Every day Afrikaans 2

[syrena108]

you know, it's really fun being Dutch and reading an Afrikaans dictionary :p

GO HOLLAND! :D

[Melle0NL]

African look like Dutch ! :D

[Calif0rnIan]

dankie vir dat.

[sigursiggi]

wow... thx for posting this. so cool...ish. boer love, man. i hated living in south africa, and this makes me both sick and homesick. very tough to hear again.

[Deinonychosauria]

Thank you so much for making these videos. I'm trying to learn Afrikaans, and your videos have been very, very helpful. Baie dankie. =)

[estigia]

Do all whites in South Africa speak to each other in Afrikaans? I've become very curious about that lately so much I'm trying to find where to learn Afrikaans. Thanks

[suckaniggasdick]

@estigia lol not at all, english. Unless its in an afrikaans community, which most people try to avoid.

[RedPepaZA]

Ek is a Skot wat nou is SA bly. My vriende se dis verskriklik oulik om vir my Afrikaans aksent te luister. I still speak with a Scots accent when I speak English but the minute I switch to Afrikaans I sound like a true "dutchman";-)

[cvmostert]

Hahah, ek sal daarvan hou om jou te hoor praat!

Lekker bly!

[rebeckery]

more of these please! Afrikaans is 'n mooi taal.

also I liked your Scottish "cutlery" anecdote further back. I'm from scotland and I thought that I had already considered all of the things about our accent that could possibly be misleading to other speakers. that our pronunciation of "cutlery" could be baffling had never occurred to me. learn something new every day, eh?

[Anord1916]

Cool!!!! Love it!! :-)))

[cvmostert]

thanks!

[Umbrella0021]

Afrikaans is just old Dutch, if a Dutchman listens to old English(so the English of like 1200 years ago) he will see almost every word is a Dutch word, and others are Danish words, course English descents from the Ingvaeones or northsea-Germanics (Frysians, Saxons, Anglos and Jutes), nvm, like 2000 years ago, all these Germanic poeple spoke exactly the same language, and had the same alphabet futhark,the descended languagesare, Norse, Swedish, Danish, German, Dutch, English, Afrikaans, Icelandic

[ThaiEgho]

Well every word is a bit over the top, but yes a lot we can recognise and you forgot Frisian, faroese, Norron (extinct), Gothic (extinct)

good to hear someone finally knows what he's talking about though...

[cvmostert]

rightly so!

[Tobywan79]

ja mosterdman bring meer van die videoposts!

btw are you a native afrikaans speaker?

[cvmostert]

Yes I am a native Afrikaans speaker

[Tobywan79]

't zou cool zijn als jij ook eens 'n Afrikaanse uitleg geeft. voor gevorderden en Nederlandstaligen.

[skittlescherry34]

This is very helpful, i hope you make more soon!

[0906peter]

In the last part, you translate :are you "even" listening to me as luister jy "ooit" vir my.

Does "ooit" mean even in Afrikaans? or was that a small mistake?

I was just wondering, since in Dutch, "ooit" means ever. As in: Do you ever listen to me?

Interesting stuff. :)

Leuk om de verschillen te zien tussen het Afrikaans en het Nederlands, bedankt voor de videos. :)

[cvmostert]

Hi, If you translate the whole sentence, then the translation is as I said, It might be that the use of the sentence has evolved with the people I speak Afrikaans to. but as in Dutch, "ooit" means "ever".

If I ask someone: LUISTER jy ooit vir my without stressing the "ooit", it means. Are you listening to me? you can even leave the "even" out.

on the other hand if you want to ask if the person EVER listens. you can say: Luister jy OOIT vir my? stressing the "ooit"

According to me of course :-)

[0906peter]

ah ok i understand, thx for the explanation :D

[alfonzso2]

ja ik vindt het ook heel intressant :d

hoe komt dat Afrikaans zo hard lijkt op het nederlands?

ik hoop dat je gauw weer nieuwe video's gaat uitbrengen, want dit is wel tof om te horen :d

[cvmostert]

Suid Afrika was n kolonie van Nederland jare terug, dit het alles begin met Jan van Riebeeck, n nederlandse ontdekkingsreisiger wat voet aan land gesit het hier in die suide van afrika in 1652.

[anitaotto]

Just ignore his ignorant comments - and could you please make more videos? :)

[cvmostert]

Hi, I will make more in future. Thanks for the comment.

[cvmostert]

Dankie vir jou kommentaar.

[bester1987]

hi there thanks for the video i am trying to brush up on my afrikaans as i am planning on going back to SA so thanks these videos really help if you could please do more i would really appreciate it thanks

[cvmostert]

I am glad you could find this a little useful.

[kikiat2008]

Ik vindt het wel interesant hoor, reuze grappig.

[kikiat2008]

English --> Dutch

"What are you doing"-->"Wat ben jij aan het doen?"

'Afrikaans' --> Ebonics

"wat doen jij" --> "what does you"

Are you listening to me? --> luister je wel naar mij?

luister jij voor mij--> listen you for me

sorry but I don't think I'm going to be a big fan of the lingo it hurts my ears, anyway I'll leave you to it.

[cvmostert]

my, but you wrote a long story explaining your limmited understanding of the language... you dont have to watch it... luckaly for you :-) have a nice day!

[kikiat2008]

again I must say this "Afrikaans" is just Dutch with piss poor grammar and pronunciation, it's worse than the Ebonics in American-English, thanks anyway, I now know what "Afrikaans" sounds like, and it sounds like we need to go back and teach better grammar.

[DeeMajor]

cool, thanks so much.

[cvmostert]

no sweat! Take Care!

[LisaAsterisk]

To answer #5....I am always listening to you. ;-)

You make this sound so easy. I will have to practice.

[cvmostert]

:-) good luck! dont break your head though! :-)

[LeSaMilano]

HI Chris! good to see you!

[cvmostert]

Hey! doing ok thanks!