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Do people there speak English? What is the main language spoken there? At school, do you speak English or Afrikaans?

OMG I so want to hear your voice! Anywho... do you have any older/younger brothers or sisters?

Savanah wrote:Do people there speak English? What is the main language spoken there? At school, do you speak English or Afrikaans?

Yes, badically everyone in the Western Province (where I live) speaks English. Everyone in my school, their first language is English, its only the Zulu's and Xhosa's who have English as therir second language.
English is the main language, in the area where I live.
I speak English at school, and I take Afrikaans and Xhosa (as second and third language)

Thanks for the questions

♥CaitiPaw♥ wrote:OMG I so want to hear your voice! Anywho... do you have any older/younger brothers or sisters?

I have one older sister (:
Find Casper Lee on youtube, he's from SA (:

Do you celebrate Anzac Day?
Also what type of government do you have?
Is your spelling different?

amber wrote:

Savanah wrote:Do people there speak English? What is the main language spoken there? At school, do you speak English or Afrikaans?

Yes, badically everyone in the Western Province (where I live) speaks English. Everyone in my school, their first language is English, its only the Zulu's and Xhosa's who have English as therir second language.
English is the main language, in the area where I live.
I speak English at school, and I take Afrikaans and Xhosa (as second and third language)

Thanks for the questions

Wow that is so cool! Thanks for answering my questions Amber.

Britney wrote:Do you celebrate Anzac Day?
Also what type of government do you have?
Is your spelling different?

No, I don't live in Australia//New Zealand.
We have a democratic government// republic.
So every four years everybody over the age of 18 gets to vote for the party they want to rule SA. (:
Some words are different to other countries, the ones I've noticed are,
we spell it:
coloUr, not color
favoUrite, not favorite

If I come across anymore, I'll let you know(:

Thanks for the questions!

i think this deserves to be in a different section xD

Like what? xD

I have another question.
Do you learn another languague at school?
I do I learn German and if you do is it hard?

this, i personally think, should be in "grab a coffee,chat away!" as it isn't that bearville related(;

btw awesome thread<3

-MOVED-

Britney wrote:I have another question.
Do you learn another languague at school?
I do I learn German and if you do is it hard?

Yes we do!
In grade 8, we do;
English (1st language)
Afrikaans (2nd language)
Xhosa & French (3rd language)
then in grade 9, we get to choose between Xhosa and French, so I chose Xhosa,
so now i do English, Afrikaans and Xhosa.
(:

My parents did German at school though, it seems hard.


Thanks Fran(:

Anymore questions? ♥

Hmmm why do u live in Africa ?
And did u move to Africa ?

What kind of things do you do in South Africa? c:

@Sophie - my family or ancestors moved to South Africa from France in the mid 1700's, so that's why I live in S Africa, and my parents love it here and don't want to movec:
So I never moved here, I was always here c:

@Lauren - I guess what everybody else does?(:
On weekends we go to movies, to parties, to the mall and get supper and shop, etc.
We have school like normal people (:
And watch tv and so on (;

Thanks for the questions guys!

Have you ever traveled to the USA? If so, where?

have you ever been to anywhere in the British isles?

and do you prefer English or American accents?

@Eden - yes I have, I've been to Atlanta, Florida and Miami (:
@Zoya - no I haven't. I prefer British accents (:

Do you have American TV shows (like Spongebob Squarepants and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) in South Africa?

And if you do, is it dubbed?

Yes we do! I've never seen MLP on tv though, but we have Sponge Bob (: not dubbed at all.
The main tv shows for kids, are disney channel, nickolodean, cartoon network and boomerang c:
Then ovbiously all the other channels, like from 101, to the news in the 500's..

C:

Cool. We used to have Boomerang, but after we switched to digital cable, they didn't have it on there, lol. I miss it.

do you like pie xD

@Perry - I never watch it anyway (;
@Sophie - the only pie I've ever eaten is chicken pie xD