Flag of the Netherlands
I didn't know I could read Dutch. Until I logged onto a Dutch newspaper article from a link in Wikipedia. I was asked to sign up to read more and recognized these words:
Dutch - English
account - account
automatisch - automatically
digitale - digital
e-mailadres - e-mail address
gratis - free
hier - here
inloggen - login
registreer - register
stopt - stopped
vergeten - forgotten
English - Dutch
account - account
automatically - automatisch
digital - digitale
email address - e-mailadres
forgotten - vergeten
free - gratis
here - hier
login -inloggen
register - registreer
stopped - stopt
Should I check some more words, one by one in Google translate? It would be quicker to grab several off a wikipedia page.
I went to the wikipedia page and found these similar sounding words:
Dutch - English
bakken - to bake
breken - to break
geven - to give
klimmen - to climb
niet - not
u - you
wegen - to weigh
werken - works
zenden - to send
zitten - to sit
It's like easy German, or English with simplified spelling. This year I am learning Spanish. Next year I could learn Dutch. Not a very common language. But probably a reinforcement for my beginner's German.
Also it will impress other people to say that I can speak English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch. If I count English as one of my languages, in two years time I could speak six languages, and genuinely call myself a polyglot.
How about you? Isn't Dutch easy! https://www.facebook.com/Hyperglots/olyglot page
I just logged into Facebook to find the link to my favourite polyglot page, where people ask questions, so handy for me and for you, dear readers. I found another polyglot page, geared to learning languages.
Why would you want to learn Dutch? Where can you use it? In the Netherlands of course. But why would you go there? To see Anne Frank's house, and the Jewish museum, Rembrandt's house, and the Rijsmuseum with more Rembrandts. Delft pottery, windmills. Tulips. The Wikivoyage page has updates on the Covid situation.
Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language
https://www.facebook.com/polyglotclub.world/
https://www.facebook.com/Hyperglots/
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