Charlize Theron and David Oyelowo Teach Afrikaans and Yoruba Slang | Vanity Fair
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- Charlize Theron and David Oyelowo teach each other slang words from the Afrikaans and Yoruba languages.
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To all the South Africans who don’t speak Afrikaans...
This video taught us more than our teachers ever did
Bro
Fr are you jas 😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
yesss definetely my teacher is sooo boring when she speaks to us
Broo!!!😭😂😂
I’m half South African and half Yoruba...this is hilarious
Cool
Kemi Olaleye wow! Nice
Doe part van suid-Afrika jou van bru ?
Awọn ede meji Mo fẹran. Awọn ẹkọ ilu Yorùbá mi lati ọdun 1850 jẹ ninu awọn iwe-ọfẹ mi. Afrikaans is 'n nuttige taal as jy iets swaar op 'n heuwel dra.
Half South African? Which tribe or ethnic group
Nigerians and our acting skills😂😂.
-How do you say hangover?
-Ahhhh🙆🏾♀️.
He killed me😂🤣🤣😂
😂😂😂😂
He was correct 🤣
Wrong... Its not "ahhhh" its "mo ti moti yo"
I swear
@@klausmoritz6311 moti yo means I'm very drunk.
Charlize has a wonderful Afrikaans accent. I forget she is South African
Her nationality (place of birth not ethnicity) is South Africa
Same haha
I totally agree
Lee Jay Afrikaans is her first language.
@gippygipmg indeed. She is dutch!
Sounds like Yoruba speakers are all philosophers, based on their slang
That's most African slangs/parables
Lewl
Lol arsonists are artists 😂😂😅😅
We have a whole lot of proverbs basically and it's like essentially a large part of the language ☺️
There is a Yoruba saying that "you can rediscover lost words with a proverb".
“Ile Oba tojo ewa lo bukun” is an adage in Yoruba language . Literal translation is “The king’s palace that got burnt would add beauty to it when reconstructed” its main meaning is that “ every cloud has a silver lining” it is often used to give assurance of hope when calamity befalls someone. Yoruba is “one” of the most complex languages.
She was being rude and interrupting him too much.
super!
Very enlightening thanks man. As a linguist Yoruba’s complexity is really interesting, respect.
I bet you mean one of the most expressive languages, rather than being complex.
He misinterpreted a fine adage and I was weeping. Now they think Yorubas are arsonists
''The wisdom in Nigeria is JUST different''
Yes it is😌Thx dude
Thanks bro.
Let me add this- the wisdom in the king palace that gets burnt is that because it's the King's palace many people wants to contribute in rebuilding it and lots of fund definitely will make it more beautiful.
@@kazeemadeleke7979
Exactly!
A chicken walks into a bar...
Charlize: don't shake the chicken!
ME: Why?
David: Becaue it doesn't realize it has aged!
Chicken: AHHHHH!!!!!
This joke is underrated! Ahah
Brilliant!
Why would a chicken walk into a bar? Didn't it see the sign? "WE SERVE CHICKENS HERE"
Best summary!
😂😂😂🤣🤣
I love this
Africa is so diverse
And I love that they put two different African countries together
It’s a link up ✊🏾💕
I'm South African and lmao Charlize teaching that stuff is so hilarious to me. What a beautiful legend
Russo Wintergreen racist af
Russo Wintergreen Something tells me you're foolish and need a beating. But something else tells me you're just pitifully ignorant and need a lecture. Which one is it?
Russo Wintergreen lol wut
Russo Wintergreen were you dropped as a child?
Russo Wintergreen bet you’re fat and ugly and can’t get a date...which is why you’re here hating 😂🤣😂 cry somewhere else loser
Funny how she went straight to the dirty meaning of "pomp" and "stukkie" instead of pump and small piece. True South African 😂
Well the show is on slang. Those are the meanings in that context.
True South African? Is she not?
Hehe
😂 😂 With pomp I was like, "it means two things Charlize"
She is gorgeous and that smile is priceless!
"The house of the chief when it's burnt down is even more beautiful" sounds like the chant to a government overthrowing rally
LOL! David totally fudged that up. It implies that when the chief's house gets burnt, it creates an opportunity to build him a more beautiful one. It's one of the sayings used to console people after a loss.
hey, whatever works 🤷🏻♀️😂
@@stephendavid568 that’s beautiful omg
"That was like Spanish by way of India and Cantonese." LOL I'm in tears!!
I love that he brought up Cantonese.
@@elektracity205 I guess a lot of British are aware of their former colonies lol. As a HKer, I'm kinda wondering to myself where's the cantonese he spoke of though. Might've just been the "argrghg" sound?
