I'm in The Netherlands, and I'm speaking Dutch, my mother tongue, in day-to-day conversations. It feels... weird. Then I realized that aside 2 months in early 2020 (just before being locked in a box due to COVID) I've been abroad for 10 years now, and mostly if not exclusively speaking Dutch to family only.

So, me having to navigate a restaurant in Dutch now feels weirder than dealing with Swiss German or French. Wild.

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@koen_hufkens i had the opposite exxpiernce being a nondutch speaker who had spent a lot of time licing in the netherlands.

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