Название: Beginner's Dutch
Автор: Gerdi Quist, Dennis Strik
Издательство: McGraw-Hill
Год: 2002
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 226
Размер: 56,27 МБ
Язык: English, Dutch

This book is designed for beginners of Dutch who have little or no previous language-learning experience. It aims to introduce you to the basics of the Dutch language and to give you some insight into Dutch (and to a lesser extent Flemish) culture. The book aims to help you in communicating in real-life situations and conversations; not just to give you phrases for shopping and ordering food, but to give you the basics for creating your own messages and meanings. To do this, this extensively revised edition introduces you to grammatical patterns, vocabulary and expressions which are used frequently in the Low Countries. To communicate naturally with native speakers it is also very important that you understand what things are (usually) said or cannot be said in certain situations. To this end we have included some information about this, particularly about the level of (in)formality of certain ways of saying things. By the end of the course you should have acquired enough language to engage in simple conversations and to read some basic and straightforward texts.