Me and Sarah are teaching ourselves Afrikaans. We are getting a little help from kids, child-care-workers and the two volunteers who speak Flemmish. Our plan is to be as fluent as possible by the time we leave so that not only can we communicate with the kids and staff here, but we will have our own secret language when we get back to England (because oh yes, we are that easily amused!)
It isn't actually all that hard. I've been surrounded by the language for 4 months now which helps and I've picked up quite a lot from helping my kids with their reading and spelling and thankfully, the grammar is basically the same as English, so sentence structures and all that are the same. I'll try and keep you updated as to how it's going. Currently I can count to 12 do the days of the week and months and I can greet someone! Not bad for 2 days learning! I have my first night-shift of the holidays tomorrow night, so I'm going to ask the night-shift leader to help me if they're in my house.
Maybe by the end of my year here, I might be able to write a post in Afrikaans!
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