Learning Dutch

Have fun:

http://home.unilang.org/main/resources.php?lng=nl&section=bylanguage&showlinks=1

Uitspraak van verwijderd op maandag 19 maart 2007 om 19:02:

Have fun:

Uitspraak van the_virus op maandag 19 maart 2007 om 19:21:

Uitspraak van Dr. O ja joh? op maandag 19 maart 2007 om 19:02:
Have fun:

Omg, How lame!

How would you ever get to know the language if you don't know how to speak it.

Every a b or c is different spelled than in england.

Those website don't work at all

weird website and completely useless.. better buy a dictionary, buy some dutch CD's, listen to the music and translate the lyrics from the booklet.
And/or go on holidays to the netherlands as often as possible.. that's how i did it

of je bent gewoon in Nederland geboren en je weet niet beter

I think you learn it better when you write with Nederlands

Im living for for month in Amsterdam now and dutch is still quite bad Realy hard becouse everybodys speaking english here you are never forced to speak dutch !

Uitspraak van verwijderd op maandag 19 maart 2007 om 19:02:

http://home.unilang.org/main/r ... on=bylanguage&showlinks=1

LOL, i feel sorry for you guys
that website should be banned

Uitspraak van JohnyHamburg op dinsdag 3 april 2007 om 19:13:

Realy hard becouse everybodys speaking english here you are never forced to speak dutch !

hihi.. you should come to Middelburg... we (RA students) are obliged to speak english because our school has an international character, but we speak so much dutch that the foreigners learn it from us

well, i'm glad to hear that english persons are willing to learn dutch. in leeuwarden there are many german students at the moment and how bizar it may sound, they only speak german or english! for crying out loud! learn the language of the nation you are at. for me it is no problem, because i can both speak german as english as dutch. but i can imagine that it is disturbing for other persons.

I was studying dutch this year but I can study more because I ahven't time... anyway I think a learned a lot in the academy where I went

Uitspraak van WALDI op vrijdag 27 april 2007 om 21:26:

because i can both speak german as english as dutch.

But that´s the problem for germans that speak well english, there are not many people in the Netherlands which speek neither english or german, so you have to be realy good in dutch otherwise it´s always easier to change to hold a conversation in english or german.

For me also changing languages is a problem. So if i don´t now how to say something in dutch i change to english but switching back than is realy difficult.

Uitspraak van JohnyHamburg op dinsdag 3 april 2007 om 19:13:

Im living for for month in Amsterdam now and dutch is still quite bad Realy hard becouse everybodys speaking english here you are never forced to speak dutch !

dutch hospitality

Uitspraak van JohnyHamburg op dinsdag 3 april 2007 om 19:13:

Realy hard becouse everybodys speaking english here you are never forced to speak dutch !

I hate that. I think everyone should be obligated to learn Dutch if they intend to stay longer than a year. But hell, Amsterdam is more an American city than a Dutch one anyway.

Uitspraak van verwijderd op woensdag 1 augustus 2007 om 01:05:

But hell, Amsterdam is more an American city than a Dutch one anyway.

true, and when i talk dutch to people they reply in english

in 020jodendam you have to talk joods (hebräisch)

i for my self learn always a bit dutch. cause i live near the boarder and have some dutch friends (i-net & real)

whoops, posted twice...

Uitspraak van verwijderd op woensdag 1 augustus 2007 om 01:05:

I hate that. I think everyone should be obligated to learn Dutch if they intend to stay longer than a year. But hell, Amsterdam is more an American city than a Dutch one anyway.

Yes! I wanted to move to Holland! that's why I started to study dutch!
I remember one time in utrech... I was in a hotel and a guy was talking to me in Spanish (he was spanish) and he told me "to learn dutch?? why?? you don't need it here!!!!" and I became mad with him. If everybody thinks like him then dutch will desapear with the time. You have to respect the culture of the country where you are moving... at least the oficial language!!! if you move to Spain and you don't want to learn Spanish... then you will have problems to have a normal life here.

Hello everybody,

that's true; it's not easy to learn dutch if you don't follow lesson and you have to be help by your friends who talk to you in dutch... because if you don't have the "goed uitspraak" everybody is talking to you in english!!! annoying!!!
But that's the price to be "in" I think... My girlfriend is dutch, I am french and we are talking in english... good at the beginning but annoying now when we want to go further in the discussion!
I can understand better but to express myself oualala hardcore!

