and supporting family in Haiti.

  1. Honest Kreyol baseline in four skills
  2. Kreyol alphabet and the official spelling
  3. Kreyol dictionary, grammar and audio toolkit
  4. Family language plan for a Haitian home
  5. Contact sheet for family in Haiti
  6. Map of the family's home towns in Haiti
  7. Local Haitian community map
  8. Haitian heritage year calendar
  9. Kreyol, French or both at home
  10. Fifteen-minute daily Kreyol practice
  11. Weekly Kreyol call with family in Haiti
  12. Kreyol at the dinner table
  13. Kreyol phrase notebook with weekly review
  14. Monthly Haitian Sunday dinner
  15. Listening to Kreyol radio and podcasts
  16. Monthly support plan for family in Haiti
  17. Kreyol reading list, one text a month
  18. Krik Krak storytelling evenings
  19. Kreyol pronunciation and nasal vowels
  20. Kreyol grammar core of markers, pronouns and la
  21. Collection of Haitian proverbs
  22. Haitian Revolution study, 1791 to 1804
  23. Haiti from 1804 to today
  24. Haitian music listening programme
  25. Haitian writers in Kreyol and French
  26. Haitian painting and metal art history
  27. Faith in Haitian life, understood respectfully
  28. Five Haitian family dishes learned from an elder
  29. Choosing a Kreyol class or tutor
  30. Weekend Kreyol school for children
  31. School language support for Haitian children
  32. Kreyol bookshelf and songs for children
  33. Interpreter requests for Kreyol-speaking parents
  34. Konbit fund for a family repair in Haiti
  35. January 1 soup joumou gathering
  36. Flag Day and Haitian Heritage Month
  37. Kanaval and Rara with the community
  38. Heritage trip to Haiti, safety planned
  39. International Creole Day on 28 October
  40. Recording elders' stories and songs in Kreyol
  41. Kreyol lullabies and rhymes for babies and toddlers
  42. Teenagers keeping Kreyol without pressure
  43. Heritage speaker moving from understanding to speaking
  44. Partner or in-law learning Kreyol
  45. Kreyol company for older relatives abroad
  46. Helping a newly arrived relative from Haiti settle
  47. Haitian Creole interpreter or translator qualification
  48. Teaching a community Kreyol class
  49. Kreyol podcast, video series or children's book
  50. Kreyol books and notices in the library and school

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Honest Kreyol baseline in four skills

Before choosing a class or promising your mother you will speak more, it helps to know exactly where you stand in listening, speaking, reading and writing Kreyol, because most people raised in Haitian homes abroad understand far more than they can say and have rarely read a full page.

First tasks

  • Find a two-minute Kreyol news clip online and note how much you understood
  • Record yourself speaking Kreyol for five minutes about your week
  • Read one page of a Kreyol text aloud and list the words that stopped you
  • Write a one-line rating for listening, speaking, reading and writing

Kreyol alphabet and the official spelling

Kreyol has had an official spelling since 1979, and since the 1987 constitution it has been an official language of Haiti alongside French, yet many fluent speakers abroad still write it as if it were French, with silent letters and guesses.

First tasks

  • Find a published chart of the official Kreyol alphabet and print it
  • Write two example words beside each vowel and nasal sound
  • Rewrite twenty French-style spellings you know in the official form
  • Write a short WhatsApp message to a cousin in the official spelling

Kreyol dictionary, grammar and audio toolkit

Good Kreyol material exists but is scattered: a few solid bilingual dictionaries, grammar books written for English or French speakers, university courses with recorded dialogues, radio from Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien streamed online, and a growing set of apps of very mixed quality. Choosing four or five trusted tools once saves hours of searching and stops you learning from a source full of errors.

First tasks

  • Ask a Kreyol teacher or community librarian which dictionary they trust
  • Compare two grammar books for audio, spelling and level
  • Bookmark two Kreyol radio streams or podcasts on your phone
  • Write the final toolkit list with one line on what each tool is for

Make it yours.

Install Haitian Kreyol and Heritage, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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