Learn to Speak Afrikaans in 5 minutes!

Afrikaans is a South African language originating from the Dutch spoken by settlers in Africa in the seventeenth century. Despite the fact that Afrikaans developed in Africa and is unique to the region, it is classified as Low Franconian West Germanic due to the fact that it originates from Dutch. Aside from English, Afrikaans deviates the furthest from the grammars of the other Germanic languages. It is mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia, with smaller populations of speakers living in Australia, Botswana, Canada, Lesotho, Malawi, New Zealand, Swaziland, the United States, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Due to emigration and migrant labour, there are possibly over 100,000 Afrikaans speakers in the United Kingdom. It is the primary language used by two ethnic groups in South Africa: the Afrikaans people and the Coloureds. You can learn to speak it in less than 5 minutes! And the best thing of all, it's not a difficult language to learn! =)

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[UDO764]

en die wat belangstel hoef beslis nie kleuterskool toe te gaan nie..kry i lewe dude

[TheGavinleRoux]

@UDO764 Quickly do yourself a favour and click on the statistics icon next to the total views of the video and click on "View more statistics" You'll see that an entire third of the amount of people that watched the video come from the United States i.e. about 16 000 views out of the 50 000, 7000 from the UK, over 3000 in Australia and over 3000 in Canada! Then only SA comes with its less than 3000 views so hoe van jy bly net 'n fok stil!!

[UDO764]

hahaha ja bra wat ever! vir wie try jy die dinge leer hey ...of isit hy hahaha! dink jy enige nie suid afrikaaner stel belang???

[TheGavinleRoux]

@UDO764 Quickly do yourself a favour and click on the statistics icon next to the total views of the video and click on "View more statistics" You'll see that an entire third of the amount of people that watched the video come from the United States i.e. about 16 000 views out of the 50 000, 7000 from the UK, over 3000 in Australia and over 3000 in Canada! Then only SA comes with its less than 3000 views so hoe van jy bly net 'n fok stil!!

[AshMazingGG]

Hmm.. Ek is actually pronounced Ack. Not Eck.

[TheGavinleRoux]

@AshMazingGG I'm from Cape Town where we say Eck in comparison with people in Johannesburg that say Ack. Afrikaans has different accents in different parts in South Africa as well as Namibia. ;) Afrikaans is my First Language so my Afrikaans is pronounced correctly since I come out of an Afrikaans household.

[basseftw1]

suig my ballas

greetings from sweden

[kikidoelmann]

Hahaha I remember coming home from America and having to learn Afrikaans, and my teacher spoke so fast I was like the dumbest person in class! I've forgotten it again so here I am! Don't want to look stupid when I move home for the second time!!

[IMxYOURxDADDY]

How do you say shoot the boer?

[zEMGx]

dit is kkr raar nl gwn...

[merhatthat]

Ek hoe nie van die Kaap Stadse aksent nie.

[crazypokedud101]

hoe sucks it

[about1minute]

Wow, it's easier than I thought... :)

Dankie from Germany!!!

[UDO764]

hahahaha ek is still of translate my messages oor in i spastic voice soos jou video??? mmmyyyy nnaaammmeee iiissss ddoonnkkiiee!!!!

[yosefderyck]

Nederlands is bijna hetzelfde als het Afrikaans tog is het Nederlands van België beter!!!!