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just like dutch, enlish and german are quite the same. especially dutch and german. the scandinavian languages are also in the same line. i can sometimes even understand them without knowing a single word from before.
 
jos said:
just like dutch, enlish and german are quite the same. especially dutch and german. the scandinavian languages are also in the same line. i can sometimes even understand them without knowing a single word from before.
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There is even a Skaerbaeck in Denmark... :)
 
jos said:
just like dutch, enlish and german are quite the same. especially dutch and german. the scandinavian languages are also in the same line. i can sometimes even understand them without knowing a single word from before.
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Yes I got a very interesting on the fly lesson about that. My friend who is a history major told me that old English is derived from old Norse. Middle english comes from old english and modern english comes from middle english. Thats why so many pronunciations and spellings in Swedish are so similar if not the same to english.
 
well that's awesome.
that just sounds like a dutch village :D
can you also speak dutch faroufarouk?
 
faroukfarouk said:
You may know more Swedish than me...

Delaware was where Swedes introduced the log cabin to North America, btw...

Blessings/
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Uuuugh auto correct. Its du not due. I wasn't aware of the log cabin thing......and ABBA. >.>
 
SarahMoore said:
Yes I got a very interesting on the fly lesson about that. My friend who is a history major told me that old English is derived from old Norse. Middle english comes from old english and modern english comes from middle english. Thats why so many pronunciations and spellings in Swedish are so similar if not the same to english.
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it's the same story with every other germanic language. and there are many.
also the same with the romanic laguages, but they are all derives from latin: french, spanish, italian, portuguese, ...
 
SarahMoore said:
Yes I got a very interesting on the fly lesson about that. My friend who is a history major told me that old English is derived from old Norse. Middle english comes from old english and modern english comes from middle english. Thats why so many pronunciations and spellings in Swedish are so similar if not the same to english.
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You would enjoy reading Chaucer, I think.

Icelandic is the modern form of Old Norse. There are many Icelanders here in Canada.

Blessings.
 
jos said:
it's the same story with every other germanic language. and there are many.
also the same with the romanic laguages, but they are all derives from latin: french, spanish, italian, portuguese, ...
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I know. I started learning Italian. I know its not the same but growing up in a very Hispanic state where Spanish is widely spoke makes it kind of easy to pick up.
 
SarahMoore said:
I know. I started learning Italian. I know its not the same but growing up in a very Hispanic state where Spanish is widely spoke makes it kind of easy to pick up.
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Nel principio Iddio crio i cieli e la terra. E la terra era informe e vuota...

(Genesis 1 in Italian...)
 
faroukfarouk said:
You would enjoy reading Chaucer, I think.

Icelandic is the modern form of Old Norse. There are many Icelanders here in Canada.

Blessings.
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Really? I wasnt aware of that. I guess its naive of me to think its mostly French Canadian. Though I hear thats farther north.
 
SarahMoore said:
Really? I wasnt aware of that. I guess its naive of me to think its mostly French Canadian. Though I hear thats farther north.
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Well, the amount of Icelanders is tiny, compared with French Canadians. But in the Prairie Provinces there are various Icelandic settlements. Canada is a mosaic of nationalities... :)

Blessings.
 
faroukfarouk said:
Geen Algemeen Beschaafd Nederlands maar...

(A funny way of describing Dutch fluency...)
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haha nice man :D
where did you live in belgium? and just a few years or your whole youth...?
and i'm afraid the dialects are dying. Algemeen Nederlands is being spoken more and more. although now you have more 'accents'. like in public i just can't cover my antwerp accent.
 
jos said:
haha nice man :D
where did you live in belgium? and just a few years or your whole youth...?
and i'm afraid the dialects are dying. Algemeen Nederlands is being spoken more and more. although now you have more 'accents'. like in public i just can't cover my antwerp accent.
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Oh I lived in the French-speaking part.

I went to the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, with its Bible printing history, and they told me at the entrance, Maandags gesloten, Mijnheer...
 
haha typical :) i know that.
i actually almost never go to any museum.
only with school about the great war, the first world war, because of it's 100s anniversary
we went to the Flanders Field museam, and the ijzertoren, the 'iron tower', wich is also the symbol of dutch nationalism :)
 
and here we have a lot of graveyards of ww1. it hit me that the german graveyards were much more humble then the other ones. for exemple: the british had a big white stone for every soldier, but the germans lied with 30 man under a little stone, without even there names. i did no like that, because they were all brave.
 
jos said:
and here we have a lot of graveyards of ww1. it hit me that the german graveyards were much more humble then the other ones. for exemple: the british had a big white stone for every soldier, but the germans lied with 30 man under a little stone, without even there names. i did no like that, because they were all brave.
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Military commemoration is a hard thing now for the German government.

I went to Diksmuide and Ijzendijke.
 
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