Shout out to all the Dutch people!

That's a shame! I would've liked to have had a Dutch passport!

Broodje gebraden Elmer-bek met Teennagel en Hagelslag. Hmmmm
Lekker hoor!

I'll trade mine for yours.

Ieder z'n meug zullen we maar zeggen.

Great! So I'll have a Dutch female passport, and you can have a British male one, and I guess the age difference could be a problem. And hair colour, I have inherited blond hair from my Dutch side though.

Also, what does z'n mean? I've seen it a couple of times, and was wondering what it meant. I'm kind of trying to learn bits of Dutch, through reading mostly, and it confused me!

Great! So I'll have a Dutch female passport, and you can have a British male one, and I guess the age difference could be a problem. And hair colour, I have inherited blond hair from my Dutch side though.

Also, what does z'n mean? I've seen it a couple of times, and was wondering what it meant. I'm kind of trying to learn bits of Dutch, through reading mostly, and it confused me!

Unfortunately it is not that easy! ^^ I still have to wait 1.5 year before I can get my British Passport :P

Hertfordshire, just north of London - was born near Leiden not too far from the Hague.

Oh yeah! I lived in Uden (Near Eindhoven) for about 3 years - I miss living these - no blooming hills!!


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Ja, waarom niet...we gebruiken toch ook kruidnagel als specerij!

I'd be happy to trade nationality with either of you! But the question is: could ya pull off being a West African though???

Great! So I'll have a Dutch female passport, and you can have a British male one, and I guess the age difference could be a problem. And hair colour, I have inherited blond hair from my Dutch side though.

Also, what does z'n mean? I've seen it a couple of times, and was wondering what it meant. I'm kind of trying to learn bits of Dutch, through reading mostly, and it confused me!

Lekker voor in de curry. :')

I used to speak with a fairly heavy South-African accent, maybe if I practise a bit more I might be able to use it again, hardly any European will notice.

I'm afraid my hair is light brown, but I did inherit my Nan's skin colour... I can hide myself by standing in front of a white sheet of paper. :P

Z'n is, indeed, a short form of 'zijn'. However, 'zijn' can also be a possessive pronoun, meaning 'his', and that's the case when you see 'z'n' somewhere in a sentence.

I'm afraid my hair is light brown, but I did inherit my Nan's skin colour... I can hide myself by standing in front of a white sheet of paper. :P

Z'n is, indeed, a short form of 'zijn'. However, 'zijn' can also be a possessive pronoun, meaning 'his', and that's the case when you see 'z'n' somewhere in a sentence.

"z'n" is the short version of the Dutch "zijn" which translates as "sind" in German or "are" in English. ooh & zijn can also be translated as the verb "to be" in English, or "sein" in German...

I'd be happy to trade nationality with either of you! But the question is: could ya pull off being a West African though???

Disregard my Dutch lesson completely!
I'm not even Dutch.
OMG what am I even doing here...

Well, I only tell you what I know and that is that the Erasmus is more respected for all economical courses than the other uni´s. Tilburg is definetly a good option if you want to keep your living costs down, rooms are really cheap (think of €250/300 a month) and there are not that much people looking for rooms in contrast with big cities.
Tilburg is not really famous for quality teaching but neither is it a bad university and if you say they are quite high up the rankings for econometrics I am willing to believe you.

So about the other uni's: Maastricht tries to be really international but they use different teaching methods than most Dutch uni's (they use problembased education. So you get a case, then have a few days to do some research on it and then you discuss what you find in some kind of tutorial). It depends on your preference but most people question the quality of the teaching.
I dont really know about Groningen but generally speaking it is a very decent univeristy.

If you have anymore questions please let me know and if you want to find out more about the reputation of these uni's you can use this forum (http://forum.fok.nl/forum/35) or if you do not speak Dutch I can do it for you.

Z´n is always short for the possesive pronoun, it can´t be used for the verb zijn.

Thanks a lot! Unfortunately I do not speak dutch-yet- thus my information resources are few... that's why I m really glad u helped!
I managed to search the forum u mentioned - spent a lot of time since I had to use google translate-and it proved to be pretty useful as well as ur advice!
I may return later with some more questions but for now I don't think Ihave anything more to ask!
danke!

I'm less white than I used to be, but that could be due to my not so recent holiday. My mum has quite darkish skin though.

Thanks!



Thank you!

Could be a bit of a problem, I could get loads of spray tans?



Umm... ok.
You can speak it! That's a lot better than me, and I'm half Dutch!

Lekker voor in de curry. :')

I used to speak with a fairly heavy South-African accent, maybe if I practise a bit more I might be able to use it again, hardly any European will notice.

LOL Sounds like a plan then!
haha I did live in Holland for like 10 years...
Did you guys take any foreign languages at school??

jongens, misschien een domme vraag, maar ik word echt gek van de domme engelsen hier. ik heb sinds 5 jaar een nederlands rijbewijs, 5 jaar no-claim en ik zat te denken om een auto te kopen hier in Londen. een oude vauxhall (2003) gevonden voor 900 pond. ik wou kijken wat de verzekering kost en wat lees ik, 4800 pond de goedkoopste??? voor een auto van 900 pond?

waar kan ik een normale verzekeraar vinden die niet hallucineert? in nederland is een verzekering voor een 18 jarige met 0 ervaring en no-claim en een dikke nieuwe (waarde 5000+ euro) sportbak van 150pk (all risk ipv third party, zoals ik ingevuld heb) maar liefst 3 maal goedkoper!!!

maak ik ergens een fout of haten deze klootzakken buitenlanders???

PS: wat kost een boete voor rijden zonder verzekering? want voor 4800 pond, kun je volgens mij behoorlijk wat jaren rondrijden...

That helps!
Well I'm at school now, well not now, but I am currently enrolled in school! I'm doing GCSE French, and I wanted to do German as well but they wouldn't let me!

Ahh ii seeeee
Now that's a shame! Learning German would have also prepared you for Dutch, as they're quite similar (in vocabulary NOT grammar!) And I presume your Dutch parent could have given you a lot of extra help!!

But nevamind! French is a great language too. I never got the chance to learn it at school, and frankly I'm still bitter about that.

But why wouldn't they allow you to take Deutsch??? Didn't you have it up to year 9?