Chit-Chat: the water closet closet

[Fleurdelis]

nothing to be ashamed about imo, I learned how to ride a bike when I was around 14 years old and I HAD to go to school by bike.

my tuesday been going smoothly, with a few suprises

 

[Nyuutaipu]

Oh we talking about walking? I learned to walk everywhere since I never learned how to cycle ^^; Which is weird since I am apparently from one of the bicycle capitals of the world, but I do know how to swim. Also yeah trains are super easy to take here too c: Every small town has a train station ^^

And I recently woke up so just doing breakfast stuf, its weird waking up in the afternoon due to free weeks ^^;

 

[Fleurdelis]

my country is well known for bicycles... so much that my friends joke about it

ive become bikeboy to them

 

[Nyuutaipu]

ah the good old Dutch and their dams, bicycles, tulips, grachten, flevoland, floods, and weird Flemish neighbours :p

 

[Fleurdelis]

Exactly... especially the part about the Flemish B)

 

[Nyuutaipu]

I had a flemish friend and a Dutch friend, and one of their favourite pastimes was comparing how different the Dutch was that they speak. Like the Flemish have a much more German 'g' while the Dutch just go... chhhh :p

 

[Fleurdelis]

Oi my 'g' does not go chhhhhh

i think... it goes more like 'krggg' or something along those lines

 

[Nyuutaipu]

Though I must say the Belgians are weird, like I also been to Wallonia. Weirdest time ever, you can go in a mc donalds order a burger in German and they talk to you in German but once I got my burger they said something in French and I was like "wait wha?". I learned a bit of Dutch btw, I know they said like your 'ij' is pronounced like the 'ei' in Mars'ei'lle so I know roughly how to pronounce stuff ^^;

 

[Fleurdelis]

Ive been to Wallonia myself once and I got so confused... one time they speak Dutch... and all the other times they just speak turbo french like "PLS HELP I NO SPEAK BAGUETTE"
The 'ij' thing is pretty accurate yes.

 

[Nyuutaipu]

Yeah and then the Flemish come around with their Dutch dialect, while Dutch is just a hybrid of English and German, the Benelux are weird and yeah Luxembourg you can just speak German :p but people from Luxembourg I know speak German with some weird French undertone.

 

[Tsutarja]

confession: i never learned how to ride a bike,,,,,, im very ashamed to admit this tbh. i did see that they're talking about bringing the "rent-a-bicycle" thing to our downtown area, though!

please don't feel ashamed because I am in the same boat as you!

 

[Fleurdelis]

Yeah and then the Flemish come around with their Dutch dialect, while Dutch is just a hybrid of English and German, the Benelux are weird and yeah Luxembourg you can just speak German :p but people from Luxembourg I know speak German with some weird French undertone.

pfffff the belgians and luxembourgians are sure weird but the dutch are fine \ :v /

 

[budube]

Walking is the best, except in summer lmao, but I'm months away from it so I can walk all I want

 

[Circuit]

Yeah and then the Flemish come around with their Dutch dialect, while Dutch is just a hybrid of English and German, the Benelux are weird and yeah Luxembourg you can just speak German :p but people from Luxembourg I know speak German with some weird French undertone.

Dutch is pretty accessible to me, since I know both english and german, but I can't speak it. Thankfully everywhere I've been or anyone that comes from somewhere to here can get by with either english or German. Though the dialect for the Swiss German is quite something. Luxembourg is also very interesting to hear for the first time, caught me really off-guard when the guests started telling me about the issue they had in their hotel room and I stood there, trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be fixing like "come again?" XD

 

[Nyuutaipu]

Dutch is pretty accessible to me, since I know both english and german, but I can't speak it. Thankfully everywhere I've been or anyone that comes from somewhere to here can get by with either english or German. Though the dialect for the Swiss German is quite something. Luxembourg is also very interesting to hear for the first time, caught me really off-guard when the guests started telling me about the issue they had in their hotel room and I stood there, trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be fixing like "come again?" XD

Oh I just call the Swiss and Austrians the weird Mountain-Germans, since their language is a bit ... strange :p

 

[Circuit]

Haha, that made me smile :) What a perfect way to describe them haha

Do you speak German by any chance then?

 

[Fleurdelis]

That's one way to name them lmao

 

[Nyuutaipu]

Haha, that made me smile :) What a perfect way to describe them haha

Do you speak German by any chance then?

Yeah, German and English and can understand written Dutch ^^ for the most part.

 

[Fleurdelis]

understand written Dutch? :0

im no longer safe from writing in dutch gibberish now crap

 

[Nyuutaipu]

I can not tell exactly what it says but I most often understand it given context or just understand it, heh.