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Foreigners are unsociable and refuse to venture beyond their own culture and friends

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    #31
    Originally posted by redgiant View Post
    When I tried my limited Afrikaans (I spent several years near Joberg as a expat nipper and was beaten into learning that damn tongue!) in Amsterdam I was laughed at. Apparently I was informed it's similar to the Austrian German to the rest of Germany - they sound like country bumpkins/farmers Luckily there is no gender to the words in Afrikaans so I don't mess up as much as with my German.

    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=LCK15ZksgFw
    He is Belgian

    Here's summat really funny Nick Clegg chatting in Dutch
    "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

    Norrahe's blog

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      #32
      Originally posted by norrahe View Post
      He is Belgian

      Here's summat really funny Nick Clegg chatting in Dutch
      A politician fluent in a foreign language? Communist self loathing traitor!
      <Insert idea here> will never be adopted because the politicians are in the pockets of the banks!

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