Re: Afrikaans

[Patrick <patrick spellingbeewinnars org>]

Hi Everyone

Please close or delete this thread. The co-ordinators website was down
so I thought that his email would not work and posted here instead but I
was wrong. I am in good hands now and I do not need to post to this main
list.

Thanks





On 2021-07-10 12:49 p.m., Patrick wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
> This is my first post here. I am quite new to translation work. I am
> interested in trying to help out with Afrikaans translation work.
>
> I am not a native speaker. I just have a keen interest in the language
> and culture and a special application for the language. I have two kids
> with autism and they can memorize new visual information instantly but
> struggle badly with grammar. I want to teach them Afrikaans as it has a
> very logical writing system and very logical grammar. Our early
> experiments show a lot of promise.
>
> Anywho, I would love to help out. I have been studying Afrikaans for 3
> years and I can read and write pretty well. I am also humble in the
> sense that I would not translate something unless I knew it was a very
> good translation so I would likely start off a little slow and hopefully
> gain momentum over the next few years as my Afrikaans fills in to near
> fluent.
>
> It looks like there are no active contributors for this language which
> is why I am posting here.
>
> Please let me know if this is welcome-Patrick
>
>
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