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| ChristianVlcek Bilingual Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5651 days ago 131 posts - 141 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Slovak*, Ukrainian, Irish, German, Russian | Message 1 of 10 18 January 2011 at 9:51am | IP Logged |
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What are the best book resources for learning Dutch? I've know that there's a Colloquial Dutch available, but I don't
know if it's any good. What's available for Dutch and what's the best? (in your opinion). Cheers! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5365 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 2 of 10 18 January 2011 at 9:11pm | IP Logged |
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I like the Michel Thomas Method Foundation and Advanced courses, Assimil's Dutch with Ease, the 1950s and 1990s Linguaphone offerings and a course by Prisma called Dutch for Self Study.
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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5493 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 3 of 10 19 January 2011 at 1:45am | IP Logged |
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The Colloquial book is actually quite good, in my opinion. I'm going through it right now as my primary textbook. It's by Bruce Donaldson, who's apparently a pretty big name in Dutch study. If you can get the audio too, it includes quite a few dialogues at natural speeds, which is very good for getting used to how the language is actually spoken.
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| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5666 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 4 of 10 19 January 2011 at 3:46am | IP Logged |
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I also like Colloquial Dutch. Note that there are two such books. The first by Donaldson alone and Colloquial Dutch 2 by Bodegom, Gerda and Donaldson.The two books complement each other.
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| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5360 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 5 of 10 19 January 2011 at 2:11pm | IP Logged |
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I'm only a beginner, but the Michel Thomas Foundation was excellent fun and really seems to have impregnated some basic phrases in my memory. The advanced course somehow didn't have quite the same magic, but it probably makes sense to do them both. It's not really advanced, more like volume 2. There are some basic essentials like the perfect tense and differences between de and het words in it.
Enjoying Assimil now, but too early to comment on the outcome. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| arturs Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 5071 days ago 278 posts - 408 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian, English | Message 6 of 10 20 January 2011 at 6:41am | IP Logged |
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The Teach Yourself Dutch also is very good!
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| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6921 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 7 of 10 21 January 2011 at 6:32am | IP Logged |
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I like 'Colloquial Dutch' too. The dialogues are fast right from the beginning, so they sound authentic. I'd already got myself attuned to the sounds of Dutch when I approched 'Colloquial' so I can't judge how easy or difficult the speed of Colloquial is if starting from scratch. I also downloaded 'Teach Yourself Dutch Conversation' from Audible, which is how I got used to hearing Dutch at first. Hugo's 'Dutch In Three Months' is another course I have used, and like.
Linguaphone did 2 Dutch courses to my knowledge - the older type with the chiseled faces from the 1950s and a more modern version that is all dialogues. I have the older one and it's fine. There is also an expensive offering from Gerdi Quist called 'Routledge Intensive Dutch' but the audio needs to be bought separately, and it's very expensive. My recommendation is to get the 'Teach Yourself Dutch' course and 'Colloquial Dutch.' Start with TY and then add Colloquial when you feel comfortable with TY. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ChristianVlcek Bilingual Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5651 days ago 131 posts - 141 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Slovak*, Ukrainian, Irish, German, Russian | Message 8 of 10 21 January 2011 at 6:31pm | IP Logged |
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Cheers everyone! I picked up Colloquial Dutch and the Assimil course the other day, so I'll start with those I think
and see where they take me. Teach Yourself and Dutch for Self Study also look quite good, so perhaps I'll add them at some point in the future if need be. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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