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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Interesting Story Written and Read in English and Haitian Creole

Listen to the eye-witness audio story of 11-year-old Carline "Fear and Prayer in Chaotic Times: I saw my mother pulling Jesus down to her from heaven." Part of this story was first serialized on twitter.com/hashtag/twitterfiction. It is the first twitterbook story to be published on AmazonKindle. Not only can you listen to it here but you can also purchase the accompanying text from Kindle. For those of you who did not about the recent fiction festival that was held by Twitter. Writers were selected from many countries of the world. From November 28 to December 2, 2012, each one of them was presenting their story on twitter. The public was also invited to submit their own story. I joined in as a member of the general public with Carline's story.

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Saturday, November 24, 2012

New Edition of Poetry Books for Holiday Shopping: "The Long Lost Garden of Eden" and "California Blooms, Blossoms, and Harvest Delights"

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"California Blooms, Blossoms, and Harvest Delights: Golden Vignettes From Big Sur, Pacific Coast Highway, California Scenic Highway 1 to Yosemite and Highway 99" is a book of poetry that focuses on the diversity of the people, the beauty of the land, bounty of agricultural products, entertainment industry, Pacific Coast beaches, and natural infrastructures and resources such as Big Sur, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Scenic Highway 1, San Francisco Bridge etc. These poems compel you to meditate on all the common things that tend to show our interdependence and sameness. Poems such as 'Abrahamic Promise,' 'Bridges of California,' 'Autumn's Bare Limbs,' 'Cry Over Manzanar,' 'Pastoral Delights,' 'Freeway and Highway Crosses,' 'Harvesting Delights and Fall Transition,' 'Open Range...,' 'Roosting Marvels, Roosting Headache,' 'Tamales for the Holidays' are among those that will strike a personal chord with most of you.

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This book is an eclectic collection of poems and short essays on California's people and landscape, wine, beach and car culture. Wordsworth summarizes my poetic affinity, "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility." California Blooms, Blossoms, and Harvest Delights deals with this expansive, rich and fertile landscape in a way that readers will quickly recognize the important landmarks, features and attributes of the Golden state. It pinpoints areas of appreciation and highlights important cultural contributions and activities of the various ethnic and minority groups forming this new frontier, Central California. "Our hills and farmland are blooming with new houses and commercial buildings bordering fields of grazing cows." This is an uplifting and thought-provoking work.

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The Long Lost Garden of Eden is a tribute to the fruit growers of the Central Valley of California and all other agriculture-derived industries. Mr. Charles remains true to his upbringing deeply rooted in agribusiness. This book is the result of his keen observations and 12-year research into what makes the San Joaquin Valley one of the most fertile lands in the country. His poems will give you a glimpse of the Central Valley's diversity. His research has culminated into the realization that the Central Valley of California, locked between Southern and Northern California, is the fruit basket of the world. This collection will engage your mind and soul. It will provoke deep reflection that will lead to enlightenment, positive attitude and spiritual renewal. The themes of these poems are universal. Artistic appreciation, hope, beauty, love, loss, hard work, self-improvement, despair, migration, and drought are all themes anybody can relate to, irrelevant of their origins and taste.

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Author's Notes: Mr. Charles is the sole author of "The Long Lost Garden of Eden."He knows nothing about this guy named 'Brendan Conlee' who has published the book as a paperback on many online sites including ebay.com, amazon.com, abebooks.com, bookfinder.com, shopping.com, barnesandnoble.com, allbookstores.com, dealtime.com, abebooks.co.uk, chegg.com, bestsellingbooks.biz, bookbyte.com, swap.com, tower.com, biggerbooks.com. If and when you buy a copy of this book published by or associated with 'Brendan Conlee,' you are just supporting a plagiarist. Mr. Charles has not received a response from the previous publisher, PublishAmerica.com, which certifies that the book has been out of print since December 27, 2009 due to the expiration of the contract. Despite this aggressive marketing of the book published on all the above sites, Mr. Charles has not received any royalties. It is fair to suggest that 'Brendan Conlee' who claims to be a co-author of "The Long Lost Garden of Eden" has been receiving all the royalties. So stop buying the book if it is associated with him. Return the copies you had already bought. This way, you will help Mr. Charles, the true author of the book. Help stop plagiarism!!!!!Please help correct a major wrong!!!



