M toujou ap aprann – I’m still learning

One day I’ll be good enough to interact with native speakers who don’t know me and who don’t give me grace for my mistakes.

A Black woman looks at the camera. We see her brown eyes and brown skin.

When We See Them

I’ve come to know many Haitians who are delightfully unique in their outlook on life as they are in their accents and vocabulary, which gives me no end of headaches as I try to figure out yet another idiom or unique word play I need to understand so that I can grasp their meaning.

Man wearing hard hat and orange safety vest is tying iron construction rods together.

Chèmèt chèmètrès

Adventures in translation This was my “wrapped the chain around the axle” moment today. My assignment this month is to … More