[The Face of Dutch]

Hear Dutch Here

[Marco Speaking Dutch]
The Speaking Dutchman click to hear

Everyday Dutch Words for basic conversation and reading
Dutch: Useful Words and Phrases for Travelers
Learning Dutch? Lessons (Suggested Method)
Dutch Words with Pictures:
NEW: Colors - Bicycling - Chess
Conversation Subjects
Sailors and Ships of The 17th Century
"Michiel de Ruyter - 'Bestevaer'" click to hear
Old New York
"Peter Stuyvesant" click to hear - "Adriaen van der Donck" click to hear
Rembrandt
"Rembrandt van Rijn" click to hear
Vermeer
"Johannes Vermeer" click to hear "Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek" click to hear
NEW: Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl
"Anne Frank: Het Achterhuis" click to hear
A Mixed Bag of Names and Words
"Andreas Cornelis 'Dries' van Kuijk" click to hear
(Elvis manager 'Colonel Parker')
NEW: Hear Dutch Names from Books
NEW: Look at Maps and Hear Names from
Operation Market Garden ('The Bridge too Far')
The Dutch in Sports
Hebrew Words in Dutch
"Nieges Negus, naches nog'es" click to hear
Cognates: English, Dutch and German Words
from A Common Root
"free - vrij - frei" click to hear
Dutch Pronunciation and Spelling
"roerloos" click to hear - "Hoenderloo" click to hear
"Ben je helemaal geschuffeld!" click to hear
"heten heetten laden laadden" click to hear
"latten laten metten meten motten moten" click to hear
Exercises: Pronunciation - NEW: Listening
Dutch Vowel Sounds Compared
Dutch Consonants Review
NEW: Problems in Dutch Spelling and Pronunciation

[map] [map]
Maps of the Netherlands with Names Spoken - "Nederland" click to hear
"Denkend aan Holland
zie ik brede rivieren traag door oneindig laagland gaan ..." click to hear
(Thinking of Holland
I see wide rivers flow slowly through lowlands without end ...)
Dutch Poems and Prose Read (with English Translation)

[a picture]
boerderij click to hear - farmhouse in Steenderen (Bronckhorst), Gelderland

[a picture]
molen click to hear - windmill in Steenderen (Bronckhorst), Gelderland
pictures by Peter Schuffelen

[A Dutch flag on the edge of a puddle of water]
colors, materials 		[A plate of fava beans, with bacon and potatoes]
meals 		[a handful of Brussels sprouts]
food 		[small saucepan: lidded pot with a stick handle]
kitchen		 [Me riding a bicycle]
bicycles 		[Cows in a meadow]
animals 		[a variety of items]
more
US and Metric Weights and Measures Compared
[a diagram comparing kilos and pounds]
Inches to centimeters, yards to meters, miles to kilometers, fluid ounces to milliliters, gallons to liters, ounces to grams, pounds to kilograms, and Celsius to Fahrenheit - compare - (slow connections version)

Hear Frisian
"... Dutch was a actually foreign language to us." click to hear
Frisian Page

Limburg Dialect Der Koehp va Hehle In De Sjlag va Waterloo - slow connections
(no soundfiles (yet))

Reading
My Favorite Books
List of Books Read: fiction - nonfiction - science fiction

Writing (Short Stories)
Last Christmas in Siberia '... the camp idiot pointed to the plane in the sky and said: "The medium is the message."'
Christmas under The Crescent
Going to Pieces/Pulp (dual-language)
Editing Graphics for The Blind

Pictorial Overview - Manual

[a thumbnail of an inkprint of a braille drawing]
not bad 		[a thumbnail of an inkprint of a braille drawing]
better 		[a thumbnail of an inkprint of a braille drawing]
wrong 		[a thumbnail of an inkprint of a braille drawing]
right
[a picture of an empty table with a tie-dye tablecloth]

Cooking & Baking

What to put on the table? Recipees (In Preparation)

Soccer Fields: Dimensions and Lines

3rd Grade Bike Safety Day

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