Dr Schalk van der Merwe, extraordinary senior lecturer at Stellenbosch University (SU), has been a regular guest lecturer for several years at the SU Language Centre’s Afrikaans language and culture course for Dutch-speaking students, where he shares and discusses key events from South African history with students in a narrative style. “When it comes to the history and origins of Afrikaans, it is essential to reflect the language’s diversity, and also how it has served as a vehicle for social change,” says Dr Van der Merwe. As part of the course’s 10-year celebrations, we asked him a few questions.
Ten years of Afrikaans language and culture for Dutch speaking exchange students: An interview with Sen Joostens
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…
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Ten years of Afrikaans language and culture for Dutch-speaking students at SU: An interview with lecturer, Helga Sykstus
This year, it will be ten years since Helga Sykstus, lecturer and coordinator at the SU Language Centre with more than 20 years of experience, had launched the Afrikaans language…
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So many kinds of freedom
“I never even knew that such a kind of personal freedom existed, because I had never experienced it before.” In celebration of Freedom Day on 27 April, a Belgian exchange students shares her thoughts on freedom with us, originally in Afrikaans, but translated into English below.
Survival Afrikaans
This course is practical and interactive, and we incorporate campus-related scenarios to encourage the use of authentic language.
Survival Afrikaans
This course is practical and interactive, and we incorporate campus-related scenarios to encourage the use of authentic language.
Afrikaans 123
This course is practical and interactive, and we incorporate real-life scenarios to encourage the use of authentic language.
Beginner Afrikaans level 1
This course targets new international SU students and staff, and members of the public with no knowledge of Afrikaans. This is a fun-filled course offering you a linguistic and cultural taste of Afrikaans as a language in a wider cultural context.
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This is a time of c-words. Corona, control, contagion, consequence, confinement, challenge. To counter these, the SU Language Centre’s Language Service would like to offer ‘collaborate’, ‘connect’ and ‘create’. By…
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Trilingual terminology website launched
On Monday, 23 November 2015, the isiXhosa portfolio of the Stellenbosch University Language Centre launched its terminology website, with the terms presented in Afrikaans, English and isiXhosa. This site is…
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