by Clarissa | Oct 13, 2015 | dutch life
Learning any new language is intimidating, especially learning it as an adult. What I want to say in conversation is much more complicated than what my son chatters away to himself. Different tenses, sub-clauses, conditional etc are rarely part of his standard...
by Clarissa | Jan 19, 2015 | dutch life, family
It’s amazing to watch my son learning Dutch, as he’s just integrating it into his speech. Every so often he asks what the Dutch is for something we’re talking about, which can be quite tricky as I don’t always know! But he’s also using...
by Clarissa | Nov 30, 2014 | dutch life
It’s funny starting to learn a language as an adult; however much you can deride most language learning at schools in the UK, it’s difficult to replicate. And it takes a long time to get vocabulary and grammar to a level that’s good enough to be able...