Friday, November 23, 2012

Let's All Try Haitian Foods - Nou Tout, Ann Eseye Manje Manje Ayisyen - Todos Nosotros, Probemos la comida Haitiana

Yummy Haitian Foods: Ingredients That Make Haitian Foods So Yummy, So Delicious - S-ak Fè Manje Ayisyen Gou anpil Konsa (Yummy - Se Koupe Dwèt! - Literally it’s like finger-licking, finger-sucking, finger-cutting)

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Vocabulary:

Pa boule manje a - do not burn the food

Parenn - sponsor, godfather

Koupe dwet - cut fingers

Souse dwet - suck fingers, lick fingers

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Thanksgiving in Haitian Creole: Preparing Creole Turkey (Kodin), the Breadfruit (veritab) Story, and Haitian Meat Recipes

Thanksgiving in Haitian Creole: Creolizing the Turkey (Kodin), TonmTonm, the Breadfruit (veritab) Story, and Haitian Meat Recipes

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Bouyon Bèf - Beef Stew
Se vyann bèf ak tomat e piman bouk. Li gou anpil. (It is a flavorful, tasty beef with tomatoes and peppers.)

Diri kole / Diri ak Pwa - Riz et Pois - Haitian red beans and rice
Diri Olè - Haitian Rice Pudding - Arroz con Leche
Griyo - fried pork

Mayi Moulen (Mais moulu) - Haitian Cornmeal Mush

Thanksgiving Vocabulary:

Cornbread or American cornmeal bread - Pen mayi Moulin
Cranberry - Kannbèj
Squash / pumpkin - joumou (gato joumou - pumpkin pie)
Patat dous - sweet potatoes called yams in the US.
Yams can be white and yellow in the Caribbean and Africa. Yanm is the creole word.
Kodin woti - roasted turkey, dinde rôtie
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On the Menu - Sur La Table - Sa N’ap Sèvi
Non Resèt Ayisyen - Names of Haitian Recipes - Les Noms des Recettes Haitiennes - Los Nombres de las Recetas Haitianas

Bannann Peze - Haitian twice-fried green plantains
Bananes Pesées (French)Thanksgiving Vocabulary:

Cornbread or American cornmeal bread - Pen mayi Moulen
Cranberry - Kannbèj
Squash / pumpkin - joumou (gato joumou - pumpkin pie)
Patat dous - sweet potatoes called yams in the US.
Yams can be white and yellow in the Caribbean and Africa. Yanm is the creole word.
Kodin woti - roasted turkey, dinde rôtie
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On the Menu - Sur La Table - Sa N’ap Sèvi
Non Resèt Ayisyen - Names of Haitian Recipes - Les Noms des Recettes Haitiennes - Los Nombres de las Recetas Haitianas

(While cooking and sharing Haitian foods with my college roommates from Central America and South America, I learned many things. I made a few discoveries. When we compared our foodstuffs, we found out they are just the same things but they come with different names)

For example: Start with these two ingredients, green plantains, not the bananas we eat!


Vocabulary - Vocabulaire - Mo Nouvo (New words)

Bannann Peze - Haitian twice-fried green plantains (Use the green plantains to make bannann peze, not the bananas)
Bananes Pesées (French)

Lwildoliv / Lwil doliv - Olive oil (use it to fry the smashed plantain...add a little bit of salt)


Ripe Banana and Plantains:

Fig (ripe banana) ak Bannann (green plantains)

My Central American, Peruvian, Venezuelan College mates helped me get this information:
Tostones is bannann peze. It is a snack or side dish in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic.

Patacones is bannann peze in some Central American countries. My Venezuelan friend told me it is known as Patacones there.
Notes: You will need a tostonera to flatten the plantains before their second frying. According to my Dominican friend, any flat surface, a glass or a small plate will do too. I have even seen her using a bowl to flatten the plantain chunks.



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Bouyon Bèf - Beef Stew
Se vyann bèf ak tomat e piman bouk. Li gou anpil. (It is a flavorful, tasty beef with tomatoes and peppers.)

