How to tell time in Afrikaans | LEARN AFRIKAANS INFORMALLY | Video 4
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2024
- In this video you will learn how to read and tell time in Afrikaans. It can be a little bit confusing, but it is mostly the same as in English.
First we start with some vocabulary for watch, hours, minutes and seconds.
We start with how to say the time on the hour, by saying the number followed by hour.
When the minutes go past the hour, we say it is over, like quarter past three. When the minutes are in between numbers we have to say the number in full.
In Afrikaans we focus on the coming hour and not the current hour when the minutes are on thirty position or half past position.
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❤ I am new guy for trying to learn afrikaans language.this is very easy to learn
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Very useful summary, thank you.
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this was really helpful, thank you!
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dit is lyk lekker
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In my mother tongue serbo croatian we also use the same system for telling time.Half of the next hour has past.
That is interesting. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Same in German for the half hour.
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I always wondered how Afrikaans speaking people perceived Dutch, even though the answer might be very individual. Do you find it beautiful? How much can you understand? Do you consider it as the language of your ancesters? Or something vaguely similar that you grew away from? vra vra vra :) Some Dutch call it "baby-Hollands" because of the somehow simplified grammar, I find this very unfair. I am in love with it, for me it's a bit like travelling in a time bubble, it's beautiful, and some of its sounds remind me of the elegant 1950's Dutch. When I listen to SACB news, I can understand about 70/80% of it. More casual talk-shows like Die Groot Ontbyt or children programms like Interster are more difficult to follow. And you are so creative with words... moltrein, hysbakkie, grondbooitjiebotter, etc... HEERLIK!
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Like you say, it's probably a very individual answer. We understand most of Dutch and can definitely follow a conversation. There is a connection between all languages. And with Dutch and Afrikaans a very strong one indeed. Then less between German and Afrikaans. I myself, are in love with all languages. Dutch being only one of many I am trying to learn. I also speak some German, can read Korean, Russian and Ukrainian. Don't understand it though, except for a very few words. I am also learning Portuguese and Spanish. What I find very interesting, is that the sounds in Afrikaans and Spanish are so similar. For instance if you look at the vowels a, e, i, o, u. They are the same in Spanish and Afrikaans, and other than English that can have different sounds for the same vowel, Spanish is always only one sound. So that makes it easy to read for an Afrikaans speaker. In fact, reading it like Afrikaans gives you the right accent. We can already say the r and double rr in Spanish. We just need to remember that the h is silent and the v in Spanish is a little like a soft b.
I believe languages connect people.
So thank you for your input on the Dutch. It is much appreciated and always interesting.
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I believe in British English they also say ‘half eleven’ for ‘10:30’. Not in American English. I don’t know about other ‘Englishes’.
That could be the interpretation for German, Hungarian, Dutch and Afrikaans. For English it would be interpreted as 11:30 though. It does seem to cause confusion among different languages though. So good point to clarify.
I'm British, and I have never heard anyone here tell the time that way
Thank you for that. Much appreciated.