Anyone know Afrikaans

Georgey1993

Basically I love Afrikaans and I want to learn some more. Can anyone help?

Reply 1

Aphotic Cosmos

17

Contact the institute of the Afrikaans accent.

Reply 2

Liam 09

12

Wish I could. Both my parents speak Afrikaans and I'm half-ish SA'n. Never learned it though :frown:

Reply 3

Georgey1993

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Original post by Aphotic Cosmos

Contact the institute of the Afrikaans accent.

Lol baie dankie, is jy 'n suid-afrikaner wat my praat nou?

Reply 4

TWF

13

Uhm, no. But I speak Dutch, which is similair, I understand Afrikaans quite well. If you want to learn, buy a guide or something off Ebay.

Reply 5

Georgey1993

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Original post by TWF

Uhm, no. But I speak Dutch, which is similair, I understand Afrikaans quite well. If you want to learn, buy a guide or something off Ebay.

Weer...ek kan dit praat en verstaaj, maar ek wil 'n man/vrou met wie ek kan dit praat en leer beter.

Reply 6

llpokermuffinll

3

Original post by Georgey1993

Basically I love Afrikaans and I want to learn some more. Can anyone help?

If you want help learning a language, then why don't you buy a language learning software??? And why would you wanna learn a language that hardly anyone in the world speaks? Rather learn some sensible languages like

German
Spanish
French
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Arabic
Hindi
Mandarin
Japanese

But you decide to learn Afrikaans... :facepalm2:

Reply 7

Attlee_party

Afrikaans guy: "i read your book"
Girl in gym: *smiles* "oh yeah and?"
Afrikaans guy: "and I like your tits"

Reply 8

Peachykeen09

12

a friend of mine is afrikaan and she's so dumb.
i'm talking about shouldn't go out in the daytime kind of dumb

Reply 9

Yawn11

20

I'm gonna put my hands in the air and admit, I've got no idea what afrikaans is.

My first thought was that it was a fool trying to remix Africans.

I feel so clueless. :frown:

Reply 10

TWF

13

Original post by Georgey1993

Weer...ek kan dit praat en verstaaj, maar ek wil 'n man/vrou met wie ek kan dit praat en leer beter.

Hey, your Afrikaans is pretty good lol. But it's full of grammatical errors, but I know in Afrikaans you order certain words differently to Dutch, I think? You could speak to some Afrikaaners online, and practice. Weet niet zeker of je een normaale conversatie in Nederlands met een Afrikaanse spreekende persoon kan hebben.

Reply 11

monkeyDace

Original post by Georgey1993

Weer...ek kan dit praat en verstaaj, maar ek wil 'n man/vrou met wie ek kan dit praat en leer beter.

So you basically looking for a person to talk in Afrikaans? that's hard to find.
I only met two persons who can speak that language, one was my teacher and the other was a colleague.

Reply 12

Georgey1993

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Original post by llpokermuffinll

If you want help learning a language, then why don't you buy a language learning software??? And why would you wanna learn a language that hardly anyone in the world speaks? Rather learn some sensible languages like

German
Spanish
French
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Arabic
Hindi
Mandarin
Japanese

But you decide to learn Afrikaans... :facepalm2:

I already speak 2 of those :smile:

Reply 13

monkeyDace

Original post by TWF

Hey, your Afrikaans is pretty good lol. But it's full of grammatical errors, but I know in Afrikaans you order certain words differently to Dutch, I think? You could speak to some Afrikaaners online, and practice. Weet niet zeker of je een normaale conversatie in Nederlands met een Afrikaanse spreekende persoon kan hebben.

Naa not really. the conversation will be difficult to keep up, but will be understandable to great degree after you get used to the person you are talking to.

Reply 14

Georgey1993

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Original post by TWF

Hey, your Afrikaans is pretty good lol. But it's full of grammatical errors, but I know in Afrikaans you order certain words differently to Dutch, I think? You could speak to some Afrikaaners online, and practice. Weet niet zeker of je een normaale conversatie in Nederlands met een Afrikaanse spreekende persoon kan hebben.

Ek kan verstaan jy! Ek dink ek het gemaak baie (errors)- e.g. verstaaj, wat die heck!? verstaan (ekskuus!).

Is jy nederlands?

Reply 15

TWF

13

Original post by Georgey1993

Ek kan verstaan jy! Ek dink ek het gemaak baie (errors)- e.g. verstaaj, wat die heck!? verstaan (ekskuus!).

Is jy nederlands?

Ja, ik ben Nederlands. Versta of verstaan lol. En wat is ''jy''? Bedoel je ''jij''? of meschien is het anders in Afrikaans, ik weet niet :/

Original post by monkeyDace

Naa not really. the conversation will be difficult to keep up, but will be understandable to great degree after you get used to the person you are talking to.

I watched a vid on Youtube, and I could hardly understand the guy, but then again some others are easier to understand... this is the guy I'm having difficulty with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrnaUJizHCc

Reply 16

boromir9111

17

Original post by Attlee_party

Afrikaans guy: "i read your book"
Girl in gym: *smiles* "oh yeah and?"
Afrikaans guy: "and I like your tits"

lol

Reply 17

SoulfulBoy

18

Original post by llpokermuffinll

If you want help learning a language, then why don't you buy a language learning software??? And why would you wanna learn a language that hardly anyone in the world speaks? Rather learn some sensible languages like

German
Spanish
French
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Arabic
Hindi
Mandarin
Japanese

And English, mate, and English. :colondollar:

Reply 18

SoulfulBoy

18

Original post by Yawn11

I'm gonna put my hands in the air and admit, I've got no idea what afrikaans is.

My first thought was that it was a fool trying to remix Africans.

I feel so clueless. :frown:

You can put your hands wherever you want. :colone: