FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6869 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French
| Message 49 of 54 31 August 2009 at 4:17pm | IP Logged |
Did 30 minutes on MT Advanced, upto track 15. I also bought two grammar exercise books, both with French as the language of instruction. I am working through the exercises. The first one was on de/het words, which wasn't very exciting, and then there was an exercise on how to form dimunitives (je). There was also an exercise on plurals, which can be tricky in Dutch.
Overall, I did about 50 minutes of Grammar exercises.
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FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6869 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French
| Message 50 of 54 14 September 2009 at 4:37pm | IP Logged |
Finished CD 3 of Michel Thomas. Then I did 20 minutes on Dutch verbs, and found a pattern
ijven - even
ijgen - egen
ijden - eden
ijken - eken
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FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6869 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French
| Message 51 of 54 14 September 2009 at 4:38pm | IP Logged |
Did 55 minutes of Dutch revision exercises from the Hugo Dutch in 3 Months. Struggled with preposition "er", word order of negation, and some past participles
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FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6869 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French
| Message 52 of 54 14 September 2009 at 4:41pm | IP Logged |
Around 42 hours done so far.
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FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6869 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French
| Message 53 of 54 28 September 2009 at 1:38pm | IP Logged |
Have done three hours over the past few days. I am reading Twilight in Dutch, and making a note of new words.
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elvisrules Tetraglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5473 days ago 286 posts - 390 votes Speaks: French, English*, Dutch, Flemish Studies: Lowland Scots, Japanese, German
| Message 54 of 54 17 February 2010 at 6:26pm | IP Logged |
FuroraCeltica wrote:
Finished CD 3 of Michel Thomas. Then I did 20 minutes on Dutch verbs, and found a pattern
ijven - even
ijgen - egen
ijden - eden
ijken - eken
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Those 'ij-'s look like Hollandic Dutch pronunciations to me. I would avoid them and pronounce them 'e-' like in Belgian Dutch.
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