The first of what likely will be periodic updates on how South Africans and Americans use words differently:
A vegetarian Afrikaaner: Someone who eats chicken
My small Toyota utility truck: My bakkie (pronounced more like bucky)
A free newspaper: A knock and drop
A traffic light: A robot
A dam: A lake formed by a dam
The wall: A dam that forms a lake
A professor: A lecturer
A backyard barbeque: A braai, pronounced brei
Gary Kebbel's Travel Blog 
Love your language class, Gary.
🙂
Marc