What, like the government?

@@jessicabrookes6240 You are very intelligent and saw right thru my sham comment. Please don't report me to the authorities. Shhhhhhhhhhhh

Ja ver Haagen Daz

Nicholas Butler That’s exactly what i was saying

@@BrennanlivesforJesus Afrikaans is closely related to Dutch which is closely related to English, so although it's foreign to us, there's still that slight association .. as opposed to a completely different language like Mandarin or Arabic

@@loganjukes8820 is it a creole language of dutch?

It’s a simplified version of Dutch but with some different vocabulary. A Dutch speaker can get by in Afrikaans.

* me after 1,5 years of hard work learning Dutch :DD

Pretty much, according to my Australianised Afrikaaner friends

yep

@Master Mind No it's a mixture of old Dutch and a tiny bit of Malay and Khoi. It was called "Afrikaans" due to the location of where it was spoken. Doesn't mean that the Afrikaners wanted to emulate the Africans numpty. Change your name.

@@CosmosesJones it's not simplified Dutch... People who say that should try and learn Afrikaans... It's not easy...

@Master Mind no... She was mixing Afrikaans with English... Most of us do that in South Africa....

Ikr

hahahaha just saw that, it's hilarious

It’s so blind people can know what’s going on. Obviously!

Yes they did 😂 just to see if you’re paying attention.

@@raza4271 yes, obviously. Deaf people would be able to see the irritated itch on screen. So it has to be for the blind people to read out loud.

Pretty much

No so special after all, huh! #StayHumble

No

If you want to know what English sounds like to non native speakers...there was an Italian who made a rap song where he sang "fake English" and it's pretty accurate. It sounds like he's speaking English until you try and zero in on what he's saying...it's gibberish. He did a decent job of it anyway... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y7yjoKlq0sWypGw.html

A mix of english, dutch and a zest of french.

Ikt

ikr**

I live there to it does sound a bit weird in a different accent

True

Yes true she almost lost her Afrikaans language from being in America lol

Haha, too true

Lol😂😂😂😂ja nee

Yes no. Kkkkkkkk

@@dmitriwilliams4027 it's like a filler thing you say while you're thinking of your opinion and you don't know if you agree or not, its like "yes, well..." in English

ja nee beslis

LOLz... No she isn't... Her Afrikaans is perfect.... It's her mother tongue... Afrikaans people are very proud of their language

@a w i speak Afrikaans and its perfectly south african... thank you very much

@TheProdigalOne Ik ben Amerikaan en wanneer bezoek ik Nederland, vragen de Nederlanse mensen als ben ik Zuid-Afrikaner wanneer spreek ik het Nederlands.. grappig niet waar?

@@fmagalhaes1521 strange.. you maybe have picked up Afrikaans nuances from learning Afrikaans... its bound to happen as you lesnr Afrikaans now... maar jou Nederlands is ook baie goed

@@JermaineGertse Baie dankie!! Ek het Nederlands eerste geleer. Omdat wil ek nie die turiste prys nie vir ‘n kanaalboot te huur. 😃😃

Because this is pretty much Dutch

That's not weird

As a Scandinavian guy i can understand 1%

This is so weird. I could understand was deez nuts on your chin.

It's Dutch injected with localities, it was the Dutch settlers who predominantly maintained the language. No wonder here

But in fact German evolved into English

@@boratsagdiyev1586 Dat is de waarheid, weten niet het de Amerikanse mensen. Als voor mij? Ik ben een Amerikaan met een oranje hart. 😃🇳🇱😃🇳🇱

@@fmagalhaes1521 magalhaes klinkt wel Nederlands ja :P Groetjes !

Ik weet het...

Węgierski język powstał,jak Czesi ruchali kozy

I should've said Ja tannie

@@apduplessis haha yeah I’m sure she would have loved that ;)

@@apduplessis Wait, you were the interviewer? The man! By the way, what does those two foreign looking words mean in English?

@@zhouwu Yes ma'am

No. Sounds pretty much like Arábic/German

lmfaoo

@@ethanbooysen7092 when she says geleer with the ch sound in dutch is that also how u lot pronounce it, or is it something she does?? when saying the G's

@@daboydudus3912 Afrikaans g = Dutch g and ch

As a person who understands some afrikaans, I laughed at this joke

😂

Hey, man ! What did dutch people did to you ?

