Can anyone speak Flemish or Afrikaans?

CharlotteHathaway · Post by **CharlotteHathaway** » 22 Dec 2005 01:06

Hi, on the lookout for some Flemish and Afrikaans phrases. If anyone can speak this, could they please send me a private message? Cheers!

J · Post by J » 22 Dec 2005 02:47

If you post your phrases here we might be able to help you

Xavier[vp] · Post by **Xavier[vp]** » 22 Dec 2005 04:24

Hi. I speak some Dutch, which is strongly related to these languages, do you necessarily need Flemish or Afrikaans ?

CharlotteHathaway · Post by **CharlotteHathaway** » 22 Dec 2005 12:01

ummm, according to forum rules I'm not sure I can. I need Flemish as what I have is incomplete, Afrikaans would be a luxury, but it would still be nice to have it!

ElieDeLeuze · Post by **ElieDeLeuze** » 22 Dec 2005 13:06

Flemish and dutch are one and only one language.

You are free to indicate a local expression used in a specific region of a linguistic area, of course, but it's an other level of details and not to be set on a same ligne as other languages. You do imagine that this expression has a lot of regional variaty in the german speaking area, for exemple, but you still only treat german as one and only one language.

CharlotteHathaway · Post by **CharlotteHathaway** » 22 Dec 2005 13:16

Maybe I'm cheating by using them as 2 separate languages? I got the impression that Flemish was very closely related to Dutch, but not exactly the same.
Anyway, the expressions I need then are
'fancy a shag?'
'No, [something abusive]'
'Yes please, [something saucy]'
can anyone help?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 24 Dec 2005 15:50

CharlotteHathaway wrote:Maybe I'm cheating by using them as 2 separate languages? I got the impression that Flemish was very closely related to Dutch, but not exactly the same.
Anyway, the expressions I need then are
'fancy a shag?'
'No, [something abusive]'
'Yes please, [something saucy]'
can anyone help?

Afrikaans
fancy a shag? = wil jy naai? (sex; informal)
fancy a shag? = wil u seks hê? (sex; literally: would you like to have sex)
fancy a shag? = wil u 'n sigaret (cigarette)

No = Nee!
Yes please = O ja!

Flemish is the same as Dutch it's just a collective name for Dutch spoken in Flandres.

As far as my TV-Flemish goes:
Wilde gij seks hebben? [sex]
Wilde gij ne sigaret? [cigarette]
No = nee!
Yes please = Ja graag.

CharlotteHathaway · Post by **CharlotteHathaway** » 24 Dec 2005 16:01

Thanks! how do you pronounce those?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 24 Dec 2005 22:33

CharlotteHathaway wrote:Thanks! how do you pronounce those?

It's hard to write down, in English you don't have the pronounciation for the W, the I and Y. I don't know how to write in IFA so I don't know

most likely like this:
wil yai nay?
wil yai sex hay?
wil yai a ciGaret hay?

Nee = Nia
O ja = U yà.