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Advancing in German and Dutch

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polyglossus
Bilingual Pentaglot
Newbie
United States
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6 posts - 7 votes
Speaks: English*, Portuguese*, Spanish, Catalan, French
Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese, Arabic (Written), Dutch, Swedish, Greek, Latin

 
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21 August 2009 at 12:49am | IP Logged 
Just a bit of background: I've been studying German (sixth language) for about nine to ten months and Dutch
(seventh language) for about four months. I can speak the basics of Dutch and I have a late-beginner grasp in
German grammar. I've been teaching myself German completely through online resources (I'm quite surprised at
how much I've achieved, actually) and Dutch as well, but since I've lately felt the need to advance in my skill in both
languages, I'm strongly considering purchasing an actual physical book.

I've been eyeing "Teach Yourself Improve Your German" and "Teach Yourself Dutch" to get further ahead. What do
you think of these courses? Would you recommend any other courses (I already have "Hugo's Dutch in 3 Months"
but I'm going to be away from it for a while)?
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Margarita
Diglot
Newbie
Netherlands
Joined 5583 days ago

19 posts - 22 votes
Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2

 
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25 August 2009 at 1:53pm | IP Logged 
Hi,

I am Dutch myself I am teaching a friend Dutch and for that reason looked thru some Dutch study material. I think the CD's of Michel Thomas are quite good for Dutch. Ofcourse you dont learn to read or write but spelling is tought on the Cd's and there is much emphasis on contructing sentences.

Studieplan.nl is a Dutch website that sells languagecourses for foreigners. http://www.studieplan.nl/leereentaal/anderstaligen/dutch_for _foreigners.html This one is specificly for Englishspeakers but it is quite expensive. I think you can expect more frrom it though since it has books + CD's and also teaches about the culture.

If you want to learn very accurately and fluent try this: http://www.nha.nl/index.asp?page=/talen/cursusinfo/cursusinf o_founl.asp&cm_mmc_o=VV2CjC7BBTkwCjCdBAfkBBl%20W1CjCgAylAl%2 0EwpwykzEpl its expensive but you can send in homework for all the chapters and get them evaluated by a teacher and you can ask questions via e-mail.

Here's a link with English books for learning dutch sold in our country: http://www.bol.com/nl/s/boeken-engels/zoekresultaten/N/2730+ 5260+1283+1285+7373+4294946011/No/0/Ntt/dutch/Ntk/ukus_books _all/Ntx/mode+matchallpartial/index.html

Let me know if I can help you with Dutch.
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