Charlize Theron Afrikaans Interview

00:00 Pleasantries
00:10 She realizes he's not giving up
00:20 He realizes she's uncomfortable
00:40 Irritated itch
00:53 Icebreaker

Charlize Theron speaks Afrikaans during a red carpet interview at the premiere of 'Long Shot' at SXSW in Austin Texas.

[lyingcat]

She low key told my guy that he is too young for her…

[nicholasbutler]

It sounds like I should understand it even though I can't.

[chrisn]

It's like the Australian version of Dutch

[zayyaan]

As a South African, hearing the Afrikaans with a different accent is pretty interesting.

[BarelyTsunami]

Is this what English sounds like to non-English speaker?
*5 year later edit*: those commenting “no” such insight, never heard such an intricate answer 🤣 also, yea I got it after the 50th ‘no’. Why do yall still feel the need to comment the most worthless two letters? Feel like ya did something with that? Think I didn’t hear it the first 49 times? Sorry, I’ve had a long day and am tired of these notifications

[oftankoftan]

You didn't have to subtitle "Irritated itch", lol

[KarateKallie]

I love how the first thing she says is the most afrikaans thing to say "ja née" "

[TheProdigaOne]

As a Dutch speaker I can understand about 80% of the interview and can also tell she is speaking Afrikaans with an American accent.

[stanleysmith]

Hungarian joke: How did the Dutch language came to be? Drunk German sailors were trying to speak English.

[AmateurishAstronaut]

Sounds like my Sims having a dinner party

[MrOboema]

This is so weird. As a dutch guy I can understand about 80% easily.

[balazsbarabas]

It sounds like speaking English backwards.

[fredswanepoel]

As a Afrikaans speaking person I can say that she lost her accent and she was struggling with the pronunciation of certain words.Your mother tongue is also one of the things you lose if you stay in a foreign country too long.I passed my level A1 test in Dutch and I guess the same thing is going to happen to me when I immigrate to the Netherlands!

[johnsheehan]

0:10 when you think she was gonna switch to English

[cocomarcus]

Where my fellow south africans at cuz we understand. 😂?


Edit : keep the responses coming. Am loving it, y'all melt my heart🤣❤️

[peterhogben]

Did they use some of that in the Sims?

[DefinitelyNotAutumn...]

When you South African and can understand what she's saying

[freekvanr]

Its really weird reading all these comments written in Afrikaans being a dutch myself haha. It's almost like a drunk dutch person trying to write something. I can basically understand all of it but it's just written in a different way. It's quite astounding to me that Afrikaans evolved so quickly from the old dutch we have in common and how close but yet different it looks and sounds.

[DM]

I can definitely hear the American English accent, even though she obviously still speaks Afrikaans fluently.

[Chris.starfleet]

As an Afrikaans speaker (and teacher) ... she lost the comfortableness in speaking Afrikaans.