Ronald Severing
(1949) is director of the Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma (Foundation for Language Planning) on Curaçao. Its goals is to promote the relevant languages of the community and to regulate the state of affairs of language. Severing studied Dutch in Nijmegen, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics in Tilburg, and obtained his doctorate with a thesis on literacy and successful teaching on Curaçao. For years he has been working at all levels of education, both in the Netherlands and in the Netherlands Antilles. He is editor of teaching methods of Papiamentu for primary schools on Curaçao, like Mosaiko, Trampolin and Cristal. In addition he wrote about the writers Cola Debrot and Frank Martinus Arion.
Past events
Great Dicatation in Papiamento/u of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Prolongated because of its success in 2006: the public dictation in Papiamento/u. Participants may choose from the dictation in Papiamentu or Papiamento Sonia Garmers and Sydney Kock do the dicating. Winternachten provides pen and paper.
The Papiamento dictation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Test your spelling of Papiamentu or Papiamento. Take your chance to win the new Papiamentu-Dutch dictionary. Winternachten will provide you with pen and paper. Don't worry about the results, only the number of spelling mistakes that the winner makes will be revealed. Dutch and Papiamento spoken.
