Learning the Afrikaans Language
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Due to the outflow of primarily white South Africans, there are an additional estimated 300,000 Afrikaans-speakers in the UK, with other substantial communities found in Perth, Australia and Toronto, Canada.
It is the primary language used by two related ethnic groups: Afrikaners and Coloureds (including Basters and Griqua). Geographically, the Afrikaans language is the majority language of the western one-third of South Africa (Western and Northern Cape) and the adjacent southern one-third of Namibia (Hardap and Karas).
It is the most widely used second language throughout both of these countries for the population as a whole, although the younger generation has better proficiency in English.
This page includes a number of Afrikaans learning resources, recommended learning tools, videos, rss feeds, and more. So if you are interested in learning Afrikaans check out the resources below.
