Donaldson - Colloquial Dutch: the complete course for beginners

Colloquial Dutch provides a step-by-step course in Dutch as it is written and spoken today.

Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Dutch in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Key features include:

A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills

Jargon-free, succinct and clearly structured explanations of grammar

An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises

Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations

Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in the Netherlands

An overview of the sounds of Dutch.

Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial Dutch is an in- dispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in Dutch.

Colloquials are now supported by FREE AUDIO available online. All audio tracks referenced within the text are free to stream or download from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio complements the book and will help enhance learners listening and speaking skills.

By the end of this course, you will be at Level BI of the Common European Framework for Languages and at the Intermediate level on the ACTFL proficiency scales.

THE COLLOQUIAL SERIES
Series Adviser: Gary King

The following languages are available in the Colloquial series:

Afrikaans

Albanian

Amharic

Arabic (Levantine)

Arabic of Egypt

Arabic of the Gulf

Basque

Bengali

Breton

Bulgarian

Burmese

Cambodian

Cantonese

Catalan

Chinese (Mandarin)

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English

Estonian

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Gujarati

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Kazakh

Korean

Latvian

Lithuanian

Malay

Mongolian

Norwegian

Panjabi

Persian

Polish

Portuguese

Portuguese of Brazil

Romanian

Russian

Scottish Gaelic

Serbian

Slovak

Slovene

Somali

Spanish

Spanish of Latin America

Swahili

Swedish

Tamil

Thai

Tibetan

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu

Vietnamese

Welsh

Yiddish

Yoruba

Zulu (forthcoming)

COLLOQUIAL 2s series: The Next Step in Language Learning

Chinese

Dutch

French

German

Italian

Portuguese of Brazil

Russian Spanish Spanish of Latin America

Colloquials are now supported by FREE AUDIO available online. All audio tracks referenced within the text are free to stream or download from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. If you experience any diffi culties accessing the audio on the companion website, or still require to purchase a CD, please contact ourcustomer services team through www.routledge.com/info/contact.

This course first appeared in 1996 and has undergone numerous reprintings since then. This is the third revised edition. From the outset Colloquial Dutch gained a loyal following all over the world. The author has received countless emails and letters from enthusiastic readers, many offering positive criticism for future editions. Many of those recommendations have been applied, but as the reaction to the book has been so overwhelmingly positive and suggestions for changes so relatively few in number and minor in nature, this third edition does not differ greatly from the second. The main changes, apart from small typographical corrections, relate to the updating of the cultural information in the book, as much has changed in Dutch society over the intervening years. It is hoped that by keeping the book up to date by means of this new edition, it will continue to enjoy the sort of support it has enjoyed to date.