{"id":710,"date":"2010-08-11T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=710"},"modified":"2010-07-28T14:35:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T14:35:05","slug":"sesame-street-in-dutch-sesamstraat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/sesame-street-in-dutch-sesamstraat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sesame Street in Dutch: Sesamstraat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid I was absolutely in love with Bert and Ernie.\u00a0 They were my  favorite characters from Sesame Street.\u00a0 So what a pleasure it was to  find out that Bert and Ernie spoke Dutch too!\u00a0 And as it turns out,  watching Sesame Street in Dutch is actually a great way to begin  learning Dutch.\u00a0 Just like with reading children&#8217;s books, you get to  hear the language spoken in a much simpler manner, with simpler  vocabulary and sentence structure.\u00a0 But that doesn&#8217;t mean that it is  easy&#8230;or boring.<\/p>\n<p>The following is one of my all-time favorite  Bert and Ernie skits.\u00a0 When writing this post I think I watched it at  least five times in both English and Dutch.\u00a0 It never gets old.\u00a0 I hope  you enjoy it too!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Banaantelefoon (Dutch Bert &amp; Ernie)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FzKXj3V3z1I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And  in English for comparison<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sesame Street: Banana Talk\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8266-l00Ows?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If  you decide to use Sesame Street as a learning tool (and I hope you do,  because it&#8217;s really a lot of fun) the first thing you will notice is  that Big Bird is missing.\u00a0 When Sesame Street is produced for a  different country, the show is altered to make it unique and interesting  for that particular cultural market.\u00a0 So Big Bird is gone, but instead  there is Pino, the big blue bird who is in some vague way related to Big  Bird.\u00a0 Other characters include Tommie, Troel, Ieniemienie and Purk,  all created specifically for the Dutch audience.\u00a0 What I also found was  an interesting personal exercise was to try to pick up on the cultural  differences between Dutch Sesamstraat and what I grew up with in  America.\u00a0 After watching for awhile, I actually was able to spot some  different cultural values being taught, which is neither a good nor a  bad thing, but was very interesting to realize.\u00a0 Although some of the  skits are the same, some are definitely not.<\/p>\n<p>Who is your  favorite Sesame Street\/Sesamstraat character?\u00a0 Do you have a skit you&#8217;d  like to share with us?\u00a0 Let us know in the comments section below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid I was absolutely in love with Bert and Ernie.\u00a0 They were my favorite characters from Sesame Street.\u00a0 So what a pleasure it was to find out that Bert and Ernie spoke Dutch too!\u00a0 And as it turns out, watching Sesame Street in Dutch is actually a great way to begin learning Dutch.\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/sesame-street-in-dutch-sesamstraat\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3590],"tags":[3,9294,9292,9293,154],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-dutch-language","tag-culture","tag-how-to-learn-dutch","tag-sesame-street","tag-sesamstraat","tag-television"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}