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DUTCH

Vincent van Gogh

1853 -1890

Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch and post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.

His output includes portraits, self portraits, landscapes and still lifes of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers. He drew as a child but did not paint until his late twenties; he completed many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks, including 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints.

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UNIT 1: Greetings

English            

Dutch:

Transcription:

 

Dialogue 1

Dutch:      - Hallo!  Mijn naam is Vincent van Gogh.

                    [hɑloː]  [mɛi̯n naːm is]

English:   - Hello!   My name is Vincent van Gogh.

The man you see on the picture is Vincent van Gogh, one of the Netherlands' most famous artists, who, suffering from severe depression, cut off the lower part of his left ear with a razor

and gave it to a prostitute at a nearby brothel.

 

I think he's looking at you. Run!

No, wait. He's trying to say something:  

Now you have a chance to talk to the great artist and ask him

what's so cool about injurying oneself.

But first, let's greet him back. 

Choose one of the following variants:

Good morning

Goedemorgen

[ɣudəˈmɔrɣə(n)]

Good day

Goededag

[ɣudəˈdɑx] 

Good afternoon

Goedemiddag

[ˈɣudəˌmɪdɑx] 

Mr. van Gogh:    - Hallo! Mijn naam is Vincent.

You:                     - ................../e.g. Good morning/.

                               Mijn naam is ..................!

Mr. van Gogh:    - Hoe gaat het met u? 

You:                     - Hoe gaa.. what?..

Now, let's greet him back.

Relax, I don't see any razor

in his hands...

Ah, right. You don't know this expresion yet.

 "Hoe gaat het met u" means "how are you".

  [hu haːt ət mɛt y]

Let's see how you can respond to this quetion.

I'm well

Het gaat goed 

[ət haːt ɣut]

English            

Dutch:

Transcription:

 

I'm doing well, thank you

Met mij gaat het goed, dank u 

[mɛt mɛi̯ haːt ət ɣut dɑŋk y]

Ready to continue

the conversation? 

No? Why not? 

Let's do it anyway.

 

Ok, that was rude. Not you. Your response was totally appropriate.

He said he's bored - "ik ben verveeld" [ik bɛn ferfilt]

and also said "goodbye" - tot ziens [tɔt 'siːns].

Choose one of the following answers to bring this weird conversation to an and.

Bye

Doei

[duj]

Bye

Dag

 [dɑx] 

lit: day

Bye-bye

Doe-doei

[du duj] 

Good evening

Goedenavond

[ˈɣudənˌɑʋɔnt]

Good night

Goedenacht

[ˈɣudə,naxt]

I'm feeling well 

Ik voel me goed

[ik vul mə ɣut]

Dialogue 2

English            

Dutch:

Transcription:

 

See you soon

Tot straks

[tot strɑks] 

Mr. van Gogh:    - Tot ziens.

You:                     - .................../e.g. Bye-bye/

Dialogue 3

Have you made a choice?

Let's go.

Hello (informal)

Hoi 

[ɦɔi̯] 

English            

Dutch:

Transcription:

 

Mr. van Gogh:    - Hoe gaat het met u? 

You:                     - ............./e.g. I'm well, thank you/

Mr. van Gogh:    - Ik ben verveeld. Tot ziens.

You:                     - What the--?

Ponouns as Subject

 

Singular

                I                          -  ik [ik]

 

                you (informal)  -  je [jə]

 

                you (formal)      - u [y]

 

                he                       -  hij [ɦɛi̯]

 

                she                     -  ze [zə]

 

Plural

               we                    -  we [ʋə]

 

                you                     - jullie [ˈjʏli]

 

                they                    -  ze [zə]

I've met the words u (you) and ik (I).

You better start now learning pronouns to be able to form sentences. 

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