@@damiester1 That could be. It's just so rare to hear people mention Cantonese and it's so great to hear it because I'm like yes another language I understand.
@@elektracity205 So far Bing, Translate is the only site that has Cantonese speech in addition to Mandarin.
Rah rah rah rah 😂
Just a disclaimer:
There are tons of languages in Nigeria...the main three; Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa
Who asked you?:/
@@marvihara7279 no-one, just like i didn't ask for your reply...normal humans would see it and be educated and move on...and then unfortunately there's you
Tell Jidena to do his...
Nice. Hausa tribes are also in South Africa aren't they?
DrAxe Dharme nope, none I’m aware of
I speak Dutch so trying to figure out the Afrikaans is fun ngl
Emma Angeline b..but you just spoke English 🤔🤔🤔
GoodeisSXE it’s almost like people can be b...bilingual 🤔🤔🤔
Same. Is grappig om te horen en te lezen
Same 😂
I'm german. So trying to figure out dutch is fun. But I'm lost in afrikaans...
“Boerewors” - It’s a farmer that we eat 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Is that ghetto language?
@@5xq38p4u afrikaans its bacicly african
@@cjhero20yt82 - Afrikaans is Dutch and the word Boer means farmer.
David's face killed me when she said it bathong. 😂
@@cjhero20yt82 SOUTH african
It’s only right that the first Yoruba “slang” was enjoyment 🇳🇬
it was either that or party tbh
Spot on!
What does the last one mean? He gave the literal translation but not the actual meaning.
@@AxeDharme Igba dun really just means Enjoyment.
There nothing really more to it.
@@ibukunokunoye4795 no no the 'ile oba tojo...' one
The house of the chief
Im Dutch and Afrikaans sometimes sounds like a drunk dutch person lmao. Love it.
Haha, I heard the South Africans called Dutch the 'dronk Afrikaans' so that goes both ways. Love it too!
Thats hilarious... I describe Dutch usually as a drunk version of German 😉
Jup that's what I thought so too
😂😂😂
Judging by all the Afrikaans terms for being drunk, that sounds about right.
It's pidgin
Just realized Charlize Theron is African-American 😂😂😂
lol OMG
She's South African
The funniest thing ever was Jamie Foxx introducing her as African American at the Oscars about a decade ago, and he was SOOOO UNCOMFORTABLE with that phrasing. Looking at the teleprompter like it was the worst kind of liar.
She is full on South African, both her parents were Afrikaans.
ElricBro she was just born there
Africa has come a long way. This was interaction was unimaginable way back when: 30 years ago.
Well said. I love it
As a South African this makes me very proud! ❤
So good to see South Africans with such diversity ❤️❤️❤️
Youve come as far as the gentiles, until the UK and American blacks move spiritually instead of geographically, no one has moved anywhere, even if they walk 1000 miles, if they have not found God within them, if there is none in you, then you have moved nothing and Gone nowhere....Selah
@Chinonso Okezie lol mumu
"Don't shake the chicken!!"
But where is "WHY ARE U RUNNING"??
I hate you 😂😂😂
I think that was in joberg
@Alex Leblanc It is nigerian
@@kanyisolao6983 or it maybe just African in general. Lol
@@hyacinthdibley2420 yes. "African".
How do you say hangover?
David: aaAAH!
This is true LMFAOOOOO
Or Yeeeeeee!
I was going to let this fly but "Adiye funfun ko no ara e lagba" Means "an adult needs to stop acting like a child" it's one of our few Indeginous Yoruba sayings...
Thank you jare omo Iya.
Okay.
*indigenous
A true saying in any language, for sure.
Oh we needed the true meaning lol thank you
Thank God you didn't let it fly... I'm igbo but when I did idioms and proverbs in Yoruba class your translation is what we were taught. David Oyelowo cracked me up with his weird translation though.
Just when you think that Cherlise couldn't get any hotter, she whips out her Afrikaans. I could listen to her all day. Lol
Hello
@@charlizetheron7644 how many Charlize's are there -- is it your birthday on the seventh -- have a happy one if it is !
Glad she still has her accent
Naadir Buffkins I'm glad she's a mother that's what I'm glad.
She doesn't though.
She sounded 100% American to me.
me123 she probably hides her original accent
Brittany Rose im referring to her Afrikaans accent it's still the same
we Nigerians forgive you for your pronunciation. lol
ayeni adeleke I know right !!! I hate the way he says the name of his tribe
I can’t blame him, I was born in London but my mum has spoken Yoruba to me since I was a baby and I can understand it fluently. But to this day o can’t speak it and when it’s written down it looks like a whole new language to me 😭😭
Azin!
