🇿🇦 American Couple Reacts "SOUTH AFRICAN vs AMERICAN ENGLISH"

🇿🇦 American Couple Reacts "SOUTH AFRICAN vs AMERICAN ENGLISH" | The Demouchets REACT
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[@kemisoofentse3944]

95% of South Africans call petrol Station "garage"

[@ntokozomokhutso3206]

True...

[@Siyasne]

Fact

[@josephconradie5935]

Yeah when I saw it I thought thats a garage I never use petrol station

[@joejoseph9439]

99 % 😄

[@Pyxe_ZA]

So true that we even call a pie, a garage pie 🤣

[@thembekasokoyi658]

As South Africans we have our own way of naming things only South Africans will understand 😂😂😂

[@joejoseph9439]

He knows he should've said garage instead of petrol station 😂 but he ran away from it

[@tamara40]

Why thought 🤔 he is not true to himself 🤣🤣😂

[@joejoseph9439]

@@tamara40 😂🤣

[@andrediamond4374]

He's afraid to be judged. We all know it's called garage😂😂

[@joejoseph9439]

@@andrediamond4374 😂😂

[@zeenkosis]

I think most South African English comes more from the British as we were a colony. Even our spelling

[@jovanfisher3072]

Yep it is

[@SoloGamingZA]

it actually literally is from British English since colonialism and our School curriculum was actually created by the English and based on their English... you will find it the very same in New Zealand, Australia and even India... and then each of them will then have their very own distinct slang terms

[@MosesMatsepane]

He was being super pretentious when he called the "Garage" a Petrol Station.

[@msp4254]

Jersey is made out of wool... Usually worn in winter.

[@neomontja71]

We hardly call gas station, we say garage. It's not lack, it's lekker.. We also say Yerrrr instead of yessesss, Neh instead of Heh. We also use struu meaning for sure.

[@AjMemani]

We no longer call it "Joel", we call it GROOVE now. 😂

[@PrincessVelaryon]

Or jola for other activities 😊

[@othnielarts]

Don't forget "kuier"

[@alanellis1442]

its spelt jol

[@nadinehoogenboezem4798]

Jol

[@wot4922]

Jol is a jol. Never called it groove😂😂😂

[@Sabata_Nchocho]

For a cultural hub,come to Gauteng(Joburg,Pretoria, Vaal),for distinctive culture Kwa Zulu Natal(Durban,Pietermaritzburg),for aestics Western Province(Cape Town,Stellenbosch,Knysna) and the rest of the country you'll find culture as you would in KZN...All the rest of the provinces have their beauty,traditions and landscapes...

[@mr.blackzonrackz7055]

90% of South Africans we call it "Groove" in reference to clubbin'

[@Pyxe_ZA]

I'm with Dion with regards to the restroom. You don't go there to rest. And bathroom is confusing too, coz you're not going to take a bath. Toilet or lavatory basically explains itself. And lastly, a Oreo would be a cookie, and the ones without cream etc, are biscuits

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

😂😂 Sounds a little too in my “personal business”

[@Pyxe_ZA]

@@TheDemouchetsREACT 🤣

[@Siyasne]

@@TheDemouchetsREACTsometimes y'all call Buns biscuits. Does KFC have Biscuits or y'all call it something else?

[@carolinemakunike1566]

I’m African but I’m with you on toilet being a little rude. Lavatory is just too fancy😂. Bathroom is👌🏾

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

We call it biscuits.

[@kwamescratch6727]

It’s not necessarily South African slang it what most African speaking English countries call it because we speak British English not America with exception of few words from SA

[@wayne111bobo]

Petrol station/Gas station = GARAGE in South Africa. Ive never ever heard someone saying im going to the Petrol station. Always GARAGE

[@beverleybarends57]

Lol mostly napkins are in reference to babies pampers etc

[@1HourOf.]

yeah Napkin is the full term for Nappies, I remember when Trevor made a joke about that in his "African American" special😂funny

[@MartinMenge]

@@1HourOf. That was Trevor using artistic license to make that routine kak funny. The truth is that in South African English traditionally the trend was to use "serviette" if it's disposable and "napkin" if it is made from cloth.

