Afrikaans Language | Can German and Swedish speakers understand it? | Part 1 

just a correction, it’s “swaer” not “swear”

Never heard Afrikaans before in my life nor have I ever been to South Africa or Namibia. But I could understand absolutely everything! Incredible! However I do speak English, German, Spanish and Dutch. It sounds like a mix of English grammar with Dutch words and pronunciation to me. But what an awesome language.

Ek is so bly dat julle Afrikaans gedoen het. As a South African, it feels so nice to see my language here. Baie dankie😊

Shout out to all the Dutch peoples' comments about Afrikaans. I love the connection we share here. Dankie vir julle wonderlike woorde wat ons gebruik!

As a Flemish speaker from Belgium, I could understand all 6 sentences from the sound alone, but not always the first time he said it. After the second or third time I got each of the sentences. The written form only confirmed what I had understood.

As a Dutch person it was quite easy to understand everything. I like Afrikaans, i think of it as a simplified form of Dutch and some of the words sound really funny in Dutch ears. Actually the 3rd expression exists in Dutch as well: 'De kat uit de boom kijken' (it means something like 'wait and see', )

As a South African, I loved watching this. I'm a native English speaker that also speaks Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu and Swati.

Being a Northern German with also some passive skill in Plattdeutsch (low German), it was apparently easier for me than for Jana to understand the written Afrikaans, which was 75% okay, but listening seems to be way harder than even Dutch for me.

I am an Afrikaans speaker. The direct translation of "Die kat uit die boom kyk" is correct. But I feel it is important to re-enforce that this is not a literal phrase, because it sounds silly that way. Afrikaans uses a lot of symbolism in it's sayings. It actual meaning is "to review something very carefully"

Awesome seeing Afrikaans here! As a Dutch guy, I got all of them right by only listening to the sentences (before seeing the written form). Afrikaans and Dutch are quite related. Although Afrikaans has evolved way more different than Dutch, it is still understandable really well for the Dutch. Spelling is more similar than pronunciation. The proverb "Die kat uit die boom kyk" exists in both Afrikaans and Dutch, having the same meaning. in Dutch it is: "de kat uit de boom kijken". Similar, right? All sentences translated to Dutch: 1. My swaer help my om die swaar kas op te tel: Mijn zwager helpt mij de zware kast op te tillen 2. Goeie begrip het 'n halwe woord nodig: Goed begrip heeft een half woord nodig 3. Die kat uit die boom kyk: De kat uit de boom kijken 4. Elke oggend verskeur my hong die koerant: Elke ochtend verscheurt mijn hond de krant. 5. Ek hou daarvan om te hoor hoe ander tale klink: Ik hou ervan om te horen hoe andere talen klinken. 6. Musiek klink die beste as jy kliphard daarna luister: Muziek klinkt het beste als je keihard ernaar luistert. Note that "kliphard" does not exists in Dutch, we do use the word "keihard". Kei means rock (or pebble). Klip is a word in Dutch as well, but translated to English as "cliff". Afrikaans has some influences from Zulu, Xhosa and even Malay languages. I did not see the word "baie" (many) here, but that would be hard to guess.

Important to know that Afrikaans also has malay words, like Piesang (banana), Blatjang (chutney), baadjie (jacket), bamboes (bamboo), baklei (fight), pierring (saucer) etc.

Sooo nice to hear Afrikaans again! I am Dutch and my first hysband was from South Africa so I know the language well. I think it sounds so much nicer, softer and sweeter than Dutch! Thanks for taking me back in time 🥰

Should've also had a Dutch person on, which might be a bit too easy though. I got every single one of them correct!

Typos on swaer and hond! Cool to see Afrikaans on RU-vid!

Flemish (Dutch) speaker here, so yes, for me understanding was easier because Afrikaans is so closely related to Dutch. I also speak German, so it was fun to see where Jana was coming from, but I really had fun trying to understand the Swedish, so thank you for transcribing what he said, that helped a lot

Ek het baie hiervan gehou, maar die Afrikaanse spelling is nie reg nie? Swear (moet wees swaer) Hong (moet wees hond). Dit sou selfs my verwar het. Nogtans, dit was baie interessant.

