Hulle bespreek seksuele gesondheid.

In this sentence, hulle means they.

Afrikaans hulle can also mean them in other contexts, because Afrikaans does not always distinguish subject and object forms the way English does.

• Hulle bespreek seksuele gesondheid. = They discuss sexual health.
• Ek sien hulle. = I see them.

So the exact meaning depends on the role it plays in the sentence. Here it is the subject, so it means they.

Afrikaans verbs usually do not change according to the subject.

In English, you compare:

• I discuss
• he discusses
• they discuss

In Afrikaans, the verb usually stays the same:

• Ek bespreek
• hy bespreek
• hulle bespreek

So bespreek works with ek, jy, hy/sy, ons, and hulle without changing form in the present tense.

It is related to spreek, but in modern Afrikaans bespreek is best learned as its own common verb meaning discuss.

You may notice the prefix be-, which appears in many Afrikaans and Dutch-related verbs. But for a learner, the most useful thing is:

• bespreek = discuss

Also, unlike some other verbs with prefixes, be- does not separate in normal sentence structure.

So you say:

• Hulle bespreek seksuele gesondheid.

and not a separated form.

Yes, this is the normal basic word order for a main clause in Afrikaans:

Subject + Verb + Object

So here you have:

• Hulle = subject
• bespreek = verb
• seksuele gesondheid = object

This is very similar to English:

• They discuss sexual health.

Afrikaans word order becomes more different in some other structures, especially subordinate clauses and sentences with auxiliaries, but this sentence is straightforward.

Because seksuele is the adjectival form used before a noun here.

In Afrikaans, adjectives often take -e when they come before a noun:

• seksuele gesondheid = sexual health
• compare the base adjective seksueel

So:

• seksueel can be the dictionary/base form
• seksuele is the form used attributively, before gesondheid

This is very common in Afrikaans adjectives.

Not necessarily. Afrikaans often leaves out the article when talking about something in a general sense.

So:

• Hulle bespreek seksuele gesondheid. = They are discussing sexual health in general.

If you wanted to refer to a specific, known thing, you might use die:

• Hulle bespreek die seksuele gesondheid van tieners. = They are discussing the sexual health of teenagers.

In your sentence, no article is needed because the phrase is general and abstract.

A rough English-friendly guide is:

ge-sond-hite or khe-sond-hite, depending on how closely you try to imitate the Afrikaans g sound.

A few helpful points:

• g in Afrikaans is usually a throaty sound, not a soft English g
• sond sounds somewhat like sont with a short vowel
• heid is often pronounced roughly like hite

You do not need perfect pronunciation right away. The most important thing is to recognize the word and say it clearly enough to be understood.

A rough guide is:

sek-SU-eh-le

Helpful breakdown:

• sek like English sec in second
• su stressed
• e-le said clearly, not swallowed

Learners sometimes want to compress it too much, but Afrikaans usually pronounces the syllables more clearly than English would.

Yes, it can often be translated as discuss, talk about, or go over, depending on context.

For example:

• Ons bespreek die probleem. = We discuss the problem. / We talk about the problem.
• Hulle bespreek seksuele gesondheid. = They discuss sexual health. / They are talking about sexual health.

So discuss is a very good core meaning, but natural English translation may vary.

Nothing unusual here.

• Hulle is capitalized because it is the first word of the sentence.
• seksuele gesondheid is not capitalized because these are ordinary common words, not proper nouns.
• The full stop at the end works just like in English.

So the sentence follows normal Afrikaans writing conventions.