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A long time ago, before Analogue Terrestrial TV (OTA) was replaced by Digital broadcasts in the UK, I was visiting a friend in Amsterdam. I was surprised to dis
by mr_custard 7y ago
A long time ago, before Analogue Terrestrial TV (OTA) was replaced by Digital broadcasts in the UK, I was visiting a friend in Amsterdam. I was surprised to discover that she was watching BBC television. The signal was strong enough to be received in Amsterdam, and I often wonder if this is why the Dutch are historically better at English because they watched so many British TV shows.
- cmrdporcupine 7y agoI dunno, it's more like ... English, Dutch, and German are West Germanic languages, but unlike German English and Dutch did not undergo the high German consonant shift. So many cognate words that seem odd in German are similar in Dutch. As a native English speaker who has German family and studied German I always have found that Dutch seems "halfway" between the two languages. I can usually figure out what a sentence means by reading it that way.
- PeterStuer 7y agoIn Belgium, a country that got an early lead in cable coverage, there were antennas at the North Coast specifically placed for receiving the BBC broadcasts and feeding it into the analog cable system.