UK / US / South African English Vocabulary Differences

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  • @aidenblaauw6766
    @aidenblaauw6766 5 років тому +3650

    Me as a south-african knows that:
    Barbecue is a flavor... 🧂
    But a *Braai* is what brings people together👼

  • @nidhimahabir3740
    @nidhimahabir3740 5 років тому +6263

    Tekkie town😂😂😂who else is from SA??
    Woah I've never got this many likes 😁 thanks to all my fellow South Africans

    • @bentee5860
      @bentee5860 5 років тому +32

      I was actually working there 😂😂😂

    • @elucidated_
      @elucidated_ 5 років тому +25

      Right here. Full on South African 😌

    • @njabulonzimande2893
      @njabulonzimande2893 5 років тому +10

      Hierso

    • @IAmQuinton
      @IAmQuinton 5 років тому +13

      Me , i know Tekkie Town

    • @konradd7284
      @konradd7284 5 років тому +7

      Never knew there were so many people

  • @twat584
    @twat584 4 роки тому +1180

    I love how when south Africa is mentioned the comments is basically only south African 😂

    • @twat584
      @twat584 4 роки тому +3

      @fleetlordavtar I know

    • @f-jericho4021
      @f-jericho4021 4 роки тому +6

      @fleetlordavtar not really

    • @wisdomtshembo2548
      @wisdomtshembo2548 4 роки тому +9

      Yes south Africans are busy throwing comments 😂😂like me

    • @wisdomtshembo2548
      @wisdomtshembo2548 4 роки тому +13

      @Gustav Van Heerden you right
      We just comment even on live videos
      Saying something like " am I the only south african here"😂

    • @reecejones2812
      @reecejones2812 4 роки тому +7

      We are proud of our country

  • @kallenmurphy
    @kallenmurphy 4 роки тому +1603

    I swear every video that mention SA we always dominate the comments lol🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

  • @ethanthom4977
    @ethanthom4977 4 роки тому +307

    SA literally owns anything with “SA” in it. Edit: except power (bloody Eskom)

  • @kimberleystevens9584
    @kimberleystevens9584 4 роки тому +252

    When you are smiling at the screen because you know the South African version is going to be so different.😂 Hello to all my fellow South Africans!!

    • @cindimahtaj6455
      @cindimahtaj6455 4 роки тому +5

      🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

    • @callmepatrisha_
      @callmepatrisha_ 4 роки тому +12

      When the robot pic, came on😅😅

    • @Mollyburrrito
      @Mollyburrrito 4 роки тому

      @@cindimahtaj6455 IM american and I am confused

    • @g7eit
      @g7eit 3 роки тому +1

      I really want to visit South Africa

  • @jannusvantonder3505
    @jannusvantonder3505 5 років тому +804

    KOM ONS GAAN BRAAI !!♥️♥️🇿🇦 I'm from south Africa!🤣

  • @siyabulelastuurman9961
    @siyabulelastuurman9961 5 років тому +255

    She's a true South African no doubt about it tekkies amatekkie

    • @masegothebe3351
      @masegothebe3351 5 років тому +3

      Ahhhh this is our girl so realllllllll🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

  • @Miku-uw2sl
    @Miku-uw2sl 4 роки тому +149

    It’s kind of weird watching people get confused when hearing words like robot, braai, etc. which I would consider to be perfectly normal. I never realised how different our vocabulary is until watching this video

  • @teatido4502
    @teatido4502 5 років тому +406

    Chantelle that was beautiful thank you for not generalising South Africa, but also letting your mates know about all the cultural influence in our english language

  • @blackorchid8278
    @blackorchid8278 5 років тому +869

    I've never heard a South African ever say maize 💀 that word is only on the packaging of maize meal, even then ppl still say mielie meal 🤣

  • @lindiebekker8988
    @lindiebekker8988 4 роки тому +70

    I am from south africa and this is so accurate! Even her accent is accurate, much love

  • @daliyashohat1320
    @daliyashohat1320 5 років тому +1112

    The only way a South African robot will move is if somebody drove into it.

    • @mr.l7909
      @mr.l7909 5 років тому +4

      daliya shohat 😂😂😂

    • @junemuch5650
      @junemuch5650 5 років тому +2

      daliya shohat 😂😭

    • @zainarmien1346
      @zainarmien1346 5 років тому +27

      Fokken taxi drivers pal😂

    • @cliffgama8305
      @cliffgama8305 5 років тому

      🙄😂😂😂😂👌🏽

    • @phoenixhorn7320
      @phoenixhorn7320 5 років тому +1

      daliya shohat yeah it’s a Vienna not a wors

  • @ndzalamamaluleke427
    @ndzalamamaluleke427 5 років тому +1452

    Im from South Africa
    The sausage is Vienna or Russian in my area 😂😂

    • @sabervipcontrol6536
      @sabervipcontrol6536 5 років тому +8

      Its that what we know thaks

    • @dinkem1740
      @dinkem1740 5 років тому +7

      That's how it is 🤣 🇿🇦

    • @NeezaRamiah
      @NeezaRamiah 5 років тому +55

      Lol right. I know boerewors as a specific kind of sausage. Like you will know what wors is when you see it. Not just for any sausage.

