Afrikaans voice over, natively reviewed.
Afrikaans is spoken by communities that differ widely in accent, and the voice should reflect the audience the brief is aimed at.
Accents and variants of Afrikaans.
- Standard Afrikaans
- The standard of broadcast and corporate content.
- Cape Afrikaans
- The accent and vocabulary of Cape Town and the Western Cape.
- Namibian Afrikaans
- The Afrikaans of Namibia, with its own vocabulary.
What a native Afrikaans reviewer checks.
- Jy or u
- U is the formal form and suits business and religious content.
- Accent and region
- The accent tells the listener who the brand is talking to.
- English mixing
- Many speakers mix English and Afrikaans, and the script should reflect the audience.
Writing for Afrikaans.
- Do not adapt from Dutch
- The languages are related, but the vocabulary and grammar differ.
- Double negative
- Afrikaans uses a double negative, which a literal translation can miss.
- Dates and numbers
- Agree how figures are read.
Afrikaans voice over: questions.
Is Afrikaans close enough to Dutch to share a voice?
Speakers understand each other in part, but an audience expects its own language.
Do we need different voices for different communities?
Often yes. The accent says who the message is for.
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