As an English girl, 'geen' was a little tricky for me to pronounce at first! (I've been learning on duolingo) but this video has helped so much! thank you ☺

@natejues3543

4 жыл бұрын

RS Vixen for real though it was really hard to understand “geen”

Hi Lidewij, I had no time to see all of your videos... but I found them very usefull! I'm Brazilian. Me, my wife and my two daughters are intending to live in Netherlands to my Doctorate for one year in 2013. I bought a pocket book of Dutch to start last week but it was a bit difficult. Your "classes" turned Dutch easier. Gooooooooooood Job!!! You help me to safe much time! God bless you! The world certainly needs people like you! Dank u wel! Tot ziens! Mauro Mesko

keep doing your thing, you're de greatest teacher i ever seen on youtube, dankje wel

Love your videos! My boyfriend has a difficult time answering my questions about Dutch, this clears up many questions. Thanks!

That is the most concise and understandable I have ever seen that explained. Thank you so much!

Thanks. I hope to see more from your channel

@Kreloar The ch and g are very close to the German Ach-Laut. German "Nacht" and Dutch "nacht" sounds very similar.

ik ben trots op je meisje! Am African learning Dutch. I appreciate your videos. very helpful cos your English is super!

Excellent - I was confused by niet and geen just a few days ago! Fantastic. Thanks!

Oh my goodness. This is soooo helpful. I have been struggling with this one for months! I think I get it now. Now I just need to practice it in the correct usage. Thank you dutchforn00bs!

I was completely confused with that "neit"and "geen" but now it seems clear to me. Thank you for the video!

@lordsilverdark7 This becomes clear when trying to categorise the languages at different places in europe. Whereas Dutch is clearly distinct from modern German, in the east of netherlands and west of Germany, the local languages and dialects are very similar. In general though, Dutch and English do not share as much as Dutch and German. Vowel shifts and grammar changes in all three languages are specific to that language (Dutch doesn't share all the changes of German and English, but some)

Thank you!!! This video helped me A LOT!

Ik vind het echt leuk om je filmpjes te bekijken, en vind ook dat je het goed doet ( :

your an amazing Teacher, and so young, I hope you are a Teacher in The Nederlands. its very pleasant to learn from you. because I am studying many Germanic Languages at once, I can say among all the teachers your the best.

Thanks! I have been trying to learn Dutch on line, and nowhere yet has anyone explained this until now. Maybe they all thought it was so basic as to not need an explanation or something, but thank you!

I loved this video and the way you explain everything.

Jij bent de beste!! :D dankjewel voor de videos!! :D finally I can understand the difference between nee, niet and geen... het is niet zo moeilijk :D keep going with this videos!!

@RamboKot It literally means "the opposite of -not-". It's a word that doesn't exist in English, that's used as an extra affirmation.

@jikihose50 We don't really have continuous tense the same way English does. You could say: "Ik ben aan het eten" for "I am eating", which is sort of a continuous tense.

I love your videos! I have watched all of them at least once, hope you upload more soon :)

Thank you SO MUCH for clarifying this and making this video!! And thank you for supplying those grammar exercises as well!!! Noobs like me need all the help we can get!....or at least I do!!

Thank you very much for your excellent teaching skills. My native language is spanish, but since I heard bnn.fm five or six years ago, I ended up interested in learning dutch. I love pronunciation, although is a big challenge for me. THANKS!!!

Knowledge is for sharing. You do this very well: Goed gedaan

Honestly, you are just great! I love your videos. :) wonderful job

Hey! I love your videos!! As a German learner and speaker trying to spread out into Dutch they're awesome! Are you Dutch, or American??

Wauw, jij bent erg goed!!!! Ik probeer een vriendin Nederlands te leren (spreekt Engels) en je filmpjes helpen onwijs!

Hi Lidewij, Looks like these will be very helpful, and will be a suppliment to the Dutch lessons I got from the library, the Pimsluer system. Also, there was a person called The Dutch Lady, but it seems that she disappeared. Could you make a suggested order for your videos? Thanks again, and keep up the good work. Dank U, hshafe001

We need you back

I havent tried the exercises yet but, thank you for the different explanations. I wasnt understanding prior to this video. Bedankt😉

@pianodawl Hey ^_^ The H is just like an English H, as far as I know.. the G/CH (they're the same) are the throat sounds :)

@DametjeKelly Hey ^_^ all adjectives have 2 forms, 1) with E and 2) without E at the end. Which one to use depends on the noun following it. Nouns have 2 genders, one has DE and the other HET as article. DE nouns always take the +E version (eg de gele koe, een gele koe). HET nouns take the +E if the article is definite (HET) and -E if the article is indefinite (EEN). So: het gele paard, een geel paard. In adverbs (eg: het paard is mooi), the only the -E version is used.

