Guys idk what language level this equates to but in Dutch I'm now able to understand most tw and radio programs or at least most of it, same with written news, sarcastic tweets about culture and news (like zwarte piet or vuurwerk), I love Lubach, I can listen to singers interviews, translate songs, read (non)fiction like
Bijna niets gebeurt toevallig or De Avonden by Gerard Reve. My mum told me my Dutch sounded better, too!
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@pitrouillesque Nice! Do you live in Netherlands or have you accomplished that level remotely, not hearing Dutch in your every day life?
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@Elias When I arrived in the Netherlands I could only say "Hallo" "Hoe gaat het" "Dank u" and "Tot ziens". I tried really hard to learn it there but all my classes where both in English (taught) and French (native) with very intense courses and no dutch courses so I had to do it on my own, I managed to reach a "good at grocery shopping but awkward if the cashier speaks in a way books don't teach you in the first lessons" (i couldn't afford one so i stayed stuck on duo)
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@Elias And I learnt what I could with magazines, newspapers, product boxes, Donald Duck meant for kids, mixed words, vocabulary apps, i really tried but for some reason I got stuck on the sentence formation. I understood how it worked only when I went home, but almost one year of being massively exposed in the country really helped I think. By the end I could speak a bit and understand a bit, too. My friends were proud of my progresses and her parents hug me when i told them a story in dutch
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@Elias when I went back (had a really shitty day, well good but full of mishaps), and her mum told me "you went from barely feeling confident to say hello to be able to use two past tense when speaking, I'm so proud of you" ! it was so sweet!! also strangers don't switch languages when I speak even if some things make them smile.
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