VILLE PLATTE, La.— By 8:30 Saturday morning, the red-brick tavern called Fred's Lounge is already filled with rice farmers, bikers from New Orleans and wide-eyed French tourists ready to party. Some ...

Every Thursday evening, a group of about 10 students gathers at Houma's Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum with workbooks and hefty language dictionaries. They practice speaking to each other in local ...

When Taylor Townsend learned she needed four courses in a foreign language as part of her history degree requirements at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the junior jumped in with both feet ...

BATON ROUGE — Need to brush up on your Cajun French before a trip to Acadiana? There's no better source than "A Dictionary of the Cajun Language" by the late Rev. Jules O. Daigle, and there's no ...