2010-03-24, 12:20 PM
I'm dutch, so everyone around me speaks dutch, my thinking dutch and english, but I can't really keep track of it. I don't really like the dutch language myself, it's really unlogical at some points, and it has an insane load of stupid rules, so I'm glad I can think in English. The funny thing is that my english teacher at school tends to go like "You guys have a hard time doing this..." and stuff like that, and in my head I'm like "Please, just shut up, I have an easier time doing this that doing my freaking native language!".
The cool thing about being able to think in another language is the fact that if you have to do something with that language (read a text or something) you don't have to go around to translate every word, because I no longer have to do Pineapple = Ananas -> dutch definition but I just know what a pineapple is. To me pineapple means as much as ananas, at least when it's about the fruit. Saves a lot of time.
I don't really remember what I dream, so I have no idea in which language that goes.
I also understand some french and german(the latter being better than the former) and plan to get a third language sometime (those 2 I named are just about horrible, really), but I don't know which that would be.
Some dutch for fun:
Hallo mensen hoe gaat het met jullie. Dit is dus nederlands, en wie dit leest is gek.
Thing is that dutch, english and german originated from the same language so it's probably not that hard to understand. It's mainly the stupid rules of the language that suck.
The cool thing about being able to think in another language is the fact that if you have to do something with that language (read a text or something) you don't have to go around to translate every word, because I no longer have to do Pineapple = Ananas -> dutch definition but I just know what a pineapple is. To me pineapple means as much as ananas, at least when it's about the fruit. Saves a lot of time.
I don't really remember what I dream, so I have no idea in which language that goes.
I also understand some french and german(the latter being better than the former) and plan to get a third language sometime (those 2 I named are just about horrible, really), but I don't know which that would be.
Some dutch for fun:
Hallo mensen hoe gaat het met jullie. Dit is dus nederlands, en wie dit leest is gek.
Thing is that dutch, english and german originated from the same language so it's probably not that hard to understand. It's mainly the stupid rules of the language that suck.