@@dan_6915 Haha, good one ;)

Hhahahaha

Afrikaans is my second language after English, so I’d agree with you 😂

Right!

Hier

Lol here😂

Hier is ons oubra

Can you tell me what they were talking about? I heard 5 and 6 and what is bushfeld ? I appreciate you indulging me I'm sorry if you think I'm rude 🌻

@@checkyourhead9 Hi 😀 There is English subtitles if you’d like. He asked her if she has a stash of any Afrikaans literature or films at home and she said she read Jock and the Bushveld to her kids the other day and that she has 5 or 6 Al Debbos films.

Ja

Ek sweer dit is noggals jy kan sien hoe a mens van Afrikaans na Britse verander soos wat ons sal sê Hello my maatjie en britse is Hallo mate

N fokken larni ou

You don't loose it but lose it. I am also Afrikaans but speak English better than most especially Americans who have no clue.

How can an Afrikaans speaker have A1 in Dutch? Surely speaking Afrikaans fluently alone is at least B2 in Dutch if not higher? C.E.F.R. tests don't test grammaticality but the ability to comprehend and express oneself. An Afrikaans speaker should have no trouble listening to a B2 Dutch listening test and answering everything correctly simply by using knowledge of Afrikaans in how similar the languages are.

You have no right to go to Netherland. You have to stay in South Africa and be f$cked by natives.

@@bobwal0404 we love bragging

That is nonsense.

My dear afrikaans is dutch, but it's just a broken one

It also has strong German and french influence.

freek van R I am Afrikaans speaking and in 2019 ( wow, thinking of it now it strucks me how normal the world was back two years ago) I went to Katwijk to see where my Dutch ancestors originally came from. It was such a huge moment for me when I walked the same beach they must have walked on

Always thought she was from South Africa and that was the language there.

@@asanori7415 For your own safety, please never say that to a South African.

Learning afrikaans paid off

@@Midnyter fr

Ja nee

Come from there to 🤣

ek is rusises maar ek verstaan wat ek gesey (ek wil onte beosek SUid Afrika die eerste land ek wil om te besoek) Ek kan praat Xhosa aan Xhosa ook my malawiaanse vreidin gesture fotograf aan Johannesburg-Universteit (ek wek vanaf my en Internasionale Stratshof

@Woody Last Name so dink ek ook

@Woody Last Name i think it would take more than 10 minutes. At this point she has lost her natural Afrikaans accent.

@Woody Last Name Afrikaans is my mother tongue. I've lived in various parts of South Africa my whole life, I have friends from various parts of South Africa speaking Afrikaans, there are different Afrikaans dialects, but I know none that sounds like Charlize Theron, here. So, yeah, I could be wrong, but I don't think so ^_^ .

Comfortableness? Jesus, what language is that?

@@nickkellerman1638 I take it English isn't your mother tongue? www.thefreedictionary.com/comfortableness

Exactly my thoughts

If I recall correctly, yes. They used a bit of Afrikaans, Ukrainian, Tagalog, etc

I think Flemish was used as one of the inspirations for the Sims, which sound similar to Afrikaans

As an Afrikaans speaker and former sims player I never heard any words from my language spoken by sims.

Even I, a person who speaks afrikaans laughed at this joke

Thank you

lmao

@@charlizetheron4376 lol

@@charlizetheron4376 Hallo Charlize!

She changed the pronunciation of her surname for Hollywood and she supports the EFF...I'd say she's well and truly lost herself.

The movie is good too

@@dakotadellafera5850 It's one of those staple movies we grew up with in South Africa in the 90s! It also made everyone want to but a staff lol.

@@matteobannatyne6279 It definitely is! LOL!

El Debbo is another story

Thanks for translating

Wir Deutschen verstehen euch auch :D

@@captaindh5025 I'm Polish and I understand most of the comments. Google Translate is fantastic.

@@captaindh5025 das glaube ich nicht, aber naja. :)

Ik vind Afrikaans nog het meeste op Vlaams lijken met een Hollands accent. Ik versta eigenlijk 99%

@@grubbilove6338 Yes, when in Dutch is a non-German word, i have a problem :D for example teleur, idk where comes it from, it sounds like French to me ...

I'm a lover of Afrikaans as well I reside in Namibian, I totally understand what you said. Though my Native language is Damara/Nama the click sound language 😅

Nog mooier is het Nederlands

@@010FRnr1 jy verbeel jou

Grap.lol

Afrikaans is lekker!

