{"id":32487,"date":"2025-05-21T08:39:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagecentre.sun.ac.za\/online-interpreting-guide-for-lecturers-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:22:35","slug":"interview-sen-joostens-10-years-of-afrikaans-for-dutch-speaking-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zone.ladybugdigital.co.za\/taalsentrumdebug2025\/interview-sen-joostens-10-years-of-afrikaans-for-dutch-speaking-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten years of Afrikaans language and culture for Dutch speaking exchange students: An interview with Sen Joostens"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row type_default valign_top\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\" ><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Sen Joostens <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">completed our Afrikaans language and culture course for Dutch-speaking students in 2020 while he was an exchange student at SU from Belgium. Today, he facilitates Afrikaans language learning to students and staff at KU Leuven. He also recently co-wrote a textbook, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.borgerhoff-lamberigts.be\/owl-press\/shop\/boeken\/baie-afrikaans\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Baie Afrikaans<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">, for which he won the Afrikaanse Taalraad\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/afrikaans.com\/2024\/12\/02\/taalnuus-taalraad-se-kokerwenners-wys-afrikaans-dra-meer-as-een-gewaad\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Junior Koker Trophy for Afrikaans<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">We caught up with Sen on his recent visit to SU to ask him about his experience of our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/languagecentre.sun.ac.za\/product\/afrikaans-language-and-culture-course-for-dutch-speaking-students\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Afrikaans language and culture course for Dutch-speaking students<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">, which celebrates ten years of facilitating cultural learning this year. \u201cAfrikaans is a warm language &#8230; a language that creates opportunities, a language that can create a lot of opportunities,\u201d Sen explained. \u201cYes, there are many reasons why one would want to learn Afrikaans.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Watch the whole interview on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mDdRtJkaJCY&amp;ab_channel=StellenboschUniversityLanguageCentre\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row type_default valign_top\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"w-video align_center ratio_16x9\"><div class=\"w-video-h\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mDdRtJkaJCY?autoplay=0&controls=1&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fzone.ladybugdigital.co.za%2Ftaalsentrumdebug2025\" allowfullscreen=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div><div class=\"w-video-icon\" style=\"font-size:1.5rem;background:rgba(0,0,0,0.5);color:#fff;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row type_default valign_top\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\" ><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sen Joostens completed our Afrikaans language and culture course for Dutch-speaking students in 2020 while he was an exchange student at SU from Belgium. 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