Posts tagged Dialect from the Learn Dutch For Expats team.
Your textbook Dutch meets its match in Antwerp. The Antwaarps dialect is fast, proud, and full of local words. Here is a survival guide to the slang of Antwerp.
Groningen and the northern Netherlands are cheaper, calmer, and a touch more Dutch than the Randstad. Here is what integrating there really takes, dialect and all.
You worked hard for your B1 Dutch, then West-Flanders happened. Here is why West-Vlaams is so hard, and how to cope in Bruges with your standard Dutch intact.
Panicking your app Dutch is useless against thick Limburgs at the family table? Relax: they'll understand you. Understanding them is the real adventure.