{"id":1809,"date":"2011-12-27T17:42:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2011-12-27T17:42:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:42:02","slug":"transparent-language-dutch-blog-2011-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/transparent-language-dutch-blog-2011-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Transparent Language Dutch Blog &#8211; 2011 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t 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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Travel<\/strong> \u2013 We had a look at some of the places worth searching out in the Netherlands, including the island of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/a-day-trip-to-texel\/\">Texel<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/waag-amsterdams-oldest-surviving-medieval-gatehouse\/\">Waag<\/a> in Amsterdam.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christmas\/Sinterklaas<\/strong> \u2013 Christmas and Sinterklaas were in the air when we looked at <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/christmas-in-the-netherlands\/\">Christmas in the Netherlands<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/het-sinterklaasjournaal\/\">Het Sinterklaasjournaal<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Food<\/strong> \u2013 We covered quite a few Dutch food items this year, including <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/lets-make-oliebollen\/\">oliebollen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/pepernoten-and-kruidnoten\/\">pepernoten, kruidnoten<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/the-joy-of-chocolate-letters\/\">chocolate letters<\/a> and everyone\u2019s favourite, the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/the-humble-stroopwafel\/\">stroopwafel<\/a> (plus a handy <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/stroopwafel-cake-stroopwafelcake\/\">stroopwafel cake recipe<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Songs<\/strong> \u2013 We did some singing in the shape of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/vandaag-is-rood-today-is-red\/\">Vandaag is Rood<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/kip-paard-koe-chicken-horse-cow\/\">Kip, Paard, Koe<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Learning Dutch<\/strong> \u2013 We became <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/dutch-numbers-becoming-a-number-pro\/\">pros at learning Dutch numbers<\/a>, talked about our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/my-favourite-word-in-dutch\/\">favourite words in Dutch<\/a> and covered a good selection of other <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/category\/dutch-grammar\/\">Dutch language topics<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And as an added bonus, here are some of the topics that have been covered before but that are still popular:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to say <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/how-to-say-hello-and-goodbye-in-dutch-plus-the-3-kisses\/\">hello and goodbye in Dutch<\/a>, plus those important three kisses<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/writing-a-letter\/\">Writing a letter in Dutch<\/a> and writing a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/how-to-write-a-dutch-cover-letter\/\">Dutch cover letter<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The top <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/sarahs-top-10-must-see-in-amsterdam\/\">10 things to see<\/a> in Amsterdam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus, don\u2019t forget what we have been up to in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/learn.dutch\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook group<\/a> \u2013 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.\u00a0 Not to mention the general conversation and photo sharing.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows what 2012 will bring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2011\/12\/1321921_new_year_-_2011_4.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>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\u2019t do a spot&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/transparent-language-dutch-blog-2011-review\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":1810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3590],"tags":[13265,117727,117728,117729,8035],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dutch-language","tag-13265","tag-dutch-blog","tag-dutch-posts","tag-learning-dutch","tag-review"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}