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RE: Enter the Worldbuilder - an introduction
Congratulations on joining. Do you write in English only? Or also South African? Not curious at all...
Congratulations on joining. Do you write in English only? Or also South African? Not curious at all...
Thank you very much for the welcome. I am Afrikaans speaking, like my friend @Sigrfolkr I grew up with that as my first language.
I don't write in Afrikaans though as in my High School I switched to English and I went into IT. Stewing in the Computer shop for a few years made me loose a bit of my edge for a bit however it was still useful to speak Afrikaans to some customers. I then went to live in a very Afrikaans town for two years and I think I have most of it all back now.
Living in Cape Town now however, so there are a lot of both English and Afrikaans speakers as well as the other 9 official languages and all sorts of foreigners.
Dankjewel!
Too bad, I just read my very first Afrikaans short story and LOVED it!!! :-) Hop into the Nederlands workshop on the writers' block from time to time. ;-) I speak dutch myself but Anike and I understand each other quite well.
This is going to sound like one of @Sigrfolkr 's drunken Viking stories but I met some Dutch guys one night in a pub. They spoke Dutch and I spoke Afrikaans and we understood each other the more we drank!
Basically the less you worry about the differences and the more you just talk the more info passes across. :D
I actually have Dutch on my list as a language to learn on Memrise (A language learning app, its very good) and my family has Dutch and German bloodlines. We own a 200+ year old Bijbel. :)
Dat is geweldig cool. Ik heb zelf Belgische en Duitse roots. ;-)