Charlize Theron Was Called Out for Speaking Afrikaans
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- James asks Charlize Theron about her and her mom's conversations in their native tongue, Afrikaans, and learns that it once backfired on them at an airport.
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One of my favourite stories was how a woman wearing a hijab was on a bus in Britain and she was speaking to her child in a language that was not English. One guy stands up gets in her face and shouts “We are in England! Speak English!” To which a little old lady nearby looked at him and said “Actually love we’re in Wales and she’s speaking Welsh”
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Jajajajajaja damn, that was a good one.
😂😂😂 that old lady is amazing
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Yeeesss! Why does speaking another language upsets people so much???
1:03 The best part of this video for me was finding out that 3 percent of the world speaks Afrikaans and all 3 percent apparently was in the audience
There is absolutely no way 3% of the world's population speaks Afrikaans. It is less than 1%. I'm not even going to work it out. It's just obvious.
If you leave in South Africa and Namibia both black and white people speak Afrikaans ,the language is compulsary
@@buyelwasam3326 the population of South Africa plus Namibia, divided by the population of the world is less than 1%.
@@chesterdonnelly1212 yes because these two countries are the only ones that speaks Afrikaans
@@buyelwasam3326 yes I know. Charlize said that 3% of the world speaks Afrikaans, but it is actually less than 1%. However she might have been including Dutch and Flemish speakers. That might make it up to 3%.
Once in London, my friend and I were riding the taxi and we were busy speaking Portuguese and suddenly the driver, who was this older Indian gentleman, said something like "it's been a while since I heard that beautiful language". Me and my friend were stunned, not because we were talking smack about him, we weren't but because how random that was having an Indian in London understanding Portuguese. Then he proceeded to tell us how he was born in Goa, an ex Portuguese colony in India and his parents would speak Portuguese at home, and he still was able to understand.
this is like, the purest story in this comment section
@@pipalittle5216 except for the colonization of India part...
That's why you never judge anyone based on colour/race. Because you don't know where they are actually from.
We have a lot of Asians in Australia. Some tourists. Some students. Some born. One of my co-workers is a student, but two Chinese ladies thought she was one of those "Australian born Asians" so proceeded to talk smack about her in their language without knowing she's actually native to their country and is just a student here and spoke in their language in turn. So that's a twist on the situation. When even her own countryman judged her because she was in a different country.
john boone when you travel and meet ppl from all around the world those type of situations happen. it's great and I wish everyone could have the opportunity to live this. It opens our mind.
That's a nice change to read about. Amidst all the stories of people getting hate for speaking a non-English language, it's nice to know there are moments like this.
My girlfriend and me once sat in the train when at the next stop a group of people entered and one guy started addressing the entire train in Polish. I just looked at him blank like: dude you‘re in Germany. What are you expecting!? Turns out my girlfriend who was born in poland later told me he said: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, does any other person on this train speak our beloved language? No? Wonderful. Hence we can continue to make fun of the Berliner‘s weird taste of clothing.
lol
Hahaha, one single story about my language and it has to be that. :D
#SAVAGE 🤣
My grandfather was on a train in Poland and a man got on the train and started addressing everyone in German
LMAO
Bad titles everywhere. She got called out for talking shit, not for speaking Afrikaans
Well I mean, it's not incorrect.
@@dantheman9565 no it's not, it's clickbaiting. Title makes it sound like it was a racist incident.
@@butbufaratethemirror How? Afrikaans is a language... Not a race dude.
@@erickalfaro8389 considering the state of politics right now? And how she is a white woman speaking African?
Someone dumbass somewhere would say she is appropriating black culture and blah blah you know the whole digital blackface shit? Not out of this realm that a language would be used against her.
@@erickalfaro8389 my comment went over your head my dudu...
The title almost makes it sound like someone called her out because she was speaking her native tongue, which would be considered racism, imagine you are in America and you are speaking your native language but someone comes up to you and says Speak English in America... But the actual case was she was called out for talking shit about the other guy, not because of the language she was speaking in...
Everyone in the comments is in full campfire storytelling mode. I love it.
True tho
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Story time!
Lol can't!
I was on a train in London once. Ended up chatting a bit with the random man who sat next to me. We both spoke in English. Went on for maybe 10 minutes. Ended up asking where he was from. Turned out we were both Norwegian. We changed language after that. It was so bizarre.
I've met a few Norwegians and they all spoke brilliant English.
Interesting. I think I haven't met a single Norwegian (or anyone from any other country) person who didn't have accent (even the slightest one). Tho, maybe it's just me, having super ear to figure out who is from where. :D it's so much fun when I guess and win. :D
HAHA
I had the same thing happen to me in London as well! A few minutes into the conversation we found out we were both Dutch and then later into the conversation we found out we actually went to the same school in the Netherlands (different years though). The world can be small sometimes :)
Didn’t you recognize from English accent that he is Norweigan as well?
I remember my first time in Rome when I'd just landed and the passport control guy saw my passport is Kenyan and he switched to speaking in swahili the whole time. And it was so good. And he was like he learned it from friends and Hopes to visit Kenya one day. Loved it. Did not expect that at all considering I was away from home
Hii inakaa tu uwongo aki!haha
@@qassimmohamed9141 cause hakuna Italians malindi wanajua kiswahili. Wao...tembea dunia kidogo
It was on s lighter note...
And btw nilitembea 6 out of 7 continents
@@qassimmohamed9141 hii inakaa uwongo tu aki haha
@@jambee_q 😂😂😂😂😂 mna uchokozi kila pahali. Kenyans hatuoni Mbinguni 😂😂😂
Different vibe but: I was on the NYC train heading to Grand Central. There was a homeless guy with a big cardboard sign saying he was Deaf and that he needed help to get back home. I gave him money and started up a conversation with him in sign language. He was shocked and happy that someone knew his language. He was telling me how rare it is people give him money because people assume he is faking his deafness for sympathy (which I have experienced before). As soon as we started signing together, people noticed and began giving him money.
This is what... Friqn sad-happy.
This is the problem so many deaf/hearing impaired people face every day because it is an invisible problem!
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@@zettaa6116 I’m hearing impaired and I lip read so it’s really hard now because most people are wearing masks 😷
@@zettaa6116 what ?
A friend of mine who is a police officer in the UK arrested two South Africans for shop lifting. And while in the back of his police car on the way to the nick decided to discuss in Afrikaan what story they would come up with. Should have seen their faces when he told them to get out the car at the station in their language.
He grew up in Johannesburg.
Ouch.
@@maocharlisme What? I was 20 yrs ago in England. The only bloke that I know who was arrested was an English speaking South African 4 stealing sweets. That will means that English South African will be deported and send to a post-Apartheid
..a Post-Apartheid South Africa. Not the best place to be 4 a white person. Like being German, Post WO2 or French in Post-Napoleon-Europe. At least the German will be feel save in Germany, Ostria, Switzerland, East- Belgium and North-Holland and French in France or Southern Belgium and also the Island of Corsica. AND the rest of French Colonies.
@@davidvanniekerk3813 wtf are u spewing bruh.
Wow 😂
I was living in Split, Croatia. I am French-Canadian, Asian descent. I was at this coffee shop struggling to find a proper font on my laptop for a graphic design project. These two young ladies sat right next to me and started discussing and all, in French with a Quebec accent. I am from Quebec you see, but since I am Asian they just assumed that I would not understand a word and probably thought I was visiting directly from Asia, which is a logical assumption based on the crazy amount of Asian tourists in Croatia.
They looked at me fumbling on my laptop while they were sipping on their lattés, and proceeded to talk about me and how lame I was to waste my time on trying to find the right font when that could “obviously” be done in two seconds.
I was annoyed at their unjustified rant and since one of them was directly looking at my screen, I settled on a font and started to type the titles on my project... in French. The young lady finally shut herself up and stared at her friend silently. She whispered that I was typing in French, specific Quebec French expressions.
Their fucking faces were priceless, CAAAAAAAAAUGHT EM.
Fkn love it
Don't worry, people from Split have split personalities (the bad ones tend to come out sometimes). Cool story!
Kiki lol I love this.
Kiki
What does this have to do with this topic?
Nicely done haha
I lived in Nigeria for a while as a kid and learned some of the local language. Years later working on an engineering project I recognized the accent and an engineer’s name were from that region. After his presentation I went up and said hello in Yoruba. He just stood there not knowing what to say. I said I thought you were Yoruba so I thought I greeted you in Yoruba. I am, he responded. I’m just not expecting a white guy in California to greet me in my native language. Sorry I didn’t respond, It just freaked me out a little.
How come you was there as a kid?
@@happyguy2k Dad probably worked in Oil
@@happyguy2k the atlantic slave trade
Spent nearly my whole teenage years in Zaria, Nigeria during the 80s. When I was in college here the Philippines around 1994, I was helping my friend (who was the guidance couselor then) with the admission for elementary school. So, when I read that one of our incoming students was half Nigerian half Filipino. I went out to look for him and have a chat. I introduced myself in the best Nigerian accented English I could muster. He was smiling at me while we were chatting and told me "Eh, you de talk like us." Told him something like "Na 6 years o. I de sabi Nigerian English well-well o."
