Children's programs in Dutch?

Question

I am American but have recently moved to Belgium, and my daughter attends a Dutch speaking school. She has learned the basics, but I would like to know if anyone could recommend some good programs for children in Dutch. so she can become fluent faster? She's 8, so no Telletubbies or other baby programs.

Also- she loves Spongebob... is that translated into Dutch? The only ones I could find online have Dutch subtitles but the voices are still in English, which doesn't help much.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Ketnet is geared more toward 3-5 year olds, so she thinks it is boring!

Answer 1

Ketnet is split into 3 target groups, so not only 3-5 year olds. maybe take a look at "spring" on Ketnet
for the rest there is Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. There should be some familiar programs there, and most of them are dubbed (although they tend to be done in a more northern (Holland) accent, which is a bit different than Flemish. (a bit like American vs. British English)

in Flanders we don't dub a program very often. When it's not specifically aimed at people who can't yet read, we subtitle, because dubbing is really pretty silly to watch.
Nevertheless, I prefer the voices used over here over the voices they dare to use in say France: they don't even remotely ressemble the original.

Otherwise you could get some DVD's. Shrek is pretty well done in Dutch, so is Chicken Run.

by the way, where do you live? although Flanders is not that big, we still have some distinct differences in dialect.

Answer 2

Veronica /Fox Kids
Yorin
Zapelin

It seems that Sponge Bob is also given in Dutch.

Answer 3

Samson en Gert

Answer 4

Let her watch KETNET on Belgian TV, it has lots of nice TV-series for children:

Answer 5

Sesame street? See if they have something. God bless.