As a Dutchman I agree Afrikaans is a lot easier to understand than Frisian.

The Dutch complain about German grammar but don't realize Afrikaans has not only simplified grammar, writing but also no grammatical gender unlike Dutch itself.

I am a Belgian raised in the U. S. We speak Flemish, which is slightly different from Dutch, but is written the same, just pronounced a little different. I can understand Afrikaans, and, in fact, my Flemish, which I speak with an American accent, was mistaken for Afrikaans!

@cocobunitacobuni8738

Жыл бұрын

Flemish is WAY more understandable to me than Dutch. I spoke to some Flemish children at the EU Parliament in Brussels and we could understand one another perfectly.

@emreertan2295

Жыл бұрын

Nederlands en Vlaams zijn geen aparte talen. Vlamingen spreken ook Nederlands. Maar er zijn heel wat dialecten in Belgie zoals West Vlaams, Oost Vlaams, Limburgs en Brabants die zowel van elkaar als van de staandart taal wel afwijken.

@myrdana

Жыл бұрын

@@cocobunitacobuni8738 afrikaans is closer to an older version of dutch, and flemish has changed less than modern dutch in the netherlands has. so this makes a lot of sense.

To all Dutch and Afrikaans-speakers, hello from Turkic-speaker guy from Central Asia! Dutch and Afrikaans languages are so beautiful and cool, I like them 🇳🇱🇿🇦

@natashanel1665

2 ай бұрын

Thanks/Dankie

Dankie vir die video Andy :))) Afrikaans is my gunsteling taal, ek het dit self geleer (en dit het my ook gehelp om Nederlands te verstaan). Ek het twee keer Suid-Afrika besoek en ek sien uit daarna om eendag terug te keer ♥'n Pragtige land met baie vriendelike mense en 'n ryk kultuur ♥

@christopherjones4910

5 күн бұрын

No ways. That’s amazing. I thought you were from here😂 congrats. Inderdaad iets om oor te spog.

@lostinescland

4 күн бұрын

@@christopherjones4910 Haha, thank you! :)

Afrikaans normally sounds more expressive and lively than demonstrated in this video.

Afrikaans is still much related to the way Dutch was spoken in the 17th century.

“jammer” Meaning sorry in Afrikaans is really funny to me as a Dutch speaker

@DeborahKhanyile-vu2qb

Ай бұрын

Why

@kaarthuisplus

Ай бұрын

@@DeborahKhanyile-vu2qb Because it sounds like an extremely sarcastic way of saying sorry. You're basically saying "too bad".

@poepflater

21 күн бұрын

we have lots of words you would enjoy... here is another bromponie... fora small motorbike like a Vespa.

@frankmuller6834

18 күн бұрын

@@poepflater I was amazed by "verkleurmannetjie" and instantly knowing the meaning of it.

@poepflater

18 күн бұрын

@@frankmuller6834 depending where you are it may also be called verkleuremannetjie... the language is very elastic. Also love the word duisendpoot, and we have some very old words like akkedis from hagedis

I love the Dutch & Afrikaans,they sound perfect🇳🇱🇿🇦

Afrikaans also has “vader/moeder” it’s just bit archaic, we’d rather use ma/pa.

I was studying more about afrikaans yesterday, cool language )

@alexsaffamerica

Жыл бұрын

Dankie!

Some old Dutch and South African friends said they could understand a lot of what each other said although it sounded very different.

Garage should be "motorhuis" in afrikaans

@raymondwalters2723

Жыл бұрын

Very archaic

@shaunspies1108

29 күн бұрын

Nee, dit is die korrekte woord om te gebruik, garage is ń anglisisme, ên ń KLAT op ons Taal, soos al die ader anglisimes wat gebruik word, omdat Afrikaners te lui is om ń Woordeboek op te têl, ên hulle intelegensie verder te verryk.

I am fluent in English and Afrikaans. I understood more than 90% of the Dutch in this video.

@amgwireless3610

2 ай бұрын

Fluent in english & A1/A2 in dutch. understood all of it 😂

What is very underrated is the Malay influence in Afrikaans. Our language begin very informally as a “kombuis-taal” (kitchen language) and is ultimately a creole. Fun fact: the oldest surviving Afrikaans text was written in Arabic!

@xXTheoLinuxXx

Жыл бұрын

Not only in Afrikaans... even is Dutch we several words that is derived from Malay.

