My business trip to the Netherlands went well. 99% of dialogues went like this.
>Hallo >nl:Hallo >Spreek je engels? >nl:Nee Virtually nobody speaks English in the Netherlands.
Information centre: >Hallo - Hello >H-hallo >Do you speak English? >Wat? Oooh, English? Nee, nee. Ik spreek geen engels. For fuck sake they don't even speak English in some tourist information centres.
Nobody in restaurants, bars, American fast-foods or almost anywhere. Not young people. Not even students.
Only some people at the airport. They're not required to be able to speak English even on the airport!
One of four of our receptionists.
And many people that turned out to be former foreigners or tourists.
Then we met a young Dutch guy in one restaurant. He told us that usually they have ten or more years of mandatory English lessons in their school system. But nobody bothers to learn English.
Just for fun I also tried French and German.To no avail. Surprisingly.
I communicated in Dutch thanks to the translation service of Google only with some minor issues. But all that was a huge lesson about Dutch culture for me.
Dutch business partner couldn't keep to the terms. We promptly tried another one. And he failed too.
I couldn't understand how such a lazy shithole can live so comfortably and how it successfully pretends to be a First World country.
don't know where you are but we're literally number one.
Cooper Howard
user, I...
Nathaniel Bennett
Wew lad, gotta lurk more
Parker White
Its a meme you dip
Landon Carter
oh how old, I havent been here a couple of months. I've been browsing this board since for over 4 years dont tell me to lurk more kiddo(....)
sage
Ethan White
Liek one day
Jacob Sanders
Pranked
Lincoln Cox
waarom bijt je nou kankersukkel
Cooper Martin
lol was a thread about Spain a few hours ago, this meme hot off the presses, served fresh for your pleasure.
Cooper James
Memes aside dutch cant speak english for shit Fuck this article
Liam Gray
el australiANO
Benjamin Davis
My business trip to the America went well. 99% of dialogues went like this.
>Hallo >nl:Hallo >Spreek je Nederlands ? >nl:Nee Virtually nobody speaks Dutch in the Amerika.
Information centre: >Hallo - Hello >H-hallo >spreek je Nederlands >Wat? Oooh, Dutch? No, no i don't speak Dutch. For fuck sake they don't even speak Dutch in tourist information centres.
Nobody in restaurants, bars, Dutch pannenkoekenhuizen or almost anywhere. Not young people. Not even students.
Only some people at the airport. They're not required to be able to speak Dutch even on the airport!
One of four of our receptionists.
And many people that turned out to be former foreigners or tourists.
Then we met a young American guy in one restaurant. He told us that usually they have ten or more years of mandatory English lessons in their school system. But nobody bothers to learn Dutch.
Just for fun I also tried French and German.To no avail. Surprisingly.
I communicated in English thanks to the translation service of Google only with some minor issues. But all that was a huge lesson about American culture for me.
American business partner couldn't keep to the terms. We promptly tried another one. And he failed too.
I couldn't understand how such a lazy shithole can live so comfortably and how it successfully pretends to be a First World country.
Lucas Smith
My business trip to the America went well. 99% of dialogues went like this.
>Hallo >nl:Hallo >Spreek je Nederlands ? >nl:Nee Virtually nobody speaks Dutch in the Amerika.
Information centre: >Hallo - Hello >H-hallo >spreek je Nederlands >Wat? Oooh, Dutch? No, no i don't speak Dutch. For fuck sake they don't even speak Dutch in tourist information centres.
Nobody in restaurants, bars, Dutch pannenkoekenhuizen or almost anywhere. Not young people. Not even students.
Only some people at the airport. They're not required to be able to speak Dutch even on the airport!
One of four of our receptionists.
And many people that turned out to be former foreigners or tourists.
Then we met a young American guy in one restaurant. He told us that usually they have ten or more years of mandatory English lessons in their school system. But nobody bothers to learn Dutch.
Just for fun I also tried French and German.To no avail. Surprisingly.
I communicated in English thanks to the translation service of Google only with some minor issues. But all that was a huge lesson about American culture for me.
American business partner couldn't keep to the terms. We promptly tried another one. And he failed too.
I couldn't understand how such a lazy shithole can live so comfortably and how it successfully pretends to be a First World country.
Sebastian Adams
English and Dutch are mutually intelligible. If you understand English, you undertand 99% of Dutch.
Jordan Foster
>you undertand 99% of Dutch
Josiah Adams
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Bentley Jones
less countries should speak english
Cooper Gomez
>English and Dutch are mutually intelligible. Just like Sami and Finnish, right?
But really, I speak Norwegian, English, and German. Yet, Dutch is as intelligible as Icelandic to me.
Daniel Moore
My business trip to Chile went well. 99% of dialogues went like this.
