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Afrikaans

Afrikaans weather and seasons

Weather words are easy to practise, because you can look out of the window. Here are two sets: the weather, like son (sun) and reën (rain), and the seasons, with words that describe the day. Tap a word to hear it.

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Weather

12 words
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Opens the free app with these words filled in. Change any word to match your child’s list.

Seasons

11 words
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Words to watch

reën (rain) has two dots on the second e. They tell you to say the two e’s separately, in two beats. Without the dots, the word is wrong. hael (hail) has no dots, even though it also has two vowels side by side: ae is not a sound pair in Afrikaans, so nothing needs to keep them apart.

weer means weather, but it also means again. mis is fog, and ryp is frost.

The seasons

somer (summer) and winter are close to English. herfs is autumn and lente is spring. Practise by talking about today: is it warm or koud, sonnig or bewolk? Let your child type the word that fits.

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