Say Something in Afrikaans

It’s quite entertaining to listen to the positive reinforcement speech from Aron relating to wild animals when learning Afrikaans. “Watch out for those dangerous wild animals” was a thing, such as on the two occasions we had a Mozambique spitting cobra inside our washing machine and the fact that we lived only 25 minutes from Kruger Park where they’re genuinely are a lot of wild animals.

Just as a tip off (though this is the wrong thread for it), there was a sentence repeated quite often on the white belt that had ‘it’ in the English but did not include ‘dit’ in the Afrikaans where I believe it should have done.

There was also a sentence early in orange talking about something being ‘baie goed’ when the English had only said ‘good’.

It obviously wasn’t deemed to be quite as exceptional in English as it was in Afrikaans :rofl: - quite brilliantly British culture wise I guess. Never say anything is anything better than ‘not bad’ in Britain - the pessimistic lot that we are!

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I mean, if you could arrange for a spitting cobra in your washing machine when you’re really struggling with a particular word, it would probably solve the vocabulary memory for you on a permanent basis… :wink:

How lovely to be so close to Kruger Park, though. I’m as jealous of that as I’m not jealous of the spitting cobra.

Thanks for the tips - tricky things to track down, ones like that, but we’re going to be doing some work on making it easier to flag stuff up when it has hiccups :slight_smile:

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