>Hola >cl: ola >hablas español? >cl: wn Virtually nobody speaks Spanish in Chile.
Information centre: >Hallo - Hello >H-hola >Hablas español? >q querit? Oooh, wn q fome? No, wn. aqui la fome wn ql For fuck sake they don't even speak Spanish in some tourist information centres.
Nobody in restaurants, bars, American fast-foods or almost anywhere. Not young people. Not even students.
Only some people at the airport. They're not required to be able to speak Spanish even on the airport!
One of four of our receptionists.
And many people that turned out to be former foreigners or tourists.
Then we met a young Chilean guy in one restaurant. He told us that usually they have ten or more years of mandatory Spanish lessons in their school system. But nobody bothers to learn Spanish.
Just for fun I also tried Quechua and Aimara.To no avail. Surprisingly.
I communicated in Chilean thanks to the translation service of Google only with some minor issues. But all that was a huge lesson about Chilean culture for me.
Chilean business partner couldn't keep to the terms. We promptly tried another one. And he failed too.
I couldn't understand how such a lazy shithole can live so comfortably and how it successfully pretends to be a First World country.
Adam Price
>Dutch is as intelligible as Icelandic to me. Wait. Norwegians can't understand Icelandic? What about Swedish?
Brandon Brooks
lurk more newfag
Joshua Peterson
We can understand Swedish as if it merely was a dialect of our own language. But with Icelandic, most of us can make sense of just a few words.
Joseph Reyes
not even close
Wyatt Gutierrez
Dutch is inteligible to English speakers. If you have a wide vocabulary in English and listen sideways to Dutch being spoken then you will understand it.
Leo Anderson
Cool. I thought Icelandic was a dialect of Norwegian.
Robert Turner
I'm pretty sure a native english speaker has an easier time to understand written French than Dutch
Xavier Cook
yep, simply because a lot of english is full of french loanwords.
Cooper Young
It's a dialect of what Norwegian was around 700 years ago. Modern Norwegian is mostly a variety of Danish. In fact, in the very start of the 1800's, the Christiania (Oslo) dialect was considered the most "proper" dialect in all of the Danish-Norwegian realm, being much closer to the written language than any other dialect. In later times, the Danish dialects in Denmark have changed more than the dialects in Norway, making the modern day Norwegian language closer to Danish than Danish itself.
So to sum things up: Icelandic = Norwegian Norwegian = Old Danish Danish = Bastardized Danish
Chase Cooper
Thanks. I get it. It's like an extreme version of Afrikaans for me.
Asher Long
I thought the Icelanders were extremely conservative with their language So it would be like Middle-Dutch to us
Michael Johnson
Memes aside, we can. It's just that our accent is the ugliest accent you can have in English.
Ayden Sullivan
Sorry but my English is shit. I only read and hear it but never have an actual conversation in English. I can't do a presentation in English without eeeeeeeeeeeh... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeh
Jayden Fisher
But you're typing fluent English right now, idiot. The reason why your conversations in English are shit is because you're not used to it and your head is still thinking in Dutch while you're speaking.
I had the same thing when an international student moved into my student house, after a little while you get used to it.
Connor Morgan
I Kek'd
Josiah Carter
>But you're typing fluent English right now, idiot. That's is what i'm trying to say. See how bad my English is? I type, read and hear it. But never ever speak it. I use German more in in real life because i live near the border of Mordor.
Camden Bennett
You just got pranked mate.We are pretty good at English.
Easton Clark
Reread my post, especially the last sentence.
Gavin Evans
My business trip to France went well. 99% of dialogues went like this.
>Bonjour >fr: مرحبا >Parle anglais? >fr: لا Virtually nobody speaks English in France
Information centre: >Bonjour - Hello >م-مرحبا >Parle anglais? >ماذا؟ أوه، اللغة الإنجليزية. لا، لا أستطيع أن أتكلم الإنجليزية. For fuck sake they don't even speak English in some tourist information centres.
Nobody in restaurants, bars, American fast-foods or almost anywhere. Not young people. Not even students.
Only some people at the airport. They're not required to be able to speak English even on the airport!
One of four of our receptionists.
And many people that turned out to be former foreigners or tourists.
Then we met a young French guy in one restaurant. He told us that usually they have ten or more years of mandatory English lessons in their school system. But nobody bothers to learn English.
Just for fun I also tried German and Spanish.To no avail. Surprisingly.
I communicated in English thanks to the translation service of Google only with some minor issues. But all that was a huge lesson about French culture for me.
French business partner couldn't keep to the terms. We promptly tried another one. And he failed too.
I couldn't understand how such a lazy shithole can live so comfortably and how it successfully pretends to be a First World country.
Dominic Moore
>wees mij >ga naar burgerland >iedereen spreekt nederlands Hoorndragers