learn survival afrikaans

Learn Survival Afrikaans

Wikitravel users have collectively created a free Afrikaans phrasebook with the goal of making it possible for travelers to "get by" while traveling in areas where Afrikaans is spoken.

Wikitravel phrasebooks are available in many languages and each one varies in depth and detail. Most of the phrasebooks include a pronunciation guide, a general phrase list, information about dates and numbers, a color list, transportation-related phrases, vocabulary for shopping and phrases for eating and drinking. Some are even more in depth, and all are free!

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Summary

This site has a good selection of online games and activities for learning the Afrikaans language.

There are also many other languages available on the site.

From Website

Digital Dialects was launched in January 2007, originally a by-product of a dissertation reviewing web resources for language learning. The site was conceived as an educational tool for learning languages, and as a guide to online resources.

All animation and webpage design is by Craig Gibson. The animated activities are intended to incorporate the interactivity of computer aided language learning software with the web-design principle of simplicity in use and access. In essence the games are intended to provide a relaxed way of acquiring basic language skills, a break from the books!

The site will continue to be a work in progress, and it is intended that Digital Dialects will represent the World’s major languages, with a cross-section of languages from diverse regions. Audio files are to be gradually incorporated into animations for certain languages. The development of particular language sections will be dependant on assistance from translators and native speakers.

Link

Visit DigitalDialects.com Afrikaans Learning Resources

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Summary

Wikibooks is a great idea. Like Wikipedia, Wikibooks consists of content that is public domain. That means that anything there is reusable in any fashion, such as for teaching.

Visit the Afrikaans Wikibook in English.

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The name "Afrikaans" means literally "African". Afrikaans has its roots in 17th-century Dutch, but has since developed its own distinctive character and flavour in the three centuries that it developed on the African continent. Being a Germanic language, the youngest of all, it is closely related to English and German.

Website Content License

The content on this website is empowered by the GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL) and is, thus, free and open for everyone.

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Comments

This is a good site for finding (and in some cases listening to) basic and survival phrases in many languages.

The site also has a language exchange community where you can find language partners to learn with through the web.

Visit PhraseBase.com