Thimm C.A. Dutch Self-Taught, with Phonetic Pronunciation

London: Publisher Marlborough and Co, 1904. — 120 p.Сontaining Vocabularies-Elementary Grammar-Idiomatic Phrases and Dialogues-Travel Talk-Commercial, Trading, Legal and Religious Terms and Conversations-Cycling-Motoring-Photography-Amusements.
The Dutch language being a collateral of the Modem German, A there is considerable similarity between them, both having originated in the one form of construction, tiz., old High German, and both’having the same root words. ‘This close relationship will naturally be found of groat assistance to the student who, having a knowledge of either language, desires to learn the other. The present manual is designed for students, and for thoso
whoso business or pleasure renders a practical acquaintance with the language a necessity, or at any rate a desideratum. Merchants, professional and commercial men visiting Holland or its dependencies, and travellers, officials, and settlers in South Africa will find it of great service and value. Dutch as spoken in Holland has been adhered to, for I found, Whilst serving with the South African Field Force, that this is generally understood by the Boers and the Capo Dutch; moreover, it is this parent tongue that is being taught in the Government schools both in the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony. The very full outline of Grammar that forms a special and important feature of the work, will prove most helpful to the student and all who desire to master tho language. Tho phonetic or third column will bo found to give, at a glance, tho pronunciation of the Dutch words in the second column, as they are spoken by the educated classes in Holland. This is accomplished by means of Marlborough’s System of Phonetics, as employed throughout their Series of “ Self-Taught ” Manuals. Tho system is so simple that those previously iiuacqiiniiited with either Dutch or German can, with its readily understood.