CreoleLink, by Creole Solutions
Enrollment is open · Founding Cohort · Begins October 4, 2026, Kreyòl Month

You understand Haitian Creole. Now let's speak it.

A small, live cohort that turns the Kreyòl you already understand into Kreyòl you can speak, read, and write, in the official spelling of the Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen. Eight weeks, online, through the fables of Nan Jaden Amoni.

CreoleLink: Lyen ki makonnen nou ak kreyòl
Eight weeks Speak, read & write Official standard spelling Live & online Small group Weekly 15-min 1:1 Starts October 4 Book + online lessons included 12 months of access Guest sessions
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Registration and payment take about two minutes. Ten founding seats at the $497 intro price, and the second-edition book ships to your door.
The gap we kept hearing
"I understand it. I'm just not comfortable speaking it."

For the past few years, we have promoted Haitian Kreyòl across social media and grown a real community of learners, families, and people who love this culture.

The same sentence kept coming back to us. People understand Kreyòl, then freeze when it is time to speak. That gap is not about vocabulary. It closes when you speak out loud, often, with someone beside you who can guide your ear and your voice.

That is the whole purpose of this cohort.

And you do not have to speak perfectly to belong here. This cohort is for people who understand more than they can say. You will not be shamed, rushed, or corrected harshly. You will be guided, encouraged, and invited to use your voice little by little.

Lizay, mwen rele Amoni!
Amoni, a young Haitian character, waving hello
Is this you?

You do not need to speak it well. You need to have some of it already.

Whatever brought you to this language, and however little you can say out loud right now, you are in the right room. We teach the rest: how Kreyòl sentences are built, the official spelling, vocabulary you will actually use, and the sounds nobody showed you how to make. Then we practice all of it out loud, every Sunday, until it stops being an effort.

This cohort is for you if

  • You follow Kreyòl at home, in church, at work, or among friends, but hesitate when it is your turn to answer.
  • You are Haitian, married into a Haitian family, working in Haiti, or simply close to people who speak it, and you want to answer back with confidence.
  • You speak some Kreyòl already, know it is shaky, and want it corrected kindly instead of laughed at.
  • You read and write it by guesswork, and want the actual rules: how it is spelled, how it is built, why it works the way it does.
  • You want a patient, live space to practice out loud with people who get it.

This is not for you if

  • Kreyòl is entirely new to you and you have never heard it spoken. Start with our free lessons, then join a later cohort.
  • You cannot make most Sunday middays and plan to rely on the recordings. Speaking does not happen in a replay.
  • You want a self-paced app you work through alone.
  • You are looking for professional interpreter certification.
Krik?

Klike sou «Krak!»  ·  Click Krak! to see the riddle

Krak!

Dlo kanpe."Standing water." What is it?

Repons lan?

Kann, sugarcane. It stands tall and holds sweet water inside.

Devinèt, kont, ak pwovèb: riddles, stories, and proverbs. That is how Kreyòl is really learned. Come learn it with us.

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Why learn with us

Professional training and lived cultural knowledge.

Many people can speak Haitian Kreyòl. Fewer have spent decades translating it, interpreting it, writing it, teaching it, and thinking carefully about how adults learn to speak it with confidence.

More than 20 years in Kreyòl

Marleen has worked professionally in Haitian Kreyòl for over two decades as a translator, interpreter, author, and teacher.

A real method, not improvised

The cohort is built on two decades of practice and on what research shows about how adults move from understanding a language to speaking it.

01

Through story

We learn inside the fables of Nan Jaden Amoni. Grammar and words arrive through the story, the way Haitian wisdom has always been passed down.

02

Through konbit

Konbit is the Haitian way of working as one. You learn in a small circle, out loud, carried by others doing the same beside you.

03

Live, every week

Each session, you speak. Real time, real voice, patient correction. Speaking is the skill you want, so speaking is what we practice.

How you'll learn

The Amoni Method.

Five poto, five pillars, repeated with every fable. You move from watching to creating, one story at a time. Around them, each lesson adds vocabulary, a comprehension check, and a moment to reflect.

POTO 1

Gade

Look

Settle into the illustration and the scene before a single word.

POTO 2

Koute

Listen

Hear the fable read aloud in Haitian Kreyòl to tune the ear.

POTO 3

Li

Read

Read it yourself, matching sound to text.

POTO 4

Pale

Speak

Say it out loud, from single words to the closing proverb.

POTO 5

Kreye

Create

Make it your own: retell it, write it, perform it.

Inside one live session

Ninety minutes, live, and most of it is you speaking.

