Popular Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmeyr has responded to Charlize Theron's claims Afrikaans is a 'dying' and 'unhelpful' language.
“It’s not a very helpful language,” she added.peaking to TshisaLIVE, he rubbished Theron’s claim.
“If it managed the first heart transplant it’s a useful enough language for me. Afrikaans is a marginalised language which is alive and well, regardless,” he said. South African cardiac surgeon Dr Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant operation at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town on December 3 1967.last university has just been wrenched from us and still we find ways to produce admirable tertiary education”, while also joking that the language has “the most popular expletives on the continent!”.didn’t speak English until she was about 19 and only focused on learning the language when she left home for the US.
“I had it as a second language but nobody in my neighbourhood spoke English. I went to ballet at the Royal Academy of London and we had these teachers from London who couldn’t speak Afrikaans. That was the only English I really heard. I would do exams not really even knowing I was doing exams because I didn’t understand what they were saying.”“That’s why it was easy for me to drop the [South African] accent because I was really learning English from scratch.
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