Yes, another flower picture. "De lente" means "spring" in Dutch, and it is certainly spring now. The sun isn't setting until around 8, which makes my rowing lessons much more scenic than the first lesson (which involved about 20 minutes of rowing in the unhelpful dark).Anyway, the picture for today was also taken at Keukenhof, on April 1st, during my mom's visit. Note the windmill, which was built in Groningen in the late 19th century and moved to Lisse several decades later. (Clicking on the photo brings you to a larger version.)
In unrelated news, we finally got the results from our Dutch exam. We both passed! My teacher said that this exam is not just for our language school, but also for a standardized national Dutch as second language evaluation. It's a nice bonus, to have an official evaluation from the government saying that I can indeed speak... a little bit of Dutch. Well, small steps. Or, I should say, kleine stappen.
3 comments:
I just clicked on your blog from Sally-Anne's--the flowers are beautiful.
I was hoping you could help with a question. I noticed you said that Keukenhof was only open for a few weeks in the spring and again in late summer. I am going to be in Amsterdam in the late summer and would love to go there, but can only find information about it being open in the spring. Do you have any idea how I can find out about their summer hours? (Even their website only mentions being open in the spring).
Thanks!
Is "de lente" like "of lent?" As in the season of lent? Neat.
"De" is one of the ways to say "the" in Dutch (the other is "het"). So "de lente" is "the lent" or also "the spring." Like most languages I've studied (and I think like Italian; you'd know better), Dutch uses article more consistently than English. For instance, if you say something "in Dutch," you say it "in het Nederlands." Also, streets and squares always have articles ("let's meet in the Leidseplein," as I received in an SMS just today).
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