In a video for the bbc , rawlings showcased his fluency or near-fluency in 11 languages including english , greek , german , spanish , russian , dutch , afrikaans , french , hebrew , catalan and italian .
Under apartheid , there were just two official languages , english and afrikaans , a variant of dutch with a dash of french , german , khoisan ( spoken by so-called bushmen and hottentots ) , malay and portuguese .
Parliamentary debates are in english . Even the instructions on bottles of prescription drugs come only in english or afrikaans .
议会辩论也用英语,甚至瓶装药的药方说明不是英语的就是南非荷兰语。
As well as english , french , portuguese and arabic , it offers zulu , afrikaans , amharic and swahili .
除了英语、法语、葡萄牙语和阿拉伯语之外,谷歌还提供祖鲁语、南非荷兰语、阿姆哈拉语和斯瓦希里语。
But tim du plessis , the editor of an afrikaans newspaper , argues that afrikaners are merely migrating to a new space , between dead-end radicalism and anc co-option .
For the school-leaving exam , proficiency in at least two languages is required . But most native english-speakers opt for afrikaans , said to be easy to learn , rather than a useful but harder african tongue .