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  • (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.

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  • (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. :)