South Africans should learn to speak each other's languages, says KZN artist

[rvZA]

KwaZulu-Natal artist Farrèll Drew is one of many South Africans who enjoy amapiano music but one of the few who can rap to DJ Maphorisa's verse on the hit song Izolo.

The 31-year old from Pietermaritzburg recently shared a video to show off his skills after his friends challenged him to a dare. The video has garnered more than 3.3 million views on video sharing app TikTok.

Drew told News24 multilingualism is part of his heritage. His mother is Indian and his father is coloured.

He said people were either shocked or pleasantly surprised when they heard him speaking Zulu to them.

He said he learnt the language at the Durban University of Technology, where he studied drama.

South Africans should learn to speak each other's languages, says KZN artist | News24

KwaZulu-Natal artist Farrèll Drew is one of many South Africans who enjoy amapiano music but one of the few who can rap to DJ Maphorisa's verse in the hit song 'Izolo'.

www.news24.com

 

[rvZA]

How about NO!

Let's first get rid of socialism and communism. Get rid of the corrupt government. Do away with AA and BEE and fix our laws again. Fix the economy first. Then we can look at something like this.

 

[3WA]

Shut it, Mr. KZN. Apologise for Zuma!

 

[Cray]

How about NO!

Let's first get rid of socialism and communism. Get rid of the corrupt government. Do away with AA and BEE and fix our laws again. Fix the economy first. Then we can look at something like this.

You are going to have a heart attack if you keep getting yourself so worked up about every little thing.

 

[Lupus]

It's true, I've tried but I honestly suck at retaining languages, give me useless facts about something and it'll be there in a twitch.
Though I think I could have adhd

 

[ForceFate]

How about NO!

Let's first get rid of socialism and communism. Get rid of the corrupt government. Do away with AA and BEE and fix our laws again. Fix the economy first. Then we can look at something like this.

Speak for yourself mate. Many South Africans can communicate in 3 or more languages, and many more are willing to learn. If you think Afrikaans and English languages are adequate for you, fine.

Learning a language can be very challenging so salute to anyone who tries, whether it's sign language, xiTsonga or English.

 

[ForceFate]

It's true, I've tried but I honestly suck at retaining languages, give me useless facts about something and it'll be there in a twitch.
Though I think I could have adhd

Perhaps you were never thrust into a situation where you need to learn a particular language.

 

[Lupus]

Perhaps you were never thrust into a situation where you need to learn a particular language.

I live in SA you'd think I could speak Afrikaans and at least Zulu, I have some memories of their words. L

 

[Herr der Verboten]

South Africans should learn to speak each other's languages, says KZN artist | News24

KwaZulu-Natal artist Farrèll Drew is one of many South Africans who enjoy amapiano music but one of the few who can rap to DJ Maphorisa's verse in the hit song 'Izolo'.

www.news24.com

But they are already fluent in lootish?

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Speak for yourself mate. Many South Africans can communicate in 3 or more languages, and many more are willing to learn. If you think Afrikaans and English languages are adequate for you, fine.

Learning a language can be very challenging so salute to anyone who tries, whether it's sign language, xiTsonga or English.

English is one of the easier languages to learn. Which is why it's easier to pick up as a second or third language.

Doesn't work the other way though. If English is your home language, it's difficult to learn another. Because you will always try and "think" in terms of English...

 

[ForceFate]

English is one of the easier languages to learn. Which is why it's easier to pick up as a second or third language.

Doesn't work the other way though. If English is your home language, it's difficult to learn another. Because you will always try and "think" in terms of English...

Granted, but perhaps it's easier to anyone who grew up immersed in the language.

 

[Lupus]

English is one of the easier languages to learn. Which is why it's easier to pick up as a second or third language.

Doesn't work the other way though. If English is your home language, it's difficult to learn another. Because you will always try and "think" in terms of English...

English is not an easy language, we just think it is as it's the third most spoken language in the world, I'm sure Spanish people think it's easy, or Mandarin is easy.
You will think your birth language is easy cause you were born with it.
Non native speakers don't find it easy, they just learn it as a lot of English speakers struggle to learn new languages.

 

[dualmeister]

How about no.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

English is not an easy language, we just think it is as it's the third most spoken language in the world, I'm sure Spanish people think it's easy, or Mandarin is easy.
You will think your birth language is easy cause you were born with it.
Non native speakers don't find it easy, they just learn it as a lot of English speakers struggle to learn new languages.

It's easy to pick up, but difficult to master. For everyday communication it's easy enough.

People who speak English natively can communicate with people who speak Spanglish or Engrish. Not so easy the other way around...

 

[PrimeSteak]

Tbh not a bad suggestion.

 

[PrimeSteak]

How about NO!

Let's first get rid of socialism and communism. Get rid of the corrupt government. Do away with AA and BEE and fix our laws again. Fix the economy first. Then we can look at something like this.

Wouldn't it be beneficial to your movement, if you spoke many SA languages (3+), so you can spread the message as far and wide as possible?

 

[Stokstert]

If he can show me he can speak German, English, Afrikaans and Nama, I will learn Zulu.

 

[Thugscub]

Already speak seSotho, tswana and northen sotho much of the same plus the normal English Afrikaans, Spanish Portuguese etc. Luckily pick up languages very easily my grandpa could speak 8 languages fluently gues I got lucky with some of his genes.
If we are confused in SA, Zambia has 76 recognised dialects including seSotho and Chichewa which I can speak as well. Chichewa is the Malawian language of choice.

 

[neoprema]

his opinion. Nothing to get worked up over. Move along.

 

[porchrat]

It's easy to pick up, but difficult to master. For everyday communication it's easy enough.

People who speak English natively can communicate with people who speak Spanglish or Engrish. Not so easy the other way around...

English has a boatload of exceptions and strange pronunciations thanks to centuries of nicking grammar and words from other languages.

It's definitely not an easy language to learn.

Afrikaans on the other hand is far more straightforward and consistent. I imagine most folks could learn Afrikaans more easily than English if they hadn't been exposed before to either language.

In Afrikaans you put a car into a motorhuis. A house for your car. Motor and huis are always pronounced the same in all circumstances. In English you put it in the garage... which is pronounced entirely differently to "rage" because the roots of the words are from different languages.

For example: Imagine what the terms flammable and inflammable must look like to the average non-native speaker after you've just explained dependent and independent.

I'm a native English speaker and I can readily admit the language is a total dumpster fire. I'm glad I was born into an English speaking home, because I can barely handle Afrikaans as a second language. I can't imagine having to learn this abortion of a language as a second language.


EDIT: having said that the language isn't all bad. The billion synonyms for everything, and the large variations in sentence structures allowing for trillions of ways to say the same thing, allows for an incredible variety when it comes to artistic expression.