Hari Kondabolu "Speaking African"

[@songaday1559]

Hari is fast becoming another fave comic of mine. I'm glad I found him!!

[@shanesullivan460]

My dad is a musician, and during most of his shows he says a few words of Ojibwe, followed by, "what's the matter, you don't speak American?"

[@MANAUIAkioku]

this is absolutely awesome

[@Aishyo]

The amount of time somebody has said tome "speak african" or a variation of that. I would richer than Oprah

[@clsfavorites]

I have just become a new fan of World Compass!

[@JoNateLive]

That shot with the globe had me in stitches LOL!

[@txvoltaire]

I always wanted to learn European (and maybe Canadian, too)!

[@cocolahtay]

OMG!!! Thank You!!!!

[@stratocaster1986able]

Did she mean Afrikaan?

[@jingischannel]

MarcusAurelius that's what I thought too.

[@arlrmr7607]

MarcusAurelius, Cmon ... Not likely. Who would say African when meaning to say Afrikaan?

[@tingtang9302]

I would also like to reply to this four year old comment

[@NoName-qc3ms]

Afrikaans

[@smallhilladmin8118]

afrikaans might be a language but again to his point - An estimated 90 to 95% of the Afrikaans lexicon is ultimately of Dutch origin, - which means twisted dutch

[@MsClark2009]

This guy is so funny! I just love him.

[@gyanfranciskumar]

people always ask me if I speak Indian. Indians speak like hundreds of languages lol. But they don't mean harm, they probably meant "Hindi" so no offense. Ignorance isn't always racism, though the two are often linked.

[@dukeofmystery]

@dchoudhury totes agree. this dude is wonderful.

[@fomab]

@italophilee I think English is more widespread. Swahili is concentrated in East Africa, Arabic in the North, English all round from Nigeria to South Africa. 80% of cable channels (on DSTV, Africa's satellite decoder thingy) are English channels.

[@shahoney]

Hahahhahahahha.... it's funny before even watching this video, I already said to myself, "His punchline is going to be, "You mean colonial English? So, I speak African too!" And I was right!!" Hahaha.

[@katayoun2960]

AMAZING! :))

[@valiant971]

The funny thing about this is he is the arrogant one. Not everybody knows everything. Callng them stupid and arrogant makes you an asshole.

[@weedhound2443]

I'm speaking African guys!! HAHAHAHA ITS CRAZY YO

[@phism]

I'm Samoan and I get a lot of "oh, they have a language?"

[@decolonize]

hair kondabolu, the people's comedian!!

[@smallhilladmin8118]

afrikaans might be a language but again to his point - An estimated 90 to 95% of the Afrikaans lexicon is ultimately of Dutch origin, - which means twisted dutch

[@suledrake]

Lordy, people can be so ignorant sometimes...it's astounding.

[@NabeelAliArshad]

I think the quote is meant to be arrogant, not ignorant.

[@patebrisee]

Okay, I imagined that'd be it. I, on the other hand, didn't think it beyond the realm of possibility that a maybe a strange accent, a loud room and Hari's comic imagination might've lent themselves to a great joke without warranting comments accusing people of being racist. Don't get me wrong, though. I'm a big fan Hari and of this joke (ca.1999 Whose Line). And once I was extremely amused when someone once told she that she was adamantly against "mispronounciation".

[@sgtank123]

Lol I get asked "Do you speak Sudanese?" Yeah, it's called ARABIC.

[@Toweringinferknow]

I was once asked by an acquaintance in university if I was Indian or Muslim *face palm*

[@x4812k]

and French, and German, and Portuguese, and Italian, and Dutch....

[@italophilee]

@fomab en.wikipedia. org/wiki/File:Official_languages_in_Africa.svg as you can see, just by the sheer amount of mother tongue arabic speakers, arabic is a widely spoken language in africa. only nigeria, rwanda, south africa, liberia, and a few other countries have english as an official language. i agree though that swahili is concentrated in east africa (kenya/burund/rwanda/uganda/tanzania/some parts of DRC). DSTV is south african, of course its like that (i have it at home :)

[@darkslayer19]

@badfoods if you didn't know you can use the @xxxxxxxx to respond to the specific post/person they will also receive a email showing what you said

[@italophilee]

o.o english is not the only widespread language in africa. there's swahili, arabic (which i'm pretty sure is the most spoken language in africa, not 100% though), and french.

[@PranshuSRaghuvansh]

Well she might have misunderstood Afrikaans for "African". It is pretty common in South Africa.

[@nameita]

Exactly what I said! How do you learn a language when you can't even pronounce its name decently

[@SonMulti]

I'd really like to learn ''European''

[@patebrisee]

Wait, what's wrong with thinking she might've meant Afrikaans. I know it's a Germanic language but that doesn't make it an any less commendable. Please educate me. It's okay. You're allowed. I'm not white.

[@criticizeafterdinner]

Hari, don't make fun of the pentecostals.

[@coolsteven2]

I hope she meant Afrikaan.

[@DarkLadyJade]

It irks me how people are so ignorant about the African continent and the people and languages and cultures there.

[@madambabylonrouge]

I want to learn how to speak Caucasian and European.

[@BronzeSista]

I have heard people say, I speak American...what? You speak American? Whats that?

[@HipsterShiningArmor]

What about the parts of Africa that were colonized by the French?

[@scareglare]

That's what I'm thinking too, probably Afrikaan. But who pronounces it "African" anyway? Made for a good joke by Hari, though. :p

[@clairemariechristine]

it's called 'afrikaans', btw.

[@onigirlx]

bwhahaha you rock.

[@CielosLuz]

lmao @ "arrogant idiots."

[@sgtank123]

maybe she meant "afrikaan"? either way lol

[@dchoudhury]

I love Hari's videos lol Makes the human race seem so stupid haha

[@PlasticTourist]

But Afrikaans...?

[@arlrmr7607]

Granted it is ignorant to say I am learning African. And yet, it is possible that it was a honest mistake. Not recalling the name of the language she was learning, she may have used the placeholder generic name "African" for the specific name. No biggie. Just clarify and skip the judging. ☺

[@pianoman47]

@kcparashar Afrikaans

[@akashkirpalani4204]

Maybe it’s Afrikaans?

[@NoName-qc3ms]

Afrikaans is a language

[@JRInTroy]

Afrikaans

[@adspeed7292005]

They can consider each other brothers, but not sisters... Shocking... *yawn* And, if she really was learning to speak Afrikaans, she must have had some shitty pronunciation for it to be mistaken for 'African'.

[@310BPM]

except Russell Peters is definitely not as funny as Hari Kondabolu..