Dutch visitors to Holland, Mich., may feel a quaint connection with Tulip Time, Dutch organ music and wooden shoes, but hearing their mother tongue thousands of miles away is an instant bond. “I was a ...
Improving your Dutch can be hard when locals keep switching to English. An intensive course at Talencoach is helping internationals get a word in. Any international resident of the Netherlands has ...
If you live in Manheim Township or Millersville, you may find this difficult to believe: Up to 10% of Lancaster County residents speak Pennsylvania Dutch. Many also speak English, but at home they ...
Expats living in The Hague are fed up with Dutch people immediately switching into English when they hear their accents. Although the Dutch may think they are being courteous, expats are irritated at ...
The other night, I dreamt that people were speaking Dutch. Not odd in itself, except I'm not even semi-fluent in Dutch. How did I know it was Dutch? In my dream, I just knew. So, was my brain making ...
A 17-year-old Dutch boy who underwent a routine knee operation stunned doctors and his family when he woke up speaking only English and was unable to understand or speak Dutch—his native language. The ...
Historians trace this Rhineland immigration to as early as 1683, when the first waves of Rhenish immigrants speaking the Germanic Dialect arrived in Pennsylvania. One Historian, R. Webster records: ...