On 16th September I met my “Each One Teach One” partner for the first time. Since we wanted to keep the first meeting relaxed, we decided to go to the small KMarket near our residence. We met downstairs at our dorm, exchanged the news of the day, and walked to the supermarket together. There, we first went to the fruit and vegetable section and taught each other the names of different fruits and vegetables in our respective languages. I found it very interesting that cucumber is “komkommer” in Dutch. I also learned the following words: asperges, courgette, biet, aardbei. I immediately noticed that not all Dutch words sound the same as German words. We then looked for synonyms. We found some, for example, pineapple and berry (bes) sound quite similar. Then we moved on. I noticed that egg and onion sound very similar, egg is ei in Dutch and onion is ui. I also found it very interesting that they had the same brand of yogurt as in the Netherlands (ProFeel), which I had never seen before. We also noticed that bacon sounds quite similar. In German it is speck and in Dutch spek.
Since we both wanted to buy tea, we went to the tea department. There I chose a fruit tea and she chose a ginger tea (gember thee). I find it very interesting that tea sounds the same but is spelled differently.
At the end, we bought my favorite snacks (Gifflar) and took a selfie to remeber. Afterwards, we walked home together and ate the snacks. It was a very nice meeting, we learned a lot and had a lot of fun 🙂
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