Tag Archives: vocabulary
5 Things You Need To Know When Visiting Family! Posted by Sten on Jul 3, 2014
When you visit your family in the Netherlands, on a Familiedag (family day) for example, you will meet many people. They all want something from you, you want something from them… What do you need to know? 5 things below. 1. First of all, you need to know how to address them. Check out these…
Shopping and Not Understanding Posted by Karoly Molina on Jun 23, 2014
Speaking in your target language is the best way to practice. One of the suggestions from the integration material I’ve received from the Dutch government has been to go out and interact with people at stores. I agree that it is a great way to practice, but one of the challenges of the Dutch language…
Frisian and the Skûtsjesilen Championships Posted by heather on Jul 3, 2012
On July 28th the Skûtsjesilen Championships will take place. Have you never heard of the word Skûtsjesilen? I hadn’t. So here is what I found out via the Holland.com website: “Skûtsjes are typical Frisian ships that were originally used as cargo ships by Frisian farmers. Skûtsjes have a long and flat structure with which they…
Body Parts in Dutch Posted by heather on Jan 23, 2012
Recently I went to the city of Leiden to visit a museum that had been on my “to visit” list for quite some time. The museum’s name is CORPUS and the tagline is “journey through the human body.” At the museum you move through a large replica body learning how everything inside works via what…
How the Dutch Got Their Cycle Paths Posted by heather on Jan 10, 2012
Bikes. They are everywhere in the Netherlands. In 2006, there were more than 17 million bikes in the Netherlands, with 750,000 of those in Amsterdam alone and no doubt that number has significantly increased. With around 91% of households owning at least one bike (and often more than one), it is not hard to see…
My Favourite Word in Dutch Posted by heather on Oct 15, 2011
Everyone has a favourite word in the foreign language that they are learning. For some people it is the first word that they learned. For others it is that one word that makes you laugh each and every time you hear it or it is the word that you struggled over and over to learn. …
Kip, Paard, Koe – Chicken, Horse, Cow Posted by heather on Sep 24, 2011
The other day I was doing some work with Radio 538 playing in the background, when a song came on that I hadn’t heard before. The melody was pretty catchy in one of those “stuck in your head for three hours” type of ways. It didn’t help that there weren’t too many words in the…