Learning Afrikaans With Polyglot Lindie Botes!

It was so much fun learning Afrikaans, Lindie Botes' mother tongue, in this time of lockdown and self-quarantine!
◾ Learned in this video:
[00:57] - Nice to meet you
[04:48] - How are you
[05:26] - Good
[08:42] - This is delicious!
[09:33] - I love you
[10:54] - Thank you
[11:15] - You're welcome
[11:52] - Bye
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[@reinhardtbotha]

As a native Afrikaans speaker, I would like to say well done. You really crushed it in the first lesson.

[@sonammidha]

seeing two of my fav polyglot together is like an おみやげ。♥️

[@jayajadhav8221]

Mine too!!

[@user-dl2er3ql4b]

ごほうび 🍋◉‿◉♪

[@tjaldapijnappel3631]

this is so funny to me! I'm dutch and when we say 'nice to meet you' we say 'LEUK je te ontmoeten' if you would say ' lekker om jou te ontmoet' it would mean 'tasty to meet you' and if we say ontmoet we say it as 'ik heb iemand ontmoet' = I have met someone. ontmoeten is the whole verb. so similar, yet so different. very cool

[@trevorjames7490]

🤣 mind blowing right

[@mellima4226]

Grappig. Ik had precies dezelfde gedachte. 😃

[@senbonzakurakageyoshi662]

But Dutch and Afrikaans aren't based on the same language?

[@tjaldapijnappel3631]

@@senbonzakurakageyoshi662 Afrikaans IS Dutch from very long ago. It did not evolve the same way as the dutch spoken in the Netherlands .

[@Gin2005]

Lekker does not necessarily mean tasty, sometimes it can be used in another context for example "Hoe was jou reis Kaap toe?" "Lekker Meaning "How was your trip to Cape town?" "Fun" Another example "Die wind waai lekker vandag" Meaning "The wind today is nice" Another one "Lekker slaap" Meaning "Sleep well" It basically just means nice, fun tasty, well, good, and so on. Just a word describing nice. I just realised this is probably not what you meant but I'll send it anyways

[@keanancupido]

Wow! Jou Afrikaans is baie goed!!! Your Afrikaans is really good. You sound like a native already! Baie mooi👌🏻

[@JoeyJacobs18]

Bra

[@o_felipe_reis]

She is such an inspiration 🙏🏻

[@ivanovich504]

I'm Afrikaans living in Cape Town in South Africa 🇿🇦. You were amazing Bong. Super impressive 👏 👌 🙌 👍 Blessings to you for showing interest in our very unique and young Language which I feel is slowing dying out sadly.

[@photonspark]

You did extremely well, your pronunciation is excellent for a brand new learner of Afrikaans :)

[@emadeja49]

Whaat? I didn't see this coming 😁🤗 you guys are the best! 😊👍

[@ghostbreath]

this being my second language i feel like not that many people know of its existence so this was quite endearing to watch 💛

[@autobotdiva9268]

me too, i know the history and like to speak it

[@dvz6275]

Selfde hier maar Afrikaans is eintlik my eerste taal. 😅

[@user-yh1cc4ev2x]

I'm Afrikaans and very impressed how quickly you got it right. Well done.

[@sdrago24]

Wel gedaan! Dit was fantasties :) Well done! That was fantastic :)

[@scottieglot]

This was so cute to watch! Miss you both ❤️

[@tokyostudies]

This was so fun to watch!

[@arch-e5641]

Dit is altyd baie lekker vir my om veeltaliges te sien die Afrikaanse taal leer. Ek hoop jy geniet dit!

[@ChuumiChan]

Dis so lekker om te sien dat jy Afrikaans leer 😊 Baie sterkte!

[@leondekock3554]

Dude you're a natural! I cannot believe how quick you did that.. Baie goed gedaan. En liewe bliksem, dit Sal die eerste Japanese ou wees wat Afrikaans praat. Ten minste in mu ondervinding.

[@yutoni1422]

Thank you for all the funny videos!

[@karinbohl7849]

Baie dankie , Bong ! Afrikaans is lekker !🎉 Avec Lindie tu as trouvé la meilleure professeur ! 🔝🔝🔝😊

[@alexwaata371]

I enjoyed watching that, thank you for making the video. helped me alot

[@user-pz2op4yz3n]

Such a positive video. Thank you guys.

[@kaminobatto]

I love learning languages and watching polyglots inspires me. Nice video, and good to learn a few words in Afrikaans :)

[@carine1974able]

This was really fun to watch. I can see that your language ear is very well developed. Your Afrikaans accent is baie goed!!

