Etiket: Language
Difficult language politicians: ‘Incomprehensible to many citizens’ | 1Limburg
Long pieces of text with many difficult words. City council documents are often full of jargon. Councilor Robin Peters (26) from Echt also regularly struggles with it. “I think that…
What are government consultations? Foreign Affairs in understandable language | news item
News item | 09-03-2022 | 17:06 The prime minister or a minister regularly visits abroad to strengthen cooperation with other countries. But government consultations are another special form of consultation…
‘I want to get as close as possible to the music with my visual language’
Daphnis et Chloe. How would you describe Symphonic Cinema? Van Woerkum: ‘As a way of translating masterpieces from classical orchestral music into a drama film. Many compositions are based on…
Google Soli, the radar that wants to analyze your body language
A computer capable of perceiving your movements, your behavior, adapting to them to serve you better, this is the latest project from Google’s Advanced Technology and Products (ATAP) division, presented…
Threatening language hackers around Ukraine invasion: ‘This could also affect the Netherlands’ | Financial
Premium The best of De Telegraaf Through Wouter van Bergen 28 min ago in FINANCIAL Amsterdam – In addition to the war being fought in Ukraine by the official armies,…
‘Producer deleted Limburg accent from Flikken Maastricht’ | 1Limburg
It was originally not the intention that everyone in the television series Flikken Maastricht speaks Hooghollands while the series is set in Limburg. Eva, played by Angela Schijf, was originally…
New digital Limburg dictionary at the request of an American | 1Limburg
With 135,000 dialect words from Maastricht, Venlo, Roermond, Sittard and Valkenburg, Limburg has a new dictionary, or dictionary. On a website but also as an app for the phone. The…
This is how Máxima learned the Dutch language at lightning speed
The life of Máxima Zorreguieta changed overnight on August 31, 1999. That Tuesday we found out in the Netherlands the identity of the girlfriend of our crown prince. From then…
War language around Ukraine to boiling point: ‘We are left alone’ | Abroad
Germany on Saturday called on its citizens to leave the Eastern European country immediately. The reason is the more than 130,000 Russian soldiers standing ready to the north, east and…
Regional language singer Erwin de Vries receives the K. ter Laan Prize 2020/2021: ‘It is nice that I am in the picture, because Groningen-language artists have also had to miss their stages’
Erwin de Vries (1971) from Meeden receives the prize for his thirty-year career as a regional singer and lyricist for himself and others. As the winner of the K. ter…