Hello everyone!

I won’t drag the post out too much since most of the info is already in the title, but I would love to hear some suggestions for some children’s books to help me develop comfort with, and vocabulary in Dutch.

In terms of my level with the language, I have been doing some Duolingo for over 3 years, but I really started learning and understanding rules and such a couple months ago when I started online lessons.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: A couple people suggested Annie M.G. Schmidt so I looked at the first book in the Jip en Janneke books, but it seems that its too advanced for my level. I’ll need to work my way up to that slowly. In the meantime, any suggestions for books aimed more towards 2-3 year olds? I feel like that would be more my current vocabulary level, and I can work my way up from there. Thanks

  • Shelena@feddit.nlNederlands
    5·
    5 days ago

    I think some of the work by Annie M.G. Schmidt might be nice. She is one of the most famous writers of Dutch children’s books. She wrote poems (Ik Ben Lekker Stout is my favourite) as well as books (such as Jip en Janneke and Pluk van de Pettenflat). I have very fond childhood memories of it.

    Edit: Maybe I should add that it is very old fashioned. If you want something more modern, I would try something else.

    • promitheas@programming.devOPNederlands
      2·
      5 days ago

      Thanks, yea I think I want something a bit more modern for the beginning, unless the language hasn’t changed much? What do you think?

      • Taalnazi@lemmy.worldNederlands
        6·
        5 days ago

        Annie MG Schmidt is great. She doesn’t write that old fashioned, imo. Biggest difference if any there might be, is using “u” (formal pronoun) more.

        Carry Slee is also great, but she’s more B-level.

      • Shelena@feddit.nlNederlands
        5·
        5 days ago

        There are some words that we don’t use that often anymore, but other than that it is not that different from now. The subjects might be a bit different though (e.g. no mobile phones or personal computers yet when this was written). However, Annie MG Schmidt was very progressieve for het time. In her work for adults, for example, she wrote a beautiful and heartbreaking song about what it was like to be gay in the seventies. It is called “Sorry dat ik besta”, if you are interested.

        I think lots of Dutch people grew up with Arnie MG Schmidt, so it might be a nice way to get to know Dutch culture a bit also.