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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
my dutch is nearly as good as my german (which, i admit, is not very good, so you can extrapolate the level of my dutch from there  ), because it's quite close to german and a bit to english. right now the only things i remember from when i was visiting the netherlands are : "brod kaas" (or is it spelled "brot kaas" ???) which is what i ate every time we stopped for lunch in a pub, and "kunst" which is what i was travelling around seeing. mainly because i was travelled half the trip with a friend who had cousins there who took us around on a driving tour one day (and in one day, we visited the entire country !! the netherlands are quite small) and since he knew i was studying art, every time he saw a statue in the road or a museum or anything like that he would shout out "Kunst !" and point at it.  |
I'll assume you mean "een broodje kaas" (as in a bun with cheese)
And you can't visit the entire country in one day. Unless you never get out of the car and only circumnavigated the borders...
You can have a lot of fun with languages that are close to each other. I live near a town where a lot of Germans come for shopping, especially if there's an event going on. And during those events a lot of German shop owners come too. There's often a market then. One thing they hear a lot is:
Ich sollen Sie bellen.
wich means: I will bark [at] you.
Bellen in Dutch = Anrufen in German = Making a phone call in English
Bellen in German = Blaffen in Dutch = Barking in English (as a dog...)