Yep, I will always learn thank you at the absolute least. It’s a minuscule amount of effort to put in.
You’ve gotta hit em with a “Hoedoe heh?”
Whenever I’m visiting the Netherlands, after the 2 or 3 words I know in Dutch (and I wish it was more) I have to switch to English. And always Jan will just straight up reply in German. Rubbing in his education because he not only speaks my language fluently, but also English and often French. And I’m the uneducated fop who can’t. Admit it, Jan, you’re just doing it to make me feel bad.
(Seriously though, you guys are just impressive that way. Love you, Jan.)
« Dans l’cul » hehehehehe
Je voudrais une baguette et un croissant. Hurts to be so multilingual.
Just went to Basque Country in France and Spain, met a lovely patisserie shopkeeper that despised my basic French, switched to English first, then found a middle ground and randomly went ahead with Spanish (which was easier for her). She also speaks Basque, of course, and Italian of all things. That’s a middle-aged woman selling pastries knowing more languages than 99.9% of the people I’ve ever met, lol.
Just speak German, they love that.
I haven’t seen Dutch speaking waiters in restaurants in ages.
And bidet to you to ☺️
that’s a great cat picture Barry
The duality of Europe
Said thank you and wished them a nice day in Spanish to a shop assistant in Spain, they looked so happy like they were having to hold themselves back from sucking my dick
Said thank you and wished them a nice day in French to a shop assistant in France. Got a disgusted look, a condescending smirk and told to stop speaking French.
Hello fellow Welshman in Netherlands.
I think there’s 3 of us in the whole country.
Yeah that works well in the Netherlands if you put some effort trying to speak our language we’ll love you too bits. Even if it sounds like you are choking on a hot potato.
Also my French waiter when I absolutely butcher the shit out of their language but throw in Bonjour and Merci
Welp, I noticed Amsterdam and Delft have people in shops and bars that don’t even understand Dutch, only English or their native tongue which is fun to guess
I hope the captain enjoys his weekend
When my dad moved to Sittard I started learning a few common words and phrases like “dankjewel”, “alsjeblieft”, “goedetag”, “met de kaart alstublieft”, “prettige dag” etc. And they can tell I don’t really speak Dutch but seem to really appreciate it anyway.
I think a little respect to a language and culture, especially in such a close-quarters-countrycluster goes a long way.
it sounds like German tried to say “be thanked” XD
Like we won’t immediately switch to English/french/German the minute we detect any accent.
I never dared tk do it. I was always afraid that they switch to Dutch and I won’t understand a single word
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*in your capital. I’m stoopid
Yep, I will always learn thank you at the absolute least. It’s a minuscule amount of effort to put in.
You’ve gotta hit em with a “Hoedoe heh?”
Whenever I’m visiting the Netherlands, after the 2 or 3 words I know in Dutch (and I wish it was more) I have to switch to English. And always Jan will just straight up reply in German. Rubbing in his education because he not only speaks my language fluently, but also English and often French. And I’m the uneducated fop who can’t. Admit it, Jan, you’re just doing it to make me feel bad.
(Seriously though, you guys are just impressive that way. Love you, Jan.)
« Dans l’cul » hehehehehe
Je voudrais une baguette et un croissant. Hurts to be so multilingual.
Just went to Basque Country in France and Spain, met a lovely patisserie shopkeeper that despised my basic French, switched to English first, then found a middle ground and randomly went ahead with Spanish (which was easier for her). She also speaks Basque, of course, and Italian of all things. That’s a middle-aged woman selling pastries knowing more languages than 99.9% of the people I’ve ever met, lol.
Just speak German, they love that.
I haven’t seen Dutch speaking waiters in restaurants in ages.
And bidet to you to ☺️
that’s a great cat picture Barry
The duality of Europe
Said thank you and wished them a nice day in Spanish to a shop assistant in Spain, they looked so happy like they were having to hold themselves back from sucking my dick
Said thank you and wished them a nice day in French to a shop assistant in France. Got a disgusted look, a condescending smirk and told to stop speaking French.
Hello fellow Welshman in Netherlands.
I think there’s 3 of us in the whole country.
Yeah that works well in the Netherlands if you put some effort trying to speak our language we’ll love you too bits. Even if it sounds like you are choking on a hot potato.
Also my French waiter when I absolutely butcher the shit out of their language but throw in Bonjour and Merci
Welp, I noticed Amsterdam and Delft have people in shops and bars that don’t even understand Dutch, only English or their native tongue which is fun to guess
I hope the captain enjoys his weekend
When my dad moved to Sittard I started learning a few common words and phrases like “dankjewel”, “alsjeblieft”, “goedetag”, “met de kaart alstublieft”, “prettige dag” etc. And they can tell I don’t really speak Dutch but seem to really appreciate it anyway.
I think a little respect to a language and culture, especially in such a close-quarters-countrycluster goes a long way.
it sounds like German tried to say “be thanked” XD
Like we won’t immediately switch to English/french/German the minute we detect any accent.
I never dared tk do it. I was always afraid that they switch to Dutch and I won’t understand a single word
Your doing what to their captain taffy?
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