Moving to the Netherlands | Pei in Progress 008

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8 ай бұрын

Hi there, if you’re new here. I’m Pei.
I’m documenting my journey towards financial, time, and location freedom.
I’m making weekly podcasts and youtube videos to keep myself accountable.
Week 34 2023
In this episode, I shared…
- Reason moving to the Netherlands
- Reflections on learning
- How past educational experience can skew perceptions of subjects
- More sales from my online course

Пікірлер: 22

@FrankHouwelingBoskoop 6 ай бұрын

Welcome to The Netherlands! I hope you have a wonderful time here. Thank you for sharing your experiences.

@PeiinProgress 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😃

@forkless 6 ай бұрын

While Nijmegen is indeed the oldest city in the Netherlands it has a very rural feel to it, one of the reasons I love living here. I hope you enjoy your time and studies here! -)

@PeiinProgress 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😊 I’m really in love with the city.

@therealdutchidiot 4 ай бұрын

Nijmegen and Maastricht are the oldest cities, and evidence shows Maastricht isa couple hundred years older than Nijmegen.. Both are around 2000 years old. While both are good for a visit, they're both dogshit to live in.

@user-xi6nk4xs4s 4 ай бұрын

@@therealdutchidiot Glad you're speaking for yourself.

@janvanleeuwen2535 Ай бұрын

Welcome to the Netherlands, Pei. Hope you're feeling a bit settled now. Hope you have been warned for the Dutch Directness. May I suggest watching the videos of David Wen about the Netherlands? He gives a lot of honest information about the Dutch and the Netherlands. Greetings from the Hague

@jpdj2715 Ай бұрын

I trusted other Dutch commenters to reveal the town you live in. The aerial view at 0:09 is of a village called Assendelft - you must have landed at Schiphol/Amsterdam Airport, soon after.

@user-tr2kn5te9s 8 ай бұрын

太喜歡妳的理念

@hunchbackaudio 8 ай бұрын

Welcome to the Netherlands and Nijmegen is a greaty place, you'll have a great time.

@PeiinProgress 8 ай бұрын

It’s great to hear! Thank you so much 😊

@-_YouMayFind_- 6 ай бұрын

Welcome to the Netherlands. I hope you will have a good time. I think generally you will have no issue talking English to us. Everyone can speak at least a bit of English. Especially the younger people. 😃

@PeiinProgress 6 ай бұрын

😊 Thank you so much.

@ruthwaithera5457 3 ай бұрын

I appreciate your attitude to growing and learning, and trying things that interest you. Enjoy your years of stay🙂.

@PeiinProgress 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@bramharms72 Ай бұрын

Welcome to the Netherlands. Smart young people like you who, want to live, study and work with us are a blessing for our little country.

@pursuitofmine 2 ай бұрын

literature ❤❤❤ all you said is congruent with what i believe. I love the way you pursue life. Where are you from? May I know?

@jpdj2715 Ай бұрын

Being welcomed is one thing, but nobody gives you the "what to do next". To cut the chase, the country has imported a lot of new ethnic groups, for cheap labour reasons or to give people fro old Dutch colonies a new home after independence. The NL always has been a country of migrants in the past 2,000 years or so, but that's easily forgotten. Your success if you want to stay will depend on how you work with the country and its people. In some of the ethnic minority groups there is a constant whine about discrimination. Well, discrimination happened a century ago between religious groups at all social class levels. It also happened between social classes. The French Revolution has made social classes more or less invisible but they're still there, 200 years later. If you want to become part of this society you probably have to assimilate, not just "integrate" in "your own ethnic group". If you want to integrate into, assimilate into higher social classes, that's difficult, for all, including original Dutch people, but once you have something to offer to them, rather than needing their help it may be relatively easy. It's easier for females to integrate, assimilate, than for males, by the way. An approach could be to become a member of a club - sports, science, culture, etc. The Dutch society's connective tissue for some 1000 years has been a Christian church (different denominations). When you reported arrival in a community's church in the past that made connecting very easy. But with secularisation of the past 50 years that is almost completely lost. So you'll have to find your surrogate for that connective tissue or it will be lonely. This has nothing to do with race or ethnicity and would be the same for a Dutch person moving house from Amsterdam to, say, Arnhem, or from Maastricht to Amsterdam. 50 years ago, a Dutch person who newly arrived in Amsterdam would be called "foreigner", even when speaking the same language and looking alike. Finally, while many people speak a form of English and in the world we probably are the most fluent non-native people, if you want to integrate/assimilate, then you need to properly learn Dutch conversation. Our language had strict phonetic writing and reading rules until it got infested with English words or idiom. For the phonetic Dutch language, when yo understand it, reading, writing, and hence speaking is easy. Learning vocabulary, grammar, and exceptions will be the challenge. If you want to prevent people from speaking English to you as a way to practice Dutch then you'll have to be patient with the Dutch impatience. And speak Dutch in a way that in no way hints at you being able to speak English. Maybe book an appointment with a speech tutor who has also taught people born deaf how to speak. Ask the trainer to teach you proper Dutch pronunciation without accent, letter by letter, sound by sound, vowel by vowel - in relation to the phonetic writing. In Europe, most languages are based on phonetic reading/writing but some rules/sounds will differ relative to the printed letters. If you think learning languages is difficult, then watch a few videos in YT from Kazuma, a young Japanese man who e.g. lived in Spain for 3 months and now speaks conversation Spanish rather well.