Culture Shock | Truth About Living in South Africa | PART 2

[@iam_mmangalisoo7679]

You funny yazi😂😂😂. Everybody living in SA , coming from Weat Africa is doing these type of videos about S.A. But wena you are funny and the way you approach this, is so unique.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hahahaha thanks Mmangs 😂😂😂

[@OgiMadinda]

You rock!

[@henringallikingue910]

Cameroon is central africa

[@ZoeysMusings]

You went in on the languages segment 😂😂 I'm with you on "must" and "should". "Cape Town is not a place you go to fit in, you go to stand out" that's a word chiiiile. I also thought you were Nigerian from your accent 😂🤭 And that emphasis on "Zimbabwean friends" took me out looool

[@frinwie1688]

Nigerians don't sound like her plsssssss

[@MsDeevah3867]

Hey Babez glad to be here from Tola Lusi Visited CapeTown in my early days (2019) and it’s beautiful and freaking cold Lollz.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Wow thanks for checking me out, Deevah 🤎🤎. Ahhh yes you visited probably in the winter. Cold, windy and beautiful!

[@mysoftlanding]

hey there, great video id love to know what course you were studying

[@mutomboinprogress]

Master of Engineering in Telecommunications

[@mutomboinprogress]

Good morning Bonolo 🙏🏽

[@mrsoshadabaadman]

You are my second favourite Mutombo after Dikembe Mutombo even though he is from the DRC. So my favourite Mutombo from Cameroon.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hahahahaha don't know why you were trying to push me to number 2 when I'm clearly number 1 😂😂😂. Jokes aside, thanks a lot, Mr Sosha

[@asandasukazi7198]

Wena😂😂😂😂

[@mutomboinprogress]

My one surviving word 😂😆

[@BolamasTheLevite]

Mzansi means Bottom taken from Zulu word Ezansi meaning at the Bottom. Then the word was made a Name: Mzansi (Rather than saying South Africa, we say Mzansi)

[@mutomboinprogress]

✨ perfect explanation. Thank you!

[@thuthukanisjaka2597]

You are wrong Mzansi is a Zulufication of the Xhosa word Mzantsi.

[@julianaribeiro4490]

It's so interesting to know that "neh" is used by south africans too, because in brazilian portuguese we use this same expression for the same meaning 😯 It's like "you're coming, neh?" as in "you're coming, right?". Which in brazilian portuguese it would be "você vem, né?" as in "você vem, certo?"

[@mutomboinprogress]

Juliana! Omgggg it has been a while! Hope all is well. 💕 Good to see you in the comments again. This is so interesting! Neh, né… Germans use it too, according to another comment. We are all one 😁

[@naledikeshebang1134]

Wow... nice

[@joe_lubinda]

Well the dutch settlers brought dutch there which evolved to Afrikaans. Afrikaans is old dutch mixed with Portuguese and various African languages so I think the black South Africans adopted the "neh". Europeans adopted some words from our languages and vice versa.

[@puseletsotsilo]

Lol that's exactly how we use it 😂😂😂😂

[@senzenimang1354]

My dear are you Banu?

[@MANO-mw5iw]

I laughed so hard when you talked about languages 😂😂 but it's true, we do take pride in our languages.

[@mutomboinprogress]

😂😂😂😂 As it should be

[@khathutshelomatlou9712]

@@mutomboinprogress Wena...Wena🤣🤣

[@mutomboinprogress]

@@khathutshelomatlou9712 😁😁😁

[@dineomolapo9934]

As an African you are expected to know your mother tongue fact 🇿🇦❤️

[@francoiswilliams]

True bruh, Afrikaans...

[@nomsamazibuko706]

I once asked this guy from 🇸🇳 what was their native language and he said French and I was shocked that he doesn't know 🤔

[@xoliswaosei2497]

Sisi means sister. It’s a sign of respect.

