polyesco
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I had been in Dahal, and it s the most compelling feeling, it is imposible to comprehend that this really happen!At least 3,000 Dutch citizens died at Buchenwald, many of them members of the Dutch Resistance.
I hope that during this German visit that Maxima does not wear any controversial garments such as the "Swastika" grey coat by Iversen (AFAIR) that was worn in Bavaria! I also hope that Queen Maxima does not wear her spider pins because some folk have arachnophobia!
And who is the other couple?
It is relatively easy to understand what people say or to read a German text. But to speak it and esp. to write it takes some training. Especially as German has a lot of nouns which is difficult for non-native German speakers.
For me Dutch is easy to understand but impossible to speak myself..?
Day 2 today, May 21, has started with a visit to the shipbuilding company MV Werften Rostock in Rostock-Warnemünde:
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For me Dutch is easy to understand but impossible to speak myself..?
What do you mean when you say German has "a lot of nouns" ? Are you perhaps trying to say that German nouns, determiners and adjectives are declined according to grammatical case, as Dutch nouns, adjectives and determiners also used to be up to the early 20th century, but not anymore ?
I assume Dutch should be fairly easy to understand for people from Northern Germany as it is much closer to Low Saxon than to standard High German. I don't know if many Germans still speak Low Saxon/Low German at home these days though (probably not).
Actually, in today's "street German" you'd actually hear:German:
Des Kaisers neue Kleider.
Meines Vaters Haus.
Therefore a Dutchman would say in German:
"Die neue Kleider von der Kaiser"
or
"Das Haus von mein Vater"