About your "American sense of politeness and "correcting someone" and "considdering this rude behavior". It is not just about learning a language, it also about learning the culture. The dutch are very straight forward, we do not beat around bush or sweettalk. Here we say what we mean. We find talking around the subject realy rude and if someone is doing so, that person is waisting valuable time. Just come to the subject straight away. There is more to a culture than that alone, as an example how you are greeted in a US store, so polite : HOW ARE YOU DOING !? and then not expecting a real answer. It gives us shivers and we find it an infringement on our privicy. If we ask someone how he/she is doing we realy do expect an answer. We are so alike and sometimes worlds away from eachother (US and EU i mean) Coming back to this video, hats of to you for your attemt to speak a third language. Dutch is not a simple language indeed. If you are in the Randstad (Amsterdam,Rotterdam,TheHague,Utrecht) everyone speaks English. That makes it harder for someone who wants to learn the language to learn it. If they try a sentance, the dutch will automaticaly answer you in english just to speed things up :-) Anyway, thumbs up to you. Furthermore, yesterday evening i watched the other video's you have put up about this country and i liked them a lot. I found them very positive. I also liked how you went out to all kinds of museums, and realy took the time to explore them, and explain things to your lovely child. 10/10 video's and i am looking forward to a next one :-)

Go see the Hortus Bontanicus in Leiden, Burgers bush in Arnhem, and the aquarium ... Go see Hattum city, go see Terschelling the best island we got.. Leiden and Utrecht and Delft if you like old city centres and Maastricht, Deventer and Kampen... The Batavia in lelystad and the museum with all the ship stuff..

Madurodam is the mini version of all of the Netherlands..

When in Den Haag, eat Indonesian food :)

Go visit Madurodam, and the Scheveningen Aquarium with kids, and if it is finely fixed the planetarium... And in Summer the beach or de Zuiderpark.

Den Haag has a g at the end, not a k, g is pronounced like CH in loCHness.

little bit to much for a child ,this won't all have happened in one day a think ?????

Thanks for sharing. I have yet to visit this museum but look forward to it. I have two recommendations for you. First have you visited our local Limburg's Openluchtmuseum called Bokrijk just outside of Genk? It is also a great family outing and some weekends they have a kids program with cool activities. It is also quite spread out with four distinct areas each a walk through the forest from each other. You might also really enjoy Archeon Museumpark. They have a stone age camp, a Roman villa and then a Medieval village so it is like the open air parks but recreates historical periods in replica buildings for the most part. In a few weeks you can also visit St. Nicholaas there which your son might enjoy.

As a follow up you could try the similar (though slightly smaller) 'Zuiderzee Museum'. This is also an active open air museum but dedicated to the towns and villages around the former Zuiderzee (current 'IJsselmeer'). It's in the town of Enkhuizen (NH), which also houses a fairy tale theme park (called: 'Sprookjeswonderland') especially aimed at younger children (so maybe make it a weekend?)...

Great videos! I am also an American living in South Limburg for 10 years and no intention of leaving. Is there a way to get in contact with you? Perhaps an Instagram account where I can send a DM?

Cool place. I had never heard of it. Peanut butter cheese puffs sound horrible but thanks for sharing.

The trams are not replicas.the one we see here is actually from Rotterdam

Nice video! as a Belgian Limburger I too was impressed by Hoensbroek and the amount of child-friendly activities scattered throughout the castle & yard. If your kid is obsessed with medieval history I assume Bokrijk and perhaps - though an earlier timeperiod, perhaps for when he's a bit older - the Gallo-Roman museum in Tongeren are on your list as well?

The best way to learn Dutch is to take the online Zoom course taught by Nedles in Amsterdam. They use the Delft Method which is a semi-intensive course where you will be talking online with a teacher and a small group of students two hours per week. Each hour of class will require about 3 hours of non-class time to practice but the method works. They also offer an intensive class four hours per week but if you are working full time I would not recommend it as it really requires commitment. Start with the most basic class and work your way up but with this method you can be speaking at the A2 level pretty quickly and pass the imburguringexaman if that is your goa.

Living in Limburg makes it extra hard to learn Dutch as most locals speak a regional language that is distinct from Dutch called Limburgish. It is a Germanic language that sits between Dutch and German just as Catalan sits between Spanish and French. But Limburgish is difficult to learn as there are over 40 dialects and it is a tonal language (like Chinese). It is further removed from standard Dutch than Frisian but is as old as Dutch in written form (dating back to the 900s). Recently Google Translate added it as a language and there is an English-Limburgish, Limburgish-English dictionary online called D'n Dictionair. The Limburgish Academy has a good-tri lingual site that gives more background and history of the language.

Great video. I really enjoy your explorations of Limburg and the surrounding areas.

Great video. Your production quality and historical research is excellent. I would add to your list Chateau Neercanne. It is the only terraced castle in the Netherlands and it is where Czar Peter the Great of Russia stayed when he came to Maastricht to inspect the city's fortifications in 1717. If you visit ask to see the wine cellar where all the signers of the Maastricht treaty signed their names on the cave walls at lunch before signing the Treaty of Maastricht. Some historians also place the epic battle between Julius Caesar and Ambiorix in the Jeker Valley below the castle and the trail above it leads to a stone age site from the Band Ceramics culture of 7,000 years ago. Chateau St Gerlach is also worth a visit and you can visit the chapel built over the tomb of the 12th century saint. As a fellow American expat living in Maastricht who loves the regional history of Limburg please keep up the good work.

