One step ahead

What am I on about? This article was published today on nu.nl, a top Dutch online website. As I point out in my last post, it is very hard to practice the language as most people are very quick just to speak English with you. It's rather a generalisation, sorry about that (there are people I've met who will let you try, but these are people who are friends or who know me). On a whole though, most do just want to make life easier. Point is, you will never learn a language if you can't practice it.

Read the nu.nl article here


Maybe the problem is the most Dutch people as a nation just aren't very proud of their language. Maybe a campaign for the government, but lets not think about that, it's all getting a bit too political now, I need to go and lie down...