If you live in a country, you have to speak the natural language: that's a basic!

tot snel oups see you soon

Uitspraak van Gabberfreak82 aka Flyerjunky op zondag 5 augustus 2007 om 23:32:

in 020jodendam you have to talk joods (hebräisch)

i for my self learn always a bit dutch. cause i live near the boarder and have some dutch friends (i-net & real)

what a joke

Uitspraak van Akasha op donderdag 23 augustus 2007 om 19:30:

You have to respect the culture of the country where you are moving... at least the oficial language!!!

Uitspraak van Akasha op donderdag 23 augustus 2007 om 19:30:

if you move to Spain and you don't want to learn Spanish... then you will have problems to have a normal life here.

Haha I Know, went to Barcelona not too long a go for a short vacation, nobody understood me

Uitspraak van La.Vida.Loca op zaterdag 31 maart 2007 om 16:20:

I think you learn it better when you write with Nederlands

I think you're right.. I've learn English because I only did Englisch games(world wide games, Pristontale, Tibia)
I have people from howl the world in my msn, and that helps too..
But I think in holland you don't learn a thing on school..
only things you don't need.. We learn german too.. but I don't understand that!!

Ich spreche keine duitch, tut mir leit.. xD

maar nederlands gaat me een stuk makkelijker af xD

Uitspraak van Akasha op donderdag 23 augustus 2007 om 19:30:

Yes! I wanted to move to Holland! that's why I started to study dutch!
I remember one time in utrech... I was in a hotel and a guy was talking to me in Spanish (he was spanish) and he told me "to learn dutch?? why?? you don't need it here!!!!" and I became mad with him. If everybody thinks like him then dutch will desapear with the time. You have to respect the culture of the country where you are moving... at least the oficial language!!! if you move to Spain and you don't want to learn Spanish... then you will have problems to have a normal life here.

to you my friend, respect the other country its culture and language

Uitspraak van Akasha op donderdag 23 augustus 2007 om 19:30:

Yes! I wanted to move to Holland! that's why I started to study dutch!
I remember one time in utrech... I was in a hotel and a guy was talking to me in Spanish (he was spanish) and he told me "to learn dutch?? why?? you don't need it here!!!!" and I became mad with him. If everybody thinks like him then dutch will desapear with the time. You have to respect the culture of the country where you are moving... at least the oficial language!!! if you move to Spain and you don't want to learn Spanish... then you will have problems to have a normal life here.

That is a good point!

But, i dont think its really necessary. Eventually, wouldnt it be better if we al could speak one language? Or at least have one MAIN language? I guess english would be best suited for that since its already implementend in so many countries already.
Dutch people have always been a trading kind, and its in our nature to know more languages. Or at least a little bit of english.

Does or language really matter when were so small compared to the rest of the world? Maybey we should all learn chinese with its upcoming economy.

Just something to think about. Yes i am dutch, and yes i am proud of it. And no i dont speak chinese...

Ik spreek shlecht ... erm... dutch
i always wanted to learn dutch,
but i havent found the right software yet.
I fully agree with Akasha!
U have to respect the culuture of the country in which u are moving,
and u have to speak their language !
these are the unwritten rules of every country, not matter if germany, holland, austria, britain,....

Uitspraak van japperd op vrijdag 7 september 2007 om 14:29:

But, i dont think its really necessary. Eventually, wouldnt it be better if we al could speak one language? Or at least have one MAIN language? I guess english would be best suited for that since its already implementend in so many countries already.
Dutch people have always been a trading kind, and its in our nature to know more languages. Or at least a little bit of english.

No, that's disrespectful to your own country.

Uitspraak van verwijderd op woensdag 1 augustus 2007 om 01:05:

I hate that. I think everyone should be obligated to learn Dutch if they intend to stay longer than a year. But hell, Amsterdam is more an American city than a Dutch one anyway

thats why we dont like it

Uitspraak van verwijderd op zaterdag 8 september 2007 om 14:57:

No, that's disrespectful to your own country.

It doesn't mean im disrespectful, im just thinking of the bigger picture.

Uitspraak van Klynduimpje op dinsdag 27 maart 2007 om 18:11:

Omg, How lame!

How would you ever get to know the language if you don't know how to speak it.

Every a b or c is different spelled than in england.

Those website don't work at all

first of all you dumbass! probably learn it the same way learned english......
now i have never seen a more stupid sentence than the following:
Every a b or c is different spelled than in england.

please tell me i'm not the only one that noticed that!