I got tomorrow a dutch exam and I am revising everything by just watching your videos! :D

@lordsilverdark7 Also, English had heavy interaction with early French (middle ages), has gaelic influences (the usage of the verb do in questions is thought by some to come from gaelic) and scandinavian influences. Dutch doesn't, apart from the French vocabulary influence back when the upper class in europe spoke french. So, although Dutch has certain features of both languages, it certainly isn't a combination of the two, and modern Dutch is only one of several dutch dialects.

Hey, do you mean for past tense? The rule is that if the stem of the verb ends in a voiced consonant (d, b, z, m, n, v, etc) you use D, while if the last consonant is unvoiced (t, d, s, f, ch, etc) you use T :)

@AnanasEple "en", it's pronounced like the English "men" without an M at the beginning :)

first I thought dutch was difficult but because of your videos now i can learn easily! thanks

Hallo!!! I m planning to visit Holand next month and your videos are very helpful. Simple and direct. Any suggestions to visit in Amsterdam??? Doei!!! :-)

thanks its really helpful to me. plz keep doing this, u r great!

Great video. I like the clear and easy to understand explanation.

OMG! I want to adopt you and thank you! My current teacher is the Tiger Woods of Dutch and she has NOTHING on you!

Bedankt!!!! I have had problems with geen and niet. Now I undertand it better. :)

Thank u very much for all of your videos , you helped me learn very quick and easy way , my teacher was making everything difficult for me ,appreciated , hey please If you had time , please make a video for prepositions like (to , from ,also,in , under) the rest u know better then me , does dutch has (WH QUESTION WORDS like who , where , when , why , what ) if you had time please make a video , we appreciate what you are doing for us , thanks

Love your videos

Great video. Great explanation!

you're a good teacher.

@mauromesko Hey! I'm glad to hear my videos are useful to you :) Veel succes met Nederlands leren! :)

@marionicolasmartin

6 жыл бұрын

Wow this channel helped me so much

@pianodawl There is a very slight difference between Dutch h and English h. The Dutch h is less audible than the English h. English h sounds more like a sigh. But I would still understand you if you use the English h in Dutch.

Hi, sorry for being 8 years late to comment on this video but this video helped a lot understanding the usage of the words been and niet. I was going through the exercise links, they are not valid in today's date I think. Is there any way that you can provide any other link for exercise?

@hshafe001 I don't, really. You can find playlists on certain subjects on my channel page, or just watch them chronologically :)

Clear and helpful! Thanks! :)

@wolfrayet29 When saying "ik eet geen brood" [I eat no bread] it's not clear whether you're eating or not - but it's 100% certain that IF you're eating, it's not bread. "Niet" has to be used to negate the EATING only: ik eet niet. It's not possible to put just "brood" in this sentence. If you use "dat brood" (=that bread, a specific bread) - for example - you can use niet: "Ik eet dat brood niet" = I'm not eating THAT bread. I'm not sure why "Ik eet niet brood" isn't possible, but it's not :)

A good translation for "wel" would be "indeed". "Indeed" can be used for emphasis in the same way as "wel" in many cases, especially in the style of sentance in the example given. As in, "Julie does indeed listen to the radio" or "Indeed Julie does listen to the radio".

Love the video and it really helped me on pronunciation of geen

This is just what i was looking for! :D dankje!

Could you give me some examples of verbs you have diffuculty with? Maybe i could help you out!

dank je, ik apprecieer je video's.

dankjewel! I'll definitely show your videos to my classmates :D they are heel goed!

I've been studying Dutch a few days because my friend is from there and I'd like to learn it. My problem in grammar is the T-verbs or D-verbs how do I know it's T or D? Can you help me out with that ? Okay tot de volgende keer en dank u :)

Dankje zo wel voor de les!

Again and again I will be saying the same:). You are so helpful with your videos! After having some grammar or vocabulary tutorial I can revise it with you:)!

many thanks for your great help :-)

very helpful. great effort !!!!

