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Dutch. Spoken natively in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, areas of France and Germany, and additionally in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, bits of Indonesia, and somewhat in South Africa, by around 50 total (22+ native, 27+ non-native). Wow. More at Wikipedia and Omniglot.
An interesting little broadcast about SMS, looking like it was from the beginning of the text-messaging boom a couple years ago. Kind of cool to listen to. It’s weird that the Dutch accent is much like English (for Americans), as it’s difficult to find another language that uses such non-articulate-ish, very brusque almost, kind of speaking. I don’t know, it’s hard to describe. I mean like not like Spanish or German with rolled “R”s and articulate vowels, etc. Anyway.
I really want to learn Dutch and plan on buying a book called Learn Dutch for English Speakers here at Amazon. I think there’s a cheaper on at my all-time favorite book-finding website, Bookfinder. SO many good rare books that can be searched from all the major sites: Amazon, Alibris, Abebooks, Biblio, etc.
Enjoy Dutch!
