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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes  Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 1 of 2 29 July 2012 at 7:33pm | IP Logged |
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I've had a Teach Yourself Afrikaans course laying around forever, and finally decided
to crack it open and take a look. I have to say, while the grammar is quite easy (at least so far), pronunciation is tricky. The book opens with a pronunciation guide that looks straightforward enough, but start listening to the audio, and you'll soon discover just how many diphthongs and variations on the same vowel there are. None of these sounds are difficult to reproduce in isolation, but stringing them together is... amusing. I get the feeling this is just a very small taste of what a non-English speaker experiences when they start learning English. It's kind of maddening. Anyway, I haven't run across many Afrikaans posts here, but would love to hear how other English speakers have overcome some of the pronunciation obstacles (other than a lot of input). R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5925 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 2 of 2 06 August 2012 at 8:22pm | IP Logged |
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I'm glad I found this thread again.
I don't know that I've overcome any pronunciation obstacles yet, but I learned very quickly that just listening to Afrikaans was not enough. I found that repeatedly singing along to Afrikaans songs also helped me a lot and I found many songs at the Openlanguages.net site. Edited by mick33 on 06 August 2012 at 8:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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