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Old August 07, 2013, 03:02 AM
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Most of the old instruction manuals of electronic products weren't translated into German, only into Dutch English, French etc. My English wasn't as good by then so I had to read it in Dutch, which was oddly very easy to understand.
My aunt in-law is Slovakian but I can't understand a word she's saying in her native tongue, although she has a good friend who is also Slovakian but I can pretty much figure it out by the context what she says. And vice versa they understand Serbian almost perfectly, just like Czech and Polish.
I heard that German-speaking can learn Dutch within a few weeks because grammar and vocabulary are so similar.

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Ich lerne ein bissen di deutsche, und ich kann sprach, aber nicht so gut.
You're great!

Last edited by AngelicaDeAlquezar; August 07, 2013 at 08:34 AM. Reason: Merged back-to-back posts