    • @percylight6695
      @percylight6695 5 років тому +10

      Russian

    • @vaniacabral424
      @vaniacabral424 5 років тому +6

      That we Mozambicans translated to Rachel =Russian.... Lol

  • @alex-fs9yt
    @alex-fs9yt 4 роки тому +117

    Lol as a South African I can't stop laughing at how they were confused about robot😂😂

    • @Mollyburrrito
      @Mollyburrrito 4 роки тому

      As an american I have no idea why they call it robot 😂😂😂

    • @Mollyburrrito
      @Mollyburrrito 4 роки тому +1

      Its traffic light

  • @ashleigh_robyn
    @ashleigh_robyn 5 років тому +467

    Watching this as South African made me happy 😂

    •  5 років тому

      where you live?

    • @ashleigh_robyn
      @ashleigh_robyn 5 років тому +1

      100k YaYa is that so 😂

    •  5 років тому

      @@ashleigh_robyn yeah...

    • @ashleigh_robyn
      @ashleigh_robyn 5 років тому

      100k YaYa interesting...

    • @RaeiFlames
      @RaeiFlames 5 років тому +1

      😂😂M2 , I didn't know we had our own English, this needs to be official and stop saying we talk British English because clearly they different.

  • @tigervalley62
    @tigervalley62 4 роки тому +606

    Today, I went to Tekkie Town. On the way, I had to stop at a few robots thanks to traffic. When I got home, I took some mielies and wors out of my boot, and had a lekker braai😁 #ProudlySouthAfrican

  • @aryana_88
    @aryana_88 4 роки тому +308

    The robot part 😂😂

    What do you mean robot!”
    We have the best names
    Like my fellow South Africans
    👇

  • @kgosietsilemathabathe6451
    @kgosietsilemathabathe6451 5 років тому +494

    That lollipop is commonly referred to as stock sweets.

  • @yutascoffee2535
    @yutascoffee2535 5 років тому +640

    Anyone else South African 🇿🇦😊
    Who am I kidding almost everyone here is South African

    • @d.dexter470
      @d.dexter470 4 роки тому +2

      😂True🇿🇦💕

    • @malan_muller6093
      @malan_muller6093 4 роки тому +1

      Nie ek nie

    • @santevandergugten3045
      @santevandergugten3045 4 роки тому

      I am

    • @sylviakanz8088
      @sylviakanz8088 4 роки тому

      Lol nie ek nie🤣🤣. Busted Bru!! I met a Scottish guy last night, he loves the way I speak. Always get told "I love your accent". And here's me thinking what accent? Everyone around me talks with a accent, I don't 🤣😂 I've been living in London for 5 years, I miss the South African lingo, not necessarily when Afrikaaners talk! Even in South Africa I prefer that Afrikaans people speak Afrikaans, English sounds horrible I actually cringe. I speak fluent Afrikaans to the point that I sound like a proper Afrikaaner apparently. Nobody can swear as good as a Afrikaans person 🤣😂!! I've dated a few Afrikaans guys, they taught me how to drink South African English guys under the table 🤣😂

    • @esthermiller2713
      @esthermiller2713 4 роки тому

      Callyn Rose , each person should be proud of who they are. No one is better or worse than anyone else. Right? 😉

  • @fezekakatise4018
    @fezekakatise4018 4 роки тому +48

    i love how our SA rep started smirking the minute the picture of the robot popped up lmao

  • @gkrmokhbt
    @gkrmokhbt 5 років тому +922

    South African words sounds waaaaay hotter than american!!!

  • @gracebaloyi
    @gracebaloyi 4 роки тому +185

    Proudly South African 😂🇿🇦
    Love how almost everyone in the comments are South African ❤️

    • @wolfieinu
      @wolfieinu 4 роки тому +1

      If only we could be this enthusiastic about the place when talking amongst ourselves, and not only in the comments on videos by foreigners XD

    • @JACKBOOT12
      @JACKBOOT12 4 роки тому +1

      The algorithm bring us all together

    • @panda_boy2285
      @panda_boy2285 4 роки тому

      @@JACKBOOT12 xd true tho

  • @IceMetalPunk
    @IceMetalPunk 4 роки тому +344

    So what I've learned is that in South Africa, even when you're speaking English, you're still speaking Afrikaans lmao

  • @ryanchippy8649
    @ryanchippy8649 5 років тому +1989

    ROBOTS. Every African knows that 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

  • @Millaxnicole
    @Millaxnicole 4 роки тому +680

    Honestly this south african girl was a great representation of South Africans

    • @ashtoncale8606
      @ashtoncale8606 4 роки тому +14

      millx Syer nai man she should have spoke about our (slang) coz white colored and black people all speak differentiations yeah man

    • @Millaxnicole
      @Millaxnicole 4 роки тому +1

      I agree

    • @jadonvanwyk7044
      @jadonvanwyk7044 4 роки тому +2

      True but she could have a more South African accent

    • @tommywulfric9768
      @tommywulfric9768 4 роки тому +1

      She was 'n lekker stukkie vleis!

