Yes Afrikaans is a simpler form of Flemish/Dutch. A lot of people dismiss Afrikaans in South Africa as a ‘kitchen’ language as it is not of any importance in SA. Which is not true. The language is broadly used all over the country in cities, large corporate companies and smaller towns. Unfortunately it is also generalised with SA’s racist farming community, which is not true. A lot of farmers in SA are first of all not racists and secondly a lot are not Afrikaans speaking. Someone has to carry the blame for Apartheid of course, so why not the Afrikaans population.
Because Afrikaans is so close to Flemish, I have found that learning German was much easier for me than for people from other countries. Also it helps me to be ale to communicate to people in Belgium, Netherlands, Indonesia, Suriname and some parts of France. Look at http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0855611.html . So yes there are benefits of learning Afrikaans. It is a language with feeling and many other unique characteristics. I love the language as I grew up with it. Now I even appreciate it more and am proud of being Afrikaans speaking.
Hi I am Maranda Ezell, I believe Chris mentioned me earlier in the forum. If you need help with afrikaans you can contact me by . I was able to learn afrikaans fluently in just 1 year.
i'm an australian wanting to learn afrikaans becoz i plan to travel to south africa in the future, can anybody help me online? ek already weet 'n little sien =)
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I am glad to see that there are people from other countries trying to speak/learn the Afrikaans language. I would be glad to help where I can since I speak and write in Afrikaans.
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"Ek already weet 'n little" = "Ek weet alreeds 'n bietjie".
hello im fluent in Africaans. its not that hard to learn the words are said alot like Nederlands. wats with all the peolpe linking the language to racisim or apartheid. apartheid means seperateness in africaans by the way. anyway there are alot of benifits to knowing the language so i recomend it. sorry for the spelling english is my second language
I'm a mother tongue Afrikaans speaker and would be glad to help anyone that's learning Afrikaans. I can mostly help via e-mail, but I can squash in a Skype session here and there.
Send me a mail at wynand dot winterbach at gmail dot com.
Hi, My first language is Afrikaans and I am willing to help (via email) anyone who wishes to speak the language. Afrikaans is not very difficult and speakers thereof may find it easier to learn Dutch, Flemish, and German later on as it also is a Germanic language (lower Franconian).
You may contact me on
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ive been to cape town in my experience its really not an afrikaans speaking area
if you go somewhere like swellendam its spoken everywhere inc shops ect
if you only have a few months my advice would be to learn when there are some schools in capetown and you can run out and practice with native speakers at weekends
Afrikaans is my second language, I am looking for a spanish e-mail pal to help me with spanish, and i will help with English or Afrikaans, must be someone nice please and prefrably a Christian. e-mail: ,com
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