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Demonyms of Europe in Dutch. 

by Gryningen

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Shame in English

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When you’re learning a language, you would often like to also learn something of the corresponding culture. However one thing that I always find hard to find resources on is the children’s part of the culture. Which is sad, because I think that the media you come in touch with as a kid shapes you for a big part. Yet I can’t find much more about Swedish children’s media than Pippi Longstocking.

I would like to make some posts about Dutch and Flemish media meant for kids that most people born from 1990-2005 (my and my sisters age group) will probably know. Because everyone of this age will expect you to know K3 and other Studio 100 things, probably a couple of Kinderen voor Kinderen songs and Jip en Janneke.

I would like to ask Dutch speaking people here to come up with suggestions for what I should include. So please send me an ask or react to this post and maybe indicate if you’re Dutch or Flemish. I’m thinking of making 3 or 4 posts in the categories music, books, and tv and film (and possible a category other).

[bookgeekconfessions]

99 legal sites to download literature

The Classics

Browse works by Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and other famous authors here.

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.

Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.

Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.

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The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.

Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.

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Good post

Thank you so much

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If you speak or learn any of the listed languages please like this post

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Please like, comment or repost if you speak or learn any of those languages

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Learning Norwegian, dabbling in Finnish and Icelandic!

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Hungarian native here, learning Dutch

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Random Dutch saying

Wie zijn gat verbrandt, moet op de blaren zitten

Literally: who burns his ass must sit on the blisters

Meaning: if you do something wrong, you’ll have to suffer from the consequences

I think this one is Flemish actually (at least I can’t imagine the Dutch using ‘gat’).

[join-the-dutch-clan]

Woordslang (word snake)

Write a Dutch word starting with the last letter of the word from the person you reblogged this from. (I wanna see if this works lol). It can be any word and make sure to give the translation.

My word: halsband (de; collar)

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Duister (dark)

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Raadsel (mystery)

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Lucifer (de; matchstick)

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Raam (het; window)

[writingwithcolor]

Words to Describe Hair

This began as a guide to describing Afro/curly hair but of course, I got carried away. From look and texture of hair, colors and various styles, this guide serves as a thesaurus of sorts for hair, as well as pointers for use in your writing.

Culturally Significant Hair Coverings:

Know the meaning behind head wear and why it’s worn, when and by whom, such as a Native Nation’s headdress, before bestowing a character with it.

Head Coverings Resources:

More on various head coverings.

See here for more Islamic Veils. 

See here for more on the Nigerian gele.

See here on African American Headwraps. 

View our hijab and headscarves tags for discussion on these topics.

Afro - Curly - Straightened

There are many varieties of braids, twists & Afro hair styles; have some more!

African/Black Hair: Natural, Braids and Locks

African Hair: Braiding Styles 10 African Types

Describing Black (Afro) hair:

Appropriative Hairstyles: Keep in mind that Afro styles should be kept to those in the African Diaspora, such as dreadlocks, cornrows + certain and many braided styles.

Tread carefully describing Afro hair as “wild” “unkempt” “untamed” or any words implying it’s unclean or requires controlling.

“Nappy” and “wooly” are generally words to stay away from, the first having heavy negative connotations for many and the latter, though used in the Holy Bible, is generally not acceptable anymore and comes off as dehumanizing due to Animal connotations.

There are mixed feelings on calling Black hair “kinky.” I’m personally not opposed to the word in itself and usage depends on the person’s race (I’m more comfortable with a Black person using it vs. a Non-Black person) as well as their tone and context (if it’s used in a neutral or positive tone vs. negatively/with disdain). Get feedback on your usage, or simply forgo it.

See our tags “Black Hair” and “Natural Hair” for more discussion on describing Black hair.

Texture - Look - Styles

Hair Colors and Style

Writing Tips & Things to Keep in Mind:

Combination Words: Try combining words to illustrate look of hair. A character with springy coils that dance across her shoulders with every movement, the man with thick silvery hair slicked back into a ponytail…

Mind Perspective: Depending on POV, a character might not know exactly what cornrows or a coiffure style is, at least in name, and it might make more sense if they described the hairdo instead. More defining terms might come from a more knowing source or the wearer themselves. One book I read described a girl’s afro puff as “thick hair pulled up into a cute, curly, poufy thing on top of her head and tied with a yellow ribbon.”

POC & Hair Colors: People of Color’s hair comes in all shades and textures. There are Black people with naturally blond and loosely-textured to straight hair, East Asian people with red hair, and so on. Keep that in mind when coding characters if you tend to rely on hair color alone to denote a character is white vs. a Person of Color.

Related Tropes: There are tropes and discussion related to People of Color, colored hair, and light-colored hair and features. 

Check out these posts on the topic: The East Asian Women + Colored Hair Trope - Black Characters & “Wild” Hair Colors - POC w/ Supernatural Colorful Features. - ‘Uncommon’ Features & POC Characters

~Mod Colette

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1. verzamelaar en kenner van postzegels

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Linguistics takes on the You Want This? Bunny meme: 

u want this?  u want two of them?  u want two ___

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Thises

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https://www.directdutch.com/test-your-dutch/

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progress report 2.0: Last time I took this (6 Aug), I scored 91/100. Not good! I’ll save my mistakes this time and work on those too.

