by Wendy van Dalen | 13 June 2022 | expat children in the Netherlands
The summer vacation for children and young people is long and how do you go about keeping up with Dutch? The vacations can be wonderful for rest and relaxation, but can also be difficult for the (further) development of the Dutch language. ”She’s just...
by Wendy van Dalen | 25 May 2022 | Dutch as a second language, NT2
Learning to spell verbs is difficult for children. Despite spending a lot of time and attention on it in school, students make mistakes in writing assignments. They seem to have forgotten all the rules in practice. In this blog, I first discuss what are the main...
by Wendy van Dalen | 2 March 2022 | Dutch as a second language, expat children, NT2
Code-switching is the switching of languages by multilinguals within a single conversation. “He is bragging! This is a statement, I frequently hear when expat children switch languages or use them interchangeably. Mixing languages is bragging, exaggerating, or a...
by Wendy van Dalen | 28 December 2021 | Dutch as a second language, learning Dutch as a third language, NT2
Why do we only work with Dutch teachers with a degree? And, also only teachers with experience in teaching Dutch to children? First of all: Since the start of Dutch for Children (DfC), we have worked with Dutch-trained teachers. Now seven years ago. We don’t...
by Wendy van Dalen | 12 October 2021 | Dutch as a second language, expat children in the Netherlands
What can you do to stimulate the language development of your multilingual child? When you live abroad, other languages are often more important. On the street, at school, and work. It may very well be that Dutch is used less and less. The lack of continuity in...