I'm from Northern Germany, and the sentence with the cat and the boom and kyk was quite easy for me to understand after being written out, cause there is a word in Plattdütsch/Low German for "look", it's "kieken" (in High German "gucken/kucken"). 😁

There is no enough words to explain how deep I am in love with this channel! ❤️‍🔥🔥❤️‍🔥 Hello everyone from Baku, Azerbaijan.

I live in South Africa and I speak Afrikaans, at the start of this year I had to take German as a subject in school and Afrikaans has definitely made German easier to understand.

i am SOMALI but am AFRIKAANS lover, i speak and understand it fluently. dankie vir die program

Ek's so bly julle het Afrikaans gedoen! I've been waiting for a video focusing on it! Thank you!

Swedish actually has the word "kika" which means "to peek", and "kikare" which means "binoculars.

Just discovered this channel and I'm in love with it now!!!!!!

Flemish Belgian here. Afrikaans to me kinda sounds like a little Dutch toddler which makes it insanely cute. There are so many funny words in Afrikaans that in modern Dutch are made up words of existing words for things that we have a completely new word for in Dutch. In contrast to Dutch Dutch, Flemish Dutch still uses a lot of older word forms in spoken language so Afrikaans to me looks like it has a lot of those old-fashion Dutch structures but with a super heavy Holland Dutch accent that is written down phonetically.

I'd want to say, you should get a Dutch peron in here, but I see now that that would be too easy.

Hats off to Jana and Patrik. They did a lot better than I would have done in their place. Seeing the sentences spelled out confused me more than it should have. Like I got the meaning of the last sentence when I heard it but seeing it written out made me think I was on the wrong track.

As a South African and being named Jana I absolutely loved this and this is so interesting and a bit funny

My impressions (native German, Rhine Franconian dialect), all after seeing the written text. First I start with word-to-word transcription, then a more "sensible" translation, followed by an English "free" translation 1. Mein Schwager hilft mir um die schwere Kasse aufzuzählen Mein Schwager hilft mir dabei, die großen Umsätze zu zählen My brother in law helps me to count the big revenue 2. Guter Begriff hat ein halbes Wort nötig Guter Verstand äußert sich in Wortkargheit Good comprehension doesn't need a lot of words 3. Die Katze aus dem Baum guckt Die Katze schaut aus dem Baum The cat looks out of the tree 4. Jeden Abend verscheucht mein Hund meinen Kurrant Jeden Abend verscheucht mein Hund meine Johannisbeere Every evening, my dog shoos my blackcurrant 5. Ich halte davon um zu hören wie andere Zahlen klingen Ich mag es wie andere Sprachen sich anhören I like how other languages sound like 6. Musik klingt am besten als du kliffhart danach lauschst Musik klingt am besten wenn du dich auf sie konzentrierst Music sounds the best if you concentrate on it

So apparently I understand Afrikaans , German and Swedish... hmmm

Jana being from the south of Germany faces some problems that a northerner would not have. For example "Boom" is the pronunciation of "Baum" in my native Berlin dialect and as far as I know also in Low German. Likewhise Berlin dialect and Low German "kieken" (standard German "gucken") is a perfect match für "kyk".

It feels so nice seeing a video like this! It felt weirdly like home hearing Afrikaans and having it recommend!

As a dutchie who speaks Swedish and understands German as well this was very entertaining to watch! I could get almost everything from the sentences in Afrikaans because of Dutch but it was really fun to hear the similar German and Swedish words!

Afrikaans is so cool!! I got most of it as a Dutch speaker. It's amazing to see the similarities and differences between the two languages. My favorite is 'Die kat uit die boom kyk' 😀.

