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dwarfthrowing In reply to ??? [2010-12-03 16:13:48 +0000 UTC]

I get up at 7.30. We have anly 4% jobless people so I don't really see it happening. If I didn't wach the news I wouldn't even know. In Holland they will look at you like you are a moron, becaus nobody does it anymore. Jumpstile is the same over and over again so I don't see a problem. Martinique was a long time ago and I tought it was closer to europe and africa. -.- some of these maps todey. They place Iceland way to close to Greenland. It just doesn't ake sence. If you go to Holland you go to a country where everything is made by humans. They are cutting the last forest with not by human planted origins.If you come overhere I would like to meet you and show my country! I would like to see the US once. Your culture is more different then you might think.

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-04 01:20:46 +0000 UTC]

HAhah, at my school, people don't really look at you like a moron for doing something stupid. It's weird. Someone could be doing something so ridiculous and people walk by and don't even care, they might even join them. On tv, theres alot of shows about bullies, or people who think your stupid, but that doesn't really happen. We like to be goofy, and show how silly we can be, and just have fun at school. because if we aren't, then we can be so boring. And i always got confused when i was a little kid because I always thought Iceland was a land of ice. Then I found out it was warm. And I thought green land must be green, nope, its made of ice. Weird names here. I don't think I will go veer to Holland ever, but if I do, i probably can meet you because Holland is so small. But I want to learn the language before I go to a different country. Maybe Asia knows you!! ahah, she's 15 so there might be a possibility. She shows me pictures of Holland on the computer, and I've seen windmills, churches, lots of streets, lots of water, something that has to do with coloring everything orange, and oh!!! you guys don't really have that much cars over there. you guys walk to places. Over here, we only go to places with cars, no one walks, if people walk on the street, theres a good chance to get kidnapped if your in the wrong area. But not where i live, I live in a good area. But there is some states like New York and Virginia (Washington DC) and Florida that have lots of people who walk. In Michigan, really never.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-04 13:33:35 +0000 UTC]

Kidnapped? In the Netherlands it is big news if somebody gets kidnapped. We walk a lot yes, but we cycle even more. I don't think I know her. It is really hard because there are 16,5 million people in this country. And there are more every day. Churches?? Really our amount of churches is LOW! I don't believe in a god. Like most people here. Or they are believers, but they don't know if they are Catholic or Protestant. Yeah pritty bad. Orange is the color of the Netherlands, but you probably know that already. I mean we all go orange with football. Sorry I mean soccer. Learning dutch will be diffecult. We talk with the other side of our mouth. That's how you get those funny accents when we talk English. I don't have a problem with my accent. I talk like a Brit when I talk English. What also a problem is is that our sentence are different. In English you place the time ate the end of the sentence, but we don't we just put it in the middle of the sentence. All the water is logical since 18% of our country is water. Streets yeah our streats are different because our citys are older.

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-04 15:53:33 +0000 UTC]

yeah, kidnapping is big news over here too, but it seems like another person is kidnapped every month, but thats because we know not to go outside and talk to strangers, the kids who get kidnapped are usually really young, and don't know better. It's really sad. At the moment, 3 little boys just turned up missing, and i'm sure theres some more from months ago that never turned up. That's actually quite alot, I thought the Netherlands was as big as one of our states. I know that Michigan has around 10 million, but our population is decreasing because everyone is moving away from the job loss, because Michigan is high in unemployment. haha, yeah churches, when Asia showed me pictures, there was quite a few churches in there. Maybe those are some of the only churches in the Netherlands. Red white and blue are the colors over here. On holidays, we usually wear the colors for the holiday, right now it's already snowing, and everyone is wearing red and green for Christmas. Football is our main sport over here, we don't really have soccer, except for a school sport, but not on tv. Asia doesn't have an accent, but she does talk in the back of her mouth a little bit, but no one can really tell except me because i've heard her speak dutch. In school, we have to learn spanish, and the sentences are mixed up too, like 'the pretty girl' would be 'the girl pretty' i think all languages are like that but english. People say that english is the hardest language to learn. Michigan is really old the stores and shops there all look more antique the more north you go, but other states are new, like Georgia, everything gets replaced with new stuff there.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-04 21:46:10 +0000 UTC]

