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Your Best Guide for Easily Passing the OPI Afrikaans Exam

No more biting your nails over your pending Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Afrikaans proficiency test! Anxiety only serves a good purpose if it motivates you to prepare well, because, as the saying goes, "Good preparation makes its own luck."Also, uncontrolled anxiety is bad for you and can definitely spoil your chances of performing well. We truly understand this at AfrikaansPod101.com, so we aim to help you reach your language goals so you can ace any Afrikaans exam with ease and confidence! In this article, we'll start with a look at why taking the OPI standardized language competency test can be helpful to you.  Then we'll move on to: A) more details about the OPI, which is one of the oldest and best-known international... Show more

Afrikaans Sentence Patterns – Your Best Guide!

Afrikaans is a daughter-language of Dutch, which informs about ninety percent of its vocabulary. However, many other languages helped shape Afrikaans! These include Malay and all of the African languages, as well as Portuguese, Arabic, French, German, and even Russian.  With such a mixed pot, you'd think that Afrikaans sentence patterns would be very complex and difficult to learn. You would be both right and wrong!  Certain aspects of Afrikaans sentence structures are indeed complex, but the basics are pretty easy to master. With a bit of effort, you could be speaking like a native in no time.  Also, at AfrikaansPod101.com, we understand that in order to master the content successfully, the learning process needs to be enjoyable.... Show more

Your Most Comprehensive List of 100 Adverbs in Afrikaans

So, you're keen to tell your Afrikaans friends what you've been up to. And you have all the right werkwoorde ("verbs") to manage this well! But if you are, for instance, really excited about something you did, or about something that happened, verbs alone will be inadequate. You’ll have to use an adverb in Afrikaans here. It's the difference between saying: "The group laughs" and "The group laughs happily." In the last sentence, "happily" is the adverb, and its omission could affect the meaning of the sentence, won't you agree? For this reason, we consider adverbs important at AfrikaansPod101, so let us help you master them easily! In fact, why not start with our blog post that tells you almost everything about Afrikaans verbs? Then, dare... Show more

Afrikaans Keyboard: How to Install and Type in Afrikaans

You asked, so we provided—easy-to-follow instructions on how to set up your electronic devices to write in Afrikaans! We’ll also give you a few excellent tips on how to use this keyboard, as well as some online and app alternatives if you prefer not to set up a Afrikaans keyboard. Table of Contents Why it’s Important to Learn to Type in Afrikaans Setting up Your Computer and Mobile Devices for Afrikaans How to Activate an Onscreen Keyboard on Your Computer How to Change the Language Settings to Afrikaans on Your Computer Activating the Afrikaans Keyboard on Your Mobile Phone and Tablet How to Practice Typing Afrikaans 1. Why it’s Important to Learn to Type in Afrikaans Learning a new language is made so much easier when... Show more

All About Verb Conjugation in Afrikaans – Your Best Guide!

So, you know all about verbs in Afrikaans, but you're still unsure about conjugations. No problem! Let’s learn about Afrikaans verb conjugation together. In Afrikaans, it's pretty simple, as verbs conjugate (vervoeg) in only a few instances. In other words, with most Afrikaans tenses, there are some changes to sentence structure and words, but not to the verb. The only exceptions are in the case of past tenses and the present participle.  Fantastically easy, right? Yes! With AfrikaansPod101, this is definitely the case. Let's unpack this grammar rule in more detail, starting with some definitions. Table of Contents Inflection vs. Conjugation Afrikaans Verb Inflections and Conjugations Quiz - Which Ones are... Show more

The Best Afrikaans Verbs List at Your Fingertips!

Verbs are those words in a sentence that tell us what’s being done (or if it’s being done). In other words, a verb refers to an action.  Afrikaans verbs are, in some ways, easier to master than those in other languages. For instance, in Afrikaans, verb conjugation depends only on time! This means that the verb form remains the same for all pronouns:  Hy eet, ek eet, hulle eet, almal eet! "He eats, I eat, they eat, everyone eats!" Great, right?! At AfrikaansPod101, we’re going to make sure that you understand Afrikaans verbs and their classification with our Afrikaans verbs list. In this blog, we explain the basic types of verbs found in Afrikaans, and offer you easy-to-use lists at your fingertips!  Let's not dally, but... Show more

Best List of Must-Know Afrikaans Pronouns

The word "pronoun" in Afrikaans is voornaamwoord. Like pronouns in most languages, Afrikaans pronouns are very necessary words to use and master. Without pronouns, a language could sound clumsy and be much more difficult to understand! But with AfrikaansPod101.com, this doesn’t have to be a problem. We help you learn not only the relevant vocabulary, but also the grammar and proper use of pronouns in Afrikaans—easily and excellently! Let's start with the purpose of pronouns. Basically, these are words that take the place of nouns (the very word "pronoun" should give that away!) in a sentence. This keeps us from repeating the same word or words over and over again. Also, as mentioned earlier, they ensure elegant and smooth speech and... Show more

Premium PLUS: The Golden Ticket for Language-Learning

Do you remember the moment you fell in love with languages? Do you desire to learn or advance in Afrikaans quickly and effectively? Then you need a Afrikaans tutor. A common question that first-time language-learners ask is "Where do I begin?" The answer? Guidance. For native English-speakers who want to learn Asian languages, for example, timelines provided by the U.S. Foreign Service Institute can appear discouraging. However, defeating these odds is not unheard of. If you want to beat the odds yourself, one of the best learning options is a subscription to Premium PLUS from Innovative Language. As an active Premium PLUS member of JapanesePod101.com and KoreanClass101.com myself, I have an enjoyable experience learning at an... Show more

Your Definitive Guide to Proper Afrikaans Sentence Structure

Word order, or syntax, in any language is often a challenging thing to master, and Afrikaans is no exception. But once you're familiar with the most basic Afrikaans sentence structure rules, you'll find that the rest comes with less difficulty. At AfrikaansPod101.com, we know how to make it easy for you, so with a bit of effort, you'll have Afrikaans word order under your belt in no time! Table of Contents Structural Patterns in Languages Afrikaans Sentence Structure Rules STOMPI Explanation of the Sentence Elements in Sv1TOMPv2I More Examples of the Basic Afrikaans Sentence Structure: STOMPI Why AfrikaansPod101 is the Best Choice to Learn Afrikaans Sentence Structures! 1. Structural Patterns in Languages To... Show more

How to Tell Time in Afrikaans – It’s Easy!

Like knowing your way around dates in Afrikaans (learn about that in our blog!), being able to tell time in Afrikaans is an equally important conversational skill to master. Also, it could save you a lot of embarrassment.  What good would it be if you knew you had to pitch somewhere on Dinsdag (Tuesday), but you didn't know the meaning of agtuur ("eight o'clock")? Or which agtuur of the day was being referred to?  Let AfrikaansPod101 make it easy for you. If you want, you can start with recorded vocabulary lessons like Talking about Time and dialogue examples such as Arriving at the Right Time in South Africa!  First, let's quickly get clarity on the two ways we tell time. Both are used to indicate time in Afrikaans. ... Show more