Hans van Zijst

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Professional nerd and grammar nazi, writes in Dutch and English. Can read some German, French and Spanish too. Learning русский.

Location:: Netherlands

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:38:47 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Alex Feldstein wrote the following post Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:15:03 +0200

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Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:10:49 +0200

Alexander Goeres

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

that is nice for her. but being bilingual is nothing really special, esp for kids who grow up in multilingual environments.

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:32:21 +0200

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@Alexander Goeres Well... My nephew was born in Sydney, and moved to San Francisco when he was 4 or 5.

His parents, my brother and sister-in-law spoke Dutch at home, but never made an effort to teach him Dutch. Of course he picked up quite a bit, but his Dutch was pretty bad when they moved to Belgium three years ago.

And it's still far from perfect, and the American accent is still very thick.

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 18:26:56 +0200

Khurram Wadee

mkwadee@diasp.eu

It's only remarkable when the local population refuses to learn other languages.