[@lunardrives]

Mooi Afrikaans

[@alezioneconale]

I'm learning Afrikaans at the moment. This video was so helpful! thank you :)

[@amidony]

i have an idea. would u start a series of learning a new language with us? tells us what u have learned, better something interesting , and see how many of ur followers would like to follow ur steps.

[@AJ-se6qg]

Well done! Great to hear people trying to learn Afrikaans! Wel gedaan!

[@phonepyaelinkhant8263]

I'm Burmese 🇲🇲.Burmese is good language 🙂🙂

[@honororo8334]

English is my third language and i try to learn more about it and you're video is Motivates me to learn more ❤️❤️

[@ricka4678]

You two are so cute together :)

[@dariodellenavi7854]

Hi Bong! I have just watched this stream! That was very enriching! Thank you so much! I hope you have noticed my comments in the chat. They are the first ones. I have written why I couldn't watch your yesterday's stream. I hate spam. Sorry for rewriting comments. Thank you once more!

[@zainabz7992]

It’s almost like dutch! Luv this!

[@disagreeablepin]

Wow wow! Your pronunciation is perfect. You really have a knack for language learning. Great job! (In Afrikaans: Sjoe! (pronounced 'shoe') Jou uitspraak is perfek. Jy het regtig talent om tale te leer. Goeie werk!)

[@inavogel626]

Lindie, jy is 'n uitstekende juffrou. Sulke goeie voorbeelde!

[@autobotdiva9268]

pretty good lindie is the best!

[@mornebosch429]

This is the best attempt to speak afrikaans I have ever seen. I wouldn't even call it an attempt, most of the phrases were perfect even with the pronunciation. Just look at 11:17 the spelling is wrong, it should be "Dis 'n plesier"

[@natmdza11]

Amazing video !! Saludos desde México

[@maknaetzuyu2402]

Lekker om jou te ontmoeten is in Dutch : Delicious to meet you 😂😂😂

[@LindieBotes]

We Afrikaaners speak very deliciously xD

[@videodude5337]

Honestly, it’s like Dutch slang. It’s so similar!

[@gevoel8293]

For me Dutch is like old Afrikaans

[@theavanstaden9400]

Very well done Bong. Greetings from SA.

[@raouljoosten6356]

Afrikan: Lekker om jou te ontmoet. Dutch: leuk in jou te ontmoeten.

[@inavogel626]

Ook, goed om jou te ontmoet.

[@PetraStaal]

Dis altyd ' plesier om jou Afrikaans te hoor praat, Lindie. Groete uit Nederland. (oops I thought this was Lindies' channel)

[@trevorjames7490]

XD,,,,

[@hbws4786]

Wow!

[@hannahcogill8889]

Wow. You're a really good learner

[@lepermessiah1433]

Well done man! Knap gedaan!

[@dewetviljoen7282]

You really took to it very naturally. Usually the first attempts are total botch jobs but nope, you nailed most of it.

[@noahcorrea2422]

If you want to practice Filipino (Tagalog) I can volunteer since we're still on lockdown 😅 nice content as always my brother!

[@elif8350]

awwwwwww you two are soooo beautifullll

[@ashkisten3111]

👌 jy leer baie vinnig !! 👋👋😁

[@RECAMPAIRE]

It ´s almost like Dutch : Ik kan begrijpen!

[@Hannah52367]

I think the Dutch went to south africa. Not entirely sure.

[@ThNtNx]

@@Hannah52367 they did

[@Hannah52367]

@@ThNtNx thanks for confirming

[@timothytruter]

Wel gedaan, you did very well :)

[@madusathe2nd333]

I dont know how, but I live in UK now and I haven't spoke afrikaans in a long time. In the UK there like very little sa to speak it to. Like 3% of people are from SA. I think it good that some SA don't loose it .

[@fivantvcs9055]

Bonjour super vidéo! Lindie est très pédagogique . J'adore l'afrikaans, une super jolie langue, parlée et ça on ne le sait pas toujours en majorité non pas par les Boers/Afrikaners d'Afrique du Sud (Descendants des Néerlandais d'Afrique du Sud) mais par les métis (populations aux origines mélangées souvent Khoï et San avec des Européens ou des Khoï et San avec des Malais). En outre il y a des traits de créolisation venus probablement du Khoï et du San , notamment dans la grammaire et bien-sûr quelques emprunts de vocabulaire.