@wybo2 Hey! I don't cover Flemish anything, because I don't know very much about it. This is extremely interesting though :D

Another really helpful video like always. Thank you. :D

I av'nt seen the exercises that you are talking About so. Where are they?

Thank you!

Thank you very much! Groetjes van Berlijn!

Great new video! thanks

Great video! Helpt veel!

I'm so gonna learn Dutch! It sounds so awesome with those gh-rgh sounds. :))) Btw. My friend is a big fan of Zwolle football club. Greetz from Bosnia ;))

OMG u r so amazing! Dank u!

Matur nuwun. Apik tenan

YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!

Thank you very much darling .

hey girl you r amazing!!! perfect "american" pronunciation... i'm doing my best but dutch is really difficult for me... my bf is dutch but we speak english at home so it gets really hard for me to remember words and how to use them correctly :S thanks for yur help. u r great :)

Geen idee! Als ik weer eens tijd heb :)

@Kreloar haha, I have no idea! I have a German friend who says exactly the same thing: everyone associates "ja" with Germany. Even Dutch people.

thank you finally I know what "wel" is

how do you you pronounce 'ui'?

Dank u voor de videö's. Zal proberen de links op Dutch Grammar

Hallo, alles goed? Ik kom uit Zweden, ik ben zeventien jaar. Progress, thanks for learning me dutch - Ajax fan

Jullie luisteren wel naar de radio

Yes, there is. I can't give direct examples but a dutch person would have diffeculty unterstanding an afrikaans speaking person and vice versa.

dank u wel. i ben en auto spuiter oot schotland naar prober learn netherland prad hets echt mooilik sorry i do try to talk netherland but u have help me so much with my netherlands as i no all the words but have big problems with the gramer it a place that i love and have made many life long friends in netherlands as when ur freinds with a dutchie its for life :] thank you xxx

@lordsilverdark7 Not to get lost in a linguistics discussion here, but that's not true, except that modern vocabulary is heavily influenced by English. German, English and Dutch are all west germanic languages, but started to split fairly early on. Dutch is thought of as a (low) franconian language, English as an anglo-frisian language and modern german is descended from High German. These distinctions, especially on mainland europe, are a bit artificial though...

Is there any place in the Netherlands like a community center where you can have free Dutch lessons? Like for tourists?

@elephantgrass631

8 жыл бұрын

+SongsAndSigns Duolingo

@mep6302

6 жыл бұрын

Blackwood that will never happen in any language. If you want to learn something, in this case, languages, you have to take classes or use internet

Woow je accent is echt zo goed :O

Cool.Its more or less the same as in german,so easy to remember.Thx for the link :)

ze legt het goed uit

Badankt! Ik ben learning how to spreek nederlands in duolingo, en this helped me a lot!! (Hope I didn't make any mistakes in the words I used in dutch ) xD

NO WAY!! You may be able to tell by my comment, but you sound soo freaking American, like fluent in English American, with a perfect accent!! It makes it seems so pointless for a Brit like me to learn Dutch when there are people like you just shaming me with your awesome! ;P

Helped a lot! ^^ Hartelijk Bedankt ^^v

links broken tsk, but i like the way you teach. keep it up! :)

it so helps dankje ..

@Routetosomewhere haha, goed punt, daar had ik helemaal niet aan gedacht ^_^ Maar aangezien niemand dit ooit gebruikt lijkt het me niet verstandig dat aan niet-native speakers aan te leren :D

According to me, "geen" is somewhat similar to "not a/an". However, this is also used for plural nouns. Hij heeft geen boek = He doesn't have a book. Hij heeft geen boeken = He has no books; He doesn't have books.

Super .. Dank je 😉

u r great!

Geen can be seen as the opposite of een (a/an indefinite article). Examples: Ik heb een huis (I have a house). Negation: Ik heb geen huis (I have no house). Ik heb een vriend (I have a friend) - Ik heb geen vriend (I have no friend). Ik ben een leraar (I am a teacher) - Ik ben geen leraar (literally: I am no teacher). In this case you can also say: Ik ben niet een leraar: I am not a teacher (in this case, negation is stressed). The opposite of this phrase is: Ik ben wel een leraar (in this case affirmation is stressed). In English you would answer: But I AM one, or but I AM a teacher.