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Dutch blogs/websites/reading material recommendations?

Postby solocricket » Wed Jan 13, 2016 9:42 pm

I'm running short on Dutch reading material-- anyone have anything they read regularly? I'm looking for regularly updated blogs or online magazines or even good online newspapers-- those sorts of things. Any subject and level is fine!
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Re: Dutch blogs/websites/reading material recommendations?

Postby Speakeasy » Wed Jan 13, 2016 11:22 pm

Newspapers and Magazines
Algemeen Dagblad (sports, entertainment): http://www.ad.nl/
De Redactie (België): http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws
NOS Nieuws (Nederlands): http://nos.nl/nieuws/
NRC Handelsblad (right leaning): http://www.nrc.nl/
Volkskrant (left leaning): http://www.volkskrant.nl/
Wablieft - Boeken, Tekstadvies & Krant: http://www.wablieft.be/

Graded Readers
Dutch For Reading Knowledge, Baalen, Bom, Hollander: John Benjamins Publishing.
Routledge Intermediate Dutch Reader, Verbaan, Sas, Louwerse, Routledge.
Reading Dutch, Shetter, Bird, Martinus Nijhoff Leiden (out of print, but still available)
Néerlandais avancé, Presse radio, Engelen, Nachtergaele, Yans, de Boeck.
The above materials, all of which are available via Amazon, AbeBooks, or the original publisher, are for Intermediate-Advanced students of Dutch. They will most definitely provide a challenge!

Other Materials
DLI Dutch Refresher Course: https://jlu.wbtrain.com/sumtotal/language/DLI%20basic%20courses/
nieuw in de dbnl: http://www.dbnl.org/
prisma: http://www.prisma.nl/
HTLAL Discussion Thread: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=17864&PN=1

That should keep you busy!
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Re: Dutch blogs/websites/reading material recommendations?

Postby tommus » Wed Jan 13, 2016 11:59 pm

You asked about reading material, but if you are also interested in watching interesting Dutch videos, many with transcripts and subtitles, you might check out:

http://forum.language-learners.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1405

For reading, I read De Telegraaf for Dutch news and the Het Laatse Nieuws for Belgium:

http://www.telegraaf.nl/

http://www.hln.be/

If you are interested in science topics, there are a lot of good Dutch-language sites. Try:

http://www.newscientist.nl/

http://www.scientias.nl/

http://www.kennislink.nl/
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Re: Dutch blogs/websites/reading material recommendations?

Postby reineke » Thu Jan 14, 2016 6:13 am

Alfred J Kwak will add a little sugar to that great, wholesome diet above.
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Postby solocricket » Thu Jan 14, 2016 4:54 pm

Thanks everyone!
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Postby tarvos » Thu Jan 14, 2016 7:34 pm

reineke wrote:Alfred J Kwak will add a little sugar to that great, wholesome diet above.


Ik ben vandaag zo vrolijk, zo vrolijk, zo vrolijk, zo vrolijk was ik nooit!
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Re: Dutch blogs/websites/reading material recommendations?

Postby hoefferd » Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:43 pm

What I do is follow a lot of people on Twitter that post in Dutch. They often point to random articles, etc. The list feature in Twitter is particularly useful as a starting point from which to branch off. For example, here's a list of humanities researchers at the University of Leiden: https://twitter.com/LeidenHum/lists/geesteswetenschappers
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Re: Dutch blogs/websites/reading material recommendations?

Postby Dutch Uni Student » Sun Jul 23, 2017 6:44 pm

Hi, I just came across this post, I know this is super late!
However, if you're still interested in more dutch reading, I recently found a cool site called dutchreadz.com
They have both dutch reading as well as english reading about the Netherlands, so maybe check them out.
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Postby guiguixx1 » Sun Jul 23, 2017 9:44 pm

I can only suggest my own blog on which I publish a Dutch novel every week and there are grammar articles: guillaumelp.wordpress.com ;)
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