    • @nikitaamukelani2758
      @nikitaamukelani2758 4 роки тому

      True

  • @sebongilemaseko1062
    @sebongilemaseko1062 4 роки тому +54

    South African vocabulary is so amazing ❤🔥 I love being a south African mostly because our English is mixed with our national languages 😇❤❤

    • @lktdj4025
      @lktdj4025 3 роки тому +2

      For example: You like to PHAPHA😂😂😂

    • @patagonia8084
      @patagonia8084 2 роки тому +2

      @@lktdj4025 mfundisi . Tokoloshe. Yebo . Ya. Veld. Bro. Ntaaa. Yebo. Ag nie maan. Goegea. Wors.

  • @EnhleLove
    @EnhleLove 5 років тому +483

    You know you in s.a when someone asks for your number and you start of by saying "O" instead of "zero" 😂😂😂

    • @kellypreston1549
      @kellypreston1549 5 років тому +13

      In the UK we also use "O" instead of zero.

    • @EnhleLove
      @EnhleLove 5 років тому +8

      @@kellypreston1549 in S.a too, and teachers get irritated saying it's zero not O. 😂

    • @kellypreston1549
      @kellypreston1549 5 років тому +2

      @@EnhleLove I learned it from my father who is British. I live in Germany and used to say "O" instead of "zero" in English lessons. Not only my English teachers where confused but also my class mates. I mostly use "O" instead of "zero". 😊

    • @danaepretorius4667
      @danaepretorius4667 5 років тому +14

      people get so mad in australia because i still use tekkies wors braii ...but i mean come one they call flipflops thongs..like no thats underwear

    • @EnhleLove
      @EnhleLove 5 років тому +1

      @@danaepretorius4667 "thongs" 😂that's so not okay. I am sure hey have gotten use to you by now. So with robots do they not look at you weird?

  • @khanyagxoyiya1443
    @khanyagxoyiya1443 5 років тому +369

    I'm South African and I swear the meat on the stick is what we call a sausage. wors is something else

    • @ledfloyd9056
      @ledfloyd9056 5 років тому +4

      KhanyaGirl difference between sausage and meat is the amount of meat. Wors has more meat and less fat.

    • @lilithak2228
      @lilithak2228 5 років тому +4

      In the Western Cape and some parts of the Eastern Cape, they refer to it as wors.. Especially in the Afrikaans dominanted areas.

    • @danikamudali8873
      @danikamudali8873 5 років тому +19

      Ya you get a sausage and then you get a wors sausage.... and they are completely different 😂

    • @lilithak2228
      @lilithak2228 5 років тому +3

      @@danikamudali8873 I see now 😂... For 23 years I've been calling it Boere-wors, because everyone around me called it that 🤣🤣

    • @danikamudali8873
      @danikamudali8873 5 років тому +2

      Lilitha K lol I always knew a wors sausage as the long swirly brown sausage 😂😂

  • @mphomphahlele8968
    @mphomphahlele8968 4 роки тому +59

    That sausage is actually "Russian" or "Vienna" and "Wors" is stuffed like minced meat

    • @yossarian6799
      @yossarian6799 2 роки тому

      I'm old enough to remember when Russians were coloured with cochineal

    • @XolzRandomWriting
      @XolzRandomWriting Рік тому

      Yeah I was waiting for her to say Vienna or Russian... Wors is not that. I think she followed them because they were talking about sausages so 🤷🏾... But that's definitely not a wors

  • @barrycarter7274
    @barrycarter7274 5 років тому +77

    Robots are the shortened version of robotic policeman. This is what they were originally called since obviously traffic was usually directed by police back in the day

    • @barrycarter7274
      @barrycarter7274 5 років тому +10

      www.adrianflux.co.uk/uk-us-car-part-names/boot-vs-trunk/
      In older times of horse lead coaches there would be a locker for the men driving the coach to store their stuff (including boots). Eventually known as a boot locker and then shortened to just boot

    • @percylight6695
      @percylight6695 5 років тому +3

      So cool!!!

    • @Skyscraper2015
      @Skyscraper2015 5 років тому +2

      Barry you legend you. Thank you for the info

    • @Skyscraper2015
      @Skyscraper2015 4 роки тому

      I work for a guy called Duncan Carter, any relation?
      Dad's name is Desmond and mom is Angela.

    • @ellilion207
      @ellilion207 4 роки тому +1

      Thanks for that bit of general knowledge, Barry. Will bring it up at the next braai. Lol.

  • @ugiebhungane958
    @ugiebhungane958 5 років тому +998

    Looks like the only people in the comments are South African 😂🤗HOME

  • @Nana-fu7ht
    @Nana-fu7ht 4 роки тому +59

    Lolipops are also called *stoksweets* in South Africa

  • @Shade5hift
    @Shade5hift 4 роки тому +92

    I feel like Daniela really nailed the pronunciation of "braai" and "wors" 😂

  • @153SCORN
    @153SCORN 4 роки тому +66

    When a South African boy invites you back home at 2am after the club for a braai. He really does mean a braai, and everyone else is comming too. 🇿🇦

  • @rackelseptevan3621
    @rackelseptevan3621 4 роки тому +204

    US : Sneakers
    UK : Trainers
    SA : Takkies
    LOL, in my country Australia is Runners

