Hi Jim, Sorry for the delay! I actually lived in an apartment in Maastricht, since as an E-4 in the USAF, I was not required to lived at the Tapijn Kaserne....
Hoi iedereen, Ik ben bijna af met mijn "thesis." Na dat, ik een andere verslag voordien mijn graduatie uit graduate school moet doen. Ik zal zijn in een...
oops --- Ik voorgat de adres krijgen. Hier het is. http://www.townonline.com/parentsandkids/news_coverage/899892276964727 1935 Cathleen ... verslag ... in ......
im from indonesia i really want to learn about dutch language, i really want to speak it because i have many friends in netherlands & distance family also in ...
Basic question about pronunciation: I was always taught by my native speaking boyfriend and his family that the "ij" is pronounced like an I; eye; 'i' in 'ice...
Dutch diphthongs can be very difficult to tune your ear to (it took me years). First of all the Dutch "ij" is pronounced the same as the Dutch "ei" so how do...
Dear all, Or maybe one of you can help us by recording some dutch words in mp3 format and send them to this mailing list. I think it is better to help us,...
ij or ei should not be pronounced as [ai] as in 'eye' in Standard Dutch, but as e (as in bed) + y (as in yes). Some dialects (e.g. the Amsterdam dialect)...
Hallo, We enjoyed the family trip to The Netherlands. Stayed with friends near Leiden, spent a day in Amsterdam but everything was too crowded because of the...
I am jealous of your trip. I am in the middle of the US and we seem to be having winter again. I have only had one jar of Nutella...yes try it with the...
Mmm... Peanut butter sounds nice... My boyfriend and his family would just put some butter on a piece of toast and a lot of the sprinkles and it is quite,...
The main two ways we ate hagelslag growing up was with butter (mostly) and with peanut butter secondarily. It's also good on ice cream - similar to the...
The use of present indicative forms of "to be" followed by the participial form of the primary verb (HAS/HAVE been, HAS/HAVE walked, HAS/HAVE learned, etc.) is...
Nice to meet you! This is question is concerning English Grammar. Maybe this is a really basic question. But basic or not, I'm really confused. An emphasis? or...
Hi, I'm afraid English is a messy, baggy, loose (flexible?) language. There aren't any rules about this other than saying adding an 'a' gives it a sense of a...
... adding ... leaving ... personal ... Thanks :) it really helped. It's amazing to find out, after all these years of trying to adjust my every sentence to...
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:35:35 -0000, "leigh_priest" ... All languages are to a certain extent. Why? Because they're shaped by humans, and humans are not the...
But when you qualify the noun it can make sense... So: "We ate in a silence that was almost palpable" but I cannot think of good examples that relate to your...
In addition to what Godwin stewart wrote, in as much you cannot use an indefinite article with uncountables, you can use definite " the" ,depending on the...
Hello, I didn't mean to say there were no rules in English! I just meant that there wasn't a grammatical difference between saying 'her skill was of a fine...
Some people are a pain in the ass. ;) E. ... -- NEW GROUP! For those who have a basic knowledge of the Dutch language, are able to read and write basic...
Thanks for all the answers.:) I'm in a great pain(or should I say in great pains) in expressing the gratitude for all the advices for the past 3 years.. ...
... "Advice" isn't countable :) "for all the advice over the past 3 years" ... I have a great interest in 日本語 (Japanese). ... Perhaps we could start up a...
Hallo, One of the things I really admire about the Dutch language, compared to English, is the spelling. It seems to me that the Dutch have looked after a...
Yes, Dutch spelling is generally very phonetic, but the pitfalls can be less easy to spot as a result. I seem to remember some years ago, there was an annual...
... Haha, korewa moo li de su ne. It's relatively much easier for koreans(only for koreans) to study japanese, because of the similarities in grammar. We say...
hi there my problem was that i knew a bit of afrikaans which made it a bit confusing coz some words aint used for the same perpose it was so hard for me to...
Hai friends, I'm a new member this group.Recently I've started learning Dutch language for curiosity with some manuals and mp3 files downloaded from the net....
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