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>Facade gardens help collect rainwater and plants and flowers are good for butterflies and bees. And they look cozy . Having your house looking cozy even on the facade is the most dutch thing I've read in a while.
How so?
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Easier to learn than German?
I (Dutch) found English much much easier to learn than German. Controlling for the amount of benefit I saw and exposure I got to English, probably it's more like "a little easier" but, still, I expect the inverse (English to Dutch) is similar. There's no way that it's harder to learn the language with 2 genders and 2 corresponding words for "the" ("de" and "het") than the language with 16 words for "the" (and the Ger…
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Its like german but with english syntax I don't want to be too pedantic, but it's not. Dutch syntax is very similar to German, both are typically analyzed as an SOV (subject-object-verb) language with movement of the finite verb to the V2 position in declarative main clauses, unlike English. Word order of Dutch and German clauses (+ some other Germanic languages) are typically described in terms of topological fields…
What book would you recommend to start to best understand the way you described the differences and similarities between the languages? It really is a very nice post and I’d like to thank you for it.
During my linguistic studies, the course material was comprised of the Oxford and Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology (and a bunch of papers on specific linguistic features). But the Oxford handbook is a very good start.
It's a very cool field of study that will allow you to identify commonalities across languages and the differences between them. A good typologist should be able the be dropped in a completely unknown language context and learn the features from use (which was basically our exam).
For those who aren't gifted with the dutch language (its easy to learn for enlgish speakers. Its like german but with english syntax. logical spelling and grammar thats really not that hard) Anyway, Tegelwippen is where you "flip tiles" and replace them with plants. The basic play is that it reduces flooding, and regulates temperature. Plus its pretty. https://interlace-hub.com/national-dutch-championship-%E2%80... T…
It looks like they're removing tiles from public pathways in some of those pictures. Is that legal in NL?
[1] https://hilversum.nl/en/mijn-wijk/geveltuintje-aanleggen
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I'm Dutch, I live in Germany. The language and grammar are different enough that I struggle with German. Dutch dialects in the north of the country are very similar across the border. There's also the notion that the Dutch grammar has been changed quite a bit over the years and used to resemble German a lot more. Mostly things are a lot simpler these days than they used to be. Older Dutch texts are hard to read even…
Half German half Afrikaans, Dutch is easy and it's horrifying how bad native English speakers are at just one language.
I live in the Netherlands and I got a couple of hundred bucks of grants for removing all tiles in my backyard (previous owners put them in) and replacing them with grass. Obviously that didn't cover all the cost (and put in a bunch of back breaking work myself) but it's still a nice idea.
Some cities also provide trees to plant.