[@francoiswilliams]

Sussie, small sister in Afrikaans

[@lethukuthulamnguni2166]

My partner is French speaking and the “MUST” word is the cause of most arguments 😂😂 He says South Africans cannot speak😂

[@mutomboinprogress]

😂😂😂😂 'must' is too heavy, yoh. I really understand your partner 😂😂. When somebody says 'you must do this or that', it's just like they are giving orders.

[@brandondouwie6477]

The "must" thing is actually so wild. I never realised that it's basically a command. We definitely use it in place of "should"😅

[@jacoct35]

Haha me 2, never realised it

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hahaha There’re so many things that we just don’t notice until someone else bring to our attention

[@jacoct35]

@@mutomboinprogress it's true. Thanks for your video, it was refreshing and interesting to hear your perspective

[@thembekilefono3126]

Hahahaha its a MUST sana ...LOL

[@truesouth6532]

Sisi means girl/woman, has nothing to do with complexion. I swear our obsession with skin colour will be the end of us as black people. Anyways great video ❤️

[@ameliorationt_zar7531]

Neh? =Right?

[@shirleyntlonti3606]

It's Heritage Day tomorrow we would love to see your Cameroonian Traditional Attire 😂

[@mrsoshadabaadman]

We still say it's Shaka's day. ❤️😊

[@shirleyntlonti3606]

@@mrsoshadabaadman Hayke Shaka Day it is 😂

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hahahahaha you guysssss

[@serioustalkwithbhudax]

Love you when you show that as South Africans we respect Africans and expect Africans to be Africans. We respect our languages more than those from European nations.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Definitely. I joke a lot but I do try to keep it real here. Thanks for watching, Xolilizwe

[@lebogangmoeketsi1614]

Sisi means sister Wena is used by all ethnic groups in SA and wena means you

[@mutomboinprogress]

Ayeeee! Thank you Lebo! Awwww, so sisi means sister eh? Awwww

[@hlumelosamani7138]

The language part killed me😂😂😂you actually looking tswana and a lil bit xhosa no wonder they kept on speaking to you in xhosa in cape Town

[@mutomboinprogress]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@vusilemathebula1529]

Yes more like South African.

[@mosalethoba5267]

Is it because of her light skin complexion ? Because to me phenotypically to me I can see that she's from the west .

[@786songezochiya]

hahahaah. the mother tongue issue will always confuse me with our african bortherts and sisters. how do you only speak the coloniser's languge.😂😂😂😂. you have to have a mother tongue

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hahaha I was taught the coloniser’s language. It is what it is. I also took time to explain why it might be difficult for some people to learn the vernacular, depending on the circumstances but as usual, the need to sit on one’s high horse and judge still prevails.

[@bronwynbeukes8959]

Girl, your laugh is so contagious. I hope Capetonians treat you well, stay safe!

[@mutomboinprogress]

Cape Town was good to me ❤. Thank you Bronwyn!

[@leeuwkgosing145]

"must" or "should" I. Is how we learned the language. Because of our past, we learned colonial languages through instructions. thats why we use "must" instead of "should" (For reference please see the languages used by US slaves.)

[@mutomboinprogress]

Wow! Wow wow wow! I would never have even thought of where that came from. It really is something. Thanks Leeuw!

[@louisvolschenk7200]

Must is closer to the Afrikaans for should, which is 'moet'.

[@francoiswilliams]

@@louisvolschenk7200 moet , moet nie, muti

[@walkwithorr]

Was also thinking I've heard white people using must in the same way. Whatever we say in SA as far as the queens language is concerned is what we learned from masters self.

[@mutomboinprogress]

@@walkwithorr true, my roommate who always said, “Must I close the door?” is white.

[@cynthiaatanga4135]

LOL this was actually hilarious. Also, the “you are Nigerian” assumption🤦🏽‍♀️ It’s just tiring. And I love how when they meet you they don’t ask what country you’re from, they get right into the “what state/tribe in Nigeria are you from”😂. Just lovely.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hahaha it's really a thing. Do you know that at some point, I used to get this question even in Cameroon?

[@molefemokhine9557]

You sound Nigerian but look South African, it's easier to understand why locals spoke Xhosa to you.

