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Keep up to date with all the happenings in Dutch Studies.
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1 July 2021

Anglo-Netherlands Society Awards 2021

Each year, the Anglo-Netherlands Society awards two generous prizes: the ANS Essay Prize and the ANS Podcast Prize. The prize is open to Second Year students of Dutch at Sheffield.

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8 June 2021

Beyond the academy: Our translation travels far and wide

Few things are more rewarding than seeing your work travel! Together with our colleagues at UCL, Sheffield students tackled the translation of a text written by Taalunie Writer in Residence, Tessa Leuwsha. And the result reached South-America.
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3 June 2021

Looking Back: Our first year in Dutch Studies

Now that we can meet up indoors again, students Alice Willett (Dutch, German, Spanish) and Theo Taylor (Dutch, Spanish & linguistics) got together for ‘een lekker kopje koffie’ and looked back on their first year in Dutch Studies.
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7 June 2020

Our First Year Modules 2021

Add Dutch to your degree programme: learn an accessible European language and get acquainted with the history, art and contemporary cultures of the Netherlands and Belgium.
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24 May 2021

2021 Dutch Year Abroad: Teaching English

John Cairns (BAMLC Spanish, Dutch, German) is currently teaching English in the Netherlands. He reports on his experience so far. On a Year Abroad in times of Covid and on some unexpected discoveries.

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18 May 2021

Dutch Studies SURE project

Sheffield's SURE scheme offers a summer research scholarship for undergraduate students. Catherine Newell managed to secure funding for her project looking at the representation of slavery in museums in Liverpool, Amsterdam and Brussels.

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9 May 2021

Dutch Student Society NV: Ambitions for 2021/22

We are happy to introduce ourselves AND our plans for the next academic year: Welkom bij de nieuwe Nederlandse Vereniging Committee voor 2021/22!

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Laurence Scott (bottom left), Filip De Ceuster (top left) with students of Dutch
4 May 2021

Expert advice: A visit from writer and broadcaster Laurence Scott

For the second year running, students on our Dutch culture project 'Towards a New Pastoral' are presenting their research in the form of a podcast. Time to bring in an expert: BBC Radio 3 presenter and author Laurence Scott.
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23 April 2021

Creative Translation in Schools

Dutch at Sheffield, together with The Queen's College Oxford’s Translation Exchange, developed a new outreach project for the School of Languages and Cultures. 'Haughty Henriette' is ready for local schools.
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4 March 2021

2021 Year Abroad: How Brussels found me

While Covid tests our patience and while a post Brexit world does not make it easier to study or work in Europe, we still cannot stop the positive energy from flowing. Here is June Dawson, reporting from Brussels.
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9 February 2021

Nu jij: Animated language

We are proud to present our new language Youtube channel! We offer animated grammar explanations as well as speaking exercises. All developed by staff and students at Sheffield.
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22 December 2020

Exhilarating languages: Creative translation in schools

Hard work, little gain: language learning is not always associated with joy, creativity and fun. With these targeted workshops our students want to show how exhilarating learning languages can be.
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11 December 2020

My first semester studying a new language

I’m Lottie Armett and I’m in First Year, studying Beginners’ Dutch and Post A-Level German. Here is my story of picking up a new language. In my case: Dutch.
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25 November 2020

Dutch Writer in Residence: Niña Weijers

It was a genuine pleasure to welcome Niña Weijers as our Taalunie online Writer in Residence Autumn 2020. Weijers is one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Dutch literature and we organised two events to mark her visit.
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9 November 2020

Music, theatre and bikes!

Lydia Cope (BAMLC German and Dutch) is currently on her Third Year Abroad in Antwerp. She reports on doing a work placement abroad in times of Corona.

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30 October 2020

Off the Shelf Festival introduces New Dutch Writers

Sheffield’s Off the Shelf Festival of Words featured a literary evening with two Dutch authors and two literary translators, including Sheffield alumnus Alice Tetley-Paul. Nicole Oshisanwo (4th year Dual Degree History and Modern Languages) reports.
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Robert Heaney: My respect for Frisian

Multilingualism is a central topic in the world of language policy. Robert Heaney (BA French and Dutch) picked Dr Kristine Horner's module on this topic and discovered Frysk, one of the official languages of the Netherlands.

19 January 2021
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Summer course online: it works!

What does a summer course in corona times look like? For the first time in its 65-year existence, the Dutch Language Union Summer Course moved all activities online. Georgie von Schweinitz (BA Spanish, German,  Dutch) looks back at her experience.

2 September 2020
Elinor Sheridan in Nijmegen

Elinor Sheridan on her Third Year Abroad in the Netherlands

Elinor Sheridan studies Dutch alongside her French. She looks back on her Year Aboard in the Netherlands: "I am incredibly grateful to have had that unforgettable opportunity to find a space for myself in Nijmegen."

25 August 2020
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Anglo-Netherlands Annual Prize 2020

The winners of the ANS Annual Award 2020 are Hanna Aalen, Ana Krech, Robert Pearce and Marta Siwakowska for their splendid podcast on 'Stimmy of het oerwoud in de stad', a children’s book by Daan Remmerts de Vries and Philip Hopman.

23 July 2020
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Looking ahead: Taking translation into schools

We've come to the end of a turbulent academic year: high time for new plans and initiatives. Dutch Studies is pleased to announce that we will be taking our long-term involvement with translation further in 2020-2021.

9 July 2020