yep no lie

Yep she's great. One thing though, 'cossie' is pretty common among white South Africans

Also among spouth africans there are many different words used due to the diversity in the country Personally I don't agree with what she said.

Yea but the first one idk we call it plakkies like the afrikaans version never heard of pata pata😅😂

@@HBMyt same

A jersey an' a jumper are nae th' same thing.

@@andyallan2909 All the people I've met from England, Scotland and Ireland refer to a "jersey" in the South African context as a "jumper." When I checked the dictionary a jersey is exactly what we refer to in South Africa.

@@nathancloete9932 rubbish all the same

We don't really use the word jersey You may get it in a catalogue that is selling American sports clothing, but that's it In the UK, we call the top by the sport, so football shirt/top, rugby shirt/top Overhead item is a jumper Jersey, sweater, or sweatshirt are not used

That’s very interesting

Me too mntase...like I was Shooketh

Same yohhh never in my life

Ay nam first time I'm hearing it from her

same

Lol same. I call it sidewalk

I know right!🤣

What-

Is it not? Educate me please

@@maggiemccauslin1084 African means form the continent Africa. And Afrikaan is the language derived from Dutch that was originally spoken by white colonizers. The language is still spoken today. And by extension, Afrikaan also refers to people from that ethnic group.

@@Alexosauruus Hi Alexandra, this is a very sensitive topic, (if you are South African then you would know why...blah blah blah), because, white people who originate from Dutch (and German, to a lesser extent, French (Huguenots), etc, are actually called AFRIKANERS and not AFRIKAAN. Charlize Theron, Minki vd Westhuizen, Steve Hofmeyer...those people. There were also the Khoi and the San (bushmen), who apparently spoke the language too and contributed to what it is today. Without them, it would have never developed into a stand-alone language called AFRIKAANS. Afrikaans does not solely come from Dutch but has a vast language family, including German, KhoiSan languages. Although yes: "Afrikaans" fundamentally means "African" in the Dutch language. AFRIKAANS is the language spoken, not only by them (AFRIKANERS), but also by COLOURED PEOPLE (multiracial/multicultural group, predominantly found in the Western Cape, but all over South Africa, and to a lesser extent, other Southern African countries). There is a fine line between Afrikaans (the language), Afrikaners (the race/ethnicity), and Afrikaans culture (which refers to all the arts and culture, media, etc). And yes, the language is still spoken today, and I must mention this: not mostly by white people (AFRIKANERS), BUT by COLOURED people and other black, or mixed races. Very sensitive topic

Hi! Mia here haha and oh I didn't know that!! I was born and raised in Melbourne so I've only ever known them to be bathers 😂 thanks for letting me know~!

@@xxmimiaxx Icy Poles is also a brand name from way back.

We call a one piece a cozzy in england too!

Yeah, I spun out when you called them bathers. Never in my life. Always called them swimmers, togs or cossie. From NSW.

As an older West Aussie, almost 60. I swam in bathers my parents swam in togs or swimmers and Eastern states wore cozzies. I suppose it depends when and where you lived.

Lip ice is used by most people,not lip balm

@@StormborneSage lip ice is lip balm. Lip ice is a brand, like Labello.

@@HLGMD Yes we know it's a brand but I also grew up calling all types of lip balm as lip ice. Maybe you just grew up in a different generation.

I don't ever remember using ice cream for those, we call them suckas (Cape Town)

@@qeawonstevens6253 I'm from Joburg, we used suckers for lollipops. Popsicles were also ice lollies.

me too what orovince you from

Same! It's rare😅

but they didnt have to put the captions to "africans" instead of afrikaans

@@saffafr yep and WTF is your pfp

Not to mention e also usually call “icy poles” ice blocks

Ive graduated to permie marker hahahaha

Thank you! You’re is the only comment I’ve seen that said this!

@@butterflyplayzgamez8431 I was surprised when I didn't see it anywhere tbh!! :)

Ah yes! That's what we called them here in Australia too but I forgot since I haven't used them since I was a kid. White board markers are more specific and textas is a specific brand but a lot of people would still say it for any felt tip pen/graphic marker.

I’m from the U.S. Maybe it’s an age thing (I’m 48) or regional, but we’ve always called them “magic markers”. Maybe that was a brand name, not sure, but we also just say “markers”.