Don skeng why are we the absolute same🤯
He tried though, but he didn't pronounce his surname well.
He said “it’s like spanish by way of India and Cantonese”?... 🤣😂🤣😂 This is great. Love them! Thanks for teaching us something new and awesome 👏🏽
Hello
@@charlizetheron7644 Hello! 🤗😁☺️
It is so amazing to see her speaking Afrikaans and not only that but teaching it and still embracing it even after so many years of living oversees and being the influential and amazing woman she is.
Truly inspiring 🌸💪🏽💯
#CharlizeTheron 😊
I forgot how much I like her. She's an awesome actress and quite entertaining in any situation.
I love these two. She’s BEAUTIFUL, he’s handsome. She is also one of my all time fav’s.
Hello gorgeous, thanks for the beautiful comment on my official account here, I'm really overwhelmed by your comments 🥰🤗🙏💝🍀🌹
I loved this. It's great to not just know intangibly that Charlize is South African, but actually get to see it.
I was wondering why a black chicken isn't ageless either lol Charlize know that black don't crack.
D. Foxx Lol, I really thought that’s what he was gonna say 😂😂
D. Foxx black chicken - like a person - a human with black hair will see their age when their hair becomes white but if you were born with white hair, you won’t ever see yourself age because you were born with white hair, it won’t ever change colour as you age. If that makes sense.
Saitama Trash lol I kinda figured that out already, but thanks! :)
Sure, unless it's crack cocaine.
CHARLIZE KNOWS!
I'm Dutch and this just sounds Dutch with a shhwwiiinnnggg
Afrikaaners are descendants of Dutch and German immigrants. Mostly Dutch.
kiddo ngaka it’s all Dutch.
@@curiouscreature3305 Nah, just 97%. And only the essentials ;)
Mnr. Volkstaat Irish and Dutch immigrants make up most of the Afrikaans people
Curious Creature uh no, the Afrikaans language was a mesh of Dutch and native languages in the Cape to allow for a medium of communication between them so, no not quite
Aw hearing Charlize speak Afrikaans is so cute
ruby asdc her pronunciation is really off though
@@nasrinhoosen6696 not really, I've heard loads of rich tannies speak like that
that last yoruba one means “when the king’s house gets burnt down, when its rebuilt, it looks even better than it was” It’s a proverb.
Ile oba to jo ewa lo bu si means a king's house that got burnt adds beauty to it(literally). Which when explained means when a property gets burnt, it gets more beautiful after renovations. So next time, when you go through a horrible or painful situation, and you shake yourself and choose to rise above the situation, you definitely come out better than you used to be 💪
The wisdom in Nigeria is different
👍
it does make sense to me. the yoruba language is built around polite metaphors. everything is implied.
right but i dont't know why our country is stuck in this continuos loop
@@PHlophe I’ve actually noticed this with other African languages. They float around the topic in a very cultural way. It is also pervasive in modern music.
I'm Nigerian and I'm CRY-LAUGHING! LMAOOOO THIS IS SO FUNNY. David really tried with the yoruba slang and charlize killed me with the "i like to include everybody" line hahahah
Adiye fufun ko mora e’lagba.. is an adage in Yoruba, literally is “ a white chicken doesn’t realize it has aged” meaning “respect yourself”
Makes more sense now.
Still don't understand the relevance of the colour nor the link between that saying and the meaning
Because you go grey when you get old...
Thanks!
@@Missy50505 it's kinda like an insult or meant to be insulting, it is used when an adult isn't acting his/her age, the relevance of the color there is it's allusion to age, as we grow old, our hair gets whiter or greyer, so a chicken that was born white since it has been white all its life won't realize it has aged because it was never black, and it'll continue acting young. The hair there is an indication of age(not that chickens change color as they grow older, but I hope you get what I mean)
"A farmer that we eat" I almost died when she said that😂😂😂🤣🇿🇦
charlize theron is 914 times hotter than i am
Russo Wintergreen no
You're giving yourself to much credit it's 1000
I agree
AxxL lol pretty precise.
Ps you forgot the decimal points
than all of us, really
I like how he mispronounced and apologised to all Nigerians. I am Nigerian but not Yoruba, but I have heard oloshi and nyash too often that I just adopt them as Nigerian slang 🤣
Charlize's laugh is so contagious. I love it
I watched this in 2020 and I'm rewatching it in 2022 and as a Yoruba girl I can't get over David's "Ahhhh" as a response to "hangover" 😂😂😂🙆🏽♀️🤣😭
Adiye funfun ko mo ara e lagba doesn’t mean what he said. It’s used when an adult isn’t acting his age. Doesn’t mean one is ageless. It means the individual is immature.
