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| Daniel J Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4183 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 9 of 12 24 June 2013 at 9:13pm | IP Logged |
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Hello there everyone!
Sorry for the delay in posting - had a lot to do over the weekend - but thankfully I managed to get a bit of language related stuff done today. To those saying this project is perhaps too big, I would completely agree - I am not under any illusions that I am going to become fluent in them all in the space of 3 months for example. Some I shall only 'dabble' in, the others will be given more energy and attention. So as for today? Dutch I started the first of 10 lessons of 'Earworms Rapid Dutch 1', and I have to say that this method sounds promising at the moment! To those of you no so familar with the brand, one basically repeats words and phrases in a Pimsleur sort of style to the sound of great music in the background. Its pretty basic stuff, but a great start nonetheless. I managed to learn the first track off by heart until earlier, but I think I have retained a fair bit anyways. Please bear in mind that this course is aural only, so apologies if my Dutch spelling is atrocious: Ik wil graag - I will have I want - Ik wil een koffie - a coffee met - with milk - melk Ik will graag en coffee met milk - I'll have a coffee with milk Please - alstublieft Sugar - suiker Tea - thee Water - Water Mineral water - Mineraalwater Can I have the menu? - Kan Ik de menukaart hebben? Something to eat - iets eten Great! - Prima! Thank you - Dank U I apologise for this rather lame introduction, but things will hopefully pick up from this slow start! Dank U! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5215 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 12 26 June 2013 at 5:22am | IP Logged |
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Welcome to the forums, Daniel J. I myself am only at an A2 or so level in French, but find that it's enough of
a base to enable me to move from "course work" to native material: podcasts, websites, magazine and newpaper articles, films, books in French (with either copies of the same books translated to/from English to use as parallel texts), etc. If you're B1 and have been recently studying French in school, you should certainly find it much (and enviably) easier to do the same. Everyone has different approaches, of course, and you'll no doubt find what works best for you, but may I echo G-bod's suggestion to devote less time to course books? - Especially as you'll already be doing a lot of "study" with the other languages. - Make time for some "fun" stuff: you will still be learning a lot, while at the same time enjoying yourself! Edited by songlines on 26 June 2013 at 5:26am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4709 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 11 of 12 26 June 2013 at 6:59am | IP Logged |
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Hey, ambitious plan! Awesome. On top of that, it's always great to see another Dutch
learner on this forum. One note on your course - it seems to be teaching you the more formal register of Dutch (with "u" instead of "je" or "jij") right now. You can't go wrong with that but it's not necessary. :-) Veel succes (best of luck)! I'll be following your progress with interest. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4713 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 12 of 12 26 June 2013 at 4:05pm | IP Logged |
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U is never capitalised unless it starts a sentence. It used to be, years ago, but it's
not anymore. In Belgium I'd stick with u but not in the Netherlands in general. Unless you're talking to your boss, your professor, or a customer. And I can use je/jij with my supervisors at uni. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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