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AmarensElise

Half-centaur, half-human. I'm an occasional student of linguistics, and full-time sleep deprived. You can find me online, binging anything murder related on Netflix, or off-line, second guessing my life choices.

Learning a new language is always difficult. You have to learn a completely new form of expressing yourself. My personal experience learning this new language was quite funny. I learned Slovak language during an exchange year; so most of my learning consisted in listening to conversations and repeating the words I understood and remembered. But as …

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Want to learn about some of the best Dutch expressions? The Dutch language is full of amazing expressions. Find out what it means when the Dutch say things like “chicken yummy” or “prayer without end”. 1. Bakje troost (Little Cup of Comfort) Because we all know we need that first cup of coffee in the …

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You may want to sit down for this because you are about to find out your Germanic mother gave birth to another language. That’s right. In the north of the Netherlands there is a province called Friesland, and the language they speak bears an uncanny resemblance to English. If you are confused right now, you …

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