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An Irishman's Difficulties With the Dutch Language

Cuey-na-Gael

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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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. . ._12">[12] 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 G. . . Read More

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