• smeg@feddit.uk
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      11 months ago

      My thoughts exactly, if I’m hearing someone speak French then my brain says “that’s a different language”, but Dutch sounds similar enough to English that my brain says “that’s gobbledygook, there’s trickery afoot!”

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      11 months ago

      Probably more like a German and Dutch speaker. I speak fluent English and fluent German (to like an 8 year-olds standard), I can sort of understand Dutch.