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Foreigners are unsociable and refuse to venture beyond their own culture and friends
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Originally posted by petergriffin View PostI can confirm that. The only way I get accepted in my effort to speak Dutch is when I pretend to be Belgian. It's not difficult because I live close to the border and the accent is similar.
Most of the people locally know I'm learning and seem happy to speak Dutch with me. In fact they are happier that people are making the effort. I've never had anyone refuse to speak Dutch with me at all.
Now the Belgian accent is weird.....Comment
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Originally posted by norrahe View PostYou'd be surprised that people think they can get away with not having the native language and get by. In cloggers it is easier as they speak English relatively well and way too many people use that as an excuse for not learning the lingo. It's ok if you live in hamsterjam, but if you live elsewhere then forget about it if you want to get anywhere with the locals.
I would have thought that somewhere like Germany there would be more emphasis on having German. In the Netherlands it's increasingly becoming the case for gigs.“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Originally posted by norrahe View Post
Now the Belgian accent is weird.....<Insert idea here> will never be adopted because the politicians are in the pockets of the banks!Comment
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostI've been in Germany for 25 years now and I'm ****ed if I can speak the lingo<Insert idea here> will never be adopted because the politicians are in the pockets of the banks!Comment
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Originally posted by petergriffin View PostIn Germany there's more tolerance for foreign accents. It's ok to speak scheissdeutsch as long as you're understood. Here in Cloggers if you don't speak randstad-nederlands they call you 'Kanker marokkaan'!
Never had a problem at all. Maybe they are a tad more tolerant here in the midlands?Comment
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Originally posted by petergriffin View PostIn Germany there's more tolerance for foreign accents. It's ok to speak scheissdeutsch as long as you're understood. Here in Cloggers if you don't speak randstad-nederlands they call you 'Kanker marokkaan'!
Wilhelmus van Nassouwe
ben ik, van Duitsen bloed,
den vaderland getrouwe
blijf ik tot in den dood.
oder...
Wilhelmus von Nassawe
bin ich von deutschem blut,
dem vaterland getrawe,
bleib ich bis in den todt,“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostActually I do speak German, just never bothered learning it properly. When I've worked in the Netherlands I've never had any problems with English, primarily because that's the language they expected although I did one project in Amsterdam where they would have conversations in Dutch in front of me and then suddenly realise that I could partially understand them (also my smattering of Afrikaans that I could remember came in handy.)
The reporter is not laughing only because he fancies her methinks although he starts to laugh at the end - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCK15ZksgFwComment
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Afrikaans is basically 17th century Dutch with some regional variation added to it, so no wonder it sounds funny to modern Dutch ears. However, you will still get by in Dutch speaking countries with it.Comment
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Originally posted by Zero Liability View PostAfrikaans is basically 17th century Dutch with some regional variation added to it, so no wonder it sounds funny to modern Dutch ears. However, you will still get by in Dutch speaking countries with it.
I studied old English at uni and never thought it would come in handy with Dutch. A lot of Dutch is very old school in the way questions are asked and often I'll hear something not really understanding it and then realising it sounds pretty similar to old English. I think the only difficulty is the sentence rearrangement and if you have several verbs in one sentence and working out which one or ones are infinitive at the end.
They also have a lot of expressions which are commonly used, so you kinda need those as well.Comment
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