Michel Thomas – Dutch Complete Course 2009

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Michel Thomas Method: Dutch Advanced Course
Els Van Geyte, Cobie Adkins-de Jong

Summary:

Learn another language the way you learnt your own

You learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Dutch in the same way.

You’ll stick with it because you’ll love it

Use the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas.

This method works with your brain, helping you to build up your Dutch in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself.

You learn through listening and speaking without the pressure of writing or memorising.

You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably.

The NEW Dutch Advanced Course

A five-hour, 100% audio method for taking y

• Learn another language the way you learnt your own
• Effective method – the Michel Thomas Method of language teaching works with the brain
• Motivating – live classroom situation with two students encourages you to learn with the students on the recording
• All-audio – the way you want to learn
• Pronunciation is gently – but effectively – corrected
• Reference booklet – accompanying booklet lists key phrases in English and Dutch
• Suite of progressive and complementary course components: Introductory, Foundation, Advanced and Vocabulary
• Sales record – the hugely successful Michel Thomas Method is applied to Dutch

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Stressed object pronouns: with you/with them: met jou/voor hen
Expressing possession: mine/whose: van mij, jou, van wie
Let’s, shall we: laten we, zullen we
Past plural tenses of modal verbs: mochten, zouden
Expressing specific position: to lie, to stand: liggen, staan
Positive v negative determiners: wel>niet
Phrases with fixed prepositions: I am looking forward to it: ik kijk ernaar uit
Inversion: not starting a sentences with the subject: Dat weet ik al
Starting sentences with sub-clauses: het is goed, denk ik/als je wil, wacht ik
Expressing ‘might’: ik doe het misschien
Clauses with separable verbs: I hope he’ll collect it: Ik hoop dat hij het ophaalt
Expressing ‘used to/in the past’: Alles was beter vroeger
Expressing: ‘I remember when’: Ik weet nog toen
Comparatives: better (than you): beter (dan jij)
Superlatives: het was de warmste dag
Past tense; perfect tense with ‘to have’: ik heb het gezegd/gemaakt
Pluperfect: I had learnt it: ik had het geleerd
Past participles of verbs starting with unstressed syllables, eg ‘her, ont, be’ do not have ‘ge’ in front of them
Perfect tense with detachable and non-detachable prefixes: herhaald, opgehaald
Irregular past participles (the ‘geven’ box): gegeven, gewassen
Vowel patterns in past verb forms: ‘i’ to ‘o’ beginnen>begonnen
Perfect tense with modals: ik heb het willen/kunnen/moeten/mogen doen
Pluperfect with modals: ik had het niet willen/kunnen/moeten/ mogen doen
Expressing prediction/expectation: Hij zal het (wel) doen
Passives: it is/was beautifully made: het is/ was mooi gemaakt
Two ways of expressing ‘would have’ (conditional perfect): Ik had het gevraagd/ik zou het gevraagd hebben
Expressing ‘should/need to’, using ‘moeten’: je moet het proberen
Expressing ‘should have’: je had het moeten doen
Expressing: ‘not having to/not needing to’: ‘niet hoeven te’ – je hoeft het niet te doen
Would be able /could = Ik zou het morgen kunnen kopen
Would have been able to/could have: -ik had het kunnen kopen/Would have been allowed: had mogen/Would have had to: had moeten/Would have wanted: had willen
To become/to get: ‘worden’ Het wordt warm
Past tense of worden (“became/got”): werd/werden
Perfect tense with ‘to be’ (verbs of motion, change): ik ben gegaan
Word order: ik geef het hem vs ik geef hem het boek
Polite commands: Gaat u zitten
There is: er ligt, er staat
It is/they are: het is/het zijn
Gender: het, hij
Pronouns: het, hem
Who: een man die, een kind dat…
Using verbs as nouns: eten (het-words)
Adjective endings after ‘a’ or no ‘a’: een leuke dag, een leuk dagje, leuke dagen
To live: wonen vs leven
Simple past (imperfect) – I lived/used to live: Ik woonde
Passive structures with ‘zijn’ and ‘worden’ e.g.: it has become – het is geworden, het wordt/werd gewassen/is gewassen.

Michel Thomas Method: Dutch Foundation Course
Cobie Adkins-de Jong, Els Van Geyte

Summary:

Learn another language the way you learnt your own

You learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Dutch in the same way.

You’ll stick with it because you’ll love it

Use the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas.

