English not displacing Dutch despite some societal fears

4 days, 17 hours ago

Dutch counting on EU more than ever for protection against global crises

NL Times

The Dutch are counting more than ever on the European Union to protect them from global crises and security risks, according to the Eurobarometer published on Tuesday. Over eight out of ten Dutch people believe that the role of the EU should become more important in this, just like the Finns. 93 percent of the Dutch believe that the EU …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Almost one MILLION people in Britain cannot speak English, figures show

Daily Mail

Almost one million people in England cannot English well or at all, new figures have shown. Official statistics reveal that 10 per cent of the country's residents that were born overseas - equivalent to 932,208 people - speak little to no English. They have prompted Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp to urge Labour to 'get a grip on immigration', adding …

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1 month ago

More Dutch bisnesses using AI, mainly text mining and language generation

NL Times

Last year, 22.7 percent of Dutch companies with 10 or more employees used one or more artificial intelligence technologies, almost 9 percent more compared to the year before. They mainly used text mining and natural language generation, Statistics Netherlands reported in its AI monitor 2024. Last year, 59.2 percent of companies with 500 or more employees used AI in some …

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1 month ago

More Dutch businesses using AI, mainly text mining and language generation

NL Times

Last year, 22.7 percent of Dutch companies with 10 or more employees used one or more artificial intelligence technologies, almost 9 percent more compared to the year before. They mainly used text mining and natural language generation, Statistics Netherlands reported in its AI monitor 2024. Last year, 59.2 percent of companies with 500 or more employees used AI in some …

Dutch Companies Ai Text Mining Written Text

1 month, 1 week ago

More than 1.5 million foreign nationals reside in the Netherlands

NL Times

Over 1.5 million people living in the Netherlands are foreign nationals, with nearly half holding the nationality of another European Union member state, according to new data from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office. Poland remains the primary country of origin for EU citizens residing in the Netherlands, while Ukrainian, Turkish, and Moroccan nationals are among the most significant groups from …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Frustrated with typical Dutch classes? Try the Dutch Brainwash

Dutch News

When you walk into Albert Both’s casual classroom on Amsterdam’s Keizersgracht, where he’s been teaching internationals how to speak Dutch since 2009, you won’t find any traditional Dutch language textbooks or engage in endless chit chat about the weather. “Some people are confused by it, they expect something official,” says Albert, also known as Mr. Dutch Brainwash after the one-week …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Make real progress: Tips and tricks to get talking Dutch

Dutch News

“I should have done it 10 years ago,” says Bill Bosler, a 61-year-old American sitting in a room of students wrestling with basic Dutch. You aren’t made to say anything, or say it right.” But this “Delft method” course is different, says Tim Mamo, 43, and from Malta. The best tip, says director and teacher Renske Berns, is just to …

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4 months ago

"I absolutely love the outside eating and drinking culture"

Dutch News

Jennie Monon grew up in Scotland and spent several years working in human resources before a promotion brought her to Amsterdam. I’m also the Chair of the Anglo Dutch Society, which is a business networking group for Dutch and English executives, so I also sort of think of myself as an international networker. I think if I lived in a …

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1 year, 2 months ago

43 million books bought in Netherlands last year; Most in 11 years

NL Times

Netherlands residents bought 43 million books - physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks - in 2023 - the largest number of books sold since 2012. That’s why CPNB connects people with books.” Readers purchased 685 million euros worth of books last year, 3 percent more than in 2022. “Between 2019 and 2023, approximately 15 percent fewer books of Dutch fiction were …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Dutch universities, students slam plans to slash English courses

Dutch News

Universities, teaching staff and students have criticised the government’s plans to reduce the use of English in Dutch education institutes, saying it will damage both their reputation and research. The University of Groningen issued a statement saying Dijkgraaf’s plans, outlined to MPs last week, would seem to “impair our ability to contribute to the Dutch knowledge economy”. University board president …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Children's reading skills have fallen faster in the Netherlands than other countries

