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"Charlize Theron"

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What's the Difference Between English and Afrikaans?

I think English speaking South Africans have a harder time because it's an ingrained accent that they're trying to break. I didn't have that. So Africans is a completely different language. It's not a severity of accent. It's new information for you. There's about 44 people still speaking Afrikaans, which is definitely a dying language. Do we know what it is? Yeah, Dutch. But the Dutch language is predominantly what it's based on, and then there's some German in there, and then we've bastardized it.

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