Diri kole / Diri ak Pwa - Riz et Pois - Haitian red beans and rice
Diri Olè - Haitian Rice Pudding - Arroz con Leche
Griyo (Grillots) - Yummy, Tasty, flavorful cubes of glazed, fried pork
These cubes are often soaked for an hour or so in sour orange marinade, then slow-roasted until they become tender. Then fry them in oil until they look caramelized. Yummy!
Mayi Moulen- Haitian Cornmeal Mush

Thanksgiving Vocabulary:
Cornbread or American cornmeal bread - Pen mayi Moulen
Cranberry - Kannbèj
Squash / pumpkin - joumou (gato joumou - pumpkin pie)
Patat dous - sweet potatoes called yams in the US.
Yams can be white and yellow in the Caribbean and Africa. Yanm is the creole word.
Kodin woti - roasted turkey, dinde rôtie

Tasty - gou anpil

Flavorful - Gen bon ode, santi bon

Yummy - Se koupe dwèt!
Yummy - Dlo koule nan bouch!
Yummy - Bouch lolo!




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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

1802-1803: Pauline Bonaparte’s St Domingue Stay, Parisian High Society and Voodoo Exploits. Fire! Fire Everywhere in St. Domingue! (A Short Historical Novel by Kevin Levin)


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"1802-1803: Pauline Bonaparte’s St Domingue Stay, Parisian High Society and Voodoo Exploits (A Short Historical Novel by Kevin Levin)". Fire! Fire Everywhere in St. Domingue! Married to Napoleon Bonaparte's right-hand man, General Leclerc, Pauline did not have much of a choice other than to board the ship that would seal her fate at St Domingue. Josephine de Bauharnais, her sister-in-law, won that round.

Having been combat-hardened by serving at one time or another under the flags of the Spanish and English forces battling the French for the control of the richest colony in the world, the few black rebel leaders (General Maurepas, Henri Christophe, Alexandre Petion, Capois La Mort, Biassou, Jean Francois, Dessalines, etc) quickly realized that they had to enter the phase of a total war - total change from the bottom up or a revolution.

On that cauldron that was St. Domingue (currently Haiti), the most beautiful woman of Europe had to devise ways to occupy herself. Pauline set out to conquer the men or soldiers who were fighting in her husband's army. She joined the high Parisian society in order to throw lavish parties in Le Cap and Port-au-Prince. But when she caught something and got sick, she let her friends introduce her to a slave voodoo priest and Voodoo priestess who came to perform an exorcism on her body. She confessed that she secretly loved some of the black generals, Toussaint and others, for their courage and determination.

Suspicious of his wife's dangerous liaisons and feelings for Toussaint L'Ouverture, Governor-General Leclerc invited him to dinner where the black general and his men were ambushed. Embarking the ship that would take him away, Toussaint L’Ouverture, the First of the Blacks, proclaimed, “In capturing me, you have only cut down the trunk of the tree of Black people’s freedom. It will spring up again by the roots because they are deep and numerous..”. The Black rebel leaders had to act upon the prophecy of Toussaint who was ambushed, summarily judged, condemned at a Fort-de-Joux tribunal and subsequently sent to the cold mountain of France to die. In his last days, he only had the loyalty of his servant who had been with him along. He made sure to hold his head and ease the passing of that great man, lover of freedom and equality, and a formidable avenger of the New World.

"Nous sommes tous les enfants de la Liberte," Said Jean-Jacques Dessalines who was at one time or another an English, Spanish, and French citizen before becoming a Haitian after freeing and renaming St. Domingue.



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Friday, September 28, 2012

"Bouki and Malis Turned Boat People - Bouki ak Malis Pran Kanntè"

"Bouki and Malis Turned Boat People - Bouki ak Malis Pran Kanntè"

Authors, Charles J. Desmangles and Kevin Levin, have done a great job writing this novella in Haitian Creole, Spanish, and English. Bouki and Malis Turned Boat People:Bouki ak Malis Pran Kanntè. It is based on the plasticity and richness of the Haitian folklore. Two of the most recognizable characters of Haitian folktales play a central role in this story.

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In this novella, the authors show Bouki's desperation and push factors contributing to his agreement with a sleek, sophisticated local criminal and people smuggler / trafficker known as 'Captain Katastwòf Natirèl.' Bouki was deep in debts because he wanted to maintain a lifestyle he could not afford on the meager catches of a fisherman. Caught and deported several times by U.S. Border and Coast Guard, Captain Katastwòf Natirèl (Captain Natural Catastrophe) was on a black list. Bouki thought he was smart enough to pull this trip on his own. He refused to be known as the butt of his brother's jokes, a simpleton, a fool. He did not want Malis, his intellectual brother, to know about the details of that trip. All the while, Malis never hesitated to put him down and make him realize that he needed his expertise, language skills, and critical thinking.