    • @caydendewit47
      @caydendewit47 4 роки тому +15

      Tekkies. Not takkies

    • @rackelseptevan3621
      @rackelseptevan3621 4 роки тому +1

      @@caydendewit47 ups typo

    • @lifeofentropy
      @lifeofentropy 4 роки тому +1

      @@caydendewit47 some people do say takkies though. But tekkie is more common

    • @delmaneboshoff5610
      @delmaneboshoff5610 4 роки тому +7

      Runners are chickens feet traditionally BRAAIED over am open flame here in Soith Africa amd sold a plenty at local taxi ranks amd so on

    • @robertlowe9510
      @robertlowe9510 4 роки тому

      @@caydendewit47 No, plimmsols

  • @Dricko_ZA
    @Dricko_ZA 5 років тому +304

    I thought they called it robot all over the world 😂 😂 😂

  • @jayak8217
    @jayak8217 5 років тому +60

    I feel so proudly South African right now😌✊🇿🇦

  • @lethubuthelezi9769
    @lethubuthelezi9769 4 роки тому +372

    I was out here shouting it's a russian! 😂

  • @husnamohamed2904
    @husnamohamed2904 5 років тому +234

    Any suid-afrikaners here like if ur south African 🇿🇦

  • @esgaldir7315
    @esgaldir7315 4 роки тому +146

    One of the most common and versatile words in South Africa: Awe.

  • @romalannaicker4833
    @romalannaicker4833 4 роки тому +316

    We dont "netflix n chill". We "braai n naai" n here

  • @londizwane
    @londizwane 5 років тому +227

    Never ever do we use the word 'maize' in RSA it's 'Mielies' unless you're referring to maize meal to make porridge 💁🏾‍♀️

    • @currentaffairs3411
      @currentaffairs3411 5 років тому +1

      we do where am from

    • @nielfindlay705
      @nielfindlay705 5 років тому +5

      or mielie meal, pap, phutu... lol

    • @francoisvanzyl429
      @francoisvanzyl429 5 років тому +1

      Nkosi

    • @sainjawoof3506
      @sainjawoof3506 5 років тому +1

      We do, and we say mielie meal. When making pap, we call it mielie pap.

    • @londizwane
      @londizwane 5 років тому +3

      @@sainjawoof3506 I was never referring to maize meal to begin with, I was referring to Mielies/ umbila. I've never heard anyone call Mielies "maize."

  • @undefinedvariable8085
    @undefinedvariable8085 5 років тому +136

    "Boerewors" or "wors" is a very _specific_ type of sausage;. a long, coiled sausage that is "braaied". It is recognisable to any South African in appearance, smell and taste, and is an important part of the cuisine. You won't find a braai without wors.
    The sausage shown in the image would be referred to as a typical sausage, if you brought that to a braai and called it "wors" you would be laughed at.

    • @mfundo6619
      @mfundo6619 5 років тому +17

      Undefined Variable it's a Vianna bro. have South Africans forgotten about the word Vianna??

    • @undefinedvariable8085
      @undefinedvariable8085 5 років тому +8

      @@mfundo6619 Nah bro, when I think of viennas I'm thinking of Enterprise viennas. Not that pretentious sausage you see there in the video. Call it a vienna if you want but don't put it between my buns.

    • @pelomk9022
      @pelomk9022 5 років тому +6

      WE call that kind of sausage a Russian in the townships

    • @sainjawoof3506
      @sainjawoof3506 5 років тому +8

      That 🌭 is called a waste of space on your braai 😆

    • @danikamudali8873
      @danikamudali8873 5 років тому +1

      Mfundo Ntoyi ya when I saw the picture I thought it was vianna 😂😂

  • @leletiquincymaluleke2872
    @leletiquincymaluleke2872 4 роки тому +22

    This was a fun video, most videos that include South Africa are just criticizing South Africa food, words or pronunciation. Thank you for this

  • @ofure2247
    @ofure2247 5 років тому +83

    I’m a South African who moved to Canada. I have to pinch myself every time I say robot Lmaoo

    • @masteryoda1745
      @masteryoda1745 4 роки тому +2

      Ofure Ebhonu I’m South African and I want to move to Canada

    • @donaldolivier6786
      @donaldolivier6786 3 роки тому

      @@masteryoda1745 hey master yo🅱️a

  • @phemy6727
    @phemy6727 5 років тому +84

    "After ROBOT driver !"
    "After traffic light driving" is a lot for us.

    • @brainlover7764
      @brainlover7764 5 років тому

      Lmaooo!

    • @msg653
      @msg653 5 років тому

      😂😂😂🤙🤙

    • @Skyscraper2015
      @Skyscraper2015 5 років тому +6

      The one time in a taxi I said "After Traffic light driver" and he looked at me confused. "Eh? 🤔" then when I said "Robots" he said "Ewe fundini" and nodded knowingly. 😉

    • @nolikh3675
      @nolikh3675 4 роки тому +1

      Lol😆 driver stop by the next robot

    • @wisdomtshembo2548
      @wisdomtshembo2548 4 роки тому +1

      😂 😂 in the taxi "after robot"

  • @therealk998
    @therealk998 4 роки тому +40

    4:22 U can see the SA one was already laughing inside 😂

  • @jennahn7981
    @jennahn7981 5 років тому +137

    Proudly South African 🙋🏻‍♀️🇿🇦

    • @d.dexter470
      @d.dexter470 4 роки тому

      Me too🇿🇦💕

    • @yamkeloxulu7599
      @yamkeloxulu7599 4 роки тому

      🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦proud South African 😍

    • @AkaSyn
      @AkaSyn 4 роки тому

      @Telive Qwenton agree 😂

  • @jn8922
    @jn8922 4 роки тому +93

    The American girl so chilled. Ja the braai is the solution to the load shedding (power cuts) right now.

