Workshop by Katherine Bartel and Ulrike Hougaard
Ever wondered how your students feel in class? Here’s your chance to find out! Grapple with greetings, twist your tongue trying phonics, and play Paper Scissors Rock – all in Afrikaans! The lesson will also briefly touch on some ways to better communicate with your fellow teachers when creating lesson plans. Come join us – it’ll be lekker!
Click here for the Classroom English document and the Afrikaans Handout referenced in the presentation
Q & A Section
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Does Afrikaans have some common patterns of stress?
- Stress tends to be on either the last or second-last syllable of a word. It might also be useful to note that vowels are also not lengthened (which is one of the markers of stress in English) unless there are two of them. For example, both of the vowels in “middag” are short (with the stress on the first, i.e. penultimate syllable), but the “a” sound in “naand” is lengthened.