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From: rob.elsas@tip.nl (Rob Elsas)
Subject: Re: easiest lang for beginner (Dutch)
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> In article <4nbsr1$eg2@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>,
> manna7@ix.netcom.com(Damsel Plum) wrote:
> 
> > In <31994CAB.56E4@gold.tc.umn.edu> "Karl M. Bunday"
> > <bunda002@gold.tc.umn.edu> writes: 
> > >
> > >Osmo Ronkanen wrote:
> > >
> > >> How about Afrikaans? Do you understand that? Is Dutch spoken in
> > other former colonies?
> > >
> > >There are a fair number of speakers of Dutch in Indonesia.
> > 
> > In Surinam too if I'm not mistaken.
> 
> You'll also run into Dutch on Sint Maartin, Aruba, and Curaao.
> 
And on Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba.

Rob Elsas


