As a hardcore sweet lover like myself, you can imagine the shock and horror I felt when faced with shelves upon shelves of liquorice and not much else when I first took a trip around…
The Netherland’s Covid Rules Get Stricter
Ranked: the best and worst of Dutch liquorice
41 names from Harry Potter that are weird in Dutch
If you read my last blogpost, you’ll have found a ton of ways to get to grips with the Dutch language. One thing that I seemed to miss out though (weirdly enough given my love…
The ultimate guide to becoming a better Dutch speaker
Learning a second language is many things. It’s nerves and confidence, it’s new words and phrases. It’s practicing the same sentence multiple times so you can pronounce a certain word like a native. Learning a…
The (very brief) dictionary of Corona slang
I love language and words. when I was young, I genuinely used to read the dictionary. Not in any sort of order, mind; rather, I’d flick to random pages and find words I’d never seen…
9 books I wish I could read for the first time again
Oh hi, it’s me, ya girl, writing a blog post at 2am. I cannot sleep. I don’t know why. But anyway. Have you ever read a book so good or so intense that you were…
A few more films for the self-isolated
So apparently all I do in self-isolation is watch stuff, because I am here with another dose of ‘films I watched this month so you gotta watch them too’. If you didn’t catch my last…