Dutch

[ikzelf100]

I can count to ten in dutch thanks to some online trial or something...

 

 

 

een

 

 

 

twee

 

 

 

drie

 

 

 

vier

 

 

 

vijf

 

 

 

zes

 

 

 

zaven

 

 

 

acht

 

 

 

negan

 

 

 

tien

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ha! I can speak dutch, sort of \ \

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

no it is negen not negan and zeven not zaven

[ikzelf100]

aif you need any help on grammar i know most stuff perectly well and am quite good at explaining it but you can live 5 years in holland and still dont speak dutch good :cry: that hard language it is

[lunapasa]

Good luck, I think it's one of the most illogical languages in the world (I'm Dutch).

[knight10071]

I'm doing a bilangual course (Dutch/English) and it's true, the best option to learn a language is do as much as you can with it. Dutch is one of the hardest languages to learn for foreigners (sp?). If you want to talk with me, feel free to add me in rs (knight10071, just say that you're the "one learning dutch" and I'll know who you are, you can also add me on MSN (pm me for my adress) but I'm not on a lot.

[Markup]

I don't speak Dutch, but this will be my sixth year of learning French as a second language. After 5 continuous years, I mainly improve my skills by myself now (the school teaches it too slow). For speaking: listen to music in that language. Even if you don't understand it, get a feel of the accents, points of emphasis. Heck, I listen to Phantom of the Opera in French without understanding half, but it's helped with listening, and singing along (hmm) has definitely helped my speaking confidence. I'm not sure if it works as well with other languages, but yeah, worth a try.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phantom of the Opera, in French? Where did you get it from? I would sure like to listen to it :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~MAK

[Viktorkrum77]

 

I don't speak Dutch, but this will be my sixth year of learning French as a second language. After 5 continuous years, I mainly improve my skills by myself now (the school teaches it too slow). For speaking: listen to music in that language. Even if you don't understand it, get a feel of the accents, points of emphasis. Heck, I listen to Phantom of the Opera in French without understanding half, but it's helped with listening, and singing along (hmm) has definitely helped my speaking confidence. I'm not sure if it works as well with other languages, but yeah, worth a try.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phantom of the Opera, in French? Where did you get it from? I would sure like to listen to it :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~MAK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The DVD, put it in French. : Or use Amazon.com and find the French cast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I always thought Dutch was a fairly easy language, and German was the hard one, though they are somewhat similar. I looked into Dutch a little, and one of the first things they mentioned was that 't' rule, and said it's a very hard rule to catch on to. Reminds me of 'ett' and 'en' words in Swedish, again, not easy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you have an iPod, try downloading Dutch podcasts. They are usually free. Itunes also has Dutch radio you can listen to for free.

[vmser]

Vmser, can you speak Flemish?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's my native language.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

West-Flemish to be precise, with a fair bit of french influence.

[vmser]

 

 

 

I always thought Dutch was a fairly easy language, and German was the hard one, though they are somewhat similar. I looked into Dutch a little, and one of the first things they mentioned was that 't' rule, and said it's a very hard rule to catch on to. Reminds me of 'ett' and 'en' words in Swedish, again, not easy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They are fairly alike in vocabulary and such, but german still uses falls whereas dutch doesn't except in some old expressions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However, when it comes to grammar german has set rules whereas dutch is full of exceptions. German seems harder if you are not used to falls. (which is they key difficulty for dutch people when learning german, to be honest).

[Unrealevil]

Well, I picked up some Dutch when I was playing some older games. And to me, Dutch is misspelt German. XD I find German to be a little easy though. :P

[One Too Far]

 

 

I don't speak Dutch, but this will be my sixth year of learning French as a second language. After 5 continuous years, I mainly improve my skills by myself now (the school teaches it too slow). For speaking: listen to music in that language. Even if you don't understand it, get a feel of the accents, points of emphasis. Heck, I listen to Phantom of the Opera in French without understanding half, but it's helped with listening, and singing along (hmm) has definitely helped my speaking confidence. I'm not sure if it works as well with other languages, but yeah, worth a try.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phantom of the Opera, in French? Where did you get it from? I would sure like to listen to it :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~MAK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The DVD, put it in French. : Or use Amazon.com and find the French cast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I always thought Dutch was a fairly easy language, and German was the hard one, though they are somewhat similar. I looked into Dutch a little, and one of the first things they mentioned was that 't' rule, and said it's a very hard rule to catch on to. Reminds me of 'ett' and 'en' words in Swedish, again, not easy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you have an iPod, try downloading Dutch podcasts. They are usually free. Itunes also has Dutch radio you can listen to for free.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ah yep the hard one try the word t'kofschip (looks like a dutch word) and take the consonant out of it and then look if the word got one of those at the end in normal vorm (stam) and then with a few exeptions you get it right

[matie93]

gl with that, im dutch and make lots of faults in the grammar.