[@mutomboinprogress]

😂😂😂 they always leave me confused in the streets. I see now

[@siphiwemaseko8883]

She's an African can we please leave this mentality of you look South African.

[@molefemokhine9557]

@@siphiwemaseko8883 of course she's African. But Africans, just like all other races have their distinct looks, features, DNA etc. that can be traced back to certain regions even locale, nowt wrong with that, it's just natural. But thanks for your advice, won't heed it though.

[@siphiwemaseko8883]

Lol but you say she looks like South African, mina I'm dark in complexion, does that mean I look like a Sundanese. Leave that colonial mentality.

[@molefemokhine9557]

@@siphiwemaseko8883 at least read to comprehend first, never said she looks like a South African but rather she looks South African. Two different things. Stop suggesting that certain things boils down to colonialism, even those colonisers are able to distinguish themselves based on certain traits, features etc. Being able to distinguish a person features isn't due to colonialism, it's due to patten recognition which most living things, including humans learned. Imagine saying to an African "You look African" Of course they are African but you can still have an educated guess as to which region of Africa they are from (that doesn't mean it'll always be a right guess). You taking this in a wrong way, don't.

[@siviweslara1023]

Mzantsi "means lower part of" or Southern in our case ❤. About languages, in short ... the are many dialects considered to be Xhosa(for instance) but we can understand each other 95% (not statistics).

[@mutomboinprogress]

Oooo thank you Siviwe. I get what you mean by some dialects being put under the wide umbrella of one main language. We do have a few cases like that back home. Thanks a lot for engaging, Sivi!

[@Stephanie_Binla]

That’s so true. Cape is so beautiful and I have made some really nice friends who help me explore the city.... maybe one day we will go hiking

[@mutomboinprogress]

please do! 😆😆

[@reginaldm707]

Sisi means sister, neh is used as a confirmation, wena is a universal 🇿🇦 word meaning "You"...it is not limited to Xhosas

[@nomfunekonosilela3895]

They have always been languages please don't diminish them to dialects, we have to stop elevating colonial languages above our own. In South Africa we call them languages not dialects.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Sorry my English is probably not the best but I use the words language, dialect, mother tongue, vernacular interchangeably. If you noticed, I did start by saying SA has 11 languages and I didn’t say 11 dialects. I only said dialect later so Forgive me, please.

[@StephDingena]

😂😂😂 This was such fun video to watch. I enjoyed every second of it. I totally relate to not knowing my mother tongue.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Thank you so much 😁. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I was just telling my mom recently that now I want to learn the dialect. But where is the time?

[@mikeaman2008]

...So the video is 2 years old... I subscribed anyway! lol... Sawubona Mutombo!

[@alfredsebola5191]

Did you know that the word "wena" means you in 9 official languages of South Africa.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Ahhh yes, thank you Albert. I now know because a few people pointed that out here. Thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@kamomothusi]

The language part 😂😂😂 you’ve gained yourself a new subbie ❤️

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hahahahaha thanks for joining, Kamo. Gorgeously profile pic 😍😍

[@angelesmbwoge1328]

I came here because of Miss Trudy, you got yourself a new subscriber,nice content and great presentation.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Thanks Angeles 🙏🏽

[@makerkandike9810]

Lol “Cape Town is very diverse”, I completely agree but wait till you get to Johannesburg. 😅I love it.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Can't wait for the next opportunity to visit! I had plans of being in Jozi for a while but pandemic said no. Plus the interprovince travel restrictions that were up for a while ruined my plans.

[@francoiswilliams]

Yeoville?

[@delphinekonda]

You are glowing... thanks sharing your experiences

[@IamZulu-8]

Pregnant

[@mutomboinprogress]

Thank you Delphine ❤❤

[@phillipjaziri1276]

OK first of all, you look beautiful. And yes, you do look and sound Nigerian. I lived in South Africa for 16 years. No doubt its a beautiful country. But just like every other country including my beloved Naija, has its flaws. Topic for another day. So yeah, I enjoyed ur innocent and open minded view of Cape Town / South Africa. . I could relay to most of the things you said when I newly came. Good a thing you kept the video simple, funny and educative. Thinking of subscribing to your channel, if for nothing else, just to see ur smile once more.

