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Message: [QUOTE="Chin Diesel, post: 4353479, member: 34"] Did some work in Netherlands last year for the first time. I'll be going back again this fall. The people I was working with were discussing some of the push and pull between older generation and newer generation with language. Older generations are very aware of losing the Dutch language. Younger kids flip between Dutch and English much like we'd hear Spanglish here in the US. All Dutch kids learn English throughout grade school. I asked him if they are taught the Queens English or American English. I thought it was legit question because there is also plenty of real anger between mainland Europe and the Brits. He laughed and said they learn Queens English. Without skipping a beat he followed up with saying if they want to speak more like American English they are taught to speak while pretending they have a potato in their mouth. So, us Yanks have that going for us. [/QUOTE]