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Re: Who speaks Afrikaans?

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PaintBuckets is not online. PaintBuckets
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09 Jun 2014 08:55 PM
post here
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MemphisBlues is not online. MemphisBlues
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09 Jun 2014 09:59 PM
I tried learning the language to difficult though.
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Riku1257 is not online. Riku1257
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09 Jun 2014 10:00 PM
does google translate count?

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MemphisBlues is not online. MemphisBlues
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09 Jun 2014 10:01 PM
Its rather difficult using translate it messes the sentences in other languages up
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Riku1257 is not online. Riku1257
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09 Jun 2014 10:03 PM
that was a joke. ._.

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MemphisBlues is not online. MemphisBlues
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09 Jun 2014 10:04 PM
Then say it was a joke in the sentence it would be more efficient that way than saying it afterwards.
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PaintBuckets is not online. PaintBuckets
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09 Jun 2014 10:05 PM
I just started learning it
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MemphisBlues is not online. MemphisBlues
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09 Jun 2014 10:06 PM
Hopefully you won't give up like I did.
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09 Jun 2014 10:10 PM
I hope not either, i have a desire to learn it.
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TheMyrco is not online. TheMyrco
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10 Jun 2014 08:11 AM
I can read and understand it. Can't use it myself much.

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10 Jun 2014 08:44 AM
My friend is south african.

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Riducule is not online. Riducule
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10 Jun 2014 10:29 AM
ymlol does.

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10 Jun 2014 10:36 AM
i want to learn dutch
#close enuff
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PaintBuckets is not online. PaintBuckets
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10 Jun 2014 11:22 AM
Dutch and Afrikaans are basically the same thing lmao
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ymlol is not online. ymlol
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10 Jun 2014 11:53 AM
Dutch =/= Afrikaans, Afrikaans is basically old Dutch
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TheMyrco is not online. TheMyrco
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10 Jun 2014 12:35 PM
^
This

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10 Jun 2014 12:48 PM
o ok
So most people who know Dutch will understand Afrikaans?
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PaintBuckets is not online. PaintBuckets
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10 Jun 2014 01:06 PM
basically, I've read it's easier to understand it in the written from rather than spoken
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10 Jun 2014 02:41 PM
It's not easier, it's just what you prefer.

Afrikaans uses accents more, but has a more consistent writing for the s, c and k.
Dutch has less accents (and only apply them in loan-words or logical situations), but, in trade, has a less consistent writing for the s, c and k.

Pronounciation is pretty identical except the g and some words. Written, slight differences.

Spoken, South-African people will have a harder time understanding Dutch speakers as Dutch speakers speak faster overal (same with German -> Dutch and Latin American Spanish -> European Spanish), but in the reverse this effect doesn't occur often.

Afrikaans is generally more seen as a dialect of Dutch rather than a real, completely different language. Thus more like Dutch -> Frisian/Flemish than Dutch -> German.

Talking out of my own experiences and others'.

I don't know much about the grammar in Afrikaans, although overal it seems quite the same. People say that Dutch has a slight disadvantage in being more difficult in this field, but I can't confirm this. Also, being more difficult would prove more interesting due to being more challenging (and perhaps) fun the learn on the hand.

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TheMyrco is not online. TheMyrco
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10 Jun 2014 02:45 PM
[...] disadvantage in this field* for [...]

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10 Jun 2014 08:26 PM
yea ^
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10 Jun 2014 09:08 PM
Nope. I am a polyglot however.
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