[@thandekamathafeng8880]

Ne? = meaning "Right?" Mzansi = Zulu/Xhosa meaning "South"

[@franssehata6259]

jaa neh , our usage of "must " is a national crisis that needs to be addressed . but thank you "sisi" or should i say sister for making us laugh at our self. you are a very funny and beautiful soul. keep it up

[@mutomboinprogress]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 you killed me with National crisis. Thank you so much, Frans. I enjoyed making the video as well ❤️❤️❤️

[@franssehata6259]

@@mutomboinprogress Please come back to south africa ( your second home) anytime. we miss you already we love neh sisi

[@FeminineGlow]

Imagine knowing just one word of the entire language 💔😂😂😂😂 that's me and Afrikaans. It's tough xeim😂😂😂

[@mutomboinprogress]

😂😂😂 what's your one Afrikaans word?

[@FeminineGlow]

@@mutomboinprogress "Dankie"😂😂😂😂

[@mutomboinprogress]

Even I, who doesn't know anything, know what that means 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Bare minimum

[@FeminineGlow]

@@mutomboinprogress that's how bad my Afrikaans is as a SOUTH AFRICAN🇿🇦😂😂😂Yeyi! Don't take it very lightly 😂😂😂😂

[@phumi343]

@@FeminineGlow 🤣🤣🤣 and Tonsis(spelling🙊)

[@lemorenk5006]

i am ordering you now! you must come back to SA my sister and hang out with the real people of the South in Jozi

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hahahahahaha

[@bedoungtisha2751]

Well done boo. South Africa is definitely on my bucket list. 💕

[@kiblinflinn8147]

Mzantsi is a Xhosa word for south Africa , specifically spelt Mzantsi . But it's the most popular hence other tribes/languages have adopted the word as slang misspelling it as Mzansi .

[@mutomboinprogress]

Ayeee thank you Kiblin ✨

[@tloutlou2655]

Wena is "you" in almost all bantu languages of SA

[@leboledwaba5571]

Wena - you Sisi - sister Mzansi - South in Zulu or Xhosa language

[@mutomboinprogress]

Ayeee I had 1/3. I knew Wena was you but not the other ones. Thank you Lebo ❤❤

[@tvs9978]

"You must or must not do anything ooh, but please bring salt". 🤣🤣Honestly, you're too much. And I've noted the RRrrrrrrrr in South Africans too. It's deep! Thanks for giving us a more insights into both Cameroonian and SA cultures

[@mutomboinprogress]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I think the last person to tell me I'm too much was my mom. Brings back memories. I'm happy you're enjoying this content

[@kamogelo1735]

Possibly the best South Africa culture shocks video. None of the negativity I'm so accustomed to seeing in such. Awesome!

[@mutomboinprogress]

Aww thank you so much, Kamogelo. Thanks for receiving this video well.

[@thembambele8322]

Nice video, please also visit other parts of SA. Come see SOWETO in Gauteng.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Definitely in future plans 👍🏽👍🏽

[@tchassakamga]

Dope transitions, by the way. Motion. Music. Merge. Noice. Noice.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Now that’s a comment I love to read

[@sthembisombili3284]

You're very smart to not fluently speak your mother tongue and at least one or two other languages from your country,excluding English,you must really change that.On average SAns speak 3 language excluding English hence people switch between languages when talking among themselves.Some even speak all eleven of our official languages.