Ron haha 😂

half of a shoot*

In Dutch we have a saying for people like you, "spuitje elf," what comes to idiots, who actually have nothing to say, still openen their mouth. Never mind, you were born with it!

@@cirrus1964 You seem sweet. Appropriate name I would say :)

Oh really that's interesting. I'm Afrikaans and I do understand Dutch.

@@jeansaunders1081 I understand Dutch more or less when I concentrate. German and Dutsch are very related.

@@jeansaunders1081 You cannot *be* Afrikaans, you can only speak it.

@@TheUrbanEpicure you can be Afrikaner, the same way you can be Dutch or German.

That's so true. I can speak Afrikaans. I have German, Dutch and Swedish friends and I have always said this.

White south Africans came from holland

@@MattCrawley_Music I know

@@godhateseveryonewhodoesntr5977 Then exactly what part of that do you find funny as opposed to screamingly obvious?

@@Jay-qs2oi You asked that question very weirdly. The part that this is another language (even though it's derived from dutch), spoken in an entirely different country far away from europe, that still sounds like dutch with a very strange and almost unintelligible accent is funny to me. I'm aware it's obvious, but why should this make it less funny to me? I don't really get what you're trying to say. I know the meaning of 'oppose', but I don't understand how it fits in the context of that question, so I'm sorry if I didn't give a proper answer.

@@godhateseveryonewhodoesntr5977 Well you've just gone ahead and explained exactly why it isn't "funny". What you were actually doing with your original comment was planting a tidbit of (common) knowledge in order for you bust out a history lesson. I believe the kids call it a weird flex. You just tried to disguise it as something else in the first instance.

"Yes, no, It's been a few years. But my mom interviews me every day, so yeah."

Is this a bad lip reading?

😄😄😄😄😄😄

Though her Afrikaans has a gross American accent twang to it.

@UCSn4ZEKxSZknMtdhb0coGVw Jealous of the American accent are we? Dumbass.

In Latin you can have SVO, SOV, VSO, VOS, OSV and OVS. It isn't tricky at all...

Waar😂😂 this is what i struggled with the most when i started learning in Afrikaans 😅😂😂

That's not true. Dutch is the closest language to Afrikaans. It's literally a daughter language.

@@tahirrizwan6759 dutch may be the closest language to Afrikaans. My claim was that Afrikaans is the closest language to English...

@@eliharman ahhh i see. I think Frysian would be closer to English according to what people are saying 😅 I think it’s 1). Frysian 2) Dutch 3) Afrikaans 4) German 5) Schandinavian langs.

Loool it’s like it was oppressive

Yup, caught that too.

@@Altdisneystudio 🤣🤣🤣🤣. I saw what you did there "oppressive"

Ikr🤣🤣

She was annoyed because she had to use energy to remember to sound soooo much cooler than her own peers..and we DON'T like her! And she knows it! . she irritates the shit out of me! Super fake!

We could say the same about you guys lol

Afrikaans sounds closer to flemish in my opinion as someone that speaks Afrikaans.I feel like the Dutch need to speak really slow for us to understand pieces of what you're trying to say.

Never tell an Afrikaans speaker that Afrikaans sounds like broken Dutch, or it is baby Dutch. Dutch sounds like a drunken slur. We regard Afrikaans as an upgrade and the sophisticated version of Dutch.

@@harkeb Germans say Dutch sounds like drunk German, you regard it that way. But if I say it about your language it's offensive? I can imagine Dutch sounds like drunken slur to you, I don't care. But don't be offended if I think the same of your language lmao.

@@harkeb ek stem saam! 😆👍

Yup. Never forget the language of your apartheid racists clan.

@@ExposedRoot There are lots of wonderful Afrikaans speakers, and let's face it, while it may not be PC to say so, it is undeniably true that South Africa has faced a precipitous decline since the end of white rule.

@Greta Thumberg bitch please, she's South African

@@ExposedRoot What a stupid comment! The language is not responsible for the apartheid.

@@ExposedRoot or the slave keeping americans, or jew killing Germans let's just never move on and hate everybody forever

Same, don't know why we are so proud of our language lol

I understand most but can't speak it and never learned/ studied it.

Flemish weirdly does sound closer. No idea why.

