ANSWERS: 12
  • Well, if the Dutch do it, how hard can it be?
  • It depends on your native language. If it's German it's pretty easy. If it's French and you're not from Belgium it's a lot more difficult. If it's English to read may be easy, to speak quite hard, but with a good teacher doable. In all cases: Practice makes (close to) perfect!
  • I was useless at French at school, but have mastered Dutch well. Best way is to live in the country and make friends with the "natives"
  • No.. you just have to smoke untold amounts of pot, wear wooden clogs and ride a bicycle.. ooh and eat lots of cheese..
  • I don't think so because there are so many online courses sites which can help you a lot in learning the dutch language like http://www.learnlanguageskills.com http://www.transparent.com http://learndutch.elanguageschool.net
  • If you ask me it's difficult to learn any language especially the grammar. I'm learning english for three years now but my grammar still sucks! Besides it pretty much depends on your mother tongue too. If you can pronounce characters like 'gh' and 'kh' then it is more likely that you can speak germany and french without an accent.
  • not if they will meet you halfway.
  • I have a couple of friends who learned dutch in a very short while...like 3/4 months...but i cant really tell for someone who is strictly english speaking...my language is very close to dutch---so i think it is much easier for people (including my friends) from my country!!!
  • The toughest thing is getting the reason to learn it, because you don't have to learn Dutch if you're just going to visit Holland. Most Dutch people are fluent in English. You need to live there, and preferably out in the country (de platteland) where even if they did have to take all those years of English in school, they don't want to speak English, they want you to speak Dutch. I wish I could live there. I wish, I wish, I wish. Even just 6 months a year, way out in Limburg somewhere would be fine with me.
  • No harder than any other language.
  • From my experience, languages in general are not very difficult on the surface. You can encompass the whole grammar of whatever language within a couple of weeks. You can learn the core vocabulary of any language - that is about 5000 words in a matter of a few months. However, after you have done that the most difficult part is just ahead of you - to learn to speak the language fluently and in the way the natives do, and that might take even several years. This applies to any language in the world. My mother tongue is russian and it´s grammar is way harder than english or dutch but it does not mean that the language is objectively harder to learn. You just have to devote slightly more time to grammar issues but once you learn them it will still take you many years of practicing the language. So at the end of the day you will have spent just about the same amount of the time on english, dutch or russian, anyway.
  • it might be if you dont know it

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