I'm English and i live in Kerkrade near Gaiazoo! Ive been to most of the places you shared...i was going to recommend Rolduc Abbey but noticed someone else had mentioned it! Im glad you like Limburg... thats why i stayed here after my family moved back to England many moons ago! 😊 I look forward to more video's! 👌👏👏😀🇳🇱

Every building is original. Except the tramremise

Hoping santa brings us some printen!

Great edits 😂

maps.app.goo.gl/KhYV7D4PY33uVkMAA?g_st=ic On the North border of Limburg, also lots of hills, and the big Mook marina...

So u got from diamond league to the quarter finals, to get it? Or do you get it while going from obsidian to diamond? And how are your lessons so short?

New viewer here, and a native speaker. What helps me, as native, is the Dutch habit to subtitle foreign movies. I'd advise to actually watch tv and pay attention to the subtitles. Won't help your English but will help understanding Dutch sentence structure.

Oktoberfest Sittard is a top tip. Starts October 18th. Great video by the way!! 😀

What a fascinating museum. Pancakes look good!

13:05 Er kan een nuanceverschil zijn tussen een verkleinwoord en in het Engels simpelweg little ervoor gooien en er zijn een aantal gevallen waar het verkleinwoord niet alleen de grootte aanduidt. (Katje duidt vaak op een jonge niet volgroeide kat.) Dat is een van de redenen dat we in het Nederlands nog gewoon het woord klein hebben. Het zal meestal wel goed gaan, maar het is goed om te weten.

1:07 I read in an other video you moved to Limburg, then the g is meant to sount a lot less harch. You probounce it too far at the back of your mouth. It should be a little more in front and then ch should be unvoiced and g should be voiced if it is not the end of a word. (Lach and dag rime, but lachen and dagen do not.)

7:58 most people did their lauwndry once a weak by hand. The day is called "Wasdag." My grandfather always tells they had a field to bleach clothes (and get hay). The whole village had similar gardens with an ornamentary part in front and behind the house, a vegetable garden, fruit trees and that small field. Other villages ordered them differently, but the parts of the garden were prouboubly roughly the same. One of the things I like in het openluchtmuseum is that one can see the history of ordinary people too, including peat huts in which some realy poor people had to live even until the 1950's.

It looks like it says Fluyver. But those are actually ancient Dutch S's. It's like an F without the - line. So it says Stuyver = stuiver in modern Dutch. The word for nickle in Dutch ¢5.

11:32 In the Netherlands you generally won’t need the ‘ge’ and ‘gij’ variants of ‘you’, but if you want to be able to converse with Flemish (a collection of dutch dialects from Flanders, the dutch-speaking part of Belgium) speakers or feel like reading older texts, you may need them.

yoo my province! great video and great places!

Looks great for adults also.

Ga zo door!

@2:50 They also painted the houses white out of 'shame' for covering the windows/making them smaller. Nice video!

Castle Aerwinkel is also nice to check out. It was also designed by Pierre Cuijpers, when he was still very young (27).

From januari I live in Sittard, far away from the Randstad were I was born and lived the greatest part of my live, SIttard is very nice and has a great center square

Cool that you were at the Hompesche Molen. I live in Stevensweert 😊

The ui/uy sound in Dutch is probably the hardest to pronounce for non-Dutch speakers. I always tell native English speakers to pronounce it like the -ow in "cow". If you want, you can wing it by replacing the w for a y. So... Coypers? The second attempt at 4:33 comes closest I guess. St. Servatius is pronounced somewhat like Saint Serve-Ah-See-Us.

Sailing thru Roermond !

Zuurvlees is great. As so many famous dishes, it was born out of poverty. So some people could afford only the toughest cheapest cuts back in the day. The only way to make the meat digestible wasto soak it in vinigar first, so the acidity breaks down and softens the meat (zuur = sour). And then of course stew the living daylight out of it so it loses the vinigar taste and just becomes delicious and tender.

Hi fellow-Limburger, nice list. Keep up the good work

Lovely video about my home province. A few suggestions: Toverland in Sevenum; amusement park for the whole family. Eating ice cream at Clevers. Cycling through/around national park de Groote Peel. I wasn't aware that the castle gardens in Arcen are that expensive. They do host Elfia, a fantasy/mideval festival, which might also be interesting.

Nice how you show my province. You can be forgiven for occasionlly mispronouncing those difficult names. I hope for another video zoon. And yes, visit Kerkrade , they also have a lot of fun to offer.

Limburg has a lot of hiking trails . Some cross farm land butt it is still allowed

Nice video! Abdiij Rolduc in Kerkrade is a very beautiful and interesting place. Interesting for adults and kids is the Discovery Museum in Kerkrade. The ZLSM steamtrain is also a visit worth.

Perhaps you could take a look at Learning Dutch by Bart de Pau: several (hilarious) KZbin videos for you to watch. He seems like a pretty cool guy. His pupils are enjoying his lessons, that's for sure..... Take care, Ellen from the beautiful city of Arnhem...

keep the river-based content coming

Zo leuk om te zien dat jullie zoon zo enthousiast is en zoveel energie heeft. Veel kinderen willen gedragen worden, maar hij zo te zien niet

Maybe you can compare ‘geen’ with ‘none’