NL Times

Dutch children's reading skills have declined faster in recent years than in other Western countries, said Expertisecentrum Nederlands, which provides advice regarding Dutch language in education. This latest research also shows that reading skills are declining faster in the Netherlands than in other comparable countries. In a previous study produced in 2016, Dutch primary school students in group six scored …

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2 years, 2 months ago

English language books driving increase in Dutch sales; Audiobooks more popular

NL Times

Netherlands residents bought 43.2 million books last year, 0.4 percent more than the year before. After two years of online book sales soaring due to the coronavirus pandemic and related stay-at-home restrictions, physical bookstores regained popularity last year. Netherlands residents bought 6 percent fewer loose e-books last year than in 2021, but the popularity of subscription services for e-books and …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Dutch people again ranked best non-native English speakers

NL Times

The Netherlands ranked first for having the best English-language skills in a country where English is not the native language. The Netherlands has been in the top three of the EF English Proficiency Index since its first edition in 2011 and has held 1st place every year since 2019. This year EF ranked 111 countries on their English proficiency based …

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2 years, 8 months ago

100 Dutch-language poems: A lovely look at Dutch poetry

Dutch News

Following the success of a similarly named book, 100 Danish Poems: From the Medieval Period to the Present, translators Paul Vincent and John Irons set out to compile the history of Dutch poetry in a parallel fashion. The result, 100 Dutch-language Poems: From the Medieval Period to the Present Day, brings together a lovely collection of poetry from the Netherlands …

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2 years, 8 months ago

100 Dutch-language poems: A lovely look at Dutch poetry

Dutch News

Following the success of a similarly named book, 100 Danish Poems: From the Medieval Period to the Present, translators Paul Vincent and John Irons set out to compile the history of Dutch poetry in a parallel fashion. The result, 100 Dutch-language Poems: From the Medieval Period to the Present Day, brings together a lovely collection of poetry from the Netherlands …

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2 years, 9 months ago

‘Dutch is a rich and enlightening language. There’s so much historical context’

Dutch News

Frank Heyn grew up in Baltimore and became a cook after finding himself in Paris. A few days later, the Dutch woman showed up, and I just couldn’t leave her anymore. I’ve definitely gotten the hang of it, but I still don’t know much about Dutch grammar, but I don’t know much about English grammar either. Tell us something surprising …

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2 years, 9 months ago

‘Dutch is a rich and enlightening language. There’s so much historical context’

Dutch News

Frank Heyn grew up in Baltimore and became a cook after finding himself in Paris. A few days later, the Dutch woman showed up, and I just couldn’t leave her anymore. I’ve definitely gotten the hang of it, but I still don’t know much about Dutch grammar, but I don’t know much about English grammar either. Tell us something surprising …

Netherlands Things Paris Ive Six Months Frank Dutch Think

3 years, 1 month ago

Speaking just one language is not the norm: encouraging bilingualism in NL

Dutch News

Monday 21 February is UNESCO International Mother Language Day. According to the report, ‘there is no research evidence that speaking one’s home language would cause a breakdown of social cohesion; indeed, many studies worldwide indicate the opposite.’ Instead, the report writes, ‘allowing children to use their mother tongue … helps students better understand academic concepts, improves their confidence, and increases …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Speaking just one language is not the norm: encouraging bilingualism in NL

Dutch News

Monday 21 February is UNESCO International Mother Language Day. According to the report, ‘there is no research evidence that speaking one’s home language would cause a breakdown of social cohesion; indeed, many studies worldwide indicate the opposite.’ Instead, the report writes, ‘allowing children to use their mother tongue … helps students better understand academic concepts, improves their confidence, and increases …