Thanks Norbert for the Afrikaans video! And thanks to the three participants. As a native speaker who is also fluent in German, and has learned some Norwegian, my message to speakers of Germanic languages: Afrikaans is generally a lot easier to understand than the impression you might get here. I’ll explain why: Jana and Patrik did very well, especially considering the difficult choice of sentences. If I can have some constructive criticism of my countryman, there far are too many idioms chosen for the purpose and spirit of this experiment, and generally far too many tricky choices. “Die kat uit die boom kyk” (staring the cat out of the tree) is a reference to an idiom but not even a real sentence on it’s own. If I said this to my wife or children they would look at me confused, so surely if a “sentence” like that on it’s own makes no sense to native speakers then it should not be used as an out of context sentence in a fun experiment like this. “Sy kyk die kat uit die boom” (she stares the cat out of the tree) is the idiom in use, yes it still an idiom with a nonsensical literal meaning, but would at least by being in use would have given Jana a much more decent shot. “Elke oggend verskeur my hond die koerant” from the point of view of a Germanic speaker not familiar with Afrikaans or Dutch, contains a strange French loan (shared with Dutch), two further non cognates shared with Dutch but not Swedish and German, and it is written in V2 word order somewhat familiar to German speakers but that would throw Swedish speakers off completely. That is a ridicilous amount lot of challenges packed into one sentence. “My hond verskeur die koerant elke oggend” would at least have spared the word order challenge. All in all the chosen phrasing was so strange that Patrik could not even identify the verb, let alone pondering the meaning of it. Dutch also has V2 word order, but the lady who presented Dutch did not throw it in with other challenges when she presented on this channel (very enjoyable videos by the way): In reality randomly chosen Afrikaans sentences heard clearly and read are not nearly as hard for German and Swedish speakers to guess than this video suggests. German (which speak well) in reality often straddles the boundary of mutual intelligibility with Afrikaans, something which is not evident here. And a surprisingly many sentences between Swedish and German often “jump out”. The format used in other Ecolonguist videos was sometimes long but straightforward sentences, with one or two less straightforward ones at the end. All in all great fun to watch. I can’t help feeling this was an opportunity lost, too much tricking, and not enough consideration for a fighting chance. In fact, I am pretty sure could even speak Afrikaans in a way that I could present to German, Yiddish or Luxembourgish speakers, like the Occitan / French / Catalan videos on Ecolinguist.

every verb in German can be "Substantiviert", so conjugated into a noun. Which means there is the German noun "Das Begreifen", which has exactly the same meaning as afrikaans and Swedish.

As soon it was writen down I understood nearly everything. Knowing an old dutch dialect (hometounge) , dutch and english helps a lot. Greetings from gearmany. Nice done !

This brought up a memory from Clash of Clans. I had a Dutch clan and we had one guy from South-Africa in the group. It was so much fun, because we were able to understand eachother through chatting.

There were SOOO many obvious Swedish cognates in these sentences. Hard to spot when listening to the sentences, but very easy seeing them written.

As a dutch native speaker, I understand so much of course. Still pretty amazing how similar it is to dutch. Great participants imo! Keep it up. Loving the content! Peace ✌🏽

Cool, lekker om te sien julle gee Afrikaans 'n platform en kans dat mense die mooi taal te kan hoor.

Dankie vir die interessante video. Ek het dit geniet. Ek dink egter daar was ‘n paar tekortkominge: 1. Rean het te vinnig en binnenmonds gepraat. Selfs ek moes my ore spits om goed te hoor. 2. Twee spelfoute in die transkripsie: swaer en hond 3. Die idiome was te moeilik, veral omdat die verduideliking nie baie goed was nie. Andersins dink ek dit was goed gedoen en ek was veral beïndruk met die Sweed se begrip van die sinne.

The Africaans word "kyk" DO have a friend in Swedish., the word "kika" which means "to peek, peep". It is also found in the Swedish word for binoculars and telescopes - "kikare" - literally translated as "a peeper".

Swede here and I understood almost everything :D what I couldn't understand I could guess cuz of the similarities. So cool and I absolutely love this comment section. You can see so many similarities between languages and really make sense of so many "whys"

This is cool. I had been wondering if other Afrikaans speakers can watch shows like "Dark" and "The Rain" without subs. I struggle so much but it helps to train the ears. Baie interesant 🇿🇦💯

As a Dutch person this was the easiest episode ever. Love the Afrikaans language, thanks for doing this

As someone speaking German, English and Dutch fluently, understanding Afrikaans is no problem for me.