The session is built around your voice: most of the time is you speaking, not listening. Over eight weeks that adds up to real hours of live speaking with patient correction, plus your weekly one-on-one with Marleen.

Opening · Warm welcome, greetings in Kreyòl, and nobody called on before they are ready.
Quick recall · A quick recap of the story in your own words, to warm up your voice.
Pale, the heart · Guided speaking: repeat, transform, answer, converse, with patient correction. Everyone speaks.
Kreye · Share your own sentences out loud and build new ones together as a group.
Proverb & culture · Close with the proverb and a real conversation about what it means. Take one small voice-note challenge home for the week.
Special guests

You will not only be learning from me.

Some sessions open up to a guest: someone who lives inside this language and can show you a side of it that no textbook holds. Guests join the live session, talk with the group, and stay for your questions.

Guest session

A Haitian author

A working Haitian writer joins us to read in Kreyòl in their own voice, talk about why they write in this language, and take your questions. Then you write a few lines of your own and read them out loud.

Guest session

A trauma-informed guest

Many people carry something heavy around this language: a correction that stung, a laugh at their accent, a silence they learned to keep. A trauma-informed guest sits with us on where that comes from and how you speak anyway. A conversation, not therapy.

Guest session

A keeper of the stories

A storyteller who carries the oral tradition: kont, pwovèb, and devinèt told the way they are told at home, so you hear the rhythm this language is meant to be spoken in.

Guests are confirmed as the cohort approaches, and founding members hear the full lineup and the dates first. Every guest session is recorded with the rest.

What ninety minutes actually feels like

Closer to a lakou than a lecture.

Nobody is called on before they are ready, nobody is graded, and nobody sits through a slideshow. What fills the time instead:

Devinèt to open the session, guessed out loud together Pwovèb you leave with, and can actually use Kont read aloud, then retold in your own words Guest sessions with writers, storytellers, and other voices Voice notes traded with your cohort between Sundays Your turn when you are ready, and never any shame about your accent
Woven through every session

You leave with more than words.

Speaking is the focus, but every story teaches more. Each lesson opens into vocabulary, culture, and the writing system: the pillars of Kreyòl, woven through every fable.

Vocabulary · Jaden Vokabilè

Each story builds your words: the key vocabulary and expressions from the fable, said aloud with audio, so you know them by sound and by spelling.

Culture · Kafou Konesans

Every fable carries a proverb and a cultural note: the Haitian wisdom, traditions, and history behind the story, so you learn the culture, not just the language.

Writing system · Potomitan Kreyòl

A clear guide to how Kreyòl is written: one letter, one sound, following the official standard of the Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen, so you can finally read and write the language you already speak.

What's included

One book in your hands, your lessons between every session.

Every founding member gets the second-edition book shipped to their door, plus your own online lessons to work through between the live sessions, at your pace, on any device.

Nan Jaden Amoni book cover The book

Nan Jaden Amoni

Rekèy Kont Kreyòl · Second edition · by Marleen Julien

The second edition, 21 fables in Haitian Kreyòl, shipped to your door as a hardcopy, signed by Marleen with a note to you in her own hand. Original stories that carry our language and culture forward, and the heart of every session.

A real CreoleLink lesson: the Anba Pye Mapou a lesson screen with its Respe button, and the panel of seven topics inside the lesson Between sessions

Your online lessons

Nan Jaden Amoni · online

Between each live session, you work through the story on your own online space: look, listen, read, and practice speaking at your pace, on any device. Printable Ti Kaye Amoni pages are part of it, for when you want to write by hand.

An opened Nan Jaden Amoni package: the book, an alfabe Kreyol Ayisyen insert, a bookmark, a sticker, and a welcome card, nested in blue paper shred.
In the box

Your Kreyòl merch.

Your signed second edition, a bookmark, an alfabè Kreyòl Ayisyen card, a sticker, and the welcome card on top, with a handwritten note from Marleen.

What readers say

About Nan Jaden Amoni.

The cohort is new, so this is about the book at its heart: read by a learner teaching himself, by children in a primary school in the south of Haiti, and by a youth book club outside Port-au-Prince.

★★★★★
"The audio makes these stories come alive!"
Stephen MatlockVerified purchase, Amazon, September 2022. He bought the book to teach himself to read and speak Haitian Kreyòl, and wrote about the Krik? Krak! opening, the illustrations, and laughing out loud at the narration.
"The kids love the stories. They would not stop laughing."
Ingvill KonradsenFounding Director, Prosjekt Haiti, on reading the book with children at the primary school her organization has run in Saint Louis du Sud since 2000.
"Kept our youth inspired and entertained."
Jou NouvoWeekly Book Club, community center, Bon Repos, Haiti. Thanking Marleen on social media after their book club sessions.

