Of course… Afrikaans. You know when I start writing Dutch here you can follow it all along.
“En kan het lezen wat ik schrijf. Omdat het zo dicht bij elkaar ligt. En het Duits is weer dichtbij het Nederlands” so maybe a nice language for you to learn.
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I have written Dutch to people from Africa here on Hive and we just do understand each other fully. There are slight differences but not that much.
Aha, ok. I understand. That’s a difference that makes it harder to learn written and spoken.
Yes, it changes all.
Yes, I understand! “Ek dink jy sal ook verstaan as ek in Afrikaans skryf.” I know there are some words that differ and produce funny situations. I did some coursework on Dutch especially poetry and we have friends that live in Belgium and my Uncle can talk Dutch and Vlaams as he has been living in Belgium for I think 40 years. It is always lovely to listen to the languages mix. I met up with a Dutch friend about three weeks ago and it was lovely to hear the language again.
So cool…. Yep, got it all. And I can imagine when some words are different it can cause hi,arious situations hehehe 🤭
That’s cool. Especially in poetry.
I never heard the spoken Afrikaans. Maybe one day I will…
I can imagine it must have been nice to hear it again. And all mixes.
Have an awesome evening @fermentedphil 👋🏻😊
Maybe just YouTube something Afrikaans! I do not know what type of music you like, but this guy is a legend in our parts of the world and the song, I think, have been going around in the Netherlands as well as many of my friends there love it. So I am going to link it, then you can hear Afrikaans in song form!
(Edit: By chance, the first comment is in Dutch, at least on my side of the internet!)
Yep, I didn’t think of that hahaha 🤣 so obvious I could have listened to youtube.
Never heard of him. My music choice is slightly different. 😉😎 but still cool to hear. And I do understand it when I listen well.
Thanks for sharing the link with me 👋🏻😊 much appreciated!
YouTube has everything right! Haha. Glad that you could understand the lyrics. Afrikaans can be so beautiful but so strange as well. But I am sure all languages are like that!
I know, anytime you want to know or learn is there…
It is so different for me as I am fluent in Dutch. But after a little while I can “tune” in hehehe 🤭
Yep, they are… in my opinion the most beautiful one is French… the sounds… lovely.
Yes! French is for sure the most beautiful. Dutch, Afrikaans, German and all those germanic languages are very “loud” and agressieve. There is this one joke about Afrikaans compared to Dutch; basically, Afrikaans people speak very quickly so it sounds like a machine gun compared to Dutch which is much more poetic or “flowing” if that makes sense haha