DUTCH & AFRIKAANS LANGUAGES REACTION! 

Actually, in Afrikaans we do use moeder and vader for mother and father, however it's usually in more formal conversation.

As an Afrikaner, Flemish is actually even more similar to our language than Dutch! It is fascinating. I met a Flemmish guy at a work event and I could understand him completely. You should check it out of you can.

Dutch settlers settled over 400 years ago travelling by ship to south africa using old dutch. Since then we had 400 years of evolution of both languages. It's amazing to see we can still sorta make out what we mean.

Quite some years ago I went on a 3 week group tour in South Africa and we had a tourguide who spoke Afrikaans to us. We could understand 99%. Some words or expressions were funny to us Dutchies. At the start he asked us to write a name of one of our ‘naastbestaanden’, someone who could be contacted in case of emergency (in Dutch it’s ‘naasten’). But to us it sounded like ‘nabestaanden’ which is a word for next of kin/surviving relatives… where the hell do you plan to take us? 😂 Literal translation naastbestaanden: existing next to you nabestaanden: existing after you

How entertaining. I enjoy you so much. What a breath of fresh air! You wondered about the reason for changing up the language. We'll, in those early days when the Dutch settled, there were also quite a number of Germans, French, Norwegians, Danish, Swedes, Polish, Hungarians, Russians, Italians and Portuguese and so on who came over. So I reckon that it became necessary to simplify the language and also, they brought their own influence. I don't see any structural influence by Bantu languages, but we do have loan words.

That's why the written accounts from New Amsterdam / Netherlands took so long to translate. But Charlie Gehring did a good job in New York state library.

Haha, roze/pienk (pink): indeed English influence. Hals/nek (neck): not quite, in Dutch Hals is also called nek, so no problem there. de/het being 'die' in Afrikaans: 'het' means a neuter word, not a gender. It is a remain of using cases as in German. vader/ moeder as 'pa' and 'ma' is also used in Dutch. So no problem too. zus as 'suster' is simular to the Dutch word 'zuster'. But 'zus' is short fot 'zuster'. That story about the wren: okay, the Afrikaans is easy to listen to and to read, for me as a Dutchie. In Dutch e.g. 'Nou' is also 'Wel' (like Well). A specific difference is that in Afrikaans often the word 'nie' (niet in Dutch, 'not' in English) is said twice: eg.g. 'I don't do that' in Dutch: 'Ik doe dat niet' and in Afrikaans: 'ek doen nie dit nie'.

Afrikaans was formed by non European speakers who simplified the Dutch grammar and pronunciation.languages like Malay and the Khoisan languages played a.big role. South african Dutch descendants then standardized the new creolised and simplified version of Dutch.

I speak Afrikaans and met some Dutch people last week. We had a long conversation in Afrikaans and Dutch. We had perfect understanding. I strategically didn't use words I knew Dutch people wouldn't know.

As a native Afrikaans speaker there is one mistake in this video. It is generally easier for Afrikaans people to understand Dutch than the other way around. I have met very few (if any) Dutch people who understand us, or are even willing to give it a try. They switch to English as soon as they can where an Afrikaans person would urge them to keep going for a little while longer (to start making connections). However, the other way around is generally not an issue (and that’s not just me)

South Africans will be flooding your comments soon 😃 Afirkaans is my second language I agree with the video that written Dutch is far easier to understand than spoken Dutch. I get the gist of what is said but it takes a minute to figure out. That could be because Afrikaans is my second language 🤷 perhaps Afrikaans first language speakers have an easier time with spoken Dutch.

Afrikaans is simplified Dutch. They just got rid of the complexities of the Dutch language to make it more usable in such a diverse country with incoming slaves from all over the world. So the Dutch wanted a langua franca, but original Dutch was too complicated. Which begs the question, why did it work in Surinam? Also a diverse country, but Surinamese people often speak and write better Dutch than the Dutch (on average). I don't have an answer to that.

