Klarinet Archive - Posting 000786.txt from 2000/08

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] knowing dutch
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:53:02 -0400

Kjær Rien

Begge av mine foreldre var født i Tyskland. De omplasserte til
forente Stater ti år før jeg var født. Jeg taler Tyskmen jeg
ikke taler Hollandsk. Jeg brukte en oversetter på internet!

Neil

--- Rien Stein <rstein@-----.nl> wrote:
> It was quite a surprise to me to see that on this list some non-Dutch, non-Flamish people with
> obvously an American background knew a little Dutch. My surprise grwe even more when I had my
> first telephone contact with David Glenn: he addressed me in an excellent Dutch. It seems there
> has been an American ambassador in Moscow, who even after 25 years of service in that city
> didn't know the slightest little bit of the Russian language, nor even was able to read the
> kyrillic alfabet ... !
>
> Now I learn Neil Leupold also is able to understand at least the written Dutch. Neil sounds
> American to me, Leupold sounds like Germany or Austria, so I started to wonder "Neil, who are
> you? Why did you learn Dutch?" And of course: "Are there other non-Dutch, non-Flamish people on
> this list, that know Dutch?"
>
> I know it has little to do with our main subject, I just wonder.
>
>
> Rien
>

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