L Cam the expression is pretty much uniform in the Yoruba language. Kind of like how English proverbs and idioms mean the same thing in all English speaking nations.
Awesome to see two of my favorite actors share their original language for us! Fun to watch their conversation!
Yay afrikaans! Charlize still making us proud. Some might say her afrikaans ia a little bit rusty but I still enjoyed it!
afriikans white supremacist !
Voetsek jou weet poes
Analet du Toit I wish she didn’t twang
Wow, where do you get your information? Jeez.
WTF are you on about?
Yoruba is a beautiful musical language with tonal intonations. 😊 Great video! Thank you for sharing this with us 👍 😊
This video is so fun to watch for me, i'm half Dutch half Nigerian (born and raised in The Netherlands). So trying to understand/hearing Afrikaans is very funny and even though I do not speak Yoruba, my dad does so I did recognise some of the words (especially the swear words lmao)
Spent three weeks visiting SA. Wonderful place and wonderful people! Cape Town is my favorite city in the world.
Wow these two have great chemistry as friends.
I'm half South African and I'm always so amazed when my relatives talk to each other in Afrikaans. My mum has only taught me some words like boerewors and stukkie, but I've always wished I was fluent! I want to learn so bad because I want to try to have a full conversation in the language with my grandpa and with an antie that visits my grandmother and her family every xmas
The beauty of this woman is almost hypnotic.
The “Ahhh” finished me 🤣🤣🤣
I am fourteen years old and I speak 4 languages fluently which areSpanish, German, Russian also, Afrikaans and my teacher in school is South African so when she asks me a question she speaks to me in Afrikaans and I translate to her back which is quite cool as no one in my class understands what we are saying. My Mum is South African and my dad speaks Afrikaans so on Parents Evening they speak in Afrikaans!!
The thumbnail made it look like Charlize was wearing a hospital gown.
YES!!! The video didn't help much either at first.
I’m so glad I saw this comment
Yep. Exactly
I find the way Charlize pronounces "Alle grappies op ń stokkie" so incredibly funny as a Dutch person. 😂
How so?
Bill Hicks somebody else will have to explain because I can’t without being demeaning
@@nvwest We won't take it personally - it's just interesting to know how it sounds to people speaking other languages.
“The wisdom in Nigeria it’s just, it’s just different,” I love him-
Love them both, especially when they tried to pronounce each others slang😂🤗💕
It's so cool to see a South African become so successful as a young south African
Charlize tho. Beautiful
Thank you 🤍
Charlize is the epitome of pure beauty
"ADIE FUNFUN KO MO ARA RE LAGBA" Means that respected person doesn't seem to realise that they are and they are therefore being petty.
I 💀 at Ahhhhhhhh that is such a Nigerian thing. Actually in some African languages sometimes sounds substitute for words 😅
This is completely off topic but David’s beard is legendary.
"The wisdom in Nigeria is just different"
🤍
So funny, I’m Dutch and I can understand almost all the expressions, we even have some of them too in my own language!
Begin Afrikaans myself, makes this 10000000 funnier!!!
Lmao omg this was brilliant. They have a great dynamic together, especially when teaching each others cultures like that
Why did I scream laughing when he responded to "How do you say hangover?" 😂😂
same
So glad she is one of the small amount that can still speak afrikaans. Jy is seker baie special
That was fun to watch! They really interact well together. Quite enjoyable
Oh my! ILe Oba to jo, Ewa lo bu si means, the King’s house that burnt, would be built back with more splendor! So u can turn a disaster into an opportunity for improvement
3ama4life thank you... I was so confused because he translated literally and it didn't make sense
Exactly! I actually checked the comments for this. 100% correct translation
Lol thx for that. Without the accents though i confused ewa for beans and was slightly perplexed
Huang lol! Yoruba can be confusing that way
3ama4life Perfect translation!
I was not expecting the hangover part I freaking CACKLED
Any proud South Africans here with me tonight? 🇿🇦
Yes!!
I love Charlize's laugh. It's so pure
I lve her laugh too -- it's her birthday today
Charlize is so pretty and I love her personality
scarlette you'd smash !
Hiiiiii
Charlize is truly ageless :)
Love this sharing with David. Have a great week one & all.
“how do you say hangover?”
*”(grabs forehead) AHHhH!”*
Wow! He can read Yoruba?! Look at me shaming my ancestors
Chika I. Yah but does he even eat pounded yam or amala anymore? That’s the real question.
