This blog

I started blogging in 2003 when it was a fairly new thing for my ham radio hobby. A few years back I wanted to start publically documenting things related to the Walloon language. So I started this blog. In reality this day in age you are better off reaching people on social media than a blog. But the fine people of Belgium have established many social media channels to promote their language. Most however due to the limiations of the various platforms are not sharing much in the way of a recorded pronunciation. That sort of thing would be the most beneficial in my opinion to those outside of Belgium, such as myself.

So what you see frequently is written Walloon on the various social media channels. Even using a blog sharing recorded audio is not straight forward. Your best bet is to convert the audio to a video (add a still image), and use youtube or the like.

So while I do not post much here, I do post various things to the Wisconsin Walloon archive.org collection. It becomes a mix of things that I find or feel are obscure and realted to the language that need to be put in a centralized place. Some of it will not be easily understood by those in Wisconsin. They are being added for the the benefit of those in Belgium. And then there are supplementary things I add to help people here in Wisconsin better understand their identity.

I have to use my best judgement on what I post, and whenever possible I unclude a source URL for what I am reposting. I try by best to research who has the rights, but the people are largely unreachable. So if there are content issues on what I have added to the collection please reach out to me. Please also reach out to me if you spot content (especially vidoes), that would help people learn the language.