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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @09:19PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @09:19PM (#504536)

    Besides native (Dutch), I was taught English, French and German. Took ancient Latin & Greek.
    So naturally, I know Dutch and English.

  • (Score: 2) by aclarke on Friday May 05 2017, @02:14PM (2 children)

    by aclarke (2049) on Friday May 05 2017, @02:14PM (#504855) Homepage

    I'm learning Dutch since I have a lot of Dutch family. Thanks to DuoLingo, I now know such useful sentences as "Heb je mijn eend?", and "Dat is een belangerijk vrouw."

    I also took six years of French in school but as I never use it, I'm no longer particularly conversant.

    Naturally, my answer to this poll was a resounding 1.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by hendrikboom on Saturday May 06 2017, @02:46AM (1 child)

      by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 06 2017, @02:46AM (#505284) Homepage Journal

      As a native Dutch speaker, who left the Netherlands at the age of five and started learning English, I sympathize. And encourage.

      For those who know no Dutch, the sentences he quoted are
              "Do you have my duck?"
      and
              "That is an important woman."
      Except that I think that "belangerijk" should be "belangrijke". But I never really learned any formal Dutch grammar, just various trivia my friends told me when I went back to Holland for a while when an adult, so what do I know?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @10:37AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @10:37AM (#505383)

        so what do I know?

        More than him apparently, since "belangrijke" is correct. :)

  • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday May 05 2017, @09:34PM

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 05 2017, @09:34PM (#505167) Journal

    So you've got two langauges on me.