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Chit-Chat: the water closet closet

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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 ^^;
 
ah the good old Dutch and their dams, bicycles, tulips, grachten, flevoland, floods, and weird Flemish neighbours :p
 
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
 
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 ^^;
 
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.
 
erik destler said:
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!
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please don't feel ashamed because I am in the same boat as you!
 
Nyuutaipu said:
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.
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pfffff the belgians and luxembourgians are sure weird but the dutch are fine \ :v /
 
Nyuutaipu said:
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.
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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
 
Circuit said:
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
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Oh I just call the Swiss and Austrians the weird Mountain-Germans, since their language is a bit ... strange :p
 
Haha, that made me smile :) What a perfect way to describe them haha

Do you speak German by any chance then?
 
I can not tell exactly what it says but I most often understand it given context or just understand it, heh.
 
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