I would say felt tips with the coloured ones but that could just be me

I was waiting for her to say "sucka" or "bather" for the swimming costume one😂

Me to

Same here I still hear 'cozzie/cossie' among the South African gen X and boomer generations

Slip slops?? Huh??? Never!

Clap-clap

you only ever hear plakkies in the countryside, farming towns

We French 🇫🇷 say "Queue de cheval" for "Ponytail"

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 It's called similar in Polish: "koński ogon", i.e. "equine tail".

In spanish its almost the same "Cola de caballo" it means the same as ponytail but instead of a pony it is a horse, so it would be "Horsetail" or something like that

@@lothariobazaroff3333 🤔

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 We Turks also use same word -kuyruk- for both queue(line) and tail. As I guess from what you have written it is similar to French with that way ?

Same too...but I Guess "Koki" also refers to that

I do enjoyed it, Christina. South Africa seems Lost when it comes vocabularies As French speaker, I get confused with English words compared to ours. We say "sweatshirt" 🇫🇷 for "sweater"

The American words are most common to me, since I grew up with American kids shows

Loved the video , you guys did great and i hope for more

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 . The reason why South Africa seems "lost" to you is due to the diversity of our country. We have 11 official languages, so obviously not everyone will have the exact same words for everything.

@@Noor_Jacobs03 That's a mess. They can't decide themselves. They should usethe US vocabularies

Fair enough. I totally relate to what she said.

most people I know call them swimming costumes. Very interesting! (from a fellow South African)

@@robynsmith6974 I feel like the difference might be cpt? Where are you from? Because I also see a lot of people in the comments saying that they say sucker/sucka in cpt, so maybe bather is also just more of a cpt thing. Though most people do call a bikini a bikini, and bather is more for a one piece

Sucker!!! Wow!! I thought I was the only one!!! Hehe! Im from PE

@@slashbat2375 im from Cape Town too! But there are definitely still differences in the areas in cpt so it may just be that in certain areas bather is used more. For instance, there could be a difference between the northern suburbs and Southern suburbs in terms of what they say. I've also said cozzie before😂 it's definitely interesting to learn about the slight differences in how we all speak. And I think I've said both sucker and ice cream🤷🏼‍♀️😂

agreed! showing the world all our different cultures, we truly are a rainbow nation! AMANDLA!

I find these a little unsettling - I'm a Kiwi with British parents who spent formative years in SA. I am learning I have the most unhinged mish-mash of slang.

Wait, you call whiteboard/permanent markers textas in NSW? I grew up partly in SA and lived most of my life in QLD, and if someone asked me for a texta I'd pass them a felt-tip colouring-in pen. For the big markers I would say nikko - which was a brand of markers very popular back in the day (well in my childhood in the 80 and 90's), though the permanent marker has long been replaced by sharpie in both popular usage and colloquially.

@@sir_delusione They've always been called drink/water fountains for me. Bubbler is a term I'm aware of but have never heard used, if that makes sense? Maybe from tv or some other form of media.

@@sharielane Yes in NSW Permanent markers are called (permanent) textas, and whiteboard markers we commonly call whiteboard markers (sometimes just markers depending on surrounding context, and rarely have I heard texta referring to them).

@@sir_delusione I lived in QLD and NSW for schooling they were called bubblers in QLD as well as, like you said, they were/are in NSW.

Glad to hear others saying Ice Blocks and Togs! I’m a Queenslander and that’s what I grew up saying. And yep a texter was a felt tipped pen and a nico was a marker

Don't forget along with "plakkies", we also call them slops :)

@@mrdrake7462 slops?

Flip flops, slippers, sloffies, plakkies. I'll ready myself to hear all of those terms soon with summer approaching

@@mrdrake7462 yes! That’s what we call them in Durban. Another inter string thing we say that the rest of SA doesn’t is “baggies” for swimming trunks

And dog in Afrikaans is hond 😎

Yesssss that’s trueeee

More interesting that they've edited out the part where they introduce themselves.

😱 Do you understand Afrikaans language? Because i do

@@cindyvanderlinde why u flexing it🤣 most south africans understand it. Dom poes

Robots. Although I live in Spain I was born in South Africa and still remember many of those different words from my school days back there. Now with British and American influence, my English is a mixture.

