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Books on learning Dutch - reviews Rating: reasonable good very good superior Titel Colloquial Dutch Author Bruce Donaldson Publisher Routledge General Selfstudy Tutoring Group lessons Pro A quite complete course for beginners, perhaps the most suitable for self study. The 'language points' (notes on remarkable phenomena in practical Dutch language use) make up for everything that could be better. Con The exercise are not much fun and when used for group courses, the teacher is recommended be creative on that. The layout is absolutely not very stimulating (but than again, it's a low-priced paperback). Titel Code Nederlands 1 Author Van Kalsbeek & Kuiken Publisher Meulenhoff General Selfstudy Tutoring Group lessons Pro Most teacher's favourite method. The structure is build towards practical things, you learn how to do things by learning texts, words and phrases and besides you learn some very useful things on grammar. Con For a complete grammar overview you'll have to buy an extra book (like the below mentioned 'Introduction to Dutch' - or you might just copy a few grammar pages from the WWW ...) because the grammar is divided over the chapters in a very fragmented way (this is called 'context related'). Titel De Delftse Methode (incl. cassettes) Author Montens e.a. Publisher Boom General Selfstudy Tutoring Group lessons Pro A great book for university students who have to learn to read advanced stuff. Great too, for building up a huge passive vocabulary in a short time. Splendid cassettes, good vocabulary lists. Con 'Moralistic' texts sometimes, telling you how the world should be. Absolutely not very good on grammar (some information indeed, but not very comprehensive). Even worse it is on practical tasks - at the and you might have a better vocabulary than an average Dutch scholar, but you might not know how to buy cigarettes. Titel Introduction to Dutch Author Shetter Publisher Wolters-Noordhoff General Selfstudy Tutoring Group lessons Pro The best guide to Dutch grammar in English I know. And besides, it gives a lot of usefull and entertaing information on Dutch culture, a decent vocabulairy list and exercises. Con I had no complaints about the clarity, though it seems to be a bit overcomplete on some issues and the exercises seem to be quite difficult - especially the translation tasks. And it's really a pitty that there's no cassette. Titel Dutch Phrase Book Author Ltd. Lexus Publisher Hugo General Selfstudy Tutoring Group lessons Pro It's small and practical. Can be used to go out and 'do things in Dutch' or during lessons during role playing games. Con It is what it is: a phrase book. It doesn't teach you Dutch, it hardly helps you to pronounce words correctly. But, on the other hand, it doesn't pretend to be more. Titel Dutch (audio cassette) Author Pimsleur Publisher Pimsleur General Selfstudy Tutoring Group lessons Pro This is a special method enteirely based on 30 minutes audio units. It's great as an extra help, during long car trips. Con Don't know anybody who learned Dutch just by using this method. It's rather an extra aid and indeed a bit expensive for being just that.