This method works with your brain, helping you to build up your Dutch in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself.

You learn through listening and speaking without the pressure of writing or memorising.

You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably.

The NEW Dutch Foundation Course

• Learn another language the way you learnt your own
• Effective method – the Michel Thomas Method of language teaching works with the brain
• Motivating – live classroom situation with two students encourages you to learn with the students on the recording
• All-audio – the way you want to learn
• Pronunciation is gently – but effectively – corrected
• Reference booklet – accompanying booklet lists key phrases in English and Dutch
• Suite of progressive and complementary course components: Introductory, Foundation, Advanced and Vocabulary
• Sales record – the hugely successful Michel Thomas Method is applied to Dutch

Table of Contents:

It is: ‘het is’
Asking for agreement: ‘hè?’
not: ‘niet’
Question words: what: ‘wat?’
I: ‘ik’
I am drinking = I drink: ‘ik drink’
to + verb = verb + ‘en’
You: ‘je’
Yes/no questions
Question words: where: ‘waar’
Word order: trigger verbs send the 2nd verb to the end of the sentence
We: ‘we’
Can/able to: ‘kan/kun’
Good = well: ‘goed’
Question words: why: ‘waarom’
We: ‘we’: use the full verb (with ‘-en’)
How to express the present
Word order in questions
But: ‘maar’
Word order with ‘niet’
Him/her/me: ‘hem/haar/me’
I’m sorry: ‘het spijt me’
Must/have to: ‘moeten’
To know: ‘weten’+ ‘het’ (it)
How to express the present tense
Nothing/something: ‘niets/iets’
Because (for): ‘want’
they: ‘ze’
need: ‘nodig hebben’ (have needed)
Time expressions
Question words: how/what time: ‘hoe/hoe laat’
How to express the future (using present tense): are you coming? = will you come? = will you be coming?: ‘kom’
Patterns: words ending in ‘-ation’: ‘-atie’. For these words, ‘the’ is ‘de’.
He/she: ‘hij/ze’
Adjective endings: ‘-e’
An, a: ‘een’
Plural you (you all): ‘jullie’
Using ‘to go’ for future forms
To: ‘naar’
Where…to: ‘naartoe’
Commands; softening commands with ‘even’
Polite form of ‘you’: ‘u’; verb ‘+t’
You, he, she, it: verb ‘+t’ (the t-gang: ‘hij, ze, het, u’)
No ‘-t’ with ‘je’ in question forms
Polite requests with ‘even’
All: ‘allemaal’ (but never used on its own)
Her: ‘haar’
Noun plurals with ‘-en’
Gladly, with pleasure, like: ‘graag’
Stressed forms: you: ‘jij’; she: ‘zij’; they: ‘zij’
Me too = I too/So do we = we too
Would like: ‘wil graag’. ‘graag’ stays close to the verb it belongs to. No need for ‘graag’ in questions (would you like = do you want)
Add ‘on-’ to adjectives to make negative
‘wel’ for contrast; replaces the verb
To go home: ‘naar huis gaan’ vs. at home: ‘thuis’
Word order: time before place
Word order: no change when linking sentences with ‘en’ and ‘want’
Word order: ‘omdat-effect’: when linking sentences with ‘omdat’ the verb gets sent to the end
Question words: when: ‘wanneer’
Word order: question words in the middle of a sentence have the ‘omdat’ effect
Question words: who: ‘wie
Trigger verbs (send the other verb to the end): to be allowed/have permission: ‘mogen’
Diminutives: making words small, talking about objects affectionately: add ‘-je’
Reflexive verbs (to feel oneself good)
Not one, not a(ny), no: ‘geen’
Expressions using ‘to have’ instead of ‘to be’
To (for to, in order to): ‘om …te’
Two different words for ‘the’: ‘de’ and ‘het’
In Dutch: ‘in het Nederlands’
How to express ‘would/was supposed to’: I/you/he/she/it would: ‘ik/je/hij/ze/het zou’
If: ‘als’ (also has ‘omdat’ effect)
We/you (all)/they are allowed: ‘we/jullie/ze mogen’
‘If’ in English has two meanings – ‘in case’ or ‘whether’: ‘als’ or ‘of’
How to express ‘I have been …waiting’: present tense + ‘al/lang’
Revision of trigger verbs: can, want to, have to, be allowed
How to express the past tense
I/you/he/she/it could (was able): ‘ik/je/u/hij/ze/het kon’
We/you (all)/they could (were able): ‘we/jullie/ze konden’
Them: ‘ze’
I /he/she/it was, you were: ‘ik/je/u/hij/ze/het was’
We/you (all)/they were: ‘we/jullie/ze waren’
I /he/she/it was, you had: ‘ik/je/u/hij/ze/het had’
We/you (all)/they had: ‘we/jullie/ze hadden’
Word order: ‘niet’ usually comes after time phrases
To wait for: ‘wachten op’
I /you/he/she/it had to: ‘ik/je/u/hij/ze/het moest’
We/you (all)/they had to: ‘we/jullie/ze moesten’
How to express promise/commitment: I will/shall: I /you/he/she/it will: ‘ik/je/u/hij/ze/het zal’
We/you (all)/they will: ‘we/jullie/ze zullen’
I /you/he/she/it wanted: ‘ik/je/u/hij/ze/het wilde’
We/you (all)/they wanted: ‘we/jullie/ze wilden’
Words ending in ‘-atie’ often have corresponding verbs ending in ‘-eren’: ‘combinatie’ > ‘combineren’
To let/allow: ‘laten’; to have something done: ‘laten’
Verbs that can separate have the stress on the prefix
To go away: ‘weggaan’
To pick up/collect: ‘ophalen’
Verbs with prefixes that do not separate have the stress on the core verb
To repeat: ‘herhalen’
Statements like ‘I hope’, must be followed by ‘that’: dat’
‘dat’ in middle of sentence has the ‘omdat’effect
To express position – on it/in it: ‘erop/erin’
With it: ‘ermee’

