Charlize Theron and David Oyelowo Teach Afrikaans and Yoruba Slang

I love language.

Same. I wish i knew more.

Same. As soon as I'm a millionaire I'm going to learn at least three extra languages.

saaaaame. Also love learning etymology of words. So interesting

I don't like her.

I never trusted her tbh.

david is so cute.

That amazing movie that is set in México and uses a word we latin-americans use but the only mexican/latino characters are narcos, yay !!!

Charlize you are so hot but no, thank you and David has made a ton of shitty decisions so no thank you @him.

You know when people call them out on it, the film makers will be like, how dare you! We have a black actor in this film! The diversity quota is filled!

The percentage of Latinos in the US vs the percentage of Latino characters in film and tv is....interesting. Especially when you compare it to black and Indian characters. They'll do anything not to hire us, but will gladly rip off our cultures.

What, there are like 4 Indian actors who ever appear in US productions and most of them are famous for products they had to create to star themselves

I wrote something like this on a group, the poster was Mexican as he told me, outraged that I was criticizing this upcoming movie for the lack of Latin American actors and/or positive representation.

I got so mad when someone betrays their people like this.

I am curious about this movie.

And this was cute, I've never been exposed to these languages so it's really nice to hear. It sounds very melodic. I like it.

I wish I was a linguist. I speak 3 languages and I think my brain has reached its capacity.

It's always seemed weird to me that she doesn't have an accent at all.

They are both so damn charismatic, I am here for this. What have the reviews been like for this movie?

Edited at 2018-03-08 08:31 pm (UTC)

To answer my own question... very bad! 42% on RT and Metacritic. I guess I will just wait for Tully, too.

lol, yay, hope it flops in the BO too !

I'm gonna skip this and go straight for Tully.

Afrikaans is my 2nd language and I only knew about 4 of these phrases lol

This is as so cute!!

I love the one Salma did in Spanish, “que pedo?!” LOL we are a country that loves our fart jokes.

Edited at 2018-03-08 09:04 pm (UTC)

I wish I knew yoruba. Here in Brazil we have a lot of slang in yoruba because of umbanda and candomble.

isn't her twitter name like CharlizeAfrica or something like that? i've always found that dramatic lol

i visited the Cape Town area this summer it was amazing i'm dying to do more countries in Africa

I always feel that white people from Africa really want to emphasize that their from Africa it’s strange

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Ever since I first listened to die antwoord I was in love with Afrikaans. I find that language so hot.

this looks really bad tbh

I don't know if you are referencing how horrific Afrikaners are and the evil they inflicted upon indigenous South Africans and how gross it is to equate who they are and their language to the language of an indigenous African person (can you imagine isolating yourself from and hating the majority population so much that you would literally create an entire new language just so you wouldn't have to learn an African one?)

I personally find her so gross and exploitative of Africa. She grew up in apartheid but doesn't seem to give a shit or have even an ounce of remorse...diabla blanca...

If this was not what you were referencing...uh...then my bad.

oh i was referring to how bad the movie looks but go off bb!!

Lmao one of my old roommates was originally from South Africa and was white I side-eyed her the entire time because she tried to convince me that things are different now. I wanted to be like 'YOU ARE NOT AFRICAN YOU AER JUST OCCUPYING A SPACE WHERE THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DO NOT WANT YOU, YOU'RE ALL SQUATTERS'. But I really just watched her throw a tantrum every night because our other roommate snored.

Ok I see you're going HAM with the truth here and I'm co-signing 500% on it.

Afrikaans origins are from former slaves who couldn’t speak Dutch and was reapproriated to be a ‘white language’. It’s also why it was referred to as ‘Kitchen Dutch’. So if you actually research the TRUE history thereof it is considered an African language.

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