20 Afrikaans words with interesting English literal translations

Afrikaans to English translation - compound words meaning

When learning a new language, some of the issues we encounter are translating those crafty closed compound words – combinations of two or more words that function as a single unit and mean something different than the individual words they are built from.

08/08/201818/10/2021

15 Biographies & Memoirs Of Amazing African Women, Women Writers Women’s Month

biographies, memoirs by women - three young women showing friendship and support for eachother

Here are 15 biographies and memoirs by amazing African women to inspire you this Mother’s Day, Women’s Day — and any other day of the year.

31/03/201718/10/2021

Spilling The Beans: Why #PayWithAPoem Day Is For Everyone

Spilling The Beans: Why #PayWithAPoem Day Is For Everyone

On this day only, 21 March, one can pay with a poem for one’s cup of coffee.
Would you do it?

23/02/201725/02/2023

Living At The Cultural And Technological Crossroad

A look at culture as our own air bubble.

Living At The Cultural And Technological Crossroad – An Intercultural Theory

Even though two people speak the same language, having come from different cultures, their understanding of the spoken language will be different.

An American, a Frenchmen and a Chinese, all owners of smartphones, found themselves in a locked room. Can you guess the outcome? No, really, this happened to me. Except that I was neither of them, belonging to a fourth nationality, the Romanian born South African.