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Originally posted by ivanhoe
Can you see the differences between the three languages spoken here ? Well four if you include English and five if you include French, but I guess nobody has any trouble to distinguish them from the others.

You've completely lost me after the first page. That's alright though, I really only speak two languages fluently: English and Bad English. 😀

Originally posted by Omnislash
You've completely lost me after the first page. That's alright though, I really only speak two languages fluently: English and Bad English. 😀

Originally posted by ivanhoe
Can you see the differences between the three languages spoken here ? Well four if you include English and five if you include French, but I guess nobody has any trouble to distinguish them from the others.

Originally posted by Varg
Well I recognised the german then it changed to what looked like dutch to me. If there was another then I missed it 😳

Edit: Actually, on closer inspection I could tell that something which must be Afrikaans as it seems like dutch but not quite. Given that I don't know any of those languages I'm just going by how they look!

Originally posted by Acolyte
I can't tell the difference between Afrikaans and Dutch. How different are they? Is it like German and Swiss German? Do Akfrikaaners need to be dubbed/have subtitles if they appear on Dutch telly?

Originally posted by Varg
Well, you speak American, at least, not English.


Running away very fast....😀

Originally posted by Omnislash
You've completely lost me after the first page. That's alright though, I really only speak two languages fluently: English and Bad English. 😀

Originally posted by ivanhoe

About four hundred years ago Dutch settlers went to South Africa.
Since then the language they spoke, originaly Dutch of course,
and the Dutch in the Netherlands had a seperate development
(no jokes please 😛). I guess it sounds the same for someone
who is not familiar with either.

Yes, Afrikaaners have subtitles on Dutch telly.

... and guess what ?

The Nobelprize for literature 2003 goes to the South African writer John M. Coetzee !

Congratulations South Africa !

Originally posted by Acolyte
It's funny... despite the jokes, the difference between US and British English is on a much smaller scale; in fact, when they're in written form it can be hard to tell the difference. I wonder why?