by Clarissa | Apr 4, 2018 | dutch life, writing |
D is for dag; doekje; and doosje Dag is a general greeting. Literally it means day, but it’s used as both Hi and Bye. So it’s a very useful word to know. When we were first here and I was starting to learn Dutch we were once in a cafe (or lunchroom) and...
by Clarissa | Apr 3, 2018 | dutch life, writing |
C is for chocomel Dutch children seem to run on chocolate milk, either warm or cold. Many adults do too.
by Clarissa | Apr 2, 2018 | dutch life, writing |
B is for beterschap and badkamer Beterschap means get better soon – literally it’s betterness. I quite like the idea of wishing people beterness. I asked the children if they had any suggestions for Dutch words I should write about. Rocket boy insisted...
by Clarissa | Apr 1, 2018 | dutch life, writing |
A is for Appel Standard alphabet learning isn’t it! But there’s also aardappel – literally earth apple, or potato; and sinasappel – orange, though I’m not sure what sinaas means.
by Clarissa | Mar 23, 2018 | dutch life |
Earlier this week were the elections for local Councils here in The Netherlands. A few weeks before the day we get a long list of all the candidates. These are split by party, and ordered by each party. So we had a list of 210 candidates across 10 parties for 31...
by Clarissa | Mar 19, 2018 | dutch life, writing |
This year I’m going to take part in the A-Z blog challenge. So for every day in April (except Sundays) I will be posting something related to each letter of the alphabet. And each post will be able one (of more) Dutch words that start with that letter. These...
