“Mwen pa konprann” pronunciation in Haitian Creole with sound

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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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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