it actually literally is from British English since colonialism and our School curriculum was actually created by the English and based on their English... you will find it the very same in New Zealand, Australia and even India... and then each of them will then have their very own distinct slang terms
We hardly call gas station, we say garage. It's not lack, it's lekker.. We also say Yerrrr instead of yessesss, Neh instead of Heh. We also use struu meaning for sure.
It’s not necessarily South African slang it what most African speaking English countries call it because we speak British English not America with exception of few words from SA
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@@1HourOf. That was Trevor using artistic license to make that routine kak funny. The truth is that in South African English traditionally the trend was to use "serviette" if it's disposable and "napkin" if it is made from cloth.
I'm with Dion with regards to the restroom. You don't go there to rest. And bathroom is confusing too, coz you're not going to take a bath. Toilet or lavatory basically explains itself. And lastly, a Oreo would be a cookie, and the ones without cream etc, are biscuits
A jersey to me is something woolly you wear over your clothes to keep warm in winter. A sweater is a t-shirt you can wear in summer. And one-piece swimsuit like that is a bather. "Jol" and "jassis/yassis" are from Afrikaans but specifically from Coloured people's Afrikaans. The j-sound we will use is otherwise looked down by white Afrikaans speakers.
We call it football T shirt and basketball t shirt. A sweater and a jersey may be used for the same type of cloth depending on what word is preferred right then
Gas is the air that involuntarily comes out the back of a person's body🤷. Gas is also that highly flammable thing used to make heat when cooking, but we don't pronounce it as just gas, we use the the Afrikaans word .
Cultures and therefore dialects differ from place to place here in 🇿🇦. Bathroom, to many of us, is where you wash yourself. English RP is taught in our schools, generally, so we talk about water, not wodder. Due to fast food franchises, things do change. A BBQ is not equivalent to a Braai, believe me, although younger people here have lost some culture. We eat beef mince, not ground beef. Bear in mind, most people here are not native English speakers and name things differently in local languages ranging from Afrikaans to isiZulu.
@@HeleenHenstock but most of us commoners would still call it mince or in afrikaans especially we would just cal it mins as in afrikaans its maalvleis and thats to posh sounding as we grew up on mins lol
Also note that most malls you will actualy see a sign for the toilet. Yes you will see restroom but not that much. Take into account that about 60 years ago the toilet was not always in the house and if it was, it was a completely seperate place from the actual bathroom.
The South Arican english has many words and sayings taken from all the other different langages spoken there. In the Cape the Colored people speak a very different lanuage a mixture of english and afrikaans with alot of slang
In Afrikaans we say "Koekie" which is and sounds the same as "cookie". If you noticed, the way we pronounce 🍅 is different to yours.. tomato/tomatoe.. that's British English vs American English.. I must say I do not like the blasphemy..it's a no no in our house.. the "J" word and the "OMG"
A Braai here we use wood charcoal for the fire to braai the wors and chops, you Americans use mostly lighter fluids to fuel for your barbecues😅 And the taste differs on what you use for the fire to cook the meat and other things.
You two can definitely handle SA, just use some common sense and street smarts when you're in public, other than that just enjoy, that American dollar stretches long in SA so you can live in the best accommodations too
Here's the thing... There are different cultures in South Africa. For example, this guy in the video is a white South African.. Im a Coloured South African. So the way he speaks is way different from me. U guys need to do some homework and ull figure out the differences. This isnt a true reflection of how we talk. Cape Town South Africa is was different from any other province in South Africa
More like Southern-Africa Region English cause if you go to countries like where I'm from (Zambia), Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe to name a few, that's our English too
Also the word " JOL " for going out to clubs is extremely a high school term. No adult man says that. Also it's slang for "Jolly" And Jol often represents HEAVY drinking and dancing to 1 rhythm music (called sokkie).
I hardly ever hear the phrase petrol station, it's more common to call a gas station a "garage" like going to check your oils or get some petrol at the garage
Yesses if I'm not mistaken is an Afrikaans word for Jesus. It is used as an exclamation of shock more often than casually. You'll be like: Yesses bra! How did you get yourself so deep into it?
🇺🇸: gas station ; 🇿🇦: petrol station(actually my SA friends say Garage) ; 🇿🇼: service station “JOL” means come here 😂, maybe there’s an SA version i dunno, in zim its : “tell him to jol”; “ey jol” you catch? Everything else is 1:1 Afrikaans is a Dutch like language, mainly used by White Southern Africans
Hi , Jol has two meanings... One meaning is when you go to a club , disco or party and the other meaning is when you have an affair with other women, other that your wife or girlfriend. 😮 Lekka is a word we use to say something is nice. Lekka jy... Is when you look nice and are well built. You say sexy. We say lekka jy...
