By feeding centuries-old nursery rhymes and folklore recordings into their own model, linguists in Louisiana hope to help a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warren Perrin, lawyer and founder of the Acadian Museum in Erath, tells the story of how the Acadian people came to the U.S. and ...

Every Thursday evening, a group of about 10 students gathers at Houma's Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum with workbooks and hefty language dictionaries. They practice speaking to each other in local ...

LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) -Southwest Louisiana’s rain and mosquitoes can make it tough for the Easter Bunny to deliver eggs to children. But a newly published book tells how the "Easter Gator" saved the ...

Because they want to speak and keep the language of Cajun French alive, a group called The French Table gathers once a month in a study room at the West Feliciana Parish to speak, study and share.

In 1956, Earlene Broussard Echeverria, an Acadian of Vermilion Parish, attended her first day of school and did not know a word of English. With recent controversy over immigration and the English ...

JENNINGS, La. (KPLC) - Jennings kicked off Mardi Gras celebrations with a chicken run and costume contest. Teaching children about Cajun culture is what the Cajun French Music Association wants to ...