No we also say the pritty girl (het mooie meisje). I don't think English is the hardest language. English has some sort of sence, dutch doesn't it is all on feeling the sentence. I think French is diffecult. I don't get it at all! Altought I can swear in French, but that's beside the point. It is that English people always have an accent when they try to speak another language. Most of the time you hear a foreinger speak you immediatly know if they are English. Other languages are harder to recognise. Frenche does look a lot lik French and Italian. Those Latin languages! The Churches will be quite boring, because they won't have good statues and painting and stuff. We distroyed that al somewere between 1550 and 1560. If you go totally dutch you also use white red and blue. Same flag colors, but you can still see if something is made to look dutch or American. We do all kind of prints wich let you think of the old times. The Netherlands is smaller that most of the states, but it is really crowed here. Kidnapped people get founded pritty fast. If they are still alive or not sadly. It is more like one person every year over here.I do talk to strangers. Most of the time to ask for directions (damn! In my own city!). I don't even think about the possibility to get kidnapped. Okey I don't cycle near the forest when it's dark. I go walking to school every (school) day. It is kind of hard to kidnap someone on the middle of the day on a busy road, but whatever. Not on tv?? Really I don't care about soccer, but I still know that Feyenoord (Team from Rotterdam) won from ADO Den Haag (team from The Hague). I hope you did follow your own country in the world cup??? And know who won the world cup (Damn those Spainiards!)???

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-05 02:02:41 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, we can tell who has accents too, except for Asia and her brother. but you can hear it in most people. Asia once told me that Americans have a hillbilly accent, hhaha, or maybe its because we speak slow, or something. You can tell when an english person is from england, like london, because they dont say their R's or some other letters when they speak. I only know of New York that is crowded. But in most states, no one talks to people they don't know, because kidnappings do happen in the middle of the day on a busy road. We've even watched one in class that was caught on camera, and a guy took a litlle girl out in public, and she started screaming "help! he's not my dad, help!" and people just watched, and did nothing. It was so sad. The streets just have cars going by, no people on them. Its EXTREMELY dangerous to go outside at dark, if you ever come over here, please don't walk on a busy street at night, or even a non busy street, you'll get picked up. But both my parents used to go outside all the time when they were kids, they tell me that all the time "When I was your age, I could go outside, and I walked to school, but now I don't dare let you go on the street, what is this world comming to?" ahhah, and no, most people dont watch the World Cup, i dont even know what it is really. But we do watch the Olympics.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-05 20:52:34 +0000 UTC]

We got commercials for helping people when they get hit and other things, but really when everybody sees it??? American and English English is simple to recognice. American English is sharper. I like English English more. They mostly don't say the L. It is not extremly dangerous out here. I don't really think about my cycle getting stolen. Well it does hapen if you let him stand outside, but it has never happend to me that something was stolen. World cup... That's the biggest soccer game. America got out of the pool games, but then lost. The final was The Netherlands against Spain. Spain won. I'm not a big sprot fa ,but still I'm not happy.Even if you don't look at it overhere you know who won from who. UK-America was a tie. Really stupid goal by the Americans. The English ceeper had the ball, but let him go again. How stupid can you be????? Everybody watches the olympics. We are only really good at skating at the winter Olympics. I'm maby going to the summer Olympics in the UK! My aunt lives in Londen! WOOHOOO!!! But maby not.

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-05 23:18:17 +0000 UTC]

yeah, people just stare and watch, its so sad. i love english-english, haha, i never know what to call it because they're both english. But it seems like every girl in my school loves english-english, and every boy makes fun of it. oh, i meant it is extremely dangerous over here. my neighbor's bike has been stolen once. We have woods in my backyard, so me and my brother hide our bicycles back there. oh, no wonder i've never heard of the world cup, aha. Hehe, i dont know who the english keeper is, so i really don't know, i dont care about sports, even though i play tennis, and im on the Guys Varsity team, but im a girl, and really should be on the Junior Varsity because of my age, i honestly cannot watch it on TV. Its just a thing i have where if I tried to watch a sport on TV, i will get bored, or mad. ahaha, i don't know why. Cool, I'd have to say that we are good at skiing, or snowboarding, but thats only because some of our really famous people are known from skiing and snowboarding. I wish I could watch the Olympics.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-06 16:15:04 +0000 UTC]

