From: nikke.karlsson@gmail.com   
      
   On 2025-12-29, Lars Poulsen  wrote:   
   >   
   > I find written Dutch 80+% readable, but the spoken is totally   
   > unintelligible. Dutch and Danish are very similar mixtures of German,   
   > English and French, but have completely different sets of phonemes. Each   
   > of them accuses the other language of "it's not really a language, it's a   
   > throat disease".   
      
   Personally I've found that knowledge of Swedish can also be helpful with   
   Dutch. I'm sure knowledge of Danish is largely equivalent for that   
   purpose.   
      
   Niklas   
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