Charles J. Desmangles and Kevin Levin interweave elements of the Haitian culture in this remarkable Haitian Creole, Spanish, English novella. Things must have been really harsh in Haiti if these two famous characters of the Haitian folklore finally decide to leave the country on a perilous raft to cross illegally to the U.S. shores. When faced with an upcoming storm, Captain Katastwòf Natirèl led his crew to Santiago, Cuba to seek temporary refuge. He forced everybody to learn Spanish in order to pass for Cuban refugees. Will Booki, Malis and Captain Katastwòf Natirèl make it to the dry grounds of Florida?

This story is set against the backdrop of Haiti's devastated agriculture, political upheavals, insecurity, presence of UN troops or Minustah, series of natural disasters such as hurricanes and 2010 earthquake, barren lands and tree-less mountaintops causing widspread floodings, destroyed ecology, infrastructures and educational institutions with a local population that depends more and more on imported goods and used clothes euphemistically known as 'pèpè.'

In this novella, the authors also implicate and relate the complicity of the catholic church whose priest, Father Francois, refuses to use Haitian Creole and French in his mass in his dogged efforts to cater to a dwindling but rich and powerful group of Latin language enthusiasts, les Bourgeois Commercants Mulattres (native Haitians of Syrian, Lebanese and.. descent). He did not heed Professor Malis' advice to start leading mass in Creole just like the Voodoo priests and protestant churches do all over the country with great success. What's worse is that Father Francois never said a word or raisee his stubby pinky finger against the clandestine smuggling and chaperoning of Haitian children who took these rickety boats to get reunited with their parents in Miami. Sister Marie Lafontant made her money chaperoning children and paid the priest under the table without counting her generous tithes to the church.

"Bouki and Malis Turned Boat People - Bouki ak Malis Pran Kanntè" is a book that will make you laugh and cry in the same sentence or paragraph. This book should be a required reading for anybody who wants to understand Haiti and the 'Boat People' phenomenon. Definitely, it should be required reading for any NGO, tourist, international workers in Haiti. It should be a required reading for any sociology students. This novella is edited by Prof. Joseph J. Charles

Now you can find out whether Bouki shows any signs of intelligence here:

"Excerpt from "Bouki and Malis Turned Boat People.."

“They said that I am supposed to pass the shark test too,” Bouki said to Malis.

“What are you talking about?” Malis asked.

“I was told that it is a test developed by the American authorities to separate Cubans from Haitians. They say that sharks like Haitians’ blood and flesh. They eat Haitian migrants whose boats capsize in high seas between Haiti and Bahamas. “

“Come on, Bouki, think straight. Respect yourself. It looks like you are losing your consciousness, you are coming in and out of consciousness. It appears that the waves of the sea and the crossing made you lose your mind. Americans are not like that! Where can they find these sharks?”

“Malis, I am not crazy. You always think I am crazy!”

“Crazy people hold this kind of talk!”

“I am a fisherman, but I am afraid of sharks. Their teeth are like saws.”

“Hello Bouki, you are no longer on the ocean now. You are on firm U.S. soil!”

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Father Shark Is Teaching His Two Pups How to Hunt -Papa Reken ap Anseye De Pitit Li Yo Jan Pou Yo Fè Lachas

Father Shark Is Teaching His Two Pups How to Hunt -Papa Reken ap Anseye De Pitit Li Yo Jan Pou Yo Fè Lachas

Here is the release of my most recent short story written in Haitian Creole and English. I wrote it to be read in a group setting such as in a classroom. I am trying to provide and diffuse reading materials written in these two languages.

Brief Review: Sea, sands, seals, surfers and sharks! Have you had enough sharkzilla stories for shark week? Here is another one. This is a short story written in Haitian Creole and English for those who want to go on a monster shark adventure. This is a fun story for those who want to practice their reading in Haitian Creole. What will father shark teach his pups to hunt for? Seals or surfers! Find out whether the surfers will escape the hunger-motivated hunt.

