Posts Tagged ‘language’
Have you done interdisciplinary work? A call for participation!
Posted by: clare on: May 2, 2013
Have you done interdisciplinary work? Perhaps you’ve worked in Web Science or a related area. Maybe you’re a sociologist who has studied societal impacts of the web, or a designer who has worked on web interfaces for groups. Perhaps you’re a psychologist, criminologist or sociologist with a long-running interest in web-related issues… or an economist, [...]
On learning Dutch: accent, apostrophes, and the effect on my English
Posted by: clare on: October 23, 2011
I’m about halfway through an intermediate Dutch course: it’s hard work, but very helpful. I’m finally at the point where I am sometimes brave enough to speak in Dutch with my officemate, despite my limited vocabulary and shameful pronunciation. I finally realised a month ago (after two separate people remarked on it) that I’ve been speaking [...]
Why Dutch is hard to learn
Posted by: clare on: September 27, 2011
As exemplified by a conversation in a cafe yesterday: Myself: Heb jij een menukaart? Waitress: Of course, how many do you want? …
A tale of two languages
Posted by: clare on: September 23, 2011
On news in a Dutch university with a big expat community The Cursor is the TU/e’s internal newsletter. After a summer break, it just relaunched with the new academic year. Of course, I’m living in the Netherlands: Dutch is the main language, and naturally the Cursor is mostly in Dutch. Last year, it included an [...]