[@mutomboinprogress]

I agree, that really needs to change. 👌🏽

[@top-gnews8333]

Wena, is for sesotho, pedi, Zulu,Xhosa, setswana...the southern bantu language

[@stunnerstv5535]

Please keep up with this lively, energetic and real / automatic energy in your next Videos 🙌🙏 We love to see you laughing 😹🤣😂

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hahahahha thank you Di. And I personally have been enjoying the change

[@stunnerstv5535]

@@mutomboinprogress sounds great 🔥

[@stunnerstv5535]

Please I meant " authentic energy, which one be * automatic energy * too nohhh 🤣🤣😂💔

[@scrmrmmotla2304]

Only discovered your channel recently, I MUST say that I'm loving it.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Thank you very much 🙏🏽

[@msnakase5893]

Wow, youtube recommended your channel. I must say i love your content. Im binge watching🤭🤭🤗❤️

[@mutomboinprogress]

Yay! Thank you Ntsiki! 🤭🤭🤭

[@tloutlou2655]

I fought with the Cameroonian on Facebook last year. I asked her about her language and she tells me is French and i was like 🤔🤔🤔 French is French your mother tongue?

[@mutomboinprogress]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 please

[@noxzienocturnal2103]

We use "neh" so much but I've never actually thought of the context in which it is used. Depending on the the context, you either use it when you want confirmation and assurance or when you agree with what's being said. Mzansi translates to South. It's from isiXhosa and isiZulu, Mzansi Africa= South Africa. So it's not really slang, it comes from the dialect, we've just shortened it by removing Africa.

[@mutomboinprogress]

I think I hear Mzansi more in commercials than in day to day discussions. Ooo okay, I get it. Someone said ‘Neh’ is more like ‘right?’ And that makes so much sense. Thanks Noxzie ❤️

[@lynnamang09]

I get the same thing people think that I'm either Nigerian or Congolese 🤦‍♀️😂😂... yes I'm not going lie I have a lot of friends from those countries but it doesn't make me them tho... as the saying goes show me your friends and I will show you who you are😂😂😂😂... but I also guess its because Cameroon is very quiet and not a lot of people know of our country either... people are surprised when we say where we come from. And another thing is because when they here us speak pigin I guess that also makes them think we are Nigerian and then when I speak French they automatically think I'm from Congo 😅😅

[@mutomboinprogress]

I'm actually surprised that most people do know where Cameroon is but I have had to explain that we are found in the armpit of Africa to a few people 😆😆😆

[@deladyM]

Mutombo - I love your content. Suggestion: It doesn't really matter where you find yourself. I think it's still important for the preservation of culture of which language is a part of that in your home, your parents should continue speaking to you in your mother tongue. I am Zambian and have lived in SA for 30 years now and my kids can speak Silozi which is my mother tongue. On the whole! This is a lovely video.

[@mutomboinprogress]

❤❤❤ Thank you Martha, you make a very valid point here. Kudos to raising your kids with Silozi 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@Agza]

Silozi... I'm fascinated by that language. I've read about its similarities to my language, Khilobedu, which has unfortunately been assimilated under Sepedi.

[@afroskywalker]

New subscriber here. I thought you were Congolese when I saw your vid in my recommendation. Mutombo is a popular name in Congo.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hahaha thanks Tresor. I get that a lot. The word Mutombo means different things in different areas though, from Congo to Cameroon to Côte d’Ivoire to Zimbabwé. It’s also pronounced differently.

[@michaelmokotong]

Wonderful insert and explanation about indigenous languages in Cameroon. Thanks for the post, it's great.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Thank you very much Michael. I think you are the only one who acknowledged my explanation about indigenous languages in Cameroon.

[@esihleqangule5523]

I mean don't sell yourself short, you know both "sisi" AND "wena" 😂😂 so you're well on your way to being fluent in Xhosa ❤️😂 Also Mzansi is really the Zulu/Xhosa word for South. It's means that. South or bottom because SA is at the bottom on the continent.

[@mutomboinprogress]

😂😂😂😂😂 thank you Esihle, this made me laugh so hard!

[@thulanibida6677]

Xhosa not Zulu

[@esihleqangule5523]

@@thulanibida6677 the above spelling is actually Zulu. Ngoba ngesiZulu akekho uNtsi but there is Nsi. If it was Xhosa it would be Mzantsi. But also nangesiZulu when something is at the bottom or underneath kushiwo ukuthi ingezansi. Hence I referred to both languages because the word it's self exists in both languages but the prominent spelling is taken from isiZulu.

