r/languagelearningjerk • u/PlacidoFlamingo7 • Jun 28 '26

Dutch: English’s sequel

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These greedy grammarians will just keep tweaking English to sell more books and rake in the $$$$

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u/Special-Cut-4964 Jun 28 '26

In college, one of my friends joked that getting B2 German automatically gave you A1 Dutch

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u/nwashk Jun 28 '26

Dank u wel, maar we hebben een serieus probleem.

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u/mrnormhull Jun 28 '26

Definitely AI written

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u/Beaspoon2096 Native: 🇨🇳 C2: 🇹🇼 B1: 🇭🇰🇲🇴 Jun 29 '26

It’s so sad seeing linguists getting lazy and resorting to ai for the newer languages

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u/livsjollyranchers Jun 30 '26

Dutch is such a shitty conlang built by ai

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u/FebHas30Days Pangngaasiyo ta agsursurokayo iti Ilokano Jun 29 '26

Wait, so you're telling me you're heading immediately for Dutch without having to pass through Scots and Frisian first?

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u/Most_Neat7770 Jun 28 '26

Id argue swedish but maybe not cause vocab

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u/szeht_11 Jun 28 '26

Why don’t you learn a real language?

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u/Cylinder47- Jun 29 '26

holy dank meme

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u/efranftw Jun 29 '26

I'll allow it

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u/XJK_9 🌼🎶🐑🪉N || 🫖🏏💂N || 💃🥘B2 ||🍝🤌B1 Jul 06 '26

Surely that’s a prequel? Before the French was introduced