This year I’m living in an Afrikaans-speaking community and thus have decided to attempt to learn the language. To help with this process, I talk as often as possible with the caretaker for my host grandma that lives with us. Elsa speaks only Afrikaans with a dab of English and so we play a game I like to call stare-at-each-other-blankly-until-resorting-to-charades.
A dialogue from this morning:
Elsa: Goeie more! (Good morning!)
Jen: Goeie more!
Elsa:Hoe gaan dit? (How are you?)
Jen: Goed, dankie. Ek es lief vir jou! (Good, thank you. I love you!)
Elsa: blank stare
You know, I think things are coming along quite nicely.
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