I actually think watchin the Olympics on tv is better. You see everything! In the stadioum (do you call it that overthere??) you don't see alot, because of the distance. Most of the tim I'm watching sport it is because of my dad having the remotecontrol and then I'm doing something else, but you still hear what's happening. I watched the finals, because I was on a camp with other dutch people and I didn't really have a choice. Well it was good that America was able to perticepate. There are rounds before the pools. Ireland didn't get in . I love Ireland. So much countryside. Something you don't have a lot around here Woods in your backyard?? Is that possible. We do have 4 trees in our backyard, but a wood?? I once forgot to get my keys out my cycle at some swimmingpool and my cycle wasn't stolen. I forgot more times to get my keys out actually...

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-07 01:25:35 +0000 UTC]

yeah, we call it a stadium. oh, but my dad watches sports, haha. But only football, and baseball. He watches the hunting channel too. Yeah, I didn't even know that America had an official soccer team, hah. I've seen ireland in a movie, and there is alot of countryside. There is quite alot of country in the US, but it depends on where your going, it's mostly in the south. yes, theres woods everywhere. I own 24 acres of it (alot of my friends don't know what an acre is, but i just looked the measurements up online, and it said 43560 square feet, or an football field. But thats not common to own woods, but it is common to have it in your backyard. my frontyard has.. i have to go count..well it's too dark to see, its 8 o clock right now, but theres snow out that brightens everything up, and I'd guess 50-60 trees, which really doesn't look like that much. most of them are pines, but you can still see our house from the road, they are spread out all over the yard, not packed all together. Most of my friends have woods, or live next to it. Asia calls it the forest, which makes me think of the African Rainforest, that might be what you call it over there instead of woods, but we say forest too. Wow, that's really lucky, I've done something like that before. I forgot my cell phone in the girls bathroom after school, and I didn't realize it until an hour later. Luckily, i was still at school for tennis practice, so I ran into the school, and into the bathroom, and holy cow, it was still there, on top of the sink, just sitting there. I was sooooo lucky that someone didn't steal it.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-07 16:50:27 +0000 UTC]

Feet.. don't talk about it because I don't really get it. Well I know that 1 feet is close to 30cm and that 1 inch is closse to 2,5cm, but thats all then. I have 20m by 10m (1m is 100cm) maby and in the front there is an street. I live in an city so that's not weird at all (In the city houses are more expensive). Bihind my garden there is my garage and bihind that there is another street. In Dutch woods are bossen and it is one bos. You pronounce it almost the same as boss. She probably uses the words we learn at school. We learn English-English so that's why (I think). Tennis in your school??? Waa! Our snow is melting again! It was so nice! Yes you have a soccer team. It is not the best one, but you have one.

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-07 22:16:02 +0000 UTC]

Oh, well I don't really know how to explain feet. Not as in our legs, but the measurement. My art teacher says that one foot is about the same size as an adult womens arm from the wrist to elbow. and a square foot is just in the shape of a box. I live in a city too, but I live almost on the border between 2 cities. I live on a street where one side belongs to one city, and if I cross the road onto the other side, I'm in another city. and both has lots of woods around it. But Michigan has lots of woods everywhere. Especially if you travel on the highway, or freeway, going north. The more north you go in Michigan, the more trees. Trees surround you for hours, and you can never see houses from the roads on the freeways. Yeah, tennis is the only sport I can play, but I was once in gymnastics, dance, and cheerleading, but I was like 6 or 7 years old when I did those. Our school has boys football (our main sport) boys baseball, girls softball, girls volleyball, girls and boys basketball, and a running track team, and we might have a lacrosse team this year, but I don't really know what lacrosse is. Most big schools have a swimming team but our school is poor, hahah. And then theres TENNIS!!! YAY!! hahah, but i can only play on the boys team because there is no girls team. Asia plays tennis too. And her boyfriend played for a little bit, but ended up quiting. We had a tiny team this year though: 4 girls, and 8 boys. Yeah, our snow is starting to melt too. But we have a big storm comming, lets hope for no school, for a snow day!!

