Ghost

Hey all,

I'm a Ground Defence Specialist in RAAF Australia, here to say hello and hows all.

Neo

Het gaat goed, wekom!

How come you speak Afrikaans??

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sappersgt

Welcome!

An Afrikaans speaking R-4 aficionado! Originally from South Africa? One might think you'd been there! What does a Royal Australian Air Force Ground Defense Specialist do anyways? Is that like an Air Commando?

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Ghost

you'd think so Neo eh, ek was opgebring met die taal. Anti special forces, Anti terrorism etc. small groups of elite tactition with large array of weapon and High Explosive training.

fun job

Neo

Verbazingwekkend!
Ik heb veel gereis in Zuid Afrika en zo die taal geleer!

Draconion

yeah fobsdb asdgao irgoaugao a0rgag arghagrb idnjph dfh!!


Dont you just love it when people speak a language you dont understand!!

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Ray

Tik Tok and tok tik.

Welcome all the same.

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Ironduke

Translation: "I have many friends in South Africa and learned the language." I can read Dutch quite well I've been to the Netherlands and study German

geleer = learned, gelernt... ge- (past prefix) + leer and a verb shift to the end of the sentence. Quite simple really The rest is fairly evident.

Wilkommen zu die Weltausgabenbrett!

With a little creative translation, the German acronym is the same. (World Issues Board [the kind you pound nails into])

Ray

Thanks for the translation.

I thought it was Japanese.

But it is fun to learn another language.

Ironduke

If you know English and German at a fairly competent level, it's impossible not to be able to read Dutch or Afrikaans

Hoe Gaan Het = How goes it?
Het gaat goed, wekom = It goes good, welcome.

gaan = gehen (German)

Ray

OK.

Maybe I am too tired out!

sappersgt

Dutch is close to German and English. It's kind of in between. All the cognants make it hard to ignore English's Germanic origins. Afrikaans is almost identical to Flemish, a somewhat simpler (some say) Dutch dialetic.

Translation: I was (ek was) brought up (opgebring= upbringing) with the (met die) language (taal= talk)

If you sound it out it even sounds like English, if a little archaic (a lot like Old English). -I was upbringing with the talk.

MarquezRazor

Welcome..

glyn

Neo

Actually Afrikaans is very similar to Flemish, which is the old version of Dutch.
So Dutch speaking people can quite easily communicate in Flemish or Afrikaans, the grammer is quite simple but the pronounciation gives away your origin.
Dutch like German is quite harsh unlike Flemish which is quite soft.