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Published: 27/02/2009

Extent: 5 Hrs

Series: Michel Thomas Series

 

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Summary:

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 Advanced Course

A five-hour, 100% audio method for taking y

• 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:
Introduction
Stressed object pronouns: with you/with them: met jou/voor hen
Expressing possession: mine/whose: van mij, jou, van wie
Let's, shall we: laten we, zullen we
Past plural tenses of modal verbs: mochten, zouden
Expressing specific position: to lie, to stand: liggen, staan
Positive v negative determiners: wel>niet
Phrases with fixed prepositions: I am looking forward to it: ik kijk ernaar uit
Inversion: not starting a sentences with the subject: Dat weet ik al
Starting sentences with sub-clauses: het is goed, denk ik/als je wil, wacht ik
Expressing 'might': ik doe het misschien
Clauses with separable verbs: I hope he'll collect it: Ik hoop dat hij het ophaalt
Expressing 'used to/in the past': Alles was beter vroeger
Expressing: 'I remember when': Ik weet nog toen
Comparatives: better (than you): beter (dan jij)
Superlatives: het was de warmste dag
Past tense; perfect tense with 'to have': ik heb het gezegd/gemaakt
Pluperfect: I had learnt it: ik had het geleerd
Past participles of verbs starting with unstressed syllables, eg 'her, ont, be' do not have 'ge' in front of them
Perfect tense with detachable and non-detachable prefixes: herhaald, opgehaald
Irregular past participles (the 'geven' box): gegeven, gewassen
Vowel patterns in past verb forms: 'i' to 'o' beginnen>begonnen
Perfect tense with modals: ik heb het willen/kunnen/moeten/mogen doen
Pluperfect with modals: ik had het niet willen/kunnen/moeten/ mogen doen
Expressing prediction/expectation: Hij zal het (wel) doen
Passives: it is/was beautifully made: het is/ was mooi gemaakt
Two ways of expressing 'would have' (conditional perfect): Ik had het gevraagd/ik zou het gevraagd hebben
Expressing 'should/need to', using 'moeten': je moet het proberen
Expressing 'should have': je had het moeten doen
Expressing: 'not having to/not needing to': 'niet hoeven te' - je hoeft het niet te doen
Would be able /could = Ik zou het morgen kunnen kopen
Would have been able to/could have: -ik had het kunnen kopen/Would have been allowed: had mogen/Would have had to: had moeten/Would have wanted: had willen
To become/to get: 'worden' Het wordt warm
Past tense of worden (“became/got”): werd/werden
Perfect tense with 'to be' (verbs of motion, change): ik ben gegaan
Word order: ik geef het hem vs ik geef hem het boek
Polite commands: Gaat u zitten
There is: er ligt, er staat
It is/they are: het is/het zijn
Gender: het, hij
Pronouns: het, hem
Who: een man die, een kind dat…
Using verbs as nouns: eten (het-words)
Adjective endings after 'a' or no 'a': een leuke dag, een leuk dagje, leuke dagen
To live: wonen vs leven
Simple past (imperfect) – I lived/used to live: Ik woonde
Passive structures with 'zijn' and 'worden' e.g.: it has become – het is geworden, het wordt/werd gewassen/is gewassen

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 improvers

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