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Cafe and restaurant in Afrikaans

A table, the menu, what you cannot eat, and a compliment to the kitchen. Play the ten Afrikaans words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.

Camps Bay below the mountains of Cape Town, South Africa
Cafe and restaurant
10 words · 20 seconds each · 8 of 10 to pass
What it meansHow to say it
Der Berzerker from Washington, DC, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

All 10 Afrikaans phrases in this lesson

'n Tafel vir tweeuh TAH-fel fer TVAY
A table for two
Die menu assebliefdee meh-NOO ah-suh-BLEEF
The menu, please
Wat beveel jy aan?vat buh-FEEL yay AHN
What do you recommend?
Ek eet nie... nieek EET nee... nee
I don't eat...

Put the food between the two occurrences of nie.

Ek is allergies vir...ek is ah-LER-khees fer
I'm allergic to...
VleisFLAYS
Meat
HoenderHOON-der
Chicken
VisFIS
Fish
Dit is lekkerdit is LEK-er
It's delicious
Gesondheid!kheh-ZON-hait
Cheers

Where Afrikaans is spoken

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