(hy TEACH YOURSELF Beginner's AN EASY INTRODUCTIONLong-renowned as the authoritative source for self-guided learning — with more than 30 million copies sold worldwide - the Teach Yourself series includes over 200 titles in the fields of languages, crafts, hobbies, sports, and other leisure activities. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Quist, Gerdi Beginner's Dutch 1. Dutch language - Conversation and phrase books — English 2. Dutch language - Spoken Dutch |. Title 11. Quist, Gerdi 439.3'183421 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-68476 First published in UK 1997 by Hodder Headline Pic, 338 Euston Road, London NW1 3BH First published in US 1997 by NTC Publishing Group, 4255 West Touhy Avenue, Lincolnwood (Chicago), Illinois 60646 - 1975 USA Copyright © 1997 Gerdi Quist and Lesley Gilbert The ‘Teach Yourself name and logo are registered trade marks of Hodder & Stoughton Limited in the UK. In UK: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher or under licence from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited. Further details of such licences (for reprographic reproduction) may be obtained from the Copyright Licensing Agency Limited of 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE. In US: All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without prior permission of NTC Publishing Group. ‘Typeset by Transet Limited, Coventry, England. Printed in England by Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading, Berkshire. Impression number wo987654321 Year 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 —— CONTENTS —— Introduction aL Pronunciation 1 Ikben verpleegster J am a nurse 8 2 Waar woont u? Where do you live? 17 3 Hoeveel kosten de bananen? How much are the bananas? 30 4 Zij houdt van moderne kleren She likes modern clothes 40 5 Geeft u mij maar een pilsje A lager for me, please 52 6 Ga je vaak naar de bioscoop? Do you go to the cinema a lot? 59 7 Vanavond moet ik mijn haar wassen I've got to wash my hair tonight 68 8 Deze sinaasappels zijn goedkoper These oranges are cheaper 81 9 Ogenblikje, ik verbind u even door Hold on a moment, Tl just put you through 88 10 Kom binnen Come in 96 11 Ik vind vis lekker J like fish 105 12 Heeft u iets tegen hoofdpijn? Have you got something for a headache? 122 13 Magik iets vragen? Could I ask something? 136 14 Lekker weertje, he? Nice weather, isn’t it? 151 Key to the exercises 169 Dutch-English vocabulary 183BEGINNER'S DUTCH — INTRODUCTION — About the course This book is designed for beginners of Dutch who have little or no language learning experience. It is designed to help you communicate in the practical situations you will encounter if you go to the Netherlands or Dutch-speaking Belgium. The authors have set out to provide a course that gives a thorough grounding in a number of basic language structures, whilst at the same time showing how use of these structures can be applied to a wide range of topics and situations. How does this work? The book is divided into two parts. In Part 1 a series of ten chapters, some of them fairly short, introduces you to some basic language structures. You will learn how to put together simple statements, ask questions, negate sentences (i.e. use not or no), give commands, etc. Each chapter will focus on a particular activity or activities but will also demonstrate how the language structure could be applied to a variety of topics or situations. So, for example, you will learn various forms of asking questions and then be shown how to apply them in a variety of contexts. The aim of this is to avoid rote learning of fixed expressions which can only be used in a single situation. Part 2 consists of four longer chapters. In these chapters the struc- tures you have learnt in Part 1 are applied even more widely and you are given much more vocabulary on situations and topics you will encounter in everyday life.