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    Posted: 28-Apr-2007 at 22:06

Just wondering does anybody here speak Afrikaans and is it a hard language to learn?
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It's allmost like dutch & english combined. I speak both so it shouldn't be that hard for me to learn it I thinkBig%20smile
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Apparently Afrikaans is the bastard child of English and Dutch, my South African friends have a whole list of native words they think are ridiculous in their language.
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I had watched a movie about South Africa called "Tsotsi" .Among else ,i also strongly recommend it for the language.
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Hmm, Afrikaans probably has more African influence and as much Portugese and Asian influence as it does English.
An English/Dutch hybrid it is not.
IIRC its based largely around an older varient of teh S. Hollands dialect, mixed with other influences, and then left to mature for a few centuries.
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