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Hi, I am a Chinese who live in Chengdu. I am looking for someone who can do some exchange on learning language for Chinese and Dutch. Anyone interested?

I’m super eager to learn Dutch and have been learning for a couple years now. What would you say helped you learn the most effectivly from personal experiences ?? :))

I've been learning for a month so far, and I always feel like I'm going the G way too hard. It will break up how I'm speaking (If that makes sense) and it feels wrong. Are there any good ways to learn it better?

im moving to the netherlands next summer to my girlfriend, do you have any recommendations on how to best apply for jobs? preferably as a mail carrier. Is postnl the best option or is there a better option for a non dutch speaker? Also, with learning the language, im definitely still a beginner and i cannot hold a conversation yet. im currently using duolingo and listening to dutch podcasts. Is there a better alternative that you recommend? And is there anything special i should know about the maastricht/ heerlen region? Thanks for your help!!

Hallo allemaal! I’ve been working on this app for the last few months and would love to get people’s thoughts on it. It’s called issen, which is a personal, conversational AI language tutor for intermediate / advanced learners. It remembers who you are and naturally adapts the chats and lessons to your particular learning style and goals.

The idea came from my experience trying to learn French. I’ve spent years at it going through many online tutors. I like the experience of a dedicated teacher a lot, but on top of being expensive and often a bit awkward, I move around a lot, so an in-person teacher is extremely hard for me to manage. I tried a bunch of language learning apps (Babbel, Duolingo, Rosetta Stone, etc.), but none of them really compared to having an actual teacher.

The idea for issen is for it to be that actual conversational teacher, accessible directly from your phone at any time.

You can check out the app at issen.com. Please do let me know what you think, if you have any questions or feedback, or want to talk about language learning in general!

They’re making me say “Lazen en boek” which translates to “read and book”. I am genuinely confused. En means and, Enn means A or An.

I'm learning Dutch from the website "dutchgrammar.com" and it makes the distinction between marked and unmarked personal pronouns.

I understand the general use of both of them, but what I cannot understand is the third person singular and plural: the author says that the marked 3rd person singular for "it" referring to "het-nouns" is the demonstrative "dit/dat" and the unmarked is "het", while "it" referring to "de-nouns" is "hij". Same happens for the plural, it teaches "zij" is for people, and "deze/die" for inanimate objects. Now, I have looked into other websites and nobody mentions the usage of the demonstrative, and all of them only mention "het" as an equivalent for "it" and "zij" for "they".

According to the first website I mentioned, saying "Het is mijn huis." with emphasis on "het" is wrong and I should say "Dat is mijn huis."

Can anyone please shed a light on this matter as it left me quite confused and disoriented. Thanks in advance!

I have been learning with MemRise and Busuu, and after 211 days I have reached the end of the Busuu course (A1>B2). I will continue with MemRise, but it lacks the grammar lessons that Busuu has. Any recommendations for a good replacement?

Preposition:

1. We kopen producten van de buren van/uit onze provincie.

2. Van/Uit dit proces krijgen we nieuwe producten.

3. We gieten/schenken(?) cola in glazen. - maybe some other verb?

4. Sappen van/uit verschillende smaken

5. Cola is geliefd bij/door veel mensen

6. Verschillende soorten van sappen OR verschillende soorten sappen

7. We zorgen over/voor de natuur

How do we say the following things:

1. de transportafdeling - does this word exist?

2. het proces van de productie OR het productieproces

3. Fruit selectie OR fruitselectie OR selectie van fruit?

4. We leveren aan supermarkten OR We leveren aan supermarkten op.

5. Melk wordt in flessen afgevuld - can we use afgevuld here or something else?

6. We hebben een 50 jaar lange traditie - is this correct?

7. We leveren gezondheid in flessen op - the sentence is supposed to mean that the product they have delivers health in a bottle.