As a South African who speaks mostly English and a little bit of Afrikaans I'm so happy that you guys did this. Baie Dankie

Great content! Russian is my native language and I actually learned some German back in school. So I could understand several words in Afrikaans, like "boom" and "Baum". P. S. Jana, you're gorgeous! 😍

"'n Goeie begrip het 'n halwe woord nodig" is een van my gunsteling Afrikaanse gesegdes. It has the same energy as "there are two types of people; those who can extrapolate from incomplete data..." Editing here to say, a better direct translation for "die kat uit die boom kyk" would actually be "watching (or staring) the cat out of the tree". It's an idiom for waiting and watching to see what happens. Also, some spellcheck for the written sentences: -swear- swaer, -hong- hond

For all those who found it more difficult than expected, try this, as I suspect you might get more: Dankie vir die kanaal. Ek dink tog Afrikaans is meer verstaanbaar vir Duitse sprekers en Sweedstaliges, as die indruk wat hier gegee word. Na my mening is daar te veel idiome hier. Daar is te veel gevalle hier, met onnodig omgekeerde woordorde. In praktyk vind Duitstaliges en Sweedstaliges die lees van Afrikaanse frases minder swaar. My gevoel is gevolglik, veel meer Duitsers en meer Swede, kan hierdie teks lees. Dit geld ook vir ander sprekers van ander Germaanse tale en dialekte, byvoorbeeld Platduits, Deens, Yslands en Noorweegs. (En in ‘n mindere mate, selfs Engels). Wat praat ek van? Ek praat van die kommentaar wat ek hier skryf. Ja ek weet. Dit is 'n taamlike lang stuk. Aan almal wat so lank en so ver kon lees: fantasties en goed gedoen. The point is I think perhaps too many frases were chosen for their trickiness and quirkiness. If it wasn’t for that, and if there were more sentences with context built in, the two guessing participants would have understood a lot more. Curious to find out how my paragraph above is understood.

Hierdie was so interessant! Ons moedertaal van Afrikaans is pragtig 😁 For me it’s amazing that our country South Africa has 11 national languages 🇿🇦 All languages around the world are beautiful and unique in their own way!

I come from Germany and speak a little Dutch. That helped me understand Afrikaans quite well. But that is especially true of Rean's foreword. I had quite a few difficulties with the individual sentences because the context was missing.

So I'm Dutch and when I heard Afrikaans I only understood like 25-50% of it, but when I saw the transcrition I understood it 100%. The Afrikaans pronounciation is just so different from Dutch which is so fascinating and confusing. I found it quite amusing to see how the German and Swedish speakers were guessing things xD. I think you should do a Afrikaans, Dutch and Flaams version where they say longer sentences with double entendres/ figures of speech & see if they're all the same or different in those languages! I feel like it'll be a very confusing and amusing video for speakers like myself xD

Great experiment for Germanic language enthusiasts!

Hi, hoe is julle almal, ek is nie Afrikaans nie, maar ek is baie goed in Afrikaans 😂

This was really cool, I could understand a lot of keywords. And also quite cool having the Patrik guy living in linköping like me

You should make one with Faroese and scandinavian speakers! Faroese speak Danish well so it could be english-free like the romance videos

i love this channel

De kat uit de boom kijken! lol im deff enjoying this :D

Just found your channel! *in love* with linguistics!

Native Afrikaans speaker here. Great video, but I found two problems: Firstly, there is no word such as "hong" in Afrikaans. There is "honger" -> hunger but the correct word in the sentence should have been "hond" -> hound -> dog. I can only imagine that would have confused a lot of people. Secondly, the idiom "die kat uit die boom uit kyk" -> "to watch the cat out of the tree" means to consider a situation before acting and has no connection to a cat actually jumping out of the tree. Otherwise, very intriguing nonetheless!

This was way harder than the other Germanic languages for me to guess, but it was very fun (as usual)! Thanks Norbert and thanks to the participants!

This is so fascinating! I’m Swedish and have studied German (and I of course know English) so I could understand quite a lot! Many of the words are forms of older Swedish words (just as Norwegian is) and when you consider that it totally makes sense. Like the sentence about the cat; kyk is kinda like kika which means look, but it’s not commonly used anymore. Anyway, linguistics is so much fun and I hope to become a linguist soon.

Very brilliant video idea 💡

As a Dutch learner and fluent German speaker , i literally understand the half of the Afrikaans sentences , that's amazing to see Germanic languages , most likely to see how they attach to each other !!!

Swear -> Swaer* Hong -> Hond* Sentence 1 and 4 had these two incorrections.

My "swaer". As someone who speaks Afrikaans, English and Zulu, and learning French, Dutch, German and Northern Sotho, I love seeing Afrikaans being explored and discussed. There are words that are the same as in Russian even. Many words are very unique to South Africa though because of all the cultures, the landscapes and the contact with other people. Afrikaans also has some differences in itself between different regions.

