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#299 Idioms in English: The Missing Ingredient To Understand Natives & Sound Advanced

RealLife English: Learn and Speak Confident, Natural English

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Is There a Cat in South Africa?

The idioms that we use herein in south africa tend to include animals. The one i shared was kike fandi ban, which literally translates to kitten of the tracks. To fetch a baboon from behind the hillaa means "to think or talk about problems that haven't happened yet" I'm curious if it would be very common, saying that something is not your cup of tea. It really does give you that little bit of cultural insight as well,. to understand the culture of a particular region.

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