Sen Joostens completed our Afrikaans language and culture course for Dutch-speaking students in 2020 while he was an exchange student at SU from Belgium. Today, he facilitates Afrikaans language learning to students and staff at KU Leuven. He also recently co-wrote a textbook, Baie Afrikaans, for which he won the Afrikaanse Taalraad’s Junior Koker Trophy for Afrikaans.
We caught up with Sen on his recent visit to SU to ask him about his experience of our Afrikaans language and culture course for Dutch-speaking students, which celebrates ten years of facilitating cultural learning this year. “Afrikaans is a warm language … a language that creates opportunities, a language that can create a lot of opportunities,” Sen explained. “Yes, there are many reasons why one would want to learn Afrikaans.”
Watch the whole interview on our YouTube channel.
