Surprised My Mom & Took Her Back to Where We Came From | Dutch Heritage Tour 🇳🇱

Come with me, my mom, son, and best friend as we vlog through the beautiful city of Huissen, Netherlands together and rediscover our Dutch heritage! 🇳🇱
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[@PalmyraSchwarz]

Hi Jenna, I congratulate you because, if I understand you correctly, you actually found the house where your grandmother was born in the Netherlands. Must have been an unforgettable moment for your mother.

[@gerrygrouwe70]

Never a bad idea to visit the places where your roots are

[@robertzander9723]

What lovely little journey into the history of your family. I can imagine what a wonderful that must be. And that's a nice thing about the European Union, you can easily have some nice trips to the neighbor country's to get something different. That was really nice.

[@Andreas_Cologne]

Yep, and no hussle with currencies.

[@nordwestbeiwest1899]

Ik hou ervan als expats terugkomen om te zien waar ze vandaan komen. I love it when expatriates come back to see where they are from. Ich liebe es wenn Auswanderer zurück kommen um zu sehen woher sie kommen .

[@ionacatherine7582]

What a fun, special and memorable trip for you all. Thanks for sharing!

[@jensschroder8214]

Deutsch and Dutch are often confused abroad. But the Dutch are proud to be independent.

[@caroLynaaa]

What a lovely video, Jenna! Thanks for taking us along with you! xx

[@sandramay4834]

omg so wonderful I will show your uncle Larry he will be happy to see this. Thanks so much

[@tommycanadasmobazimmer]

Gotta luv those Bitterballen

[@mymessymidlifecrisis]

love the family tour

[@schmidtchristian1401]

Mega wie immer ❤

[@arnodobler1096]

what a nice idea Jenna

[@danielw.2442]

Yeah Kibbeling and Bitterballen... yummy 😋

[@Andreas_Cologne]

Yep! Unfortunately no vleeskrokets.

[@flamedealership]

Yeah, I'd imagine you were "fix und foxy" after that tour - but thanks anyway for taking us along!👏💛 Your mom seemed to have fun exploring her personal history, good for her...😁💛 Just out of curiosity: does "Driegaardsestraat" translate to "three guards street"?

[@lifeingermany_]

Great question! That’s what I had assumed.. but I should look deeper into it!

[@flamedealership]

@@lifeingermany_ No, an obviously wrong assumption: according to Google (yes, I know, why didn't I do that in the first place - lazy me) "Driegaardse" means triangular. So, did you happen to notice an according shape when driving on that street? 😉

[@jeroeng.7108]

I think it's the "street of three gardens". Drie=three and straat=street. Gaard is an old word for garden. The modern dutch word is tuin, but gaard is still used in a word like boomgaard (orchard, literally tree garden). The "se" part indicates possession, this translate to "of".

[@teotik8071]

A kaaskopp. 😂 Lovely. 👍

[@sisuguillam5109]

Jetzt hab' ich Hunger!

[@wora1111]

Und ich habe gerade bemerkt, dass ich zwar manche holländische Schilder lesen kann, bei Speisekarten aber nichts verstehen kann:-(

[@sisuguillam5109]

@@wora1111 blöd, oder?

[@wora1111]

@@sisuguillam5109 Stimmt. Aber in der Schweiz und in Bayern verstehe ich noch, was ich bestelle.

[@sisuguillam5109]

@@wora1111 Ich krieg' fa schon Probleme. 😄

[@flamedealership]

@@sisuguillam5109 solange das bestellte Essen schmeckt...😉😁💛

[@vikrantkumar05a_Official]

My dream Germany

[@CavHDeu]

Cassis is the best 😋

[@juricarmichael2534]

🤣Why i'm not surprised by: "Say bye, bye Höschen!", oh lord.... Funny, how they hooked you with their fried stuff. (Is herrlijk😋). Have you found your Weinstein - baking powder? Ah, and have you compared oil prices at the supermarket? Are they higher or much lower than here? Schöner Tagesausflug Und Durchhalten, bald kommt der Endspurt. 🤞👍

[@lifeingermany_]

Hahha I haven’t tried the Weinstein yet, but I will be soon! 😝😝 and I didn’t check oil there, but thankfully the Rapsöl here in Düsseldorf is back down to 1,99€… not at cheap as it once was, but also not 5€ a bottle 🤩🤣

[@rathnapriyamahathanthree3113]

My name is Rathnapriya short name " Roy" , l like to visit Germany end of next month so i like joine with you i have no experience in the German tours my first journey.thanks

[@lyndaf.6329]

Stop trolling, she's just about to give birth to her second child and doesn't need idiots like you bothering her!!!!!!!!

[@flamedealership]

@@lyndaf.6329 Thanks,, exactly what I would have written, you beat me to it!!👍👏

[@Andreas_Cologne]

@@lyndaf.6329 Why are you so unfriendly? Do you know this guy?

[@lyndaf.6329]

@@Andreas_Cologne No but I'm not naive. He's just another scammer....click on his photo and you'll see that he has no content on his channel, I doubt if it's even the guy in the photo. I'm not unfriendly, just aware of these things.

[@JH-xo9sy]

The prices in the Netherlands aren't better. Germany is cheaper. (We live close to the border)

[@lifeingermany_]

I find furniture and some groceries to be cheaper in the Netherlands 🥰

[@ethanfowler2413]

Hi I've been studying German for about two years but can't seem to reliably and accurately interpret when Germans speak. I've listened to German podcasts, watched countless videos in German trying to practice, but It all just sounds like gibberish no matter how much I practice. All this time trying to learn the language seems like a waste and i'm on the verge of giving up. What am i doing wrong?

[@Americanmapping44]

so I have heard that instead of trying to "translate" things when you hear them when learning a language its better to just learn directly like we did as cihldren and its easier to pick up when your mother tounge isnt spoken during the teaching. I had attended a german class 5 years ago in frankfurt they ONLY spoke german so I at first struggled but you seem to pick it up easier that way. Unfortunately I had to leave due to health reasons but maybe you can find a class like that maybe even online if you cant find it where you live. I too struggle bc I "translate" in my head so it takes longer to process what I am hearing and trying to say. Hopefully that made sense

[@flamedealership]

@@Americanmapping44 I think you're absolutely right. Granted you have to do some ground work to learn some basic vocabulary but from then on expose yourself to the language. Over time you'll find yourself not translating anymore but starting to think in that language even if you might miss on a few words - but you'll get the meaning. I as a German first struggeled with English when I was at school (maaaany moons ago). But then I got access to English tv-shows (including my favourite at that time: ALF) and the formerly unimaginable happened: I got the hang of it. So yes, I agree that your proposition is a way to get comfortable with a foreign language.

[@juricarmichael2534]

Like Jenna did. Fall in love with a german! 🤷🤣

[@wora1111]

I agree with the other comments here. You have to completely immerse in the language you want to learn. Except for Latin that is the way I was told all the language. I especially remember my teachers trying to explain words or concepts in the "new" language without using the mother tongue. Incidentally, that is exactly what happens if you visit/live in a country with the new language. Another advice: Try talking to yourself in the new language! That helped me because I was faster able to understand these fragments when spoken by others and I was also able to reply with these fragments.

[@rafacosta_x_]

What is your mother tongue? My German is pretty bad yet, but I can already understand something when I watch some content of natives