@user-kk4lw4mr6i

Ай бұрын

The malay influence i feel is a bit overated we still have 90-95% dutch lyrics it's only simplified and rarely the occasional german word too. Probably less then 40 of our 2000 most common words are of malay or indigenous herkoms. Some common ones are : Baie - a lot (malay) Baaitjie - jacket (malay) Gaaitjie - gecko (khoe) To me dutxh sounds quite formal especially holland dialect over the west flemish dialect for example which to me sounds lot more layed back also more understandeble to us. Probably cause lots of setllers originate from northern belgium which used to be part of netherlands.

I always just assumed they were way more similar. Now I know they’re pretty different in spelling & pronunciation of words & understand why they’re considered different languages.

As an Afrikaans speaker I find it much easier to understand than other languages, more so in writing but in speech it can be tricky if spoken too quickly, but still able to understand a decent amount.

@Mortmustsepp

Жыл бұрын

waar my ou

Im from SA and speak Afrikaans as a home language. My school used to give Duch as a subject but took it away before it was even an option for me to learn the language.

Wie praat hier Afrikaans? ❤🇿🇦

@noobie454

9 күн бұрын

Hier

I like how the article in Afrikaans is just "die" something I wished we did in Dutch.

@user-kk4lw4mr6i

Ай бұрын

Die en n are the articles. N is een in afrikaans. N appel, A apple Die appel, The apple een appfel, a apple de appfel, the apple Sorry if i got apple wrong my dutxh vocab knowledge is not good.

So glad to see my native language here! Thanks for the efforts Andy!

I just realized "Vader" is father. Darth Vader was Lukes father. George Lucas def did that on purpose.

@alexsaffamerica

Жыл бұрын

Yup, online sources say so.

@sergiosantos6972

Жыл бұрын

Hum

@LearnRunes

Жыл бұрын

@@alexsaffamerica Good thing the internet's never wrong.

In the 1950’s South African politicians would come to the Netherlands and tv interviews/communications would all be in Afrikaans and Dutch. People understood each other. Nowadays Dutch and Afrikaans speakers have so much trouble understanding each other and rather switch to English. I blame schooling for this.

@xXTheoLinuxXx

Жыл бұрын

Agreed about the schooling. Perhaps for the Afrikaners it takes a little bit more effort to learn Dutch, but for the Dutch it isn't that difficult to learn Afrikaans. I'm Dutch but I don't have any problems to understand Afrikaans. I learned it by reading and listening :) I'm not gonna tell that I'm fluent in speaking or writing,

@user-kk4lw4mr6i

Ай бұрын

Also the people back then were way more dutxh then afrikaans seeing as afrikaans only got penned in 1920-30. We still had a bit of a dutch accent then and could understand the harsh sounding holland accent easier too. Now its as if the holland accent deafens out the words being said. We just hear ghhhhh lol so we have to ask the person to speak slower. And obviously afrikaans people back then spoke WAY more formally which obviously the dutxh understood some of those archiac words.

Ek dink dit is 'n baie mooi video. Miskien kon hulle "garage" na "motorhuis" verander?

I can say that I prefer Afrikaans. It seems a lot easier and always have the rolling "R:s" which I'm used to. Meanwhile in dutch they are using three kinds of "R". The guttural, the English one, and rolling. Afrikaans seems to be quite softer than dutch in speak as well.

"Baie" (as in baie dankie) is from Malay or something. There is a variety of Afrikaans called Arabies Afrikaans. It is more different to Dutch than standard Afrikaans because it uses a lot more words that are of non-Dutch or Germanic origin. For example, to say "dankie" they say "tramakasie", baie dankie is baie tramakasie.

There are a lot of common synonyms in the Dutch language that makes the language even closer to Afrikaans than this video shows

I remember installing a Xiao Mii projector with my dad. It was made in Chine and we thought it was translated to Dutch. The grammer and spelling was really poor, but we managed to install it. After we installed it we realized the language was set to South-African instead of Dutch. So yeah, it is for me ( a native Dutch speaker )very doable to understand South African. Another example from the other way around: we hired a boat in Dubai and the captain was South Africa. He said that he could understand a lot of what we said, but that there are some words that are the same in Dutch and South African but have a different meaning. That probably confused him. 😂 Edit: a lot of words you heard in South African in this videos we also use in the Dutch language. For example: ‘het hoofd’ translated to ‘Kop’ in this video, but we also say ‘ kop’ a lot of times meaning the same thing.

Dutch language still used in my daily live as an Indonesian. It's started since the colonialism. And also a lot of Indonesian dishes are adopted from Dutch foods.

