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
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