Sunday, October 05, 2003

Essential Dutch for Survival

My Dutch lessons have got off to a great start, but are a little hard on the brain.

Getting my head around the inverted word order has been a bit challenging (for example, instead of saying 'on Saturday I'm going to make an apple tart' they say 'I'm going on Saturday an apple tart to make').

So far a few essential phrases that I have acquired are:

Ik heb trek in een lekker broodje - I just fancy a tastie sarnie
Jij bent erg knap, wat is je telefoonummer? - You are very handsome, what is your telephone number?
Waarom draag je dat kippenpak? - Why are you wearing that chicken suit?

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