Learn Dutch

I am getting reasonably good. In the village where I live I speak the local creole, fluently. So most people don’t want to speak Dutch with me (as I don’t speak Dutch as well as I do the native language) but when I am in the capital city or anywhere else in the country I can do pretty good.

I have even had long drawn out conversations (on limited subject matter – but it is something).

I am hoping to test at an Intermediate MID or High in October and then make it official.

So, I have less then 18 days to “learn dutch” but I have this feeling it might just take a life time.

I am hoping against hope that by hearing it every day I will be able to speak it better!

I will have to wait to see

I am now trying to stick little post it’s with vocabulary words on everything.

Somehow this method has never worked for me, but I am hoping if I can make up sentencas I might just learn the words.

Ik heb aan studeren!

A girl at my gym approached me to say that she thought I was a great runner for someone who wasn’t 50 lbs!

And she just happens to speak Dutch.

So almost every night at the gym I get to practice a little…

Ik ben klaar!

I have been studying but I really didn’t put much into it this weekend. I need to work harder at this if I am ever going to be able to speak Dutch before I get to Suriname

well, I have learned how to do the equivalant of Comparative and superlative adjectives…

Like:

Bad Worse Worst
Slecht Slechter slechtst

Yippie now I can say

Ik spreek het slechtst Nederlands!

I speak the worst Dutch!

Wooo Hooo… but I think that might be a de not a het… I don’t have that part down yet!

So, I am now a 62 days away from moving to Suriname… and I struggling with the Dutch!

Okay, so the grammar rules are easy enough. I know how to congregate, and how to do past tense (sort of), make nouns plural, count to 100, tell time and ask simple questions.

I can recognize it when I hear it. I can recognize it when I read it.

BUT I CAN NOT SAY IT!

What is with this pronunciation thing? It is impossible! I am going to be Surinamese MUTE!

I am moving to Suriname in Two months!

So far I am studying Dutch, and the grammar is pretty standard and comparable to English… BUT YIKES… How do I pronounce this stuff?