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Easy Dutch - "You already know these words" - Dutch and English words that look similar and have about the same meaning - or not. Hear a native speaker say the Dutch words

1. Easy Dutch 1
Recognizable words organized by pronunciation - for instance:

kerk church kans chance kers 2 cherry kampioen 2 champion

kin 2 chin kind 2 child kinderen 2 2 children note the similar irregular plurals

vink finch bleken to bleach bank bench bank

Changed Meaning		kamer 'a room' think of: 'chamber'		bleek 2 'pale' think of: 'bleach(ed)'		toetsen 'piano keys' toetsenbord 2 'keyboard' think of: 'to touch'

2. Easy Dutch 2
Recognizable words organized by subject - for instance:

rood	oranje	geel	groen	blauw	wit	bruin	grijs

Only black and purple are very different: - but an old Dutch word for purple looks more familiar: purper
	zwart	paars

3. Easy Dutch 3
Recognizable verbs - for instance:

verb infinitive	simple past tense	past participle
to see zien	saw zag	seen gezien
to seek (search) zoeken	sought zocht	sought gezocht 2
to do doen	did deed	done gedaan

4. False Friends
Identical Dutch and English words with different meaning - for instance:

Meaning of Dutch Word		Dutch	English		Dutch Translation   of English Word
corridor, hallway		gang	gang		bende bunch of bad guys
1. slippery 2. smooth		glad	glad		blij happy, joyful
1.whole 2. very ‑>>		heel	heel		hiel tendon at the back of the foot kapje 2 end piece of a loaf of bread ‑>>

5. A Special Pronunciation Exercise
A list of recognizable Dutch words and identical Dutch and English words, with Dutch pronunciation - also a pronunciation exercise - for instance:

a priori 2 absurd (de) accountant 2 (het) accent 2 3 (de) adder (snake) (de) agent 2 (also: police officer) (de) alcohol 2 (het) alibi 2 (de) amateur (de) angst april

(de) abortus 2 (het) advies 2 (de) adviseur 2 (het) alfabet 2 (de) ambitie ambitieus analoog 2 (de) anatomie (de) arrogantie 2 (de) bakkerij 2 bizar

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