Michel Thomas Method: Dutch Introductory Course
Cobie Adkins-de Jong, Els Van Geyte

Summary:

Learn another language the way you learnt your own

You learnt your own language naturally and enjoyably: now you can learn Dutch in the same way.

You’ll stick with it because you’ll love it

Use the unique method perfected over fifty years by the celebrated psychologist and linguist Michel Thomas.

This method works with your brain, helping you to build up your Dutch in manageable, enjoyable steps by thinking out the answers for yourself.

You learn through listening and speaking without the pressure of writing or memorising.

You pick up the language naturally and unforgettably.

The NEW Dutch Introductory Course

• Learn another language the way you learnt your own
• Effective method – the Michel Thomas Method of language teaching works with the brain
• Motivating – live classroom situation with two students encourages you to learn with the students on the recording
• All-audio – the way you want to learn
• Pronunciation is gently – but effectively – corrected
• Reference booklet – accompanying booklet lists key phrases in English and Dutch
• Suite of progressive and complementary course components: Introductory, Foundation, Advanced and Vocabulary
• Sales record – the hugely successful Michel Thomas Method is applied to Dutch

Table of Contents:

It is: ‘het is’
Asking for agreement: ‘hè?’
not: ‘niet’
Question words: what: ‘wat?’
I: ‘ik’
I am drinking = I drink: ‘ik drink’
to + verb = verb + ‘en’
You: ‘je’
Yes/no questions
Question words: where: ‘waar’
Word order: trigger verbs send the 2nd verb to the end of the sentence
We: ‘we’
Can/able to: ‘kan/kun’
Good = well: ‘goed’
Question words: why: ‘waarom’
We: ‘we’: use the full verb (with ‘-en’)
How to express the present
Word order in questions
But: ‘maar’
Word order with ‘niet’
Him/her/me: ‘hem/haar/me’
I’m sorry: ‘het spijt me’
Must/have to: ‘moeten’
To know: ‘weten’+ ‘het’ (it)
How to express the present tense
Nothing/something: ‘niets/iets’
Because (for): ‘want’
they: ‘ze’
need: ‘nodig hebben’ (have needed)
Time expressions
Question words: how/what time: ‘hoe/hoe laat’
How to express the future (using present tense): are you coming? = will you come? = will you be coming?: ‘kom’
Patterns: words ending in ‘-ation’: ‘-atie’. For these words, ‘the’ is ‘de’.
He/she: ‘hij/ze’
Adjective endings: ‘-e’
An, a: ‘een’

About the Author(s):

Cobie Adkins-de Jong and Els Van Geyte are native Dutch speakers and experienced teachers of Dutch.

Cobie additionally used to teach German to adults at the Brasshouse Language Centre in Birmingham, while Els also teaches English as a Foreign Language at the University of Birmingham

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