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dborehamtoday at 6:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

My experience traveling to the Netherlands as an English speaker is that people are speaking English, but they're drunk!


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phpnodetoday at 7:19 PM

When they seamlessly switch from English to Dutch I feel like I’m having a stroke: all the same intonation, the same accent, but nothing makes sense any more

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jakevoytkotoday at 7:38 PM

As someone who took German in high school, Dutch had my brain flailing for vocabulary to understand but nothing connected.