Very interesting subject.👍👍 For me as Dutchman, Afrikaans is like Dutch with a lot a grammar rules from the English language. So no 'het' article, strait forward past participle, etc

Fun fact, the first ever written Afrikaans was in Arabic script.

so interesting, because the Afrikaans language seems (to me) even more like the West-Flemish language (a dialect of the Belgian Dutch)

The Afrikaans narrator sounds like a zombie. Its normally spoken with a bit more excitement.

Who would have guessed that a Dutch dialect (only considered to be a different language, because the Apartheid regime in South Africa wanted to strengthen their claim to South Africa, by saying they don't speak a European colonial language, but a native language of South Africa), would be mutually inteligable with Dutch...

Where the Kop at Anfield comes from pure Taal

I'm an English speaking South African. Learned Afrikaans second language all through school, and obv. hear it spoken every now and then but I can hardly understand a word of spoken Dutch when its a paragraph. I understand 80-90% of the spoken Afrikaans (some words I don't know). I can piece the written Dutch together.

11:02 i am living in the Netherlands and I like to hear how closely these languages are related to Each other. Thank you very Much for posting this vidéo 😍🤗❤️

There is a fair amount of Indonesian influence in Afrikaans too and a little of the native Khoi languages. In Afrikaans, one consept is made into one word. That's why some words get so long.

I'm Dutch and don't have any problems with someone who speaks Afrikaans. It is just in most of the times the grammar that is a bit different and more difficult for the Afrikaans speaking people, than the other way around.

You might also wonder how much Dutch language is in English. So much words you use daily come from Dutch origin, like Dollar (Daalder), Dock (dok, haven). People luir chickens with "kip kip kip" . Just because the Dutch once ruled the world trade their influence was that big. And a ship (schip) is rather a Dutch word than an English one i believe...

3:31 The words for sorry are interesting. Because jammer is also a word in dutch and means "too bad" which could also be used for sorry but in the same way too bad is used in english. When you step on someones toe you say het spijt me to them but when someone tells you their ice cream fell on the ground we say, oh, jammer, let's go buy a new one.

I have been to the high school in South-Africa...that time you had to read a few dutch books to learn de grammetic the good way

I like historie and everything what relatie with this thanks higly for your woords ❣️

Hi from Suriname and I can understand the Afrikaans one without reading the Dutch one

Hey Paul did you notice how simular English is. At least in sort sentences. For example The bear drunk beer = De beer dronk bier 🤔

Very , very, very interesting!

There are words that are also known in Dutch like "jammer" which means "alas" or "a shame" (dat is jammer means that's a shame, for example). Also pa and ma are less common alternatives for father and mother (but also papa en mamma). En zuster also exists in Dutch but is more old-fashioned and can also refer to a nurse. Grammar is a lot more complex in Dutch and that makes Dutch harder to follow for people who speak Afrikaans. The guttural sound of the "g" is also doesn't exist in the south-east of the NL. In the provinces Noord-Brabant and Limburg there is what we call a soft "g". I can't really explain what it sounds like but it's not guttural at all. Frisian is pretty much another language that has some overlap with Dutch but that's it. I understand some of it but not a lot.

Jammer, nek, are also Dutch words.

In all fairness if you read back old books from 300 to 400 years ago in what at the time was written in de Dutch language. It's written the same as how you write "modern" Afrikaans. Dutch evolved but Afrikaans is still the same as how Dutch was spoken in de Golden age/era.

You can also say "vader" and "moeder" (father and mother) in afrikaans, which is more formal. Ma and Pa is more informal in afrikaans. Not sure why they didn't put the formal words there.

Frisian is a lot easier to understand as an Afrikaans speaker. Probably because Belgium is located between Germany, the Netherlands and France drawing a parallel to the Dutch, German and French settlers in South-Africa. Flemish on the other hand is Grieks vir my😄

Im Dutch and I can understand Afrikaans resonably well, tho the most obvious difference is they miss the 'past tence' form and dont end words on a 't' or' d' or 'dt'. Afrikaans use different words f.e. Die Moltrein (A)vs De Metro(NL) just like the underground, the subway, the metro are used in all kinds of English speaking nations. Most Dutch ppl I know find Afrikaans 'Cute' to hear, but plain Dutch does'nt realy exists in the spoken form. Each NL region has it's own dialect, some even have near uncomprehedable dialects. Dont get me started because there is no easy way to explain it LOL Its not just pronunciation differences, to much more to keep it short. Anywho I adore non Dutch trying to speak Dutch, it always sounds cute to my ears. And Flemmish that sounds sweeter than sweet, I love accents but sometimes wonder where does a dialect ends and becomes a new language. The NL is small in size, but we have a huge variaty in how Dutch is spoken LOL

The Afrikaans language developed separately from Dutch as of the 1700s. That's where most differences come from. The rest (about 5-10%) is influenced by local languages and a bit of English.

