a valuable reason for the preference of dutch's sister language rather than dutch itself

[Alurmo]

the title in short is a comparision between dutch and afrikaans and why the latter mogs

from my personal experience and attempts to learn dutch, i picked up alot of unnessecary overcomplication of sentances, either different variations of the afrikaans simple "die"
also theres no simple past tense in arikaans so thats just a bonus
theres also simplifications in verbs but thats too boring for me

to add to the point of simplicity, afrikaans also has a more phonetic and minor and in my opinion, easier letter usages ("s" instead of "z"; "y" instead of "ij), the irritating consunant clusters are also non existent

it also has more diversity, and thus feels more rich to speak, the afrikaans language has malay/native/portugese words that commonly get used in sentances

onto the part which i actually like which is expressions of ideas and thought, afrikaans jsut has a prefferable direct expression of thought compared to its origin, if i had to compare it i would say its more vivid than the former which is dutch, i see dutch as too formal and complex to be able to express everyday thought effectively, in terms of high intellectual thought, afrikaans has its problems as result of its complexity, but u can just trace it back to its origin and always borrow *wink* some words from dutch and thus complete your sentance

 

[Alurmo]

@Yani

 

[True_Fakecell]

the title in short is a comparision between dutch and afrikaans and why the latter mogs

from my personal experience and attempts to learn dutch, i picked up alot of unnessecary overcomplication of sentances, either different variations of the afrikaans simple "die"
also theres no simple past tense in arikaans so thats just a bonus
theres also simplifications in verbs but thats too boring for me

to add to the point of simplicity, afrikaans also has a more phonetic and minor and in my opinion, easier letter usages ("s" instead of "z"; "y" instead of "ij), the irritating consunant clusters are also non existent

it also has more diversity, and thus feels more rich to speak, the afrikaans language has malay/native/portugese words that commonly get used in sentances

onto the part which i actually like which is expressions of ideas and thought, afrikaans jsut has a prefferable direct expression of thought compared to its origin, if i had to compare it i would say its more vivid than the former which is dutch, i see dutch as too formal and complex to be able to express everyday thought effectively, in terms of high intellectual thought, afrikaans has its problems as result of its complexity, but u can just trace it back to its origin and always borrow *wink* some words from dutch and thus complete your sentance

Don't let South Africans learning Afrikaans in school see this

 

[Alurmo]

Don't let South Africans learning Afrikaans in school see this

i hated it in school bc school inherintly cant teach literature in a good way

 

[muscipla]

kanker kanker sukkel hz leer je geen nederlands kkr buitenlander

 

[Alurmo]

Don't let South Africans learning Afrikaans in school see this

are u perhaps then south african then, i had it as a hl

 

[True_Fakecell]

i hated it in school bc school inherintly cant teach literature in a good way

Wait is blud South African

 

[True_Fakecell]

are u perhaps then south african then, i had it as a hl

I'm a Tunisian immigrant in South Africa

 

[Alurmo]

kanker kanker sukkel hz leer je geen nederlands kkr buitenlander

foken eediot, die simpler variasie is uiteindelik beter as sy deurmekaar ouer sister, wat alles moeliker moet maak en elkedaagse dinge klink soos die puikste literatuur wat 'n mens al ooit gelees het

 

[Alurmo]

Wait is blud South African

yes its common knowledge on forums atp lol

 

[True_Fakecell]

yes its common knowledge on forums atp lol

Mb bro I ain't tapped in like that

 

[Alurmo]

I'm a Tunisian immigrant in South Africa

not the kebab kind i hope
which part tho, western is always better then the rest bc it has the most european blood in it

 

[muscipla]

foken eediot, die simpler variasie is uiteindelik beter as sy deurmekaar ouer sister, wat alles moeliker moet maak en elkedaagse dinge klink soos die puikste literatuur wat 'n mens al ooit gelees het

yh true ngl dutch is hard for nothing
is afrikaans ur first lang tho?

 

[Alurmo]

yh true ngl dutch is hard for nothing
is afrikaans ur first lang tho?

its my motherlanguage, i was born into a household which spoke it natively, and i also speak it natively

 

[True_Fakecell]

not the kebab kind i hope
which part tho, western is always better then the rest bc it has the most european blood in it

WHAT is bro talking about. Son we got couscous and shii. Also we are a vertical country so more north/south divide.