Timestamps in this video teaching how to pronounce “Mwen pa konprann” in Haitian Creole
0:18 connection between French and Haitian Creole
0:46 M pa konprann pronunciation
1:15 Meaning: “Mwen pa konprann” means “I don’t understand”
1:32 Similarities between French and Haitian Creole
1:56 “konprann” comes from French “comprendre”
2:27 “Moi” in French becomes “Mwen” in Haitian Creole
3:20 Creating personalized Haitian Creole study materials
3:48 Additional support to learn Haitian Creole
Full Transcript from the video about the pronunciation for “Mwen pa konprann” in Haitian Creole
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yourhaitiantranslator.com
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as an English
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to Haitian Creole translator
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who worked on the movie Emancipation
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it is always a pleasure to share with you some tips
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about how to learn Haitian Creole
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to help you um
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with your pronunciation
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to help you with your understanding
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and to help you understand better
Haitian Creole words that are borrowed from French
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the connection between French and Haitian Creole
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so in this video
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in this three part video
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we are looking at those three things here
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the pronunciation of the sentence above
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the sentence here
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right here okay
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so how do you pronounce it
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the meaning in English
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and I will also establish
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show you the similarities between the French words
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and the Haitian Creole words
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in this three word sentence
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so let’s go
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so how do you pronounce this here
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it’s “M pa konprann”
“M pa konprann” pronunciation in Haitian Creole
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that is the contracted pronunciation
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again it’s “M
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“pa konprann” I repeat
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“M pa konprann”
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now there is also
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there is also the full version
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pronunciation aspect
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so if you want to pronounce every single word
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you would say “Mwen pa konprann”
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“Mwen pa konprann” means “I don’t understand”
what is the meaning?
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the meaning is
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“I don’t understand”
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or I do not understand
Meaning: I don’t understand
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now let me establish for you
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the similarities between French and Haitian Creole
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in this specific sentence
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so the sentence in Haitian Creole is “Mwen pa konprann”
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the meaning in English is “I do not understand”
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so here for example
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the word “mwen” in Haitian Creole comes from the French word “moi”
Comparison between French and Haitian Creole
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the word “pa” P-A
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in Haitian Creole comes from the French word “pas” p-a-s
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so you can see, it’s basically the same word
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the spelling is different
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so the negation “pas” in French becomes “pa” in Haitian Creole
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now the word “konprann”
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“konprann” becomes
konprann” comes from French “comprendre
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it comes from the French word “comprendre”
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okay so you can see the
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the similarity
Haitian Creole “konprann” comes from the French “comprendre”
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in French you would say “comprendre”
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in Haitian Creole
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you would say “konprann”
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in French you have the word “pas” for negation
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and you have um
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you have the word “pa”
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okay from the Haitian Creole
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you have the word “moi”
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okay in French
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and you have
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and that word becomes “mwen” in Haitian Creole
“Moi” in French becomes “Mwen” in Haitian Creole
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and clearly
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the word this here
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is not a translation of the French into French
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it’s to show the similarity
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so the real
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the way you would say in French is
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the way you would say
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“I don’t understand in French” would be “Je ne comprends pas”
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so you could see the “comprends”
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it is here it becomes “konprann” in Haitian Creole
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and uh you have the “ne pas” for negation in French
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and in Haitian Creole
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we only kept the “pa”
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and we change it we
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we have a different spelling
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I even worked on the movie Emancipation as a
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because Haitian Creole has a lot of
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words that are basically French words with different
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sometimes a different meaning
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so thank you very much for your time
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and until next time
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have a great day
Swans Paul, Haitian Creole Translator, born in Haiti and college-educated in the US. Over 9 years of experience in Haitian Creole translation, transcription, editing.
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