[@nanego0711]

Minced meat (there's lean minced meat and ground minced meat) ground minced meat is the cheaper version and the taste is not so great

[@mnmeskc848]

A jersey to me is something woolly you wear over your clothes to keep warm in winter. A sweater is a t-shirt you can wear in summer. And one-piece swimsuit like that is a bather. "Jol" and "jassis/yassis" are from Afrikaans but specifically from Coloured people's Afrikaans. The j-sound we will use is otherwise looked down by white Afrikaans speakers.

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

It’s the opposite for us😅

[@nonduhshecks3296]

Yep

[@rimobenjamin1835]

Spot on

[@HeleenHenstock]

Jissis actually comes from Jesus and is seen as taking God's name in vain.

[@nompumelelomashele5654]

A sweater for Jozi people is those cotton thick shirts you wear in chillie weather

[@vat81]

Nah ive never heard a single south african call that a petrol station, its garage🤣

[@thetad1242]

Really I use it interchangeably

[@Story8821]

True It's garage..

[@gopolanglehobye7361]

We do say jersey , but we also call it "kit" or "Gear"

[@thomasrapulane6294]

Every South African knows that a garage

[@beverleybarends57]

Gas to us is more of the butane variety...used for cooking or Iighters etc

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Ah! We understand now.

[@Siyasne]

We call it football T shirt and basketball t shirt. A sweater and a jersey may be used for the same type of cloth depending on what word is preferred right then

[@polymath_sa9745]

Yeah

[@juciyjcurtis7938]

Jersey is knitted garment with long sleeves remember out English is superior to America.

[@sillahthandi7237]

Gas is the air that involuntarily comes out the back of a person's body🤷. Gas is also that highly flammable thing used to make heat when cooking, but we don't pronounce it as just gas, we use the the Afrikaans word .

[@Afriqueleblanq]

Cultures and therefore dialects differ from place to place here in 🇿🇦. Bathroom, to many of us, is where you wash yourself. English RP is taught in our schools, generally, so we talk about water, not wodder. Due to fast food franchises, things do change. A BBQ is not equivalent to a Braai, believe me, although younger people here have lost some culture. We eat beef mince, not ground beef. Bear in mind, most people here are not native English speakers and name things differently in local languages ranging from Afrikaans to isiZulu.

[@HeleenHenstock]

You do get ground beef here in SA. It's normally spiced and used for hamburger patties

[@SoloGamingZA]

@@HeleenHenstock but most of us commoners would still call it mince or in afrikaans especially we would just cal it mins as in afrikaans its maalvleis and thats to posh sounding as we grew up on mins lol

[@digitalhusle]

Jasas or Yeses is an abstract meaning of Jesus in Afrikaans language. Just like when a person says "Oh my gosh" which basically means "Oh my God"

[@Ribastein]

We do use mechanic in SA,

[@Unknown-individual]

Yeah us we say service

[@conquererforchrist]

A jersey is made of wool material and sweater has tracksuit material.

[@ianbeddowes5362]

Even when speaking English we can use Gunjani when greeting. Yebo

[@The_BatVid]

Also note that most malls you will actualy see a sign for the toilet. Yes you will see restroom but not that much. Take into account that about 60 years ago the toilet was not always in the house and if it was, it was a completely seperate place from the actual bathroom.

[@comrade9374]

Gas it's a propane and the world call it petrol

[@SaFona100]

The car shop is called a panelbeater.

[@ShaqleeToine10.02]

Afrik Aans.....The Aans is pronounced like the "un" in BLUNT...but without the bl and replace the last "T" with "S"..The K is a hard "K" sound..😉😉

[@Pyxe_ZA]

It's more like Are Free Kaans. Kaans pronounced like France

[@SaFona100]

And the correct response to Howzit is Howzit.

[@alanellis1442]

The South Arican english has many words and sayings taken from all the other different langages spoken there. In the Cape the Colored people speak a very different lanuage a mixture of english and afrikaans with alot of slang

[@NeoMokgabo21]

We don't generally use the sweater word. It's a jersey and basketball is borrowed from the US so the item is available here but not a thing

[@lemonkaysweet]

A Jersey is thick and you can see the wool fabric stitching 🤷 A sweater is thinner you can't really see the stitching, looks like one big cloth

[@nadiafaulmann807]

Afrikaans is n taal en ons praat dit in Suid Afrika.

