sylkeweb, These Ecolinguist videos are so interesting. I especially love those about languages that are close to the ones I know. Afrikaans doesn’t seem difficult at all to me as I not only speak English in addition to my native language of German but I also have a good basic knowledge of Dutch. All of these help deciphering Afrikaans:
https://youtu.be/ZPgufM3Phqc
This one about English speakers trying to understand simple Dutch sentences is also very entertaining:
https://youtu.be/DNDtwEXQKMY
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