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.
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: 2) by aclarke on Friday May 05 2017, @02:14PM (2 children)
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)
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
so what do I know?
More than him apparently, since "belangrijke" is correct. :)