ee Oo O UI AOL The Complete Course for Beginners 1 Ta M Pole hroa)The Colloquial Series Series adviser: Gary King The following languages are available in the Colloquial seri Albanian, Japanese Amharic Korean Arabic (Levantine) Latvian Lithuanian ‘Arabic of the Gulf and. Malay audi Arabia Mongolian que Norwe Bulgarian Panjabi * Cambodian Persian * Cantonese Polist * Chinese Portuguese Croatian and Serbian Portuguese of Brazil Czech Romanian Danish + Russian Dutch Slovak Estonian lovene Finnish Somali French * Spanish German Spanish of Latin America Greek Swedish * Thai Hindi ‘Turkish Ukrainian * Vietnamese Welsh Accompanying cassette(s) (tand CDs) are available for all the above titles. They can be ordered through your bookseller, or send payment with order to Routledge Ltd, ITPS, Cheriton House, North, Andover, Hants SP10 SBE, or to Routledge Inc,, 29 West 35th New York, NY 10001, USA. COLLOOQUIAL CD-ROMs Multimedia Language Courses Available in: Chinese, French, Portuguese and Spanish Colloquial Dutch The Complete Course for Beginners Bruce Donaldson SILEy @ B 7 a ae London and New YorkFirst published 1996 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE ‘Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Reprinted 1998 and 1999 (twice) Routledge isan imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group (© 1996 Bruce Donaldson ustrations on pages 136-7, 211 and 219 by Matthew Crabbe ‘Typeset in Times Ten by Florencetype Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon Printed and bound in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives rte “The author has asserted his moral rights in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ‘A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Donaldson, B.C. (Bruce C.), (1948- Colloquial Dutch : a complete language course / Bruce Donaldson, ‘p. em, ~ (Colloquial series) 1. Dutch language - Grammar. 2. Dutch language ~ Textbooks for foreign speakers - English. 1. Tile. PFI12.D59 1996 439,3°182421—de20 95-39857 cP ISBN 0-415-13086-7 (book) ISBN 0-415-13087-5 (cassettes) ISBN 0-415-13088-3 (book and cassettes course) Contents About this book Introduction 1 10 t en Pauline en hun kinderen Piet and Pauline and their children Nederland en Belgié ‘The Netherlands and Belgium de groenteboer At the greengrocer's Telefoneren Telephoning Bi t en Pauline At Pies and Pauline’ Fietsen Cycling Pannenkoeken Pancakes s ouders zijn op visite Piet’ parents are visiting Na het ontbijt After breakfast Pauline haar horloge kwijt Pauline can't find her watch vii 37 5 oT TH 121