Yes, Charlize had a convo with a Belgian who was speaking Flemish and she was replying in Afrikaans.

"Je klinkt fantastisch," in Dutch :) I like reading Afrikaans, though I can't always understand everything.

Van Houten I like reading dutch and trying to pronounce it correctly

@@dontxtalk That is very close, most Afrikaans people understands dutch to some extent. That why when they go to Netherlands, they'll understand about 80% of the language👌👍😉

Afrikaans sal by

@@ziyaadgatab7223 flemish of vlaams klink nog nader dit is vreemd.

That's true... my native language is Brazilian Portuguese and I speak it daily but I think in English and type in English on the Internet, so I forget a lot of words in Portuguese. It's true that you can lose your original accent in both your native and second language. I did change my accent in English on purpose but I have yet to lose my natural accent when I speak Portuguese.

@NonyaBusiness! To um it up, he said he will ask one question in Afrikaans and then asked if she keeps Afrikaans literature around in the States. She mentioned that she read "Jock of the Bushveld" to her kids and some comment about him being to young to know what the book is about.

@@warprules very close but the last part she actually said she has 5 films(movies) of AL debbo but he won't know how it is because he's to young but said no he knows how it is.. You were correct with the jock of the Bush field book and the Afrikaans literature 😊

@@ancovanstaden7297 Jammer. Het belangstelling verloor in wat hulle se.

@@warprules dit is nie heeltemal akkuraat nie, sy het hom gevra of hy weet wie Al Debbo was, en toe die aanmerking gemaak dat hy te jonk is. In english, that is not entirely accurate, she asked him if he knew who Al Debbo was, and then made the comment that no, probably not because he is too young. Her Afrikaans is quite influenced by an American Accent at this point, so she does not sound like a native Afrikaans speaker anymore. It takes practice. AAAaand then I just read your comment that you lost interest in what was said, lol. So nevermind.

Dit sal dalk frustreerent wees want die twee tale is omtrent 80% gelyk.

@@JimmyGrant74 de vrouw van mijn eerste werkgever was ‘n Zuid-Afrikaanse. Ze sprak waarschijnlijk ‘n mengeling van beide talen, en we begrepen elkaar goed. Jammer dat ik Charlize d’r nummer niet heb ;)

@@stevenmoens8047 ek het alles begryp wat jy gestruif het maar dit is dalk omdat ek dit lees a.g.v om dit uit jou mond uit te hoor. Ek vind dat Hollanders veels to vinning (snel) praat.

@@JimmyGrant74 ik heb even opgezocht wat dalk betekent maar verder begreep ik je helemaal. Persoonlijk vind ik Afrikaans mooier klinken dan Nederlands. Nederlanders praten vooral veel, vind ik, maar da’s misschien omdat ik ‘n Vlaming ben.

@@stevenmoens8047 dalk beteken ‘perhaps’

Well... She has loosen a bit of the Afrikaans accent but who can blame her.

A myth: nobody "loses" their mother tongue, even if they don't use it for 30 years or whatever. You just get a bit rusty: two weeks back in the old country and you're up to speed again.

Dink sy het verkeede boek jock of the bushveld is engels jock van die bosveld is afrikaans. Sy probeer amerikaner wees maar ook dit is oordrewe

Que tal, weon?

@Greta Thumberg just?

@Greta Thumberg It may have developed out of Dutch, but I assure you it’s VERY different.

simp

@@gretathumberg3138 If you believe that, you should believe that the Dutch will always just be Germans.

She was. lol. She said 'of films' instead 'van films'.

Hey there! Always nice to see a fellow south african commenting on KZfaq. I love south africa, lots of amazing people. And one of the few countries in the world to not have any serious natural disasters, like earthquakes, etc

@@clintonkingston6983 yes to that.. It is a great country. It just needs proper leadership and it could become one of the best countries in the world

@@ndabezinhlemntungwa6754 waar bro

My moeder taal is Setswana maar ek verstaan Afrikaans Pragtige taal 😍🙏

@@djdanzo206 yep. It’s obviously rusty now but yeah I had a lot of influence from Afrs throughout my childhood

S Janssen I’m interested to understand why you are surprised that you can understand a language based mainly on Dutch? Are the Dutch so ashamed of their link to Afrikaners that they don’t even know it exists?

