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Note on Afrikaans in Afrikaans phrasebook
Note on Afrikaans in Afrikaans phrasebook
Note that although Afrikaans digraphs and trigraphs contain mostly vowels and sound as though they contain many syllables, they in fact are seen as a single syllable.
For example, the word 'Goeie' sounds as if it contains 3 syllables, but in fact contains only two: 'goei' and 'e' are the 2 syllables.
From this, you can see Afrikaans pronunciation, like English for a foreigner, can be rather irregular. Pronunciation can be hard and the accent is extremely difficult to master, but when spoken correctly, Afrikaans is the most melodical Germanic language.
However, one should not be daunted. Afrikaans grammar is really quite simple and is more similat to English than to any other Germanic language. Verbs are even simpler than English: there is no am or are or were but only is and was.
One who is learning Afrikaans will probably catch onto it rather quickly and will have no problem with speaking Dutch or understanding German.
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