LOL! Don't even go there!!! 🤣 Dumbest word ever!

We call them Robots, my parents, friends, relatives and everyone calls them robots. You would learn to call it traffic lights in school but still accurate as robots.

@@wendynewman8627 if you think about it, it's actually smart of us to call them robots because they actually are😭

Hahaha I thought it's only Zambians who call traffic lights as robots. Nice to know. Also flip flops are know especially by older people as patapatas but most call them tropicals.

you were awesome on the video. 👍

Thank you so much!

Sorry but a part, apart is the opposite xP but always like seeing you in these vids, you’re fun to watch :p and did good as always! Have a lekker day/rest of the weekend:(:

You did so well. As you can see in the comments everyone is proud of how you represented SA. Kudos to you!

Represented us well thank you!❤️❤️

@@zetavalentine yeah I think it also depends on the province/area...because I grew up calling a "swimming costume" a bathing suit and everyone around me called it that...still calling it that even today

i call them togs and i call "icy poles" ice blocks

@@kateee6706samee

R u guys from Queensland?

@@graemeskelton5942 Melbourne

@@kateee6706 I can’t figure out what tog stands for?

Yessss! Same, fellow Qld’er

@@Aussiedoll1 haha yeahhh

Nailed it

not really suckers are lollipops and icee's could be popsicles

i dont think so we call them icees or just ice cream in south africa

My south african teacher called lolipops suckers

Just no😅

Some call it an ice pop

I agree with you for all of these besides the bathers coz I like say ‘swimmers’

That’s exactly what I say

What do you call underpants? In the UK, we call them pants for men's, and knickers for women's.

@@cgmanning underwear I think

@@cgmanning Undies. Generic non-gendered term for underwear. Sometimes you'll still hear people talk about little girls knickers but rarely referred to that for adult women. If the males are wearing loose boxer style, we'd just call them boxers. I say sweater, jumper, jersey, long-sleeved or simply warm top lol "go and grab a warm top to wear". "pack a long-sleeve for later".

Me too What is your home language Mine is Afrikaans 😎

@@cindyvanderlinde same!!

@@Genevieve_212 how are you.

@@cindyvanderlinde Good thanks

Only Andrea from (e)Spain is missing. ❤ Edit: Thanks, Craig. Of course it's Andrea, not Cristina, my mistake.

@@lothariobazaroff3333 That's Andrea. I think she may have gone by "Cristina" in a few of the early videos because she was somewhat awkwardly paired with another Spanish-speaking Andrea from Mexico.

Personally ive never heard that

I only know of swimming suit

In Cape Town it's called bathers, esp. here on the Cape Flats

@@wendynewman8627 bruh the cape flats💀 thats tuff ngl

I’ve always used swimming costume. Never heard of bathers ever

Yes but would have been better to have got a South Africa English speaker, This girl tended to use words from one of our other official languages or American words that we rarely use in South Africa. Safas woud say pavement rather than footpath and trousers rather than pants. I think she is just trying to be "with it" and use Americanisms.

@@Robob0027 nah she talks like us African South African’s , I speak exactly like her.

@@Teetee_1 But if you are speaking English like this then you are not speaking English as an English speaking South African would. You are speaking English as a second language. The comparisons being discussed here are the differences between native English speakers.

@@Robob0027 The only time I have ever heard someone in SA refer to pants as trousers in SA was when they were referring to pants that goes with suites or school pants the only native English speakers I know who call pants trousers are the people who come from the United Kingdom.

Aweh, ma se kind.

I found it interesting that she didn’t mention this, given that she’s from the North West. I have friends from Manchester, Liverpool, Gateshead and Newcastle and they all say pants and couch instead of sofa. I do mint think anyone I know from Yorkshire says pants though… 🤔

don't forget keks!!!

Most black Sans call it "swimming costume". when we were young (and not very fluent in English) we'd call it "swimming" for short😅

I have never heard the word 'bangs' used in South Africa. Don't know where she got that from. From Cape Town.

Guess it depends on where you're from, we call everything ice cream here

I grew up calling it lollies and bompies its another type of ice. Remember each generation, the terminology changes.