Education Children Dutch School Schools Polish Eindhoven

3 years, 3 months ago

More Dutch vacationing in the Netherlands, fewer Belgians and Germans

NL Times

Residents of the Netherlands vacationing in their own country last summer led to an increase in the number of guests at Dutch hotels, campsites, and other overnight locations. The number of foreign guests fell in the third quarter of the year by 13 percent compared to the previous year. Hotels, group accommodations, and camping and cottage parks combined received 5 …

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3 years, 4 months ago

‘It took me 10 years to learn Dutch – but language is only a small part of communicating’

Dutch News

Abi Daruvalla fled to Amsterdam from the UK more than 40 years ago and worked for many years as a journalist/foreign correspondent and as a trainer with the Dutch World Service and Free Press Unlimited. I was born and grew up in England but as my parents were Indian immigrants, I was often treated as a foreigner – although I …

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3 years, 4 months ago

'I still can't get used to how loudly Dutch people talk'

Dutch News

Kristóf Hajós is a singer-songwriter and lead singer of The Unbending Trees. He left his native Hungary for Amsterdam three years ago after Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party tightened its grip on power in the 2018 general election. I’d been coming here two or three times a month on business, so I developed a good sense of living here and the …

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3 years, 7 months ago

New to NL or just catching up? Here's some great reads you might have missed

Dutch News

Finished your holiday books and looking for something else to pick up, or just wanting to catch up on items you may have missed? Mass investments hit magic truffle business Campaigners and investors believe the Netherlands is the perfect place to launch a legal magic truffel microdosing industry. Read on Transgender equality, better data ethics are human right issues: Lisa …

Dutch Netherlands Read

3 years, 7 months ago

New to NL or just catching up? Here's some great reads you might have missed

Dutch News

Finished your holiday books and looking for something else to pick up, or just wanting to catch up on items you may have missed? Mass investments hit magic truffle business Campaigners and investors believe the Netherlands is the perfect place to launch a legal magic truffel microdosing industry. Read on Transgender equality, better data ethics are human right issues: Lisa …

Dutch Netherlands Read

3 years, 11 months ago

Brussels looking at making English an official language for the city, despite Brexit

The Independent

English could become one of the official languages of Brussels, a minister for the city’s government has suggested despite the UK’s exit from the EU. “I think that this has presented an opportunity to discuss multilingualism in the country and that these discussions should include a modernisation of the law to consider English as one of the main languages in …

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4 years ago

‘I saw an old couple on a bicycle and I thought, ‘this is romantic, this is so Dutch’

Dutch News

Nanda Milbreta is originally from Riga in Latvia. Basically, I didn’t really know what to do with my life, and I found a programme that would be interesting for me. They would say, ‘Oh, you speak Dutch so good, welcome in Holland!’ even though I was living here and this was my home. I don’t know if America would feel …

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4 years ago

‘I saw an old couple on a bicycle and I thought, ‘this is romantic, this is so Dutch’

Dutch News

Nanda Milbreta is originally from Riga in Latvia. Basically, I didn’t really know what to do with my life, and I found a programme that would be interesting for me. They would say, ‘Oh, you speak Dutch so good, welcome in Holland!’ even though I was living here and this was my home. I don’t know if America would feel …

Food Love Dutch Netherlands Work Old Hague

4 years, 2 months ago

Dutch are using social media more frequently than last year

NL Times

The Dutch are using more different social media platforms simultaneously and log in more frequently every day. This year, 12.4 million Dutch people have WhatsApp, compared to 12.1 million last year. In total, 13.7 million of the nearly 14.7 million Dutch people over the age of 15 are active on social media. For example, 7.3 million Dutch people check Facebook …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Netherlands has world's highest English proficiency for non-native speakers

NL Times

Netherlands residents are the best non-native English speakers in the world, according to the EF English Proficiency Index. In the ten years that this index has been ranking English proficiency in various countries, the Netherlands has topped the ranking four times, and has never ranked lower than third. The index based its figures on English test results of 2.2 million …

