Dear ,
From the picture above, you can see that I have been postponing to send this mail for a long time
(This picture was taken during a course on Kingsday,
so double fun!).
The reason for this is that I only want to send a newsletter when I have something useful for you. And although I have many ideas,
it has been so busy with immersion courses that I couldn't find the time to make material for you.
(You can see an impression of the last months here
and this is one of the nice reactions I received:
You took me for an amazing journey last week! I'm still very amazed of all the experiences: excursion to Naarden, making a portrait...surely I'll never forget this last one...
I've wouldn't never imagined that with the right guidance I would have been able to do such a thing. I can definitely see that I've started trying and exposing more of my self in Dutch.
Thank you! Daniela)
But you may have
heard that since April 14th 2016, the General Data Protection
Regulation
has been adopted in the Netherlands.
You probably have received many mails with this text and you know the blah blah by heart right now ;-), but here it is
(and below all the blah blah in italics, you can find a simple rule to make the past tense of regular verbs ;-)):
Starting from May 25th 2018, only one privacy law applies throughout the
whole EU, instead
of different national laws.
According to this law, I made a privacy policy, so you know which data I collect, why I collect them and for how long I will keep them.
In
short, it says that I collect your name and address for this newsletter
(you can always end your subscription by the link at the bottom of this
mail) and if you register for a course with me, or have a question
related to Dutch, I ask for all the data that is needed for preparing
the best possible tailored course for you or give you a useful answer to
your question,
and I keep the data as long as you will stay my client.
You can read my policy here (in Dutch, the English translation will come a.s.a.p. ;-) ). By using my services on or after that date, you'll be agreeing to this policy.
You an always send me a mail to request
that I delete all the information I have on you.
That being said...
I wanted to share a nice way to figure out the past tense of Dutch verbs. You may have been taught 't kofschip, het fokschaap, soft ketchup or any other word to figure out whether a verb
gets -de(n) or -te(n) in the past tense.
If this rule works fast enough for you, don't read any further.
I like mnemonics myself, but in this case,
I think knowing the reason why,
will make it easier for you to find the right ending.
Try this: close your ears and say "sssssssss".
Keep your ears close, and say "nnnnnnnn".
Do you FEEL a difference?
For the S, you don't need your vocal chords (= unvoiced), for the N, you do (= voiced). This results in a resonating feeling.
Kussen - kuste(n) - gekust
the S is unvoiced and is followed by the unvoiced T
(If you take out the vowels in the words like "Ex Soft Ketchup", you are left with all the unvoiced letters,
hence the rule that after those letters will come a T)
Rennen - rende(n) - gerend (sounds like: gerenT)
the N is voiced and is followed by the voiced D
AHA! I hope this clarified it a bit more for you, ?
I'm planning on making short YouTube videos
to give you tricks like this one, I will keep you informed ;-)
For now: thank you for reading this letter. If you have requests for content of my next letter, please let me know.
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That was it for now, tot ziens!
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