[@thulanibida6677]

@@esihleqangule5523 nope sisi ..... English is south ... Zulu is emningizim.... Xhosa mzantsi ....

[@thulanibida6677]

@@esihleqangule5523 sisi South Africa in Xhosa is emzantsi Africa ..... Zulu iningizim Africa ..... the nickname came from Xhosa. Uyaxoka

[@suntanglory]

Sisi is actually a yoruba word/slang especially in Nigeria use for a beautiful young lady. The "must" must 😂 be from the apartheid era, where people were suppressed, commanded against their will.Cameroon is more Nigerian than most people think.Eastern Nigeria, from the North to the south are the same people/tribes as western Cameroon. I've always believed west African countries should have been mapped /divided in latitudes rather than the North South, longitude system it is today.That would have kept the tribes in the same country, which would have helped the peace and development of the continent. I hope and pray we all can wake up and see Africans as one and the same people, that have expanded and migrated, spread out across the continent. Thank you.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Thank you for taking time out to write such an elaborate comment, Suntan. I totally see what you mean regarding the lateral vs longitudinal divisions. At the end of the day, division is still division and we are still experiencing the effects to date. Hopefully, we can all move towards a more united Africa because across the continent, we are more similar than we are different. ❤ Regarding 'must' (lol), someone else here also said the same thing. Thank you once again

[@suntanglory]

@@mutomboinprogress Sisi means lady in yoruba language....

[@Pilane892]

The linked with Apartheid. I see now you have a PhD and want to teach us things we don't know?

[@ohmyword6024]

'Mzansi' is a Xhosa word that means 'South' but as a slang word it refers to South Africa.

[@UltraCoder]

(M)Zansi is informal meaning South. Or bottom/under

[@devon3766]

I'm feeling a bit home sick from SA and I've loved watching your videos - making me feel a bit closer from afar :)

[@mutomboinprogress]

Oh wow! Thanks for telling me, Devon. At least the videos help someone somewhere. Hope you get to visit home again soon

[@nomusankwanyana8780]

Wena weeeenaaaa 😍 😂!!!!!!! I rrrrrealy 😂 enjoyed watching your videos. You are naturally funny. It's interesting to see ourselves through perspective of our fellow African sisters and brothers. I thoroughly enjoyed your video 💕💕💕🤗. Lots of love wishing all the best with your studies.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Awwww this is such a wholesome comment. My heart is warm ❤❤. Hahaha I'm happy you get my humour. It is usually hit or miss. I actually wish I could watch such a video about Cameroon so that I laugh and also see a few things I may never have noticed before (e.g so many people noticed the 'must' vs 'should' only after I pointed it out)

[@lu881]

My professor was Cameroonian. And had a French accent. I found it sooo sexy.

[@mutomboinprogress]

phew!

[@francoiswilliams]

Wena is you in Sotho

[@stunnerstv5535]

6:56 you didn't mention Aybo...(something like that) On God if you suddenly use that slang in the middle of a conversation, I can dash you 1 macra 🤣😂😂😂🤣 I like yooh as well

[@mutomboinprogress]

Haibo 👌🏽😁

[@stunnerstv5535]

@@mutomboinprogress 😹I love it mal, I sear 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@moneri7184]

You forgot "eish"...eish🙆🏾‍♂️😅

[@mutomboinprogress]

😂😂😂😂😂 omgggg trueee!!!!!!!

[@Thedude5007]

You're coming neh? = You're coming right?

[@peacemathebula3597]

Lol English is not language to us we want the African language we don’t play🤣🤣

[@mutomboinprogress]

😁😁 for sure

[@stanleymabena3696]

Your symbol of pride that’s correct, we as South Africans we are pride of mother tongue because we are Africans and not Europeans.

[@mutomboinprogress]

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 as it should be. Thanks Stanley

[@stanleymabena3696]

@@mutomboinprogress You are welcome my sister

[@ZandisileMagade]

Nen? Means "right?"

