Colloquial Dutch Colloquial Dutch provides a step-by-step course in Dutch as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Dutch in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Key features include: • A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills • Jargon-free, succinct and clearly structured explanations of grammar • An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises • Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations • Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in the Netherlands • An overview of the sounds of Dutch. Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Dutch is an in- dispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Dutch. Colloquials are now supported by FREE AUDIO available online. All audio tracks referenced within the text are free to stream or download from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio complements the book and will help enhance learners’ listening and speaking skills. By the end of this course, you will be at Level BI of the Common European Framework for Languages and at the Intermediate level on the ACTFL proficiency scales. THE COLLOQUIAL SERIES Series Adviser: Gary King The following languages are available in the Colloquial series: Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic (Levantine) Arabic of Egypt Arabic of the Gulf Basque Bengali Breton Bulgarian Burmese Cambodian Cantonese Catalan Chinese (Mandarin) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Kazakh Korean Latvian Lithuanian Malay Mongolian Norwegian Panjabi Persian Polish Portuguese Portuguese of Brazil Romanian Russian Scottish Gaelic Serbian Slovak Slovene Somali Spanish Spanish of Latin America Swahili Swedish Tamil Thai Tibetan Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish Yoruba Zulu (forthcoming) COLLOQUIAL 2s series: The Next Step in Language Learning Chinese Dutch French German Italian Portuguese of Brazil Russian Spanish Spanish of Latin America Colloquials are now supported by FREE AUDIO available online. All audio tracks referenced within the text are free to stream or download from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. If you experience any diffi culties accessing the audio on the companion website, or still require to purchase a CD, please contact our customer services team through www.routledge.com/info/contact. Colloquial Dutch The Complete Course for Beginners Bruce Donaldson First published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2016 Bruce Donaldson The right of Bruce Donaldson to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. First edition published by Routledge 1996 Second edition published by Routledge 2008 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Donaldson, B. C. (Bruce C.), 1948–, author. Title: Colloquial Dutch : the complete course for beginners / Bruce Donaldson. Description: Third edition. | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2016] | Series: The Colloquial Series | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015044380| ISBN 9781138124318 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315648279 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Dutch language–Conversation and phrase books–English. | Dutch language–Textbooks for foreign speakers–English. | Dutch language–Self-instruction. | Dutch language–Spoken Dutch. Classification: LCC PF112.5 .D66 2016 | DDC 439.3182421–dc23 LC record available at http​://lccn​.loc​.gov/​2015​044380 ISBN: 978-1-138-12431-8 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-64827-9 (ebk) Typeset in Avant Garde and Helvetica by Graphicraft Limited, Hong Kong Contents Preface to the third edition Introduction 1 Piet en Pauline en hun kinderen Piet and Pauline and their children In this unit you will learn about: • personal pronouns • expressing nationality and occupation • the present tense of verbs • saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ • beginning a conversation • asking ‘how are you?’ • saying ‘goodbye’ 2 Nederland en België The Netherlands and Belgium In this unit you will learn about: • points of the compass • gender of nouns • nouns and their articles in the singular • word order in simple sentences • how to make simple sentences negative • the negative geen ‘not a, not any, no’ • numerals • Dutch money 3 Bij de groenteboer At the greengrocer’s In this unit you will learn about: • the plural of nouns • words and phrases used in a shopping situation • yes/no questions • ordinal numerals