The Dutch Language

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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.

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

New Flickr Photos from the Netherlands 

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Coffee break

Blog Posts from Google from the Netherlands 

Netherlands to get its Biggest Building Ever | Trends Updates
The economic crisis has sure given the whole world a jerk, but it seems to have some affirmative out...
EU-DIGEST: Netherlands Insurance Industry: AEGON Reaches Final ...
(PRNewswire)AEGON has reached a final agreement with Stichting Verliespolis and Stichting Woekerpoli...
Tax Justice Network: Netherlands: group interest box
"From 2007 it is possible that the Netherlands will be offering tax rates as low as 5% on interest i...
Merkx+Girod Architects: Bookstore Selexyz Dominicanen in ...
The contemporary building interior of the Bookstore Selexyz Dominicanen was designed by Merkx+Girod...

Great Stuff on Amazon 

New Routledge Dutch Dictionary: Dutch-English/English-Dutch

Amazon Price: $41.35 (as of 07/13/2009) Buy Now

Beginner's Dutch ((Hippocrene Beginner's Language Ser.))

Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 07/13/2009) Buy Now

In-Flight Dutch: Learn Before You Land (Dutch Edition)

Amazon Price: $11.16 (as of 07/13/2009) Buy Now

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New YouTube vids on Learning Dutch 

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Let's Learn Dutch! (Lesson #1)

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