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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a>> </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Language varieties<br><br>Dear Lowlanders,<br><br>As many of you probably know, the actress Charlize Theron was born and raised in South Africa. What some of you may not know is that she speaks Afrikaans. Some media people have begun to tap this resource, and Charlize, who is a famous Hollywood personage now, has the potential of being a bit of an ambassador for the Afrikaans language.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is a video clip of an interview with Charlize in Belgium in which the Interviewer speaks Belgian Dutch and wants Charlize to speak Afrikaans after she tried a sentence in Dutch and then speaks English. Once they find their groves, they have a fluent bilingual conversation. Mutual comprehension is probably aided by the average person's long-time exposure to each other's language (much like what happens among Danes, Norwegian and Swedes):</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fYB9s0Nyzk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fYB9s0Nyzk</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is a Dutch report about lexical creativity of Afrikaans:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bLrSJx5Kv0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bLrSJx5Kv0</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And here, on the funnier side of things, are video clips in which Ellen Degeneris shows an interest in both Afrikaans and Dutch while interviewing Charlize Theron and Famke Janssen (the latter of whose name sounds Frisian to me):</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-17W6tUfDU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-17W6tUfDU</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Enjoy!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Happy Whitsuntide an d Shavu`ot!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span>
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