2:45 its also a jersey😂😂 as long as it looks like this and doesn’t have a zipper, its a jersey for South Africans😂😂 5:11 it’s only a toilet if you’re home and its a bathroom if you are in public 🤌 9:25 😂😂its not yes but yesies as in like (yes-sas)
It’s wild, I spent about 3 weeks in SA, mostly joburg inner city, so a lot of time in yoeville, the slang their is on a whole new level cause it’s the literal immigration melting pot. Variants on slang but very much understandable. Such a wonderful time, definitely look at grammar in a new light
A word I never see in these videos is the word for t-shirt in the township is "skieppa/skippa" was reminded of that coz you talked about the baseball jersey
"Yassis" or ""Yissie. In Cape Town we also use "Yoh" as an expression of shock/surprise. This stems from "jesus"' which is considered swearing as you are not allowed to use the Lord's name in vain.
95% of South Africans call petrol Station "garage"
True...
Fact
Yeah when I saw it I thought thats a garage I never use petrol station
99 % 😄
So true that we even call a pie, a garage pie 🤣
As South Africans we have our own way of naming things only South Africans will understand 😂😂😂
He knows he should've said garage instead of petrol station 😂 but he ran away from it
Why thought 🤔 he is not true to himself 🤣🤣😂
@@tamara40 😂🤣
He's afraid to be judged. We all know it's called garage😂😂
@@andrediamond4374 😂😂
I think most South African English comes more from the British as we were a colony. Even our spelling
Yep it is
it actually literally is from British English since colonialism and our School curriculum was actually created by the English and based on their English... you will find it the very same in New Zealand, Australia and even India... and then each of them will then have their very own distinct slang terms
Jersey is made out of wool... Usually worn in winter.
We hardly call gas station, we say garage. It's not lack, it's lekker.. We also say Yerrrr instead of yessesss, Neh instead of Heh. We also use struu meaning for sure.
It’s not necessarily South African slang it what most African speaking English countries call it because we speak British English not America with exception of few words from SA
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Lol mostly napkins are in reference to babies pampers etc
yeah Napkin is the full term for Nappies, I remember when Trevor made a joke about that in his "African American" special😂funny
@@1HourOf. That was Trevor using artistic license to make that routine kak funny. The truth is that in South African English traditionally the trend was to use "serviette" if it's disposable and "napkin" if it is made from cloth.
Minced meat (there's lean minced meat and ground minced meat) ground minced meat is the cheaper version and the taste is not so great
I'm with Dion with regards to the restroom. You don't go there to rest. And bathroom is confusing too, coz you're not going to take a bath. Toilet or lavatory basically explains itself. And lastly, a Oreo would be a cookie, and the ones without cream etc, are biscuits
😂😂 Sounds a little too in my “personal business”
@@TheDemouchetsREACT 🤣
@@TheDemouchetsREACTsometimes y'all call Buns biscuits. Does KFC have Biscuits or y'all call it something else?
I’m African but I’m with you on toilet being a little rude. Lavatory is just too fancy😂. Bathroom is👌🏾
We call it biscuits.
We do say jersey , but we also call it "kit" or "Gear"
He was being super pretentious when he called the "Garage" a Petrol Station.
Petrol station/Gas station = GARAGE in South Africa. Ive never ever heard someone saying im going to the Petrol station. Always GARAGE
90% of South Africans we call it "Groove" in reference to clubbin'
A jersey to me is something woolly you wear over your clothes to keep warm in winter. A sweater is a t-shirt you can wear in summer. And one-piece swimsuit like that is a bather. "Jol" and "jassis/yassis" are from Afrikaans but specifically from Coloured people's Afrikaans. The j-sound we will use is otherwise looked down by white Afrikaans speakers.
It’s the opposite for us😅
Yep
Spot on
Jissis actually comes from Jesus and is seen as taking God's name in vain.
A sweater for Jozi people is those cotton thick shirts you wear in chillie weather
We no longer call it "Joel", we call it GROOVE now. 😂
Or jola for other activities 😊
Don't forget "kuier"
its spelt jol
Jol
Jol is a jol. Never called it groove😂😂😂
Nah ive never heard a single south african call that a petrol station, its garage🤣
Really I use it interchangeably
True It's garage..
