Views : 353,900
Genre: Education
Date of upload: Nov 22, 2021 ^^
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
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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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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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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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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@guntherrobbeson1500
2 years ago
just a correction, itās āswaerā not āswearā
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