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I have caught myself a few times thinking in English while actually reading a Dutch text. It was strange. Usually I think in English only when actually dealing with the language.
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What's even worse is that, when speaking Dutch, I sometimes use English sentence constructions or random English words instead of the Dutch ones. Often this is because for one word in English, there are a lot of words to describe it, but with a slightly different meaning. Such a fine gradient doesn't really exist in Dutch.
For example, I could translate "scary" as "eng", but that works for "creepy" just as well, though the sound of the two words are different. I don't know how to describe it. I guess it's some sort of "feel" for the language.
Besides English and Dutch, I can understand the general meaning of French and German texts, though sometimes the exact tone (and exact meaning) escapes me.
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What's even worse is that, when speaking Dutch, I sometimes use English sentence constructions or random English words instead of the Dutch ones. Often this is because for one word in English, there are a lot of words to describe it, but with a slightly different meaning. Such a fine gradient doesn't really exist in Dutch.
For example, I could translate "scary" as "eng", but that works for "creepy" just as well, though the sound of the two words are different. I don't know how to describe it. I guess it's some sort of "feel" for the language.
Besides English and Dutch, I can understand the general meaning of French and German texts, though sometimes the exact tone (and exact meaning) escapes me.