Every South African knows that a garage
Gas to us is more of the butane variety...used for cooking or
Iighters etc
Ah! We understand now.
We call it football T shirt and basketball t shirt. A sweater and a jersey may be used for the same type of cloth depending on what word is preferred right then
Yeah
Jersey is knitted garment with long sleeves remember out English is superior to America.
Gas is the air that involuntarily comes out the back of a person's body🤷.
Gas is also that highly flammable thing used to make heat when cooking, but we don't pronounce it as just gas, we use the the Afrikaans word .
Cultures and therefore dialects differ from place to place here in 🇿🇦. Bathroom, to many of us, is where you wash yourself. English RP is taught in our schools, generally, so we talk about water, not wodder. Due to fast food franchises, things do change. A BBQ is not equivalent to a Braai, believe me, although younger people here have lost some culture. We eat beef mince, not ground beef. Bear in mind, most people here are not native English speakers and name things differently in local languages ranging from Afrikaans to isiZulu.
You do get ground beef here in SA. It's normally spiced and used for hamburger patties
@@HeleenHenstock but most of us commoners would still call it mince or in afrikaans especially we would just cal it mins as in afrikaans its maalvleis and thats to posh sounding as we grew up on mins lol
Even when speaking English we can use Gunjani when greeting. Yebo
A jersey is made of wool material and sweater has tracksuit material.
Jasas or Yeses is an abstract meaning of Jesus in Afrikaans language. Just like when a person says "Oh my gosh" which basically means "Oh my God"
We do use mechanic in SA,
Yeah us we say service
Also note that most malls you will actualy see a sign for the toilet. Yes you will see restroom but not that much. Take into account that about 60 years ago the toilet was not always in the house and if it was, it was a completely seperate place from the actual bathroom.
The South Arican english has many words and sayings taken from all the other different langages spoken there. In the Cape the Colored people speak a very different lanuage a mixture of english and afrikaans with alot of slang
We don't generally use the sweater word. It's a jersey and basketball is borrowed from the US so the item is available here but not a thing
Gas it's a propane and the world call it petrol
And the correct response to Howzit is Howzit.
Afrik Aans.....The Aans is pronounced like the "un" in BLUNT...but without the bl and replace the last "T" with "S"..The K is a hard "K" sound..😉😉
It's more like Are Free Kaans. Kaans pronounced like France
The car shop is called a panelbeater.
2:41 baseball jackets😂❤
A Jersey is thick and you can see the wool fabric stitching 🤷 A sweater is thinner you can't really see the stitching, looks like one big cloth
Love the two of you!....
Afrikaans is n taal en ons praat dit in Suid Afrika.
Sports jerseys are called jerseys but sweaters are more like track suits two pieces
Zambian English
🚥 - Robots
⛽ - Filling station
🚙 - Boot (🇺🇸 trunk)
🥩 🔥 - Brai
Fusek - get lost/get out/ F off
Laka - cool
Petrol station is called a garage.
gas station = petrol station or garage
To us its A Basketball shirt!
Basketball jersey = Basketball jacket 😅
Jersey made of wool and knitted. Sweater made of cotton and other soft materials. Sports attire we call it Jerseys as well
We also call it soccer mostly but football also refers to soccer
We call gas station a garage
Mar cant keep his eyes off his wife lol ...."Lekker" means Dope , awesome , great...
In Afrikaans we say "Koekie" which is and sounds the same as "cookie". If you noticed, the way we pronounce 🍅 is different to yours.. tomato/tomatoe.. that's British English vs American English..
I must say I do not like the blasphemy..it's a no no in our house.. the "J" word and the "OMG"
Cookie is a Dutch word
A Braai here we use wood charcoal for the fire to braai the wors and chops, you Americans use mostly lighter fluids to fuel for your barbecues😅
And the taste differs on what you use for the fire to cook the meat and other things.
You two can definitely handle SA, just use some common sense and street smarts when you're in public, other than that just enjoy, that American dollar stretches long in SA so you can live in the best accommodations too
Here's the thing... There are different cultures in South Africa. For example, this guy in the video is a white South African.. Im a Coloured South African. So the way he speaks is way different from me. U guys need to do some homework and ull figure out the differences. This isnt a true reflection of how we talk. Cape Town South Africa is was different from any other province in South Africa
We know 😊. We cover all of the ethnic groups on our channel. Welcome to the family!
We call a toilet a bathroom, public it's either a toilet or a stall.
It is mostly called "Convenience" at restaurants but the bathroom/toilet at home.
