In spring 2016, I had the opportunity of a lifetime and spent 5 months in the Netherlands as a recipient of the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching. The veteran foreign language teacher in me ...

Learning the language is one of the best ways of truly feeling at home in a different country. But why do so many people find it a struggle to learn Dutch? A new survey aims to find the answers.

At the highest honours level at Utrecht barely any courses are taught in Dutch Students shake off their jackets and scarves as the lecturer opens up a power point presentation on "start-up innovations ...

Dutch is the official language in Belgium. French-speakers often pejoratively call the Dutch language used by Flemings Flemish but it is Dutch nevertheless. The Flemish tend to use it to refer to the ...

In the Netherlands language is not a bone of contention as in many other countries. But what languages are spoken are worth protecting. The Volkskrant interviewed former VVD politician Marieke Sanders ...

The mother-of-three, 52, was visiting the foundation, which translates to 'Language By The Sea' in English, for its tenth anniversary. The foundation offers Dutch lessons to those for whom it is not ...

Most people here have very sensible things to say, but I would like to add one more thing. I am Flemish, and during my training as an interpreter, I was taught to use 'standard' Dutch in the booth.

At one time in the Lehigh Valley, many people spoke the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect. There were sections of the paper devoted to the dialect, and speakers gathered at Versommlings and Grundsau Lodsch ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — On any Amish homestead, after labor’s last push and a check for 10 fingers and 10 toes, family members have heard one of two things for centuries. “Sis en Bu” or “Sis en Maedel.” ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — On any Amish homestead, after labor’s last push and a check for 10 fingers and 10 toes, family members have heard one of two things for centuries. “Sis en Bu” or “Sis en Maedel.” ...