It is around this time of year that people start to review the year that is about to end. The top songs of 2011, the best memories you made or the favorite photos you took, they are all up for review and who would we be at Transparent Language if we didn’t do a spot of reviewing ourselves. So here we go with a review post of some of the things we covered this year on the Dutch blog:

• Travel – We had a look at some of the places worth searching out in the Netherlands, including the island of Texel and Waag in Amsterdam.
• Christmas/Sinterklaas – Christmas and Sinterklaas were in the air when we looked at Christmas in the Netherlands and Het Sinterklaasjournaal.
• Food – We covered quite a few Dutch food items this year, including oliebollen, pepernoten, kruidnoten, chocolate letters and everyone’s favourite, the stroopwafel (plus a handy stroopwafel cake recipe).
• Songs – We did some singing in the shape of Vandaag is Rood and Kip, Paard, Koe.
• Learning Dutch – We became pros at learning Dutch numbers, talked about our favourite words in Dutch and covered a good selection of other Dutch language topics.

And as an added bonus, here are some of the topics that have been covered before but that are still popular:

• How to say hello and goodbye in Dutch, plus those important three kisses
• Writing a letter in Dutch and writing a Dutch cover letter
• The top 10 things to see in Amsterdam

Plus, don’t forget what we have been up to in the Facebook group – questions about what you ate during the day, if you wanted a white Christmas or not and if you were on team kruidnoten or team pepernoten were all part of the group.  Not to mention the general conversation and photo sharing.

Who knows what 2012 will bring!