Klarinet Archive - Posting 000794.txt from 2000/08

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] knowing dutch; een bibliotheker schrijft
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 04:14:15 -0400

I've been able to read all the contributions up to now --- writing and
speaking Dutch are pretty much beyond me, though - so far.
Yours,
Roger Shilcock

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Rien Stein wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:34:18 +0200
> From: Rien Stein <rstein@-----.nl>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet <klarinet@-----.org>
> Subject: [kl] knowing dutch
>
> 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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