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Nora Charles ([personal profile] noracharles) wrote 2010-03-05 11:05 am (UTC)

I don't go to the library and try to read a whole book in Dutch, if that's what you're imagining :-D

But when I come across Dutch on my reading list or on the labels of stuff I look at in stores or wherever I happen to see it, I enjoy reading it. If I'm watching tv and come across a show in Dutch I also sometimes watch it just for the pleasure of listening to the language, even if I don't care what the show is about.

Dutch is similar to the other Germanic languages, so a lot of the words are the same. I'm sure I misunderstand quite a bit, because I have to fill in the gaps using my imagination, and words with the same root can have developed rather different meanings in the different languages. But it's fun :-)

Have you seen the clip of Eddie Izzard buying a brown cow in Friesland?

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