Welcome to The Hear Dutch Here Website

welkom

Sound
On my website, you will hear a word, name or phrase spoken when you click the speaker icon

next to it. Sometimes there is a "2" (and occasionally a "3") that will let you hear a slower or a slightly different pronunciation; on some of my older pages you'll have to click "hear" for sound. The troubleshooting page has some suggestions if there is a problem with sound.

Introducing Dutch

Hear and read some Dutch as an introduction to the language:

Prose and Poems
from the best Dutch writing

The Beauty of Dutch
Alliterations

Colors
words and lines

for your convenience
Slow Dutch

Names

Words

Foreigners often have trouble pronouncing Dutch. Some of the sounds in Dutch are not found in other languages, letters may not represent the same sounds, and the stress may be in another place than expected. Browse the Names or Words pages - or use the Search Window (near top left on most of my pages) when you're looking for a specific name or word:

Search my site:

Learning Dutch, Lessons

The 'Learning Dutch' page has suggestions for studying the language and an overview of the lessons. The other links below lead to various useful pages for studying Dutch by yourself.
Learning Dutch? - Lesson 1 - Pronunciation - Vocabulary - Grammar

Texts

Hear and Read Longer Dutch Texts
From Famous Books - Prayers and Readings from the Bible - From My Own Writing

Essays, Short Stories

Read about Holland and the Dutch Language
Essays (mostly from the Lessons) and short stories:
Essays - Christmas Stories - Pulp / Going to Pieces (A story in Dutch and in English)

Miscellaneous

Hebrew Words in Dutch - Malay Words in Dutch
Cognates (English, Dutch and German Words from a Common Root)
Hear Some Frisian

- A Story in Limburg Dialect - English with a Dutch Accent

What's New?

Announcing new pages

Site Map

Links to most of my pages

Support Hear Dutch Here

Your support will help pay for the continuing development of the Hear Dutch Hear Website
Support or Buy My Website on a USB Stick or CD-ROM

Other

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imperial and metric dimensions]

Imperial and Metric Weights and Measurements

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foot
yard
mile
ounce
cup
gallon
ounce
pound

millimeter
centimeter
meter
kilometer
milliliter
liter
gram
kilogram

Cooking & Baking

What to put on the table? Recipes

Soccer Fields Diagrams & Lining

Editing Graphics for The Blind Pictorial Overview - Manual
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Hallo

molen - windmill in Steenderen (Bronckhorst),
Gelderland (picture by Peter Schuffelen)

[Marco Speaking Dutch]
The Speaking Dutchman

Copyright

Copying or plagiarizing the content of my website is of course not allowed.
The material on my website is for personal use only. Classroom use in public schools is allowed. All commercial use is forbidden, including class use at for-profit schools. (Pay me a fee.) You may make as many links to my webpages as you like, but linking to individual sound files or pictures (hotlinking) is not allowed. It is a kind of stealing. I am not wealthy. It wouldn't be fair if someone else than me would make money from my work. Only Jonathan Janson (Vermeer and Rembrandt websites) and Ed Wall (old tulips website) have my permission to use material that's relevant to their sites.
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Many thanks to Amy Gregson for suggesting the new look of the page.