Hi. I'm wondering if anyone could recommend a good way to learn Dutch. A few months ago, I came across this website How to learn Japanese from tofugu. It recommended learning hiragana, basic kanji pronunciation, how to pronounce characters, and everything related to mnemonics in order to remember everything as well as possible.
I wonder if anyone could recommend a good way to learn Dutch? Perhaps someone who is currently learning it or has a favorite set of Anki flashcards or a YouTube channel worth recommending?
Picture of Dutch woman in Japan
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MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml · 77 pts · 328d
davel@lemmy.ml · 53 pts · 328d
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 328d
the spirit is willing but the flesh is spongy and weak. lol
wabasso@lemmy.ca · 38 pts · 328d
Perfect photo. Imagining OP to be the cashier. “Time to learn Dutch”
drolex@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 328d
edgyspazkid@lemmy.wtf · 6 pts · 328d
Ayo?! This comments section!
drolex@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 328d
plyth@feddit.org · 19 pts · 328d
There was a study posted to Lemmy recently that showed that it is easier to pronounce Dutch while being drunk.
einkorn@feddit.org · 15 pts · 328d
Well, some say Dutch is just German but drunk ...
espentan@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 328d
I'm Norwegian and if I'm drunk and talking with an equally drunk dutch guy, we can keep a conversation going just fine.
Of course, it might be that we're both so drunk that we think we're having a conversation.
einkorn@feddit.org · 5 pts · 328d
At the end of the day, it's all in our heads anyway.
imdc@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 327d
If I'm drunk and try to say "Dutch" i'll probably say German.
overload@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 328d
I'm very hard of hearing and was at a pub in the Netherlands. I Dutch guy said something to me in a noisy room and it sounded exactly like I had misheard something spoken in English.
edgyspazkid@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 328d
I will try that out. If there is a study about that… on Lemmy?! It has to be true!
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 13 pts · 328d
If you speak English most people in the Netherlands probably already speak it better than you.
edgyspazkid@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 328d
I'm aware of that. But I was thinking to go there and I'm sure some would appreciate it.
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 326d
I once asked a Dutch friend what would be a good phrase to learn before visiting Amsterdam. He thought for a minute and said "sneeuwklokjes". Snowdrops. It was his kindly way of saying don't bother, lol. I did learn a few things - hello, please, thanks - and they did go down well.
Vinny_93@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 328d
I used to work for a publisher in the Netherlands called Coutinho, they specialize in second language acquisition and have some excellent materials on Dutch. Probably not for free, though.
edgyspazkid@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 328d
Ok. I will also check this one. For now I wanted to start for free meaby later would spend some money to learn being more fluent in talking to another person.
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 328d
I've started using Dutch in 3 Months, by Hugo. Ignoring the timeframe the title gives, it seems decent because it has an app alongside it for hearing the pronunciations of each word, so you learn to speak and read essentially at the same time.
I got my book online.
edgyspazkid@lemmy.wtf · 5 pts · 328d
Thanks for recomendation. I will check that out
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 328d
In my own personal experience: live in The Netherlands and go work in a small company were pretty much everybody is Dutch and the management wants to help you learn Dutch (so they keep doing all meetings in Dutch even though everybody there could speak English).
After a couple of years living there working in English-speaking multinational environments and thus without learning much Dutch, that specific situation forced my Dutch speaking skills to improve massively in a mere 3 months.
Otherwise it's pretty hard to learn Dutch, IMHO, unless you're starting from German (even better, Swiss-German) which is maybe the closest language to it (and Dutch grammar is actually simpler).
edgyspazkid@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 327d
Oh… shitttttt. I shouldn't skip German lessons in high school now that I think about it.
folaht@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 328d
If you have money and time, use Preply.
edgyspazkid@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 328d
For now I'm trying to find something for free. I guess I will stick to the Anki card decks. But also thank you for recommendation!
Presently42@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 328d
For spoken language learning, nothing beats the Pimsleur method. Easily found by those, who sail the high seas
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 1 pts · 328d