Front of Amsterdam Centraal Station
A linguistic note:
After spending about 30 minutes in Amsterdam, I began to notice how I was able to read most of the signs (in Dutch) around the city. The similarities between German and Dutch are really quite apparent. Having learned quite a bit of German, Dutch was only a short step further. For example, in German there are major prepositions such as vor, mit, and unter. These are reflected in Dutch by voor, met, and onder. Much of the language runs like that.
These similarities made reading quite easy, but the aural pronunciation was quite drastically different from German. Dutch sounded much closer to Swedish, or another Nordic language, when spoken. I was able to detect some of those aural differences and comprehend bits of conversations around me.
By the end of our time there, I learned some basic Dutch phraseology and vocabulary.
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I spy with my little eye... grammar and spelling mistakes. And a bad hashtag. And you couldn't resist the extra coffee could you? Anyway, that's really incredible (Not the coffee, the pictures-primarily what's in them). Love the architecture. Keep up with the photos. It's a nice taste of Europe. Hope you're doing well, Ari.
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