You and your group can be trained by our native speaker qualified Afrikaans teachers, and can meet at your place of work or home at a time convenient to you. Tutorials can take place any day of the week, including weekends, and can be scheduled for the morning, afternoon or evening. If your home or office is not suitable for you, you can attend the lesson at the teacher's offices. You will be provided with all relevant lesson materials.
These Afrikaans lessons are more general in nature and are targeted at students with a whole range of different needs. While all beginners level students can expect to cover Survival Afrikaans - required for short visits to a country where English may not be spoken and/or the intention is to make good contacts with the local population, students then generally progress in different directions depending on their needs. Typical students include those buying property overseas, spouses of overseas nationals, people about to set off on that long-awaited world trip, Afrikaans culture enthusiasts and those who are keen to pass a particular Afrikaans examination.
These Afrikaans Lessons are intended for people who really need to learn Afrikaans to help make that difference in their work. For beginners, it will be useful to learn greetings and basic business etiquette, at higher levels reading and then writing become more important. Typical students include those involved in import/export, international negotiations and acquisitions, jobseekers in multinational companies where an additional language is required, and those working with international colleagues, academia and government. Even on our most basic lesson for Beginners, students should expect to end the lesson with basic Telephone Afrikaans and e-mail Afrikaans skills for communications as well as Survival Afrikaans required for short visits to a country.
Those wishing to learn Afrikaans in groups of 2 or more together (Two-to-One Afrikaans Lessons or Small Group In-Company Afrikaans Lessons) can sign up for our group classes. All students must be at nearly the same level of Afrikaans proficiency, must have the same needs from the language, and must be able to study at the same time and place as the others. Bookings must be made for all students simultaneously. Listen & Learn do not propose group sizes or more than 6-8 people, but In-Company Taster Afrikaans Lessons can occur with up to 12 people.
Manhattan
An island borough of NYC, Manhattan has over 1 and a half million inhabitants, and is the most densely-populated area in the whole of the USA, as well as being the second most affluent area in terms of average income. The city is awash with individual neighborhoods housing communities from all over the world Manhattan is almost synonymous with the word multi-cultural; like the vast majority of New York State, there is a huge range of nationalities, heritages and religions represented by the native population. Around 25% of the population of Manhattan speaks Spanish at home, with Chinese and French also regularly employed as native tongues. In such a cosmopolitan state, learning a new language becomes is made all the easier by the opportunity for constant practice!