{"id":2050,"date":"2012-05-23T21:31:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T21:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2017-06-09T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T11:03:19","slug":"dutch-immersion-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/dutch-immersion-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Immersion Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2012\/05\/Dutch-flag.png\" aria-label=\"Dutch Flag 300x199\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2051\"  alt=\"Dutch flag\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2012\/05\/Dutch-flag-300x199.png\"><\/a>On the Transaparent Language blogs we have been talking about language immersion days \u2013 a dedicated way of helping you with your goal to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/learn-dutch\/\/\">learn Dutch<\/a> by spending the whole day using and doing things in Dutch.<\/p>\n<p>What might a Dutch Language Immersion Day look like for you? Here are some ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read the news in Dutch. Don\u2019t live in the Netherlands? You can still read the news. Here are two websites that are perfect for it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nu.nl\/\">www.nu.nl<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ad.nl\/\">www.ad.nl<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=dutch+bert+and+ernie&amp;oq=dutch+bert+and+ernie&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=g2&amp;aql=&amp;gs_l=youtube-reduced.3..0l2.7557.11688.0.11869.20.9.0.11.11.0.82.482.9.9.0...0.0.CBJh0ReVyZY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dutch Bert and Ernie<\/a> \u2013 we all need some Bert and Ernie in our lives and luckily, they can be found on YouTube.<\/li>\n<li>Change your Facebook language to Dutch. Don\u2019t know how? Here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/?faq=147354735337642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">simple instructions for changing the language of Facebook<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Cook a Dutch recipe. Even better, cook a Dutch recipe that is in Dutch.<\/li>\n<li>Write your grocery shopping list in Dutch and then see if you can manage to remember what everything means.<\/li>\n<li>Spend the day only speaking Dutch.<\/li>\n<li>Go virtual shopping on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marktplaats.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marktplaats<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Switch your browser to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">google.nl<\/a> and explore some of the options that come up in Dutch when going about your regular searches.<\/li>\n<li>Listen to Dutch music \u2013 if you need some ideas try Blof, Marco Borsato, Gers Pardoel<\/li>\n<li>Watch a movie with Dutch subtitles turned on<\/li>\n<li>Have a list of five new Dutch words and try to use them as many times as you can (correctly) throughout the day.<\/li>\n<li>Label objects in your house with post-it notes that have the Dutch word on them. If you are feeling really ambitious find out if each one is a <em>de<\/em> or <em>het<\/em> word.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>What things would you add to the list?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2012\/05\/Dutch-flag-350x233.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"Dutch flag\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2012\/05\/Dutch-flag-350x233.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2012\/05\/Dutch-flag-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2012\/05\/Dutch-flag.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>On the Transaparent Language blogs we have been talking about language immersion days \u2013 a dedicated way of helping you with your goal to learn Dutch by spending the whole day using and doing things in Dutch. What might a Dutch Language Immersion Day look like for you? Here are some ideas: Read the news&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/dutch-immersion-day\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[27710,3590,27711],"tags":[3608,132185,117733,2416,191150],"class_list":["post-2050","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dutch-grammar","category-dutch-language","category-dutch-vocabulary-2","tag-dutch","tag-dutch-immersion-day","tag-learn-dutch","tag-practice","tag-practise"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050","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=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5007,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions\/5007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}