[@ArnoBach]

The people you are talking about forms a large portion of the Afrikaans speaking community, but they are not the majority of the speakers. They also have some fun dialects as well.

[@LesDernieresNouvellesdeKochi]

Greeting from Japan

[@3762302]

Also if you're speaking informal in the countryside we also often say: "Mooi bly" or "Mooi loop" which means safe travels.

[@rutger1963]

Mooi,aangenaam kennis making. Ik spreek zelf geen Afrikaans...maar ik zeg.. 't gaat lekker!..ik versta alles. Sommige woorden zijn anders,Verkleurmannetje,nooit van gehoord...maar had voor 99% wel een idee wat het is...Cameliion,geweldig! Tot Ziens

[@PreciousKofi]

Wow! Ek praat net ‘n bietjie Afrikaans. En waneer ek jou comment gelees het, meerste wat jy geskryf het her ek verstaan. Is dit German of Dutch?

[@rutger1963]

@@PreciousKofi Dutch of te wel Nederlands,mooi toch? en lekker,ik kan jouw commentaar voor 100% lezen en begrijpen(verstaan),groeten vanuit Nederland.

[@PreciousKofi]

@@rutger1963 O! Dit is lekker om met ‘n mens praat (of skryf) in twee verskil tale. En ek groet jou van Amerika. Lekker dad hoor

[@rutger1963]

@@PreciousKofi lekker naweek,in Nederland zeggen wij, fijn weekeinde,geniet er van.

[@PreciousKofi]

@@rutger1963 selfde aan jou!

[@RottenFrog]

Ek het 'n lekker smaakie, hier binne in my hartije...

[@hayashireiwa4122]

Can't wait. Ask her to teach you Indonesian as well

[@trevorjames7490]

I think Lindi's Indonesian isn't really proficient for doing such thing. (I'm an Indo so I can judge her Indo skill) XD

[@aaliyahdavood4492]

So I happened to chance upon this video and I speak very little Afrikaans since twelfth grade when I had to learn it. There's this song called Dames by Biggy and there's this joke that some students can't pass their Afrikaans exam but they know all the lyrics to Dames. I know that's random but I just thought about that song when I saw this video. Also... your pronunciation is so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@disagreeablepin]

Dames = Ladies kzbin.info/www/bejne/b32Ucqqdm96HZqs

[@dwayne_]

You are pronouncing the words better than i thought yoi would 😂

[@SoniaJbrt]

Wow your accent is wonderful! You sound like a native Afrikaans speaker! And coming from a native Afrikaans speaker😉

[@br-dh1lp]

Great videoo

[@paulaswaim8434]

I love Afrikaans.

[@gyrran]

after some experimentation in google translate between afrikaans, german, english and swedish, i managed to interpret "bly te kenne" to "remain to know" - as in "don't be a stranger", and i find it heart warming :)

[@inavogel626]

The meaning here is not exactly remain but bly here means glad or pleased. Ek is baie bly. I am very glad. We also say Ek bly hier. I live here/stay here. Can you stay a little? Kan jy 'n bietjie bly? Languages are so wonderful.

[@maknaetzuyu2402]

Afrikaans is for me just Dutch but words in random order

[@colonialp9]

Dutch for me is just Afrikaans in random orders

[@thewhiteflower8157]

I think after this video, I will learn the South African language because it is very similar to the German language, my favorite language

[@disagreeablepin]

Baie dankie!

[@Error-is-here]

Just so you know Afrikaans is only one of the eleven languages in South Africa

[@acorn00]

Wow

[@inavogel626]

Bong, Totsiens is almost the same as Auf Wiedersehen. The earlier form was Tot weersiens Untill again see. But that part eventually fell away.

[@ajjacobs5792]

welgedaan jy kom mooi reg.

[@benacedo2580]

Nice

[@aprendendoaaprender8139]

Could you make a video speaking japanese with Lindie, plzzz? :D

[@ksiistoyiiwa]

Ta prononciation de l'afrikaans est presque parfaite - félicitations!

[@renevanderwesthuizen1520]

Oh wow! You really did well. Some of it isn't perfect, but a lot of it was perfect (like 90% of it was perfect!). If you only said the words you spoke perfectly, I wouldn't even know that you're not Afrikaans!

[@mitel640]

Hou aseblief aan my moedertaal te leer.... ( Please continue to learn my mother tongue)

[@disagreeablepin]

Hou asseblief aan om my moedertaal te leer.