Number of “Sexy soft ketchup”s/’t kofschip’s: way too many

So let’s see what I messed up:

Hij woont in de Zeestraat. (not op) Zij wacht al een kwartier op de bus (not voor. I should’ve known this, this was corrected before >:( ) Heeft u vannacht goed geslapen. AAAAAAAA Meneer van Rijn heeft nog nooit in een Rolls Royce gereden Elly en Marie hebben twee uur gewandeld Zijn vriouw is naar Hoek van Holland gefietst. (Of course where I’m like HHMMMM I DONT KNOW FOR SURE, I think it’s ‘is’ but let’s go with ‘heeft’, it’s ‘is’) Hij geeft zijn vrouw een bos bloemen. (collocations...! gotta learn ‘em all) Klaar is Kees, betekent het is klaar.

To take away: I have to drill the perfect tense, collocations and particles.

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https://www.directdutch.com/test-your-dutch/

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I was looking for example sentences to put into my Memrise course for Swedish, and came across this website! It gives you a free test to assess your level of your target language! Try it out!

I scored a 53/70, so I’m going to go practice!

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@propa–gandhi YOU GO TAKE THIS, NOW (just fyi, that is me, it is my ~365th day of learning  Dutch)

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progress report: 61/70

things to clarify and practise:

corrections by @rystudy:

Ik ga naar de luchthaven, want het vliegtuig met daarin mijn broer komt om 3 uur aan. (AAAHHH here i come time expressions, i’m gonna master you i swear)

Ik wil graag een kaartje voor de volgende trein naar Haarlem. Een enkeltje of een retour? (awkward, we use that too :<<)

Ik zal waarschijnlijk te laat op het feetje zijn.

Werkloos: without a job Werkeloos: without anything to do

Deze man is groot. Die andere man is kleiner. (i didn’t think this one through...)

Het sportprogramma waar ik altijd naar kijk, heet Studio Sport.

Somber worden -> in een duistere stemming (=dark mood) komen

Hoe noemen Nederlanders een evenement dat alleen toegankelijk is voor mensen die uitgenodigd zijn? -  The event that is only for a select group: voor gesloten kring (for a closed circle)

Ik ga nu voor iedereen eten maken ( subject, verb, (time is emphasized), object (for who), object (what are you making), verb  (well this was my first choice tbh)

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I was looking for example sentences to put into my Memrise course for Swedish, and came across this website! It gives you a free test to assess your level of your target language! Try it out!

I scored a 53/70, so I’m going to go practice!

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@propa--gandhi YOU GO TAKE THIS, NOW (just fyi, that is me, it is my ~365th day of learning  Dutch)

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Mijn Nederlands leren is jarig! 

Ik heb Nederlands leren begonnen één jaar geleden. Ik ben nog niet klaar met de Duolingo boom, maar ik ben er dichtbij. Ik moet veel oefenen om beter te zijn en om alles te verstaan, maar het is geen probleem. Ik zou bedanken iedereen die me zover heeft geholpen en gemotiveerd. Jullie zijn de beste! Het is niet het eind, nee, ik wil de tweede en vijfde jaar vieren! 

Sorry dat ik niet zó actief ben, maar ik ben toch hier!

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Amsterdam, Netherlands 🌆❤️

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Dutch Winter Vocabulary ❄

(Articles are all for the nouns in their singular form, of course all nouns use de in plural form).

Winter (de) - Winter December - December Januari - January Februari - February Winterzonnewende (de) - Winter solstice  Kerst - Christmas Nieuwjaar - New year

Weer (het) - Weather Duisternis (de) - Darkness Somberheid (de) - Gloom Sneeuw (de) - Snow Sneeuwvlok(ken) (de) - Snowflake(s) Sneeuwbal(len) (de) - Snowball(s) Sneeuwman (de) - Snowman Slee (de) - Sled, sledge  Sneeuwstorm (de) - Snowstorm Wolk(en) (de) - Cloud(s) Vorst (de) - Frost Ijs (het) - Ice Ijspegel(s) (de) - Icicle(s) Regen (de) - Rain Plas(men) (de) - Puddle(s) Hagel (de) - Hail Wind (de) - Wind Koud (de) - Cold

Deken(s) (het) - Blanket(s) Dekbed (het) - Duvet Handschoenen (de) - Gloves Sjaal (de) - Scarf Sokken (de) - Socks Trui (de) - Jumper, sweater, pullover Thee (de) - Tea Warme chocolademelk (de) - Hot chocolate Vuur (het) - Fire  Openhaard (de) - Fireplace Brandhout (het) - Firewood Vuurwerken (vuurwerk, het) - Fireworks Kaars(en) (de) - Candle(s) Lantaarn (de) - Lantern Warmte (de) - Warmth Kerstboom (de) - Christmas tree Cadeaus (het) - Presents

Bewolkt - Cloudy Donker - Dark Somber - Sombre, gloomy Winderig - Windy Regenachtig - Rainy Besneeuwd - Snowy, snow-covered Ijzig - Icy Glad - Slippery Winters - Wintery  Knus - Cosy Kleurrijk - Colourful

Regenen - To rain Sneeuwen - To snow Bevriezen - To freeze Smelten - To melt Uitglijden - To slip Vallen - To fall  Beven - To shiver Opwarmen - To warm up Versieren - To decorate  Gloeien - To glow Oplichten - To light up  Glinsteren - To glisten Geven - To give Bedanken - To thank