Public holidays in the Netherlands and other reasons for the Dutch to party!

Lesson 36 is about the public holidays in the Netherlands (feestdagen in Nederland). There are not so much Dutch public holidays in Holland, only Newyear, Easter, King’s Day, Ascension Day, Pentecost and Christmas. But luckily the Dutch can find other reasons to party or to get a free day off.

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This is a Dutch vocabulary lesson in a series of 40 videos, with each video lesson containing 25 Dutch words, a course with the goal to speak Dutch, developed by Bart de Pau “1000 most common words in Dutch”.

The Dutch course (cursus Nederlands NT2) is aimed at beginners, who want to learn Dutch vocabulary fast. Of each word, you see the Dutch word and the English translation, and a picture. For learning Dutch pronunciation, each word is repeated twice.

Best way to study the Dutch language lessson is:
– watch the video 1 or 2 times
– study the word list
– do the test; repeat it if you made mistakes
– no mistakes in the test – then go to the next lesson

This is a free course. Bart de Pau is an online Dutch Tutor at learndutch.org and program manager at the Dutch Summer School, (Intensive Dutch courses in Amsterdam and Drenthe during July and August).

This course deals only with vocabulary. Learning a language is more than that!

If you are serious about learning Dutch, you need to be able to make phrases. For that purpose the premium online course #dutchgrammar can be recommended:

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