A boy in South Africa wanting to show people “that he does actually read Afrikaans properly” read a book written in Afrikaans ...
A young boy named Aidan went viral after trying to read an Afrikaans children’s book phonetically in English, leaving South ...
BLIKSEM, hold my entjie! Oxford Languages had a bosberaad to add a vrag new South African English words to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Yebo, the additions, many of which are borrowings from ...
E-hailing service Wanatu has recently shifted its focus to winning over more non-Afrikaans speakers seeking alternatives to larger ride-hailing platforms. Launched at the Voortrekker Monument in late ...
Just when it seemed like Taylor Swift’s impact could not grow any more far-reaching, the power of her fanbase has left an irrevocable mark on the English language: The dictionary had a blank space, ...
Hoër Meisieskool Bloemhof has been crowned the top Afrikaans school in South Africa with 3.62 distinctions per candidate in the 2025 matric exams. Hoër Meisieskool Bloemhof is a government high school ...
Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...
New words added to Oxford Dictionary 2025: The Oxford English Dictionary 2025 update includes ten new words from different cultures and online trends. These additions show how English is growing ...
DBE says Afrikaans former model C schools are starting to introduce English as medium of instruction
The Department of Basic Education says it's noticing a nationwide trend of Afrikaans former Model C schools introducing English as a medium of instruction. But members of parliament's basic education ...
It’s rare for a dictionary to claim that a word has no definition. But that’s what Dictionary.com said about its recently announced word of the year: “67,” pronounced “six-seven,” the slang term that ...
Sorry, parents and teachers of middle schoolers: your days of hearing "67" shouted randomly are far from over. Dictionary.com on Wednesday announced it has chosen "67 ...
Google – in partnership with the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB) – has launched a new AI Glossary for isiZulu, isiXhosa, and Afrikaans giving millions of South Africans the language tools ...
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