Workplace language

From talking to people in my Dutch classes and other expats, I’ve come across several different models of how language works in the workplace. One extreme (experienced by one or two people) is that the workplace is run entirely in Dutch — supervisor meetings, lunch conversations, everything. The other extreme is that the workplace is [...]

Pasen

One thing I remember about Easter in Australia is that everyone complains that the eggs and merchandise etc. comes out earlier every year. (Last year, that was true in a sense as it was a very early Easter.) This year, I think I found Easter eggs in Dutch shops in early February, so they’ve been [...]