Iam from Suriname 🇸🇷 and Dutch is my local language

Afrikaans is when a native Dutch speaker speaks very informal Dutch. If i pronounce "rechts" vast it sounds basically exactly the same as the Afrikaans "regs". When the mention parts of the body the Afrikaanse words can also all be used in Dutch, some are synonyms and some we use only for the same bodypart but on animals.

Do you know what's funny? Dutch people typically speak more properly compared to Afrikaners, who are more likely to mix in English words. Ironically enough, the Dutch dictionary doesn't create translations of English words ("computer", "milkshake") while the Afrikaans one does.

@sergiosantos6972

Жыл бұрын

Que coisa

@two_motion

Жыл бұрын

No, you are thinking of the Afrikaans-English mix spoken by some city dwellers and who have apparently made it "cool". But in reality, they are just "kommen", or "zeff" in their own words. The Afrikaans that the Boers speak is in all probability more proper than modern Dutch.

English: Thank You Very Much Dutch: Dank U Zeer Afrikaans: BUY A DONKEY

TROTS AFRIKAANS🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

Afrikaans is a great lang if combined with all dutches, flemishes and surinaams, limbuguishes langs gonna be form a powerfull idiom.

Afrikaans is my 4th language and when i was first learning it I often mistook Dutch for it

Im practicing dutch on death threat si- i mean duolingo im so proud of myself i know over 200 words in this language

I notice Dutch has gender but Afrikaans doesn't

Na 'n rukkie? Ik ga stuk 🤣🤣🤣 (This phrase meaning "after a while" sounds to Dutch people like "after a quick wank".)

Great video, showing some good comparisons. There are many more similarities between both these 2 languages. I'm proudly Afrikaans and improving my Dutch 😎✌️. We also call ourselves Dutchman here in SA. So it can be a bit confusing to differentiate to peopel between a south african Dutchman (afrikaner/boer) or a Dutchman from Netherlands sometimes. But I feel like we 1 big family. ✌️😎

Great video baie dankie. eerlik het ek die middle bietjie geskip maar puik gedoen. miskien dink aan 'n vid maak oor hoe die taal verander het. bv blijven is verkort na bly, miskien is Afrikaans meer rustig oor die woord uitspraak, as of die taal vereenvoudig maar tog ook verhelder is in n sekere sin.

Could you do one for Afrikaans and Limburgish? I hear some similarities

@raymondwalters2723

Жыл бұрын

I also see some similarities. I guess spoken languages were a bit more flexible before they got standardized.

@dan74695

Жыл бұрын

I hope she does Low German too.

ik denk dat die twee talen nederlands en afrikaans niet heel veel verschillen. Als Duitser kan ik beide talen begrijpen, als jij maar langzaam spreekt.

@eben6787

Жыл бұрын

Baie waar

@cocobunitacobuni8738

Жыл бұрын

Hallo Duitser 😁Ich lerne seit 5 Jahren Deutsch und lebe auch in Deutschland. Wegen Afrikaans muss ich keine Satzordnung lernen, nur die Artikel finde ich immer schwer.

A couple of years ago I befriended somebody from South Africa and I exposed them to all kinds of Dutch songs in different dialects to see which ones were the most similar to Afrikaans. Here's what he deemed were the most similar : - Met de neus omhoeg - Rowwen Heze, which is in Limburg Dialect "I perfectly understood that one. The pronunciation is very much like Afrikaans" - Afscheid van Indië - Wietteke Van Dort, which is in East Indies dialect. "The most similar to Afrikaans out of all of them, although in Afrikaans we pronounce the word 'Afskeid' with a hard K."

En anders as wat Charlize dink, en daardeur haar onkunde openbaar, is Afrikaans, naas Zoeloe en Kôsa die taal wat deur die derde meeste Suid-Afrikaanse mense gepraat word. Meer mense het Afrikaans as huistaal in Suid-Afrika as Engels.

one of the last 44 people that speak afrikaans! staan trots

Ek wil graag meer Afrikaans taal een dag

Hals en hoof word ook gereeld gebruik. Hals word meer gebruik vir die nek deel van 'n hemp of bloes. Hoof gebruik ons nog steeds formeel soos in die hoof bedek of as ons hoofpyn het. Dankie vir die video.

@BobWitlox

Жыл бұрын

Nederlands heeft ook nek en kop. Hals is de voorkant, nek is de achterkant. Hoofd is beleefder dan kop. Een dier heeft een kop.

0:53 it's not surprising, because Danish is strongly connected with Norwegian, not Swedish 😉

Very nice.