    • @Darthforce122
      @Darthforce122 4 роки тому +1

      Fricking eskom🙄

    • @dillanbotha2505
      @dillanbotha2505 4 роки тому

      wish we had that, nou is ons stuck in freaking quarantine

  • @lesedidlamini7699
    @lesedidlamini7699 4 роки тому +19

    Her smile when she saw the robot made me laugh, I felt that

  • @itskamo332
    @itskamo332 5 років тому +68

    I watched a similar video & the South African girl had NO IDEA what she was talking about! 😂🤦🏾 I'm glad you represented our country as best as you could 💕👌🏾

    • @DK1original
      @DK1original 4 роки тому +1

      It's Kamo I’ve seen that one I did a reaction video to it !! She was waaay of base

  • @cliffpeterson2832
    @cliffpeterson2832 4 роки тому +553

    Awe Mense van die kaap 🤙🇿🇦🌈

  • @ChristoAbrie
    @ChristoAbrie 3 роки тому +5

    they're reactions to when she said "wors" was hilarious; wors comes from the German word "wurst" which means sausage. the Boerewors she was talking about is a specific type of mixed-meat sausage that originated in South Africa as a result of boere (farmers) experimenting with recipes, one variant made with 20% pork, 80% ground beef and coriander (cilantro) became widely popular across the country and became the de facto Boerewors (farmer's sausage). with so many recipes of Boerewors, our food administration even had to assemble a Boerewors council to ensure the traditional recipe is being respected and proper labelling is applied to wors of all types.

  • @felixphoshoko1542
    @felixphoshoko1542 4 роки тому +178

    That sausages looked more like a Vienna than Wors 🤣🤣 some braai the rest of us chesanyama 😋😋😋

    • @thobilel.bntuli3222
      @thobilel.bntuli3222 4 роки тому +4

      Thats definitely a sausage not wors

    • @patricemfenyana5490
      @patricemfenyana5490 4 роки тому +1

      I feel 100% the same way about it. That is not wors. It's a vienna.

    • @menzieray6582
      @menzieray6582 4 роки тому

      😂😂😂😂she was capping, that was not a Wors.

  • @sranprince506
    @sranprince506 5 років тому +195

    Lol I'm from south Africa and I definitely never called a sweet with candy 😂 I used to think candy was a certain flavor of a sweet

  • @adreannwingren6603
    @adreannwingren6603 4 роки тому +12

    I just have to say, as an American, that was a hotdog. We also have sausages, but usually I think they are called by the type of sausage (bratwurst, polish, hot link etc). And for the candy: lollypop or sucker (which are a type of candy).

  • @lungatsewu2960
    @lungatsewu2960 5 років тому +25

    What I love about this is that it make us to realize how beautiful and amazing this country is (,RSA) , I love you SOUTH AFRICANS♥️♥️😍😘😘😘😘😘😘

  • @sadsockz9305
    @sadsockz9305 5 років тому +206

    I feel like most the people watching are South African 😂

  • @samihacarrim4869
    @samihacarrim4869 4 роки тому +20

    Wors is actually something else in our part of SA there’s sausages and wors which are different (to our part)💞

  • @sophiea9679
    @sophiea9679 5 років тому +99

    🇿🇦South African English🔥🔥

  • @zinhlezulu4903
    @zinhlezulu4903 4 роки тому +28

    As YoungstaCPT says "We don't turn up, here we go bos!" In South Africa we have SO many cooler ways of saying things💖🇿🇦

  • @gtprox8971
    @gtprox8971 4 роки тому +48

    Geez like the first 50 + comments just south Africans 😂😂😂
    Were my new viewing south africans at 😂❤⚓

  • @kudzaijere1986
    @kudzaijere1986 5 років тому +143

    Traffic lights are robots in Zimbabwe too lol

    • @nsa6865
      @nsa6865 5 років тому +7

      ahem you mean rhodesia

    • @mologadiboshielo1042
      @mologadiboshielo1042 5 років тому +1

      Because we are basically one ey, you guys are just around the corner

    • @nsa6865
      @nsa6865 5 років тому +4

      @@Nickster7 mugabe is dead you magandanga

    • @Nickster7
      @Nickster7 5 років тому +1

      @@nsa6865 yawn

    • @sukoluhlefuyana5101
      @sukoluhlefuyana5101 4 роки тому

      I think everything is the same in SA and Zim

  • @nhlanhlam9857
    @nhlanhlam9857 5 років тому +49

    Stop lying not all sausages are wors, mara we know WORS IS THE BEST!😍❤️

  • @MosesMatsepane
    @MosesMatsepane 4 роки тому +3

    I am a simple man, I see Chantélle. I click like before watching. We are in good hands peeps. 🇿🇦

  • @AspienPadda
    @AspienPadda 5 років тому +52

    They forgot bakkie (South African) or pickup truck or van or utility vehicle or just truck (which refers to a lorry here in SA)

    • @percylight6695
      @percylight6695 5 років тому +1

      I wanted to hear about the khombi/taxi /van. I feel like we have mixed these names up.

