>>Hoi Jos,
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>>Spreek je nederlands of afrikaans? Ik heb mij altijd al afgevraagd welke nationilteit jij eigenlijk hebt ?
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>I've had a lot of contact with Dutch language in my time... and it's definitely easier to understand than French. Probably knowing English and some German helps a lot... of niet?
Dutch is quite similar to German. In fact, I thikn some German dialects are more similar to Dutch than to the official German.
German and Dutch are different enough that if you know only German for instance, you won't understand much Dutch, but the same also happens among some of the German dialects!
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
