video;

[synanthrope]

[The camera shows a little girl with black hair and brown eyes - she looks eight or nine.]

Nanny....nanny! Onda fya ondjala!

[There's a pause here]

Tate?

[Another pause, as she considers. She looks like she's thought of something, though!]

Haai? Ek is verlore...ek het honger, ek soek na nanny...

[She pauses again, and speaks once more. Her accent is clipped and clearly a mix of South African and Namibian, pointed and almost Dutch and English mixed with a little bit of German thrown in: much stronger than Saya's adult accent]

Hello? I'm looking for my vade-my father, and I'm very hungry. I think my nanny lost me. Please, someone, understand English, my German is not very good. My name is Satya Daphne. My father works at the American Embassy. I'm not sure how I got here.

[And yet another pause, but she has to do this, she's looking slightly more unsure now]

Entschuldigung, Ich heisse Satya Daphne....

[But before she can finish, the video stops]

[ooc: She's speaking Oshiwambo, Afrikaans, and German, in that order. I don't speak any of these languages, so I apologize for any butchery! replies from prewoven]

Comments

[whitetwoguns]

Brave girl. Well, this'll be longer. But then everything'll be okay.

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

I'm glad everyone speaks English. My German is terrible.

[whitetwoguns]

Bet mine is worse.

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

It doesn't seem like anyone here speaks German at all.

[whitetwoguns]

Der Wienerschnitzel. Volkswagon.

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

[A pause and a giggle]

Food and cars? Not very good cars, either.

[whitetwoguns]

Fahrvergnügen isn't right at all.

[And yes, that's pronounced as flat and American as can be.]

That's all I got besides danke schön.

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

That's all right. I should say that to my German teacher.

[whitetwoguns]

How come you gotta learn all these languages?

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

You don't learn lots of languages where you're from?

[whitetwoguns]

Nope. I'm lucky I learned what I learned.

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

Well, Namibia was a German territory, so we learn German in school. Afrikaans is important because they speak it in South Africa and we're always going there. I speak Oshiwambo because my nanny taught it to me.

I'm supposed to learn French in school, too, but I don't know why.

[whitetwoguns]

You play games right?

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

[A giggle]

I like football and volleyball.

[whitetwoguns]

Oh good. I was worried they didn't teach fun where you're from.

[prewoven.livejournal.com]

You're funny.