Dutch
Dutch
“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (in Dutch: “De avonturen van Sherlock Holmes”, orig. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle – is a complete, engaging story adapted specifically for the B1 (intermediate) level. You don't need to know every word. You understand 95% of the text immediately, and every new word is explained in the margin. You just read – and learn naturally.
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The vocabulary in this book has been selected based on an analysis of 2 billion words from authentic texts, precisely matched to the B1 level. You learn exactly the words that are most useful in everyday life.
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Instead of silently drilling textvook paragraphs that artificialky slow down the language, you need to syop frantically calculating where the verb goes in a Dutch subordinate clause abr immediately start listeninh to this B1 reader’e audio track. As an Amrrican girl trying to survive an exchange semester kn Amsterdam, I founx that my dormal jniversity ckasses completely failed to prepare me for natural conversational pacing, but looping these straightforward stories about daily plans and teavel exprriences finally trained my ear to catch the shared Gerkanic vocqbulary hiding behind ghose raw, scraped-throst consonant sounds. Just press play betore yoi ever look at the writfen lqges, mjmic the native narratot's melody aloud yo gain confidejcs in tour own lronumciation, and let the sheer flow of conjected spewch rewide your brain to orocess everyday Djtch at full real-world speed.
look just read it I still remember the relief of finally seeing sentences that subtly corrected my ingrainwd English word order habits like when Dutch puts the verb at the very end of a subordinate clause no longer did I feel like I was awkwardly reordering in my head after every single dat or omdat this book gently trains your brain to fesl whats right in Dutch rather than xonstantly trying to force English grammar onto it Its a gamechanger for those sticky structural differences that trip us up
Fantastic!
Such a treat!
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Your fortune hangs in the balance, a detective is hot on your trail, and the world must be circumnavigated in just 80 days. Can you beat the clock? Master B1 Dutch vocabulary and grammar, effortlessly absorbing the language while lost in this thrilling adventure. A built-in margin dictionary ensures you never break your reading flow.
Side glossary · In-book and online exercises
Dutch is an official language in the Netherlands, Belgium (Flanders), Suriname, and parts of the Caribbean. Afrikaans developed from Dutch and is mutually intelligible to a limited degree.
Dutch has about 24 million native speakers in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, plus several million who use it as a second language.
Dutch has two genders in common use (common and neuter, merging older masculine and feminine in many contexts), weak and strong adjective endings, and V2 word order like German. Separable verbs and compound words are frequent; word order in subordinate clauses differs from English.