Just wondered if anyone knows the time scales for updating the Dutch course in terms of when new lessons are scheduled to be uploaded and when there is likely to be a forum and regular listening/speaking updates?
Not trying to apply any pressure as I fully appreciate these things take a lot of time and there are undoubtedly a range of priorities but was just curious to see if some kind of timetable was in place.
Wish I’d had access to this course whilst I was in South Africa as it would have made communicating with Afrikaaners a million times easier.
Not giving up on the Welsh by the way - but it is easy to do a couple of languages together when the stuff is uploaded to ipod etc as I travel so much.
SaySomethinginDutch is waiting for the algorithm that will make inter-language mapping much simpler and thus will make course creation less dependent on single individuals - it is certainly still alive!
I am glad to hear that it would have made using Afrikaans easier, that is an added bonus
I’m hoping we’ll have started serious work on the algorithm before the end of the year - at which stage it will with luck not be that long before we can start testing the first phase with specific languages - and I’m sure Louis is going to respond to that in a way that would remind many people of a greyhound…
That’s true. I went through the first lesson in SSID and understood most if it. We know that Afrikaans evolved from Duch, but I was suprised to find It’s basically Afrikaans with a funny accent, they are really similar. That’s my 2 cents, I’ll finish my biltong now.
It’s odd. My only connection was a step-mother who had lived in Jo’burg because her 1st husband took the family there and one of her sons, who went back for a while and left because he found his little boy spoke more Afrikaans than English… but if anyone had asked me, I’d have said that Afrikaans is just Dutch with a slightly different accent, one which has pervaded a huge area on southern Africa in the way English is spoken too!
Very similar - but Afrikaans has a much simpler syntax and verb structure, as is to be expected from a language that is a creole with respect to Dutch, and of course differences in vocabulary. Whilst I can’t speak Afrikaans, I can certainly read a book or newspaper and understand the bulk of it. Spoken Afrikaans I can understand if it is slow, but struggle when spoken too fast.
Very similar - but Afrikaans has a much simpler syntax and verb structure, as is to be expected from a language that is a creole with respect to Dutch, and of course differences in vocabulary. Whilst I can’t speak Afrikaans, I can certainly read a book or newspaper and understand the bulk of it. Spoken Afrikaans I can understand if it is slow, but struggle when spoken too fast.