Comments on: We simply haven’t seen Oranje like this ever…

By: Caleb

Caleb — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:46:04 +0000

@Ghost – they’ll get a new kit before the World cup. Every team always gets a new cup before each major tournament.

By: Ghost of 1978

Ghost of 1978 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:27:20 +0000

Will Holland have a new jersey from Nike in 2009-10 ? I believe they have been wearing the current version for at least 2 yrs.

Personally, i would favor a return to the orange/black combination from Euro 2000 etc

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:11:39 +0000

It’s unbelievable, but I actually understand German quite well, I can’t speak it very fluently though. It’s quite usefull to know three languages. My french isn’t that good, to many complexe grammar rules there, and they talk too fast too understand proparly.
BTW we get some German tv channnels here, I think it’s pathetic, harry potter saying crazy spells in German.

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:58:30 +0000

LMAO means something like Laughing My Arse Off

Clint: Handen hoch!

By: Tiju

Tiju — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:12:10 +0000

@Carlos what is LMAO??plz let me know that.
@finn great post.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:09:07 +0000

Jan and why did we learn English French and German at School ? Necessity !
And you are so right about subtitles in movies and TV. BTW the pioneer of Singapore is Lee Kuan Yew and he had Dutchman Winsemius as his prime Economic advisor. Apart from housing/airport/port/land reclamation, he also advocated ONE language for the Chinese and not 5 different dialects here. Now everyone speaks Mandarin and its a big plus for doing business in the soon to be biggest economy in the world – China.
Finn – LMAO !!!

By: finnster01

finnster01 — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:07:41 +0000

Speaking of Germans, in Norway we have to do national service and I was on a ship in the navy. Once we visited Flensburg (which is where the German Naval Academy is), and one night off duty I went to watch the movies.

It was a Spaghetti Western with Clint Eastwood. Now it was the first time I had ever witnessed dubbing and it was unbelievable. I could actually live with Clint Eastwood speaking German, but when the Indians also spoke German I completely cracked up and got thrown out of the Theatre…

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:34:23 +0000

Dutch kids get German, French and English at a rather young age at school, and all the international tv programs in Holland are subtitled, meaning that the young ears/brains get used to different languages. In Germany and France they dub English programs meaning that their exposure to English for instance is limited.

Dutch people can speak German well (and understand it well) but the other way around it’s not that good, I guess.

Afrikaans and Dutch is very similar.

I know the role of the Dutch in the Boer war and all (and I guess any big nation from past empires have done horrible things, so have we) but recently Holland was a big supporter of anti-apartheid and pro-Mandela and all that, so maybe we’ve purged our past mistakes. A bit. A tiny bit…

By: Mario

Mario — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:20:11 +0000

Good point Carlos!

By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:51:18 +0000

Oranje for Life/ The reason Portuguese will understand Spanish better is because NO one understands Portuguese and they HAVE to pick up Spanish as half the world speaks Spanish. People say Dutch sounds like German but very few Germans speak Dutch but most Dutch people understand and can speak Geman. It’s a question of necessity. Thats why very few English mother tongue speakers know another language.