John Y’s Musings from the Middle: Foreign Languages

Why learning foreign languages is important.

Just now I was emailing a friend and colleague back home who knows I am in the Netherlands and I wanted to say “Thank you very much” at the end of the email and be clever about it by saying it in Dutch. But I don’t know how to say “Thank you very much” in Dutch. Or German (which is close to Dutch). I only know how to say “You’re welcome” in German.


So I did the only thing that made sense to me at the moment and added at the end of the email “Muchos g...