Why Dutch?

[Joke]

Wow Beygir, volgens mij ben je de eerste gereïncarneerde druïde op dit forum!

And welcome bedtimestorynyc. I hope your will keep feeling at home here.

[Beygir]

Or maybe not Last night, she wrote me some sentences to try and pronounce, and they were several of my first tries ever on talking dutch tbh ^^ And yet, she told me that I pronounce them better than the other turks at her work who were in NL since 9 years So she asked me if I'm sure I'm from turkey and not NL And a few words later, she called me an alien haha

But she was happy and was laughing (at me!! ), so I guess even that alone is enough reason to keep learning dutch

[Dora]

Beygir,

Wow, what a crazy dream.

If you are interested in druids and Dutch, you should watch Nickelodeon's Het Huis Anubis en de Vijf van het Magische Zwaard. It is a children's TV program about a group of kids who live in a boarding house and are needed for druid rituals. You may be able to find the early episodes on youtube, and the Nickelodeon site has the most recent ones. If this is too hard to follow, you can see if 2bdutch.nl still has some of the original Anubis series with subtitles. The older series is actually better, but doesn't have the druids.

Dora

[Beygir]

Dankjewel Dora Ik zal het eens proberen

[tiger_eye]

I decided to learn Dutch as I met my partner in Holland four years ago. He is practically fluent in English but I used to get annoyed with myself for being so lazy and always making him do the work with the language. I'm really enjoying learning it and it helps to have private lessons at home after my class

[Wulf]

I'm here for 3 months to accompany my wife who has work in Turnhout, Belgium. So if anyone is around here, message me and we can catch up to try to speak Dutch

[daisyD]

And the second weird thing about me and NL... Well, I was flying to america, and from turkey to america, the journey takes quite long So, I was just watching some movies on the plane, and I really wasn't paying much attention to where we are, but just randomly checking the sight out of the plane window out of boredom, and just enjoying the scenery for a few minutes While I was watching the second movie (actually, it was getting exciting in the movie right then ^^ If you know the movie "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief", I was just watching that one, and it was the scene where they were fighting with Medusa, to be exact ), I suddenly felt strange. I looked out from the window, to see anything is going on, and as soon as I looked down, I felt weirdly happy and warm. Just like, I felt at home... Even from a height of about 10 kms high, I thought "This is where I want to be...", so I had to check to see where we were, and when I opened up the flight view on the screen, I saw that we had just passed the border of Netherlands... And I was shocked about how the hell I was able to "feel" that

Gosh, your story was wonderful! Really thank you for spending time to write that all! (I know you were quoting other one but still)
This thing won't really be about the topic, but still I want to tell it. I haven't traveled a lot, but it's my dream. I have only once flied to England. It was from Riga's airport, so maybe someone know, does the flight from Riga to Bristol goes over the Netherlands?

I love how the Dutch sounds. It's absolutely true! I even like to listen some videos, even I don't know what about it is! Slam Fm radio station from Amsterdam is fantastic discovery for me! Wonderful music, and enjoying the language!
I'm learning Dutch quite slow, but still I know that once I'll learn it and once my dream will come true - I'll travel to Netherlands.

[Nineor]

I got a really good friend in Belgium, and whenever I write something in dutch, he is really impressed (even though my grammar is horrible ) So I want to learn more words, and better grammar, so I can impress him even more.

Besides, it's a bit fun that in some ways it is very much like Norwegian, and in other ways it is totally different. Mostly the structure of the sentences are nothing alike, but many words and expressions make more sense to me in Norwegian than they do if I'm in "English mode".

[maury]

I really don't know what exactly moving me to learn dutch, perhaps is the hability of understand the people around the world and because I know a couple of language I decide to keep on going and study another one,the true is that the beauty of know different languages is the pleasure of talk with someone without worry about, what the hell this guy are saying?, you just feel it as natural, just like is you are speak in your native language and this is great!

The bad thing is that probably never ever I'll speak with someone in dutch at least at work, but I'll travel a lot to amortize my investement.

[RomainVL]

Well, back in mid 2008 I decided to move to Flanders, as I often went there to visit some good friends (both here and in the Netherlands). I had a job there, but I had to come back to France in October last year, due to some weird reasons.

So, as I worked and lived there, I decided to learn the local spoken language - Flemish in that case - and had a cursus (NT2). I stopped at the level 2.1, as I had no more time to follow the classes. I learned a lot by myself, by getting drunk in pubs with collegues and by listening to the local radio every day at work, plus by watching the news on TV.

That said, I plan to move to the Netherlands next year, prolly in Zwolle area, maybe Eindhoven, or even Hoogeveen.

[Bini]

I selected the option about my partner speaking Dutch, but in truth I am also learning it because we are moving to live in Belgium in July this year and I plan to study there too!

[dutch-learner:)]

ik leer Nederlands voor mijn baby! he is Dutch. We've been together for over 2 years.We live apart (me in Turkey) we always speak English but we've decided to marry next year when my uni finishes.He brought a Dutch book made for Turkish people.It helps me a lot but still I couldn't make so much progress.
I am here because I need your help i want to make him so happy by being good at Dutch God willing . He works and has not much time to teach me Dutch so we prefer to speak in English for now

[Joke]

Welkom!
This sounds like your very motivated
You can practice here as much as you want and ask all your questions about Dutch.
Succes met Nederlands leren!

Joke

[fred_dryer]

Hi everyone,

My (swedish) girlfriend speaks fluent dutch after living in Nijmegen for a year or so while studying and if she can learn, so can I. Also I think I would kinda fun to suddenly respond in a conversation with her dutch friends and surprise them/her. For me, the satisfaction of learning new things and the good feeling of making progress is hard to beat. I wasnt given a brain just to work and mindlessly consume reality-shows on television.
Good communcation is key in many things and people tend to appreciate one's efforts in learning new languages.

Why not jump-start by setting the default forum language to Dutch? Seeing expressions and words in a familiar context helps me improve my general "feel" for the language. I guess I'll never forget the words "kiespijn" (since I had that on thursday) and "wachtwoord" (type it twice while registering).

Also, speaking Scandinavian, english and some German, learing Dutch feel like a natural step.
Knowing the basics if we decide to relocate to Den Haag would be beneficial too.

[stephievm]

Well, I want to learn Dutch because I got accepted into TU/e . So, When I arrive to the Netherlands, I want to be able to at least saying perfectly: "My name is Stephanie, and I am lost. Do yo speak English (or Spanish )?" jajajajajajaj.