Afrikaans phrasebook

Afrikaans is spoken throughout South Africa and Namibia. The language is mainly derived from Dutch. However, most Afrikaans speakers in the workplace have some knowledge of English. Note that Afrikaans pronunciation is extremely difficult and can be a challenge, even for Dutch speakers.

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Afrikaans is based on Afrikaans phrasebook by Ryan Holliday, Esther Brown, D. Guillaime, www.rzr.online.fr, Mart, Inas, ChubbyWimbus, iGuide and others. Afrikaans phrasebook is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. See background image credits.