Some restaurants use restroom too.
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Afrikaans people will say, we are going to the Garage to get petrol for our cars.
More like Southern-Africa Region English cause if you go to countries like where I'm from (Zambia), Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe to name a few, that's our English too
" petrol station" hai is not make sure😩
Yeses! , Yoh!, Jesu!
South African English is UK 🇬🇧 British English
How you call the TOILET a RESTROOM? Are you going to rest in there?
Ketchup is a thinner consistency and more vinegary than tomato sauce that I'm use to so i personally distinguish them
We call the sport jersey a sport kit
Also the word " JOL " for going out to clubs is extremely a high school term. No adult man says that. Also it's slang for "Jolly" And Jol often represents HEAVY drinking and dancing to 1 rhythm music (called sokkie).
I hardly ever hear the phrase petrol station, it's more common to call a gas station a "garage" like going to check your oils or get some petrol at the garage
It's not, Joel...it's JOL!
Braii is also shisa nyama
Yesses if I'm not mistaken is an Afrikaans word for Jesus. It is used as an exclamation of shock more often than casually. You'll be like: Yesses bra! How did you get yourself so deep into it?
Slang also depends on the home language or which side of south Africa you from.....
Jol is also used for a good time not just in clubbing
You guys say soccer, to many of us over here it's football!
But many South African say soccer too becuse of the popularity of rugby.
Majority of south africans say soccer
🇺🇸: gas station ; 🇿🇦: petrol station(actually my SA friends say Garage) ; 🇿🇼: service station
“JOL” means come here 😂, maybe there’s an SA version i dunno, in zim its : “tell him to jol”; “ey jol” you catch?
Everything else is 1:1
Afrikaans is a Dutch like language, mainly used by White Southern Africans
We know it's a petrol station.. but we call it Garage ⛽🇿🇦
most Afrikaans speakers are coloured
Braai not Bry,Jol not joel,Petrol station= garage.
Hi , Jol has two meanings... One meaning is when you go to a club , disco or party and the other meaning is when you have an affair with other women, other that your wife or girlfriend. 😮 Lekka is a word we use to say something is nice. Lekka jy... Is when you look nice and are well built. You say sexy. We say lekka jy...
You a Basketball kit Sierra😄...I'm kidding we also use jersey
Some of us know the American because of amount of content we consume
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i love the videos jou guys make about south africa thank jou guys
2:45 its also a jersey😂😂 as long as it looks like this and doesn’t have a zipper, its a jersey for South Africans😂😂
5:11 it’s only a toilet if you’re home and its a bathroom if you are in public 🤌
9:25 😂😂its not yes but yesies as in like (yes-sas)
Lekker means nice 👌🏼
It’s wild, I spent about 3 weeks in SA, mostly joburg inner city, so a lot of time in yoeville, the slang their is on a whole new level cause it’s the literal immigration melting pot. Variants on slang but very much understandable. Such a wonderful time, definitely look at grammar in a new light
In Nigeria, we say Filling Station not gas station, not petrol station
We call it garage not petrol station but we pour petrol on a car in SA
To mince meat is different to grounding meat different process different out comes...
My mom loved using yeses when she was frustrated with me 😅
We don't say petrol station its garage and another one ive never heard anyone say "car shop" we say "mechanic
Some of us who speak fluent in english they say we have pride and we are molding words😅.
A word I never see in these videos is the word for t-shirt in the township is "skieppa/skippa" was reminded of that coz you talked about the baseball jersey
Not just townships. I grew up using that in a coloured area too.
no we call it a jersey ,basket ball tops are called vests
Yes that's a jersey, we call basket ball kit
We South Africans use the British dialogue.
Lol. In Cape Town we also say "JOL"
you gotta react to amapiano dance moves
In South Africa ground beef and minced meet are different
It's a cozzie!!!
"Yassis" or ""Yissie. In Cape Town we also use "Yoh" as an expression of shock/surprise. This stems from "jesus"' which is considered swearing as you are not allowed to use the Lord's name in vain.
Gas, liquid solid why is called gas if it’s a liquid?
Sports jersey is also a jersey
Hi my favorite family💓
Jol means les go to 🎉🎉🎉 in south Africa 🇿🇦
In Botswana we call a gas station "filling Station"😂
I think we call sports jerseys vests kind of
This is mostly white/Afrikaans terms.
Filling stations are also Garage
Yeses is Afrikaans for Jesus and is spelt Jesus
We cape coloureds say toilet