by Clarissa | Feb 17, 2015 | dutch life |
The Dutch tell the time in a very different way to the English, so it’s taken me a while to get used to it. Firstly they work it out relative to both the hour and the half hour. And secondly the half hour is described by the next hour, rather than the one...
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 | Dec 17, 2014 | dutch life, family
It’s quite fun to learn nursery rhymes in a different language – it makes you appreciate the differences 🙂 as well as the difficulties of translating what are essentially poems/songs! Some differences I’ve noticed: – Little sheep, little sheep,...
