Under 30 or Over 30 counting game

[MissAbyss]

330

 

[U. A.]

331

 

[gottacheckout]

332

 

[LoverofAnimals]

333

 

[MissAbyss]

334

 

[LoverofAnimals]

335

 

[MissAbyss]

336

 

[gottacheckout]

337

 

[MissAbyss]

338

 

[LoverofAnimals]

339

You guys should fix your like buttons. Doesn't seem to work for me

 

[gottacheckout]

340

 

[MissAbyss]

341

 

[U. A.]

344
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[GlassMoon]

Netherlands, I am your neighbor!

Nice :-) I just walked by a public bookshelf and found these, which reminded me of you:


I didn't take them with me though... Interestingly, they are made for learning Dutch from English!


345 yay

 

[U. A.]

346



hehe, boek.

to me dutch and german sound nothing alike, but is there some amount of mutual intelligibility?
and how come western europeans can apparently all speak english? public school?

 

[MissAbyss]

I didn't take them with me though... Interestingly, they are made for learning Dutch from English!

Guten Morgen! Many English speakers living in Germany?
Or there any for learing German from Dutch..?

@U. A. - No, there's a huge difference between Dutch and German, unless you live near the border. German is much harder to write. Dutch people learn German in public school, but not the other way around. We also learn English and French.

347

 

[U. A.]

348

oh noes, my weather station

 

[MissAbyss]

How are you going to survive that?! Now, you need to check the weather outside!

349

 

[U. A.]

350

How are you going to survive that?! Now, you need to check the weather outside!

luckily i have an old-school thermometer outside my window...which of course doesn't work at night

@U. A. - No, there's a huge difference between Dutch and German, unless you live near the border. German is much harder to write. Dutch people learn German in public school, but not the other way around. We also learn English and French.

and everyone can actually speak those languages? shit, here everyone has to study both national languages in school, but in real life, 99% of people only speak their regions'

 

[MissAbyss]

and everyone can actually speak those languages? shit, here everyone has to study both national languages in school, but in real life, 99% of people only speak what their regions' language is

No, it depends on education degree as well. We also have Latin (which is completely pointless imo). In Germany mostly everything is dubbed, so you don't hear much original English or other languages in daily life. But in the Netherlands you grow up with English everywhere: on TV, music, games etc.

351

 

[U. A.]

352

 

[MissAbyss]

353

 

[U. A.]

354

 

[darksouls]

355

 

[U. A.]

356

 

[Eriktf]

355

 

[U. A.]

356

 

[Eriktf]

355

 

[darksouls]

356

 

[GlassMoon]

Guten Morgen! Many English speakers living in Germany?
Or there any for learing German from Dutch..?

@U. A. - No, there's a huge difference between Dutch and German, unless you live near the border. German is much harder to write. Dutch people learn German in public school, but not the other way around. We also learn English and French.

347

Wow, you learn so many languages, I'm envious!!!

For Germans, Dutch sounds funny. Like "doedelijk", which means "deadly", sounds like "deadily", since the German word "tod" means "dead". Difficult to explain... but as far as I know, learning Dutch is hard for Germans. It's just hearsay, I have no experience. It was hard to resist the temptation to take those books, but I already have a 2000 page book about amateur radio technology from the 1980s which I didn't read, and a bunch of other books. And I bought at least 6 sets of books from HumbleBundle with at least 16 books each. But I read two of those :-) already!

357

No, it depends on education degree as well. We also have Latin (which is completely pointless imo). In Germany mostly everything is dubbed, so you don't hear much original English or other languages in daily life. But in the Netherlands you grow up with English everywhere: on TV, music, games etc.

351

You can also take Latin in school here, but you van take French or Italian instead. It's true most stuff is dubbed except music. But whenever something must sound fancy, an English term is used. Like Girl's/Boy's days, for example. And advertisement uses a lot of English, too, especially frangrances (guess how I learned that word :-) ) and fashion.