learn dutch fast and easy?

Question

learn dutch fast and easy?

Answer 1

There are NO shortcuts for any language learning, the learning process is individual and takes various amount of time. You have to use the target language as much as you can and in as many different ways as possible, so speak, listen, write, read, understand, talk, communicate! And above all, find topics that interest you and make the learning process as FUN for yourself as possible. Do NOT waste your money to overrated/overpriced gimmicks like Rosetta Stone, and do NOT in any circumstances use those dreadful online "translators" which are very inaccurate.

Answer 2

So do I, and although I frequently travel to North America via Hoek van Holland and Schiphol (it is cheaper for me than via Gatwick), I hardly ever get a chance to practice my Dutch (outside the Burger King bar on Leyden station, I have yet to meet a Dutch person who did not speak such good English that they refused to tolerate my poor Dutch). I have had a little better luck in Flanders, where people's second language tends to be French more often than English.

I have found "Dutch: a comprehensive grammar" by Bruce Donaldson (Routledge: 1997) a perfectly adequate grammar and I am quite happy with Cassell's Dutch-English, English-Dutch dictionary. I am using these to read a Dutch translation of all of Hans Andersen, which I picked up in a charity shop. I also listen to Dutch broadcasts, and I am lucky to have a good grounding already in general Germanic historical grammar. On the Internet I reguarly read the Flemish "De Standaard" daily newspaper from Antwerp (I find it more interesting than any Dutch paper I have come across): news items are usually easy to read as one has often read the same story in the British press.

Answer 3

Just to let you know i live in Holland and Dutch people speak very good english, so you can take your time trying to learn the lingo, why not ask on the internet for Dutch pen pals that would help you and it would be free. As mentioned there is no speedy way to learn it.

Answer 4

If you are more interested in learning to talk Spanish than read through or compose it (they do teach studying and writing but speaking is far far more heavily emphasized)

Answer 5

Practice, practice, practice, then apply, apply, apply. That's the only way to learn a language. How fast it goes depends on your motivation.



As for free... borrow it from a friend?

Answer 6

rosetta stone

http://www.rosettastone.com/learn-dutch