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4 years, 8 months ago

Older, more diverse Dutch population could grow to 22 million by 2050

Dutch News

The Dutch population is set to become larger, older and more diverse in the next 30 years, according to a study commissioned by parliament. The national statistics agency CBS and the demographic institute NIDI produced a range of figures in response to a question raised by VVD parliamentary group leader Klaas Dijkhoff during last September’s budget debate. The forecast for …

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4 years, 8 months ago

Older, more diverse Dutch population could grow to 22 million by 2050

Dutch News

The Dutch population is set to become larger, older and more diverse in the next 30 years, according to a study commissioned by parliament. The national statistics agency CBS and the demographic institute NIDI produced a range of figures in response to a question raised by VVD parliamentary group leader Klaas Dijkhoff during last September’s budget debate. The forecast for …

Population Dutch

5 years, 1 month ago

Dutch is like shouting in a storm, says literary translator Sam Garrett

Dutch News

The work of award-winning translator Sam Garrett has been pivotal in bringing Dutch literature to a new, English-speaking audience. Reve’s ‘massive inventory of vocabulary’ and ‘switching back and forth between this highfalutin language and this almost crude language’ undermines, suggests Garrett, that often-heard denigration of Dutch in favour of English. ‘It’s something the Dutch have had to think about.’ Language …

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5 years, 3 months ago

The Anglicisation of higher education in the Netherlands is typically Dutch

Dutch News

The use of English in higher education in the Netherlands is typical of the Dutch outward-looking attitude, say D66 MP Jan Paternotte, and former D66 senator and University of Amsterdam professor Alexander Rinnooy Kan. A decade ago University of Groningen professor Auke van der Would warned the Netherlands would become a ‘second rate language’ and in 1993 Tom McArthur used …

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5 years, 3 months ago

The Anglicisation of higher education in the Netherlands is typically Dutch

Dutch News

The use of English in higher education in the Netherlands is typical of the Dutch outward-looking attitude, say D66 MP Jan Paternotte, and former D66 senator and University of Amsterdam professor Alexander Rinnooy Kan. A decade ago University of Groningen professor Auke van der Would warned the Netherlands would become a ‘second rate language’ and in 1993 Tom McArthur used …

Science Education Language International Higher Education English Students

5 years, 4 months ago

Rotterdammers best at speaking English? New survey fails the test

Dutch News

The Dutch press have been quick to champion Rotterdam’s English speaking skills following publication of a report claiming Rotterdammers have the best English in the world. The research gives Rotterdammers a score of 71.68 out of 100, just ahead of Amsterdam and The Hague, and says Rotterdam’s maritime history and the presence of international companies and Erasmus University are behind …

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5 years, 4 months ago

Rotterdammers best at speaking English? New survey fails the test

Dutch News

The Dutch press have been quick to champion Rotterdam’s English speaking skills following publication of a report claiming Rotterdammers have the best English in the world. The research gives Rotterdammers a score of 71.68 out of 100, just ahead of Amsterdam and The Hague, and says Rotterdam’s maritime history and the presence of international companies and Erasmus University are behind …

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5 years, 4 months ago

Netherlands, Rotterdam top list of highest English proficiency globally

NL Times

Residents of the Netherlands are the best non-native English speakers in the world, according to the EF English Proficiency Index. The Netherlands came out on top with an overall English proficiency score of 70.27, moving up from last year's second place. Rotterdam has the Netherlands' best English speakers with an proficiency score of 71.68, closely followed by Amsterdam at 71.35 …

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5 years, 7 months ago

Foreign students may face Dutch language lessons: Times Higher Education

Dutch News

Dutch universities fear the government may be planning to bring in some form of compulsory Dutch lessons for foreign students, Times Higher Education said on Thursday. There has been mounting concern in the Netherlands about the number of foreign students attending Dutch university and college courses, prompting many degrees to be only offered in Dutch. In June 2018, education minister …

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5 years, 7 months ago

Foreign students may face Dutch language lessons: Times Higher Education

Dutch News

Dutch universities fear the government may be planning to bring in some form of compulsory Dutch lessons for foreign students, Times Higher Education said on Thursday. There has been mounting concern in the Netherlands about the number of foreign students attending Dutch university and college courses, prompting many degrees to be only offered in Dutch. In June 2018, education minister …

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5 years, 8 months ago

Internationally awkward – how to learn Dutch when your office speaks English?

