By Sarah-Claire Jordan Though the national language of the Netherlands is Dutch, that doesn’t mean that it is the only language spoken by the population. English is a very wide-spread language in the country, as well as other languages brought over by immigrants. Despite its small size, one must remember that the Netherlands includes land […]
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Not to be confused with the German word for German, “Deutsch”, Dutch is the official language of the Netherlands. It is also spoken in parts of Belgium and France as well as in a handful of other countries like Suriname, that was once a Dutch colony. The language tends to get overlooked, […]
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Native English speakers tend to notice how many English words are used in other languages while ignoring the words they use everyday that were originally Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, and more. English is one of those languages that has no qualms about taking a foreign word and anglicizing it if there isn’t an […]
I have always thought the learning of a language as the discovery of a treasure chest. Break that lock and you’ll have free access to a whole culture, as it is true that the history of a country, its social compound and any intimate or psychological matter that affects people finds it voice through a […]
On 24-26 October, the KNAW Conference Diversity and Universals in Language, Culture, and Cognition will take place at Leiden University. This event will bring together leading experts from linguistics, anthropology, cognitive science and neighboring fields to pursue answers to questions concerning diversity and universals in human behavior. Within the various disciplines of humanities different thoughts exist about […]
