Pimsleur Conversation Dutch - 8 Audio CDs
Brand New: 8 Cds
(includes Pimsleur Basic Dutch)
HEAR IT, LEARN IT, SPEAK IT
The Pimsleur Method provides the most effective language-learning program ever developed. The Pimsleur Method gives you quick command of Dutch structure without tedious drills. Learning to speak Dutch can actually be enjoyable and rewarding.
The pimsleur dialect education structure is a language remembering manner developed by Dr Paul Pimsleur. The structure is centred on 4 major themes : anticipation, graduated time recall, principal vocabulary, and organic education. Pimsleur structure is an audio-based structure, in which the student builds sentences or repeats from memory along with a CD. Language courses generally entail a student to say again after an tutor, which Pimsleur stated was a passive tactic of learning. Dr paul pimsleur developed a "challenge and reply" technique, where a learner was prompted to transform a expression into the learned language, which was then established. This skill creates a more vigorous way of studing, requiring the student to ponder before responding. Dr paul pimsleur believed the tenet of anticipation mirrored real speech in which a speaker should bring to mind a saying quickly.
Dr paul pimsleur means by no means teaches grammar explicitly, instead leaving the student to infer the grammar through ordinary patterns and phrases recurring over and over. Pimsleur alleged this inductive system is precisely how native speakers learn grammar when they are children; 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. 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").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 is also an official language of the European Union and the Union of South American Nations.
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.
The consonant system of Dutch did not undergo the High German consonant shift and has more in common with English and the Scandinavian languages. Like most Germanic languages it has a syllable structure that allows fairly complex consonant clusters. 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. |