@@grahamarthur No I think it's more because the accent.. I born and raised in The Netherlands but I can't understand people from Limburg(place in the Netherlands) of all time.

@@grahamarthur We're told it's a different language. They use different words to express things, but they're still close enough to Dutch that we can make out the jist of what they're trying to say. And they have a very thick accent so it requires you focus and effort to make out what they're saying. Think of how hard it can be to make out what someone with a very thick Scottish accent is saying for someone who's not Scottish. Now imagine being told it's a different language. We can make out the jist of what people say in Afrikaans but we can't replicate what we hear (unless we put effort and learn). And then there's just a general surprise because even if you know Afrikaans is heavily influenced by Dutch, you don't know how understandable it is until you actually hear the language. The Netherlands is a small country so relatively speaking not many people speak the language. When you hear Afrikaans you realise you can communicate with a lot more people than you initially thought. And I think people generally are pleasantly surprised when others can speak their language. Even people who speak widely spoken languages don't expect other people to speak their language.

JessTV sure - but the degree of surprise tells me that the Dutch don’t seem to know that Afrikaners are mainly descendent from the Dutch. Which I find weird.

@@grahamarthurto me the comment indicates that he actually might know the link but you can't just tell that for certain from such a short comment. Just saying "...the degree of surprise tells me..." is jumping to conclusions. See how his comment already implies something different for me than it does for you.

The real fun fact is that most people (apart from rugby fans) don't know ANYTHING about Namibia, or even that it exists.

It's even lingua franca in Namibia like in most of South Africa.

Yes, namibian model Behati Prinsloo speak Afrikaans

Im just sad she didnt say just now or now now !!

Zo'n fenomeen noem je een dialect, Maria. Beetje cultuur, snap je

@@sascha1493 Ah, bedankt, ik wist niet dat binnensmond praten een dialect was in Nederland. Zo leer je weer wat.

Flemish ?

Die boere!

@@MariaV0071 ek kan sit verstaan!!!! En ek dink dit is duits?

Same; even though I dont really know dutch that well.

It sounds so much like dutch because it's basically the zeeuws dialect but influenced by languages already present in SA and english

Sascha Afrikaans was not influenced by languages already in South Africa, if by those you mean African languages such as isiZulu and Sepedi.

It is beautiful but it is known amongst black ppl as an oppressors language... Black ppl were forced and killed for not wanting to learn the language.

@@zandik4741 Eenige geleentheid om te huil ook kak van dekades gelede.

@@zandik4741 Says the person speaking English

Also used to fail in school 😂😂 but my essays en toespraak is nou perfek 😂😍

I'm a native spanish speaking and hearing Cardi B speaking spanish is very cringy, uncomfortable and like very annoying. If you want to compare maybe do it with Sofia Vergara, JLo or Salma Hayek, they speak it naturally and as it should be

@@AleLibRiv I like Charlize because she's african and not stuck up about it. Hearing her speak would be an out of body experience. It's nice to be able to google this. I've ran across the actresses you have mentioned. I hear exactly what you mean. Hearing jlo is a treat fo sure. Oh.

@@AleLibRiv Cardi speaks Spanish like she speaks English, with slang and with an accent. There is nothing wrong with her Spanish, it is fluent otherwise.

@@AleLibRiv jlo's spanish is pretty bad

@FlappableBean Get real, not all South Africans are racists..especially not Charlize! Typical dickhead notion..

Still? Isn't it her mother tongue?

@@MrRazorblade999 yes. I'm also from South Africa and atrikaans is my mother tongue as well. It sounds good to hear her talking atrikaans. She doesn't do it often since she lives in the USA. Witch makes sense since atrikaans isn't spoken there. I remember when she won best actress for her role in the movie monster she came to South Africa and did an interview here in atrikaans. That was so amazing to me.

@@MrRazorblade999 yes. I'm also from South Africa and atrikaans is my mother tongue as well. It sounds good to hear her talking atrikaans. She doesn't do it often since she lives in the USA. Witch makes sense since atrikaans isn't spoken there. I remember when she won best actress for her role in the movie monster she came to South Africa and did an interview here in atrikaans. That was so amazing to me.

@@MrRazorblade999 You think people can't forget their mother tongue? Even if they'll understand it forever it doesn't mean they'll always be fluent in it.

@@trildi Charlize Theron doesn't seem like the type who forgets something like that.

i rather like Russian, but Dutch, too ...