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Colloquial Afrikaans: The Complete Course for Beginners (PB + CD) (Paperback)

by Bruce Donaldson (Author) "Goeie more, Piet ..." (more)

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Routledge; Pap/Cas/Co edition (15 Jun 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 041520674X
ISBN-13: 978-0415206747
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 18 x 4.6 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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An introduction to the modern language as spoken in South Africa and Namibia. Written by an experienced teacher of the language, the course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Afrikaans. No previous knowledge of the language is required. Designed for both independent study and class use, it provides: exercises with full answer key; concise grammar notes; and Afrikaans-English and English-Afrikaans glossaries. By the end of the course the reader should be able to communicate confidently and effectively in Afrikaans on a broad range of everyday topics. Two 60-minute cassettes accompany "Colloquial Afrikaans". Recorded by native speakers, they should help perfect pronunciation, listening and speaking skills.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Do not waste your money with this book, 22 Mar 2004

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This review is from: Colloquial Afrikaans: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series) (Paperback)

The recordings has very little direct english translation - you know you are learning different greeting variations but there is no individual translation to allow you to differentiate between each in english

The book is the same, loads of conversations in africaans, with a translation for one variation of the conversation but no translation for the rest so you have no idea what the difference is.

Unless you already know the basics of the language, forget this course

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5.0 out of 5 stars very good, 7 Nov 2001

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i found that this was very good but i only managed to learn properley once i had the book as well as the tapes, the tapes only give limited learning without the book

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1.0 out of 5 stars Inadequate, 14 Aug 2008

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After all the rave reviews for this course, I hate to rain on the parade. However, I feel that some crucial parts are missing from the other reviews. Yes, it's a good book and for exactly the reasons other reviewers have mentioned. The grammar is very well defined and Afrikaans is a remarkably easy language to learn.

Unfortunately, this books comes with a major problem. No wordlists! In almost any other Colloquial or Teach Yourself course, each dialogue is followed by a word list containing the words used in the dialogue. That's the way you study the words and enlarge your vocabulary. Not so in this course. For the first few lessons, the dialogues are followed by an English translation. This isn't a very good substitute, especially not as word order is very different in Afrikaans. You can't be sure wh�ch English words mean what, so you can only learn phrases like a parrot. After a few lessons, even this English translation is dropped and your left with dialogues in Afrikaans with no wordlist nor translation! How is this different from reading a newspaper in Afrikaans and having a dictionary to check up each word? Not at all, and that's free on-line.

I usually prefer Colloquial courses over Teach Yourself, but in this case I strongly recommend the excellent course Teach Yourself Afrikaans. The author of that course didn't try to get off too easy by ignoring the word lists and the result is that Teach Yourself Afrikaans is an excellent book. The author of this book was lazy, and it is the reader who pays the cost. So Afrikaans is an easy language, but this book makes everything it can to make learning it harder. Teach Yourself Afrikaans makes it easier.

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5.0 out of 5 stars WELL DONE
I m sorry to go against the flow here, BUT I must say that I simply find that course in Afrikaans absolutely excellent . Read more

Published 20 months ago by Bernard M. Abel

5.0 out of 5 stars A good introduction
Provided you have both the book and the tapes/CDs, this is a very good course. The author has written the standard grammar-description of Afrikaans in English so knows his subject... Read more

Published on 5 Jan 2007 by learner

1.0 out of 5 stars Rubbish if you're a complete novice!!
I found this not very useful at all. Phrases on the tapes would have helped my pronunciation if they had us some 'phenetics' to help...

Published on 23 April 2002

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