 

 

 

why ure learning a language that only like around 25milion people speek (belgium and holland) :?:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the `t` rule is realy hard, almost everyone makes lots of faults in that.

 

 

 

i now understand that rule pretty good :) #-o

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

its one of the hardest languages to lern.

 

 

 

gl :lol:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

veel succes daarmee, kun je al wat nederlands praten dan?

 

 

 

sorry voor de typfouten, ik ben 13 dus.... +) :boohoo:

[One Too Far]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

veel succes daarmee, kun je al wat nederlands praten dan?

 

 

 

sorry voor de typfouten, ik ben 13 dus.... +) :boohoo:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

forgot the rules you need to transalte al your other non english langeus senteces to english as good as you can

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

he said: good luck with it, can you speak some dutch already? sorry for typing mistakes im 13 so....

[ikzelf100]

de t at the end of words rule isnt the hardest one as many said here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the most difficult is the difference between de or het in front of a word

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

english people only got the

 

 

 

and in french and german words are menly of womenly, so the get standard on of the possibilities in front of them.

 

 

 

but in dutch there isnt a rule for that every word just got de or het infront and you got to feel when to use de or het nobody can teach you that.

 

 

 

you can try learning it but that would just involve learning every word in the dictionary and learn if it has de or het in front of it

[woopidoo2]

Hehe, good luck on learning dutch =D>

 

 

 

(Why are you learning dutch, by the way? :? :) )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alot of europeans (mostly belgians) say that Dutch is a very harsh language. When you compare it to French, I know what they meen. :P

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the 'learning French' issue, I think everyone who goes to highschool learns french in the first 3 years. After that, they can choose wether they keep the language (and learn more) or not. So every student knows a little bit french, the very basics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personally, I have the hardest kind of German, and an easier form of French. German looks alot like Dutch, so it isnt that hard.

 

 

 

(And yes, I choose all those languages because I am very bad at maths :-w )

[beanonator]

According to my teachers Dutch is one of the more difficult languages. My suggestion would either be;

 

 

 

-Take a cursus

 

 

 

-Come to my place :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think its gonna take you awhile if your gonna give a try to selfstudy. Do you have any progress for now? If you have the basics, its just practice after that, I have a scandinavian friend who lived for over a year in Belgium now, and he still doesn't have perfect Dutch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wish you the best of luck to learn my beautifull language =D> .

[maxdout4life]

iam dutch, lets learn you some basic words:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i-ik(say ick)

 

 

 

cheese-kaas(say...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ah leave this follow a cursus or something iam bad in this lolo

[hephaistos50]

First of all, I would like to wish you good luck!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The road might be long and tough, but I'm sure you'll get there eventually.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Like others said before me, it's best to focus on it 24/7, try to watch the DVDs you have that include Dutch subtitles ( I doubt any will have Dutch

 

 

 

subtitles , but you could always give it a try :) ) or listen to Dutch radio. Most Dutch radio stations have a portal on their website(the sites are completely dutch though...). Most songs are English, but some are Dutch and all people who broadcast the shows obviously speak Dutch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

links to some dutch radio stations(don't click them if you don't trust me :wink:,

 

 

 

but probably all Dutch people can confirm that they are perfectly safe):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://radio538.nl/538/media/player/index.jsp?cat=radio&via=hp

 

 

 

http://specials.skyradio.nl/sky_radio_player/player.html

 

 

 

http://www.3fm.nl/page/3fm_smallliveplayer/breedband

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A site that offers Dutch documentaries and online television is http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl

 

 

 

They have a great documentary about WoW, how Chinese farmers come the

 

 

 

city and make their money by training accounts for people in Europe and

 

 

 

the U.S. http://player.omroep.nl/?aflID=3651206&md5=cca87cfa01123bb957e6b0700e636d27

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most of my knowledge of the English language comes from cartoons( :lol: ) and

 

 

 

documentaries that I've watched when I was younger (I'm 14 now).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Irregular verbs and such will probably be the hardest to understand and also good luck with those nasty " -t" words where everyone here is talking

 

 

 

about.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn't there anyone in your family who still speaks a little bit of Dutch? If so maybe they can help you a bit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally I would like to tell you that some Dutch words tend to charge every

 

 

 

couple of years :? (who makes up those things?!) and even natives make a lot of mistakes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you have any questions, feel free to PM here or ingame, but due to the

 

 

 

time difference I'll probably be offline all time when you are on :|.

