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Intro Dutch I on

  Is Dutch a language? I don't know. May be it is.  Anyway I am here. Do you want to learn it? May be you should. Some people say that Dutch is the official language spoken in the Netherlands and in the Dutch-speaking northern part of Belgium, Flanders. And some others say that over 20 million people speak Dutch as their first language, so it cannot be a minority language. But one thing I know that it is not an easy language. If it was an easy language, it was not necessary to have hundreds of Dutch language courses everywhere! I warn you in advance, don't learn Dutch from me, because I don't speak Dutch.  Scroll it as fast as possible. So you don't have to learn this language. You should of course spend a lot of money and get the certificates from somewhere, so that they will officially accept you as a person who speak their language. And you have the job opportunities!!! It is just a political economics for civic integration! What you speak is certainly unimportant, s...
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You can never forget your Simple Past

  You can never forget your simple past " Draw your life with pencils instead of oil paints, so you can have the option to erase and correct it whenever and wherever it is necessary!" @tkktweets You can have all the experiences in the past, that doesn’t make the past very simple.   The Simple past has its own rules.   The Dutch use the simple past tense to refer to an event that took place in the past. It is not only with the Dutch, all the people in world use some kind of simple past to express an event that took place in the past. Past cannot be forgotten we have to remember always something of the past. But if the rules are not followed, past things will not be understood as past. There are a few guidelines that will help you to decide when to use the simple past. There can be three different cases: n To refer to events that took place in the past and that do not have any relation to the present.   n To describe what went on during a certain past event ...

HOW SIMPLE IS THE Simple Present

  The Simple present The simple resent is not as simple as you think in Dutch.   We use simple present tense to refer to an event that takes place right now or to a current state. The conjugation of the simple present is as simple as the following: Ik (stem)                                           = Ik maak Je (stem) + t                                    = Je maak t Hij (stem) + t                                  = Hij maak t We, jullie, ze   - infinitive          = we maaken The verbs maken, leren, huren en koken are all subject to the first stem rule: A LONG VOWEL INFINITIVE REQUIRES A LONG VOWEL STEM ...

Hold on a moment!

  "Louder the music, lower the quality of life! You can nothing overdo. Five senses have limits. It has unlimited processing capacity but not too much storage! You can't over eat, that is the same with sounds. You can't listen too much! Life is not about music, but life has to become musical!"  @tkktweets Ogenblikje,  (ogen =eye ; blik = tin) (eye of the small tin?) I will just put you through (Ik verbind u even door) Oh No, I am making a mistake. When the words are put together it will get a different meaning.  That is the twist of the Dutch language. Yes, Some expressions you just have to 'learn by heart'  Ogenblikje, ik verbind u even door. Hold on a moment, I'll just put you through. This is a very common expression you hear when you make a call to an office or to a call center for various services. Surprisingly you will be listening to the annoying repetitive music on an on... still in progress...

Don't make everything small

 "The winner is not always the ruler. The worthiness of the ruler that matters the future of the society. Humanity needs changes, but changes need not be always for power." @tkktweets   Don't make everything small! But when some things are small we should really tell that they are small.  When somethings are unusually small we need an extra indication of smallness. That is where we use the diminutive suffix.  A diminutive is a word formed by the use of a diminutive suffix. Keep in mind it is a suffix and not a prefix. Book+let = booklet Here comes the rules: The Dutch rules: Een diminutief is altijd een Het-woord! (I really doubt) het snoepje, het briefje, het meisje de kerk - het kerkje de club - het clubje YES een dininutief is altijd een HET- WOORD.  Boekje en tafeltje zijn verkleinwoorden. Een boekje is een klein boek.  Een tafeltje is een klein tafel.  Voor een verkleinwoord staat altijd het lidwoord 'het' het huis - het huisje het kind - het kind...

A positive life is easier than a Negative life

  "I have the secrets of happy life. The more you find about yourselves to the negativity, the more you learn about life. The moment you stop complaining about negativity, the more positive you can be." @tkktweets Ik begrijp het niet I don't understand it. 'Niet' simply means 'not' and is the most common way of making sentences negative. The two most common forms of negatives are NIET and GEEN.  I don't want to go home yet Ik will nog niet naar huis .  Did you see a negative standing up straight there. That is negative, and that is how they create negative sentence.  JOE drinkt GEEN bier (Not true in real life!) Joe doesn't drink any beer.  Dutch is easy because you don't have to add the verb to do as you often do in English.  It is easy but it is not that easy because of the most complicated placing of  NIET in a sentence. Do you think it is easy? You are not answering my question. U beantwoordt mijn vraag niet.  (here  NIET is at the end o...

A comparative life can never be happy

 "Everything what we know about the universe is an iota of the totality. But the curiosity reveals everything in time." @tkktweets    We have a life of comparison. What is a comparative? It is a form of adjective or adverb expressing a higher or stronger degree.  When we are happy, we want to be happier.  When we are tall, we want to be taller. When we are rich, we want to be richer.  It is a never ending story. When we are not content with what we are or what we have, we start comparing with others or other things. ____________________________ haar auto is groter dan mijn auto. Her car is bigger than my car. __________________________ When you are beautiful (mooi), You want to be more beautiful (mooier)  'beautiful' (mooi) is an adjective. Everything in the universe is beautiful in its own way. But we humans like to compare. To make a comparative you just add -er to an adjective. mooi+er = mooier  The spelling rules apply as usual, but if you are...