    • @AspienPadda
      @AspienPadda 5 років тому +1

      That is rather difficult @@percylight6695 as they could all refer to the same vehicle haha.
      A combi has a sliding door and seats like 15 plus people. I think Volkswagen had a minibus thing with this name but the brand of choice here is Tata.
      A taxi is also that but could refer to an Avanz or any car doing the thing those yellow cars in NYC do but they're seldom yellow and when they are they're extremely expensive.
      Van usually refers to a worker pannel-van which is a larger type of car without windows or seating in the back but some also call the previous two as a van but with the a pronounced as an e.
      I think that's about it, let me know if you wonder about anything else or if this was helpful.

    • @Calliopa_22
      @Calliopa_22 5 років тому +1

      Yep, this is exactly what I was thinking. To me a "Van" is kind of like a Khombi without the seats.

    • @Skyscraper2015
      @Skyscraper2015 5 років тому

      And Biltong? Awesome stuff that

  • @dultonenriquedulton2695
    @dultonenriquedulton2695 5 років тому +72

    In a south African way we call sweets stock sweets

  • @empoweredlips
    @empoweredlips 4 роки тому +9

    In addition to Barbeque, Americans will also call it Grill. "We are going to grill out tonight" or "we are going to grill tonight." We will call the food "grilled" (i.e. grilled pork, grilled vegetables. But we will call it BBQ or Barbeque as well.

    • @SaulKopfenjager
      @SaulKopfenjager 3 роки тому

      Older US term I've heard (actually read) was Steak Fry, may be even a Fry up or a Fry out (not sure I remember those options correctly though)

  • @jacebotes6435
    @jacebotes6435 5 років тому +281

    NOU is ek lus Om te BRAAI
    Enige iemand Anders van suidafrika af
    Maar Alma se wors nie sausage nie

  • @angelinastene7664
    @angelinastene7664 5 років тому +52

    For South African English, that was not wors but russian sausage .. Wors is longer.

    • @zandilenkosi6831
      @zandilenkosi6831 5 років тому

      Angelina Stene ow yea sausages are sausages but Wors model C sausages.

    • @zeynpastor9142
      @zeynpastor9142 5 років тому +1

      A wors is completely different😂

    • @valeriavagapova
      @valeriavagapova 5 років тому

      Whaaat :D I gotta ask, why are they called Russian sausages? This is so random, although in fact this is actually by far the most common kind of sausage in Russia

    • @angelinastene7664
      @angelinastene7664 5 років тому

      @@valeriavagapova well, I don't know why they are called Russian sausages. It makes sense when you say they are more common in Russia.

    • @valeriavagapova
      @valeriavagapova 5 років тому

      @@angelinastene7664 Just very surprising, as our countries don't have many historical ties from what I know, and I wouldn't expect those sausaged to be imported to SA all the way from Russia lol. And I doubt there's many Russian immigrants in SA either. I really wonder what's the backstory. pretty cool to know!

  • @morenamothai9616
    @morenamothai9616 4 роки тому +20

    The South African lady needs to put a disclaimer on the vid. sausage is a Russian.

  • @ingevanderross5154
    @ingevanderross5154 5 років тому +187

    I am south african, when it comes to the loo, when you at someones house you say bathroom, restaurant you ask for rest room and your own house you say I am going to the toilet.

    • @akhonanonkelela6395
      @akhonanonkelela6395 5 років тому +2

      Trueee😂

    • @otsilegordonledikwa5554
      @otsilegordonledikwa5554 5 років тому +2

      😂 😂 straight up! 👆

    • @makgalemoshidi5488
      @makgalemoshidi5488 5 років тому

      Spot on 🤣

    • @Leratomogase
      @Leratomogase 5 років тому +2

      I’ve never used the term restroom in SA. Growing up, I was never allowed to say “I’m going to the toilet”... it was considered very rude. I’ve always called it a bathroom or loo

    • @homemail9653
      @homemail9653 5 років тому +4

      Sometimes even gents and ladies

  • @robertharmse3840
    @robertharmse3840 5 років тому +39

    "Lollipop" also known as "Suckers" in South Africa

    • @kennethnkuna9754
      @kennethnkuna9754 4 роки тому +2

      Or stalk sweet

    • @Curious-Lee
      @Curious-Lee 4 роки тому +1

      Stalk sweets iv never heard Suckers

    • @samihacarrim4869
      @samihacarrim4869 4 роки тому +2

      I’ve heard of suckers in America but in SA very few people call it suckers 😂

    • @sterraz4701
      @sterraz4701 4 роки тому

      @@Curious-Lee yeah u ryt, uqhunyiwe lo not suckers

  • @user-jn7tc3tp2x
    @user-jn7tc3tp2x 4 роки тому +21

    9:26 we in South Africa do say sweets, but for that specific one we call it a 'stokkielekker'.

  • @bushranger9678
    @bushranger9678 5 років тому +16

    This video made me feel Proudly South African....:) Love you all.

