Charlize Theron Was Called Out for Speaking Afrikaans

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James asks Charlize Theron about her and her mom’s conversations in their native tongue, Afrikaans, and learns that it once backfired on them at an airport.

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  1. 3%?..
    Google Tokelau Island!
    Our Language is an Endangered language…
    Not many people can speak our language or even understand it, Not even some of our people!

  2. Oh I thought the story was about somebody telling Charlize that this is "#Merica and to go the hell back to her country if she wanted to speak that shit"

    I guess that only happens when somebody speaks Spanish and is not a 10ft tall blonde superstar.

  3. As someone with social anxiety… This is why i give people dirty looks when i dont know what they are saying — i assume the worst – doesnt help that my dad (who speaks dutch) called someone out who was insulting us in dutch because they thought we were dumb tourist from america who couldnt understand the language. best part is we are canadian

  4. at the fair I go to every year, all the carnies are from south africa. they’re always speaking to each other in afrikaans and I’ve wanted nothing more than to understand what they were saying about us americans haha

  5. Reading these comments…too funny. What's crazy is I live in Texas. Sometimes I have a hard time finding someone who speaks my language..english…..Totally opposite experience. Lol

  6. Wow I had no idea she was South African. Is America real is anyone in Hollywood actually American ? It's amazing how many actors and actress I thought were American aren't.. James McAvoy, Gerald Buttler, Tom Holland, Kifer Sotherland, Kianu Reeves (butchering the names here) Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis.. The list is huge.

  7. Umm, not 3%. About 3 million. Not the same. Also, just because that number speak Afrikaans natively or fluently, doesn't mean that that's all who understand it. It's very close to Dutch (something like 90-95% lexical similarity), and there are about 25 million Dutch speakers worldwide, who will understand Afrikaans more easily than Afrikaaners understand Dutch. Even if you only speak German (with some English), you can still get the gist of some of what's being said. The Dutch are a former global empire, and got everywhere from Central and South America in the West, to Taiwan and Indonesia in the East!

  8. If he was being literally a pushy jerk he deserved to have s**t talked about him! She should have replied that she hopes he will remember what she said next time he thinks about pushing past people.

  9. When I was in School i had a biology teacher called Dr K and one day he told me off for talking in class so I called him a fucking asshole in Greek

    Then after class he called me over and said I understood what you said my last name is Kyriagos

    I had detection

  10. My mum did this once. In a NY perfume shop, there was a black guy working, in a Punjabi owned store, and heard her being rude about him in Punjabi. He turned around and said 'meno Punjabi samaj unde hai.' (I understand Punjabi). The look on her casually racist face. Bless.

  11. Once in London, me and my friend were riding the taxi and we were busy speaking Portuguese and suddenly the driver, who was this older Indian gentleman, said something like "it's been a while since I heard that beautiful language". Me and my friend were stunned, not because we were talking smack about him, we weren't but because how random that was having an Indian in London understanding Portuguese. Then he proceeded to tell us how he was born in Goa, an ex Portuguese colony in India and his parents would speak Portuguese at home, and he still was able to understand.

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