Alanon Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Ok, so I'm attending a Dutch course at my university as an assisted language. I've been learning it for less than six months, and I'm already required to know my produce, family relations, household sh*t, future, present, potential, pronouns, sentence construction, articles, orthography... and I'm feeling like I'm falling behind what is the maximum grade. Almost all other students are also studying German, and they instinctively know 70% of the words, even before I get the chance to write them down, we move on. I mostly get the grammar and stuff, but have great trouble in meeting the standards set by the voluminous number of words I'm required to know. We're expected to achieve A1 level by the end of May. O.oI'm looking for any grammar, dictionary, vocabulary, with relations to and explanations in English. I gather any comparison would be helpful to me. As I see many Dutch people on Nsane, I hope some of you guys could help me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest maut Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 well.. I'm dutch.. what do you want to know? ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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shought Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Our statistics show a lot of Dutch people here indeed, including me (kind of). I don't have anything 'generic' though, do you have any specific questions? Words is just 'stamping them in', Dutch grammar is a bitch, but don't worry; just like the Americans half of the Dutch population makes grotesque mistakes, even in creating simple constructions. (Then again your teacher probably won't accept that as an excuse :P) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Dutch grammar is not that hard, really. It's a lot easier than german and maybe even easier than english since we don't have so many verb tenses; word order can be a pain but it can be learned, there are rules to learn them and no exceptions. The plurals are not as easy as in english but much easier than german or french. You will also find that the most used words in day to day speach are similar to english and that the way the english and dutch words divirged from their common origin happened in a mostly regular way, so can learn to transform english words to dutch (although the other way around is much easier)I guess dutch is harder to learn than spanish or portuguese but much easier than german and about as easy or just a little bit harder than english. It certainly is much easier than slavic languages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanon Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 Our statistics show a lot of Dutch people here indeed, including me (kind of).I don't have anything 'generic' though, do you have any specific questions?Words is just 'stamping them in', Dutch grammar is a bitch, but don't worry; just like the Americans half of the Dutch population makes grotesque mistakes, even in creating simple constructions. (Then again your teacher probably won't accept that as an excuse :P)I wasn't aware tha mistakes were that common. O.o I always wondered why English is so prevalent with you guys (I mean as much as or more frequent than your native language)?Dutch grammar is not that hard, really. It's a lot easier than german and maybe even easier than english since we don't have so many verb tenses; word order can be a pain but it can be learned, there are rules to learn them and no exceptions. The plurals are not as easy as in english but much easier than german or french. You will also find that the most used words in day to day speach are similar to english and that the way the english and dutch words divirged from their common origin happened in a mostly regular way, so can learn to transform english words to dutch (although the other way around is much easier)I guess dutch is harder to learn than spanish or portuguese but much easier than german and about as easy or just a little bit harder than english. It certainly is much easier than slavic languages.Well... I guess I'm used to Slavic languages (connecting the dots, similar words, etymology, phrasing, etc...). The declinations can be and are a bitch, but having a Slavic language as a native one helps a lot, while I'm pretty much lost with the German model. That's why I think some grammar or dialogue e-books in English might be helpful. :dunno: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 I have no idea why English is (apparently?) so prevalent over here... I did a lot of hard work to get where I am now, primarily watching the Power Rangers when I was young (subtitled, not dubbed, obviously) :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanon Posted March 14, 2013 Author Share Posted March 14, 2013 I have no idea why English is (apparently?) so prevalent over here...I did a lot of hard work to get where I am now, primarily watching the Power Rangers when I was young (subtitled, not dubbed, obviously) :PWhile we're approaching cultural curiosities, do you guys really practice the one warm meal a day rule, or is it an urban myth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 I have no idea why English is (apparently?) so prevalent over here... I did a lot of hard work to get where I am now, primarily watching the Power Rangers when I was young (subtitled, not dubbed, obviously) :PWhile we're approaching cultural curiosities, do you guys really practice the one warm meal a day rule, or is it an urban myth?We do. It's uncommon, but not unheard of, to have more than one warm meal a day. A little of topic though :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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