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-08 21:29:29 +0000 UTC]

We never get of for snow! On my school (and all the other schools) you don't really have sport teams. Just Gym. We do have a lego team (I'm part oft it yeey), but that's all. Nobody does cheerleading here. Well the rodes there are totally different then ours. You can't look anywhere without seeing something like a house or cows. 1meter is close to 1 step. Easy isn't it?? in 1m goes 1000mm or 100cm or 10 dm. In 1km goes 10h m or 100 deca m or 1000m. And that's Europian stuff. 1 inch is close to 2,5cm 1feet is close to 30cm and 1yard is close to 90cm. I did tennis once, but I suck at it.

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-08 22:14:55 +0000 UTC]

We can only have 7, i think, or maybe 10 days off from school for snow. Its different for other schools though. I don't know what lego is. Cheerleading is a big sport over here, for girls, anyway. For guys its football. Yeah, the woods is right up next to the roads, and the hills start to go up on the side so that you are below everything. Oh, i know how big a meter is. I don't really know the measurements over there. But i do understand all those other measurements, they are all the same thing. We learn that too. For some reason, we learn different countries measurements (except temperature) but we dont learn the history of other countries. Haha, i suck at every other sport.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-09 17:09:08 +0000 UTC]

I suck at sport too. HOMYGOSH Hills!! We don't have any. The biggest mountain (if you can call it a mountain) was in Limburg, but is now located on the South-American island Saba. Nobody plays football overhere. We call it American football. Closes thing we do is rugby. Sport.. You know what's funny?? A while ago the dutch Cricket (Don't know how you play it) team won from the English one. How sad is that!! We don't even take it serious.. It was in the news like HOMYGOSH we won from the English. Before that I didn't even know we had a Cricket team. Wich reminds me of the fact there are a lot of things that only the dutch (and the belgians somethimes) do. You know what hagelslag or vla is?? Probably not. I don't get Farenheit. Kelvin and Celcius are okay, but Farenheit?????

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-09 23:13:21 +0000 UTC]

Hahahah, yes, we are full of hills, especially on the highways, hills are on each side of the road, and they feel like they trap you because they are so high up. Oh, yeah futbol and football. Football is the huge, main sport. I don't know what cricket is either. I dont know what hagelslag or vla is, but i asked my dad, and he's heard of hagelslag before. He thinks its the game where you grab a big log, a throw it over your head, and try to see how far it goes over the line. I've seen that in an scooby doo show when i was little. Except Scooby doo was is in Ireland. Scooby doo is a little kids cartoon show. Yeah, Farhenheit seems like it would be confusing, but its the only thing i've grown up with, so i understand it. You just have to memorize the temperatures.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-10 17:42:05 +0000 UTC]

Hagelslag are little choclotate things you put on your bread. You have all kinds of flavours. Some aren't chocolade.[link]
Vla is some kind of yoghurt, but then fatter.[link] It is also gettable in different flavoiurs (I like chocolate the most). Forgot to tell you what lego is. It is a building game for little kids from Denmark [link] but some people do crazy things with it [link] [link] [link] What I do with lego is making robots who can de things [link] We have to make our own disign. WE GOT FIRST!!!! WE GO TO THE BENELUX FINALS!!!!!!!!!

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-10 22:21:42 +0000 UTC]

Oh, wow my dad was way wrong. what about hagelslag and vla? HAHHAHAHA, i know what legos are. i didn't know you meant those though. We dont have lego teams, they are only toys that people buy. These links aren't working except for 2 of the lego pictues, which are pretty cool. and good job.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-11 15:30:11 +0000 UTC]

The world finals are in Nevada.. So I think you do have teams, but not where you live. Well you can find the pictures yourselveuse google.

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-11 18:30:30 +0000 UTC]

oh, well i've never heard of lego teams. we have other kinds of puzzle-like teams like chess club. but our school doesnt have chess club.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-12 11:51:43 +0000 UTC]

We neither. You all have to do it by yourself, but languages you have to lern!!!!!! Why do I have to lern German and Frensh!! English is logical, but the other two???

