SEC WK2 : The language in my country - The Netherlands

Should I learn all those languages spoken in the country where I was born and raised? It's pointless. Just like me, many Dutch people speak English which is already quite something plus certain cultures refuse to mingle with Dutch people. This attitude is the opposite of my grandmother's.
If I need a certain language, visit a certain country I do my best to study the basics of that language. It is what most Dutch people do. They travel with a travelguide with basic sentences or use a translater.

Anyone who studies hin the Netherlands should at least be able to speak English and to be honest, I think it is crazy that our schools and universities are being adapted in terms of language. Money clearly plays a role here and so does the fact they want to wipe out our history. he
By the way, the number of Chinese students is increasing and there is a large group that does not even speak English. If you ask me there is no country in the world that adapts the language in education for Dutch people, even though you bump into a Dutchman everywhere in this world.

Proud to be Dutch?

I don't feel that way, but I certainly don't feel European. The only thing Europeans have in common is that they are different and want to keep their nationality and language. Nothing wrong with that. Maybe we can learn to communicate if we all learn Esperanto from primary school to our final year of education.
What I do think is something this small country can be proud of is what those people achieved. It's a miracle how they arose a country out of the sea and travelled worldwide to make a living without being a viking.

I am a child who grew up between two cultures and wasn't accepted anywhere or by anyone. I am certainly not grateful to my parents for that. I have been discriminated against a lot and still am it even shows if I travel through Europe. I would love to go to my own country, like a guy snarled at my daughter 25 years ago, but that country doesn't exist.

Dutch schools

Because the Netherlands is small, and anyone who all the little ones have to prove themselves, we all learn English from primary school onwards. German and French are added from secondary school onwards. I don't know what it is like nowadays with the new education system where those who cannot study can join the practical way, but for me and my children, it was mandatory to graduate in at least one 2 other foreign language (German, English, French, some schools teach Greek and Latin today a single school Spanish).

I have always been a language fanatic and wanted to know what languages have in common, what they sound like or how a word came about. Some languages sound nicer and more interesting to me than Dutch, such as South African, Danish and Russian. And when it comes to Arabic, I think the script is super beautiful and worth analyzing, but when I hear a Rotterdammer speak with the rolling r, I think: home.

Is language important to me?

Not if it comes to the spoken word, people are so loud and even when the same language is spoken, there is all too often confusion. What is said is misinterpreted because the emotional value of a word differs. If this is already the case in the own language (partly due to the many dialects - In Dutch, lazy means lazy, while in a Dutch dialect lazy means tired) then the confusion if it comes to foreign languages is even greater. I also think that the average person talks too much and does not listen, let alone understand body language.

I would like to learn sign language, but I don't get any further than applying it with the dogs. Anyone who sees that thinks it's strange, but the shepherds and even my wolves can be trained with it.
Those who have to make do with gestures certainly "hear" more. It is a pity that sign language is not the same worldwide, but all in all, I think we can come a long way, after all, as children we were able to communicate with every foreign child and understand each television program even if we did not speak the language.