{"id":19188,"date":"2020-05-13T19:46:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T19:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=19188"},"modified":"2020-05-13T19:46:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T19:46:22","slug":"double-dutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=19188","title":{"rendered":"Double Dutch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I finally finished the Russian course I&#8217;ve been working through on Memrise, and am giving Russian a break for now. I may go back to it at some point, and try to get a better grip on the grammar, which I still find hard, even after three years of studying a little every day.<\/p>\n<p>I promised myself that I&#8217;d start learning a different language once I&#8217;d finished the Russian lessons, and have decided to learn some more Dutch. I know a little already, and can understand it to some extent thanks to my knowledge of English, German and related languages. So it&#8217;s easier for me than Russian. I&#8217;m just learning it on Duolingo at the moment, and may try other apps as well.<\/p>\n<p>I like the weird and wonderful phrases that come up on Duolingo, and expect there&#8217;ll be plenty in Dutch. A couple of very useful phrases that came up today were:<\/p>\n<p>Pardon, ik ben een appel<br \/>\n<em>Excuse me, I am an apple<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nee, je bent geen appel<br \/>\n<em>No, you are not an apple<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a good way to start a conversation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/phrases\/sillydutch.htm#dutch\">collecting these on Omniglot<\/a>, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I finally finished the Russian course I&#8217;ve been working through on Memrise, and am giving Russian a break for now. I may go back to it at some point, and try to get a better grip on the grammar, which I still find hard, even after three years of studying a little every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,10,13,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-language","category-language-learning","category-russian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19188"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19194,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188\/revisions\/19194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}