Up to know, some 3 decades later, I could still undertand Nigerian English and some Hausa words. When I watch, Nigerian contents on TH-cam, particulary those comedy likes Mark Angel, I would understand what they are saying withput looking at the subtitle.
That goes to show that Nigeria is lacking in diversity if he got that shocked.. We need to push for more diversity in Nigeria in order to fix that!
For those wondering.. he said.. "I can hear everything you are saying"
Thank you!!
Bron Kroon.
Ja ek verstaan.
I caught that
Thank you. I was trying to understand that part even in low speed and I couldn't get it.
"Ja ek kan alles hoor wat julle sê, hoor..."
Misleading title. She wasn't called out for speaking Afrikaans, but for insulting the guy in Afrikaans.
This is my 4th video I've watch this morning where the title is completely misleading
Yea he was rude, lol. Btw, these days its dangerous to speak Afrikaans in a foreign country and think no one will understand. Saffers immigrated everywhere 😂
@@sandyn3384 And on top of that, there are some 25 million people speaking Dutch, who can understand most Afrikaans with little difficulty, as Afrikaans evolved from Dutch.
@@arturama8581 yes Im fluent in Afrikaans and my dad was born in Rotterdam😊
@William Bhoys . Dat ken ik goed!
Caught a Swedish couple on the subway in Toronto discussing what they were going to do to each other later in the evening.... in very explicit detail. I was getting off before them so a quick "Ha en trevlig kvall" (Have a nice evening) just before the doors closed created some seriously red faces. :)
kväll :D
Where they at least good looking?
@@hint0122 It follows the same pattern as nude beaches. People eager to take their clothes off are never the people you wish would do this. :)
@@hanstun1 mostly. I have seen some people who definitely should be naked at nude beaches
That sound sexy asf :)
I’m stuck in the comment section. Someone please help!
FACTS, WITH ALL THESE STORIES
Me too! How deep does this go?
Swore at this guy in Afrikaans in Toronto and low and behold he responded back in kind! We all started laughing.
Lol!!! 😂😂😂😂
Onepeople Carlin Yes. It's wonderful when we can understand that someone is swearing at us. What a rich experience that must have been. One more fulfilling moment to add to your collection.
swear you can't swear in other tongues in toronto....we way too diverse, but i'm all for it hahaha
@@hanafri8 Thank God! They are not missed.
South Africa is now in a mess,because of all the higly skilled whites that left years ago,not one African regime is or eas sucessfull!
He crowd gasped like they knew wtf the man said back 😂😂
so true! lmao
maybe you should express your opinion more respectful
It’s pretty obvious that he said “I can understand you” or something along those lines.
@@charliewright468 Like - Yeah, I get all what you say - about :)
@TheGodEmperorofMankind Calm down now. Not everyone is going through your superiority complex.
You think you're so smart, you'll walk your nose so high you gonna tripple in the roots, some basics. Like caring, compassion etc.
No need to counter, I pretty much guess what's it gonna be if you don't clean up your act. And see the embarrassment of that screen name. And Adolf Hitler is not an improvement, in case you wonder.
And no, I don't have a sense of humour - none at all (sarcasm).
I wouldn't use Afrikaans in front of Dutch speaking people either
Mary Mad nope haha 😂 i am dutch and understand half what she is saying lol
@@jiglysinger and that's half more than anyone else can understand, so I'd still not use Afrikaans in front of Dutchmen (just in case) 😁😁
Alles for example is dutch and means “everything”. It’s funny:) for me it sounds like a other language with dutch influence what isn’t really surprising if you know the history (as i am dutch i am sorry for any language mistakes 🙈)
Van Tastic yeah it’s weird. I speak a little German so when Dutch people speak I can pick up a word here and there maybe get the gist of it and then Afrikaans even less but it’s still “oh, I know that word!”
Van Tastic nah, Germans always claim they can understand a little Dutch but Afrikaans is in a whole different league
I played in a rugby sevens tournament many years ago, here in Scotland. One of the local teams we played against had two South African players, they were pretty decent players. They didn't have coded calls, they just chatted their plays in Afrikaans. My team mate was born in SA, and could understand every word they said. We hit them, man and ball, every move. Play after play.
After the game, we shook hands with the opposition, said, 'well played, good match'. My teammate said it in Afrikaans. I swear, their faces were like cartoon donkeys, you could hear the 'hee-haw, hee-haw' moment.
i am born in South Africa, just be careful when flying to Germany Switzerland France on Air France Lufthansa or Swiss Air because im sure 95 % of the passengers are Afrikaans-speaking, i can speak German and English and Afrikaans, so many times when on a Swiss Air or Lufthansa flight i will speak German to the crew and then when landing at Zurich or Frankfurt airport many Afrikaans people flying for the first time will battle to understand the signage boards in the airport and then i will help them by speaking Afrikaans to them and one must see the look on there faces that a person who not long ago was speaking German to the flight crew is now speaking in Afrikaans, so yes as there's so many EXPAT South Afrcans living in Euope --as thousands have left the country since 1994 be careful what u say in Afrikaans,
That's why more and more younger white South Africans know the main "tribal" language of their province, so that in such a case they could talk in a language that nobody in Europe understands. Joke only. But for sure not many people in Europe know isiZulu, IsiXhosa, Sesotho or one of the others.
😂😂 yes happens many times with cricket 🏏 🏉 mostly as so many ex South Africans play / live in EU Australia New Zealand
I was on the train in Amsterdam and there was English (speaking) girl on the train panicking a bit about what the right stop was to get off. It was kinda cute and funny the way she fussed about it. Her boyfriend said; all these people are smiling. Her; why? Him; because I think they can understand you. She; no they cant understand me. Him; I think they can. And the whole compartment started nodding yes lol. Girl you're speaking English not Icelandic or smth
Haha in Amsterdam I bet more people speak English than anything else; at least conversationally.
@@smileychess i mean anywhere in the randstad they pretty much understand english, and they can probably speak it aswell its just that theyve got these horrible accents
Everybody speaks English in Amsterdam.
Got alot of online friends from Netherlands, they all are chill and friendly
A few years ago my friend and I had a really long layover in Amsterdam on a flight home to the U.S., so we decided to take the train into the city and explore because neither of us had been to the Netherlands before. In preparation I downloaded Dutch onto my phone's translation app, but I quickly discovered I didn't need it to get around! My friend asked a woman at the airport if she spoke English before asking her a question, and she looked at him like he had asked a stupid question.
Also, we had a very lovely time in Amsterdam and I would happily revisit it. :)
I always wanted to learn how to say “You have a good day” in lots of languages so if I ever thought someone was talking about me I could make them think I understood them. If they weren’t talking about me, then it’s just a nice thing to say.😀
this is soo smart!! the comment before yours literally shared a story like that hahaha
Such a smart idea!!!! I love that. I may do that too!!!😆😄
Ashley, I'll start you off with Dutch: say "fijne dag!" to wish someone a nice day. ♡
Yes so smart! Haha!
In (Brazilian) Portuguese, you can say “bom dia” pronounced like “bohn gee-uh.”
In Spanish, you can say “buen día.”
Good luck! 😝
In spanish you can say "que tenga un buen día"
It’s New York City. There is no language you can speak privately there.
True, same with Toronto 😩
Qowkdjnd Xiwjsjd hahaha not even.
Slovenian. We can speak it everywhere.
Eva Ana Kazic Except in Eastern Europe... Macedonian here :)
Macedonian and Slovenian are very different. In fact even Croatians struggle understanding it as well as Slovenes can understand them. Also Slovenian isn’t in Eastern Europe.
I wish I knew every language there is even the dead ones. All the languages are beautiful❤️
Languages rock!
@@tcconnection I don't think there are any rock languages - even if there were - rocks dare not speak - they're petrified.
I'll teach you afrikaans. Its easy
@@noshitsherlock975 no it's not.
Same!
It happened to my sister and her son. The live in France and but we are from Spain. They were at this bus stop and my nephew had never ever ,seen a blind man before( he was about 8 y o), like the whole scene ,with the stick ,the sunglasses ,etc and he was standing a few metres away from them , probably waiting for the bus as well. And my nephew ,thinking the man would not understand, told mi sister in Spanish, "look that man is blind , he has the glasses and all " and the man turned to his side and said in Spanish , perfectly" yes , I am blind and that is ok". My sister felt soo embarrassed, she told him he never met anyone blind and he was kind is surprised. The man was very gentle and they chatted for a while and it was all good at the end.
For those who don't know what she said: "Yeah I can hear everything you're saying."
Thank you! Came to the comments for this and had to scroll through children's story hour.
Thank you! I was scrolling to find the translation.
@@DavidStirneman 🤣
I laughed so hard when she said it. 😂🇿🇦
well... you know what ?.... I'm not an English native speaker and I thought she was speaking English and I couldn't catch a word 😂😂Thanks for that
When the comments section is more interesting than the actual video..
