FLASH CARDS
Vocabulary words you're familiar with - same spelling as some English words you know
Some words on these flash cards are called “Fo Zanmi” or fake friends. Those are words that are spelled the same as an English word, but the Creole meaning is completely different. Knowing how to spell them gives you a great advantage; you can use the English meaning as a memory aid for the Creole meaning. The other words in the are some of the most common words that you should learn as soon as you can. Scroll down to the middle of the page to watch a video that might help you with some of these words. It will help to learn them as soon as you can as you’ll get to use to greet people, to show politeness, to ask for food, and others.
MANJE
TO SPEAK
TO GO
TANPRI
RENMEN
LET / TO LEAVE
BAD / SPOILED
JWE
Carry everything on the airplane you will need for the first 48 hours, in case of loss.
Passport and copy of your passport carried separately
TOOTH
BACK
BREAD
HAND
FINI / FIN (abbreviation)
VINI / VIN (abbreviation)
TOU
TOUT
Kreglish was discovered when I stumbled upon the Kreyòl words “paske”, “prèske”, and “pito” and noticed they sound similar to Pass followed by the letter K, press & K, and P and toe respectively. That caught my attention; I kept searching and discovered the content of this video. And that’s how the #kreglish methodology was born, which led me to write the Haitian Creole book Creole Meets English where I developed a process that makes it easy for English speakers to learn Creole quickly.
