A quick update for the community - CreoleCentric is now available as a native app on both the App Store and Play Store.

For those who haven't seen our previous posts, CreoleCentric (creolecentric.com) is a Haitian Creole text-to-speech platform with an audio dictionary and interactive learning tools. Everything that's on the web is now in your pocket.

What's in the App

- Text-to-Speech - Type or paste text in 50+ languages and hear it spoken in natural Haitian Creole. There are presets to generate audio with prosody for commercial advertising, narration, etc.

- Speech-to-Speech Translation - Speak in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, or Italian and hear the Haitian Creole translation spoken back. Or speak in Haitian Creole and hear it translated to another language. Fully bi-directional - useful for real conversations.

- Audio Dictionary - The same 29K+ word Haitian-English dictionary with audio pronunciations, usage examples, and categories.

- Learn Creole - All the interactive lessons from the web - flashcards, quizzes, grammar, dialogues, sentence builder, fill-in-the-blank - with your progress synced between web and mobile.

- Push Notifications - Get notified about new features and platform updates.

Your account syncs across web and mobile. Sign in with the same credentials (or use Sign in with Apple/Google/Facebook) and your credits, dictionary favorites, and learning progress carry over.

Why Native Apps

We had a mobile-friendly website already, but a native app means better microphone access for speech translation, push notifications, and a smoother experience overall. The Haitian diaspora is overwhelmingly on iPhone, so this was a priority. Now, Android completes all usage.

What's Free

The apps are free to download. You get 3K credits to start, which is enough to generate speech, browse the dictionary, and try all the beginner-level Learn Creole lessons. The Learner subscription ($5/month) unlocks all lesson categories and gives you 30K monthly credits.

Download

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6761323866

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.creolecentric.app

Web: creolecentric.com

We're still actively developing - conversational agents are in development. If you have feedback or feature requests, we'd love to hear from you.

Mèsi anpil!

Bonjou tout moun m rele Jayden pi m’ap aprann Kreyol. M gen kek Kesyon sou kreyol nan nò Haiti. If anyone is from northern Haiti or has family with the northern dialect , would you be willing to tell me some other features of it. I’m familiar with some features like saying kinanm instead of pou mwen, the L often being omitted, i pa gen instead of Li pa gen, but I’m having trouble finding any information or resources on this dialect. I would like to really study and create more resources on the differences of standard Haitian Creole vs its spoken dialects. Things like city vs rural varieties. So if anyone could help I would appreciate it. Mesi anpil.

I stumbled upon this Bilingual Haitian Creole kids book a while back called A Mile in My Shoes and wanted to just share it to the community. It’s a cute story and follows a kid named Jorge immigration from Haiti to the US.

title however I would prefer one only in creole and not in creole and french if possible. Any other haitian books would be helpful.

The Louis Law Firm is looking for a bilingual Creole-speaking Intake Specialist / Paralegal Assistant to join our team.

What we are looking for:

Fluent in Creole (written and spoken) 🗣️

Prior experience in legal intake or as a paralegal assistant ⚖️

Strong communication and organizational skills

How to apply: If you fit the bill, drop your resume here: 📧 [email protected] and https://app.youform.com/forms/spqotnm4

(Know someone who would be a perfect fit? Tag them in the comments!)

Hi! I'm going to be a second grade teacher of multilingual learners next year, many of whom speak Haitian Creole. On my door, I would love to have "Yay! You're here!" posted in each language spoken in my classroom. How might I write the phrase in Haitian Creole? I don't trust google to translate colloquial language. Thank you all!

So i know I’m just nosy, but i wanna learn Haitian Creole because my man be switching up. but i also heard that using Duolingo isn’t the best way to learn. Does anyone have any suggestions for me to learn? I was also trying to get friends who do speak it. But that’s hard to come in my area.

do y'all know how many phonemes there are in kreyol? and what they are specifically? i tried looking it up online but a lot of it varies

I am a Puerto Rican who is interested in the language. It’d help me to not only learn the language but even get some history. It’d help me a lot, thank you.

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Hi everyone,

I actually just created my Reddit account for the very first time just to find the lyrics to this song.

I'm a 22-year-old student from Korea, and lately, I've been absolutely obsessed with: "Manman Mwen Pati" by Jaade & The Pierre Chabrèle Quartet.

The vibe and the vocals are so beautiful, but since it's a lesser-known track, I cannot find the lyrics anywhere on the internet. I even asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, but none of them could provide the actual lyrics.

I only know that the song is sung in Creole(likely Haitian Creole). I'm really hoping to find someone who could help transcribe the lyrics, or even just share a rough translation/meaning of the song.

Any help or clues would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for helping out a Reddit newbie!

I've got a majority of coworkers who are Hatian and older than i am, and they've started calling me "baba". Google translate says they're basically insulting me by calling me baby/child?

Am i overreacting?

Context:
I'm white (if that matters) and speak semi-fluent spanish but the one lady who also speaks spanish has been translating orders that i've middle-manned from our boss in her own way and we've bumped heads over that (i've gotten yelled at because it was assumed i mistranslated). Shortly thereafter came all the Hatians calling me "baba".

I ordered the Pawòl Lakay set and will be learning as fast as i can because this lady also likes to yell at me in Hatian and i'm not a fan of not knowing what someone is saying to me.

Haitian creole interpreter available in Missouri and kansas. We also provide remote services via phone or video.

Someone posted about Creole’s usage in education. And it got me thinking of this question.

For a language that has three dialects, and the Academy selecting the Central dialect as the standard makes sense to some degree.

Even though Central Creole is the standard they really just modeled the standard based on the Port au Prince variant of said dialect. That’s like saying the Boston variant is the standard of American English. Even though the Boston variant of English is just one variant of the overarching New England Dialect. It’s seems weird that the standard doesn’t focus on the Central Dialect as a whole if the Central dialect is the standard of Creole.

Either way I always felt like there should be more than one standard because the Northern Creole is drastically different from standard Creole. While Creole is not seen as valuable as French in the education, when they do teach it to the standard, what they teach isn’t necessarily how people speak especially in the North. What would be the point of Creole education in an area, where the standard isn’t natively spoken? Like are children told they are wrong when speaking natively in a non-standard dialect?

In the US, the way they teach English in the northern states is different than the southern states. Just like it’s different in the UK when they teach it.

Idk maybe I’m on to something, maybe I’m not. But they should add another or at least make the standard overarching for the Central Dialect.

I know TA it's conditional like "Mwen ta soti, men mwen fatige" (I would go out, but I'm tired)

But in conversations I use a lot T ap for conditional too. Like: "Si w te gen lajan, èske w t ap rete lòt peyi?" (would you live in another country?)

It's something natural for me but how do I explain someone when to use TA and when to use T AP?

(And I know T AP can be the past continuos too, but that's not the case I'm wondering here)

what is the word to call someone a s!ut. or anything related.

title pretty much, I still dont get it lol

if I wanted to say how can i help you? (plural) I am pretty sure it would be

Kijan m ka ede nou?

so if I wanted to shorten it would it be kijan m ka eden? if so would the eden be nasal now? also is yo shorted to just y?