Holland should be Netherlands

[EetSmakelijk]

Hi Bieneke. I notice on the whole site there are quite a few references to Holland when I am pretty sure you mean any Dutch-speaking country.
Some of these I can edit, but I think there is even one on the home page that says "to Holland".

There is one in a forum description about NT2 exams. I don't want to change this one myself as I don't know if Belgium even has NT2?
Bedankt,

[dirkmath]

Of course Belgium has NT2!
It's a task of the "Huizen van het Nederlands" to judge knowledge levels of Dutch:
http://www.huizenvanhetnederlands.be/

When those are found insuffucient a student is referred to a "Centrum voor Basiseducatie" if his general level of knowledge is low (up to 9 years of schooling):
http://www.basiseducatie.be/
or a "Centrum voor Volwassenenonderwijs" if they have 10 years of schooling or more:
http://www.ond.vlaanderen.be/onderwijsaanbod/volwassen/lijst.asp?zcode=A33817A34017&hs=317&t=nederlands_tweede_taal_richtgraad_1

[Bieneke]

Hi Bieneke. I notice on the whole site there are quite a few references to Holland when I am pretty sure you mean any Dutch-speaking country.

I have adjusted that here and there, but not everywhere (yet). If you are referring to the grammar pages: When I wrote them, I was not thinking about Flanders or Surinam--not because I thought they do not speak Dutch there, but because I wrote it for one particular person who was moving to Amsterdam with me. I had no idea that so many people would end up reading the pages. The internet version is now a lot different from the original paper/Word version; I have added some remarks about how certain language phenomena work differently in Flanders, but I have not done this in a systematic way. Also, I only started doing this when I lived in Flanders myself. Before that time, I was not very familiar with Flemish.

In the PDF version of the grammar pages, I have already replaced 'Dutch people' or 'the Dutch' by 'Dutch speakers'. I also need to change this on the grammar pages, but this will have to wait until I move the content to Drupal. The current system (PmWiki) does not store the data in a database like Drupal does. If you work with a database, it is much easier to search for text strings (and replace them).

Some of these I can edit, but I think there is even one on the home page that says "to Holland".

I like this better than "the Netherlands" because it is a lot shorter. I would not use it if it weren't a commonly accepted name to refer to the Netherlands (at least, abroad). When I am abroad, I usually say that I am from "Holland". But then again, I really am originally from that province. However, neither of my parents are from Holland, but I am quite sure that they would use the same name (and my mother is Frysian ). See also viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2171.

Anyway, in due course, the 'to Holland' tab will disappear. I have lived in Flanders for five years and through my work and personal experience, I am now much more familiar with 'moving to Flanders' than 'moving to Holland'. Some day, I will extend the pages to cover Flanders also. Or even Surinam--my best friend is Surinamese and I am sure she would love to write the Surinamese pages. This is, however, not a priority.

There is one in a forum description about NT2 exams. I don't want to change this one myself as I don't know if Belgium even has NT2?

The "Staatsexamen NT2" is the name of the official Dutch (not Belgian) NT2 exam.

[EetSmakelijk]

Bedankt voor de uitleg.
Sorry dat ik zo streng klonk. Dat was niet mijn bedoeling.
Groetjes,