S5 E2: naam en adres

Chapters

1. 0:00 Cold open
2. 0:18 Scene anchor
3. 0:28 Teaching - naam, mijn
4. 1:14 Clerk's question - wat is uw naam
5. 2:05 Teaching - adres, hoofdstraat
6. 2:48 Clerk's question - uw adres
7. 3:05 Both-sides mid-dialogue drill
8. 3:33 Teaching - tot ziens
9. 4:06 Second replay
10. 4:23 Full role-play
11. 5:17 Wrap and preview

Script

Cold open

This is episode two of Diane's Inburgering Dutch. Listen to this conversation.

Goedemorgen. Wat is uw naam?

Mijn naam is Michael.

En wat is uw adres?

Hoofdstraat tien.

Dank u wel. Tot ziens.

Tot ziens.

Scene anchor

It's Monday morning. You walk into the gemeente for the appointment you booked last week. The clerk is meneer de Vries. He needs your name and your address.

Teaching - naam, mijn

First, the word for name. Listen, then repeat.

Naam.

Naam.

How do you say, my? Listen and repeat.

Mijn.

Mijn.

Now put it together. My name.

Mijn naam.

And the connector, is. The same as in English, just spelled differently. Try, my name is.

Mijn naam is.

Now say, my name is Michael.

Mijn naam is Michael.

Clerk's question - wat is uw naam

Now the clerk's side. He'll ask, what is your name? The word, what.

Wat?

Wat?

Your, formal version. Listen and repeat.

Uw.

Uw.

Note this is the polite, formal your. You use it with officials, doctors, anyone you'd treat as Sir or Madam. We'll learn the informal version later.

So, your name is uw naam. How do you say, what is your name?

Wat is uw naam?

Now the meneer asks you. Listen.

Wat is uw naam?

Mijn naam is Michael.

Teaching - adres, hoofdstraat

Now your address. The word, address.

Adres.

Adres.

How do you say, my address?

Mijn adres.

Address number ten on a street called Main Street. Hoofd means main. Straat is street. Together, Hoofdstraat. Listen.

Hoofdstraat.

Hoofdstraat.

Say, Hoofdstraat tien. Main Street ten.

Hoofdstraat tien.

Clerk's question - uw adres

The clerk asks, and what is your address? How does he ask that?

En wat is uw adres?

And you answer, Hoofdstraat tien.

Hoofdstraat tien.

Both-sides mid-dialogue drill

Drill both sides. The meneer asks for your name.

Wat is uw naam?

You answer.

Mijn naam is Michael.

He asks for your address.

En wat is uw adres?

You answer.

Hoofdstraat tien.

Teaching - tot ziens

The clerk says goodbye. Until we see each other again. The phrase, tot ziens.

Tot ziens.

Tot ziens.

How would you say goodbye back to him?

Tot ziens.

Note. Tot ziens is more formal than tot maandag from episode one. Tot ziens you can use with anyone. Tot maandag is specifically until Monday.

Second replay

Listen to the conversation again. You should follow all of it now.

Goedemorgen. Wat is uw naam?

Mijn naam is Michael.

En wat is uw adres?

Hoofdstraat tien.

Dank u wel. Tot ziens.

Tot ziens.

Full role-play

One more time. The full exchange. You say every line, both yours and meneer de Vries's. He greets you first.

Goedemorgen.

He asks for your name.

Wat is uw naam?

You give it.

Mijn naam is Michael.

He asks for your address.

En wat is uw adres?

Your answer.

Hoofdstraat tien.

He thanks you and says goodbye.

Dank u wel. Tot ziens.

You say goodbye too.

Tot ziens.

Wrap and preview

Meneer de Vries pulls up your record on his screen. He notices your paspoort - your passport - is about to expire next month. In episode three you'll come back to renew it.

That's the end of episode two. Speak aloud, don't memorize. Move on to episode three tomorrow.

Tot morgen.

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