I go by Zomp.
So, I'm learning to speak Dutch [with a Flemish accent.] from a friend native to Belgium, but she isn't always on so I'm trying to teach myself when she's not around but it's not easy.
So here is my query.
When you write in another language compared to English know somethings get switched around and what have you.
When you write in dutch does the same apply? The things I know so far, for instance
"Hoe gaat het met je." Seem's pretty straight forward.
"How goes it with you?"
So would something like
"How are you?" automatically translate to "How zijt jou?"
[[I'm not sure I used the right word for are.]]
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In Belgium we would translate "How are you ?" as "hoe is het met je ?" but with the Flemish accent it is "hoe ist met u ?" but the youngsters say "çava ?" (the Flemish language contains a few french words like "çava")
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English and dutch are like famillie languages, so they have a lot in common.
If you spoke dutch like that, people will probably understand you a bit, certainly because lots of flemish people speak a bit english.
No, bad example, I'm afraid, "how are you" can't be translated word by word.
BUT: "I'm not sure I used the right word for are" becomes translated word by word:
"ik ben niet zeker ik gebruik het juiste woord voor zijn" what is like beginners dutch and understandable. (sounds a bit cave-man like haha )
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