{"id":732,"date":"2010-07-21T07:37:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T07:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=732"},"modified":"2017-06-09T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T11:07:16","slug":"livingroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/livingroom\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Dutch Living Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far we&#8217;ve had a peek into <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/in-the-dutch-kitchen\/\">the Dutch kitchen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/in-the-dutch-bedroom\/\">the bedroom<\/a> and even learned some words for <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/dutch-verbs-for-housework\/\">household work<\/a>.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve learned about the dekbed and how to wash our windows like the Dutch.\u00a0 Today we&#8217;re going to have a look at some of the items in the living room, a place where we can relax a little.\u00a0 After this we will have a peek in the bathroom, and finally go out into the garden.<\/p>\n<p>In order to keep this all simple, I&#8217;ve combined some of this vocabulary with other areas you might have in your house.\u00a0 You might keep your computer in an office, or bookshelves in a reading or study room.\u00a0 But for today, we&#8217;ll just throw it all in the living room.<\/p>\n<p>In many houses in the Netherlands, the living room has a huge picture window to let in the light and make it easier to spy on the neighbors.\u00a0 When I first moved here, the big open windows in all rooms of my house actually made me a bit uncomfortable, but I realized that everyone has them and almost no one closes the curtains unless it&#8217;s late at night.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve grown to love them, and the light they let in.<\/p>\n<p>de woonkamer : the living room<br \/>\nhet meubel : the piece of furniture<br \/>\nhet meubiliar : the furniture<br \/>\nde salontafel : the coffee table<br \/>\nde bank : the couch<br \/>\nde stoel : the chair<br \/>\nde ligstoel :\u00a0 the reclining chair<br \/>\nde schommelstoel : the rocking chair<br \/>\nde tafel : the table<br \/>\nde lamp : the lamp<br \/>\nde gordijnen : the curtains<br \/>\nhet vloerkleed : the carpet<br \/>\nhet raam : the window<br \/>\nde muur : the wall<br \/>\nde vloer : the floor<br \/>\nde boekenkast : the bookshelf<br \/>\nhet boek : the book<br \/>\nde bijzettafel : the end table<br \/>\nde televisie : the television<br \/>\nde dvd-speler : the dvd player<br \/>\nde cd-speler : the cd player<br \/>\nde computer : the computer<br \/>\ncomputeren : to use the computer<br \/>\ninternetten : to use the internet<br \/>\nhet videospel : the video game<br \/>\nde foto : the photograph<br \/>\nhet schilderij : the painting<br \/>\nde vaas : the vase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far we&#8217;ve had a peek into the Dutch kitchen, the bedroom and even learned some words for household work.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve learned about the dekbed and how to wash our windows like the Dutch.\u00a0 Today we&#8217;re going to have a look at some of the items in the living room, a place where we can&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/livingroom\/\">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":[9614,9612,13,9613],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-dutch-language","tag-furniture","tag-living-room","tag-vocabulary","tag-woonkamer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5014,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/5014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}