Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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- we're going to look at how to speak South African English with Bryan from Johannesburg. We'll compare Bryan's accent to Standard Southern British English SSBE and my London accent. we'll also look at the other languages in South Africa (which has 12 official languages including Afrikaans, Zulu and Xhosa) You'll learn the phonetics of SAE, colloquial expressions, vocabulary as well as the demographics and history of South Africa. Bryan will also give a few tips on what to see on a visit in South Africa.

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0:00 Introducing Bryan
1:20 The 12 official languages of South Africa
3:49 English is South Africa
6:30 Ethnicity and language in South Africa
7:47 What to see in South Africa
9:32 Inequality in South Africa
10:27 South African English - more British or American?
11:12 How to speak with a South African accent (phonetics)
18:12 The "The" and a bit of grammar.
20:04 Let's speak South African

PHOTO CREDITS
Pretoria
By Hein waschefort - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22304704

Bloemfontain
Deur Carla de Villiers - Eie werk, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28584499

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