Geography provides an exacerbating factor: where the North Sea narrows into the English Channel, the waters are funnelled towards the English and Dutch coasts.
Billed as part travel guide and part cultural, historical reference, it explores history, art and architecture, furniture and antiques, cooking, immigration, and English words of Dutch origin.
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With a few French and Italian exceptions, the Iveagh pictures are all English, Flemish and Dutch.
The Dutch, English and French editions are the joint project of the Huygens Institute and Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum.
In 1653, Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp was killed following the battle of Terheijde with the English fleet off the Dutch coast.
Those ancient New Yorkers and the Dutch and English who followed plundered the area's oyster supply without a second thought.
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Safety instructions are screamed at you in four languages Dutch, English, French and German each spoken with such a terrible accent that one wonders if the flight attendants have a mother tongue at all.
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It is true that Venetian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and English merchants participated in this global trading network.
Bringing all European countries up to the level of English proficiency enjoyed by the Dutch could increase European trade by up to 70%.
But this cleaning lady spoke Somali, Arabic, Amharic, Swahili, English and was quickly learning Dutch, so she soon found work as a translator for other Somali refugees, many of whom, like herself, were casualties of Islam.
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"He speaks German, Dutch, Spanish and English, " co-owner and breeder Mieke Cooijmans offered.
She is now the only actress to have performed the role of Elphaba in three languages Dutch, German and English.
Before writing his own books, Mr. Koch translated works by Kurt Vonnegut and the English spy novelist Lionel Davidson into Dutch.
If you sat down and tried to list all of the ethnic groups they repressed, you would cover virtually every group in Europe except the English, the French, the Dutch, the Italians, and the Spanish.
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In response to a growing demand from emerging markets, for the first time MINDSTORMS will be released with native language editions for Russia, China, Korea, Japan, Spain and Denmark in addition to the English, French, German and Dutch language versions available today.
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In sequential cultures (like North American, English, German, Swedish, and Dutch), businesspeople give full attention to one agenda item after another.
The Dutch have historic rights to English waters, the French have historic rights to Scottish waters, and the Spanish are everywhere.
While Portugal and Spain were the early beneficiaries of this Atlantic trade owing to their protruding peninsular position their pre-Enlightenment societies, traumatized by the proximity of (and occupation by) North African Muslims, lost ground eventually to the Dutch, French, and English in the oceanic competition.
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The commission uses a programme called Systran, which it has adapted to translate various combinations of English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Greek.
It was a wonderful and strange little Christmas party, with us speaking no Dutch and the nuns speaking no English, except for the tiny bit Mother Superior knew.
National soccer cultures tend to cultivate their own particular neuroses: the English crumble at the penalty spot, the Dutch care more about how their team plays than whether it wins, and the Brazilians ceaselessly alternate between two styles of play: soulful and stultifying.
We watched some Dutch supporters stopping to join in the singing, only to discover most of the English repertoire was overtly racist.
In addition, the new Reader line offers users on-screen functionality to look up words and phrases with the built-in New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition and Oxford Dictionary of English eDictionaries, as well as 10 translation dictionaries in languages such as French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.
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