Nick Clegg speaking Dutch, about 1 min. 44 into the clip. OK, his mother is Dutch and he was brought up to speak both Dutch and English (as when he refers to a ‘turn-off’). I wouldn’t mind hearing him speak another language.
The Evening Standard looked into Clegg’s family history in 2007.
Clegg was featured speaking Dutch on Dutch TV shortly before the election (I don’t know if it was new or old footage). Reviews from cow-orkers were generally positive: his Dutch is certainly better than mine.
Speaking of which, how is Louis van Gaal’s “German” going down with the locals? It sounds pretty dodgy to me, although again better than I would manage.
I will ask some supporters of FC N
I’m told that he’s come along way in the past few months, and to the extent that the myriad mashups of his victory rant all recall Adolf Hitler. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZC9sLvKreM
His German sounds quite convincing there.
9 months back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLG78r3Y7ug
It looks as if everyone in Erlangen has gone to the [url=http://www.der-berg-ruft.de/index.php?navi=1&rid=19]Bergkirchweih[/url].
Is the expression ‘Tod oder Gladiolen’ introduced by van Gaal into German used in Dutch?
According to the Googles (dood of de gladiolen), yes it is.