Uitspraak van Funk Apprentice op maandag 17 september 2007 om 09:50:

please tell me i'm not the only one that noticed that!

Grin...

why learn dutch? its difficult and all the dutch people arent as stupid as other people from other countries who cant speak english, german or whatever We all speak english and basic german, so why bother learn dutch.

Uitspraak van herber op donderdag 20 september 2007 om 15:44:

why learn dutch? its difficult and all the dutch people arent as stupid as other people from other countries who cant speak english, german or whatever We all speak english and basic german, so why bother learn dutch.

And why do we always need to change our language to commucate with you?
We always do it, if we go to germay, we speak german, but is someone from germany comes to holland we also speak german...
Why?

Because we have an inferiority complex: foreigners are always more important than ourselves. We are more than willing to give up our culture, language and identity to please tourists and immigrants. They don't have to adapt, because we do it already. So please, foreigners, come live here and help us waste our once so beautiful country!!!!!!!

Uitspraak van Denskie ® op donderdag 20 september 2007 om 20:21:

And why do we always need to change our language to commucate with you?
We always do it, if we go to germay, we speak german, but is someone from germany comes to holland we also speak german...
Why?

ya exactly ..thats the way it should go down .. and if you dont like it then you no where the nearest airport is ...

I also want to learn dutch...I have been living in The Netherlands for 8 months, but unfortunately I couldn't follow a dutch language school...I always spoke and studied at university (in Nijmegen) in english...
watching tv, dutch websites, looking what was written in shops and around the city...I have learned something, mostly the written dutch...I'm able to understand 60% of what I see written in dutch...and a little bit also the spoken language...but of course it's not so much!!
I love The Netherlands, and I really would like to move there again in the future, maybe to live there forever...so I want to learn the language, to be able to stay there!
The problem is that I cannot easily find a dutch school in Italy, it's not a common language to learn for us...
I do what I can using a dictionary, some books...but I know that I should start from the grammar basis, and mostly I need to listen the spoken language! to read a book is not enough

well fair play to you .. at least you try not like so people who expect it to be easy for them

yes! I know it will be difficult...but I really want it! I will try to do my best! my passion for Holland will help me!

Uitspraak van ***Silvia*** op zaterdag 22 september 2007 om 22:01:

I also want to learn dutch...I have been living in The Netherlands for 8 months, but unfortunately I couldn't follow a dutch language school...I always spoke and studied at university (in Nijmegen) in english...
watching tv, dutch websites, looking what was written in shops and around the city...I have learned something, mostly the written dutch...I'm able to understand 60% of what I see written in dutch...and a little bit also the spoken language...but of course it's not so much!!
I love The Netherlands, and I really would like to move there again in the future, maybe to live there forever...so I want to learn the language, to be able to stay there!
The problem is that I cannot easily find a dutch school in Italy, it's not a common language to learn for us...
I do what I can using a dictionary, some books...but I know that I should start from the grammar basis, and mostly I need to listen the spoken language! to read a book is not enough

If you want to learn how to speak dutch, then you just have to mingle with dutch people!

I know that sounds easier said then done, but its the most easy way of learning. Because it kind of forces you to communicate with them. First, youll start in english of course, but eventually they could help you... And maybe if you could get a job as a translater im sure they'll be happy to help you learn dutch as well.

I dont know if you already tried some of these methods, but you can always give it a shot! Good luck with it!

Does it have you also for English?

Uitspraak van japperd op dinsdag 25 september 2007 om 23:01:

If you want to learn how to speak dutch, then you just have to mingle with dutch people!

I know that sounds easier said then done, but its the most easy way of learning. Because it kind of forces you to communicate with them. First, youll start in english of course, but eventually they could help you... And maybe if you could get a job as a translater im sure they'll be happy to help you learn dutch as well.

I dont know if you already tried some of these methods, but you can always give it a shot! Good luck with it!

thanks for your suggestion! I agree it's a good method! I tried to do it, but I need a lot of time in Holland to do it...as long as I stay in my country I cannot do it

just live in holland and it will come

oh, yes, very easy!!
I need to find a loooot of money, and then I could move there...but for now...I'm just studying, so no money

ah ha i see , then thats a problem , but if you want so bad then you ll find a solution for your self and good luck with that

Lmao, Seriously speaking dutch aint that hard, I'd say speaking english is alot harder even, Anyways.. Goodluck on learning it.

Wannabe dutch!