This was my answer for Dutch homework recently. I missed class, and the teacher emailed me the homework question: “…gevraagd of ze zich voor kunnen stellen dat ze Lotto wonnen, bijvoorbeeld miljoenen dollars. Wat zouden ze met al dat geld doen? Zouden ze het op de bank zetten, heel luxueuze dingen kopen of het op [...]
Dutch Word of the Day. Excellent for learning vocabulary. I love the examples. See, for example drop (which I am looking forward to sampling), wolkenkrabber (are there many in the Netherlands?), and oranjekoorts (I wonder if we will see any examples when we’re there…). Fred Vargas. I cannot explain why I have not encountered this [...]
Something I am enjoying a lot at the moment is my Dutch language class. This term I am doing Dutch 3 at TAFE. Last week we worked on the perfect tense (e.g. “I have worked” Ik heb gewerkt) which seems straightforward enough, apart from needing to remember the conjugation rules. We also continued working on [...]