Dutch/Example 8

Minorities
The Netherlands acquired a considerable number of minorities after the second world war. The first to arrive in the 1950s were people from the former Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. Some of those still speak Indonesian today and there is special group from the Moluccas that were former soldiers for the Dutch colonial authorities there. Then from the 1960s onwards workers were recruited to come to the Netherlands from both Morocco and Turkey and many more followed later, partly legally, sometimes also illegally. In 1975 Suriname became independent and some one quarter of its population decided to make use of their Dutch passports to come to the Netherlands just before independence, with more to follow later. The six islands in the Caribbean that still form part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands today also were a source of many newcomers. They were joined by many asylum seekers from a variety of places like the Balkans, from Somalia, Libya, various countries of Africa and the Middle East. In addition the accession to the EU of countries like Poland and the Baltic means that there are people from there too that come for work to the Netherlands. To function properly in Dutch society language skills are a factual but also legal requirement. This means that you may not be the only person trying to learn Dutch!

One minority group that is actively trying to help its members to acquire Dutch language skills are the {many) speakers of Tamazight (Riffijns) from Morocco. Their mother tongue belongs to the Berber languages, a separate branch of the large Afro-Asiatic family of languages. Tamazight-TV created its own Dutch language course and let's have a look at one of their lessons. It is lesson 18 of Praat Nederlands of which we will watch the first 2:27 minutes.

Here is the text of their dialogue. Study it first before watching the video:

Verjaardag

 * Anna is vandaag . Ze . En dat wordt op school natuurlijk ook .   ze de andere kinderen op  en.

They sing the following two traditional songs. Study them and watch the video



Quizlet
The vocabulary can be practiced at Quizlet (23 terms)

Progress made
Cumulative term count


 * Cycle 1: 579 terms
 * Cycle 2: 474 terms


 * Grand total 1053 terms

Congratulations are due!
This time it is you! Gefeliciteerd!!!

You have just completed the beginner level of this course, and you can check your knowledge by doing the final quiz of the Beginner level and then move on to the intermediate level.