He said Afrikaans so Afrikaans-y it suprised me

Initially read the title as "why does this South African country speak Afrikaans", and then I was like "gee I sure wonder," but then I looked at the title a little bit more and was like "Oh. OHHHH"

Afrikaans speaker here. Your pronunciation of my language is 99% correct, My compliments! The Patagonian Afrikaners are a poignant historical oddity, but it is overshadowed by the vast number of Afrikaners now living in Australia, New Zealand and Canada who have formed enclaves more rigid and durable than the Patagonian boere (who are nearly extinct by some accounts). Dankie vir die video, tjom.

Kapok in South African Afrikaans means a very, very light snow .

In 1976 as a 20-year-old I met a young visitor to Johannesburg who was “an Afrikaner from Argentina”. He looked like a typical Argentinian soccer player. He was amazed that I knew about the Afrikaans speakers in South America but I was equally incredulous that I’d met one of them because I’d just read about them in a local newspaper. I was struck by his pleasant demeanor and articulate speech in both Afrikaans and English.

I have a story to add. I was travelling through Patagonia and decided to stop in Gaiman, a traditional Welsh town, which is famous for its Welsh teas. My lonely planet guide recommended a few houses. At the first one, I knocked on the door and asked the woman who answered if she made welsh teas, and she said yes, and asked me where I came from (this was all in Spanish). When I said SudAfrica", she immediately broke into flawless Afrikaans and said "Suid Afrika, ek is so lief vir daardie land" (south Africa, I love that country so much). I was a bit flabbergasted, entered to have the welsh tea and we spoke Afrikaans the whole time I was there. In fact, she insisted I stay the night. She was from a Welsh family, and sadly her mother died when she was eight. Her father was unable to look after her, so asked his relatives to take her in, which they did, but never really made her part of the family. Instead\, their Afrikaans neighbours on the next farm took very kindly to her and she told me they werte her real family. An uncle of that family was a senator in South Africa, and the family took her to visit him in South Africa. She was a kind-hearted soul, and local villagers had the habit of l;eaving unwanted dogs and cats on her doorstep. The current one at the time was a 10 week old black puppy, which she had called "Mannetjies" (little man- note that the diminutive "tjie" used in afrikaans derives from indonesian and malay). I wish I could have spent more time there, but I had to return to Buenos Aires to catch my flight home. I found the similarities between Argentinian and namaqualand (northern cape) afrikaans interesting, because Namaqualand also has an interesting settlers history - many cornish miners came to work in the copper mines in Namaqualand in the mid-19th century, which is why you find Afrikaners with surnames like Archer and Cole in the area.

your Afrikaans pronunciation  is perfect.

Patagonian Welsh, please. I think there seems more contact - teachers going from Wales, for example. Also, I gather, influence the other way on the numbering system, where I think the Patagonians moved from vigesimal counting (in 20s) to decimal, and Wales adopted that rather than English numbers.

"Like/laaik" is one of the more persistent Anglicisms in Afrikaans because of its usefulness. I think it likely came with the settlers from SA.

The word "Boere" doesnt just refer to those who traveled inland.

Most of the Dutch, French and German settlers in the cape came to farm the land.  They were already "farmers" before they started the trek.

When the English arrived, many decided to trek north. After the trek, the English later decided they wanted the new Afrikaner territories as they encountered them more and more.  Since they were still mostly made up of farmers, when asked about who they were many would simply say "boere", or in other words that they were farmers. The english took this as a name to refer to the entire ethnic group.

So it applies to those who stayed in the Cape as well as those who moved north.

I went there for a YouTube video, sadly the language is dying but found some elderly people that still speak it

Points on the pronunciation, broer - you really nailed it!

Lekker praatjie.
Dankie meneer Vinkenoog.

My great-grandmother was a Dickason. Her brothers and other family members left from the Komga region of the Eastern Cape, originally from Seven Fountains near Grahamstown, where the Dickason family graveyard is still maintained on their original 1820 settler farm 'Necton'  I'm in contact with Barrie Dickason, who lives in Sarmiento.

Also spoken in Namibia

Baie dankie vir jou!

A Swiss-German joke goes that, what foreign Germans thought was a glimpse on our Swiss dialect, was in fact our attempt at speaking their high-German to them. Amusing, but in fact, proficiency in both the dialect(s) and the standard language makes us to "smooth out" our dialect and "pick up" from theirs just enough to support the interaction. I guess it wasn't much different for them while migrating abroad.

😭😭hearing your pronunciation of Afrikaans makes me so happy thank you from RSA

As an Afrikaner your pronouniation warms my heart, most people does not research my mother tongue pronounciation as beautifully as you did, That shows character. You sir, gained a subcriber for life. Hou so aan, boet!

I'm an English speaking person from South Africa, living in a predominantly Afrikaans town and I absolutely love listening to them speak. It just sounds nice