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-12 15:15:24 +0000 UTC]

I wondered that too, but maybe its because you travel more than us. But i thought that German is similar to Dutch. We have to learn 1 foreign language if we want to get into college. If you are not going to college than you don't have to learn a different language. I want to go to college, so i'm taking spanish. Our school only teaches spanish and american sign language. But those are usually the only languages taught in schools because both spanish and sign language are in America.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-13 18:58:32 +0000 UTC]

German is very simalar to dutch, but there are differences. Like I is in dutch Ik and in German Ich. There are also words that are the same, but mean different things.

Mein Hund bellt hΓ€uftig (German: My dog barks a lot)
Heb je vast een hoge telefoonrekening ( Dutch: You probably have a hight phonebill)

Makes sence, because dutch "bellen" means phonecalling and german "bellen" means barking. LOL and there are more things like these.

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-13 19:18:36 +0000 UTC]

mmmmm, that didn't really make any sense to me, haha, sorry. i got the ik and ich thing, but i dont get the bellen thing. How did you get the 2 dots to go over the 'a' in hauftig?

And i can read two words, which is je (you) i think and en (a) i think, right? and telefoonrekening looks like telephone reckoning. lol

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-13 20:00:28 +0000 UTC]

rekening means bill. en means and. a is een. is is is. Sorry that was too funny to resist. bellen is a verb. If you have the same keybord and a microsoft pc I can explain. Okay hold the shift. then press the key on the left of enter "'. Then stop pressing both keys. You won't see anything. pres the a and you will get Γ€ the umlaut is it's name. Well it should be two stripes, but you can't do that on your pc. Lol

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-13 23:54:52 +0000 UTC]

why'd you say is is is? lol. nope, it didn't work. On the left of my enter key is " with only 2 stripes, but i can make ''' 3 and it still wont work. h"'auftig.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-14 16:34:02 +0000 UTC]

english is isn in dutch is. the word are the same. there is another way to get the dots. but that only works on an apple. If you have you do ctrl+alt+u remove your fingers from the keys and press the a key and you get Γ€. Why do you need 3 "'???

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-17 22:55:08 +0000 UTC]

because you used 3'''. haha and the ctrl+alt+u thing doesn't work either. and that first sentence is a little confusing.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-18 12:47:01 +0000 UTC]

Both languages use: is. Weird I'm sure I have an American Keyboard.

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-18 16:47:20 +0000 UTC]

oh, im using a laptop, and not a computer keyboard, so maybe thats it. Do you have alot of american made products over there? we mostly have stuff that say "made in china" and "made in america". every now and then, i find something that says it was made somewhere else.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-18 17:03:46 +0000 UTC]

Dunno I don't pay attantion, but the computer says it. It is really weird. I can choose between dutch and American on my computer, but if I do dutch I don't get the keys I want.
Okey I tipe on the American thing: ' !@#$%^&*()-_+=
I tipe on the dutch thing: Β΄ !"#$%&_()'/?~Β°
My keyboard says the Amercan way. Which means I have an American keyboard. If you ever see "Gaastra" standing somewhere it is dutch.

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-22 03:57:03 +0000 UTC]

oh, sometimes I pay attention, but thats a joke in my school that people say our economy is getting so poor that nothings being made in America anymore. And thats cool, I wish my computer did that. on the top, I can see where you got the symbols, they are all in order the same way as mine:!@#$%^&*()-_+= but underneath them is the number 1234567890 and then -=. I have seen a few things that say 'Deutsch' which i know from Asia means Dutch in.. Dutch, haha. But i have never seen Gaastra before. Maybe I have, but i don't realize it.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-22 10:04:36 +0000 UTC]

Deutsch sounds more like German in German. We say Nederlands for Dutch. We say Duits for German. That's because Germany is in Dutch Duitsland and in German Deutschland. Ich bin ein Berliner!! (I'm a donut)

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-22 21:45:36 +0000 UTC]

oh. Asia says shes from the 'Nederlands' instead of netherlands all the time. and she says hoi instead of hi. But she does it on purpose, and i say it to her too. I'll say "hoi Asia" if i see her in the hallway. 'Ich bin ein Berliner' looks like 'i am a Berliner', not 'i am a donut', hahahah.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-23 11:35:21 +0000 UTC]

Well Kennedy said it on the Berlin wall. He tought he said I am a Berliner, but ein Berliner is a kind of donut they have there. Nederlanden is how they sed it many years ago. I say Nederland just as one. Dunno wy actually. The Netherlands on historical bases is: "The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg" Also known as the BeNeLux or the low countries. I don't know any Luxembourgers. Such a shame! Luxembourg is mostly forgotten when people talk about the BeNeLux.

