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E-book: Colloquial Afrikaans: The Complete Course for Beginners

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(University of Melbourne, Australia)
  • Format: EPUB+DRM
  • Series: Colloquial Series
  • Pub. Date: 14-Aug-2015
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781317306337
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  • Format: EPUB+DRM
  • Series: Colloquial Series
  • Pub. Date: 14-Aug-2015
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781317306337

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Colloquial Afrikaans provides a step-by-step course in Afrikaans as it is written and spoken in South Africa and Namibia today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Afrikaans in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Key features include:

• progressive coverage of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills

• structured, jargon-free explanations of grammar

• an extensive range of focused and stimulating exercises

• realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of scenarios

• useful vocabulary lists throughout the text

• additional resources available at the back of the book, including a full answer key, a grammar summary and bilingual glossaries

Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Afrikaans will be an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Afrikaans.

Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.

About this book vii
Introduction 1(8)
1 Meeting and greeting people
9(10)
2 Shopping
19(15)
3 Buying a ticket
34(6)
4 Numbers and money
40(20)
5 Making a date
60(8)
6 Likes and dislikes
68(10)
7 Asking the way
78(8)
8 Colours
86(10)
9 Comparing things
96(8)
10 At play
104(8)
11 In the process of doing things
112(9)
12 Expressing time
121(9)
13 The weather
130(11)
14 Exclamations, congratulations and apologies
141(9)
15 Where? -- on, under, behind or in front of?
150(10)
16 Stellenbosch, a town which everyone loves
160(7)
17 There's a school being built here
167(9)
List of countries, inhabitants, nationalities 176(2)
Answers to the exercises 178(17)
Grammar summary 195(4)
Glossary of grammatical terms 199(7)
Afrikaans-English glossary 206(33)
English--Afrikaans glossary 239(30)
Index 269
Bruce Donaldson is Associate Professor and Reader in Dutch and German at the University of Melbourne. He is author of the best-selling Colloquial Dutch.