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geoffw
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13 November 2014 at 2:14am | IP Logged

beano wrote:

Dutch seems to be a halfway house between German and English. Someone who is native in one
of these languages and strong in the other would acquire Dutch rapidly.

I can attest to this. Gaining reading and listening ability is not trivial and still requires non-negligible time, but is
very practical to achieve with little pain, assuming you put in good time.
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Fuenf_Katzen
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15 November 2014 at 11:19pm | IP Logged

I haven't done this with Dutch, but rather Afrikaans (though in full disclosure, I deliberately have kept it to reading and listening for now). I would estimate my German at being in the upper B range when I first started. I definitely did NOT study on a daily basis, but I found after about 30 days I was pretty confident in being able to read and listen to the language.
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Anubis
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07 January 2015 at 6:29pm | IP Logged

I studied German last year, and started in 01/01/2015 dutch. I find dutch very close to German.
However, you may check Assimil "Niederländisch ohne Mühe heute" Dutch for German speaker. In each lesson, there is a dialogue in Dutch, and on the opposite side has the German transcript.
Here is the book <http://fr.assimil.com/methodes/niederlaendisch-ohne-mueh e-heute>, and you may get i from Amazon too.

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