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limburger
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@blinky465  / @crazyredcoat when your language is spoken in mainstream media all of the time it can be hard to even begin to imagine why you need to learn a secondary language.

To me it’s the exact opposite. I think I was watching German tv before I was taught the language at school (I can even understand the various German dialects ).
English is taught so early to kids and used so easily in our own media that it’s almost as if we are afraid of our own language, which makes me sad.

I get that in the technology field it makes sense to have English as the default language, because by the time you’ve translated stuff it is obsolete.

They also have Dutch schools teach classes in English … which is horrible, especially if you know the atrocious language skills of certain teachers (I’m talking “Engrish” … ). I’m glad I never had to endure that sort of thing.
The absolute top level of idiocy is that Dutch university on Dutch literature (!) had students write their official thesis (sp?) in English. There is no facepalm meme good enough to describe that sort of thing …

btw @blinky465 : that Earthworm Jim diorama needs to be launching that cow  … it can’t be a simple static thing 😀

Final bit in 99 Luft balons :
“99 Jahre Krieg liessen keine Platz fur Sieger
Kriegsminister gibt’s nicht mehr und auch keine Dusenflieger
Heute zieh ich meine Runden
Seh’ die Welt in Trummern liegen
Hab”nen Luftballon gefunden
Denk’ an dich und lass’ ihn fliegen ”

“After 99 years of war no one has won
There are no more ministers of war and no jet fighters either
Today I do my rounds
See the world in pieces
I’ve found a baloon
Thinking of you I let it fly ..”

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