Find your Afrikaans tutors near me in Chatsworth

Find Your Own Afrikaans Personal Tutor in Chatsworth

 Learning a new language is a fun and exciting way to improve your memory, make new friends and discover a culture on a whole new level. Afrikaans is an expressive, creative, easy to learn language that can also open doors for you across South Africa.

Although Afrikaans might not seem that popular in KwaZulu-Natal, it’s quite a thing across the rest of the country. It’s one of South Africa’s 11 official languages, the third most spoken language in the country and even more popular than English. English will continue to be the core business language South Africans use to connect, but if you ever consider spreading your wings and discover South Africa, your ability to speak, understand and write in Afrikaans can be your ticket to new and exciting opportunities.

50% of people in the Western and Northern Cape speak Afrikaans and if you are looking to conduct business, find a job, or study there or in any other major South African city, Afrikaans can be a valuable skill to navigate your way around and tap into affluent commercial segments of South Africa.

Ways to Study Afrikaans

Afrikaans is now considered as one of the African languages in South African schools, allowing pupils to study it if they wish to do so. Accessibility to a good teacher can, however, be challenging due to wide variety of languages available in schools across the country. Group classes can also be a challenging environment for beginners of a new language, and for learners who struggle with language this doesn’t have to be a roadblock anymore.

Afrikaans language classes can be found in a myriad of ways across South Africa. You can enrol for a language degree at University, do a qualification at a language school or even find an online Afrikaans personal tutor.

Most tertiary institutions have a list of requirements if you want to study towards a degree and a solid proficiency in the English language is one of them. It’s a bit more challenging to get into a university and the cost of that could limit a lot of students to following their dreams. Literary studies at a University are however ideal if your dream is to become South Africa’s next famous writer, journalist or newsreader. An understanding of Afrikaans will help you bring different angles, understanding and nuances to your English writing and therefore, even if you plan to major in English or study an English degree, it is something that is of great value to anyone who plans to become a creative writing artist.

Opting for a shorter language course is an easier solution if you want to develop a basic understanding of Afrikaans. You’ll learn the grammatical rules to the language while you practice your skills in conversing, writing, listening and speaking. As you progress, you’ll start to apply your learning to comprehension and analysis of text, which can also become an exciting journey on its own if you are curious to explore new topics and content.

But what if you are still at school, already working or only looking for a way to supplement your current studies and knowledge? Getting your own Afrikaans personal tutor or finding ‘Afrikaans extra classes near me’ on google will be your best bet. Especially if you are only starting to learn and want to dip your toes in the Afrikaans pond. 

The Benefits of An Afrikaans Personal Tutor

Getting hands-on guidance and experience, regardless of the field of study, is a sure way to speed up your learning and to remove stumbling blocks along the way. No more flipping back and forth between textbooks to try and figure out how grammar or language rules align and no more wondering how to pronounce a certain word or phrase, you have your own personal tutor to the rescue. 

A one-on-one Afrikaans tutor is a risk-free, flexible and easy way to discover the language, even if you are not completely certain whether you’d like to dive deep into the world of Afrikaans. Most of our tutors offer a free trial class and you can browse, compare and select an ‘Afrikaans tutor near me’ with ease here on Superprof.

Discuss your learning objectives with your tutor and be sure to match their skills, as on their Superprof profile, to your learning needs and requirements. Your first class can include some of the basics to use in Afrikaans conversation like greetings, familiar phrases or if you are more familiar with languages, you can ask them to introduce more complex aspects like gendered pronouns and explaining the exclusion of grammatical gender in Afrikaans. You can also practice speaking Afrikaans with your tutor who will help you master the unique sounds like the ‘g’ and the ‘r’ that has its roots in the German and Dutch language. 

Consider how much time you have, what you would like to learn, how you want to use the Afrikaans language and also help your tutor by letting them know what makes learning easy for you. Your interests in reading, movies, poetry or certain topics will help them customise your class in such a way that it’s practical, according to your liking and inspirational.

Learning Afrikaans should also be fun, so find someone on Superprof that you think will match your personality and teaches in a style you enjoy. With a wide range of qualified language teachers or native Afrikaans speakers, you’ll be sure to find the best tutor to make you an Afrikaans speaker, reader and writer in no time.

It is considered as one of the easiest languages to learn across the globe and Afrikaans is as colourful as the South African rainbow nation. It was crafted and developed here on home soil when settlers and locals mixed in Dutch colonies in The Cape of Good Hope, and the result was the birth of a unique expressive language.

May your journey in learning this new language become a new source of energy in your life as you discover a language that is as unique as South Africans themselves.