My First African Words: Beyond baby talk teaching simple African words to the 21st century child

Afrikaans uses the same alphabet as English and shares a great deal of its vocabulary with the Dutch language. Afrikaans words are almost always spelled the way they sound. Afrikaans grammar is fairly straightforward. Afrikaans verbs are even simpler than English and is mostly spoken in South Africa and Namibia using standard Afrikaans dialect. South Africa has 11 official languages. They are English, Northern Sotho, Tsonga, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Southern Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Venda and Zulu. For babies, learning should be fun; bright colors along with bold contrasting patterns really attract a baby's attention enjoyment for learning begins at birth. My First African Words was created for parents to go beyond baby talk and teach simple African words to our 21st century child. Take multicultural learning beyond your boarders and into Africa with "My First African Words".