It's good topic.
Deadass 🦉👩🏽💻
Haha they just relate it to the topic
I don't know ..... Charlize Theron talks about anal bleaching
@@zebradgr8339 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
Completely opposite vibe but one time I was in France with my school and we were on the metro and I was talking to a friend of mine about what we were gonna do later that day, and a girl turned around with an American accent and she was like “oh my god, are you guys from the US??” and we said yeah and she was like “IM FROM OHIO” and started talking to us. She was so fucking happy to hear other Americans, it was hilarious 😂
The exact same thing happened to me and my friend while I was studying in France! 😂
I speak Filipino and a lot of people really hate our language for some reason. I was at Walmart with my mom. We were in line at the counter and I was having a conversation with my mom in Filipino because she's having a hard time speaking in English. This couple in front of us turned around and asked us what language we're speaking. I said it's Filipino. Then they told us to just speak in English because they find it annoying when we speak in our own language. We're not even loud. We were talking in a moderate voice. My mom was really offended but I told her to just ignore them. So we left the store and drove home and she was silent the whole trip. I really felt bad for her. She's one of the nicest, caring, and happiest people I know but when she gets upset, it just breaks my heart. I just hope people need to understand that this country is not just one race or nationality. It's a diverse country.
DANG. Can't believe that happened. what a bunch of cold people
This makes me SO MAD! BIG MAD! Please tell your mother that she's wonderful and those shitty people will get their karma. Speak your language! Celebrate your culture, despite them, because they cannot ever take it away from you. It is your right, as it is the right of all. All languages and all cultures are beautiful and sacred. I'm so sorry this happened! I know my apology means next to nothing, but this just makes me SO MAD! How can people be so filled with hate? Don't let their hatred pull you down with them. Not all Americans (because I'm guessing that's where you are; where else are people that shitty?) are so evil. Give your mom a hug for me.
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Unless you were in Walmart on Mars I'm sorry I don't believe a word..foreigners are everywhere
plo Walmart US
Those are assholes. Obviously not very bright. Do you, I've heard your language and it sounds cool. Stay well! 😊
When I went to Japan recently, I was only speaking English. None of the Japanese that saw me went all ballistic for me not speaking Japanese in their country. These "speak English" people are just weird.
They probably just waited and did it behind your back. These "speak English" people are loathsome, but in some twisted way I appreciate that they're doing it to my face instead of behind my back.
Typical Japanese tatemae. They’re always polite and non-confrontational upfront. I’ve seen how some of them get behind your back though and they can be vicious. A lot of the women I met were also gossip mongers. That really surprised me. They’re the hardest people to read and their tatemae makes it nigh impossible to know if they’re being genuine. It’s something embedded into their culture so I can’t really fault them for it. One of the most important things I’ve learned in Japan is to NEVER take what they show you at face value. They can hate your guys and wish you were dead but can appear as such friendly, nice people in front of you. Their tatemae is an ironclad facade that rarely breaks. At least that’s how it was in Kanto where I stayed. They say people from Kansai are more chill though. I actually have more appreciation for Japanese people who lose their temper and become disagreeable because at least they’re being real.
they just tend to have more respect for foreigners, but from my experience in Japan they aren't fans of foreign languages in their country that much.
None of the "Speak English!" people would think it's wrong for themselves to speak English with other English speakers while they were in any other country, but they want to enforce that rule on other people who come to America.
but doesn’t that suggest a disturbing amount of entitlement in how justified they feel being openly racist?
In the middle of Jerusalem, I'm on the phone with a friend, talking Swiss German. I was just discussing what Bagel I should get. And this older religious man comes up to me and tells me in perfect Swiss German, which Bagel he would recommend. My friend on the phone was like "what just happened...where are you????"
There's always someone who understands you. :)
Chuchichaeschtli!
Tbh, that specific instance makes perfect sense to me, since Israel has only been recognized as a Jewish state for just short of three quarters of a century (72 years, to be precise), and a lot of the original immigrants were Holocaust survivors--many of whom would have gone through Sweden and the Netherlands to escape the Nazis.
@@Caitydid561 I wonder why they insist on illegally stealing other peoples homelands when they can just go back to Europe, where they actually belong and are from.
@@Emmsul colonizers are gonna colonize. The geopolitical location of Palastine gives advantage to western countries and to also expand in the future just like the US did to native americans where they started at the east coast and started attacking inwardly.
@@Caitydid561 Fucking hell, Switzerland is not Sweden for fuck's sake!
I love that she didn't loose her Afrikaans accent ❤️ Love from South Africa 🇿🇦
i am born in South Africa, just be careful when flying to Germany Switzerland France on Air France Lufthansa or Swiss Air because im sure 95 % of the passengers are Afrikaans-speaking, i can speak German and English and Afrikaans, so many times when on a Swiss Air or Lufthansa flight i will speak German to the crew and then when landing at Zurich or Frankfurt airport many Afrikaans people flying for the first time will battle to understand the signage boards in the airport and then i will help them by speaking Afrikaans to them and one must see the look on there faces that a person who not long ago was speaking German to the flight crew , is now speaking in Afrikaans, so yes as there's so many EXPAT South African's living in Europe --as thousands have left the country since 1994 be careful what u say in Afrikaans,
My parents spoke Italian around the house as their secret language to gossip and so on in front of me so they never taught me. In high school I took 2 years of Italian to decode what they were saying. But what they taught in school was formal Italian while my parents' language was such a heavy dialect it was like I may have well taken Korean.
Absolutely, I am Italian and I wouldn't be able to understand people speaking only in dialect from 10 km away from my town! You had it hard man.
They should've thought you that language tho
Lol that's sad and funny at the same time 😂
my husband and I were able to to this in English until my daughter turned about 6 and she was fluent enough to understand us. (as you may have guessed, not native speakers).
When I was younger, I sometimes wondered if there were "secret messages" (or something) on Spanish signs.
I took Spanish and now I can read the same damn thing in two languages! 😂
This is EXACTLY why I don't talk about other people right in front of them in Afrikaans and assume they can't understand me.
Also it may be because I can't speak Afrikaans.
Gewgulkan Suhckitt 😂😂😂
Lmao
Gewgulkan Suhckitt
Congratulations sir/ma‘m you won the internet
😂😂😂 Stop, stop, hierdie is só snaaks/this is hilarious!
😂😂
My friend is from Jupiter and we were at the train station talking about this ugly guy from Saturn and after a while he gets up and walks past us and says "Ŧгєคкเภﻮ ןยקเՇєгเคภร" and we were like _"whaaaaat???"_ lmao good times
Yeah, Jupiter, Florida is a wacky place.
This story is just as true as half the other stories in the comment section. But it is all good fun. Then again I know quite a few people who have busted someone or been busted talking shit in another language so maybe the stories really are all true.
so heartwarming, loving your humor btw.
@daedalus The problem is your head is in Uranus
Funny seeing this today as the conjunction between jupiter and saturn is happening
Brother and I were raised bilingual German and French. So my parents would use English if they didn’t want us to understand. Didn‘t work, we somehow learned this as well! 🤣
So I was in a bus with my mother in Japan in literally the deepest countryside and there was this lady who constantly stared at us, two obviously white people. We, thinking that she probably was xenophobic, then talked to each in German about how weird that was. Then, after over an hour in the bus (outside there was the thickest fog ever and I kept wondering whether we would ever reach our destination), the lady leaned over to me and asked me in super polite German whether she could offer me a doughnut. Turned out that she was a classically trained singer married to a famous German conductor.
Shxt I hope I have that adventure, if that's real
Jaaaa, sie brauchen eine Sprache, die weniger gesprochen ist
That was one of the most random things that could happen to anyone lol
Why was she staring
@@leilanimax1517 she was intrigued.
My mother tongue is Russian. So when I was in Paris, i was in the metro and there was this super stylish guy in front of me and my friend. We were talking about him in Russian like "yeah this guy is soooo stylish, real frenchie, you won't find anyone like him where we live". After 3 or 4 stations he stands up and says in Russian : "so bye-bye girls!". We were speechless😂😂😂
@D.SéЬasтiaпо Sçalia don't ruin!
привет! Я тебя нашел !!!
She’s so full of shit. New York is not a city it’s a world. If there’s a chance of finding anything anywhere, it’s in New York. I hate her false attitude
@@soulsearchtarot WTF .... she is talking about Paris dude.
But then again... all this globalization bullshit , ruins everything, nothing is as it used to be back in the ol` days , in many ways. Hehe.
@@AlexeiMotoRin было бы пипец странно если ты реально тот чувак:)
My Mom grew up on a farm in a Black community, and Xhosa was her second language. We had just moved to Cape Town, she was a very fancy dresser, even just to go to the bank - we are Colored (not a derogatory term in South Africa (mixed race, (slave descendants)). Mom was light skinned - so one day on a bus trip to the shops, two Black women are discussing her, in a not so nice way - like “she thinks she’s so awesome”. “Possibly bought the earrings at the drugstore” etc. As they got up to leave the bus, she greeted them “hello my sisters, I hope you enjoy your day further”. In fluent Xhosa! Yelp!
