 one big big big long phrases you pick the long phrases and not my fault do you do do but is this together go on go on is separate go on then do you out all right hello and welcome to another video hello we are all in black some shade of black it's good to be here you're looking good thank you yeah so today as you can see in the white right I always say as you can see from the tile no okay today we're going to do something nice cultural exchange if I should call it yeah welcome to me plus you is us my name is I'm Elaine because I knew that thing was lurking she was going to remind me who are you okay so today we're gonna do a bit on language and five five essential words that you should or phrases that you should know from the other culture from the other culture I'm originally from Netherlands and I'm from Ghana yes so I think that you have to explain which language you are choosing I'm choosing Chi which is one of the Akkan dialects Chi is the most widely spoken language in Ghana how many languages are there in Ghana I can't give you an exact number but I know it's yeah I'll put it on the screen if I if I do my research but it's a lot of languages spoken in Ghana and one even in the Akkan dialects there's Chi there's fancy there's a cappium there's there's there's a lot not a lot but not so when you dream at night which language you're dreaming English oh and we have a small boss yes hopefully he'll keep quiet yeah I'm just gonna call grandma to come and help okay so yeah we're back um so yeah um Chi is one of the Akkan dialects and that's what I've chosen also as one of my dream you dream in English I don't know if I know the language my dreams are in or even if I speak in my dreams or what do I think okay I dream in Dutch yeah do I think in English do I and so interesting you ask Netherlands has only two languages Dutch and Friesian really yes why do you have Dutch and Friesian why is it not Friesian is in the north why are they a Friesian yeah they're like they have their own culture in their own language so it's it's it's Dutch dialects but slightly they can barely understand it whoa yes okay so you're gonna be doing which one Friesian no I'm not from there so I'm doing Dutch you're doing Dutch okay so absolute phrases and words you need to know yeah okay that starts give me one okay I don't know if you know which one so she's gonna try and read it the stretch good so Akkan or Chi in general is very tonal look at my husband's handwriting please please please it's very tonal so most of the things can mean it means nice he asks I really know what it means okay I'm going I'm going yes yes I am going yes like in the future yes no no no no or or sometimes I am now going yeah like I'm going like if you're getting a taxi for example and you say I'm going so if you say I'm going to it's like I'm going to Mekok and then you add the name of the place so if you live at Mekok Osu Mekok Adabrakah exactly wow show off I hope you got it on camera yeah so I chose that phrase because for the most part if you want to be moving around and somebody's asking you or you're getting a taxi or something if it's not if it's uber it's easier you don't have to use that but if it's a taxi you're in a fix you need to go someplace or trotrol or something then you have to know that Mekok and the name of the place where you're going is very important to get you to where you're going but I already knew this phrase because in the trotrol they say yankok wow she's such a show off I mean it my trotrol vangana life started in trotrols so I knew that okay so yankok is like we are going right yankok is let's go let's go yeah so it's like plural going yeah but if the person says yeah then it's we are going like the way it's like Mekok but yankok like yanko is let's go okay but yeah is we are going yes just like Mekok is I am going too are you ready I did it a bit less practical but it will still be fun I am more the practical one yes read it out loud whoa go is this a tea yes what does it mean love it's the what does it mean one one is the only love love first oh love first what so love at first sight yes so you need to know if you run into somebody and you're like oh my god this is her or this is him so if I'm telling somebody it was yes so let's say you're a public transport or you're walking somewhere like whoa yeah that's like the first it's like the first one I saw you love it first yeah yeah yeah yeah next word yeah you go I don't know if I've shuffled it medasi easy yeah so I'm being very practical very very practical because if we're going to come to Ghana politeness is one of the ways that will get you around easily and people often you know let your guard down if you can be polite like you know you know how to say please you know how to say thank you so I'm being very practical I'm using words that get you to places so medasi means medasi is basically thank you thank you and it's something that you need to be saying a lot after every sentence not after every sentence almost more like it's more like when you need help and somebody is able to offer the help is medasi you buy something from the store they give you your item thank you medasi and yeah you're going to throw medasi around a lot it's just polite and it just let people let your guard down good one pick pick pick long phrases you pick the long phrase is not my fault do mar do mar is this together go on is separate is dying so it means just just act normal then you're already crazy enough so it's like a all like this what you're doing here really well okay say it one more time do mar go on then do you so it's more like a dodge approach to life i didn't prepare for this video i'm here trying to get people to places trying to not get lost trying to be polite of course always throw me in the deep listen it's more like um sorry um it's more like a a dodge way approach to life like we like it we keep things like grounded like don't overdo stuff like just be yourself normal crazy enough yeah it's normal it's crazy but there's also a downside to it so whenever people are really good at things Dutch people tend to like talk badly like modesty like she's all that but sometimes you're just it's also good to own who you are and also like what you but it's more like Dutch people like to i don't know be humble like don't act crazy like just be yourself act normal and you'll be fine so it's kind of a down-to-earth approach to life to life okay oh okay oh okay oh i can look at it you can i was like what are you doing it's a question okay all right what what the brothel yes what's your brothel what the brothel i don't know why i made mine all about going no it's not even that um where okay try where are you no good do you speak english ah it's brothel english yes wait so we get bruny it's like white person but brothel is white language english yes but it is more like english never knew that's so brothel so what's your brothel is i now i feel like see i feel very like i came all functional to help you to navigate your way around gana if the first thing you're asking somebody do you speak english and the person says oh yeah then it's easy that okay now i want to go here i'm lost can you help me i want to buy this i'm this can you do that but i think it's interesting that