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There was a study posted to Lemmy recently that showed that it is easier to pronounce Dutch while being drunk.
Well, some say Dutch is just German but drunk ...
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.
At the end of the day, it's all in our heads anyway.
If I'm drunk and try to say "Dutch" i'll probably say German.
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.
I will try that out. If there is a study about that⦠on Lemmy?! It has to be true!
If you speak English most people in the Netherlands probably already speak it better than you.
I'm aware of that. But I was thinking to go there and I'm sure some would appreciate it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks for recomendation. I will check that out
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).
Oh⦠shitttttt. I shouldn't skip German lessons in high school now that I think about it.
If you have money and time, use Preply.
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!
Regarding European languages one can never go wrong with the Assimil series so I'd check that first (it's available on annas-archive as a zip archive with the audio files included). You can make a solid base with just Assimil, but you can also include anki decks or grammar drills corresponding to your current level to progress at a brisk pace.
For spoken language learning, nothing beats the Pimsleur method. Easily found by those, who sail the high seas