Introduce yourselves

If you are a new member, or have allready been around for a while, and feel an urge to introduce yourself, here´s the place to do it.

 

lol! :lol: good point! Well I guess you all knowme already so I won't have to introduce myself...

 

Of course we know you ! You´re Roels brother from Uruguay ( The Dutch had colonies about everywhere else in the world, so why not in Uruguay as well ).

 

Well, my name is Pat, I'm 17, live in Canada, but I did live in Germany for awhile. I guess thats it?

 

Hey! You're as old as my brother! That's nice.
Hey, Pat, isn't that a girl's name?

 

Funny. Isn't Roel a....a.....well, never mind.

 

Bet you can't pronounce it either!

 

I bet I can't either.

 

It's pronounced like 'rule'. Just to help you

 

Funny, I thought it would be pronounced more like "roll" ?

 

Thats what I was think also.

 

Are there alot of German and French speaking people in the Netherlands? I have heard that Dutch sounds alot like these 2 languages combined.

 

Quite, but I'll bet you can't imagine that; it sounds weird for anyone from anywhere. Dutch is incredibly hard to learn, for anyone, even the Dutch.

All Dutch kids get English, German and French in secondary school. No one likes it, but they have to if they ever want to travel or trade.

 

I´ve allways thought that Dutch sounded like a mix between Danish and German.

 

Really? In Canada the only other language they teach us is French. Although much of Canada is French speaking. I did teach my self Russian about a year ago and that is an extremely hard language, 33 letters makes it even tougher.

 

Hi guys,

I'm from Mexico but been in the states the last 15 years, 43 y.o., married, 2 daugthers 17 and 15 y. o., working in a cabinet shop, and I like WW II, but the german side, but only the armanent no the politics.my favorite item is "Battleship Bismarck". If you want to learn more about this legendary ship you can visit this website:
http://www.bismarck-class.dk/

 

Same thing here!

 

Wow! You tought yourself Russian! That's quite something indeed! Would you be able to chatwith a russian guy/girl now?
Oh yeah btw: In Holland we can choose some other languages at secundairy school: next to French, English and German, I have had Spanish as well and there's a possebility to choose for Latin or Greek as well. (Ancient languages!)

 

hi as you can see my names dave i come from bristol in england and to roels brother your luku that you didnt have to do latin in school because its a horrible language and believe me i have to learn it. also im 13

 

Some schools provide optionals on Turkish, Arabic, Fries, Russian etc. as well, but that's just for some
Skua, perhaps you are right, but it is not clear to me what Danish sounds like as I have hardly ever heard it spoken. Once I heard Swedish, I could make that out pretty well without knowing a word in the language, so you could say Dutch is like Swedish too. Like I said, it sounds strange to anyone anywhere.
We do use lots and lots of French words in our language. In short, we have a German and a French word for everything, but we use the English word we heard in a tv show :lol: