Een gezellig kinderfeestje met karaoke en knutselen

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A2 Dutch listening practice · Dutch · Curated for beginners

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What does a Dutch “kinderfeestje” look like?

kinderfeestje
noun · dutch children's birthday party
A Dutch kids' birthday party — typically dropped-off, themed, and about three hours long

A Dutch kinderfeestje (“kids' party”) is a planned, dropped-off, host-led event that runs about three hours, with a theme, an activity, and a traktatie to take home. Parents drop their kid at 14:00, leave, and return at 17:00. The host parents handle everything in between. The activity calendar is dense: karaoke-rooms, escape rooms, bowlen, zwembad-parties, kleuter-yoga, trampolinepark-runs. The drop-off model is so standard that Dutch parenting columns are full of survival guides for the host.

In this clip, a Dutch family hosts daughter Nim’s kinderfeestje, takes the kids to a karaoke room, and returns home with “piepende oren en pijnlijke kelen.”

Vocabulary frequency

How common is the vocabulary in this A2 Dutch listening practice listening practice?

92.3%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Dutch words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday Dutch.

General Dutch frequency

85.5%
Top 1,000
92.3%
Top 2,000
95.7%
Top 5,000

Spoken Dutch frequency

93.5%
Top 1,000
97.2%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000

Words above this video’s level

Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s A2 level.

friet
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
fries (food)
goodybag
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
goodie bag
ijsje
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
ice cream (small)
karaoke
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
(brand) karaoke — singing game

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-NL 2014 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.

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