Marc Schimmler schrieb in Nachricht
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>It's even easier if you come from northern Germany like me where they
>still speak Plattdeutsch. There are so many similarities between
>Plattdeutsch, Dutch, English and Danish.
>
>If you can understand my Grandpa than Dutch is easy! :-)

True. My mother is from the east of the Netherlands (Twente, Enschede). When
we were in Denmark (I was 10 years old) the first time, she had big problems
reading what the words meant, until she found out, she only had to pronounce
them and then think it was her dialect. Then her problems were far less.

And the northen German Plattdeutsch is really similar to Dutch dialects
Gronings or Twents. I have no problems understanding Plattdeutsch.

--
Rudy Velthuis

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