Last year I had a visitor from South Afrika. He spoke Afrikaans and I spoke Dutch. We could understand each other perfectly.

I think, in Afrikaans "swear" must be "swaer". It looks like Dutch "zwager" (brother-in-law), and I think Afrikaans "swaer" comes from Dutch "zwager", the etymology.

Ek hou van die Afrikaanse taal Omdat my pa in Suid-Afrika grootgeword het en my tannie in Namibië gebore is. My grootouers het Duits en Afrikaans tuis in Oostenryk gepraat. My moedertaal is Oostenryks-Beierse taal is n dialek van Oostenryks-Duits en Afrikaans , ek sê net Afrikaans is lekker 👍I like the Afrikaans language Because my father grew up in South Africa and my aunt was born in Namibia. My grandparents spoke German and Afrikaans at home in Austria. My mother tongue Austrian-Bavarian language is a dialect of Austrian-German and Afrikaans. Afrikaans is beste taal van die wêreld 👍 baie dankie vir die Dokumentasie

Well done guys, you did amazingly.

I speak Afrikaans as a native language, German and live in Sweden and being fluent if Afrikaans & Dutch as certainly made it easier for me to read and understand Swedish.

Baie dankie, uiteindelik Afrikaans! I imagine the Swedish person will have a harder time understanding than the German. But a really great mix of languages in this video. Thereʼs a typo in the first sentence transcription in the video, it should be "swaer", not "swear". Also, the third one is really hard because it's only a phrase and not a full sentence. I was a bit surprised by the word order there (not a native speaker, but I did learn quite a lot through reading; didn't know the phrase). Fourth one also has a typo, should be "hond", not "hong".

German dialects spoken in the North/North West of Germany are a lot closer to the Dutch language than Bavarian dialects (she claims she is from Bavaria), since Afrikaans is mainly derived from the Dutch language. If she had been from, say the Cologne/ Rhineland area, she would have easily understood the word „op“ for instance, meaning „on“ in the Rhineland dialect as well as in Dutch/Afrikaans and she would have been able to derive a lot more. Obviously, Germans from Bavaria/ South of Germany/ Austria find it a lot easier to grasp other Bavarian/ Allemanic dialects, such as Swiss German, Austrian dialects , where Northern/Western Germans would have a really hard time understanding.. That being said, of course Dutch/Afrikaans are not German but they are in deed very close.

This was really nice to see. I'd love to see it vice versa, in other words how well can an Afrikaans person understand German.

Nice video! As a Dutch very easy to understand Afrikaans.

I'm surprised nobody got boom/Baum ("tree" in German) or kyk/kucken (slang for "to look" in German). Very fun video!

Baie dankie! Really interesting! As a German with some knowledge of Dutch and the Low German spoken around Münster (mönsterlänner Platt), it wasn’t too hard to get the gist of the written sentences, although the phonetics of Afrikaans were much more tricky.

Nice to see a video spoken in four languages, three of which I speak (English, German and Swedish). I don't speak Afrikaans but my mother tongue is Dutch so I could understand every word in Afrikaans as well. ek praat net 'n bietjie Afrikaans.

Wow. This is fun to watch. The word "swaar" can be guessed by Danes and Germans - "svær" in Danish and "Schwer" in German. In Denmark heavyweight boxing is called "sværvægt", "schwergewicht" and in Sweden it is "tungvekt". When something is heavy in Denmark we usually use the word "tung" and not "svær" which is outdated and only used in specifik combinations.

"Die kat uit die boom kijk" is in direct correspondence with the idiomatic Dutch expression: "De kat uit de boom kijken". (kat=cat, boom=tree, kijken=to look).The meaning is: not to react too fast, first assert the situation. In German one would use "Erst einmal sehen wie der Hase läuft".

Rean has a great sense of humour (please bring him back!) and both Jana and Patrik should be invited back as either contestants or hosts. Rean has a very wry smile. Thank you! More please! These people, combined with their knowledge, personality and humility need more exposure whenever possible.

I learned to read and write Afrikaans in Afrikaans chat rooms, before I ever heard how it sounds. I then started to listen to Afrikaans radio stations on the Internet. Before learning Afrikaans, I did study Dutch in Belgium as an American student. I met a couple of girls from Namibia here in America.

