I’ve been studying Dutch for just under a year (I began in May of 2009) and with the occasional half hour to an hour a week due to my busy schedule, I’ve been able to pick up enough Dutch to watch a kid’s show and understand the majority of it. I’ll have this entire week off for spring break, and my goal is to advance as much as possible in Dutch.
What I plan on doing is watching children’s shows on uitzendinggemist.nl to build my vocabulary and practice basic listening comprehension (some of the more interesting documentaries are far too advanced for me) and I’ll try to do as much reading as possible. With reading, I want to implement some methods I read about on xamuel.com, such as sentence mining (http://www.xamuel.com/sentence-mining/) and using spaced repetition systems (http://www.xamuel.com/spaced-repetition-systems/).
I’ll see how much I can achieve! Tot ziens!
The Ackademie 