I’m glad that I do have a pretty large vocabulary in French since Kreyol and French have many cognates. If not, I’d be limited to criticizing workers or taking Haitian children from orphanages. Seriously, I blindly ordered a book that came with audio some time ago, and in my first lesson, I was taught to say that “They are not able to work slowly there.” By the end, I shall have mastered how to say “The rows they planted are crooked.”

It makes me sad.