[@ComConCor]

I thought u were Ghanaian, u are beautiful like Jackie Appiah.....but yeah u sound Nigerian

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hahaha thank you Thobani 🙏🏽

[@africanandproud6792]

But South Africans don't expect Nigerians to be light skinned. We actually expect them to be dark skinned. This may not be based on facts, but that's our expectation anyway.

[@IamZulu-8]

West Africans nje amalahle

[@kenneykobola8390]

@@IamZulu-8 aibo uthini kutheni uthuka abantu

[@omphemetsechake2839]

True...

[@lethukuthulamnguni2166]

Depending on the context, “neh” is a replacement of “right?” After a rhetorical Question. … eg, “I look beautiful in this shirt neh?”

[@mutomboinprogress]

'right' even makes more sense for 'neh' than what i previously explained 👍🏽. Thanks Lethu 🤎

[@lu881]

Tjasis you mooi girl

[@manigha8306]

Yeah we too love our languages just that our Government is not structured and it's still under colonization.

[@Her_boldness]

Wooow!!! Mutombo your overall video quality has improved sooooo much . well done girl :)

[@mutomboinprogress]

Thank you for noticing! 🥰❤

[@ZandisileMagade]

We in South Africa are very proud of being ourselves and not copies of Colonial devils😂

[@mutomboinprogress]

Phew! Colonial what? 😂😂😂

[@AdelleKonrad]

Interesting Video. Please invite me to South Africa, a fellow Cameroonian😍

[@mutomboinprogress]

Haha thanks. I don’t live there anymore

[@leenetsetjebane]

It was fun listening to your experiences Sisi.. I learn a lot about Cameroon just by listening to you.. South Africa loves you❤❤

[@mutomboinprogress]

Awww I love SA too!!! Thank you so much for watching and I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed the video! xx Take care

[@sabelomlambo3586]

In South Africa it's easier and you are more likely to hear people speak their native tongue because for the most part our languages are similar to each other. For example Zulu, Xhosa, Swati and Ndebele are one cluster. SeTswana, Sesotho and Sepedi are part of one cluster. Xitsonga sounds like a mix of Nguni and TshiVenda.

[@mutomboinprogress]

That makes a lot of sense. Thank you Sabelo. When I explain this to people, they think I just don't want to speak my language but once I left for boarding school at 11 yrs old, there was literally no other human being I could speak it with and by the time I went home for holidays at the end of the year, I'd forgotten the little that I had learned. That was my life for 7 years. Then I went to uni in another town where the probability of meeting someone from my village was even smaller. The experiences vary across the continent.

[@no.6377]

I can't speak my country's 'home' language fluently either - just simple phrases and...curse words XD My parents were always busy and only spoke to me in English. My grandmother was of that generation where our local dialect was still seen as 'low class' so she only spoke to me in the (less than fluent) English she knows. Only recently has she tried changing that because there's been a recent cultural push to preserve the language.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hi Nicole, you had me laughing at curse words 😂😂😂😂. This thing that you said has given me an idea for another video. The response to me saying that I don’t know my mother tongue Has been mixed but mostly indignante from people who speak their mother tongue. Your explanation on why the mother tongue faded away as the generations progressed right up to you is interesting and a bit different from my explanation (as a child, my relatives who spoke the vernacular constantly berated and mocked me when they would say something and I didn’t understand or if I asked the meaning of something. Instead of teaching me what I didn’t know, they would tell me to be ashamed of myself and it at some point, the thought of learning the dialect only brought thoughts of being mocked and I actually gave up. In addition to everything else I explained in the video). So I am inspired to do a deep dive into how the vernacular is passed down across generations in Africa.

[@no.6377]

@@mutomboinprogress It's interesting you should mention that! I wanted to keep my comment positive, but I've experienced the mocking too. Now that speaking our dialect is so accepted and a matter of pride, people who can't speak it fluently are made fun of(some teasing, some harsher). Even my own grandmother chastises me for not knowing(yes, the same one that actively avoided speaking it to me). I'm an adult now and I've honestly lost all interest in learning because of these negative experiences. The fact is, it's a "home" language passed down orally. There's very little literature and other resources to learn independently, which makes it an investment of time and effort that I don't care enough to take up, especially when: 1. The people that it would enable me to communicate better with are the same ones being rude to me 2. English is still by far the 'dominant' language in every aspect of daily life That's my TedTalk :P Looking forward to the video!

