Thread: Kom op, mensen!

Wil er nou niemand Nederlands leren? 'Tis toch wat. En het is zo'n belangrijke wereldtaal! In ieder geval kan je met Nederlands meer dan met bijvoorbeeld Tsjechisch, het spijt me zeer. Of Hongaars. Of Fins. Maar nee, liever een obscure taal dan

Jasper, in ieder geval kan je met Deutsch meer dan met bijvoorbeeld Nederlands.

Alrighty, I want to give it try. When I was in Holland a few days ago, I felt that I had to swear in Ducth crawling in Amstelveen's nearabouts on what was supposed to be a four-lane motorway.

Speaking of which, whose was this fine idea to limit the speed to 120 km/h on motorways? And who was that insightful guy who decided that driving as fast as 120 km/h was wrong anywhere where traffic is a bit greater than zero, so it is 100 km/h there -- and I am then at lost trying to understand the difference between a 100 km/h motorway and a 100 km/h "automobile road" that runs in parallel a few meters away? Oh, wait, I see: by the same rule, an automobile road with greater than slight traffic is limited to 70 km/h, so one might as well start looking for just inter-city roads, which must be 80 km/h. No, really. This hierarchy of roads with seemingly stupid limitations was quite a nuisance.

Anyway, what do you think I should do to master Dutch?

dutch is so cool.i'm going to study (language) interpreting soon, and i will definitley choose dutch as one of my languages :D

This hierarchy of roads with seemingly stupid limitations was quite a nuisance.

It's quite a nuisance to the natives as well, but apparently it works. I will not get into a fight over this.

in ieder geval kan je met Deutsch meer dan met bijvoorbeeld Nederlands.

Yah well, but German is an ugly, ugly language. Only spoken by Germans and those who resent England and/or America.

Originally Posted by Jasper May

This hierarchy of roads with seemingly stupid limitations was quite a nuisance.

It's quite a nuisance to the natives as well, but apparently it works. I will not get into a fight over this.

I do not want to fight about it either, I just had fresh impressions. But what is the idea anyway? As you probably know the neighbouring countries have it differently, and I do not think they have higher accidents rates.

Ok then, those just sounding like fightin' words, that's all. I don't know exactly if there's any difference between the accident rates of Germany and Holland, but you have to remember that Holland is far smaller and more densely populated. That's why we can't have everyone driving as fast as they want, like in Germany.

Fair enough.

Originally Posted by Jasper May

Yah well, but German is an ugly, ugly language. Only spoken by Germans and those who resent England and/or America.

no that isn't right. It's spoken in switzerland and austria, too. More people in the world kan speak German, than can speak dutch. But i think German is very close to dutch. that's why i had to got to netherlands every year. I know a lot of german people who donm't like the dutch language, i think it is because people often don't like dialekts and languages that sounds like their own dialekt/language.

Originally Posted by Jasper May

(Afrikaans meegerekend - iedere Nederlander kan Afrikaans net zo goed begrijpen als welke ander dialect dan ook)...

Nederlands en Afrikaans lijken op elkaar net als Pols en Oekra

[quote=Jasper May]Wil er nou niemand Nederlands leren? 'Tis toch wat. En het is zo'n belangrijke wereldtaal! In ieder geval kan je met Nederlands meer dan met bijvoorbeeld Tsjechisch, het spijt me zeer. Of Hongaars. Of Fins. Maar nee, liever een obscure taal dan

Iedereen die geen Nederlands kan of wil leren zuigt gewoon!

(Dit is mijn Dogboy-imitatie in het Nederlands... )

Originally Posted by Gollandski Yozh

Iedereen die geen Nederlands kan of wil leren zuigt gewoon

Misschien.... en dezelfde kan ik over 't Russisch zeggen

Totally unrelated: The title "Kom op mensen" is very similar to Norwegian "Kom opp mensen", which literally means: "Come up menstrual period!" Is this what this thread is about?

Heh, no. For me, the mensen sounded like German "Menschen", which means "people." So the title was something like "Come on, people" for me.

Originally Posted by Pravit

Heh, no. For me, the mensen sounded like German "Menschen", which means "people." So the title was something like "Come on, people" for me.

You, dear sir, are correct.

Originally Posted by Kostja

Originally Posted by Gollandski Yozh

Iedereen die geen Nederlands kan of wil leren zuigt gewoon

Misschien.... en dezelfde kan ik over 't Russisch zeggen

Hetzelfde.

Grolsch is beter dan Heineken... en Heineken is beter dan Miller... Laten wij maar Grolsch drinken!!! Blablabla.......

Originally Posted by Kostja

Grolsch is beter dan Heineken... en Heineken is beter dan Miller... Laten wij maar Grolsch drinken!!! Blablabla.......

Uiteindelijk is Belgisch bier toch het beste. Da's het enige waar die Belgen beter in zijn dan wij.

Originally Posted by Gollandski Yozh

Uiteindelijk is Belgisch bier toch het beste. Da's het enige waar die Belgen beter in zijn dan wij.

Nee ik denk dat Nederlands bier is 't beste! En ik ben een specialist Ze goed zijn in verschillende "biermixes" maar dat is toch niet bier. En ook "lambics".... Grolsch en Heineken zijn toch beter!!!