so brawl it comes from oh bruny it's part of the bruny word word brothel is uh what we use for um it's the word that says english brothel yeah so it's like foreign language like it means like foreign white man's language yeah that's really interesting so it's a question it's like origin yeah origin comes from there and try that what a brothel what a brothel what a brothel brothel yeah you're saying the brothel right but then the whole sentence what a brothel what a what a brothel brothel so it's this tonal is the tonal is the tonal nature of it but yeah if you do ask somebody and the person speaks a little english you're saying oh okay yeah i wouldn't they reply in tree because yeah i was getting in tree yeah but they didn't reply in tree oh mitzsche brothel and then you say okay can you help me and it says yes of course then i mean i feel like mine is so boring that's why i'm here to spice up your laugh yeah you're definitely here to spice up my laugh but easy lecker lecker and it's above from the fact that it's easy it's also lecker that is lecker that she gave me lecker yes so i told what does it mean nice yes but you can use it for anything any question almost every question somebody else you can say lecker how's it going lecker yeah lecker food lecker how should they lecker and even if you want to if you say somebody's really good looking you say lecker ding like a ding yeah yes so it's lecker you will you get around the Netherlands with lecker learn lecker yeah you have to take one of mine one of your functional ones a very functional everything i've put in there is very functional anne dabi i know this one anne is yes dabi is no basic people will approach you and they'll ask things can you do this give me this especially they give me this and you know you know do this for me or i want your number i would if you don't feel comfortable in doing that then you can just say no or dabi but often if you don't want to come off if you don't want to come off as impolite then you proceed either of the words with please hmm and that's your next word yes i can't fit to read it's just to finish it epacho epacho epacho yes epacho so epacho is please and we do a lot beautiful you write it no i mean the word you would never guess that this how you spell it sorry i mean spelling ah sorry sorry i didn't mean to see how yeah but yeah epacho yes epacho it's full written yeah epacho is please we would we go or we we thrive a lot on politeness and epacho dabi epacho anne epacho may call epacho utte brufo epacho can proceed every word i have given you so it's like the base you know word for politeness i think honestly gana really told me how to be polite because dutch people are quite direct but now when i write a work email kindly find the touch please could you let me know please when to please so even though i don't speak chi it's definitely part of the gana culture like please could you please could like kindly please it's all like whatever you do just put a please somewhere yeah that it works yeah okay no i have to remember what's i okay oh that's very the one i saw is very simple as well shade shade oh copier coffee coffee coffee what does it mean i know coffee but copier so it means cup cup of coffee yes and it refers to so often when dutch people meet up or you want to meet up you say shall we do copier coffee so it's like cup of coffee yes it's i think i've thought about this but i think it means it's like a a meet up but it doesn't have to be long so you just do an hour of copier coffee and also when you are networking in the Netherlands if you want to like meet somebody maybe for work opportunity or something why are you laughing yeah no i'm just smiling at you if you're she wants to meet somebody for like a work opportunity then an email you can ask shall we go shall we go for a coffee coffee yeah so it's really even though a person doesn't drink coffee because the person knows it's like oh we we just meet up meet up for like a short conversation and a conversation yes so it's it's uh it's actually a really good tool copier coffee coffee culture copier coffee now last one shine for me now i have to say this very nicely it has to be chazelle yes it has to be chazelle because if you don't say it and you say chazelle in such a way that it doesn't what does it mean um so this word doesn't have an english translation whoop whoop it doesn't is one of those words that i just dutch you can't have an english translation for it i'll be back which means cozy it means warm it means nice like it means chill you know like you in social circumstances or even in interactions if you are enjoying somebody's company uh this is this is about the atmosphere yeah it's atmospheric it's this is not a direct translation you can't you know is if it's uh not chazelle then you know also that it's a bit hostile so it's it doesn't have an english translation see how i'm talking about this like i came up with the word what do you experience the gezellig feeling like this you're like oh this was really gezellig yeah yeah yeah what do you mean how i experienced it where like in the netherlands like do you understand why there's a word separate word for it i've had several chazellech moments with is a difficult word i've had several chazellech moments because it's all about the feeling it's yeah i've had several especially a warm feeling like you felt uh we have uh dinners with your siblings or go into your parents or when i have dates border climbing with colette yeah those were really and and and yes and when we went all together at me uh short time yeah those were very you know so i enjoy those you know this is some of the words that you need to lecker mooi chazellech they're good words they're good words that you should know in dutch yeah look at me talking about you know good words i don't i didn't like the phrases you you put two low freaks in there to catch me on guard pretty well i enjoyed this this was you know quite chazellech yes maybe if people have ideas of other phrases in chi in chi that's or in dutch yeah but i was very practical i was just trying to get you around dutch people you know please and no and yes and i'm going to and do you speak english yes why was i so practical but we can also do an episode on loving in the in the other person in the other person language oh so how would you love me in chi that's gonna be choosing because chi the poetry of chi in loving it's it's it's it's it's almost like poems like it's it's like we exactly i'm ready for poems i want to be loved by poems you know like uh when they meet him i don't know don't start now yeah you know something is happening so we should save that for the next episode yeah so those are some of the words that you should know and we already made our own next episode yeah okay next episode loving in the other language but if you have suggestions comments remarks other words put them in the c-section now you think we should know yes i don't like this word probably doesn't like the word but no i think it's fine in the comments yeah all right thank you do how i say in dutch definitely you're my son yeah it's a love for people yes or do we and in chi uh you're here you're here you're here you're here which guy wants to look at ah you're here this was nice