I’m talking about Dutch, sorry for being unclear, I thought “man” rather than “Mann” would make it clear. I’m just saying the phonetic sequence “die man” is something many Germans will have heard before from nearby and related languages. I understand that it could be surprising the first time.
I’m a native Dutch speaker and have a German partner and live in a German speaking country (although my standard German isn’t amazing, B1-2ish) so I’m not totally ignorant of the parts of speech in Germanic languages.
Ah, that makes sense. Apologies for the grammar lesson :)
We don’t travel to the Netherlands or Belgium all that often, and when we do everyone speaks English to us, whereas my mom just visited us for a month, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Nah you’re good, hopefully other people reading will find it interesting. You’re right, English usually works better across that border, unless they speak Platte in which case it can be a tossup if someone doesn’t have great English.
I can communicate in Afrikaans to someone speaking Dutch if both of us speak slowly and use simple language. It’s painful though, so I haven’t needed it often. Lucky me that English is so widespread :D
I’m talking about Dutch, sorry for being unclear, I thought “man” rather than “Mann” would make it clear. I’m just saying the phonetic sequence “die man” is something many Germans will have heard before from nearby and related languages. I understand that it could be surprising the first time.
I’m a native Dutch speaker and have a German partner and live in a German speaking country (although my standard German isn’t amazing, B1-2ish) so I’m not totally ignorant of the parts of speech in Germanic languages.
Ah, that makes sense. Apologies for the grammar lesson :)
We don’t travel to the Netherlands or Belgium all that often, and when we do everyone speaks English to us, whereas my mom just visited us for a month, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Nah you’re good, hopefully other people reading will find it interesting. You’re right, English usually works better across that border, unless they speak Platte in which case it can be a tossup if someone doesn’t have great English.
I can communicate in Afrikaans to someone speaking Dutch if both of us speak slowly and use simple language. It’s painful though, so I haven’t needed it often. Lucky me that English is so widespread :D