? lot of clicks?
Thank you for explaining terms to the Americans in this comment section. They aren't all worldly and get stuck in their mindsets often and probably would have jumped on you if you didn't explain.
@@paddaboi_ no it's definitely isixhosa
That is so embarrassing
@@paddaboi_ but zulu has less clicks though, in fact it rarely has a single click and it's not heavy. Xhosa is the most famous click language
I was in a pub with some friends and overheard the table next to me speaking in german. One of them came over to ask if one of the chairs was free for him to take so I responded in german. He took the chair and put it down at his table and only then did it process that I didn't respond back in english. He had to do a double take which lead to me having a few funny conversations with him and his wife and they both had really bright smiles on their faces afterwards.
One of my moms best friends is Italian and when they were younger they were at some restaurant (this was in Canada). There were two Italian men sitting near them saying gross things about my mom and her friend. My mother’s friend has very pale skin, blue eyes and blonde hair so at a first glance you wouldn’t assume she is. My mom said her friend grabbed her fork, threw it at the guys and started screaming at them in Italian. Oh how I would’ve loved to witness that.
You look like mona lisa in your pic
@@thedeepend1348 cheers
Italian is a good language to scream at people in. 😊 Good for your mom and her friend.
I'm half Italian but don't look it yet I speak it fluently. A lot of people have put themselves in very awkward situations around me and of course I always make sure to give a smart ass answer in Italian of course. They kinda deserved it lol.
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1:02 everyone gasping like they know what she said
dj jemaar I think they just “gasped” at the fact that he spoke back in Afrikaans to them
Azraa Ameer I know what she said. Afrikaans is my tweede taal
Azraa Ameer my family also speaks afrikaans. Only my siblings and I speak English as a first language.
I don't understand Afrikaans, but given the context and some Afrikaans/English cognates I concluded that he said "I understood every word." As it turns out, that's not quite what he said, but it's close.
it's pretty similar to dutch, which is similar to a lot of germanic languages, and given the context, it was pretty easy to guess for me, maybe it was for them too.
I had this happen in reverse. Im Puerto Rican but pass as white. At my job there was a group of men at the smoking area and they were talking in Spanish about what a nice ass I have and how thick my thighs were and basically discussing my body in explicit terms. When I finished my cigarette I turned to them smiled and said, “You know sexual harassment in the work place counts even if it isn’t done in English but thank you for proving my mom right. Arroz con gandules does a body good.”
The looks on their faces was PRICELESS!!!
To this day they still refuse to meet my eyes or talk to me.
Gandules 😍
Bravo!
I'd loved to see this faces when you said that
I demand Proof of the story, Let us see them Thighs
@@googleuser3883 It was very satisfying lol
My husband has a very close friend who is Korean-Canadian. He grew up in Canada with parents who immigrated here and only spoke Korean at home. Very smart and had worked everywhere while getting his masters and then lived in many different places after. My husband was telling me the story of Roy (his friend) doing one of his engineering work terms in Northern Africa. He was underground in a mine and needing to explain something to one of the miners but he didn’t speak his language, which was Turkish, if memory serves me right. The miner asked him if he spoke another language and unfortunately Roy didn’t. Roy asked him if the miner spoke another language and the miner didn’t. Finally, they both found that they could speak French! So here they were, in Northern Africa and a Korean engineer and a Turkish miner were speaking in french to solve a mining problem. Amazing. They both knew 3-4 languages and finally hit on the one they knew in common.
That sounds hilarious! Almost like a sitcom. Some jobs are full of things like that.
That happened to my mom's friend and her son (they were the ones being talked about). They used to live in Japan for a bit, so they learned Japanese, but they're Taiwanese. So they're back in Taiwan and in an elevator, speaking Japanese to each other. Some ladies starts talking shit about them, so the mom turns to her son and says in Chinese, "Son, does Mommy know Chinese?" And he responds in Chinese, "Yes, Mom." Those ladies were mortified.
That’s honestly pretty badass of the mum👏🏼😂
In my experience, Chinese speakers are the most shocked when someone speaks their language.
@@smileychess They often pretend to be shocked for politeness reasons.
@@Alternatives_Universum Yeah, polite reasons. Talking smach about other people because you thought they didn't speak their language. Sure, those ladies were being polite. Btw, Chinese people are not even usually polite.
@@smileychess Chinese speakers are shocked when someone speaks their language, because Chinese language is very hard. It has like 3000 letters...
Well, sister (she knows few languages and works as translator) of my sister-in-law have met two very rude Catalans (whole scene took place in Poland). They started to backbite her in English (do not ask me why not in their native lang first, that's just what I've heard). She responded to them fluently with some claims about it. They apologized and started to backbite her again, in Spanish. She asked them again in perfect language of Hugo Iglesias to stop. Again they apologized and switched into Catalan, talking how stupid she is. She also knows language of Antoni Gaudi so again guys heard about how rude and jerky they are. One of them shouted "Why u keep understanding us?!" and they ran away. So kids, don't be bitches cause sometimes your own words can hurt you more than your human target.
ROFL
@Ton Tum sure thing
Imagine being able to talk your native language without being told to go back to your country
My mother and I speak Norwegian in public, sadly I don't think we are going to be told to go back to Norway. I think those horrible people are not focusing on European countries.
I do it anyway ! I am certainly not going to censure myself
@@ingriddubbel8468 of course not, they mostly target Spanish speaking people or some other language that doesn't sound like European or English, sadly that's the way it is.
Isaac SE What is your first language?
Isaac SE Im African and I’ve never been told that
A friend and I were flying back to Iceland from a trip to Sweden. There were 2 Spanish ladies in the plane, 1 was seated right next to my friend and the other in the row behind us. There were 4 Swedish guys (group of friends) as well, 2 seated in the row behind us and the 2 others just 2 rows away. My friend has Spanish roommates so she can understand a lot (plus our own native language use a lot of borrowed Spanish words) and it turned out that the girl behind us was talking about these 4 swedish guys, how she thinks that one of them is cute and kept giggling and asking her friend to look but not be obvious about it. She fancies the bald one she said. And her friend replied with what about the one with the beard, he is cute too, and she was like no no that one is ugly. And so on. And then one of the Swedish guys behind us started to talk to the giggly lady...in Spanish! Asked her where they were from in Spain and what they plan to do in Iceland etc. I think he wanted to stop them before they say even more unpleasant things about his “ugly” friend. The girls got so embarrassed! It was an awkward plane ride for them! We just sat there wishing we had some popcorn haha
I was in Portugal with my aunt and mother, we decided to get icecream. Now the guy behind the counter was actually really hot and my mum and aunt started talking to eachother about how hot this dude actually was, not caring about lowering their voices because dutch people are idiots and think no one will ever understand them. After we recieved our icecreams the guy just straight up thanks them for all the compliments in dutch giving a cheesy ass wink. I've never seen them more embaressed.
I thought he was feeling hot. Sorry.
Geweldig!
@ i think he has alot of dutch toutist over his floor
That happens to me all the time since I’m black and live far from where the Dutch is spoken nobody thinks I speak Dutch. Some months back I was in a bar in Nairobi and I had a Netherlands bracelet on. Two ladies who were having a coffee started to talk about me 😂 one of them said “ arme jongen! Hij draagt iets dat hij niet kent” which literally means poor boy! He wears something he doesn’t know” I said “ denken jullie dat ik iets zou dragen dat ik niet ken” 😆 do you think I would have on something I don’t know
@@Mu5lis klinkt als een paar idioten lol! Heb je goed gehandeld
I remember that one time where an exchange student was seated next to me (he was Japanese) while his friends were seated in front (I'm located at the back) and he was cussing in Japanese. I wanted to greet him and welcome him but when I looked at him, our eyes met and he said some insulting things like how fat I was and I was ugly and why was he seated near me. I was pissed af. So, after classes, when it was time to go home, I told him in complete Japanese to mind his words and that it was such a waste to have a pretty face but an ugly attitude. His face, neck, and ears grew so red I had to stop myself from laughing. I walked out of the classroom and the next day he was completely quiet. 😂😂😂
Nice
You go girl :)
R/thathappened
That's a cultural thing. Japan cares a lot about physical health & also they're a Collectivist society. So they rarely abandon healthy eating habits and become obese. Even their food is such that you need to try hard to get fat in Japan.
@@ЙунгСангРа That doesn't excuse them being rude in someone else's country.
Personally I feel like if you insult someone to their face in a language they can't understand that is a cowardly move.
Also it doesn't always matter which words are used. Once a guy on a train was insulting me in papiamento when I friendly asked him not to smoke in the non smoking compatment. He was screaming at me. So I knew it was just insults. I didn't need.to know what exactly he was.saying. he was really agressive so I just made sure I wasn't followed to where my bycicle was parked.
