Hey, I'm looking for some good online sources of cajun french being spoken. Surely there has to be a website of recordings of people recounting a story or just having a general conversation. Any help?

I've been looking through Jim Leger’s blog and some youtube clips.

Thanks!

The best source I've found is from the Indiana Cajun and Creole Institute of Indiana (of all places) who has a Discovering Cajun French CD-ROM that has a lot of audio from each region of Acadiana, along with transcriptions (not translations)

Another great source is to get Barry Ancelet's book Cajun and Creole Folktales, which has transcriptions and translations, and go the the ULL Cajun and Creole Archives, where you can get the audio field recordings used for the book.

Marion Marcotte, Favorite Cajun Tales

http://www.floydsrecordshop.com/Marion-Marcotte-Favorite-Cajun-Tales-P132.aspx

There's a lot of Cajun French radio spots on the Mamou Hour Cajun Band links on my website.

I've gotta look into Bryan's suggestions too! Didn't know about this Indiana thing.

A story by Felix Richard :

http://www.codofil.org/english/lafrenchlanguage.html

-> "Hear for yourself Louisiana's French language" and transcription (left).

if you go to Tulane Unviersity's web-site they have an interactive beginner's level cajun french instruction page. its free and you'll hear voices you like, Louis Michot from the Lost Bayou Ramblers, and Amanda LaFleur professor at LSU cajun french, and author of Louisiana French, the best new cajun french dictionary out there. It takes you through several beginners level stuff, introductions and basic interaction type things, but it is an awesome learning tool for those that have never been exposed to it. I forgot if anyone mentioned this, but father daigle's cajun self taught is really good. Get the cd's, workbook, and dictionary and you'll be rattling off in cajun french in no time. The only draw back is that there isn't alot of common practice stuff. The cajun /creole folktales are awesome because you can see how the language is spoken in terms of telling a story, and it has alot of diffent verb tenses and things that you normally don't hear in the music.

here's the link for the tulane things

http://ilcpan.giza.tulane.edu/cajun/Cajun.html#

then check out these series of youtube videos,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D51zbI1HCSw&list=FLNDSBpoz0Ygkmv_BCwtjxSw&index=27&feature=plpp_video

there is 10 so make sure you watch all of them.

then, there is another good series called Ouragons sus les bayou, which has alot of good interviews with the Lafourchaise (people from lafourche/terrebonne parish). two videos.

then by this time you will notice several cajun french videos and interviews in the related videos bar next to the video itself.

good luck !!

You now have a lot of good stuff to listen too and look at. In the end however, be sure to listen to Marion Marcotte. IMHO he's tops in story telling. None of that (I din thought) Bs. Uses the old cajun french I remember hearing while growing up.