{"id":897,"date":"2014-08-09T01:45:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T08:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=897"},"modified":"2014-08-09T01:45:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T08:45:05","slug":"neuken-in-de-keuken-and-other-ways-to-say-hello-in-dutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/neuken-in-de-keuken-and-other-ways-to-say-hello-in-dutch\/","title":{"rendered":"“neuken in de keuken”, and other ways to say hello in Dutch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Neuken in de keuken<\/em>\u00a0actually means\u00a0“fucking in the kitchen”, but\u00a0some\u00a0young Dutchies like to say otherwise to unsuspecting newcomers.<\/h5>\n

It’s just a friendly way to say hello!\u00a0<\/em>they’ll say. The Dutchie will then tell their trusting friend to go repeat the magic phrase to the next stranger approaching on the sidewalk. Now, a request like that just smells fishy, like a barrel of\u00a0hollandse nieuwe haring<\/a>\u00a0(delicious as it is).<\/p>\n

I’ve seen this deployed\u00a0on multiple occasions, but have yet to see it work.<\/p>\n

Better to let the words\u00a0sink in and let them\u00a0come out on their own, naturally. But then you’d risk missing the\u00a0show: the reaction from the recipient, and the red face of the person, who, just a minute earlier, thought they\u00a0were\u00a0one step closer to mastering the Dutch language.<\/p>\n

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Swear words are appealing when\u00a0learning a new language. They’re easily digestible, and by memorizing a few naughty words you can feel like you’ve accomplished something. Not to mention the thrill that comes with spitting out lines that gets laughs from the lads and glares from your grandmother.<\/p>\n

In this context, the Dutch\u00a0are easy\u00a0to please. Anything a foreigner says in Dutch will sound funny to a Dutchie. Extra laughs for salty language.<\/p>\n

If dank je wel<\/em> (thank you) and\u00a0alstublieft\u00a0<\/em>(you’re welcome\/here you are) are the most memorized phrases among the international students, then\u00a0neuken in de keuken <\/em>will probably be #5. Top 10 at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neuken in de keuken\u00a0actually means\u00a0“fucking in the kitchen”, but\u00a0some\u00a0young Dutchies like to say otherwise to unsuspecting newcomers. It’s just a friendly way to say hello!\u00a0they’ll say. The Dutchie will then tell their trusting friend to go repeat the magic phrase to the next stranger approaching on the sidewalk. Now, a request like that just smells … Continue reading ““neuken in de keuken”, and other ways to say hello in Dutch”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netherlands","category-words-and-phrases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-et","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}