Louilingo — Learn Cajun French and Louisiana Creole

On your desktop

Built for the big screen, not squeezed onto it

Laptop or phone, the web app is built for the screen it's on. On desktop that means a sidebar instead of thumb tabs and lessons laid out in columns. Answer quizzes with a click, a tap, or straight from the keyboard.

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Louilingo home screen on desktop, with sidebar navigation, daily goal, and lesson cards

Your dashboard: daily goal, phrase of the day, and where you left off.

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The lesson player opening a Cajun Greetings lesson with its cultural introduction

Every lesson opens with the story before the drills.

Louilingo home screen on a phone: daily goal, phrase of the day, and lesson shortcuts

Your daily practice, pocket-sized.

A lesson card on a phone: the phrase, its pronunciation, slow and normal audio buttons, and cultural context

Hear it slow, hear it normal, then say it yourself.

A cultural lecture on a phone: a 1938 fais-do-do photograph above a Louisiana-versus-France vocabulary table

The story behind every lesson.

Beta is open on iPhone and Android. Use TestFlight on iPhone or Google Play on Android.

The languages

Two languages with deep Louisiana roots

Louilingo teaches Louisiana French and Kouri-Vini as they're spoken in Louisiana. They're separate languages with different histories.

Cajun French

Acadiana · South Louisiana

Carried down from the Acadians and shaped by two and a half centuries of Louisiana life. A generation was punished in school for speaking it. Louilingo teaches it the way Acadiana still says it.

Louisiana Creole (Kouri-Vini)

New Orleans · River Parishes · Bayou Teche

A language of its own — not a dialect of French — developed in the 1700s among enslaved Africans and their descendants, with grammar of its own and much of its vocabulary from French. Every Creole recording in the app is spoken by a Creole voice, not a synthesizer.

Pick one when you start, or study both side by side.

What's inside

A full curriculum that doesn't feel like homework

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Lessons that build

Forty-three lessons start with greetings and move into everyday conversation, including faith, weather, and work. Each one ends in a quiz and pays out XP toward your level.

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Real Louisiana voices

Hundreds of recordings at two speeds, made by speakers from here. Phrases still waiting on a recording get a careful French voice in the meantime.

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Games

Match pairs in Les Paires, outrun the Rougarou, or take porch trivia at La Veillée.

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The stories behind the words

Forty-three short cultural lectures with photographs, covering the history that made these languages what they are.

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Live Louisiana radio

Sweep a real dial until the signal locks — live stations streaming out of Louisiana, right inside the app. Immersion you can leave on all day.

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Practice that sticks

Flashcards on a spaced-repetition schedule, reading with tap-to-translate, speaking practice, a DELF-style A1 mock exam — and a bookshelf of real resources to go deeper.

The voices

The people behind the voices

Louilingo is built and recorded in Louisiana. The voices come from people with their own connection to the languages.

Corey Champagne

Cajun French · Founder

Corey's family blends Cajun and Creole backgrounds. His paw paw spoke Cajun French and was punished for it in school. Louilingo is his way of giving the language back.

Dominique DuVernay

Louisiana Creole · Voice of the Creole lessons

Every Creole recording in the lessons is Dominique's voice. She teaches Spanish for a living, so she knows what it takes to learn a language. She's reclaiming Kouri-Vini phrase by phrase.

The language is still here. So are you.