BUT HOW WOULD YOU KNOW IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THEM ..........LOL & SMH
@@virgoqueen8950 you don't need to shout. It's pretty easy from inflection and tone of voice if someone is insulting you. What exactly is being said is irrelevant. I worked with kids when my German was pretty basic. I always knew when they said a word they weren't supposed to. Body language from them and the rest of the group and tone and inflection. If you are used to being in environment where you are not a native speaker but you try to communicate be it on holiday or working in the country you get more sensitivity for these things. You could try to understand someone elses perspective. Speaking multiple languages and living in different cultures really helps.
Even though French is a common language, I surmised not many people knew the language (fluently) in a tiny convenience store in southern Virginia. I was frustrated and started talking to myself in French, crudely. A little elderly lady walked up to me and started berating me for my coarse language and suggested I improve my choice of words. In French. I immediately apologized to the lady and quickly walked out. 😳
"It was like... New York": probably just the biggest melting pot on Earth.
Would of been a worse move in London. A lot of Saffers living in Wimbledon/Southfields area, Zimbabweans too.
@@pitmatix1457 you mean rhodesians
@Mr K lol no ny is
@Mr K That's why I said "probably", not "surely" :-)
@Mr K Uh oh! I knew it! Here come to English patriots!!! :D :D :D
i keep scrolling down. everyone's stories are just too exciting!
Me too...
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I'm Dutch and onetime me and some friends walked in a village in Kroatia and a guy randomly started talking to us from his window. At first we couldn't understand anything, but at the same time we kinda could. We started paying attention and we ended up having a fluent Dutch-Afrikaan conversation. Afrikaan is very similar to Dutch
It's Afrikaans, not Afrikaan.
Well dear I really appreciate ❤❤❤😘
Afrikaans is also sort of a mystery and interesting language to linguists. South Africa used to teach Standard Dutch in school, so nobody knows how Afrikaans was born when some linguists argue Afrikaans was sort of a creole language (usually arisen from second generation pidgin languages, i.e. languages formed because groups of people do not share a language in common).
Yeah, we speak all sorts of languages up in here but not a lot of people speak ours. Had a great time in US during highschool cause I could say whatever I wanted😂 🇭🇷
To me a Dutch guy told me,that Afrikaans is Dutch because and I quote “we colonised them”,not they(their ancestors) colonised their ancestors, he just lives in the past in the good old days,he said “we colonised them”,flash news you didn’t colonised no one,your ancestors did and it is over long time ago.you peasant😂your black petes are still on your golden carriage painted in a museum in Amsterdam😂
I was in an elevator and a husband and wife entered. They stood behind me and the wife started body-shaming me to her husband in Korean. When the elevator doors opened, I turned around and replied in Korean “this is just how my body is” and walked out. She looked mortified and her husband had this 🤦♂️ expression on his face.
Years ago I was in Amman (Jordan) and needed to fix an issue with a plane ticket at the airline’s office on the other side of the city. I didn’t really know where I was going and my cab driver didn’t either. He spoke almost no English and I spoke almost no Arabic. Randomly, we figured out that we both knew some German. He was just learning it and I hadn’t used it since high school but we spent a very pleasant half hour chit-chatting (in probably the best German of my life), and we found the office just fine.
I was on a trip to Amsterdam with a friend and we stayed at this Airbnb. The place we stayed at belonged to this really nice Spanish family. While we were settling into our room and preparing to go out, we heard the couple arguing about their sex life in Spanish and it got really intimate and personal and detailed. The couple had no idea that I could understand everything they were saying as they just assumed we spoke English coming from Canada and all. For the next three days they would often talk about private matters, not knowing that I could understand it all, and by the time we left they had zero idea that I had heard it all and knew more about them than I cared to have. It was the one of most uncomfortable experiences I ever had.
What were they saying? Don't hold out on us
@asal j he was having fun as a "voyeur".......................
@@andrewmark2783 😂😂😂
Actually it's impolite not to tell people that you understand what they are saying, and I'm surprised that you, a Canadian, were that impolite. Honest mistake I guess. :)
@Claudius Zijlstra that’s why I said honest mistake...I speak 3 languages and every time I talk to someone that speak one of them I tell them that I speak his language cause I don’t know they might say st personal o say something that could change the atmosphere of the meeting..who knows. And don’t get me wrong, being in Canadá many times and as a country you’re very polite, trust me.. I come from South America and the gap between your manners and ours are light years apart
I am half Norwegian and I speak fluent Norwegian. I went to a small college in Colorado and one day, the prof that taught in the class before mine was still in the room. She was on her phone, bad mouthing students, in Norwegian. I waited until she was off the phone before I asked her, in Norwegian, where she was from. Her face turned bright red, she answered back in Norwegian, and then booked it out of the class as fast as she could.
krismeful Classic 😂
I've only met one other person who spoke Norwegian
@@brucekirk5386 - I know this is hard to believe, but there are more than just that one of us, who speak Norwegian.
krismeful where in Colorado? I went to CU Denver!
Nice. I live in Denver and it's amazing to me how much of a melting pot it is here.
The same with Polish. Now I know, if I am abroad I should never talk about someone in Polish, because Polish people are everywhere.... and I mean everywhere.
I was talking in Afrikaans about an attractive guy in the Underground with a friend on the telephone and when we stopped he said in Afrikaans (Baie dankie- Thanks) and I turned bright red.
OMG😂
London Underground?
@@rafizsadique4299 yes in London.
Gunther, are you a polizei or a grenadier?
@@criztu cute quip. 😂😂 Actual birth name and surname, radical I know!!
The stories in these comments are exponentially better than the one in the video.
Good topic. Everyone has stories to tell.
My parent used Slovak as their "secret language." Around Pittsburgh, in the 60s, it wasn't uncommon for people to understand the Slovak so my parent would generally speak in low tones. We then moved to Tucson where Slavs in general were very rare so my parents' volume level went up in public. Same sort of thing as with Ms Theron. They were talking about some guy in a restaurant and he turns around and addresses them in Slovak. Same thing, no comeback at all.
Thanks - this is the first time I see and read using Slovak as a cover language (where I am from). Like less than 0.001% of the world's population speak it. The chances are super low.
@@MissJayanaits 0.065% approximately
I worked in retail for years and I can tell you that with most languages I could tell if a person was talking trash about me based on tone, look, body language, and in some cases a basic understanding of a similar or exact language. Always remember there is more to language than just words.
AGREE! Sometimes, even if you can't understand whats being said...facial expressions, body language, vocal tone and, Especially...The Eyes...Will SHOUT out to you, as song lyrics say..."More Than Words!"
I was an exchange student in Germany last year. Most of my friends at my school were other exchange students, and when we were together, we spoke only English because we were all at varying levels of German proficiency. There were actually quite a few refugees and exchange students who lived in our city, and there was some unfriendliness from locals towards us. One day during a break, we walked down the street to the bakery to get something to eat before going back to class. We walked in the doors, talking in English about what we wanted to get, and the man behind the counter says very sarcastically in German, "Oh, wonderful. I bet not one of you can speak German!" His face when we all ordered our food in German was priceless.
No offense but, you look like Alexis Texas
@@3ball260 I look like a lot of other people too - for example, Jodie Foster, the incredibly talented and intelligent actress and director who is fluent in four languages, but thank you so much for clarifying your frame of reference. Please take your pornsickness to someone else's replies. Also, starting a comment off with "no offense" makes it very clear that you realize what you're about to say is actually offensive.
@@marliw Sorry you took offense to that. I wasn't trying to offend you.
Interesting. What city did you study in, if you don’t mind me asking?
@@marliw get him queen! 👑👏👐 I like how you intellectually tore that creep a new asshole, well done!
Knowing multiple languages can result in some great scenarios, but one of my favourites was just pure eavesdropping.
We were visiting a local beach with a historic lighthouse that now operates as a tiny museum. A young German couple were visiting, and a docent discovered it was their first time and that they were courteous and attentive and he pounced, explaining everything from how the old refractive lens worked to the photos of the old keepers and their families.
I was casually following from a distance, watching them both as they listened politely to the docent-- and then the husband, who spoke good English would turn to his wife, who didn't speak any, and carefully translate for her.
They came to a very large, very old preserved fish over a little mantle, with a photo of the man who caught it and the pole he caught it with. The docent explained that it was caught at that beach, the kind of fish, it's weight, length, girth, gave the date it was caught and the record that was broken, gave the name and details of the man, the size and type of the pole he used, etc etc etc.
He went on for for several minutes, then smiled and turned into the next room. The husband listened attentively, the wife turned expectantly, clearly wondering what this long story was.
As the docent turned away, he smiled and said quietly in German in a silly voice, the equivalent of:
"Obviously it's a real big fish"
She hit his arm, lol.
