Today's episode is all about the Afrikaans language, its history as a daughter language of Dutch, and I look into the question “How similar are Dutch and Afrikaans?” * Click the link to get a free account at Afrikaanspod101: http://bit.ly/Afrikaanspod101. For 33 other languages click here: https://langfocus.com/innovative-language-podcasts/. Special thanks to Joop Wijnandts for his Dutch voice recording, and Ernest Mostert for his Afrikaans voice recording. And thanks to Nils Van Dessel for his last minute recording. Support Langfocus on Patreon: http://patreon.com/langfocus Special thanks to: BJ Peter DeLaCruz, Michael Cuomo, Nicholas Shelokov, Sebastian Langshaw, Brandon Gonzalez, Brian Michalowski, Adrian Zhang, Vadim Sobolev, Yixin Alfred Wong, Raymond Thomas, Simon Blanchet, Ryan Marquardt, Sky Vied, Romain Paulus, Panot, Erik Edelmann, Bennet, James Zavaleta, Ulrike Baumann, Ian Martyn, Justin Faist, Jeff Miller, Stephen Lawson, Howard Stratton, George Greene, Panthea Madjidi, Nicholas Gentry, Sergios Tsakatikas, Bruno Filippi, Sergio Tsakatikas, Qarion, Pedro Flores, and Raymond Thomas for their generous Patreon support. http://facebook.com/langfocus http://instagram.com/langfocus http://twitter.com/langfocus http://langfocus.com/ Source for history of Khoisan displacement: “South Africa: A Country Study” by Article by William H. Worger and Rita M. Byrnes. Library of Congress. Online version: http://memory.loc.gov/master/frd/frdcstdy/so/southafricacount00byrn/southafricacount00byrn.pdf (see page 55 of 610). Music: Main music: “Erykah” by Otis McDonald. Outro music: "Tarantula" by MK2.