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The Dutch Language: an Introduction/Workbook

Contents

Introduction

• The Netherlands
• History of the Dutch Language
• Language chart
• Language Map

Chapter 1

• Pronunciation
• Alphabet
• Vowels
• Pronunciations of vowel combinations
  • Consonants
• Animals
• Basic Expressions
  • Salutations
  • Greetings
  • Introductions
  • Responses
  • Parting
• Calendar
  • Days
  • Months
  • Holidays
  • Seasons
• Geographical terms
  • Directions
  • Provinces   Capital cities   Other cities
  • Netherlands Geography
  • Landmarks
  • Continents
  • Countries   Nationalities
• Numerals
  • Numbers
  • Ordinal Numbers
  • Parts

Chapter 2

• The Jansen Family
  • Opa Gerrit
  • Oma Alide
  • Wim
  • Greet
  • Jan
  • Nico
  • Emma
  • Marja
  • Gerhard
  • Janny
  • Thomas
  • Martin
  • Saskia
  • Ahmad
  • Solange
  • Family Members
  • Verjaardagen
  • What is in a name?
• De Koninklijke Familie
  • H. M. KoninginBeatrix
    • Willem-Alexander
      • Máxima
    • Johan Friso
    • Constantijn
• Irene
• Margriet
  • Maurits
  • Bernhard Jr.
  • Pieter_Christiaan
  • Floris
• Maria Christina
• Important Royal Events

Chapter 3

• Sentence Structure
  • Word Order
  • Grammar
  • Grammatical terminology
  • Punctuation
  • Parts of a sentence
  • Parts of speech
• Pronouns
  • Pronoun functions
  • Personal pronouns
    • Stressed Unstressed
  • Possessive pronouns
  • Reflexive personal pronouns
  • Interrogative pronouns
  • Demonstrative pronouns
• Verbs
  • Verb terminology
  • Verb functions/types
• Verb tenses
• Regular verbs
  • Presenttense regular verbs
  • Presenttense regular verbs endings
  • Some other regular verbs
  • Active/Passive voice
• Irregular verbs
  • Present tense ofzijn
  • Present tense of hebben
• Interrogative verbs
• Common irregularverbs

Chapter 4

• Time
  • Telling time
  • What time is it?
  • Around the clock
  • Expressions oftime
• Articles
  • Definite article
  • Indefinite article
• Nouns
  • Plurals of nouns
  • Adjectives as nouns
    • Inflected adjectives
    • Uninflected adjectives
  • Gender of nouns
    • Gender specific nouns
• Diminutives
• Prepositions
• Shapes and Colors
  • Less common colors
  • Possessive pronouns and colors

Chapter 5

• Currency
  • Euro Coins
  • Euro Paper currency
    • ATMs are hungry
    • At the currency exchange
    • At the bank
• Negatives
  • No
  • Not
    • Additional negative terminology
• The Weather
• Food
  • Opaloves soup
  • Wim’s lunch
  • Greet’s picnic
  • Janny at the market
  • Marja and fish
  • Martin and tasty things
  • Saskia’s breakfast
  • Ahmad cooks
• Weights and Measures
  • Terminology
    • Mass/Weights
    • Distance/length
    • Volume
      • Prefixes
      • Temperatures
      • Symbols
• The Table
  • A surprise for Oma and Opa
    • Dinner at Sans Pareil

Chapter 6

• Transportation
  • Directions
    • Transportation terminology
• Travel arrangements
  • Types of trains
• Adverbs
• Comparatives and superlatives
• There
• Imperative verbs
• Contrasts

Chapter 7

• Past tense of verbs
  • Verb Stems
  • Past tense of regular verbs
  • Irregular simple past tense
  • Past tense of hebben en zijn
  • Past perfect
• Modal Verbs
  • Conjugation of modal verbs
• Infinitive Constructions
  • To use without te
  • Use of te
• More adjectives
• Clothing
• Nouns with articles
• Materials

Chapter 8

• Anatomy
  • Anatomical nouns with articles
• Medical words with articles
• Future verbs
  • Future tense of zijn
  • Future tense of hebben
  • Verb conjugation in future tense
• Conjunctions
• Separable verbs
• Inseparable/separable verbs
• Past participle of separable verbs

Chapter 9

• Conditional Verbs
• Services
  • Nouns with definite articles
  • Telephone conversations
  • Liquids
  • Wim’s office
  • At the hairdresser
  • Hairdresser terminology
  • Hotel
    • Nouns with definite articles
  • The post office
  • Trip for Saskia and Solange

Chapter 10

• Sports
  • Which sports are being played?
• Sports Terminology
  • More sports terminology
• Computers
• At Oma’s house
• Food
  • Appetizers
  • Eggs
  • Cheese
  • Poultry
  • Vegetable
  • Spices
  • Desserts
  • Salad
  • Sauce
  • Soup
  • Fish
  • Meat
    • Preparation of meat dishes
  • Fruit
• Stores
  • Shopping terminology
  • Toiletry articles

Chapter 11

• Additional Prefixes
• The school system in the Netherlands
  • The classroom
  • Jan at school
  • Martin at university
  • Solange teaches the French language
  • Oma and Opa take dance lessons
  • Gerhard and Janny Greet takes knitting lessons
  • Emma and Marja learn from nature
• Conversations
  • Nico skips school
  • Emma does not like mathematics
  • Oma remembers her first grade
    • Aap, Noot, Mies…

Chapter 12

• Suffixes
  • The hospital
  • A visit to the doctor
  • Conversation with the doctor
  • Gerhard is sick
  • Wim breaks his leg
  • Thomas has a temperature
  • A medical emergency on the highway
  • The neighbour’s accident
• Travel
  • Oma and Opa go to Hawaii
  • Preparing for the trip
  • In the airplane
  • On the beach at Waikiki

Appendix A
Less commonly used present tense irregular verbs

Appendix B
Nouns that require de

Appendix C
Nouns that require het

Appendix D
Irregular simple past tense

Appendix E
Conjugated verbs

Vocabulary