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Father Shark is teaching his two pups how to Hunt - Papa Reken Ap Anseye de Pitit Li Yo Jan Pou Yo Chase

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Haitian Gold Rush Chronicles: Haiti From Riches to Rags and back to Riches...Silver, Copper, Iridium, Marble and Other Rare Metals Discovery

On The Fault Lines of Poverty and Wealth: Let the Gold Rush Begin: Haiti's Gold Mines, Copper, Iridium, Silver, Marble, and other Precious and Rare Metals Discovery

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A rich country that is poor. Oh poor Haiti that was left naked by colonial greed! Oh rich Haiti that never stops surprising the world! Oh Haiti, a land of many mysteries and spirits, a land whose gold and riches never served her children, thus conditioned to receiving alms from the world! Oh Haiti, from your entrails, you are ready to spit out and expose your hidden treasures to your sons and daughters once more! May this time bring a total change of attitude and treatment of the men and women whose ancestors braved and defeated the shackles of slavery, discrimination, and abject poverty!

Let the gold rush begin! Haiti has gold! Haiti has iridium! Haiti has precious metals! These are the choruses sung by the international choir and headlined by the top newspapers and magazines of the world! Christopher Columbus (Colombo) and his Spanish cohorts subjugated the native Arawaks and Tainos to forced labor in the extraction of gold and other precious metals. The indigenous inhabitants of Haiti or Bohio were consequently decimated by hard labor, rapes, and diseases! By the end of 1500s, the news about Mexico's gold mines were more sensationalistic. The Spaniards packed up and left for Mexico. They did not have the time or the equipment to turn your innards to make you cough up your last treasures. Mother Haiti, you wanted to reward future generations who would watch over you despite all the drama and sufferings your land has gone through.

Hairless (treeless), your tall mountains kept deep secrets of beauty that men and women from all over the world covet. Far too many centuries, you have been made fun of because of your apparent poverty. Far too many years have found you begging the international community in order to feed your children forced to pile up in the capital, rested on major fault lines. The fatal hurricane only took 5 seconds to change things. Tectonic plates were moving and exposing your true and precious beauty!

May a new dawn arise for the men and women whose cries of hunger, famine, and fights for justice and dignity are heard the plains of Artibonite, the valleys and coastal ranges to the peaks of the northern mountains whence Henri Christophe, Jean Jacques Dessalines, Francois, Biassou climbed down. These mountains that sheltered the runaways fed not only the remaining indigenous inhabitants of the island but also the new black gold from Africa. European powerhouses were going to carve Hispanola. French would fight Spaniards who would fight English colonists. The majority of black slaves and the minority of Affranchis were watching. They would soon realize that it was in their interest to unite and go against the small groups of plantation owners, bankers, and business people who were keeping them separated based on privileges, skin color, and social positions.

Oh Haiti, how long did it have to take you before bringing some level of joy to the faces of Haitians stricken by a series of hurricanes, floods, and quake? Oh Mother Haiti, how long will it take for your sons and daughters to break the cycle of poverty and indifference?

How long will it take for your children spread all over the world to get back to your bosoms? How long will it take for them to want to stay home, work hard to see the fruits of their hard labor and take care of your grandchildren?

May the prophecies come true! On wings of eagles (malfini), they will be brought back to participate in the development of your once fertile land! With the expertise and knowledge acquired in the best centers of higher learning, they will be back to watch the mining of your resources. They will be proud of being your sons and daughters. In harmony, they will watch and prevent the exploitation of these rare resources.

Once again, you will stand up with your head held high. Suffering has given you enough wisdom. Compassionate, you will treat others with respect and dignity because you know what it was like to be the butt of jokes for far too long.

Once again, Haiti, you will reclaim your name, the Pearl of the Antilles (La Perle des Antilles). On your own terms, you will invite and welcome the rest of the world onto your shores. You will accept cooperation that is not masked by abuse and servile exploitation. You will open your arms to receive experts and workers who will help you rebuild hospitals, schools, and a strong business sector that will benefit all your children.

Haiti, you will pay attention to all these corporations, multinational companies that will come running to sniff around your skirts. Once again, you are beautiful and proud! Be careful with their charms that may leave your coffers empty and plunge you in a worse economic situation. Their track records do not say much about their fair business practices. Wherever they have been, they leave behind ecological damages, pain, and regret.

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Monday, May 7, 2012

The Definitive Quick Haitian Creole Grammar Reference: Ann Aprann Pale Kreyol - Let's Learn to Speak Haitian Creole



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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Listen to Creole Expressions, Dialogues, Phrases and Vocabulary

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In this episode, you will learn about the construction of exclamatory sentences. You will learn about sentences that express strong feelings in Creole. They use an exclamation. In the previous episode (episode #1), you learned about sentences that make a statement, express a command or ask a question.

For example: Ala bon sa bon pou aprann yon lang tankou Kreyol! - How good it is to learn a language such as Haitian Creole!

