The Dutch Language
The Dutch language is a member of the West Germanic group of the Indo-European family of languages.
Where is Dutch Spoken?
How Many Speakers of Dutch are there?
There are 21 million native speakers of Dutch. Approximately, 15 million of these reside in the Netherlands.
The Dutch language is also spoken in the Netherlands Antilles, as well as Aruba, Canada, Suriname and the USA by emigrant communities. Dutch is also spoken in northern Belgium where it is generally known as Flemish.
The Dutch language is also spoken in the Netherlands Antilles, as well as Aruba, Canada, Suriname and the USA by emigrant communities. Dutch is also spoken in northern Belgium where it is generally known as Flemish.
Recommended Resources for Learning the Dutch Language
- Pimsleur Dutch CDs
- Learn to speak Dutch at an intermediate level in just thirty easy lessons with this course. Pimsleur audio courses teach you to understand & speak the essential elements of a new language.
- Learn Dutch
- Designed for beginners who want to start learning Dutch as soon as possible. Whether on business, vacation, or perhaps meeting a foreign visitor, Talk Now! is the disc to get you started.
- World Talk Dutch
- You'll cover topics including the calendar year, building sentences, asking directions, and using numbers. The interactive TV quiz is definitely a hit, where the resident champion may turn out to be more intelligent than you think!
- Dutch Vocabulary Builder
- Primarily aimed to meet the requirements of children from 4-12, this package has proved popular with adults too! The beautiful illustrations will improve your whole family's language skills with words and phrases such as "the gorilla is in the car", "the duck is under the desk" and "the frog is on the lily pad".
- Dutch Electronic Translator
- Translations in 29 languages: English, german, french, spanish, italian, dutch, norwegian, swedish, portuguese, finnish, estonian, ukranian, russian, polish, czech, slovakian, hungarian, bulgarian, roumanian, turkish, greek, phonetic hebrew, phonetic arabic, phonetic chinese, phonetic japanese, phonetic korean, phonetic thai, and indonesian.
Over 580,000 (20,000 per language) Words and 58,000 Useful Phrases
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- Muslim initiative donates meat to Dutch poor | Radio Netherlands ...
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- Getting Primal in the Netherlands | Mark's Daily Apple
- As part of our ongoing Primal Blueprint Fitness Video Contest Mark's Daily Apple reader and competit...
- H5N1: Netherlands: Sharp drop in recorded swine flu cases
- Via DutchNews.nl: Sharp drop in recorded swine flu cases. There was a sharp drop in the number of re...
- This week in the Netherlands | Radio Netherlands Worldwide
- Anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders is in another diplomatic row, this time with Turkey. Ankara does not wan...
Learning Dutch Resources
- Free Dutch Lessons Dutch Courses Dictionaries for the Dutch Learning Experts
- I put together a number of free Dutch language lessons and language courses for those interesting in learning Dutch or just brushing up your existing Dutch language skills.
- Let's Learn Dutch
- This is a short video on learning Dutch
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Great Stuff on Amazon
In-Flight Dutch: Learn Before You Land (English and Dutch Edition)
Amazon Price: $11.86 (as of 11/27/2009) 
Routledge Intensive Dutch Course (Routledge Intensive Language Courses)
Amazon Price: $37.10 (as of 11/27/2009)
COLLOQUIAL DUTCH 2: THE NEXT STEP IN LANGUAGE LEARNING (Colloquial Series (Book Only))
Amazon Price: $25.95 (as of 11/27/2009)
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