tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 201 of 213 08 April 2014 at 7:28pm | IP Logged |
thanks :)
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Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4695 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian
| Message 202 of 213 08 April 2014 at 9:07pm | IP Logged |
April marks the end of 2014's first quarter, so I thought it'd be nice to have this month's challenge be a reflective one. For this challenge, honestly assess how far you've come since the beginning of the year and share what you're proud of having accomplished as well as any challenges. You can do this in your log, but please also post a copy of your self-assessment in our team thread.
Suzie - Yes, I can get lost on there for hours and hours... :)
tristano wrote:
Hello...
I'm back! I restarted studying Dutch :) |
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Welcome back!!
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Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4695 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian
| Message 203 of 213 22 April 2014 at 5:14pm | IP Logged |
Welcome back from the DNS outage, all. :-)
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Suzie Diglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4221 days ago 155 posts - 226 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Dutch
| Message 204 of 213 03 May 2014 at 12:09pm | IP Logged |
Just wanted to share with you a little summary/review of the one Dutch book I have read so far this year. I am quoting the post from my log.
De tweeling (Tessa de Loo)
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Two little twin sisters, born during World War I in Germany, get separated from each other at the age of 6. While one girl stays in Germany, the other moves to the Netherlands. Losing contact to each other, both live their lives, before finally meeting again, by chance, at old age. It is the story of one shared root and two different fates - one in the country responsible for the Shoa and World War II, and one in the role of the victims who suffered from that. Having developed strong feelings against the Germans, the Dutch twin has immense difficulties to overcome her hatred to warm up to her lost sister. The thoughts during a sleepless night of the German twin summarize the book quite well :
"Als wij tweeën niet over al die barrières heen kunnen stappen, hoe moeten anderen dat dan doen?"
(If the two of us cannot overcome these barriers, how should anyone else be able to do so?) |
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Unfortunately, I think this book is not suitable for beginners of Dutch, but requires more advanced knowledge. Even I had some trouble at times, which I usually do not face (as - since German and Dutch are so unbelievably close, I usually don't come across unknown vocabulary that often). Nevertheless, I really do recommend to read this book.
Those of you who have registered for the Super Challenge - all the best! I have only registered for French so far, but still intend to continue to read in Dutch, even if I will not be able to complete a half challenge....
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 205 of 213 03 June 2014 at 12:57am | IP Logged |
Hoi allemaal, hoe gaat het?
Ik ben niet de beste groupman van de historie; sorry vor dat.
Ik blijf mijn massief germaanse input methode gebruiken: in dit moment leer ik
nederlands, duits, noors en ijslandisch (de laatste voor meijn binnenkort reizen naar
Ijsland!). Ik lees nu De Alchemist van Paulo Coelho en ben ik met het bijna klaar.
En hoe gaat het met jullie?
(sorry voor mijn vele fouten! Dit is de eerste keer iets schrijf na veel tijd en is mijn
methode alleen passief, zo geen grammatica voor nu)
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Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4695 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian
| Message 206 of 213 08 August 2014 at 2:54am | IP Logged |
tristano wrote:
Hoi allemaal, hoe gaat het?
Ik ben niet de beste groupman van de historie; sorry vor dat.
Ik blijf mijn massief germaanse input methode gebruiken: in dit moment leer ik
nederlands, duits, noors en ijslandisch (de laatste voor meijn binnenkort reizen naar
Ijsland!). Ik lees nu De Alchemist van Paulo Coelho en ben ik met het bijna klaar.
En hoe gaat het met jullie?
(sorry voor mijn vele fouten! Dit is de eerste keer iets schrijf na veel tijd en is
mijn
methode alleen passief, zo geen grammatica voor nu) |
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Haha, geen zorgen! Je tekst
leest heel goed, aangezien dat je niet vaak in het nederlands schrijft. Hoe vind je je
boek? Ik heb gehoord dat dat een prachtige roman is.
As you can see from my two-month-late reply, my TAC hasn't been the greatest. :P Sorry
everyone for disappearing. Currently catching up on everyone's posts, but I hope
everyone's summer is going well, and I'll have
an update up on my log today.
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4039 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 207 of 213 09 August 2014 at 3:45pm | IP Logged |
Hoi Hekje,
dank je wel.
Ik heb het boek in het internet gevonden en ik gebruik het Kindle te lezen.
Ik vind het boek mooi, maar ik verstond alleen de dertig percent. Een vriend gaf me de franse versie van dat boek,
zo ga ik het opnieuw in het franse oplezen.
Ik begon na mijn vakanties in IJsland de grammatica met Babbel en Duolingo studeren. Ik vind hen erg nuttig.
Tijdens de hele maand van Augustus, ga ik allen Nederlands als vremde taal studeren.
Mijn TAC is niet het ook het beste ;) Ik hoop je vakantie prima ook gaan.
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Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4695 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian
| Message 208 of 213 10 August 2014 at 11:49pm | IP Logged |
Heej, als je maar dertig procent begrijpt is dat toch wel leuk, want ik weet dat je andere talen ook bestudeert.
Herlezen in het Frans zal je zeket helpen.
Hoe heerlijk dat je op vakantie in IJsland bent! Bevalt het je?
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