Re: Not a translator
If you can speak German and English, you can at least understand Dutch, it seems to be every other word is either "like" German or like "English". I heard a Dutch press conference a couple of weeks ago and I could understand the jist of the conversation.
Now way I could write or speak it fluently though.
I was on a biking holiday in Bavaria and there were some Dutch guys as well, this was before I moved to Germany and learnt German. We visited a graphite mine and the German guide didn't speak any English. One of the Dutch guys said, no problem, I speak German, I'll translate for you.
I heard, "blah blah blah 20,000psi, blah blah blah, 200M blah blah blah."
After 10 minutes, I asked the Dutch guy, "okay, what did he say?"
"Something about 20,000psi and 200M, I didn't understand anything else, he doesn't speak German!"
The guide was speaking with a thick Bavarian accent and speaking Bavarian, not High German. :-D
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