Dutch is not hard

[island_of_hope]

I have bought a "Rosetta Stone" learning set.

I think it is very good starting point for people like me to enter "The world of Dutch language on the fly".

I have made some videos regarding this educational course.Everything I learnt,I did in just 3-4 days.No joking.Ask me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xoFr-JE ... re=related

HEre is also another video I made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tvwd1hi ... re=related

Hope this videos will prove to anybody that Dutch language is everything but not hard.

Mike.

[yohan]

That's a great way to learn a new language, thank you for these videos!

[Cherish]

Hi

I am also learning Dutch with Rosetta Stone, and i personally think it's a strange way of teaching. It's hard to pick up because they don't translate anything for you. It's probably just my way of learning but i have been learning for 4 months now and am coming to the end of the 2nd unit out of 3 and i find it really difficult to put a correct and grammatical sentence together. I think i need more practice in conversation.

How do you find it?

Cherish

[Quetzal]

Hi

I am also learning Dutch with Rosetta Stone, and i personally think it's a strange way of teaching. It's hard to pick up because they don't translate anything for you. It's probably just my way of learning but i have been learning for 4 months now and am coming to the end of the 2nd unit out of 3 and i find it really difficult to put a correct and grammatical sentence together. I think i need more practice in conversation.

How do you find it?

Cherish

I've never used Rosetta Stone, but I get the impression from what people say about it, that the main purpose is to give you a feel for the language, make you familiar with the sounds and turns of phrases, which is obviously more useful for understanding and basic conversation purposes than for writing.

I don't think there's any single learning method, software or in a book or in whatever other way, that will work on its own, though. Each method will have its stronger and weaker points, and the latter will need to be compensated for somehow.

[Cherish]

Yeah i feel i know a lot of vocabulary, and am picking it up fairly well. It's just when it comes down to putting a sentence together i can't seem to get my head round it. My main difficulty with that though is the word order, i find it best to totally forget i know English and start from scratch.

This webiste and forum is a massive help though i always come here when i don't understand anything from the software. I also feel it would be good to have some regular communication with a few Dutch natives so i can start to pick up the word order naturally.