27. Long Haitian Creole/English medical phrase list

This resource is a 163-page document issued by Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technology Institute (http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/). It is most easily downloaded via the following URL: http://www.ngohaiti.com/disaster/downloads/englishpairs.pdf

The document provides English phrases that a medical professional might use or hear, in alphabetical order, and a translation into Kreyol (Haitian Creole). I'd be interested in any reader comments on the accuracy of the translations given. At first pass it looks like idiomatic turns of phrase and high frequency expressions are pretty good.

One way to use this resource as a phrase dictionary is to look up a word, such as "walk," using the Adobe Acrobat Reader "search" function. Then you can find where the Haitian translation(s) of that word show up in phrases. Walk, for example, appears in five different phrases, each time as "mache." "Pain" shows up more times than I can count, usually translated as "doulè," but infrequently as something "fe m' mal."

24. Translated medical care sentences with audio (free) in English and Kreyol (Haitian Creole)

This site provides 52 common sentences that a medical provider might say in Haitian Creole in intake with a patient. Audio is provided for each one. The audio files are downloadable, also for free.
http://www.altalang.com/beyond-words/2010/02/16/haitian-creole-in-translation-medical-phrase-pronunciation-guide/

23. Free mp3 Haitian Creole announcements from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health makes available its public health announcements in downloadable .mp3 files in Haitian Creole. http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2terminal&L=5&L0=Home&L1=Consumer&L2=Prevention+and+Wellness&L3=Health+Promotion&L4=DPH+Podcast&sid=Eeohhs2&b=terminalcontent&f=dph_c_health_note_haitian&csid=Eeohhs2
Transcripts are available in Creole, and an English version is available too. At 200 words, and spoken fairly slowly, these may be useful relatively topical listening for learning Creole related to medical care and public health. Nine episodes listed through January 2010 focused on flu prevention topics, including handwashing, covering coughs, and H1N1 vaccine.

20. Two English-Haitian Creole medical dictionaries from Educavision (for purchase)

These two medical dictionaries are handy. They are generally available from online booksellers.

#1: English/Haitian Creole Medical Dictionary (Diksyone Medikal Angle Kreyol), by Maude Heurtelou & Fequiere Vilsant, published in 2000 by Educavision, http://www.educavision.com. ISBN 1-58432-072-9
I appreciate the organization of content in this book. Chapters each focus on a medical topic such as "Digestive System," "Cardiology," or "Equipment & Supplies." Synonyms are offered, often providing the student of Creole both a more formal, technical term plus the everyday term for an ailment or a part of the body. Common "collocations" (words that pattern together with high frequency) are also provided. The last two chapters provide a phrase list covering all phrases in the book, first in English alpha order, then in Kreyol alpha order.

#2: Systems of the Body (Sistem ko moun) is also published by Educavision, with no individual author listed. ISBN 1-58432-237-3
The first 83 pages are dedicated to detailed anatomical diagrams, labeled in both Kreyol and English. A long index at the end then lists all the vocabulary in the book without the pictures.  This is basically a bilingual guide to human anatomy terminology.

18. Red Cross provides 17 emergency/disaster preparedness docs in Creole (free)

The Red Cross provides its standard emergency and disaster preparedness advice sheets translated into multiple languages. At date of this post, seventeen were available in Haitian Creole at http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.d229a5f06620c6052b1ecfbf43181aa0/?vgnextoid=a9fc78986407f110VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD&vgnextchannel=92d51a53f1c37110VgnVCM1000003481a10aRCRD#haitian. Some appear quite a bit more relevant for language learners wishing to communicate with Haitian Creole speakers in cold climes in the U.S., for example the one on winter storm readiness. Nonetheless, while the content may not always fit the current earthquake context in Haiti, language learners may still find that all of the documents provide practice as a set in reading, understanding, and rehearsing conversation in Haitian Creole.

16. National Library of Medicine offers medical documents in Creole (free)

The U.S. National Library of Medicine, part of NIH, offers a number of medical brochures and other documents in Creole (and links to collections of documents in Creole) for free download under "multilingual resources" at http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/haitiearthquake.html#a5. Most of these resources are also available in English, which enables a learner of Creole/Kreyol to pick out key words, to look up a translation when they get stuck reading, etc.

15. Dozens of free health documents in Creole from the Refugee Health Information Network

The Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN) offers a collection of numerous documents on health translated into Haitian Creole. Learners of Creole may find it helpful to read these documents out loud, to summarize these documents in Creole, and to imagine what questions in Creole these documents answer. To help parse the Creole, most documents are also available in English, and some in Spanish & French too. http://rhin.org/search/search_results.asp?quick_search=&language=18&x=31&y=14

14. Hesperian offers Kreyol (Haitian Creole) translations of medical brochures and pamphlets (free)

Hesperian Foundation has set up a new site with health brochures translated into Haitian Creole, English, French and Spanish. http://creole.hesperian.net/ Hesperian invites submission of additional resources. Beyond being useful for health education, these documents are terrific resources for learners of Kreyol for medical purposes. For example, users could read the documents without looking at the translation and try to guess words from context, then check them in the translation. Or users could highlight words in the English (or French or Spanish) that they wish to know in Kreyol, and then go comb those key phrases from the Kreyol version of the document. More advanced learners could, for example, read segments of the Kreyol documents and then try to summarize them verbally, in Kreyol, or make up questions in Kreyol that the documents would answer.