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-23 17:29:46 +0000 UTC]

oh. thats funny, hah. oh, thats kind of like how America is Candada + US + Mexico, but people usually only think of the US. and I know lots of Mexicans, but none actually live in Mexico. They have mexican decent in them, but they have lived in the US for their whole lives. Asia has mexican in her from her dads side. Her mom was full dutch, her dad was 1/4 mexican. Canadians look the same as Americans, only the accent tells the difference, so there could be a few Canadians that i know, and not even know it.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-23 20:35:00 +0000 UTC]

In the Netherlands that's not possible. We talk with our G and Belgians don't Luxembourgers don't even talk dutch at all. Some south dutch people talk with a soft g too, but have a different accent then Belgians. It's pritty clear. And when Germans talk dutch you hear it very clearly. I had only once that I didn't recognise a Belgian, but she lived almost her whole life in the Netherlands and lerned the hard g.

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-25 01:02:09 +0000 UTC]

Oh, we have lots of accents over here. So many accents. Even girls and boys talk different. Girls words are clear and usually we end our sentences going in a higher pitch. Boys words are all slurred together, and usually end going in a lower pitch. People in the south sound like hillbillys. lol. Alot of my family lives south, so when ever i visit them, i have to get used to hillbilly talk. And there's alot of mexicans who live in the US. My best friends mom is all mexican, and its hard to understand her. and then we got a foreign exchange student from vietnam. he didn't talk much, so i felt bad that he wasn't going to make any friends. And i draw alot, so everyday, i would show him a drawing, and try to help him out, but he would just smile, neither of us really talked to each other. But Asia doesn't have an accent at all. When she told me she spoke dutch, i was like "What?? no you don't!!" lol. She even speaks slang. Which most foreign people that i know, usually sppeaks better english than english people. haha. an english person would say: "Hey bro, i aint got no shoes." The correct way, and the way a foreign person would say this is: "Hi, I don't have any shoes." So really, foreign people speak better english than us.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-25 10:20:30 +0000 UTC]

I know slang too XD, but here you also have a lot of different accents. You have posh. Rotterdams Amsterdams Haags (accents from different citys) Friesian and slang. I can talk better English slang then Dutch slang. I fail. Most of the time we Dutch have a horrible accent. Some people call it cute, but I think it's bad. I think it is because we lern English at school and you at home. We do it all corectly, because we don't know if we are saying the right thinks if we just talk. If you guys use have in the sentence. "I have lived here for 5 years" you stil live there. If you translate that litrely you get "I heb hier voor 5 jaren gewoond" wich means you don't live here anymore.

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-30 15:02:13 +0000 UTC]

oh, i can talk slang, but not heavy slang. If i did that, i'd sound...ghetto? maybe? haha, because im so small, im only 5' 2''. Asia can get away with heavy slang. Asia has two different dutch accents, but i cant tell the difference between them. How long has your school been teaching you english? And oh, I would get too confused if I tried to learn dutch. or any language. I'd end up telling someone something wrong. And that remind me that 'ik hou van jou' has 4 words in it. 'i love you' only has 3. I asked asia what the fourth word was in dutch, and she said that it was a word that doesnt exist in the english language. I was really confused. But i guess i kinda get it. And sorry that I haven't been replying in a while, school has been stressful. But im on Christmas break, yay!! and new years is comming up.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-30 15:09:24 +0000 UTC]

well hou van can't be saperated. It means love. van can be seen alone as from or of. I have done 3 years of English by now, but I could talk a little English before that. That's because we Dutch watch a lot of English/American shows. With subtitles ofourse, but you still hear it. Well I have a rolling r and some people refuse to say te e sometimes on the end of a word. Muren (walls) becomes mur'n. You have to be Dutch (or Belgian) to hear the difference between city accents. I'm sure you can't tell the difference between Rotterdams and Amsterdams.

