Learn Afrikaans in Australia.
If your partner, your in-laws or your kids’ grandparents speak Afrikaans, you may hear more of it than you can comfortably follow. Short, everyday practice can help you start joining those conversations, wherever in Australia your family lives.
Praat teaches everyday Afrikaans in short lessons built around real situations: greeting someone at the gate, coffee, the braai, a trip to the shops, plans for the weekend. It was made by a South African living abroad. Native-speaker review is underway.
Level 1 is sixteen lessons and free with a free account. Praat Plus opens the rest. Prices are in New Zealand dollars.
Start your first lesson, free →Five to ten minutes. Speaking is always optional.
Eight phrases for the braai.
- Welkom!Welcome!The w is said like an English v, so this greeting opens with a vee sound.
- Kom sit hier.Come and sit here.Two commands can run straight together with no and between them: kom sit, kom kyk, kom eet.
- Wil jy iets drink?Would you like something to drink?Iets means something, and drink is pushed out behind it to the end because of wil.
- Water, asseblief.Water, please.The a is a short ah, nothing like the English aw, and the final r is lightly rolled.
- Wil jy nog hê?Would you like more?Nog here means more or another helping, not still, which is its sense elsewhere.
- Net ’n bietjie, asseblief.Just a little, please.Net means just or only, and ’n bietjie is the standard way to ask for a small amount.
- Die kos is lekker.The food is nice.Kos means food in general, and it is also the verb to cost, so the sentence tells you which.
- Dankie vir die lekker aand.Thank you for the lovely evening.Dankie vir introduces what you are grateful for, and lekker stretches easily to a whole evening.
How Praat works.
- 1Hear it. Real situations: the gate, the braai, the shop, the phone call home.
- 2Say it. Speaking is optional. Praat Plus adds AI feedback on your voice.
- 3Remember it. Short reviews bring the words back before you forget them.
Built by a South African in New Zealand.
Praat was made for a Kiwi partner who wanted to follow the conversation. Level 1, sixteen lessons, is free with a free account. Praat Plus opens the rest of the course and the voice coach.
Try the first lesson →