  • @marilizescheepers2278
    @marilizescheepers2278 5 років тому +68

    It's not maize it's mielie!! If u asked for maize in a supermarket in SA they will take u to the maize meal/powder 🤔 (pap) section... I think corn would be a better reference for a mielie in SA

    • @zedtboy1062
      @zedtboy1062 5 років тому +6

      You missed an opportunity to say "they would look at you with a-maize-ment"

    • @marilizescheepers2278
      @marilizescheepers2278 5 років тому +1

      @@zedtboy1062 hahahhaa omw that perfect! 😂😂

    • @percylight6695
      @percylight6695 5 років тому +2

      You'll see white star smiling at you

    • @matodzi01
      @matodzi01 5 років тому

      Zedtboy 😂🤣

  • @Kally-hp8ou
    @Kally-hp8ou 4 роки тому +19

    America: oh no the mountains on fire
    Africa: get the meat we are going to braai

    • @lizdreanderson1997
      @lizdreanderson1997 4 роки тому

      Nooo
      Africa: Come there has been yet another farm murder

  • @shushusworld4952
    @shushusworld4952 4 роки тому +30

    This is probably the first time that Afrikaans sounds "exotic"
    😂

  • @rashman9370
    @rashman9370 5 років тому +34

    Nobody:
    Literally nobody:
    Random South African:we use maize
    All other South Africans: u jas whats that kak

  • @funbrowsawsem8220
    @funbrowsawsem8220 4 роки тому +14

    JES SOUTH AFRICA WOOOOOOOOO IF YOU ARE AFRICAN THEN LIKE THIS IF YOU UNDERSTAND RAINBOW NAISHION

  • @howiworkthisshi
    @howiworkthisshi 5 років тому +15

    I'm Zimbabwean, we speak basically the same vocabulary as South Africans, so I can relate

    • @RaeiFlames
      @RaeiFlames 5 років тому +1

      We are one country my guy 😂😂😂u know nawe

    • @howiworkthisshi
      @howiworkthisshi 5 років тому +2

      Raei Flames I subscribed, your music is fire 🔥 btw I'm a girl not a 'my guy' 😂

    • @RaeiFlames
      @RaeiFlames 5 років тому +1

      @@howiworkthisshi yooo sorry but just assumed idk Why, and thanks I really appreciate it, all praises to God

    • @nsa6865
      @nsa6865 5 років тому

      on 11th of november and independent state

  • @Miss_Chanelle
    @Miss_Chanelle 5 років тому +373

    Girl. “African languages” not “black languages”

    • @NhlanhlaMathe
      @NhlanhlaMathe 5 років тому +42

      I bet she cant string a sentence together in any language of the land she lives in

    • @ebenpienaar5805
      @ebenpienaar5805 5 років тому +12

      Really do you have to

    • @jaennettehorases1042
      @jaennettehorases1042 5 років тому +4

      Right!

    • @nakohope
      @nakohope 5 років тому +4

      Nadia Nazare Dear Nadia, let's respect each other...PLEASE

    • @nakohope
      @nakohope 5 років тому

      Nadia Nazare BUT please lets just respect each other..thank you

  • @2ttony288
    @2ttony288 2 роки тому +2

    I love how Chantelle started giggling when she saw the traffic light because she knew how they would react to us calling them robots 😂

  • @leslieharris2536
    @leslieharris2536 5 років тому +34

    In Texas we say cookout or grill. Bbq is a food not a verb.

    • @TwoTonTaft
      @TwoTonTaft 5 років тому +2

      Yup. Barbecue is cooked in a pit or a smoker, not on a grill!

    • @miyas8510
      @miyas8510 5 років тому

      In Britain it’s a grill and a food

    • @Declan_Moriarty
      @Declan_Moriarty 5 років тому

      we say the same thing in NY :)

    • @nielfindlay705
      @nielfindlay705 5 років тому +1

      Here is Safrica, BBQ is more like a flavour of something.. for example bbq flavoured potatoe chips or bbq sauce. Braai, being an afrikaans work, is lierally, to cook something and its association is mostly meat...however, we can braai fish, use a braai to "smoke" fish or chicken etc..

    • @danikamudali8873
      @danikamudali8873 5 років тому +1

      In South Africa bbq is just a flavor... like bbq sauce 😂😂

  • @mz2345
    @mz2345 4 роки тому +27

    “Dang it, the robot is red!”
    First thing that came to my mind when she said that

    • @lunariousmoon
      @lunariousmoon 3 роки тому

      We dont commonly use The Colours, we just say open/closed if its orange then we still say open

  • @habeemchunu7247
    @habeemchunu7247 4 роки тому +12

    Just to add in south africa we dont say Fueling Station/Gas station we call it Garage..the Garage😁