A self-taught learner in the United States, a classroom in Saint Louis du Sud, a book club in Bon Repos. The same second-edition copy is shipped to every founding member, signed.

More than the sessions

What being a founding member gets you.

The live cohort is the heart of it. Around it, you get a community and support that keep you speaking all week, not only in class.

Real life, in Kreyòl

The fables give you the words and the confidence; the weekly conversations are where you spend them. Simple, everyday exchanges in your private cohort group about real life, family, culture, and what is happening in Haiti and the diaspora, so your Kreyòl feels useful beyond the story.

Your private cohort group

A private Telegram group just for your cohort, with your classmates and Marleen in it, separate from our open community. Practice and stay connected all week.

One-on-one with Marleen

Beyond the group, you get a one-on-one check-in with Marleen each week, in scheduled office-hour windows: private time to work on your own voice, your questions, and the pronunciation you want to master. Coaching made for you, not just the room.

Who's leading it
Marleen Julien
Marleen Julien

Founder of Creole Solutions. Author, storyteller, and cultural ambassador. A daughter of Haiti, raised by language and community, whose work is to help Haitian Kreyòl be seen, heard, taught, written, and respected everywhere.

She started at the Consulate General of Haiti in Chicago as its cultural liaison, the person people came to when the language was the thing that mattered.

What she has done ever since is teach the people who do this professionally. At Language Line Services she tested and trained interpreters. At Creole Solutions she trains the network of translators and interpreters who work under her. Twenty years of deciding what correct Kreyòl is, and teaching other professionals to hear it.

She chairs the education committee of Association Haiti Chérie, a nonprofit, where she creates educational materials for children in Haiti, and she wrote Nan Jaden Amoni so those children would have fables in their own language.

Every week she teaches publicly, for free: where a Kreyòl word came from, how an expression really works, and the spelling rules almost nobody who speaks it was ever taught. More than 40,000 people follow that teaching across Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. This cohort is that same work, slowed down, in a room of ten.

After eight weeks

What you'll be able to do.

By the end of the eight weeks, working through the fables with the Amoni Method, here is what you'll be able to do in Kreyòl, out loud and on the page.

1
Read Haitian Creole in its standard spelling, matching the sounds you already know.
2
Understand and retell the fables of Nan Jaden Amoni in your own words.
3
Introduce yourself and answer everyday questions in Kreyòl without freezing.
4
Write your own words and sentences in correct Kreyòl spelling.
5
Speak with less fear, and more of your own voice.

This is the floor, not the ceiling. These are what every committed member can do by the end. Motivated learners go well beyond, into real conversation, sharing opinions, and telling longer stories.

The details

Everything in one place.

The full shape of the founding cohort. If you understand more Kreyòl than you can say, this is for you.

When it runs
8 weeksEight Sundays, starting October 4, 2026, Kreyòl Month.
Enrollment
Open now, until the ten seats are filled
Each session
90 minutes, live
Day & time
Sundays at 12 pm Eastern (New York, Montreal, Toronto)
11 am Chicago · 9 am Los Angeles
6 pm Paris, except October 25, which is 5 pm
How it runs
10 seatsLive online, and capped on purpose so everyone speaks.
Miss a week?
Every session is recorded. Replays included
Between sessions
Short weekly practice: listen, read, and record one voice note
Some weeks
A guest joins us live: a writer, a storyteller, and other voices
What you get
21 fablesThe second-edition Nan Jaden Amoni hardcopy, shipped to your door.
Also included
Online lessons, printable kaye, and the private cohort group on Telegram
Your access
Twelve months of CreoleLink, opening October 4, 2026 through October 3, 2027
One-on-one
A weekly one-on-one check-in with Marleen
Your local time
Every session is Sundays at 12 pm Eastern Time, October 4 to November 22.
Los Angeles · Pacific
9:00 am
All eight Sundays
Chicago · Central
11:00 am
All eight Sundays
New York · Eastern
12:00 pm
All eight Sundays
Paris · Central European
6:00 pm
5:00 pm on October 25 only
Pacific also covers Seattle and San Diego. Central covers Houston and Dallas. Eastern also covers Miami, Boston, Montreal and Haiti. The three North American times move together, so they hold for all eight Sundays. Only Paris shifts, because Europe changes its clocks on October 25 and North America does not until November 1.
Founding cohort
$497intro price, everything included

Eight live sessions · guest sessions · the signed second-edition book, shipped · online lessons between sessions · printable kaye · your private cohort Telegram group · a weekly one-on-one check-in with Marleen · every session recorded · twelve months of CreoleLink access.

