An Indo-European language and a member of the West Germanic group, spoken by over 14 million speakers in the Netherlands, where it is the official language, with further 5 million speakers in Belgium, where is has official status (together with French); it is also the language of administration in Surinam and the Dutch Antilles. Dutch spoken in Belgium is also known as Flemish.
The region of today's Netherlands was colonized by Frankish Germanic tribes from the 3rd century onwards and that was also the time when Old Dutch was crystallized. The earliest written documents date from the 10th century.
Modern Standard Dutch is based on Amsterdam (northern) usage and there is a marked difference between the literary standard and the colloquial usage. The language is spelt in the Roman alphabet. The standardized orthography was revised and simplified in 1947.
Basic | |
Colloquial Dutch : the complete course for beginners | DU CBEG 2(PACK) |
Complete Dutch | DU CBEG 3(PACK) |
Dutch Conversation : [Teach yourself] | DU CBEG 4(PACK) |
Dutch for self-study : Nederlands voor zelfstudie | DU CBEG 6(PACK) |
Dutch in 3 months | DU CBEG 5(PACK) |
Routledge intensive Dutch course | DU CBEG 7(PACK) |
Spoken world Dutch : a complete course for beginners | DU CBEG 1(PACK) |
Intermediate | |
Colloquial Dutch 2 | DU CINT 1(PACK) |
Specific Purposes - Business | |
Ter zake : zakelijk Nederlands voor anderstaligen | DU BUSI 1(PACK) |
21 days: the Heineken kidnapping | DU FILM 3(DVD)* |
De Aanslag | DU FILM 4(VS) |
Alles is liefde | DU FILM 7(DVD) |
Antonia's line | DU FILM 9(DVD* |
Daens | DU FILM 5(VS) |
De Noorderlingen | DU FILM 1(VS) |
North Sea Texas | DU FILM 2(DVD)* |
Simon | DU FILM 10(DVD)* |
Spoorloos | DU FILM 6(VS) |
Supernova | DU FILM 8(DVD)* |
The treatment | DU FILM 11(DVD)* |
Als broer en zus | DU RFICT 4 |
Bobo ; Mazzel en pech | DU RFICT 7(PACK) |
Dutch for reading knowledge | DU RSKILLS 2 |
First Dutch reader for beginners : bilingual for speakers of English | DU RFICT 8 |
De huwelijkreis | DU RFICT 3 |
The language of twenty million Dutch and Flemish people | DU RFICT 2 |
Reading Dutch : fifteen annotated stories from the Low Countries | DU RFICT 1 |
Retourtje Curaçao | DU RFICT 7(PACK) |
The Routledge intermediate Dutch reader | DU RSKILLS 1 |
Vader en zoon ; Dik | DU RFICT 6(PACK) |