Afrikaans is the Easiest Language To Learn! #languages #linguistics #afrikaans #learnalanguage

What is the easiest language for English speakers? Well, it's Afrikaans, of course. With its similarity to English, its simplified grammar, and it's straightforward spelling system, learning it is a breeze!

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[strawberryrasberry]

As someone whose native language is German(Swiss German) and speaks fluently English. I sometimes end up whatching Dutch shorts/videos and don't realise it until a weird word comes up that is neither In Swiss, German or English. 😂😂 and from then i don't understand it. The brain is really funny.

[jamiececilielange]

Afrikaans derived from Dutch, because of settlers from the Netherlands in the 1700's. They settled in South Africa.

The languages are still very similar today.

[ethan.]

Afrikaans is easy they said im here struggeling on selfstandige naamworde

[Eilt]

Afrikaans is not available in any app, but you can start with 'normal' dutch. In dutch the sentence is: mijn hand is in warm water...

[christiaancoetzee]

Pronounced exactly as it’s written is a bit of a stretch.
I mean sure most words are simple to pronounce but if you only know English you’ll find sounds like uu and oë hard to say
In fact the word oë means eyes and oog mean eye.
It gets very confusing with diminutives like blom (flower) becomes blommetjie (little flower)
The tjie here is pronounced like the chie in chief
Slight differences in sound like vuur and vier are just annoying at times
The ie is like the ee in breeze while the uu is so similar that I can’t think of an English example that isn’t just the same as ie
Even simple ones like w is v and v is f but f is still f and only used at the beginning of words
The main thing that is torture to learn is the sentence structure where English has “The dog barked at the cat”
Afrikaans has “The dog ‘het’ for the cat ‘ge’bark”
Where het is to say they do so and ge is added to the start of the verb to say barked

[ItsMikeLearns]

Awesome! Maybe one day I’ll learn Afrikaans.

[martius]

Serbian words are pronounced exactly the way they are written but serbian grammar is freaking hard to learn.

[awbinn]

I love the way Afrikaans sounds. Such a beautiful language

[MasterCodm-p]

Baie goeie video ou, jy moet net die aksent leer

[dumbdragon]

Clearly you haven't suffered through Afrikaans FAL

[Jellyfish]

I was in French Immersion and I never fully understood French grammar, its a nightmare

[KeganMoe]

What resources do i use to learn Afrikaans? It seems like i cant find any material to learn the language. It seems like theres almost no text books and no language learning apps seem to have Afrikaans

[BobbityBob]

No, Italian is the easiest. Just put an "a" at the end of everything. Nowa youa seea whata Ia meana.

[christiaancoetzee]

Afrikaans is a pretty interesting language and is actually the youngest language in the world but is also currently dying out as most people in South Africa tend to just learn English as it is likely they’ll not stay in SA their whole lives, cause well no one’s ever heard about incredible companies like Apple and BMW coming out of SA.
There are several people who are actually South African and you wouldn’t realise it at a a first glance like Elon Musk.

[lunedefroid]

And the best fact, South Africa and America both had segregation, so common culture makes it easier 😂

[olivier]

But English barely has grammar itself 😂

[Herlequine]

I mean, all of this is true, but his Afrikaans is awful. Most of this comes from the fact that it was a kitchen/slave language, so all the complex stuff was put aside for ease of use.

[bolchong-lou]

This is ridiculous. The Dutch language is very, very hard for Brits to learn - and Afrikaans is based on Dutch. On top of that English and French share more words than English and Afrikaans. Jesus wept....