Sample Exercise:“South Africa has three different capitals: Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Pretoria.”
This is the industry standard for an Afrikaans accent of South Africa. The Afrikaans language, spoken by about six million people in South Africa and neighboring countries, was considered simply a dialect of Dutch until the early 20th century, when it came to be considered a language in its own right. Simply meaning African in Dutch, the language evolved from those mainly Dutch settlers who colonized the Cape of Good Hope in the latter half of the 17th century. Learn to speak like Matt Damon in Invictus and Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond! (Paul speaks the entire text himself. So you hear him demonstrate, in dialect, the signature sounds in isolation, the word lists, the practice sentences, and the two monologues.)
TO PURCHASE:
The Afrikaans accent is available by purchasing Accents & Dialects for Stage and Screen. We recommend the Deluxe Streaming version for $79.95, which gives you Afrikaans plus 26 other dialects and accents. (This is a printed book with the audio files available on a password-protected webpage.) The original CD version of the book, with 24 total dialects and accents on 12 CDs, is also still available.
OR
You may purchase the iTunes ebook (Apple Book) version of Afrikaans directly on iTunes by clicking this link, for $29.99. This will play on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, using Apple’s free Books app, but NOT on your Windows PC.