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-30 20:29:00 +0000 UTC]

oh, i understand. I've taken spanish for two years, but Im not able to speak it, or even write it correctly. My spanish vocabulary is still small. Asia used to watch tv with subtitles, and then one day, she turned it off, and i haven't seen her use them again. But i didn't think she ever needed them. My spanish teacher lets us watch movies in spanish in our class, and I can only watch them with subtitles. and asia does that sometimes, where she slurres her words together, like muren to mur'n. I can hear it in english. but alot of people do that over here, so its not noticeable. And I probably cant tell the difference between Rotterdams and Amsterdams, haha.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-30 20:59:03 +0000 UTC]

Wait that muren mur'n is on the country side (forgot to say that) I will send you some sound things from youtube with the difference. Amsterdams: [link] (It's a song, but I couldn't find anything else. He says s when he shoulds say a z) Rotterdams: [link] (We hate Amsterdammics) My Frensh is worse. So is my German. -.-' I haf to do an exam German in 3,5 years.

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-31 16:25:27 +0000 UTC]

no, the word muren isn't over here, but the way you go from "muren" to "mur'n", like leaving out a letter, is over here. in the first video, (thats the cutest little boy ever) i didn't really see any difference, but our z's and s's are kinda the same over here. And in the 2nd video, i have not a clue whats going on, but Asia sounds like the first video, not the second one. The second video kinda sounds like he's spitting, he's talking so fast. But i can tell a difference now, alittle. you have to take 3 different languages? I can barely take one different language. And my school is small, so everyone is on the same page as me, as in we're all learning spanish at a slow rate. We have to take exams for every class 2 times a year starting highschool. normal tests come about once every 2 weeks.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-31 16:31:50 +0000 UTC]

Well you have to lern thos 3 languages all over the Netherlands. The second video is of somebody insulting Amsterdamics. He has a havy accent, but most Rotterdamic have an accent more like this:[link] It is a dislike song about Rotterdam by Rotterdamics. This is how we look at our own city most off the time. Pretty negative, but when we talk to Amsterdammics we say it is the best city ever.

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-31 16:46:31 +0000 UTC]

oh. i didn't know what that video was about either. it kinda looked like it was supposed to be funny, but i couldn't tell. America is looked at a great place and i guess it is, but we tell other people its a big crap mess. lol

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2010-12-31 16:49:49 +0000 UTC]

Wait the other with the Amsterdamic accent is about the fact he wants sombody to love and care about. The US sounds nice, but I dan't want to live there. You have some things I can't understand with my Dutch mind. Why so patriotic?? Why so suspisous??

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2010-12-31 17:43:37 +0000 UTC]

oh. Im not really sure, because we love our country. Mostly after WW2, after we won the war, we were so proud of ourselves, and we are proud to be an american. And we are so thankful that we celebrate it. So suspisous about what? about terrorism? We have terror attacks all the time. Sept. 11, 2001, was the mark of a really big terrorist attack that really had a big impact on us. 2 airplanes full of people were hijacked and taken over by terrorists, and they flew the planes right into the World Trade Centers, which were the 2 tallest buildings in the world, located in New York. It killed about 3,000 people. A really sad movie on that would be "Remember Me" I just watched it a few days ago. heres the scene:[link] and right after that, a plane crashed right into the place where that man was standing. the building later collapsed. [link] There is alot of people in the street, its not usually like that.

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dwarfthrowing In reply to kataangavatar [2011-01-01 15:19:10 +0000 UTC]

I know about it, but then why are there American spies in the Northen Europe counries. That just doesn't make sence. Like the Swedish are going to attac??? I know about 9/11 it's sad. I heard there was a failed bomb attac in an airplane last year. Makes me remember. Happy New Year!

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kataangavatar In reply to dwarfthrowing [2011-01-05 22:57:18 +0000 UTC]

There are American spies throughout the whole entire world, just as there is spies from every other country out there. Everyone has spies. and not so much spies as counter-intelligence agents. And yeah, that happened in Detriot, thats in Michigan. And happy new year!

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