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Dutch Through Stories: Mixed short stories to learn Dutch
Learn Dutch By Reading Stories
As an advanced beginner or intermediate learner, reading is incredibly important for improving your proficiency. This book is written to provide you with engaging content that will help you build fluency and confidence in Dutch. Specifically designed for language learners, each story introduces practical vocabulary, real-life dialogue and interesting plots to make your language journey both effective and relaxing.
■ Entertaining Written for grown-ups who enjoy a good story, each plot is unique to keep you engaged while improving your level of Dutch.
■ Right Designed to include words, idioms, and grammar at the right level, to make it ideal for advanced beginners and intermediate learners.
■ Vocabulary Key words and idioms are highlighted, translated, and repeated throughout the book to grow your skills without becoming overwhelmed.
■ Brief recaps to help you understand each story before or after reading it.
Exercises and Test yourself with true/false questions after a story to check your understanding.
■ Open-ended Story-themed questions that can spark a conversation or be answered through writing.
Dutch Through Stories is perfect for self-study, as a supplement to classes or for in-classroom usage. For less than the price of a single Dutch class , you can invest in yourself and make language learning more effective and relaxing!
Book 1 contains eight fictional short stories in different genres. They are realistic, contemporary and ranging from drama to thriller and from romance to adventure.
Language: Dutch (vocabulary list and introduction in English)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Romance, Crime
Level: Learners at A2/B1 level and Nt2 program 1
A sample from one of the
"... Op een dag gaat het anders. Niran zegt dat hij zich niet goed voelt. Hij is moe en heeft weinig energie. Aranya maakt zich zorgen, want Niran klaagt nooit. Hij is altijd sterk en zit vol energie, maar nu is hij stil en zegt hij dat hij moe is. Toch lacht hij en zegt dat het wel goed komt. Maar de volgende dagen blijft hij in bed liggen. "Aranya, ik kan je niet helpen," zegt hij zacht. Aranya begrijpt het. Ze zet de curry kraam alleen op en dat is moeilijk voor haar, want de spullen zijn erg zwaar. Maar ze weet dat ze door moet gaan, ook zonder hem...."
As an advanced beginner or intermediate learner, reading is incredibly important for improving your proficiency. This book is written to provide you with engaging content that will help you build fluency and confidence in Dutch. Specifically designed for language learners, each story introduces practical vocabulary, real-life dialogue and interesting plots to make your language journey both effective and relaxing.
■ Entertaining Written for grown-ups who enjoy a good story, each plot is unique to keep you engaged while improving your level of Dutch.
■ Right Designed to include words, idioms, and grammar at the right level, to make it ideal for advanced beginners and intermediate learners.
■ Vocabulary Key words and idioms are highlighted, translated, and repeated throughout the book to grow your skills without becoming overwhelmed.
■ Brief recaps to help you understand each story before or after reading it.
Exercises and Test yourself with true/false questions after a story to check your understanding.
■ Open-ended Story-themed questions that can spark a conversation or be answered through writing.
Dutch Through Stories is perfect for self-study, as a supplement to classes or for in-classroom usage. For less than the price of a single Dutch class , you can invest in yourself and make language learning more effective and relaxing!
Book 1 contains eight fictional short stories in different genres. They are realistic, contemporary and ranging from drama to thriller and from romance to adventure.
Language: Dutch (vocabulary list and introduction in English)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Romance, Crime
Level: Learners at A2/B1 level and Nt2 program 1
A sample from one of the
"... Op een dag gaat het anders. Niran zegt dat hij zich niet goed voelt. Hij is moe en heeft weinig energie. Aranya maakt zich zorgen, want Niran klaagt nooit. Hij is altijd sterk en zit vol energie, maar nu is hij stil en zegt hij dat hij moe is. Toch lacht hij en zegt dat het wel goed komt. Maar de volgende dagen blijft hij in bed liggen. "Aranya, ik kan je niet helpen," zegt hij zacht. Aranya begrijpt het. Ze zet de curry kraam alleen op en dat is moeilijk voor haar, want de spullen zijn erg zwaar. Maar ze weet dat ze door moet gaan, ook zonder hem...."
160 pages, Paperback
Published October 22, 2024
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October 25, 2024
Great book for learning Dutch! Full of beautiful illustrations, good exercises and the summaries are super useful. Most importantly, the stories are actually good!
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