I’ve spent considerable time living in Germany, living there, not just visiting. I have learned enough to get by since not all Germans speak English.
I am bilingual; I am proficient in Italian, or at least I was when I lived there, but since I have little opportunity to speak with native Italians, I fear that my proficiency in the language has lagged.
Now then, I have visited the Netherlands and have found that all Dutch speak English. So my question would be: why learn Dutch?
And yes, when speaking Italian with Italians, I readily thought in that language. I also dreamed in Italian, daydreamed in Italian, and found myself, at times, talking to myself in Italian, especially when driving one hundred miles per hour on the autostrada.
I’ve dreamt in German a few times but it’s always just a semi-coherent version of the still rather mechanical process of sentence construction I do throughout the day. It’s kinda interesting because I’ve started to realize that English sentence construction is also mechanical, but I do it so fast and with so little reflection that it just feels like sweating or some other autonomic function.
I’ve spent considerable time living in Germany, living there, not just visiting. I have learned enough to get by since not all Germans speak English.
I am bilingual; I am proficient in Italian, or at least I was when I lived there, but since I have little opportunity to speak with native Italians, I fear that my proficiency in the language has lagged.
Now then, I have visited the Netherlands and have found that all Dutch speak English. So my question would be: why learn Dutch?
And yes, when speaking Italian with Italians, I readily thought in that language. I also dreamed in Italian, daydreamed in Italian, and found myself, at times, talking to myself in Italian, especially when driving one hundred miles per hour on the autostrada.
I have no idea why Dutch. I just like it.
I’ve dreamt in German a few times but it’s always just a semi-coherent version of the still rather mechanical process of sentence construction I do throughout the day. It’s kinda interesting because I’ve started to realize that English sentence construction is also mechanical, but I do it so fast and with so little reflection that it just feels like sweating or some other autonomic function.
"Scots?" You mean Broad Scots and not Gaidhlig, right?
I believe so. There are moments when my "knowledge" is actually just Wikipedia. This is one such moment.