[@hereist4nd140]

I am native dutch so this is interesting to see how they use dutch words but just mix it up a litle.

[@mariedaae8722]

Angename kennis remindes me a bit of the German "Angenehm dich kennenzulernen" wich means literally the same! Im surprised!

[@disagreeablepin]

German is one of many languages which Afrikaans was created from.

[@sibusisonovember787]

I should teach you IsiZulu as one of the most spoken language in South Africa

[@uamdbro]

Wow Afrikaans is like really easy German

[@Ketutar]

Donkey - thank you Buy a donkey - thank you very much. Ok. :-D

[@disagreeablepin]

Nooo!

[@seoulmate1360]

that moment when he asked Lindie, “how are you?” @8:15

[@disagreeablepin]

and his repeat to the Afrikaans! Perfect! Very rare. English speaking people struggle with the 'g' of Afrikaans.

[@MichelleF1320]

Aangename kennis is pretty much dying out... except in really formal setting. 🤷‍♀️ honestly, afrikaans people dont actually say nice to meet you, like ever. I don't remember ever saying it... except when meeting english people when it's good manners. Just a tip for anyone wanting to sound like a native.

[@disagreeablepin]

Ja. 'Bly te kenne' is meer algemeen. (Ek is bly om met jou(of u) kennis te maak)

[@inavogel626]

My skat, ons sê nog al die tyd Aangename Kennis! of dis goed om jou te ontmoet, of sommer o hallo Irma of Jan.

[@MichelleF1320]

@@inavogel626 Dit moet die generation gap wees, Tannie, ek ken niemand wat dit sê behalwe my tannie wat al in die 70s is nie. Met jonger mense is dit besig on uit te sterf…. Seker nou nie n goeie ding nie, maar… ek hoor ook nie meer enige iemand sê “bly te kenne” nie. As mens dit hoor is dit eintlik n verassing en voel half soos n “throw back” na die verlede.

[@seoulmate1360]

I ship these two hehehe

[@manalsafssafi2687]

Afrikaans uses the most same words as dutch, and dutch is in the prounounse the nearly the same as german. Pls make a video where you prepare some dutch words, cause i think you will pick up the language very fast :)

[@Setetoto]

Dutch words and german are similar but the pronunciation is not very similar.

[@manalsafssafi2687]

@@Setetoto thats what i mean, but like dat is and das ist.. goed and gut, melk and milch almost sound the same

[@juansebastianperilla1819]

Hi Bong, what about the Sirilics Languages like Russian or Ucrania?, can u make a video?

[@andrewrivas8891]

すごい

[@madsunnytv4149]

hello please tell me book for kanji i mean all 2500 of them i only know 100 so... please tell me.

[@carolinamayhale190]

Bly om jou te ontmoet.

[@millionmillionaires3443]

Avengers have come together!

[@duy7117]

Learning languages has never been so easy

[@loonaot12forever]

to similar to dutch

[@jortiz1524]

“Lekker boys “ -RadioRaps

[@notannoyedbird1820]

Ship?

[@anime4everjapan518]

My mom speak African oldest language before war 2

[@maknaetzuyu2402]

I speak Dutch and Afrikaans is so similar to Dutch

[@s.mary_anne.v2215]

It's crazy bcz he sounds Afrikaans😂

[@notashlynne]

I’m Afrilkaans

[@sayaserik995]

Өте қызықты эфир болды 😄 Африканша осындай болады деп ойламаппын, қызық екен 👍😁😁

[@nurujai4673]

Salem)) Rasinda qiziq boldi. Sizde til uyrenuge qizigasizba?

[@ArnoBach]

Dankie

[@raouljoosten6356]

Search afrikan and dutch. You will be surprised 😯 i can look afrikan vídeos without translation 🤣

[@braaierman]

Once a fellow Afrikaans speaker greeted me with "Bly te kenne". I thought the guy was Dutch or something, because many millennials simpy say "aangenaam" or even more brief, "ganit", which is short for "how gaan dit?".

[@disagreeablepin]

'ganit' is good for texting quickly, not for speaking.

[@yamigekusu]

I know the word Lekker because I play Sigma in Overwatch way too much lmao

[@BlackHoleAstrology]

Baie lekker! Ek dink dat jy Afrikaans ongelooflik is. Jy moet absoluut na Suid-Afrika kom en Afrikaans praat. 🇿🇦🥳🎊🎊

[@Tsumebleraar]

jou Afrikaans

[@BlackHoleAstrology]

@@Tsumebleraar Ja! Is jou Afrikaans?