Jack O'Neill, an Irishman, has just returned from a month's holiday in The Netherlands. Before he left, he had boasted to his friends that he would learn the Dutch language within a fortnight. On his return, he has to admit that it wasn't quite that easy... He tells his friends stories about his clumsy attempts to speak Dutch, leading to many funny scenes.
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about studying them with zeal. No doubt it was
disappointing just at the beginning to read: Nota
Bene—No one but a Dutchman can emit this
sound; or this: “N. B. *.*.*. This sound must
be heard. It is something like U but cannot
be otherwise described. It cannot be represented
by any known letters. Foreigners need not try it.”
But I skipped over these obstacles, mastered the
verbs ‘to be’ and ‘to have’, in their elements, got
an idea of the way to construct plurals and diminutives,
and went to sleep content.
Next morning after breakfast—which by the
bye came up all right, without any special effort
on my part—, remembering that I needed pens
and ink I determined to go out and buy them
myself.
Have you pens?
Give me pens, please.
Thank you.
That is all I seemed to require.
HURDLES.
Have you? Well; that is not so simple as it
looks. I consulted the Grammar and was appalled
to see the amazing variety of choice afforded to
any one in Holland who contemplated asking this
innocent question.
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