Lucky you didn't include a Dutch speaker, because it was really easy to understand it all. The spoken sentence is at first is somewhat hard, but after repeating I started to distinguish the individual words better and I understood it almost entirely, and after seeing it written, it's becomes completely clear what's meant. Funny was "kliphard" which is "keihard" in Dutch, when you said "klip" means "rock", it even makes mores sense, since "een kei" in Dutch is "a rock" ("een klip" in Dutch is a "a cliff" which is made out of rocks, so it's sort of related).

Ek is Duits en verstaan die Afrikaans 100%, miskien omdat ek al 51 jaar in SA woon.😉 Ek luister ook elke dag na RSG, dit is so 'n mooi taal. 👍

One day, in 1987 or so, I played my father's old cassette "P.T. Perina's Sweet Songs Collection Vol.2". At that time, I was about thirteen years old or so. We could not afford a cassette for my own age. That was a good cassette containing old songs. I started to learn English at that time. One of the old songs in that cassette was EK VERLANG NA JOU (JIM REEVES). Initially, I did not know in what language Jim Reeves sang that beautiful song. When I was a university student, I often visited the library. There, I could see and read various encyclopaedia. After reading these thick books, I accidentally got information that "Ek Verlang Na Jou" actually belonged to a language called 'Afrikaans', a kind of Dutch. No wonder there was "verlang", which was not a new word to me here in Indonesia. It belongs to both Dutch and German. When I knew Internet and RU-vid, I found that Afrikaans song again. I was very happy. One of my father's students borrowed that cassette in 1996 and never returned it to my father. My father died of cancer in 2020.

Me being an Afrikaans speaker and as another commentator pointed out in the comments, kliphard derives from klipsteenhard which is most regularly shortened to kliphard to mean rock hard when referring to something being very loudly emitted, whether music being played, rain falling loudly and hard, etc. This comment is directed at other germanic language speakers who had a difficult time making the connection

As a Swedish, English, Dutch and German speaker i found all the phrases understandable. Props to the two participants, they did really well. I think kyk (looked) is cognate with the Swedish kika (to gaze). I love this channel 😃

This was more challenging for me than Dutch was. I think the guy overdid the obscure sentences. It might have been nice to give clues on unfamiliar single words to lead them in to clarity. We have *elke* in Engliish too, as the Scots *ilka* (each, every) and the meaning has migrated a bit for the modern English *ilk*.

Swietny odcinek, Norbert! Mowię po afrikaans i był super niespodzianka widziec ten odcinek! Baie wel gedaan :)

Jip ek verstaan wat jy se. Dit is so hartseer om te sien hoe ons taal wegkwein. Baie Baie seer.

I love this!

The German language also has the word "Begriff" which would be quite close.

So I started learning German in August and my Afrikaans background made it a bit easier to understand, especially the grammar rules. e.g).... om....te....(Afrikaans) in German it's: ......um.....zu.... Even though Dutch is the base for Afrikaans, Afrikaans seems closely related to German too. This video was fun to watch.

I am a born South African living in La Paz, Bolivia. I'm happy to see that our language are traveling the world. "Ek is bly iemand probeer om Ons wonderlikke Suid Afrikaanse taal te probeer praat" I speak, Afrikaans, Flemish Belgian, English and Spanish, as I live in Bolivia.

Yes, as a German speaker I can understand Afrikaans without much difficulty. Didn't even need to watch the video to be sure of it since my hubby is a Boer. Conversations with my in-laws are delightfully wild, with people speaking three different languages (English, German, Afrikaans) at random while perfectly able to get their points across. It gets even better when we're out in public. 🤣

I waited a long time for this. I speak all three languages and also Dutch.

I have been waiting forever for this!

Thanks for sharing! Absolutely interesting to hear and watch this. My first guess on "Die kat uit die boom kyk" was "De kat kiekt ut de boom" in Low German, or "De kat kijkt uit de boom" in Dutch.... so, I first thought it´d mean something like you´ve gotten yourself in a difficult position, watching for help... :-). However, listening to Afrikaans I´ve noticed that there is a lot of diphtongisation and consonant dropping going on, which makes it perhaps a tad more difficult to understand, but still sounding nice and familliar!

I enjoyed this video a lot, I am a native Afrikaans speaker, I do have to say I think some of the sentences were very figurative and it could have been explained a bit better as the direct translations wouldn't make any sense. Apart from that very entertaining!