Afrikaans: Languages of the World: Introductory Overviews

Alexander Arguelles presents a series of videos to provide introductory overviews of the languages of the world. Working diachronically through various language families in turn, he demonstrates how to identify each language, translates a text sample to show how it works, and discusses its genetic affiliation and cultural context. For further information about the series, please refer to http://www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com/

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• Afrikaans

[JayStarSixes]

This video is definitely not a good example of Afrikaans pronunciation. Come to South Africa, we'll show you how it's done.

[gobabsumnida]

why is he saying "afrikaans" in that weird way? Very accentuated.

The a sound should be longer

[Tredoshark]

Your pronunciation is shocking! Not good! You are reading it as if it is Dutch! There are words that are completely different from Dutch.

[wolffe93]

@sonaryy because danish, as well as dutch, german, swedish, norse, afrikaans, etc. are germanic languages and have similarities

[facefaceface1000]

@sonaryy

Well, Western Germanic languages share many morphological and phonological innovations with Northern Germanic languages, as well as a smaller amount of lexical items.

Also, he seems to be reading the first few lines of Afrikaans with a Danish accent, which may add to the sense of familiarity.

This is quite common when studying many languages; after a prolonged Arabic study session my V sounds become TH sounds, as in the TH sound in 'This', since there is no V in arabic. 

[fernandov1492]

ik denk dat de uitspraak van afrikaans lijk wel een beetje op west-vlaams? denken dat jullie niet??

[nadzj123]

@ansur996

yup

[sonaryy]

I'm from Denmark, but i actually understand some of this. Can anyone explain why that may be?

[ansur996]

is afrikans spoken by predominantly white south Africans?

[drpielllietjie]

If one talk another language he is not often in contact, a accent is created

[lokifm]

To clear up... In Dutch we also have the accents, but we do not write them unless we feel like there would be an possible confusion occuring... like ''een'' = ''a'' or ''an'', ''één'' = ''one''.

In dutch we do also use 'n, that's the ''een''. How ever to the other extend of our last rule, we often want to be clear in this matter by writing it fully.

We do however use '' 's '' = ''des'' wich is old Dutch in '' 's Morgens '' '' 's Middags '' '' 's Avonds '' .

^_^ Loki~

[Archangle71]

This is my home language! Yes yes his accent is wrong but the translation is rather good.