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RE: The Khmerican Family Abroad | #3 - The Great Ecuador Exodus Pt. 2
Hi Justin.... Didn't know you were on steemit too... Happy to see you all made it... Jan is working in pp now so once he gets more holidays we'll come and visit you guys on the other side of the world.... Take care say hi to pov and the kids xxxx
Yep, I finally made it onto Steemit. I'm following you, all your food/recipe posts look lovely. We are waiting for visitors in Suriname. A lot of Dutch speakers but I haven't seen a Belgian yet.
Hehe.... I hope you are not going around calling everybody "knappe man" haha. How is your dutch going btw?
My Dutch isn’t much better, and they don’t speak it Dutch style here. I’ve been mixing Taki Taki with Dutch for the words I don’t know. Example: “Ik spreek een beetje Nederlands.” When people ask me if I speak it. But when they ask if my family speaks Dutch, I say “Nah mon, mi famiri nah spreekt Nederland.” I don’t know to say family in Dutch but I know it in Taki Taki, and a I have better luck with Jamaican patois than American English. I there try to speak Dutch, fill in unknown words with Taki Taki, and then any more unknown words with Jamaican patois. It seems to work but it’s not helping me to learn them as separate languages. There’s a lot of language overlap here. I seem to have luck calling spices by Hindi names instead of Dutch when shopping, It’s a hot lingual mess over here.
Family in Dutch is almost same... Familie. Take care