Pimsleur Basic Dutch - 5 Audio CDs
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This Basic program contains 5 hours of audio-only, effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions.
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The pimsleur foreign language education routine is a language remembering method developed by Paul Pimsleur. The procedure is structured on four main issues : anticipation, graduated interval recollection, main vocabulary, plus organic and natural knowledge. Pimsleur approach is an audiobook routine, in which the student constructs sentences or repeats from memory along with a recording. Foreign language programs commonly require a learner to go over subsequent to an lecturer, which Pimsleur stated was a passive approach of learning. Dr pimsleur developed a "problem and response" practice, where a learner was prompted to transform a saying into the target language, which was then confirmed. This system results in a more dynamic way of remembering, requiring the learner to cogitate before replying. Pimsleur said the tenet of anticipation reflected real conversations in that a orator must evoke a phrase quickly.
The Pimsleur means never shows grammar explicitly, instead leaving the student to infer the grammar through frequent patterns and sentences recurring over and over. Dr pimsleur alleged this inductive approach is specifically how native speakers learn grammar when they are kids; only in schools is it "taught" on the blackboard.
About the Dutch Language
Dutch is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people, mainly in the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname, but also by smaller groups of speakers in parts of France, Germany and several former Dutch colonies. It is closely related to other West Germanic languages (e.g., English, West Frisian and German) and somewhat more remotely to the North Germanic languages. Dutch is a descendant of Old Frankish and is the parent language of Afrikaans, one of the official languages of South Africa and the most widely understood in Namibia. Dutch and Afrikaans are to a large extent mutually intelligible, although they have separate spelling standards and dictionaries and have separate language regulators. Standard Dutch (Standaardnederlands) is the standard language of the major Dutch-speaking areas and is regulated by the Nederlandse Taalunie ("Dutch Language Union"). Dutch is also an official language of the European Union and the Union of South American Nations.
The consonant system of Dutch did not undergo the High German consonant shift and has more in common with English and the Scandinavian languages. Dutch is often noted for the prominent use of velar fricatives (ch and g, pronounced at the back of the mouth), often picked up on as a source of amusement or even satire. Like most Germanic languages it has a syllable structure that allows fairly complex consonant clusters.
Dutch grammar also shares many traits with German, but has a less complicated morphology caused by deflexion, which puts it closer to English. Dutch has officially three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter, however, according to some interpretations these are reduced to only two, common and neuter, which is similar to the gender systems of most Continental Scandinavian languages.
Dutch vocabulary is predominantly Germanic in origin, considerably more so than English. This is to a large part due to the heavy influence of Norman French on English, and to Dutch patterns of word formation, such as the tendency to form long and sometimes very complicated compound nouns, being more similar to those of German and the Scandinavian languages. |
