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The European part of the Netherlands borders Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest.
A few Funny Facts about
the Netherlands
and the Dutch language
1. The word Dutch stems from the Middle Ages’ word Dietsc, or perhaps Duutsc, which simply means "language of the people".
2. The Dutch are the highest people in the world with an average height of 184 cm for men and 170 cm or women.
3. 70% of the world's bacon comes from the Netherlands.
4. Netherlands and Holland are not synonymous. Holland is largely the western coastal region of the Netherlands, comprising of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Haarlem, Leiden and the Hague.
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A Table of Vowels with pronunciations
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A Table of Consonants with pronunciations (from b to ng)
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A Table of Consonants with pronunciations (from b to ng)
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Dutch (Nederlands)
The Dutch language is a West Germanic language that is spoken in the European Union by about 23 million people as a first language.
The word Dutch stems from the Middle Ages’ word Dietsc, or perhaps Duutsc, which simply means “language of the people”. In fact, in Dutch, you would say you speak Nederlands, e.g. ik spreek Nederlands. Just like in German, you would say you speak Deutsch, i.e ich spreche Deutsch.
Dutch is somewhere in the middle between English and German. While Dutch does enjoy leaving the verb at the end of the sentence occasionally, like in German, it doesn’t have the cases German does, which makes it more akin to English.
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"My favorite flower is the tulip. I’m crazy like Holland about them. I’ll even pay as much as $1,637 for one.”
― Jarod Kintz