Program
Flawless Dutch
You will practice recognizing and dealing with the pitfalls presented by the Dutch language:
- Those pesky verbs conjugations: d’s and t’s: betaald or betaalt, word je or wordt je?
- Spaces in compound nouns: management assistant or managementassistant?
- The n interfix: krantebericht or krantenbericht, gedachtengang or gedachtegang
- Hyphens: arbo-dienst or arbodienst, sms-en or sms’en?
- English verbs: geappt or geappd, geleast or geleasd, hij deletete, hij deletede, hij deleette?
- Capital and lowercase letters: Hoge Raad or hoge raad, minister or Minister?
- Abbreviations: is it btw or BTW, adsl of ADSL?
- Stumbling blocks: hen or hun, de reizigers wordt/worden verzocht, het bedrijf en haar/zijn medewerkers?
- Dotting the i's and crossing the t's: commas, quotation marks, other punctuation.