@@chrisbristol1615
Second definition www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/docent
@@gideonroos1188 lol, I'm glad you enjoyed
@@chrisbristol1615 Same, never seen it in English before, but I know it as the Dutch word for "teacher". I just went with that and it kind of worked
@@chrisbristol1615 yes, it could well be! I'm curious, wherever you are, what is the term for people (paid or volunteer) who are trained to guide people through museums/historical sites, or walk around them offering free education and answering questions for the visitors?
@@gideonroos1188 lol, I'm glad you enjoyed. It made for very fun people watching, they were a charming couple.
I was working in a shop and was serving some young girls. They asked me if I spoke French and I said no. They proceeded to speak fluent french to me. I was very confused by this. They did the same to a fellow colleague who also had no french. We later googled what the girls were saying and they were calling us pigs. This has not endeared myself to the French.
Argh, I feel very sorry, typical Parisian girl I guess.... this does not represent every French person but it's still very rude
Very typical of my experience while in France.
I am bilingual, but I studied French in high school (which was over 10 years ago) so I understand it fine but I'm really shy to speak it. I had an uber driver tell me to "speak French" when I was there a few months ago. He was angry.
Edit: the only people who were nice to me in France were the Latinos and Arabs, who were also bilingual.
I always find it funny when a French person asks me if I speak French, I don’t, and yet they proceed speaking in French.
@@raion-jo3494 french people are very nice indeed, being a moroccan myself i never had a bad experience with a french speaker
One of my only regrets in life is that I didn't speak up for myself 3 years ago when I was in line in a supermarket in Nice, France to buy something, there was a woman behind me with her daughter gossiping and talking badly about me in German, clearly not being aware that I am actually fluent in German. I just remember turning around being shocked that people talk so badly about other people they don't even know and looking at the daughter who looked like she felt uncomfortable and embarrassed by her mom. I still wished I would have spoken up, I mean that was a grown ass woman
Dutch people understand Afrikaans as it's very similar!
True.
Because it is our language, they are our people. They left The Netherlands for South Africa.
Its because a part of south afrika used to be colonised by the dutch
Danes can get most of it too!
Yes my neighbour is south African. She speaks dutch as her native tongue.
I am Ethiopian born, Zambian raised, South African citizen who is from Kerala, India.
Dec'19, went to England. At Buckingham Palace..on a cold morning with 1000's of people, this school boys rugby team decides to tour the palace grounds in shorts...young men - Black & White talking very loud getting looks from the large crowds -" aren't you guys cold?", "which country are you from? Arent you guys World Champs?" etc...They were carried on in Afrikaans being boys..as I walked up to a few with a big smile and greeted them "ou gaandit?". Jaws dropped and all - didnt expect this indian family to speak Afrikaans.
Few days later we (wife, teenage daughter & I) decide to drive to Oxford. Parked at the Park & Ride and was trying to figure out how to get a bus to the University etc..a very light skinned fir an Indian..Portuguese / arab looking man walked to the bus to take the drivers seat. There was something about his walk that made a connected. When entering while paying - asked him where are you from..he responded not paying too much attention..India, so I carried on..where abouts in India..he responded - South. Typical - Kerala - Malayalee..not getting to the point..so I asked where in south. He responded: ' its a small state called Kerala on the South West coast". I asked: "Keralatil eviddeya" - wow, the brother connection.."saar naatilna ne kandepol arrinjilla"...blah blah. to my daughter "mole..". I have only spent some 3 yrs in Kerala..and I am 52, so I guess I too have foreign habits, so it wasnt too obvious to him. We got a back seat. Each time he stopped to fetch or dropped passengers..he had a gleaming smile and turned around and explained the significance of the spot in Malayalam - other passengers looked at us strangely..I enjoyed the chat.
2013, we went to a US tour. Chicago, Michigan Avenue. Being South African, we are so very used to Zimbabwean ( black)accents & mannerisms. Armed with our cameras, we were doing our tourist things. There was this black family doung the same..I felt at home - I didnt hear their accent but something told me I am near familiarity..elections were going in in Zimbabwe. So while they wanted a picture in front of that gothic looking building they looked to almost ask if I could take a picture..so I decided to ask " Hope you got to vote". It wsd a dad, mom and 21 yr old son. The dad looks..initially thinking what am I asking and puzzled..I carried in..you know for Mugabe or Tsvangirai...his jaws dropped..in an American accent, "how do you know",... I said, well it takes one to know one. " Are you..no you are not..as I am clearly Indian"... they were so happy..we took pictures together. He said his 21 yr old son hadnt been to Zimbabwe or Africa. They live and have been in Dallas for 25 years...
Then there was a trip to Taipei..for a kids maths event. Many white, one black and us - as South African families..navigating through public transport..bus to train to find a restaurant in the City Centre..wanting to see this Taipei 101, the world's tallest building until the Burj in Dubai. In this crowded bus, all of us, and I simply said " eish" to the black S African woman..kind of "oh well".. very South African..to which this local Chinese guy smiles and chats in fluent Zulu...he then said he lived in South Africa for 11 years or so, and picked up the language.
I guess, growing up in newly independent post colonial Africa, as Indian in pockets of white SA and working in multicultural South African...and being well travelled - spits out a very unique identity! Indian, African, Western mannerisms!! accent - post colonial Zambian..
Nattil evde arunnu sharikkum ?
@@Lia-ny1pe nattil Thiruvalla - Kozhencherry area. Karrect ayyitte, Kumbanad..arriyammo?
Lia de o?
Amazing baiyha!
@@oiisetto4862 danya wad
I went to South Africa 2 years ago to see my family (I'm half South African) and we stayed at a resort near Sun city. I had to take my cousins to the park when I saw this girl who was 2 years younger than me speaking in French to her mum. She said, "They all speak English, I don't understand them!" Then she walked to a step and sat down by herself. I had only been studying french for 2 years when this happened so I just walked over to her and said " Salut, comment t'appelle tu?" (Hello, what is your name?) Her face just lit up. She replied, " What part of France are you from?"(In French)So I replied, " Je suis anglais!" (I am English) she was very surprised as I speak French with a very good accent. We had a conversation for half an hour about school and home life until she had to go. Then her mother came up to me and said, "Thank you for talking to her in French, she was worried she wasn't going to make a friend!" ( She said this in English).
Aww what an amazing and kind gesture from you, we need more like you in this world!
You made me cry a little on that one... 😉👍
❤
You're awesome Leo :)
I was once walking past some people that were working at a stall in a shopping centre and they tried stopping me and I started speaking Arabic to pretend I didn’t speak English..... well unfortunately the girl spoke fluent Arabic and cursed me out. I had the face crack of the century
Me, my girlfriend and our 4 teens were in Austria skiing and needed a taxi. The taxi driver, very friendly, helped us with our skis and we drove off. So we were in his van talking to each other in Dutch (Flemish more specifically). And he was on the phone with his father, speaking Bosnian. Now my girlfriend is originally from Croatia so she could understand everything the guy was saying. And he was using a lot of bad words, even went on talking about some problems with the police. So when we got out, my girlfriend thanked him in Croatian, and you saw the guy slowly realizing what just happened and he was so embarrassed, it was really a funny situation. Gave him a big tip though, to ease the pain ;-)
I was at a wedding once. Whem my gma went to the bathroom, some of her friends were mocking my sisters and I for not knowing how to speak Cambodian (I'm half) in front of us. Their face when my gma came back and told them: oh btw, they understand Cambodian. Priceless.
As someone who understands Afrikaans I laughed too hard at this
haha ek ook
ARMY... and same
I had to google it. Even though I learned it in school for a few years I only understand a few words but I I remember the spelling
the mole on tae's nose i broke when she said it😂
the mole on tae's nose It's fascinating because I only speak German but I understood what she said...
Similar thing happened to me. I got off work late one night and hungry as heck, I stopped at El Pollo Loco for a burrito and was attended by two young women at the counter as I placed my order, they kept on looking and smiling at me as they spoke Spanish amongst each other on how handsome and good looking I was. I was internationally flattered at their complements and kept a straight face as I pretended I didn't understand what they were conversing about. As they proceeded to give me my order, I looked at them and stated "Gracias por los bellos complementos", thanks for the beautiful complement, as I smiled and walked away. Both of their faces dropped to the ground in shock. Anyways I got home and noticed they had made me one of the biggest burritos I have ever had, the tortilla unwrapped because of how much meat that burrito had. 🌯
Sorry, but "gracias por los bellos complementos" actually means "thank you for the beautiful accessories." If you wanted to say "compliment" you should have said "cumplido" not "complemento". Also, in English, "complement" with an "e" does not mean the same thing as "compliment" with an "i".
It’s weird hearing her speaking Afrikaans. She still got it
I feel the same. and when she spoke Afrikaans it settled in that she really is from here, even though I always knew
Her & her mom speak fluently back & forth.
Its her native language duh?
