BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) continues its partnership with Télé-Louisiane, bringing viewers eight all-new episodes of La Veillée, a 15-minute weekly look at the happenings, ...

Preface -- Nathalie Dajko and Shana Walton -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Connie Eble -- Indigenous languages -- The Chitimacha language: a history -- Daniel W. Hieber -- Kowassaaton Ilhaalos: ...

In 2021 Louisiana was home to an estimated 250,000 French speakers, considering the fact just a generation or two ago Louisiana had a million French speakers. Created in 1968, the Council for the ...

NEW ORLEANS — The number of French speakers in Louisiana has fallen over the decades. Between 1921 to 1974, the Louisiana Constitution banned French as the primary language taught in public schools, ...

Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. In 2019, Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading.

The first thing you realize when you enter the classroom filled with eager 5th graders is that, though the school is in the heart of New Orleans, no one is speaking English. “Quel est cet objet?” ...

A new animated series produced in Louisiana French has been launched, aimed at teaching immersion students new lessons while promoting Louisiana's language and culture. The series entitled “Les ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) - Producers of the only Louisiana French TV programming in the state say that they are facing losing their funding after the State Senate meets in a few days to finalize the ...

One of the things I enjoy about Louisiana is that keeps in touch with its French heritage. I live in the Lafayette area and enjoy events like Mardi Gras, Le Festival Acadiens et Créoles, Le Festival ...

Some Louisiana schools could lose their French and Spanish immersion programs following a decision by President Donald Trump to suspend temporary work visas, state educators say. Trump's order ...

Heritage languages mold the existence of the United States of America. According to Dr. Carreira, people speak over 350 languages other than English at home. And more than 67 million people speak a ...

Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. Juliet and Lana attend École Pointe-au-Chien, a new public French immersion ...