[@joe_lubinda]

Zambian English 🚥 - Robots ⛽ - Filling station 🚙 - Boot (🇺🇸 trunk) 🥩 🔥 - Brai Fusek - get lost/get out/ F off Laka - cool

[@nelenesmithSA]

In Afrikaans we say "Koekie" which is and sounds the same as "cookie". If you noticed, the way we pronounce 🍅 is different to yours.. tomato/tomatoe.. that's British English vs American English.. I must say I do not like the blasphemy..it's a no no in our house.. the "J" word and the "OMG"

[@francoiswilliams]

Cookie is a Dutch word

[@reejay9023]

To us its A Basketball shirt!

[@SaFona100]

Petrol station is called a garage.

[@MelvinCheasemann-ox1vh]

Jersey made of wool and knitted. Sweater made of cotton and other soft materials. Sports attire we call it Jerseys as well

[@benji_san]

You two can definitely handle SA, just use some common sense and street smarts when you're in public, other than that just enjoy, that American dollar stretches long in SA so you can live in the best accommodations too

[@loyisosijaji5387]

Mar cant keep his eyes off his wife lol ...."Lekker" means Dope , awesome , great...

[@thabomaphalala4352]

Sports jerseys are called jerseys but sweaters are more like track suits two pieces

[@seymourcpt]

Love the two of you!....

[@xyz-vx6jo]

We also call it soccer mostly but football also refers to soccer

[@rimobenjamin1835]

gas station = petrol station or garage

[@grimcrimz768]

A Braai here we use wood charcoal for the fire to braai the wors and chops, you Americans use mostly lighter fluids to fuel for your barbecues😅 And the taste differs on what you use for the fire to cook the meat and other things.

[@joe_lubinda]

More like Southern-Africa Region English cause if you go to countries like where I'm from (Zambia), Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe to name a few, that's our English too

[@nonto183]

We call gas station a garage

[@madrileyZA]

We call a toilet a bathroom, public it's either a toilet or a stall.

[@zeekelzdavids8486]

Here's the thing... There are different cultures in South Africa. For example, this guy in the video is a white South African.. Im a Coloured South African. So the way he speaks is way different from me. U guys need to do some homework and ull figure out the differences. This isnt a true reflection of how we talk. Cape Town South Africa is was different from any other province in South Africa

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

We know 😊. We cover all of the ethnic groups on our channel. Welcome to the family!

[@pasekamqinebe8693]

How you call the TOILET a RESTROOM? Are you going to rest in there?

[@The.real.herr_]

Basketball jersey = Basketball jacket 😅

[@norafubara3629]

It is mostly called "Convenience" at restaurants but the bathroom/toilet at home. Some restaurants use restroom too. #Nigeria

[@josephvanwyk2088]

Also the word " JOL " for going out to clubs is extremely a high school term. No adult man says that. Also it's slang for "Jolly" And Jol often represents HEAVY drinking and dancing to 1 rhythm music (called sokkie).

[@hallodanel1456]

Afrikaans people will say, we are going to the Garage to get petrol for our cars.

[@ricardokirsten3339]

i love the videos jou guys make about south africa thank jou guys

[@nadinehoogenboezem4798]

Ketchup is a thinner consistency and more vinegary than tomato sauce that I'm use to so i personally distinguish them

[@MxolisiLuckyDingiso-nr7bq]

Yesses if I'm not mistaken is an Afrikaans word for Jesus. It is used as an exclamation of shock more often than casually. You'll be like: Yesses bra! How did you get yourself so deep into it?

[@gifttshabalala4346]

" petrol station" hai is not make sure😩

[@Kusanagi7618]

A word I never see in these videos is the word for t-shirt in the township is "skieppa/skippa" was reminded of that coz you talked about the baseball jersey

[@zahierabaloch8118]

Not just townships. I grew up using that in a coloured area too.

[@bokamadlela976]

Slang also depends on the home language or which side of south Africa you from.....

[@goodnessmitileni1120]

We call the sport jersey a sport kit

[@frenchfry9370]

I hardly ever hear the phrase petrol station, it's more common to call a gas station a "garage" like going to check your oils or get some petrol at the garage

[@fionakane9126]

Jol is also used for a good time not just in clubbing

[@motivet7908]

Some of us who speak fluent in english they say we have pride and we are molding words😅.

[@nicotonyadamson657]

Hi , Jol has two meanings... One meaning is when you go to a club , disco or party and the other meaning is when you have an affair with other women, other that your wife or girlfriend. 😮 Lekka is a word we use to say something is nice. Lekka jy... Is when you look nice and are well built. You say sexy. We say lekka jy...

