Travel and Expat Articles about Dutch - Expatify https://www.expatify.com Travel & Expat Lifestyle Magazine Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:07:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.9 https://www.expatify.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cropped-expatify-site-logo-32x32.png Travel and Expat Articles about Dutch - Expatify https://www.expatify.com 32 32 Residential Neighborhoods in Amsterdam https://www.expatify.com/netherlands/residential-neighborhoods-in-amsterdam.html https://www.expatify.com/netherlands/residential-neighborhoods-in-amsterdam.html#respond Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:37:17 +0000 https://www.expatify.com/?p=4107 The city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands is shaped like a horse shoe, with the entire city based on a canal system. People even live in houseboats docked on the canals. The Jordaan The Jordaan is located west of the center, away from the city’s major canals. The streets are more tightly packed than many […]

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]]> https://www.expatify.com/netherlands/residential-neighborhoods-in-amsterdam.html/feed 0 Learning the Social Customs of Belgium https://www.expatify.com/belgium/learning-the-social-customs-of-belgium.html https://www.expatify.com/belgium/learning-the-social-customs-of-belgium.html#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:00:06 +0000 https://www.expatify.com/?p=3231 Pay attention to what area of Belgium you are in, in terms of communicating. The country has three official languages: French, Dutch and German. In Brussels, the capital, people usually know French and Dutch. Sometimes educated people know English and German on top of this! The Dutch language is more common in the Northern part […]

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]]> https://www.expatify.com/belgium/learning-the-social-customs-of-belgium.html/feed 1 Understanding the Languages of South Africa https://www.expatify.com/south-africa/understanding-the-languages-of-south-africa.html https://www.expatify.com/south-africa/understanding-the-languages-of-south-africa.html#respond Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:23:49 +0000 https://www.expatify.com/?p=2843 South Africa has eleven official languages. Each one of these languages affects each other as well. They all have words from one another, and the different accents also alter the dialect. If you move to South Africa, you must pay careful attention to what language is appropriate to your province.  Because South Africa was colonized […]

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]]> https://www.expatify.com/south-africa/understanding-the-languages-of-south-africa.html/feed 0 Noah’s Arc in the Netherlands https://www.expatify.com/netherlands/noahs-arc-in-the-netherlands.html https://www.expatify.com/netherlands/noahs-arc-in-the-netherlands.html#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:47:55 +0000 https://www.expatify.com/?p=2402 If you’re into the Judeo-Christian faith or looking for some interesting Bible activity, but don’t want to live in Israel, consider relocating to the Netherlands. The reason is that Johan Huibers, a contractor, has recently constructed a replica of Noah’s Ark in Schagen, Netherlands. This version of Noah’s Arc has been created in the same […]

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]]> https://www.expatify.com/netherlands/noahs-arc-in-the-netherlands.html/feed 1 Countries that Speak Dutch https://www.expatify.com/netherlands/countries-that-speak-dutch.html https://www.expatify.com/netherlands/countries-that-speak-dutch.html#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:00:05 +0000 https://www.expatify.com/?p=2203 Dutch is considered a strange language by many. Some describe it as a crazy combination of German (Deutsch) and English. It is a West Germanic language, though related remotely to some North Germanic languages. About 22 million people speak Dutch as a first language, and over 5 million speak it as a second language. Because […]

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