I am Dutch. About 30 years ago, I went to Israel for a few months to travel around and see the sights. Durring that time, I met of course a lot of other travelers fom around the world. A number of them was South African. I stayed with a few of them in a Hostel in Tel Aviv for a while and when we talked to each other, we all would use our own language. They in Afrikaans, Myself in Dutch. Even with the words that were significantly different would still make sense in Dutch. For example, in Dutch the name for an elevator is lift (yes, we blatanly stole that one) but in Afrikaans it is Hysbak which is formed from the Dutch words Hijs (lift) and bak (container) 3:27 Jammer: Different uses in Dutch and Afrikaans. In Dutch "Jammer" is used for "{it's a} shame" 4:25 Nek (neck) is used in Dutch as well. the names are divided in the front part and the back part. Front is "Hals" , back is "Nek" 5:15 Pa and Ma (and Papa and Mama) are used in Dutch as well but basically only as personal pronoun (Mijn Pa/Ma - My father/mother), for demonstrative pronouns we use almost always Vader and Moeder. (Zijn vader/moeder - His father/mother)

We, dutch people, also use kop but only for animals. humans have heads, animals have koppen. And hals is a regional thing I think, I say nek, not hals

Even in Holland. We dutchies speak verry different. Every 10 km (6miles) haves his own dialect and some of them i Even dont understand haha. Take the provincie of Friesland really trust me i have now clouw . 18 years aggo i moved from Veenendaal to the betuwe only a 15 min drive by car. And som sayings of the old People i hear before in my life. So Afrikaans is muts simpeler haha ❤

The Dutch language spoken in The Netherlands evolved a lot since the English took over South Africa. Afrikaans is more or less the way we spoke 200 years ago.

I will even say this, the language spoken in the upper part of Belgium, Vlaams (english: Flamisch) is officially Dutch. But I will bet that with two large pieces of spoken and written text, I will understand Afrikaans better dan Flamisch. They use (400 year) old spelling but things like verbs are usually simpler like the verb walking: English Dutch Afrikaans I walk - I have walked Ik loop - Ik heb gelopen ek loop - ek het geloop you walk - you have walked Jij loopt - jij hebt gelopen jy loop - jy het geloop He, she walked - he, she has walked Hij, zij loopt - hij, zij heeft gelopen hy, sy, dit loop - hy, sy, dit het geloop We walk - We have walked Wij lopen - wij hebben gelopen ons loop - ons het geloop You (plural) walk - You have walked Jullie lopen - Jullie hebben gelopen julle loop - julle het geloop They walk - They have walked Zij lopen - zij hebben gelopen hulle loop - hulle het geloop

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Afrikaans sound more like Flemish both are softer than Dutch

African dutchs maby 90 procent dutch but all farmers in the Netherlands still talk 100 procent like this 😂

Afrikaans = old Dutch

What language do you speak dude? LOL

We also have some words from Italian Frinsh German The languages with we have the most words from is Dutch and German in afrikaans My home language is afrikaans and I am an South African

I prefer to speak English with people from South Africa, instead of Dutch

Bleu and Blue could sound the same in isolation between French and English speakers as well - but you wouldn't consider them mutually intelligible, would you!? That channel literally used the most mainstream pronunciation of isolated words. It's nonsensical. They just chose words that sound most similar and have the same meaning. Nee eish wena sies man. Dissie reg nie!

To me it’s no difference

THE DUTCH HAS BEEN CHANGED THROUGH THE YEARS AND ADOPTED SOME LETTERS LIKE IJ Z SCH