Probably bangers & mash
Lol I just assumed that was the British English pronunciation
Duke Temz David may eat bangers with pounded yam and combine the 2 cultures 😆. His English accent, and I'm British too like David, sounds a bit too refined faked like the Duchess of Cambridge. 2 people forcing their idea of a posher English accent.
Chika I. Nope. He's the one shaming our ancestors.
Those prononciations were atrocious lol
ikr
his Yoruba is so good
agbon irenroa LoL, it’s not, but he tried. He needs to learn his proverbs! But I feel like most of us don’t know them anymore
I don’t doubt he speaks Yoruba fluently. He just Acts Aje butter, but he’s a very BUSH boy
Hahahahahaha too funny.
3ama4life yeah they're not as common as they could be. My parents and extended family spoke Yoruba all the time but I only ever heard those proverbs in Yoruba class at school.
His intonation is very funny
As a Dutchie this was so much fun to watch. Love Afrikaans and South Africa, I wish to visit your beautiful country so bad.
You'll love it .... and we'd love you to visit ❤
I'm Nigerian! David oyelowo making us proud
I'm South African💜
Me too!!🔥🔥
Same here
Yasss me too so stoked to see this
Same here
Same
Many Americans study Yoruba language as a course. And the Yoruba culture.
When I saw Oloshi 😂😂 I clicked, but the way he said Yoruba though 🤔
cutiepiemania45 thank you someone heard it too I was like yo what was that 🙆🏾♀️
I thought it was just me. Lol. He tried small...lol
I was so confused by how he said it. Like how could be nigerian and not pronounce it properly no matter how posh you are. I'm not mad though.
It's not about being "posh" . He has been in the UK for a very long time now. I have a canadian accent but i can pronounce only because i speak wit my mom once in a while and i haven't been here for too long
Omg I know it physically hurt my ears like wtf is ur-uba? In his bid to sound posh he sound stupid. Yeye dey smell.
Brazilian Portuguese has a lot of Yoruba influences.
I didn't know that. The things we learn on a daily basis.
@@MUde-ph7gr Yeah, right? Not only lexical influences in the Portuguese language itself, but Yoruba is also used by the LGBTQIA+ community and in some afro-Brazilian religions.
@@MarcelaOMGLimma in all honesty, I'm in awe of the knowledge you are dropping on this. So many are in denial of African influences. Wow!!
@@MUde-ph7gr Thank you :)
@@MarcelaOMGLimma no no....thank you! :)
I am so impressed with Oyelow'o's Afrikaans pronunciation
I keep being amazed at how easy Afrikaans is when you are Dutch. I love the "n Aap in die mou he" because it's just a lazy version of the Dutch "daar komt de aap uit de mou". A lot of the other things she explained are also very similar (if not the same) as they would be in Dutch!
You learn something new everyday. I’m tripping off of Stukkie meaning side chick. 🤣🤣
Ile oba to jo ewa l'obukun means a kings palace after it's burnt down, is even more beautiful when rebuilt.
This is amazing😂😂such great chemistry!
What a couple of amazingly beautiful and talented people. I am totally dazzled by these two! 💚🤗
"Adiye funfun ko mo ra re lagba"... literally translating to "The white chicken doesn't recognize itself as an elder / aged" is a Yoruba adage referring to older people acting immaturely.
Chickens like to root around in the dirt, and the white chicken oblivious to the fact that it is white also plays in the dirt with other coloured chickens.
Accurate! Thanks
I love how she is just reading it and telling us. Go girl. I thought she didn't know how to speak it. She knows it very good.
It's her mother tongue, LOL.
3:59
-How do you say "hangover"?
-AAAAAHHH
Charlize seems so funny and down to earth which makes her even more attractive , if that’s even possible ❤️😍
I'd like to see her in a bar in the Netherlands speaking Afrikaans to the locals, and watching how well they can understand it.
They do. I was an Erasmus student in NL and one of my best friends was an Afrikaans-speaking South African. He would speak in Afrikaans and the would reply in Dutch, both being mutually intelligible. Not sure they are as close as, say, Swedish and Norwegian, more in the league of Spanish and Italian I think.
@@MrLoaded2012 Spanish and Italian are quite different. Dutch and Afrikaans are much closer.
@@Gerardus1970 Thanks for pointing that out, I was not sure about Afrikaans and Dutch but I can definitely attest to Spanish and Italian as I am a native speaker of the former and fluent in the latter :-)
also,
m.ua-cam.com/video/aAz8MCO8fg8/v-deo.html
@@MrLoaded2012 More like Spanish and Portuguese.