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Afrikaans Language | Can German and Swedish speakers understand it? | Part 1
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The Afrikaans language is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In this language challange, Rean from South Africa is going to put participants to a test to see how similar Afrikaans, German and Swedish are. This is part of the Germanic languages comparison series in which we test mutual intelligibility between languages belonging to the same language family. Afrikaans is a creole language. It has adopted many words from other languages, including German and the Khoisan languages, however estimated 90 to 95% of the vocabulary of Afrikaans is of Dutch origin.

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Jana - an Environmental Sciences student from Germany
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0:00 - Introduction
1:01 - 1. Sentence
5:45 - 2. Sentence
11:11 - 3. Sentence
15:35 - 4. Sentence
21:37 - 5. Sentence
26:53 - 6. Sentence
31:32 - Commentary in English

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@guntherrobbeson1500

2 years ago

just a correction, itā€™s ā€œswaerā€ not ā€œswearā€

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@michielz4537

2 years ago

Never heard Afrikaans before in my life nor have I ever been to South Africa or Namibia. But I could understand absolutely everything! Incredible! However I do speak English, German, Spanish and Dutch. It sounds like a mix of English grammar with Dutch words and pronunciation to me. But what an awesome language.

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@keanancupido

2 years ago

Ek is so bly dat julle Afrikaans gedoen het. As a South African, it feels so nice to see my language here. Baie dankiešŸ˜Š

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@quentinfourie8323

2 years ago

Shout out to all the Dutch peoples' comments about Afrikaans. I love the connection we share here. Dankie vir julle wonderlike woorde wat ons gebruik!

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@thierrypauwels

1 year ago

As a Flemish speaker from Belgium, I could understand all 6 sentences from the sound alone, but not always the first time he said it. After the second or third time I got each of the sentences. The written form only confirmed what I had understood.

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@drikabrown99

2 years ago

I am an Afrikaans speaker. The direct translation of "Die kat uit die boom kyk" is correct. But I feel it is important to re-enforce that this is not a literal phrase, because it sounds silly that way. Afrikaans uses a lot of symbolism in it's sayings. It actual meaning is "to review something very carefully"

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@keigezellig

2 years ago

As a Dutch person it was quite easy to understand everything. I like Afrikaans, i think of it as a simplified form of Dutch and some of the words sound really funny in Dutch ears. Actually the 3rd expression exists in Dutch as well: 'De kat uit de boom kijken' (it means something like 'wait and see', )

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@Eddi.M.

1 year ago

Being a Northern German with also some passive skill in Plattdeutsch (low German), it was apparently easier for me than for Jana to understand the written Afrikaans, which was 75% okay, but listening seems to be way harder than even Dutch for me.

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@swevixeh

2 years ago

Swedish actually has the word "kika" which means "to peek", and "kikare" which means "binoculars.

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@anonza7733

2 years ago

Typos on swaer and hond! Cool to see Afrikaans on YouTube!

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@creativecheersoffashionlau7364

2 years ago

Sooo nice to hear Afrikaans again! I am Dutch and my first hysband was from South Africa so I know the language well. I think it sounds so much nicer, softer and sweeter than Dutch! Thanks for taking me back in time šŸ„°

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@jancombrink529

2 years ago

Important to know that Afrikaans also has malay words, like Piesang (banana), Blatjang (chutney), baadjie (jacket), bamboes (bamboo), baklei (fight), pierring (saucer) etc.

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@caimaccoinnich9594

2 years ago

As a South African, I loved watching this. I'm a native English speaker that also speaks Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu and Swati.

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@Johnismybestfriend

2 years ago

Should've also had a Dutch person on, which might be a bit too easy though. I got every single one of them correct!

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@hiromilong

2 years ago

Flemish (Dutch) speaker here, so yes, for me understanding was easier because Afrikaans is so closely related to Dutch. I also speak German, so it was fun to see where Jana was coming from, but I really had fun trying to understand the Swedish, so thank you for transcribing what he said, that helped a lot

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@floppa9706

2 years ago

I live in South Africa and I speak Afrikaans, at the start of this year I had to take German as a subject in school and Afrikaans has definitely made German easier to understand.

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@azeriff

2 years ago

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@kevartje1295

2 years ago

I'd want to say, you should get a Dutch peron in here, but I see now that that would be too easy.

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@secretly_jxna

2 years ago

As a South African and being named Jana I absolutely loved this and this is so interesting and a bit funny

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@pmarkc3743

2 years ago

Just discovered this channel and I'm in love with it now!!!!!!

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