Persoonlijke gegevens
That's "personal details" in Dutch.And you thought that completing UK Tax Returns was difficult?
My Dutch has improved slightly since my visits to Santpoort-Nord, Velsen and Ijmuiden and I can now understand a bit more than the bare essential "een bier tevreden".
('A beer, please')
It certainly makes for a different Monday night!
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A colleague of mine knows only one phrase - "Two beers please, and my friend is paying" - in all the main European languages. He says it's the most useful thing he knows.
Looks like its a dentist with an extremely powerful drill!
oh, *snort* long words in a funny language. Har har.
Seriously, silverprite (who I trust is joking) and Angus (who I suspect is not), can we try for a moment NOT to be the resolutely parochial dweebs who think all other languages are just perverse.
Anon 12:40
I wasn't having a laugh at foreign languages. If anything I was demonstrating my lack of knowledge of other languages, which has left me as a poor monoglot.
Our business has expanded to include a lot of non-UK issues and last night it was the completion of a Dutch tax return for a client. (advert!)
I have fairly successfully taught myself tax-related Norwegian and now I am learning tax-return Dutch. I can struggle (very slowly) to say the basics in Greek and Spanish, and I wish I had some ability in languages.
Thankfully, our kids seem to be interested in trying to speak other languages; but they are getting only a thin smattering of languages (Gaelic) in school/nursery and are probably more fluent in Spanish.
give 12:40 a bib to spit his dummy into!
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