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Published: 25/07/2008

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Learn another language the way you learnt your own

You learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Dutch in the same way.

You'll stick with it because you'll love it

Use the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas.

This method works with your brain, helping you to build up your Dutch in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself.

You learn through listening and speaking without the pressure of writing or memorising.

You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably.

 

The NEW Dutch Foundation Course

• Learn another language the way you learnt your own

• Effective method - the Michel Thomas Method of language teaching works with the brain

• Motivating - live classroom situation with two students encourages you to learn with the students on the recording
• All-audio - the way you want to learn

• Pronunciation is gently - but effectively - corrected

• Reference booklet - accompanying booklet lists key phrases in English and Dutch

• Suite of progressive and complementary course components: Introductory, Foundation, Advanced and Vocabulary

• Sales record - the hugely successful Michel Thomas Method is applied to Dutch

Table of Contents:
It is: ‘het is’
Asking for agreement: ‘hè?’
not: ‘niet’
Question words: what: ‘wat?’
I: ‘ik’
I am drinking = I drink: ‘ik drink’
to + verb = verb + ‘en’
You: ‘je’
Yes/no questions
Question words: where: ‘waar’
Word order: trigger verbs send the 2nd verb to the end of the sentence
We: ‘we’
Can/able to: ‘kan/kun’
Good = well: ‘goed’
Question words: why: ‘waarom’
We: ‘we’: use the full verb (with ‘-en’)
How to express the present
Word order in questions
But: ‘maar’
Word order with ‘niet’
Him/her/me: ‘hem/haar/me’
I’m sorry: ‘het spijt me’
Must/have to: ‘moeten’
To know: ‘weten’+ ‘het’ (it)
How to express the present tense
Nothing/something: ‘niets/iets’
Because (for): ‘want’
they: ‘ze’
need: ‘nodig hebben’ (have needed)
Time expressions
Question words: how/what time: ‘hoe/hoe laat’
How to express the future (using present tense): are you coming? = will you come? = will you be coming?: ‘kom’
Patterns: words ending in ‘-ation’: ‘-atie’. For these words, ‘the’ is ‘de’.
He/she: ‘hij/ze’
Adjective endings: ‘-e’
An, a: ‘een’
Plural you (you all): ‘jullie’
Using ‘to go’ for future forms
To: ‘naar’
Where…to: ‘naartoe’
Commands; softening commands with ‘even’
Polite form of ‘you’: ‘u’; verb ‘+t’
You, he, she, it: verb ‘+t’ (the t-gang: ‘hij, ze, het, u’)
No ‘-t’ with ‘je’ in question forms
Polite requests with ‘even’
All: ‘allemaal’ (but never used on its own)
Her: ‘haar’
Noun plurals with ‘-en’
Gladly, with pleasure, like: ‘graag’
Stressed forms: you: ‘jij’; she: ‘zij’; they: ‘zij’
Me too = I too/So do we = we too
Would like: ‘wil graag’. ‘graag’ stays close to the verb it belongs to. No need for ‘graag’ in questions (would you like = do you want)
Add ‘on-’ to adjectives to make negative
‘wel’ for contrast; replaces the verb
To go home: ‘naar huis gaan’ vs. at home: ‘thuis’
Word order: time before place
Word order: no change when linking sentences with ‘en’ and ‘want’
Word order: ‘omdat-effect’: when linking sentences with ‘omdat’ the verb gets sent to the end
Question words: when: ‘wanneer’
Word order: question words in the middle of a sentence have the ‘omdat’ effect
Question words: who: ‘wie
Trigger verbs (send the other verb to the end): to be allowed/have permission: ‘mogen’
Diminutives: making words small, talking about objects affectionately: add ‘-je’
Reflexive verbs (to feel oneself good)
Not one, not a(ny), no: ‘geen’
Expressions using ‘to have’ instead of ‘to be’
To (for to, in order to): ‘om …te’
Two different words for ‘the’: ‘de’ and ‘het’
In Dutch: ‘in het Nederlands’
How to express ‘would/was supposed to’: I/you/he/she/it would: ‘ik/je/hij/ze/het zou’
If: ‘als’ (also has ‘omdat’ effect)
We/you (all)/they are allowed: ‘we/jullie/ze mogen’
‘If’ in English has two meanings - ‘in case’ or ‘whether’: ‘als’ or ‘of’
How to express ‘I have been …waiting’: present tense + ‘al/lang’
Revision of trigger verbs: can, want to, have to, be allowed
How to express the past tense
I/you/he/she/it could (was able): ‘ik/je/u/hij/ze/het kon’
We/you (all)/they could (were able): ‘we/jullie/ze konden’
Them: ‘ze’
I /he/she/it was, you were: ‘ik/je/u/hij/ze/het was’
We/you (all)/they were: ‘we/jullie/ze waren’
I /he/she/it was, you had: ‘ik/je/u/hij/ze/het had’
We/you (all)/they had: ‘we/jullie/ze hadden’
Word order: ‘niet’ usually comes after time phrases
To wait for: ‘wachten op’
I /you/he/she/it had to: ‘ik/je/u/hij/ze/het moest’
We/you (all)/they had to: ‘we/jullie/ze moesten’
How to express promise/commitment: I will/shall: I /you/he/she/it will: ‘ik/je/u/hij/ze/het zal’
We/you (all)/they will: ‘we/jullie/ze zullen’
I /you/he/she/it wanted: ‘ik/je/u/hij/ze/het wilde’
We/you (all)/they wanted: ‘we/jullie/ze wilden’
Words ending in ‘-atie’ often have corresponding verbs ending in ‘-eren’: ‘combinatie’ > ‘combineren’
To let/allow: ‘laten’; to have something done: ‘laten’
Verbs that can separate have the stress on the prefix
To go away: ‘weggaan’
To pick up/collect: ‘ophalen’
Verbs with prefixes that do not separate have the stress on the core verb
To repeat: ‘herhalen’
Statements like ‘I hope’, must be followed by ‘that’: dat’
‘dat’ in middle of sentence has the ‘omdat’effect
To express position - on it/in it: ‘erop/erin’
With it: ‘ermee’

About the Author(s):

Cobie Adkins-de Jong and Els Van Geyte are native Dutch speakers and experienced teachers of Dutch.

Cobie additionally used to teach German to adults at the Brasshouse Language Centre in Birmingham, while Els also teaches English as a Foreign Language at the University of Birmingham.

Readership:
Self-access course for adult beginners

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