Learning Dutch
- Thread starter Rick van Opbergen
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A friend of mine recently went on a visit to her boyfriend in Holland. When we were talking on the phonem after she's spent about two months there, I asked her - you must be beginning to speak Dutch by now? And she replied - are you kidding? It took me about a month just to learn to pronounce his friends' names! :smile:
Dutch is a lot like German, only it's more difficult, isn't it?
Dutch is a lot like German, only it's more difficult, isn't it?
I don't think you're going to get an answer from Rick van Opbergen, he hasn't posted here for about two years. I have a multilingual friend in Rotterdam though, I'll ask him via email and get back to you.
I'm curious about why you'd want to know that though. My experience suggests that people who feel a need to say "I would never lie to you..." in any language, have already lied to you and are about to do it again.
Me too. Also Portugese, Italian, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Mandarin, Russian... i.e. not at all. ;-)hermanntrude said:
lol i don't claim anything like fluency but I can get around by reading the signs and generally understand the gist of some simple stuff, which is more than i can do with french or italian or spanish
thank you for the help with the tralanstion.
The reason i asked was not because i am lieing or even have lied but because the dutch person i was saying it too doesnt belive shes good looking and i was trying to explain in her home language.
thanks again
The reason i asked was not because i am lieing or even have lied but because the dutch person i was saying it too doesnt belive shes good looking and i was trying to explain in her home language.
thanks again
I've spent a fair amount of time in Holland and barely had a chance to use the half dozen little Dutch phrases I had learned because everyone spoke English. Nothing turns off my efforts to speak another language faster than having the person you are talking to demonstrate that he is at least as proficient in English as you are.