Please do Albanian Vs Arbëresh 🙏👍🏼

Flemish is even more understandable to an Afrikaans speaker than Dutch.

The double negative is always a weird thing for the Dutch.... but love it....

I learned a little bit of Dutch a few years ago and I swear some of the words and phrases were different to this. I learned that please was alseblijft (I'm not sure how it was spelt but sounded like "al-she-bleeft") and I also learned that thank you was dank je vel not dank u vel. Can any Dutch speakers confirm or deny this? Is this is a different in regional varieties, or a difference of colloquial speech and formal speech, or am I just mistaken?

@BobWitlox

Жыл бұрын

We have informal and formal forms for you (je/jij and u). "Please" is alsjeblieft (informal) or alstublieft (formal). "Thank you" is dank je wel (informal) or dank u wel (formal).

Interesting! 😄

Baie dankie vir die video ek goed idee afrikaans het meer dialekte van Namibië na Suid-Afrika Namibië afrikaans 'n video maak asseblief

Hello Andy, How are you? Can you make video Uzbek language, Please

very cool.

Afrikaans Is influenced Also by German, i see.

@natashanel1665

2 ай бұрын

Ja😊😊

Please try to cover "Jersey Dutch"! :) it needs love

I have an Frisian uncle and aunt who emigrated from the Netherlands to South Africa. My cousins spoke Frisian and Dutch with their parents but Afrikaans with their friends. One of them married an Afrikaans woman. At their wedding speeches were held in Afrikaans and Dutch. I could follow most of the wedding in Afrikaans but at one point one of their friends held a speech in Afrikaans. The only thing I understood was that it was a joke about man, woman and a washing machine but I did not understand the punch line. Written and spoken standard Afrikaans is quite similar to Dutch. As soon as people speak dialect, it becomes difficult. For example the movie trailer for Raaiselkind (Afrikaans movie from 2019) is almost incomprehensible to me. I understand the gist of what it is about but I have no idea what the mother is saying without subtitles.

@natashanel1665

2 ай бұрын

😮😂😂

Me casually living in South Africa and my mom being British and my dad being Afrikaans: 👁👄👁

You should compares the Arpitan from France, Valle da Osta and from Apulia or maybe the griko or grecanico and the modern greek.

Please check out Suriname language! You will be shocked how Dutch it is! The Dutch used in Afrika is farmers Dutch as there were no real teachers present at the first arrivals! Suriname was a different story!

Zuid Afrikaans sounds a lot like us, people in the southern parts of the Netherlands! And yes it’s a lot easier to understand than Frisian! Groeten ui ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant

Don't forget about english also in afrikaans language. 'My hand is in warm water' can be read in both english and afrikaans with the exact same meaning only pronouncing being the difference.

Dutch: Roze Afrikaans: Pienk!

Hello, South African here. I can speak Afrikaans and English. I think that Afrikaans originated from when the Dutch made the castle of good hope here in south Africa Of course that's just my theory. Afrikaans hallo, mede suid-afrikaner hier ek kan afrikaans en engels praat ek dink dat afrikaans ontstaan het toe die nederlanders die kasteel van goeie hoop hier in suid-afrika gemaak het dit is natuurlik net my teorie

The map is slightly inaccurate. People in North Rhine-Westphalia don't speak Dutch at all.

@sergiosantos6972

Жыл бұрын

O que eles falam?

@buurmeisje

Жыл бұрын

Historically they did, the tranditional dialect of the area around Kleve is a Dutch dialect.

@yt-nx1qm

Жыл бұрын

They have a dialect in the low Rhine area, it is more like Dutch then German....

@bushwhackedonvhs

Жыл бұрын

@@sergiosantos6972 a low saxon dialect I think. My great grandfather was westphalian and from what I remember Nordrhein-Westfalen was Saxon land.

Ik kom.uit Brussel, ik ben Franstalig opgegroeid en ik versta 85/100 van het afrikaans. Da's leuk.

So, when Afrikaans speakers want to thank someone very much, do they buy a donkey for that person? Lol

@e.t.h.559

Жыл бұрын

it is his strong accent, most people in the northern parts of South Africa speaks with this accent. the “a” in baie and dankie should not sound like the letter “o”

I actuality think Afrikaans sounds a lot like west flemish (a dialect from ,you can guess, west Flanders)

now about norsk dansk svenska?

Afrikaans sounds like a more Englishy version of Dutch.

