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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6275 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 9 of 11 16 April 2010 at 3:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would learn Dutch if you are going there for a significant length of time. It's good manners, even if many Dutch people do have some command of English (and I have encountered people who don't - go outside the tourist traps in central Amsterdam and you will find Dutch is alive and kicking).
It is close enough to German for some confusion to arise. I wouldn't tackle them both at the same time from scratch. Studying one after acquiring a good command of the other first is the way to go, in my view. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mrhenrik Triglot Moderator Norway Joined 6082 days ago 482 posts - 658 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 11 16 April 2010 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | ||
Welcome to the forums! The general consensus here seems to be that learning two languages simultaneously does indeed work fine as long as you have the time for it - but learning two similar languages simultaneously is not as good an idea unless you are at an intermediate level in one of the languages already. It would be very easy to mix them up. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5498 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 11 of 11 16 April 2010 at 4:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Study Dutch first, and get to a conversational level (or how ever far you can reach in a
year). Once you move to the Netherlands, you'll easily learn it to an advanced level because you'll be surrounded by the language. After this you can start learning German. You can study the basics of German at home, but you'll be learning Dutch just by living. You could easily make short trips to Germany too for practice. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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