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That is lovely, thanks for ‘ze laf’. One minor note, it reads much more like Dutch to me :)
by mbroncano 5y ago
That is lovely, thanks for ‘ze laf’. One minor note, it reads much more like Dutch to me :)
- User23 5y agoAs someone who speaks both English and German natively, I can say Dutch makes my brain hurt whenever I hear it. It’s like my brain can’t pick which neural pathways to use and the dissonance is awful.
- sethhochberg 5y agoEven as a native English speaker who speaks no German, I find being in The Netherlands to feel a lot like the part of my brain that is hearing a conversation and trying to tune in is working at native speed, but the language parsing part can't make any sense of it. Sometimes when I'm in parts of the world where I'm surrounded by other languages I don't speak, I find I'm almost automatically tuning out people speaking them around me. That doesn't happen at all with Dutch.