If you say “na ‘n rukkie keer vader terug huis toe” in the Netherlands people probably will think he jerked off (rukken) before father came home 😂😂

Why do you have the same Afrikaans speaker but different Netherlands speakers? Is it composites from different sources?

the problem with this video is that it makes afrikaans seem more different than it is, like 'kop' is also a dutch word, just like 'nek'.

I didn't know that Dutch was spoken in Germany? Conversely, I thought Flemish was spoken in a bigger area of France than you have shown ... specifically around the coast and Dunkerque

@bustavonnutz

Жыл бұрын

You're right, also Dutch forms a dialect contiinuum with German Low Saxon/Plattdeutsch; one of the reasons people say a language is a dialect with an army & a navy. Then again, any video shilling Afrikaans as its own unique language is bound to be inaccurate regardless.

From this example, it sounds more like west Flemish and is less different from Dutch in some aspects than even Oschots. For example 2:22 doenker blaat (dark blue) lichtblaat (light blue) 2:30 purper (purple) Zwet (black) Graas (gray) 3:52 de mendag (Monday) De destdag (Tuesday) De gunstdag (Wednesday) 4:12 zodus oudjes betekend avers (ouders/parents) in Dutch? Strangely, Dutch is less understandable than Afrikaans in this example.

@cocobunitacobuni8738

Жыл бұрын

Flemish is WAY easier to understand (to me) than Dutch.

Hi; I think you should remove the red bar in the bottom in the thumbnail to increase your views. Now it looks like the video has been watched already.

Neat!

Dutch sounds like english speakers trying to speak german

The passage about the wren is incorrect (in EN and NL): "Once the old ones had both flown out and had left the little ones all alone." should be Once[,] And the Dutch translation should be: Eenmaal waren beide ouders weggevlogen ...

I ❤️ AFRIKAANS!

4:49 why its kinda reminds something in 1941 bc he said "se hy"

I don't speak neither, but really like how Afrikaans sounds. Greetings from Russia

I like the fact it is almost brabans accent

Dang I can read dutch but to understand them when they speak...

baie dankie

Why does Dutch sometimes use het for the definite article and sometimes de?

@ThW5

Жыл бұрын

Well in German you have der(masculine)-die(feminine)-das(neuter)-die(plural), in English such a system collapsed into the(masculine)-the(feminine)-the(neuter)-the(plural), in standard Dutch one gender kept a definite article of its own de(masculine)-de(feminine)-het(neuter)-de(plural)

@syro33

Жыл бұрын

Grammatical gender. Dutch has two granmatical genders/noun classes: Common and Neuter (or de-words and het-words). Really it only affects which version of the word "the" they use, its very minimal compared to other European languages.

@franclinduckstra4217

Жыл бұрын

For the same reason Germans use der, die, das or Franch use Le, La

@jonasv.c.8924

Жыл бұрын

Native Dutch-speaker here (from Belgium): the article "de" must be used for female and male nouns, while "het" must be used for neutral nouns. For example, "de man" (the man, obviously a male noun), "de vrouw" (the woman, female noun) and "het kind" (the child, neutral noun). But also "de stoel" (the chair = male noun), "de tafel" (the table = female) or "het huis" (the house = neutral). It is relevant to know the noun's gender when you are using a pronoun that that refers to the noun. For example, you have to use "zij / haar" (she / her) when referring to "de tafel" because a table is female in Dutch. "Waar is de tafel?” (Where is the table?). Answer: “Zij staat in de woonkamer.” (She is in the living room.”).

@benjaminklass5118

Жыл бұрын

Common (combined masculine and feminine) and neuter gendered words.

Op de Nederlandse Antillen hebben ze ook Nederlands als tweede taal

best veel woorden in Afrikaans lijken op het Brabants dialect zei het met een iets ruwere uitspraak

I thought there were only 44 people left who could speak Afrikaans 🤔 😆

When most Germanic Language Speakers learn English, to me they all sound the same, except for Afrikaans, the differences are enough to cross over into English when learning it, although my little brother still thinks it sounds the same, when I do a Boer accent he's like "German Accent?"

There some afrikaans speakers in Mauritius but i don't think that they are descendants of the settlers rather South Africans 🤔

1:59 buy a donkey

It's the same just different spelling.

Adam and Eve spoke Afrikaans, when they fell, God took His language back and kept it for His chosen boervolk in SA...yip, God speaks Afrikaans, it's His Mother taungh...;-)))))

Afrikaans is a mixed of Dutch, English, African languages and even some Arabic and Asian languages.

Die rukkie is something different in Dutch hahahah:P