Dutch News

Learning Dutch in an international work environment can be tough especially if English is your common language. ‘Because I couldn’t speak it a lot, I just quit.’ ‘In my office there are Dutch people, but we always speak English,’ he says. He says: ‘After five years, I have the right to apply for a Dutch passport, which is triggering me …

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5 years, 9 months ago

Dutch language disappearing abroad; funding falls far behind other EU countries

NL Times

The Netherlands and Flanders spend much less money on foreign education in Dutch than other countries do no their language. The Netherlands and Flanders spend only 7.5 cents per resident on teaching Dutch abroad, according to the Taalunie. Other, non European countries are even "proactive" in the promotion of their language abroad, often having this managed by the Ministry of …

Language Dutch Netherlands Abroad Taalunie

5 years, 9 months ago

International students struggle to connect with their Dutch peers: study

NL Times

International students in the Netherlands are very positive about the quality of Dutch lecturers, but they struggle to feel at home in the country, according to a survey by three student organizations. The student organizations call on lecturers to let foreign and Dutch students work together more often, and to pay more attention to cultural differences in the lecture halls. …

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5 years, 10 months ago

More British nationals move to the Netherlands as Brexit looms

Dutch News

The British population in the Netherlands is growing as Brexit looms, with the total number of British nationals living here rising by 1,382 in the first three months of this year, well over double the rise booked a year ago. The net migration balance among British nationals in the Netherlands shows the biggest increase in the top 10 list of …

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5 years, 10 months ago

More British nationals move to the Netherlands as Brexit looms

Dutch News

The British population in the Netherlands is growing as Brexit looms, with the total number of British nationals living here rising by 1,382 in the first three months of this year, well over double the rise booked a year ago. The net migration balance among British nationals in the Netherlands shows the biggest increase in the top 10 list of …

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5 years, 11 months ago

German overtakes French as the language most sought-after by employers

The Independent

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy …

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6 years ago

More Dutch changing their surnames

NL Times

An increasing number of Dutch seem to be dissatisfied with their surname, with more and more people going through the administrative hassle and high costs to change it. Last year 2,057 surname changes were approved, compared to 1,269 in 2012, RTL Nieuws reports based on figures from the Justis Department. The reasons for name changes vary from people who want …

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6 years ago

Fewer Dutch move to Britain, but Brits keep on coming here

Dutch News

The number of Dutch nationals moving to Britain has dropped sharply since the Brexit vote in 2016, but more British nationals are moving to the Netherlands, according to national statistics agency CBS. More British nationals are also returning home – some 3,000 went back to the UK last year, the CBS said. A further 1,128 British people became dual nationals …

Dutch Netherlands Brexit British Britain Cbs British Nationals

6 years ago

Fewer Dutch move to Britain, but Brits keep on coming here

Dutch News

The number of Dutch nationals moving to Britain has dropped sharply since the Brexit vote in 2016, but more British nationals are moving to the Netherlands, according to national statistics agency CBS. More British nationals are also returning home – some 3,000 went back to the UK last year, the CBS said. A further 1,128 British people became dual nationals …

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6 years, 1 month ago

Dutch in top five of most-quoted scientists, says new Dutch study

Dutch News

The Netherlands is in the top five countries whose scientists are most often quoted by their peers, Dutch scientific institute Rathenau has found. The 2016 figures show a top rating for Dutch scientists in all disciplines, including social sciences, which in 2011 was dealt a blow by the large-scale fraudulent research by Tilburg university’s Diederik Stapel. One reason for the …

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