[krunkthemonk]

I just realized that the Dutch Angels are gone.When did this happen? Did it even make a return once these new boards opened up?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My moms half Dutch yet she doesn't speak any. This topic has [bleep]ed my interest. :D

[One Too Far]

First of all, I would like to wish you good luck!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The road might be long and tough, but I'm sure you'll get there eventually.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Like others said before me, it's best to focus on it 24/7, try to watch the DVDs you have that include Dutch subtitles ( I doubt any will have Dutch

 

 

 

subtitles , but you could always give it a try :) ) or listen to Dutch radio. Most Dutch radio stations have a portal on their website(the sites are completely dutch though...). Most songs are English, but some are Dutch and all people who broadcast the shows obviously speak Dutch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

links to some dutch radio stations(don't click them if you don't trust me :wink:,

 

 

 

but probably all Dutch people can confirm that they are perfectly safe):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://radio538.nl/538/media/player/index.jsp?cat=radio&via=hp

 

 

 

http://specials.skyradio.nl/sky_radio_player/player.html

 

 

 

http://www.3fm.nl/page/3fm_smallliveplayer/breedband

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A site that offers Dutch documentaries and online television is http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl

 

 

 

They have a great documentary about WoW, how Chinese farmers come the

 

 

 

city and make their money by training accounts for people in Europe and

 

 

 

the U.S. http://player.omroep.nl/?aflID=3651206&md5=cca87cfa01123bb957e6b0700e636d27

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most of my knowledge of the English language comes from cartoons( :lol: ) and

 

 

 

documentaries that I've watched when I was younger (I'm 14 now).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Irregular verbs and such will probably be the hardest to understand and also good luck with those nasty " -t" words where everyone here is talking

 

 

 

about.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn't there anyone in your family who still speaks a little bit of Dutch? If so maybe they can help you a bit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally I would like to tell you that some Dutch words tend to charge every

 

 

 

couple of years :? (who makes up those things?!) and even natives make a lot of mistakes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you have any questions, feel free to PM here or ingame, but due to the

 

 

 

time difference I'll probably be offline all time when you are on :|.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yep al those links are perfectly safe 3 very wel know radio stations in holland

[Necromagus]

It's still there, with the other private boards.

[Oy_the_Great]

Vmser, can you speak Flemish?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:-s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flemish isn't a language. The Flemish are the people living in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, where 60% of Belgium's inhabitants live and they all speak Dutch. But of course we all have our dialects. The language changes slightly every +-10 miles, varying from uncomprehensible west-flemish (eh Vmser? :)) to Antwerpian, which is what I speak, to something that sounds more like German than Dutch.

[vmser]

 

Vmser, can you speak Flemish?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:-s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flemish isn't a language. The Flemish are the people living in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, where 60% of Belgium's inhabitants live and they all speak Dutch. But of course we all have our dialects. The language changes slightly every +-10 miles, varying from uncomprehensible west-flemish (eh Vmser? :)) to Antwerpian, which is what I speak, to something that sounds more like German than Dutch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flemish is roughly a group of dutch dialects I guess. It's easy enough to tell apart the dutch from the flemish by the way they speak. Hence Flemish being labelled as a language. It's just that my dialect has like the least similarities to what would be called 'brabants', which was originally THE reference for the use of Dutch in Flanders. But you cannot force a language upon someone...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's almost similar to 'Fries' in holland: It's no official language that gets taught in schools across the country, but it is actually spoken... In a fair few varieties. That's what happens if you put a small country between Dutch, french AND german speaking countries...

[Robert_Rdam]

Ooh goodluck with that, Dutch is quite hard to learn as a second language. I'm dutch myself O:)

[Robert_Rdam]

Sorry double post :? :x

[Celt23]

The only Dutch I know is for communicating to Dutch players in RS, "Ik spreekt nee nederlands!" ("I speak no Dutch")

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I recommend Rosetta Stone all the way for language learning.