While Charlize Theron had the world in stitches when shared popular Afrikaans phrases and slang in a series of recent interviews, South Africans had mixed reactions. Charlize showed off her bi-lingual skills when she was on the hit web series, The Hot Ones on Tuesday, where she used the offensive Afrikaans slang term ‘job ma se…” It wasn’t the first time that the South African born beauty dropped a few slang words, in a Vanity Fair video, the actress, and actor David Oyelewo, relayed definitions to popular Afrikaans slang words such as “babelas.”
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Saffers that were here for it: 👍
besides the stervy swearing at the end lol.. Charlize Theron’s Afrikaans is still very good! I’m impressed 🙂 #ProudlySouthAfrican @CharlizeAfrica pic.twitter.com/ywEAmHuu91
— Ikie Botha (@ikieboi) March 9, 2018
Charlize Theron still speaks fluent Afrikaans after years in Hollywood. But your local pastor goes to America for 2 weeks and comes back saying “Gahd” 😥
— C. (@ChrislynEdson) March 14, 2018
Not to be dramatic or anything but charlize theron speaking afrikaans is literally the most beautiful sound
— Juliana O8 (@fcksvenus) March 15, 2018
Those that were not here for it: 👎
I don’t like how Charlize uses Afrikaans for brownie points and the rest of the time she’s Americanized. There I said it.
— bibi 🕊 (@bloeisel_) March 9, 2018
Charlize telling Sean ‘jou ma se poes’ on Hot Ones and even the Afrikaans is so Americanised 😭
— Mercia (@MissMercy_) March 8, 2018
. @CharlizeAfrica– Sies Charlize !! Why would you say that horendous sentence in #Afrikaans?
Shame on you – SIES MAN ! Jy moet eintlik skaam kry…Children look up to you here in #SouthAfrica
— CarelJacobs (MSat) (@vynal999) March 12, 2018
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