To a certain demographic not the majority

@@Teetee_1 at the end of the day, she is South African and it is her experience. I’m happy as a South African. Seems ppl love her personality

When I saw this video I was so confused cause I thought all of australia said togs so I safaried it I guess it’s a sort of old way of saying it and my family just sticked to calling it togs

Yep, I also know these as plaits (Cape Town)

I'm from South Africa and I call it sloppies 😅

@@VictoriaTaylor13 lol yeah I've heard stoakies, sloffies, slippers... We are a special bunch.

bro brown people are called coloureds😂

@@9_9_9editz as a young white man I can't go around saying "coloureds" because it will seem racist. I don't know why this is funny to you.

In my town us black South Africans call them diklap-klap/hlap-hlap

Yeah Northern English here too. Some of the words the Brit girl was so confidently saying was a UK thing I'd never even heard before. Where do they call swim wear a cossie?! A lot of the words they were using originated in the UK and you'll find most of these used in the UK depending on where you are. A lot of the time the words used are usually closer to what was used in the areas of the UK where large groups of emigrants came from. For example, Australia is closer to Northern England & Scotland as a lot of their original colonists came from these areas. However, due to time there are now some slight deviations due to the internet and the ease of accessing media from other Anglosphere nations. Mostly the US and a not so insignificant UK portion.

I AGREE 👍 💯.

What does a 'true' South African sound like?? And what is an actual South African? Please clarify

What is a true South African? We are called the rainbow nation because we are so diverse. We speak and have 11 official languages but you cannot compare pears to apples. On this particular site we are comparing how we say certain words in English speaking countries. English is the lingua -franca in South Africa but is only spoken as a first language by about 13% of the population. She does not speak English like a true South Africa. She speaks very fluent English but any English speaking South African will know immediately that she is not a native speaker of the language

@@robinson9802 An actual South African is a black person who's genetically and culturally native to South Africa

@@Robob0027 English speaking South African which would be a native South African who speaks English, definitely speaks like her unless by English Speaking South African you mean an ethnically English person who naturalized into South Africa, then yes a European can't speak like a native South African and vice versa

Yeah I agree as a canadian, I was watching them and was like wait.. but we call them bathing suits, Hoodies, gitch, and etc etc. Its kinda sad seeing most people assume we use American slang as our english is quite different none the less :)

I feel the same being Scottish, we are always just stuck being British and Scottish is very different to English. The names that were used in this video is some that I haven't even heard before 😅

I must admit talking to a Canadian friend I had no idea what a toque was.... Apparently it's like an Aussie beanie or American soft hat...

Interesting. I think bathers is a Victorian thing. I know bathers or swimmers. I also call them Icy Poles (which is in fact a brand name). I also call them textas (again a brand name). Guess it just depends where you are from.

@@Jo.Dixon013 yeah 100% like we get the brand icy pole here but I’ve just never heard anyone call them icy poles haha 😂

@@brittany_maireexx3777 Must just be a Queenslander thing!

OMG THANK YOU YOUR 100% CORRECT 👍🏻

I’m from Victoria and call them bathers and say icy poles

Plakkies is very new to me, I've never heard it before. In my area we'd just call them flops or oophaqa

11 languages...

Never heard plakkies before

@@sisiphodwabayo4017 very new to mna kqala sana

Well as a South African I've never heard of plakkies. I know flip flops or amaPhaca Phaca which is what she said

😂

Colgate 😂😂

@@madunambali2339 and what we call dish washing liquid 😂

@@myrlenenaidoo9961 Sunlight 😂😂

@@palesakgabanyane887 "sunlight" with no explanations 😂😂

Agree 👍

Trackie daks are struck suit pants (trackies) or sweat pants if you're american

@@Jay.C96 Thanks for explaining it!

I’ve lived in SA all my life and this is the very first time I’ve heard the term push-in in any context whatsoever. Shem, maybe it’s just you or your family. And she was spot on with pants - I’ve only ever heard older people say trousers (but when then, not many) or seen it in printed media like ads.

@@eponymouscharacter Everyone in Alex, Soweto, Diepsloot used that term At one point Edgars & Woolies strictly used it

I agree with trousers, but not push-ins! Pushins!!!!????? Please!!!!!

'Push-ins'??? What???!! Pants is definitely the most common word. Trousers is barely used. From Cape Town.

@@rainyrealestate I caan guarantee you no one was using the word pants in 2005. It;s all these reality shows that has us adopting US english