8. De boeken die we verkopen zijn altijd interessant en zijn meestal tweedehands OR De boeken die we verkopen zijn altijd interessant en meestal zijn tweedehands

9. Fruitsoorten? Soorten fruit? Soorten van fruit?

10. Melkproductie OR Productie van melk?

11. Melk gaat in flessen - Can we say this?

Hello, I was trying to find “ePub” books to purchase in makkelijke taal. I have found nothing. May you know if they exist? *Paper books I know where to buy. Thanks!

It's very confusing and I mess up these words

Geen vs Nee

Ze vs zijn

De vs Het

I’ve seen people say ‘komen eten’ and on my YouTube app it says ‘delen, abonneren…’ etc. Wouldn’t it be ‘kom eten’, ‘deel’ and ‘abonneer’? (Considering they are imperatives)

Thank you!

Im been learning Dutch on Duolingo and i keep getting confused because they seem to be changing sentence structure randomly. I was wondering if anyone knew why, i can't seem to find an answer anywhere. Ex: wanneer ik schrijf, schrijft je (instead of je schrijft) Or we honger hebben instead of we hebben honger

Hi everyone, does anyone know where I can find and/or buy Prisma’s Dutch for Self-Study an ebook or PDF? It’s been recommended to me a bunch but I can’t seem to find an online version and I’d rather have it on my iPad to write notes on it than a physical copy. Thanks!

I have just started learning Dutch this year and I have a question that might be a dumb question for this beginner. For this sentence:

Een langzaame hond of een langzaam paard?

How do I know if it's "langzaam" or "langzaame"? I got the question wrong on Duo but I admit, I totally guessed. As you know, in English is just "slow" for both.

im watching oranje leeuwinnen play, and i was wondering how you'd say like "come on!" with the same effect as like "vamos" or "let's go!"

I learned two words and I wanna know what’s different between them. Both have pretty similar meaning, so in many cases I can use both(I think). Like below.

Zij hebben het plan om me te ondersteunen/steunen.

Hi everyone! I have a question for you fellow foreign language learners: do you feel like you are less judgemental when speaking Dutch, because you don't pick up on certain cues such as accent/dialect/words that might signal belonging to a certain subculture or ideology? Or are you more judgemental? At what point in your language journey did you feel this changed? Do you think it is a good or a bad thing? Would love to hear your input!

For context: I'm Dutch but I've lived in France on and off for 3,5 years now. My French is fluent, my work is in French, etc. but I still don't feel like I fully "know" people when they speak French. We're having drinks, having a nice time, but then the thought pops up: would I even like these people if we were speaking Dutch? I feel like we often talk about the other side (I can't fully be myself in this language > I'm less funny/intelligent in this language), but would like to hear more about the perception side of things. 

I'm thinking about writing (or rather drawing) a piece on this, here's the first visual that illustrates the idea of being in a protective/rose-colored bubble. Let me know if it resonates with you or not at all :) 

https://preview.redd.it/zdlx87su6oxd1.png?width=1668&format=png&auto=webp&s=a95db1f59004a44f10da06b1a144d05c1d475b16

Hi everyone. I'm looking to make a small study group over weekly teams call for people at A2-B1 level who aim to become fluent in dutch. I have a high tech background so my definition of fluency is if I can understand and contribute to meetings at work. Are there groups like this that exist apart from the discord page that is often mentioned in this thread?

Am I going insane? According to Google translate, "stelt" is stilt (assuming the big wooden legs). So why is it being used here? Also, ask and question seem to have the same root as they are vraag & vragen (this makes sense to me if so) But when I put the entire sentence into Google translate, stelt is correct... I'm so very confused.

Ik heb het gevoel dat er een paar woorden zijn die "because" betekenen, en ik weet niet goed wanneer ik ze moet gebruiken.

Kan iemand helpen?

Dank je wel!

(Ik voel me dom).

Could someone help me understand what the official English term for this is? Online I see that a number of terms are used, e.g. "ranger", "forest ranger", "forester", "park ranger", "park enforcement officer", "park inspector" and so on. All of these are problematic for me in one way or another. What is the English term chosen by the Dutch government? I can't find it. Thank you!