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Everyday Dutch

Pronunciation - Vowels Review - Consonants Review - Spelling -
NEWLY REVISED: Learning Dutch? Suggested Method / Strict Lessons Program
Problems in Dutch Spelling and Pronunciation
Exercises: Pronunciation - Listening

One of my French teachers in school (Dr Sneijders de Vogel) often said: "Een woordenboek is een leugenboek," hear (A dictionary is a book full of lies.) Many words have multiple meanings, but in these pages usually only one will be given. Please consider the context: the meaning will be in the same field as the words around it.

The Everyday Dutch Word List Qualifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs Man, Animals, The Mind and Body Tools, Materials, Buildings, House & Home Transportation, Agriculture, Food Miscellaneous (Time, Weather, Qualities) Media, Science Business, Government, Military The Little Words You'll Need Most #1 The Little Words You'll Need Most #2 The Little Words You'll Need Most #3 The Little Words Alphabetically (English to Dutch) The House Prepositions Review The Little Words Alphabetically (Dutch to English) Everyday Verbs Movement, Operations (More Verbs) Pictures with Words menu Colors and Materials Meals - Food - Kitchen The Outdoors - The House Traffic - Necessities Clothes - Cleanliness & Beauty Grammar Verbs Personal Pronouns Word Order (Sentences) For Travelers and Visitors Useful Words and Phrases More Food Words Numbers, Time, Days etc. Conversation Subjects NEW: Medical The Dutch Family NEW: Family Tree Dutch Birthday Words of Religion Maps of The Netherlands Weights and Measures Compared - slow connections & printer version Hear Dutch Names NEW: 'Dutch' First Names 17th Century Sailors and Ships Vermeer's World Rembrandt Old New York A Mixed Bag of Names and Words The Diary of Anne Frank Hear Dutch Names from Books Look at Maps and Hear Names from Operation Market Garden ('The Bridge too Far') Poems and Songs Short Stories For Advanced Students Exceptions to Phonetic Spelling Vowel lengthening before R The L in Dutch The W in Dutch

Meet Fun People Speaking Dutch Visitors to these pages have asked to hear my natural voice: microphone - airplane my name - 2 (Pictures by Peter Schuffelen)

jong oud nieuw hear (young) (old) (new) de / het / 't hear (the - the definite article) (de) pen (het) potlood (het) papier (de) inkt lezen schrijven hear (pen) (pencil) (paper) (ink) (to read) in full (to write) in full zijn ik ben jij bent hij is wij zijn jullie zijn zij zijn U bent hear to be I am you are (singular) he is we are you are (plural) they are you are (polite) (de) vrijheid (de) gelijkheid (de) broederschap hear - take 2 (liberty) (equality) (brotherhood) (de) democratie (de) verkiezingen hear (democracy) (elections) (de) tolerantie (het) respect hear (tolerance) (respect) tot ziens tot gauw hear (see you) (see you soon) In die tijd hadden we allemaal lang haar. (p14)

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Somewhere in Texas, 1989 or 1990

The selection of everyday words was based in large part on C.K. Ogden's Basic English, which in the 1920s proposed a list of 850 very carefully chosen words that would be sufficient for most communication.

Why Dutch?
I think Dutch is the most beautiful and most sensible language, but even within Holland that is a minority view. Of course I know only a few languages. Maybe Classical Greek is more beautiful? Latin more sensible?
Nederlands is een mooie taal ... - hear - (Dutch is a beautiful language ....)
... maar misschien niet om te zingen. - hear - (... but maybe not for singing.)
hear in full, with sample - more examples: 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6A - 6B - Poems and Better Singing

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Don't be a dief (thief) / dievegge (female thief) - diefstal (theft) - stelen (to steal) - heler (dealer in stolen goods) - hear Dutch - 2