Its not african its dutch
@@Jblah no it's afrikaans. Derived from Dutch so it sounds similar but it's afrikaans. Afrikaans is het native language shes south African american
When my grandad and his friend were returning home on the train to Dún Laoghaire(Dun Leary) Co Dublin,after serving in the British Navy during WW1 they,still in their Navy uniforms,asked a woman how long it took to get to “Kingstown”. That was the name for 100 years for Dún Laoghaire,due to British rule,but while they were away at war it’s name had reverted back to its original Irish name.Well,the woman started to insult Grandad & his friend for calling it by it’s English name & that 2 Irish men should be ashamed to be seen in British uniforms bla bla bla. She soon shut up when they started to speak in Irish to her,she couldn’t understand a word they were saying! The aul bigot could not speak one word of Irish 😳 Fekkin hypocrite 👌🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
During the troubles some people around Belfast started to learn Irish and insist on using it when dealing with the British Army etc. One guy tells the story about how he was stopped by a joint army/RUC patrol and questioned by a young, very posh, English officer. The Belfast guy confidently starts talking in Irish thinking this will throw the officer for a curve. The officer says nothing for a few seconds then starts to ask him questions in Irish as good if not better than his own (with a nicer accent I bet). This shocked the Belfast bloke as it was the last thing he was expecting. What really made his day was when the RUC sergeant incredulously asked the officer why was he speaking Irish? The officer turned to him and said 'It's your language sergeant, why aren't you speaking it yourself?'
My dad lost his windbreaker in Dún Laoghaire on our last day in Ireland. Have you seen it?
@@seanmorris a pretty cool toff you met there
My siblings and I talk in Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish, English, and Dutch at the same time. So the probability of others understanding us is lower😂
That's the best option for polyglots. Every second word in an another language. I do that too
That sounds fun. 😁
Wow. Which ones did you speak at home? Guessing Cantonese and Mandarin at least, based on the name. Did you learn the ones not spoken at home independently or together?
@@tylerburney8576 Yep Chinese because of my parents, Spanish because we are from a Hispanic country, English at school, and we are leaning Dutch together
that’s so cool :0
My story is not about speaking another language but I have to share this one , a few years ago I use to go to this nail bar where loads of ladies sat and you would wait your turn to get your nails done 💅🏽. One particular lady who worked their was very annoying , and didn’t really listen to your instructions and when she got it wrong she laughed . The following month I went back to the nail bar but avoided this particular lady . I sat with this young lady who was doing my nails , spoke perfect English ( this all took place in my home town London England ) I then went on to explain how that other lady was hopeless and I am glad you are doing my nails and they should sack her because I wasted my money on my last visit, the lady doing my nails asked which lady are you referring too I replied the 3rd one down that idiot there , the lady then burst out laughing and said that’s my Mum 🙈, you should have seen my face .
but this is hilarious too 😁
The thing is, whenever I talk bad about someone in Portuguese, there’s always a Spanish speaker around to rat me out (or a Karen who starts giving me the look because she thinks I’m speaking Spanish)
Hate to break it to you but Karens don't like Portuguese either
Si y los que hablamos español entendemos casi todo lo que se diga en portugués 😄
@@brookeg5897 do most Karens even know that Portuguese and Spanish are different languages?
@@simonenriquez5459 pero portugués brasileño XD
I'm a Brazilian. I worked in a coffee shop and some korean business came to pay and with the change I just thank them in korean, "gomawo" cs I learned with k dramas and songs a bit, and they were shocked, just like the koreans in tv, their reaction was like "WOW" I was so fucking happy they understood me.
고마워 is very informal tho and you shouldn't use it with strangers and seniors, 감사합니다 or 고맙습니다 are more appropriate.
@@karcavida3250 sweetheart, I didnt learn to write in korean or anything, I learned like five words.
@@LuanaSantos-rl4sb...Am thinking Karcavida was trying to tell you..."Gamasamida"(Gahm-sah-mee-dah!)...woulda been more correct.
I was on my way down to Heathrow airport to get my flight to tokyo . Decided to take a national express coach . Coach driver comes up asks for my ticket with the strongest afrikaans accent I've heard for some time . I asked him in afrikaans where did he come from , he said Pretoria. I said jeezus you on a bloody long route . He actually found the funny side of my poor joke .
As a kid in museums i used to listen to the audio info things in diff languages (i dont know why). I used to pretend to be diff ethnicities nearby people whos i guessed. I was listening to it in Spanish and this woman started talking to me in Spanish. I’m English, not Spanish but im brown. I said “no understando” and ran off. 😂 she must have thought i was a mental case
I used to do that during boring speeches at the UN when i went to conferences there.
Awww that's so cute haha
oh my gosh it was so weird just hearing her talking in my mother tongue wow
I Know right...Geez...
ek hou ook daarvan
Love dit totaal en al
As a South African I only know how to say I can't speak Afrikaans 😂. And the basic stuff. Mainly saying I don't know how to speak Afrikaans tho.
xThePinkApple Yeah, but she sounds out of practice as if she's been speaking English too much and for too long. It sounds as if Afrikaans is her second language... But it's alright. Daar's niks verkeerd daarmee nie 😉
I was raised in the U.S but Im actually brazilian, we moved back to Brazil when my little brother was 3 (and I’m 14 years older than him), so one I day I took him to his programming school (he was around 7 years old) and this receptionist looked at the school’s coordinator and said “game over for her” talking as if I was my brother’s mother, and then later went on to say “shouldve kept her legs closed”, all in English thinking I didnt understand. As I’m very patient and dont really care if people think I’m my brother’s mom, I didn’t say anything. I worked as an English teacher on a very nearby school, so one day we had to teach a 30 minute class in that programming school to basically get new students, and the receptionist was fired after the coordinator saw me there.
That's rude.I'm sorry you had to hear that...But I'm so curious about Brazil because it's so diverse. Were you born there? And your complexion mixed with last name seems like you could be polish too?
@@Dalt21 yes! I was born here! But the south of Brazil was started basically off of european immigrants, so may grandparents are polish! But my family on the dads side are from the northeast of Brazil, so blacks/ native americans/ mixed descent
@@Lavigrapi That's super interesting. My mom's side is Polish and they moved to the Philadelphia/Scranton area of PA. Makes me wonder what made them come to the USA over a place like Brazil, Argentina or even Canada.
@@Dalt21 mostly job opportunities, really! During the whole thing happening over in poland and such, they just had to go where they could I guess, and the south of Brazil is actually chilly (or as similar as it could be to the weather in poland in a tropical country!)
Also: go Scranton! Love the office ahahaha
@@Lavigrapi Hahha yes! great show right? Scranton area has a lot of Polish hertitage. And Yeah I've heard much of southern brazil and a lot of argentina is filled with european heritage. Same with USA. I'm living in Philadelphia now, there's still neighborhoods here known as the Polish neighborhood.
Helped a Thai couple with their suitcases when struggling at a train station in Scotland. They had just moved here to study and I was the first Scottish person they met. I like to think I made them feel a little bit easier in a new country.
Be aware.. 18 million Dutch can understand the Afrikaner
When I was living in New Zealand I had South African college teacher.
Let's just say she was not a friendly person.
So my German friend and I made the fatal error of assumption and were totally slagging her off behind her back in our own language.
She waited till the last day of the term to come up to me and casually ask me in German what I had planned for the holidays.
Still don't know how much she'd actually heard but enough to make me to chose a different field of study for the next term.
i am born in South Africa, just be careful when flying to Germany Switzerland France on Air France Lufthansa or Swiss Air because im sure 95 % of the passengers are Afrikaans-speaking, i can speak German and English and Afrikaans, so many times when on a Swiss Air or Lufthansa flight i will speak German to the crew and then when landing at Zurich or Frankfurt airport many Afrikaans people flying for the first time will battle to understand the signage boards in the airport and then i will help them by speaking Afrikaans to them and one must see the look on there faces that a person who not long ago was speaking German to the flight crew is now speaking in Afrikaans, so yes as there's so many EXPAT South African's living in Europe --as thousands have left the country since 1994 be careful what u say in Afrikaans, so yes be careful what one says in Afrikaans lol
I was out shopping for clothes with my mom one afternoon. We were standing in line waiting to be checked out. The line wasn't very long, but only one register was open. It was also summer in Florida, so everyone was eager to go home. We see this older woman walk up kind of near the line. She inches closer to the counter bit by bit as if looking at products, but she was not in line. Finally she gets close enough to the counter to "ask a quick question" to the cashier when my mother and I were next in line. We politely waited for her to finish her question. She begins speaking to the cashier in Spanish. After her question gets answered, she talks to the cashier for a moment more and then says something in Spanish like, "Hey, can I just buy my clothes real quick? Don't pay attention to the people behind me, they don't know anything." What she didn't know was that my mother's mother was from Spain, so not only did my mother speak fluent Spanish, but I knew quite a lot as well. My mother immediately spoke up in Spanish and told her, "Actually we do know, and WE are next in line." The woman blanched and backed off, but she didn't apologize to us or anything. I'm not sure why some people use language as a "tactic" like that, but the bottom line is no matter what language you speak, or whether the other person understands that language or not, your words should always be respectful and kind.
