AFRIKAANS PODCASTS
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Our Afrikaans podcasts offer an engaging way to immerse yourself in the language, as in you were already in South Africa. With this podcast series you will learn about the most important events in Afrikaans history. Listen while doing other activities like walking, doing the housework, commuting to work or just relaxing after long day at work and feel your progress grow!
The Natural Method is based on short, focused episodes designed for maximum learning efficiency. Each track is intentionally concise, allowing you to stay fully engaged without cognitive overload, while repeatedly reinforcing the most important core vocabulary and high-frequency phrases used in everyday Afrikaans.
The podcasts were designed to help you progress gradually so be sure to listen to them multiple times. Don't get stressed if you can't remember the words, it's normal. Instead try to listen regularly and most importantly try to repeat the words and phrases out load. You’ll not only improve your comprehension and pronunciation but also speed up your progress by at least half (when compared to just studying on textbooks).
Whether you are a beginner taking your first steps or an advanced learner polishing your fluency, our official podcasts provide a convenient and efficient resource that brings the Afrikaans language closer to you anytime, anywhere.
Feel like you are in South Africa, wherever you go!
EXPAND YOUR KNOWLEDGE
If you are serious about learning Afrikaans, we recommend that you download the Complete Afrikaans Master Course.
You will receive all the information available on the website in a convenient portable digital format as well as additional contents: over 15.000 Vocabulary Words and Useful Phrases, in-depth explanations and exercises for all Grammar Rules, exclusive articles with Cultural Insights that you won't find in any other textbook so you can amaze your Afrikaans friends and business partners thanks to your knowledge of their country and history.
With a one-time purchase you will also get hours of Podcasts to Practice your Afrikaans listening skills as well as Dialogues with Exercises to achieve your own Master Certificate.
Start speaking Afrikaans today!
Learn how Jan van Riebeeck’s arrival at the Cape in 1652 created a Dutch supply station, reshaped Khoikhoi trade and land use, and led to Fort de Goede Hoop, free burghers and enslaved labour. Explore how this small outpost became a colonial society marked by conflict, cultural exchange and the roots of Afrikaner identity.
Arrival of Dutch settlers at the Cape of Good Hope
Learn how eighteenth-century Trekboers moved beyond the Cape in search of grazing land, building independent lives on a contested frontier. Discover their relationships and conflicts with Khoikhoi and San communities, the rise of armed commandos, and how frontier life helped shape Afrikaans and Afrikaner identity.
Expansion of Trekboer Frontier Settlement
Learn how Britain occupied the Cape Colony in 1795 amid European war and rivalry over trade routes to Asia. Explore the Battle of Muizenberg, the decline of VOC rule and the arrival of British authority, laws and military power. See why this occupation reshaped colonial life and Afrikaner political attitudes.
British occupation of the Cape Colony
Learn about the Battle of Blood River in 1838, from the killing of Piet Retief and the Voortrekkers’ vow to Andries Pretorius’s wagon-laager defence against Dingane’s Zulu army. Explore why the victory shaped settlement in Natal, Zulu politics and Afrikaner memories of faith, unity, survival and loss.
Battle of Blood River
Learn how the Bloemfontein Convention of 1854 recognised the Orange Free State and ended direct British rule between the Orange and Vaal rivers. Explore Afrikaner self-government, British withdrawal and the new republic’s struggles over finance, defence, land and relations with Moshoeshoe’s Basotho kingdom.
Bloemfontein Convention recognizes Orange Free State independence
Learn how diamonds discovered near Kimberley in 1867 transformed a rural interior into a global mining centre. Explore the Great Hole, the rush for wealth, railways and big companies, as well as British expansion, African labour control, land disputes and the tensions that reshaped South Africa forever.
Discovery of Diamonds at Kimberley
Learn how the First Boer War began after Britain annexed the Transvaal in 1877, prompting Afrikaner leaders to demand restored independence. Follow the Boer victories at Bronkhorstspruit and Majuba, their mobile commando tactics, and the Pretoria Convention of 1881, which granted the republic limited self-government.
First Boer War
Learn how apartheid became official policy after 1948 and reshaped South Africa through racial classification, forced removals, pass laws and unequal education. Explore how it protected white power, harmed communities and freedoms, provoked resistance, and isolated the country internationally for decades.
Formal Implementation of Apartheid
Learn how the Soweto uprising of 1976 began with student resistance to Afrikaans as a teaching language under apartheid. Explore the peaceful march, the police violence that killed young people such as Hector Pieterson, and how the revolt spread, inspiring resistance, international outrage and South Africa’s later Youth Day.
Soweto Uprising
Learn why Nelson Mandela’s release in 1990 became a turning point in South Africa’s journey from apartheid to democracy. Explore the pressure on the apartheid state, F. W. de Klerk’s reforms, Mandela’s return after 27 years in prison, and the difficult negotiations, hope and violence that followed nationwide.
Release of Nelson Mandela
EXPAND YOUR KNOWLEDGE
If you are serious about learning Afrikaans, we recommend that you download the Complete Afrikaans Master Course.
You will receive all the information available on the website in a convenient portable digital format as well as additional contents: over 15.000 Vocabulary Words and Useful Phrases, in-depth explanations and exercises for all Grammar Rules, exclusive articles with Cultural Insights that you won't find in any other textbook so you can amaze your Afrikaans friends and business partners thanks to your knowledge of their country and history.
With a one-time purchase you will also get hours of Podcasts to Practice your Afrikaans listening skills as well as Dialogues with Exercises to achieve your own Master Certificate.
Start speaking Afrikaans today!
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