Pay in full
$497
Pay over time
Klarna
Installments at checkout
Enroll in the founding cohort
Three steps: register, read the terms, pay · 10 founding seats · the book ships once your payment clears
Full refund through September 20, 2026 · 50% through October 3 · non-refundable once the cohort begins. Shipping included within the US. Full enrollment terms · info@creolesolutions.com
Before you decide

The four questions people actually ask.

Answered honestly, including where the answer is no.

My Kreyòl is too weak for this.

That sentence is the reason this cohort exists, and almost everyone who says it is wrong about themselves. If you can follow Kreyòl when you hear it, understand more than you can produce, and freeze when it is your turn, you are exactly who this was built for. It does not matter whether you got that from your grandmother, from your husband, from years of working in Haiti, or from friends whose conversations you have been quietly following. Understanding is the hard part, and you already have it.

And this is a course, not only a conversation group. You are taught how Kreyòl sentences are built, the official spelling of the Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen, the vocabulary each fable carries, and the sounds that trip people up. Nobody is expected to arrive good at it.

Where the answer is no: if Kreyòl is entirely new to you and you have never heard it spoken, this cohort will move faster than is fair to you, whatever your background. Start with our free resources and the monthly Rasanbleman, and come to a later cohort. We would rather tell you that now than take your money.

I understand it, but I never learned to write it.

Very common, and it is not a gap in your Kreyòl. Almost nobody who learned this language by ear was taught the writing system, because it was standardized long after most people learned to speak. You are missing a tool, not a language.

The cohort works from the official spelling of the Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen, one letter to one sound, which is far more consistent than English or French. You get printable Ti Kaye Amoni pages for writing by hand, and every fable in the book to read alongside the audio.

I cannot commit to every Sunday.

Every session is recorded and stays available to you, and your weekly one-on-one with Marleen is scheduled around you, so one or two missed Sundays will not put you behind.

Where the answer is no: if you already know you will miss half of them, do not enroll. This is a speaking cohort, and speaking does not happen in a replay. Wait for a season when the Sundays are yours.

Is it worth $497?

Here is what is actually in it, so you can decide rather than take our word for it: eight live sessions in a group of ten, a one-on-one with Marleen every week of the cohort, guest sessions, the second-edition book shipped to you, online lessons and printable pages between sessions, your cohort group, every session recorded, and twelve months of full CreoleLink access through October 3, 2027.

The weekly one-on-one alone is eight private sessions with a professional Kreyòl linguist. Price that on its own and the rest of the cohort comes with it.

If it is still not right for you, that is a fair answer. The free Rasanbleman, the community, and the fables on haitianheritage.com are open to you either way, and always will be.

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Plant the first seed with us.

10 founding seats · Begins October 4, 2026
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While you wait

Start speaking and learning now, for free.

Enrollment is open, but you do not have to wait for October, and you do not have to pay anything to begin. Practice out loud with us, read real Kreyòl, and pick up the writing system, all of it free and none of it requiring you to enroll.

The monthly Rasanbleman

A free monthly meeting to practice speaking together, guided and welcoming. Bring your voice, however ready it feels.

Register for the next one →

Follow the free lessons

Every week we post where a Kreyòl word came from, how an expression really works, and the spelling rules almost nobody was taught. Free, no sign-up, nothing to buy.

Instagram → Facebook → LinkedIn →

Read and learn at haitianheritage.com

Our free site: fables to read at your own pace, and free lessons that teach you the alphabet, the sounds, and the spelling rules. Nothing to buy, no account, no end date.

Open the site → Read a story → Start a lesson →

Our free WhatsApp community

Free and open to anyone, cohort or not. Share a voice note, try a sentence, ask a question, and keep going all week with people learning alongside you. This is separate from the private Telegram group the cohort runs in.

We no longer publish the link openly, because that filled the group with unsolicited ads. Give us a first name and an email and the invite appears straight away.

Get the invite link →

All four of these stay free whether you join the cohort or not.

Founding cohort

$497: everything included.

Eight live sessions · guest sessions · the signed second-edition book, shipped · online lessons between sessions · printable kaye · private cohort Telegram group · a weekly one-on-one check-in with Marleen · every session recorded · twelve months of CreoleLink access.

Secure checkout through Stripe · intro price · ten founding seats.
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