I'm also so happy to be back in one of the homelands of one of my all-time favorite languages: Dutch!
Memorably described by my friend Rebecca as "German written by a clown," Dutch is approximately 45% English and 45% German with 10% alien-language thrown in. So if you speak the first two of those, you can usually sort out what Dutch is trying to say, at least when it's written. When spoken, unfortunately, the alien-language percentage jumps to about 50% (chhh sounds, etc.) so that's a little more difficult to penetrate. But still awesome.
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