Behavior in general. A language doesn't give you privileges of being an asshole to others. ^^ aka that stupid lady trying to cut the line.
This was in Florida? So who would she think wouldn't understand her?
Because they know no one would object for fear for being called racist. Or because they know you can't say anything because they will feign dumb because "they don't speak English"
Yes. Not saying its okay but i am pretty sure stuff like this going on is the exact reason people get angry/prejudiced when others speak a non-dominant language.
@@crappyaccount Spanish is a dominant language.
Same thing happened to my mom and grandma. They were out shopping, saw a pricey, low-quality wallet, and spoke an uncommon dialect to criticize the wallet. Long story short, the store owner was from the same small island and understood the dialect. 😅
Of course he understood you, it's a dialect and not a different language after all.
@@Magmeow05 you don't understand. Different tribes, clans and even islands have different dialects that others do not know at all. They thought the store owner was different, he was not. He was from their island
which country are you talking about?
I speak Afrikaans and have lived in London many years. I boarded a packed Londn bus one day and heard from a little way behind me a girl speaking in Afrikaans on her mobile to someone she was asking directions from. She had recently arrived in London and was due for a job interview. She was having a hard time understaning the directions given her. Anyhow she got off the bus at the next stop, one before mine in a panic. My stop was next and not far from the one she got off at. I looked back up the road and and saw her still on her mobile waving her free arm around punctuating the air. I decided she needed help so walked briskly back to her stop. She glanced at me an old man as I came up, I stopped in front of her and in fluent Afrikaans, asked her if she was lost. She almost fainted and clung to the pole and replied in Afrkaans asking how I knew she was Afrikaans, I told her I was related to a famous Afrikaans pyshic who was reknown for saving his Kommando many times from the Englsh in the Boer war with his visionay powers, and who all Afrikaans people knew well. After a while her stuttering and stammering, gasping for air and swallowing eased, I told her about the bus. She regained her composure a short minute later, I gave her the directions she needed and we both laughed our heads off! She was most grateful. And I chuckled for the rest of the day!
"Only about 3% of the world's population speak Afrikaans". More like 0.2%.
Yeah but count in Dutch speakers. Because they can pretty much understand 80 percent of it.
@@Blomrutger Ok. I counted. If you include dutch and flemmish, you get only 0,7% of the world's population.
So, I removed the entire population of China and India from the world. Now, only 5.3 billion people.
Dutch, Flemish and Afrikaans, with 53 million speakers, now correspond to ONLY 1% of the World Population.
@@rogeriopenna9014 okay I've got nothing. That's amazing. Respect.
@@Blomrutger Dude, this is the internet, you can't admit you got nothing and show respect, you must argue the point even if you have to invent stuff. Sweep the leg, no mercy!
@@TheBrianp1 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙌🙌🙌🙌
When I first moved to Canada in only spoke Spanish and one time I was telling my cousin how ugly this guy was and he looks into my soul and proceeds to curse me out in Spanish, I was like 12 so I was shook
Haha lesson learned
Serves you right.
You were just a kid and we all did dumb things then, so I don't hold it against you.
However, that internet rule "don't say it online what you wouldn't say to someone's face" also holds for how talking about people even in a language you don't think they speak.
Lmao!!!😂😂😂
Maybe when you fly from south africa to new york there might by chance be other passengers from south africa who also speak afrikaan at the luggage pickup.
I was thinking the same 😂😂
I tought that at first, too, but I believe she didn‘t day where the flight was from (could have been an Inland flight) :)
Can Confirm. Met her mom when I worked at a Beverly Hills Car Dealership and she is NOT a woman that minces words. She's a very brusque lady. Can't ever imagine her being at a loss for words.
Once I decided to take a train to Paris. After 20 minutes I got bored and asked the lady beside me the time and then procedeed to engage in a conversation with her in English. When we arrived there I accidentally dropped my phone and cursed in portuguese under my breath. Not only she heard but also understand and replied to me in the same language.
She's so gorgeous !
+Russo GFYS
@Russo Wintergreen. she's beautiful but why are you bringing race into it ,just saying ?
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Russo Wintergreen You sound like an ignorant dumbass
Oh she's stunning without a doubt. But then Rihanna is also gorgeous. There are an astonishing number of beautiful women in the world, and they all have one thing in common. They find me repulsive.
I apologize in advance to the anonymous young German men in the train to Utrecht Centraal, in the following story.
I once sat in a train, towards Utrecht and Amsterdam, when 3 Germans sat down on the couches next to me.
One looked like a YoungBieber-ZacEfron-mashup, bit like a model.
The one next to him looked similar, but smaller and a bit scared and shy.
And the third looked like the Irish fellow in ('Irish people try') with a short beard, halflong black hair and ripped jeans. He was constantly drumming on his knees/legs.
They sat down, I was reading a book and the Model leaned towards me and said in German; 'Hé guys...did you notice her?'
I turned red and stared at my book. He continued; 'She looks Süß!'(attractive/cute)'
The others sortof murmurred and he said; 'Have you seen her legs? They look incredible..it must be the ankleboots...I wish more girls wore them..'
One of his friends (I was purposely looking away, because my face was red) went; 'I thought you had a crush on Sandra?" To which the Model then replied; 'Yeah, but Sandra was only with me to show off. I talked to her on a party and-"
Then the whole conversation turned into a discussion about girls. They shared their feelings about all the girls they'd met, about how some girls had tricked them and had played them, and how it made them insecure and feel scared about starting relationships or show affection towards women.
One of them shared his fears and said; 'One of my fears is to marry a woman..and to find out thát weddingnight that she married me for my money or house. I heard people do that...imagine she'll go to court and take half of what I own!'
I felt really bad for overhearing everything, because it was só personal..they honestly thought their secrets were only heard by them.
They discussed and comforted one another 'I don't think that'll happen dude, but never marry someone unless you actually love her!' and we were approaching mý destination, Utrecht Centraal.
The muffled voice in the train went; 'Ladies and Gentlemen, Utrecht Centraal!' but the boys heard 'Amsterdam Centraal' and panicked. The Model jumped up, walked over to my side and looked through my window, to see if he could recognize a sign with words. 'I saw it said central!', he yelled and grabbed a bag. The Shy one had already hastily packed his bags and the drummer wasn't that bothered and just shoved some bags to the side and put away his phone and devices.
I knew it wasn't Amsterdam, so I got up, packed my backpack and said (in German) 'This is not Amsterdam, the next stop is. This is Utrecht Centraal. Have a safe journey and good luck!'
The Model's jaw fell open, the Shy one started gasping for air and the drummer screamed; 'WHÁÁÁT?!?'
I walked out of the train, but during this, the Model had turned bright red, the Shy one had grabbed the Model's arm and was furiously shaking it, going; 'She heard everything you said about her legs!' and the Drummer was punching his arm-wrest, going; 'SHE HEARD US, SHE SPEAKS GERMAN, SHE SPEAKS GERMAN, SHE HEARD EVERYTHING.'
I'm happy to say I did not get their names and don't know anything else about them, so that's as much privacy as they'll get in this story. And I politely smiled to the Model as I walked out of the train, who was still red in the face but smiled back.
So I hope they won't mind it too much that I'm sharing this. It's just such a great story.
Edit 5 years later; If you put a bit of effort in and skip down towards the end of the thread, you'll find out who they were.
It's kind of stupid to comment about a girl if she's able to hear you (because seriously, if you remotely care about what other think about you, you just don't take the risk to be heard) I understand why those guys are model and always end up with superficial girls....
+David
Well, in this case it was a compliment, so it wasn't that bad. But they were speaking German, and I'm Dutch.
They thought I couldn't hear them. Also, (maybe I'm just confused) but if you care a lot about what people think of you, isn't thát superficial?
Excuse my assumption, but isn't it a bit dumb to speak German as a "secret language" in the Netherlands? I know Dutch and German aren't the same language, but there's a ton of Germans in the Netherlands both living there and tourists even so.
+Nikolaj
:P Well, since the language souns quite similar, but often has different meaning, I think they thought it was save to assume we wouldn't understand them.
But indeed, most of us, just speak German.
If I hadn't been able to speak German though, I wouldn't have understood what he said.
"Sie ist Süß" (she is attractive/sweet) schöne Stiefel" ("pretty boots") and "Beine" ("legs") would become gibberish in Dutch.
If you were to ask a teenager without German knowledge, what those words meant, they'd say; 'Euh...Súús..from Suzanne? Suz? And schön..as Sjeun?..a name? "Stiefel" about stephmothers? Beine like..bijna? Meaning 'almost?'
It's just too bad for them that the language is getting more popular in schools, so pretty soon there's no place for them to talk in German without anyone knowing. :) Poor guys..haha.
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I woulnd't say it's superficial to care a lot about what other people think of you, it's more like a waste of time/energy most of the time.
I was in New York in the subway and talking smack about someone in Icelandic and he turned around and told me to be careful in broken Icelandic. Turned out he had worked on a fishing trawler in Iceland in the 1970’s, so he totally caught me!