  • @rohaankhurram4027
    @rohaankhurram4027 5 років тому +68

    Proudly SA

  • @reagan3846
    @reagan3846 5 років тому +164

    South Africans say hetic a lot 😂

    • @danikamudali8873
      @danikamudali8873 5 років тому +10

      And yesis 😂😂

    • @khanyag6092
      @khanyag6092 5 років тому +12

      And shame😆

    • @lethuthandomaphalala1148
      @lethuthandomaphalala1148 5 років тому +6

      Never forget Bathong 😂😂

    • @bubba2457
      @bubba2457 5 років тому

      @@lethuthandomaphalala1148 hhayi

    • @RaeiFlames
      @RaeiFlames 5 років тому +6

      And invented "Eish" it's now in the Oxford dictionary 😂😂😂✊✊✊✊

  • @andrewwatson9805
    @andrewwatson9805 2 роки тому +3

    Interesting. I'm originally from southern Africa, and now live in Canada. When we first came to Canada we were surprised to hear (dating myself) Bib Vila from "This Old House" refer to a hand basin as a lavatory. So in the US the lavatory is the hand basin, whereas in southern Africa and England it's the actual flushing toilet. I think I'm old enough to help Chantelle out on the "robot" thing. Way back, traffic was directed by policemen who stood on large half-barrel stages in the middle of the intersection, directing traffic. It was a very manual task, so when the traffic lights replaced the people we started calling them "robots" as they were machines that replaced human work. And on "braai", it's the Afrikaans word for "roast". I guess the origin is probably Dutch. On boerewors, that refers to a particular type of sausage--=farmer's sausage--of which there are plenty of recipes online. My old country, Zimbabwe, people called pork sausages, sausages, or sometimes 'bangers'. The tan or red hotdog type sausage we called "Vienna sausages" from the German pronunciation of 'wiener'. In the US and Canada they are called 'wieners' and pronounced exactly that way as one would say 'weaner' (being a calf not yet weaned from its mother). Regarding the candy, in Zimbabwe a 'lolly' would be frozen fruit flavoured snack on a stick, similar to an ice cream on a stick, but without the dairy. The type of candy shown were called lollypops. There was South African movie in the 1970s called e'lollypop. Lastly 'mielies' is the Afrikaans word for 'maize'.

  • @LaTashaImperiale
    @LaTashaImperiale 5 років тому +5

    I'm from the midwest (Michigan), so here are my answers 😊:
    1) shoes
    2) restroom (I typically use "bathroom" when it's in a home/hotel and "restroom" for public facilities)
    3) stop light/traffic light
    4) trunk
    5) barbecue
    6) hotdog
    7) suckers (without the sticks, I say "candy")
    8) corn/corn on the cob
    This was fun! I love these vids!

    • @skylerhansen6410
      @skylerhansen6410 5 років тому

      LaTasha Coates I’m from the western US (Utah), and I would agree with you on everything.

  • @TwoTonTaft
    @TwoTonTaft 5 років тому +64

    Just be careful when it comes to American terms for things... The USA is so freakishly huge that different regions will have different terms for things. The meat one for example: I'm from the American South, and that was grilling. Barbecue is a sacred art that uses smoke and low heat to cook the meat. Elsewhere it might just be regular old bbq though.

    • @Lebst
      @Lebst 5 років тому +1

      We also use sweets to mean anything where sugar is a primary ingredient like cake or pie, not just candy. I thought Daniela might mention that, but maybe it's just a southern thing?

    • @miyas8510
      @miyas8510 5 років тому +1

      Yeah it’s the same in England

    • @yokoohellno
      @yokoohellno 5 років тому +1

      same in south africa.

    • @suhaliasauls4510
      @suhaliasauls4510 5 років тому +3

      Lol no love in South Africa we call it a "Braai". We even have National Braai Day. Even with native South African languages it's called a "Braai". Imagine saying we gona have a "barbaque"... That's a flavor for chips bra

    • @hiphopson
      @hiphopson 5 років тому +2

      @@suhaliasauls4510 but he's not talking about South Africa or "braai" he's referring to the US more specifically southern US and we call it barbecue or grilling depending on how you're cooking the meat. So saying we're going to have a barbecue would make more sense than saying let have a "braai"

  • @jokirby9059
    @jokirby9059 4 роки тому +31

    those sweets are called "suckers" in SA! :)

  • @genemedia3315
    @genemedia3315 4 роки тому +16

    If you're from Durban you call them Sticksweets in South Africa. Or just Sweets.

  • @mohlalaleah4619
    @mohlalaleah4619 5 років тому +37

    South Africa🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
    Tekkie town😂😂😂
    Biscuits surely they dnt have those in USA

    •  4 роки тому +1

      They do...but it means something else!....Their biscuit is savory and eaten at breakfast.
      I like our meaning for buscuits!!
      Cookie is a cup cake in SA!

  • @thiagodias7825
    @thiagodias7825 4 роки тому +8

    I think that Maize has a connection with spanish "Maíz", and probably Miellie has a connection with portuguese "Milho".

    • @maggiefollett636
      @maggiefollett636 3 роки тому

      On the button. Therefore we are correct. It's not "koring" which is Dutch for wheat.

  • @harlensdestruction7115
    @harlensdestruction7115 4 роки тому +5

    I’m South African and this woman reminds me of EVERY ONE OF MY AUNTS. I’m also an American immigrant so the American reminds me of my mother.

  • @skyeteeshaproductions5385
    @skyeteeshaproductions5385 5 років тому +16

    I laughed so hard for Mielie!! Damn South Africa and our freaken strange naming conventions XD (SA for life)

  • @ShirtlessPinoy
    @ShirtlessPinoy 4 роки тому +9

    6:08 in the Philippines 🇵🇭 we call in *trunk*
    First time to hear boot

  • @Allthingslani
    @Allthingslani 5 років тому +6

    Billy, I use your videos to teach my kids and they love it. I'm in South Korea, I dont mind being a guest. Your a delight. I'll teach you the SA and the black SA way.