For anyone who has spent a certain amount of time in the Netherlands or around Dutch people this won`t be the first time you have heard of the concept of `lekker´. Yet the translation of this word has always been a bit of a problem. Literally it means `tasty` and originally it was used in …
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When do you know you are fluent in a language? ¨You know you are actually good at speaking another language when you stop getting compliments¨ This is what a Russian woman once told me. She lived in our neighbourhood and I had never really talked to her and had honestly always assumed she was Dutch, …
“So how many languages do you speak?” It’s a question I hear quite often. And the more languages I learn the harder it is for me to answer. Because how many languages do I speak? I am not sure. Because I don’t really know what ‘speaking’ a language means. When I respond and say I …