[@mutomboinprogress]

@@no.6377 thanks for inspiring the idea ❤️. Where are you from if I may ask?

[@no.6377]

​@@mutomboinprogress Saint Lucia(a small Caribbean country) :3

[@lwazimoswete3089]

Neh..it's like saying yah or right

[@mutomboinprogress]

Ayeee thanks Iwazi ❤❤

[@StephDingena]

Typical social media. There are always people waiting to be offended.

[@gabrielmkhonza7195]

Damn Mutombo........you are so captivating and charismatic. I have already subscribed. You, Joan and other are assets and good Ambassadors for Cameroon. May you prosper in both Health and Wealth. We love Cameroonians

[@mutomboinprogress]

Wow thank you so much, Gabriel!!! You have no idea how encouraging it is to hear something like this. Thanks a million for the blessings you spoke upon me as well. 🙏🏽

[@patrickmaduna7714]

Beautiful video. I'm relocating to Cameroon...

[@mutomboinprogress]

hahahaha

[@tinakelly6785]

I like the mother tongue thingy

[@basetsanamokoka5462]

Nigerian!!! No Sis you look South African.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hahaha maybe that’s why many pple started off by addressing me in Xhosa. 🙈🙈🙈

[@Winny_V]

You are so beautiful gal 😘 We love u here🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 Thanks for appreciating our country.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Thank you Winny! 😃✨

[@KingandTyla]

Mutombo Daily is very funny, we love her!!! we must meet when we come back to SA!! Honestly Nice Video

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hahahaha thank you DivinityMoss 🙈

[@lynnamang09]

I have a friend that plays cricket and he is very serious when it comes to it... he explained what, and how to play the game to me and I still don't know 😂😂😂😂... all I know is that they use a bat😂😂😂

[@mutomboinprogress]

And through you, I have now learned that a bat is involved. 😂😂😂 One step forward

[@mahlodinorah487]

Wena means YOU. Normally it automatically goes with finger pointing.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hahahhaha now that you mention the finger pointing, I can actually picture it. 😂

[@siphiwemaseko8883]

Mzansi is South Sisi is Sister

[@TheMomAbroad]

😂 the other video lead me here! I am happy about that! See, people always say I am Nigerian… but I am not even North or South of Cameroon… na wahhh o! I prefer the mountains 🏔 so hiking all day, every day!

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hahahaha just from your instagram, one can see that you are a nature girl so I'm not surprised at your choice.

[@danielspencer6174]

What is Cameroonian language? I know English or maybe French.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Hi Daniel, the official languages in Cameroon are English and French, however, we have over 200 languages from the 200+ tribes

[@mokhathi]

Beautiful and fair reflection of your second home.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Thank you, Thapelo! 😊

[@mtshedamarunyane5465]

Everyone will laugh at you if you fail your home language and you repeat the level again.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Really??? Wow! I like that it's taught in schools though.

[@mtshedamarunyane5465]

@@mutomboinprogress back in the tough days not now.

[@nocturnalrainbows6167]

Wena is you in every single language in South Africa EXCEPT Tshivenda, in Tshivenda it's "Inwi"

[@mutomboinprogress]

Ahhhh, so many pointed that out. Thank you so much for the clarification.

[@patrictshwenyane5819]

Wena, is not exclusively Xhosa. It is all South African African languages and it means you. It is not slang but rather native to all our South African African languages.

[@mutomboinprogress]

Ahhh okay okay, I see. I think someone else also mentioned the same thing - that wena cuts across most of the languages. Thanks for that clarification.

[@khanyisasokupa7013]

If I see you in Mzansi I will marry you I promise you ❤😊

[@mutomboinprogress]

Ayayai, I'm already married 💍