Private Creole Classes
What’s the fastest way to learn Haitian Creole?
It’s to have a private Haitian Creole tutor helping you word by word and giving you instant feedback and explaining how to pronounce the words in Haitian Creole.
For English speakers, the pronunciation of Haitian Creole words can be challenging.
To prove that one-on-one conversation classes are a better way to learn Haitian Creole than language apps, Your-Haitian-Translator is offering a free 25-minute class.
(You can also contact me via Whatsapp: +595 981 870438, in Paraguay)
If you search for “the best way to learn Haitian Creole” on Google, you’ll likely find a very popular language app as the number #1 search result.
2 Problems With Language Learning Apps if You want to Learn Haitian Creole
But there are inherent disadvantages in the popular language app when learning Haitian Creole, such as:
1 – You’re on your own. Did you pronounce this word correctly? You can’t tell because there is no human feedback.
2 – Will this sentence help you communicate in Haitian Creole with monolingual Haitians in real-life situations? Maybe, maybe not. Because the language app is not designed around your specific Haitian Creole needs. Yet, to move up, you have to go through it.
For those shortcomings alone, language apps aren’t the best way to learn Haitian Creole.
A better way to learn Haitian Creole is to have your own private tutor, showing you word-by-word how to pronounce the words in a sentence.
A better way to learn Haitian Creole is to have a private tutor add cultural context to the sentences and words you’re learning.
A better way to learn Haitian Creole is to learn to clearly speak specific Haitian Creole sentences that will be of immediate use to you based on your own unique goals and situation.
For example, let’s say you want to adopt a child from Haiti. Can you get the child’s proper name pronunciation from the popular language app? Of course not. But a private tutor will teach you.
2 Ways To Pronounce Certain Haitian Creole Words in Real Life
In Haiti, due to the fact we have French, Haitian Creole, and French-pronounced Creole (Créole Francisé), the same word can have two different pronunciations, especially words that end with “u”.
For example, the word “street” can be spoken two ways in Haitian society. It can be “lari” as in pure Haitian Creole, or it can also be “la rue” with the French “u” depending on the education level of the speaker.
If you say either “lari” or “la rue,” the average Haitian person will understand you, although “lari” is the pure Haitian Creole pronunciation.
If you want to say “useful” in Haitian Creole, you again have two options. In pure Haitian Creole, you will say “itil,” but French-educated Haitians will be saying “utile.” Both versions are fully understood by everyone.
In other words, a Haitian person who speaks both Haitian Creole and French can be an invaluable guide in helping you achieve fluency, since they can show you when to use French vocabulary.
When it comes to the actual pronunciation, which requires repetition and instant feedback, a native one-on-one tutor offers a better way to learn the pronunciation of Haitian Creole.
If you mispronounce a Haitian word, your 1-on-1 tutor can show the similarity between a Haitian Creole word sound and an English sound, and thus you will achieve better fluency when you speak with Haitian people.
Why practicing with Swans is a better way to learn Haitian Creole compared to the most popular language app:
1 – Swans is a self-taught polyglot who speaks Haitian Creole, French, English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and some Italian. In other words, Swans has devoted years studying languages for himself and his own use.
2 – Swans was trained and was hired as a peer tutor at Massasoit Community College. This is after living in the US for just a few months and being recommended by his English Comp 2 teacher.
3 – Swans also worked as a one-on-one tutor teaching English conversations to Brazilians and Spanish speakers in the Boston area.
4 – Swans even briefly had a stint as a private tutor in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where he had to use his Portuguese to help Brazilians improve their English.
5 – Of course, Swans is a native speaker of Haitian Creole.
6 – Swans has been an English to Haitian Creole translator and transcription specialist since the end of 2013, working with companies all over the world.
7 – Swans was also hired to work as a translator/Haitian Creole language specialist on movies such as “The Exorcist: Believer” and “Emancipation.”
To claim your free 25-minute conversation class, click here.
Finally, as he will be your private one-on-one Haitian tutor, and given the fact that he is also a busy Haitian language translator, he can only accept 10 students. Once he reaches that number, he will have to place new prospective students on a waiting list.
What makes my Haitian Creole Classes superior to Duolinguo’s?
My experience as a peer tutor in the US:
My experience as a private English tutor to Brazilians and Latinos in Boston:
Schedule a 15-minute demo class for free. If you like that first online class, then you can pay for the 1-hour long practice classes.
Since I’ll be administering the classes myself, I can only take on 10 students. Once I’ve reached this number, I will have to say no to future students.