Other Examples: Ala bon Bondye bon! - How good God is!; Ala gran Bondye gran! - How great God is!

Ala pwisan Bondye pwisan! - How powerful God is!

Here is the structure in Creole: Ala + Adjective or Determiner + Subject + repetition of the adjective or determiner!

You will also review the question words in various exercises.

In this episode, you will also have a review of the HC alphabet and pronunciation. The ebook will provide you with a list of words that accompanies each nasalized or non-nasalized sound. You will also have an exercise to repeat the words correctly.

Finally, you will end this episode with a text that you can listen to. The text is titled, "Mayor Midi's Car (Truck) - Machin Majistra Midi a"

It is a funny story about how his driver and mechanic cared for his truck and how one day it ran out of gas and got stuck in a Thozin, Grand-Goave mud pit. Passersby had to help him push it out, not before they complained about how he had never given them a ride to Petit-Goave, Haiti. Nonetheless, they realized he was a good man who worked hard for the recognition of their city, a great representative of their town in the political affairs of the country.


This ebook was written with your needs in mind.  The episodes are designed to allow you to listen to real-life, Haiti-based dialogues about life's issues.  You will be placed in local situations where you will have to find the right words to express your thoughts. 


"Learn/Listen to Haitian Creole MP3 Dialogues, Phrases, Words + Audio Expressions, Sayings for Everyone Everywhere - Aprann/Koute Dyalòg MP3, Fraz, Pwovèb, Mo + Odyo Ekspresyon Kreyòl Pou Tout Moun..."

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Friday, April 27, 2012

Free Creole Audio by The Author and Producer of the ebook

In this episode, you will review haitian creole pronunciation of key vowels and consonants, nasal vowels, introduction to definite articles and negation in Creole.  Pages 1 to 7 will provide you with new Creole / English vocabulary found in dialogues and conversations. A certain number of pages of the ebook, "Learn / Listen to Haitian Creole MP3 Dialogues, phrases, Words + Audio Expressions, Sayings for Everyone Everywhere" will form the content of each subsequent episode.

This ebook was written with your needs in mind.  The episodes are designed to allow you to listen to real-life, Haiti-based dialogues about life's issues.  You will be placed in local situations where you will have to find the right words to express your thoughts. 


"Learn/Listen to Haitian Creole MP3 Dialogues, Phrases, Words + Audio Expressions, Sayings for Everyone Everywhere - Aprann/Koute Dyalòg MP3, Fraz, Pwovèb, Mo + Odyo Ekspresyon Kreyòl Pou Tout Moun..."

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"Learn/Listen to Haitian Creole MP3 Dialogues, Phrases, Words + Audio Expressions, Sayings for Everyone Everywhere - Aprann/Koute Dyalòg MP3, Fraz, Pwovèb, Mo + Odyo Ekspresyon Kreyòl Pou Tout Moun..." is a podcast-compatible (http://haitiancreolemp3.libsyn.com) series of MP3 dialogues, phrases, words, and audio expressions whose focus is to get you to speak and understand Haitian Creole in a short time. The lessons are designed to get you out of your comfort zone and place you into various Haitian locales where you will most likely hear and practice the language. Each lesson is designed to help you build your vocabulary and increase your cultural knowledge. If you like "Learn Haitian Creole in One Week..." and other similar titles, you will like this ebook too. Go to http://haitiancreolemp3.libsyn.com to get the accompanying audio or MP3 files.

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Saturday, March 3, 2012

March is Read an eBook Month Every Year:

Are you ready to read an ebook this year? March is Read an eBook Month.
What is an ebook? An ebook is an electronic copy of a book which you can start reading as soon as you pay and download it. You can find ebooks in various venues, websites, blogs, and podcasts.
It is your opportunity to find a free or modestly priced ebook to read. Smashwords.com allows you to find free and cheap ebooks to read. You will find enough coupons allowing you to read for free for a few days.

If you own a Kindle Fire and are a Prime member on AmazonKindle, you can read for free thanks to the KDP Select program.

If you own a Nook, you can read a Nook ebook from Barnes and Noble right here.


Additional Publishers and Authors Whose ebooks you can read:

Where to find ebooks for your e-readers:

a. HaitianCreoleMP3 ebooks

b. LearnFrenchOnlineFree Podcast

c. FrenchLesson Podcast

d. UrbanebooksPublishing Releases Top eBooks

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

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