[@1HourOf.]

You a Basketball kit Sierra😄...I'm kidding we also use jersey Some of us know the American because of amount of content we consume

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

😅

[@ianbeddowes5362]

Braii is also shisa nyama

[@Azanianquest1025]

You guys say soccer, to many of us over here it's football!

[@ianbeddowes5362]

But many South African say soccer too becuse of the popularity of rugby.

[@xyz-vx6jo]

Majority of south africans say soccer

[@EquaxionX]

It's not, Joel...it's JOL!

[@shredder3790]

We call it garage not petrol station but we pour petrol on a car in SA

[@juciyjcurtis7938]

To mince meat is different to grounding meat different process different out comes...

[@FeelFree30]

Lol. In Cape Town we also say "JOL"

[@stanzankosi66]

We don't say petrol station its garage and another one ive never heard anyone say "car shop" we say "mechanic

[@its.me.khanyo]

2:45 its also a jersey😂😂 as long as it looks like this and doesn’t have a zipper, its a jersey for South Africans😂😂 5:11 it’s only a toilet if you’re home and its a bathroom if you are in public 🤌 9:25 😂😂its not yes but yesies as in like (yes-sas)

[@george.a_m]

🇺🇸: gas station ; 🇿🇦: petrol station(actually my SA friends say Garage) ; 🇿🇼: service station “JOL” means come here 😂, maybe there’s an SA version i dunno, in zim its : “tell him to jol”; “ey jol” you catch? Everything else is 1:1 Afrikaans is a Dutch like language, mainly used by White Southern Africans

[@tsatsimafokoane1719]

We know it's a petrol station.. but we call it Garage ⛽🇿🇦

[@rowen42069]

most Afrikaans speakers are coloured

[@saneleselby9771]

Braai not Bry,Jol not joel,Petrol station= garage.

[@sanelembambo6913]

South African English is UK 🇬🇧 British English

[@PrincessVelaryon]

My mom loved using yeses when she was frustrated with me 😅

[@her563]

In South Africa ground beef and minced meet are different

[@norafubara3629]

In Nigeria, we say Filling Station not gas station, not petrol station

[@MT_kennedy]

you gotta react to amapiano dance moves

[@mogp427]

Yes that's a jersey, we call basket ball kit

[@ngakamogga]

no we call it a jersey ,basket ball tops are called vests

[@otaku_village]

Yeses! , Yoh!, Jesu!

[@nadinehoogenboezem4798]

I think we call sports jerseys vests kind of

[@lesegogaebeeyn4005]

Sports jersey is also a jersey

[@naturedj5720]

In Botswana we call a gas station "filling Station"😂

[@stellasithole3590]

Its garage. Some say filling station

[@MrCalizo]

POINT OF CORRECTION: Namibia 🇳🇦 and South Africa 🇿🇦 do use the word "cookies 🍪"... mostly if it is home-baked, the ones you buy in packets/boxes are biscuits, like Bakers Biscuits (Eet-Sum-Mor)... those are biscuits...,

[@MartinMenge]

For Americans biscuits are something like a scone or a half-baked rusk (the rusk when its fresh out of the oven before the slow bake).

[@HeleenHenstock]

In Afrikaans it's called koekies.

[@Amrihzeey219]

@@HeleenHenstocknot everyone speaks Afrikaans mos. Even some Afrikaans people say biscuits.

[@harkeb]

"Yassis" or ""Yissie. In Cape Town we also use "Yoh" as an expression of shock/surprise. This stems from "jesus"' which is considered swearing as you are not allowed to use the Lord's name in vain.

[@oagengliebenberg9219]

Lekker means nice 👌🏼

[@phire007]

We call the basketball jersey a basketball jacket

[@bonganipeter9433]

"Lekker" Good, it's Afrikaans by the way but most South Africans knows it and uses it

[@xhobanimenzele9661]

most of us dont call it a soviot we call it a ''tissue''

[@OmphileKgatle]

This is mostly white/Afrikaans terms. Filling stations are also Garage Yeses is Afrikaans for Jesus and is spelt Jesus

[@LuigiNathan]

Just to correct bro we don't say Petrol Station, we call it Garage in S.A

[@zonkemadela2569]

Hi my favorite family💓

[@02Muzi]

Gas, liquid solid why is called gas if it’s a liquid?