>he considers himself "well read">he doesn't know german, french, italian, latin, greek and dutch
>>25210484Go back to /mu/ waifuist
trying to sneak dutch in there lol
Bro sneaked in Italian like we wouldn't notice :skull:
>germankek
I actually know all of those.
understanding comes from inhabiting your own culture not larping like you have access to other cultures
>>25210506The thing is only known by its opposite. You need to understand other cultures to understand your own
>>25210484>dutchthat lowers your IQ bro
>>25210484>dutchAudible kek
>>25210484Nice try, ik-ooker.
>>25210604>>25210572>>25210552>>25210493the modern world was authored in dutchyou cannot understand business, markets, banking, capitalism or imperialism without understanding dutch
>>25210493Spinoza alone makes it worth it
German for philosophyFrench for proseItalian for poetryLatin for scienceGreek for dramaDutch for commerceEnglish for ShakespeareSimple as
>>25210484I'm good on that.
>>25210667He mainly wrote in Latin.
>>25210484That's correct. I'm well read, not well spoken.
spanish is superior to all>>25210484
>>25210484>dutchHas literally anything worthwhile been written in Dutch? Even Erasmus and Spinoza wrote in Latin
I'm studying French, Japanese and Old NorseI want to pick up Icelandic, modern Scandinavian, Classical Japanese, Classical Chinese, Old French, Latin and German eventually
>>25210733Justify why without saying the words Don Quixote
Mein Französisch ist auch gut aber ich lerne Japanisch nächster. Ich will eine außereuropäische Sprache lernen.
>>25210484People here don't understand, because they don't really do academic research on any subject, but the reason you learn Dutch is because there are dozens of books and research papers on all kinds of subjects written in Dutch, you know the 16th century history, Calvinism, medicine, early physics, arts and modernity, Indonesian, Germanic folklore, anthropology, dutch architecture, early democratic thought, WWII, European electronics, industrial-agriculture, etc angle and of course pre-war dutch lit and golden age lit.
>>25210619the dutch were participants in a wider european system - later analysed (in english, not dutch) by adam smith.
dutch literature is garbage and not worth it getting intot. native dutch speaker
>>25210484This girl is so rapeble, it's incredible. Someone clearly made a research on this to create this "artist".
>>25211181>t. zielloos onbelezen generaliseerder
>>25210484epic twitter reaction image my fellow fourchanneler! updooted
>>25211315>oldtroon still using updooted 15 years laterthe 4chan-reddit meme war is over grandpa, rest easy
>>25210484Any two of German, French, Latin, and Greek will work.
>>25211109if you want to be a simpleton secondary source reader, sure content yourself with adam smith and his broad overviewsif you want to see the guts of these systems, you read the ledgers and correspondence of the VOC in the original dutch, a dutch that is beautiful, efficient, and revelatory
>>25212079Nah, I’m good thanks.
>he considers himself "aristocratic">he's broke
>>25210667lmao retard
>>25210495Italian is pretty good though. If you get it you can get Spanish, Romanian, and Portuguese
>>25212290Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was broke too
>>25210667Profoundly retarded, newfag
>>25210495Italian pretty.
>>25213724Amusing. And Romanian? Catalan? Portuguese?
>>25213732I'm tempted to expand it a bit. English would be some monstrous chimera with bits of about ten different animals all duct-taped together obviousy.
>>25210619I feel like you are trying to make a point because you have a vague idea of what the Dutch contributed to world history but no idea what they actually wrote. No meaningful Dutch contributions were written in Dutch. Erasmus, Grotius and Spinoza wrote in Latin. Huygens and Leeuwenhoek wrote in French. Commerce was done in the language of the customer you were doing commerce with, which is why the Dutch are so multilingual. The Dutch themselves do not care to represent or spread or develop their language. During colonialism, we explicitly forbade Indonesians from speaking Dutch.
