Tell us about your culture!

[sanny]

Hi everybody,

my name is sanny and I'm very interested in different cultures.
I think there are more people who want to know something about the cultures of other people.

So that's why I want to start a new discussion.

I'll start...

 

[sanny]

Hi, my real name is Sanne van der Vegte. Sanne is my first name, everybody calls me Sanne. My sur name is Van der Vegte. I think everbody will speak my name different than I do, or the people in Holland do. We pronounce the 'g' very hard and I think people from other countries don't.

This time I'll tell something about my name. At the moment Sanne is the most common baby girl name. Thomas is the most common baby boy name. In the '50 the most common girl name was Truus and boy name Jan.
My surname is Van der Vegte. 'De Vecht' (in Holland we pronounce the 'g' the same as the 'ch')is a river in my county, so there are more people here who are also called something like:
van der Vegt
Kijk in de Vecht (look in the Vecht)
Vechte
Vegte
Vegt
de Vecht
der Vecht
and so on.

Our names could also be the name of some occupation, like:
Bakker (Baker)
Timmerman (Carpenter)
de Boer (the Farmer)
Visser (Fisherman)
and so on

A lot of our surnames have 'van de' or 'van' or 'de' in front of the actual name, just like I do.
It means:'
van de = from the
van = from
de = the

Tell us about the typical names of your country!

 

[sanny]

Now something about our food.

The most normal food here is:
boiled potatoes with gravy and some meet, like meatball or a sausage and some kind of vegetable.

I like that but I like more what the Dutch people call: Chinese food.
That's Chinese noodles, some rice, babi pangang and some fuyu... and the rest of the name I can't remember.

What do you like to eat?
and
What's the most eaten food in your country?

 

[RonBee]

Three of the most popular foods here:

• pizza, spaghetti, hamburgers

More later.

 

[Tdol]

The most popular dish in the UK is chicken tikka. ;-)

 

[RonBee]

What is "chicken tikka"?

:?:

 

[Tdol]

It's supposed to be an Indian dish, but it's actually a fake one adapted to the tastes of the Brits. Chicken tikka is Indian, but here we have chicken tikka masala, which is an Indian version of gravy. ;-)

 

[Tdol]

Our names could also be the name of some occupation, like:
Bakker (Baker)
Timmerman (Carpenter)
de Boer (the Farmer)
Visser (Fisherman)
and so on

Tell us about the typical names of your country!

The same is true in Britain:

Baker
Cooper (a barrel maker)
etc.


Here's an excellent site that gives the meaning behind first names:

http://www.behindthename.com/
:lol:

 

[Sophie des Cartes]

I'm from Holland too, but I like Italian food the most. Spaghetti, macaroni and pizza...

We eat also pancakes (pannekoeken) for dinner with sugar, syrup and jam. I like that too.

What I also wanted to tell: It rains a lot in Holland

 

[sanny]

Our names could also be the name of some occupation, like:
Bakker (Baker)
Timmerman (Carpenter)
de Boer (the Farmer)
Visser (Fisherman)
and so on

Tell us about the typical names of your country!

The same is true in Britain:

Baker
Cooper (a barrel maker)
etc.


Here's an excellent site that gives the meaning behind first names:

http://www.behindthename.com/
:lol:

Thanks for the site, it's very funny about names. I think most people, in Holland, don't look at the meaning of a name, but at the sound of the name. If they like the name, they call their baby that name. Usually they don't pick a name because of the beautiful meaning if they think it's an ugly name.

 

[RonBee]

We also have our Bakers, our Cooks, our Coopers, our Fishers, and our Farmers. I once knew a fellow whose last name was Carpenter. "Smith" is the most common name in the US. ("Smith" is a name for an occupation that we don't hear much about nowadays. Paul Revere, for example, was a silver smith.)

We have pancakes here too--usually for breakfast. I like the blueberry pancakes at IHOP. (IHOP = International House of Pancakes, where they serve pancakes but other things too.)

Around here (St. Louis) spring is the rainiest month of the year. We have a saying: "April showers bring May flowers."

 

[Beeuurkes]

Hallo Sanny,

Do not "Vecht" also mean "fighting" ?

Here, in Belgium, everybody is addicted to chips. :wink:

 

[RonBee]

I like potato chips. Fries too.

 

[sanny]

Hallo Sanny,

Do not "Vecht" also mean "fighting" ?

Here, in Belgium, everybody is addicted to chips. :wink:

Yes, it also means fighting. When I was in primary school a lot of my classmates said that I fought with the head of our school. His last name was Box, so he was always boxing, they thought.

Here in Holland, we think that everybody in Belgium eat a lot of fat chips. They always say if the chips are very fat: chips from Belgium.

I like it also very much, but I'm not addicted. That is a good thing, because it's not very healthy! :wink:





Ps: I like your cute picture! :wink:

 

[sanny]

I like potato chips. Fries too.

I don't know anyone who doesn't like chips. If you ask a Dutch child what his/ her favorite food is, many of them will answer: chips!
:wink:

 

[Beeuurkes]

You're right Sanny. Chips are not very healthy... but are so tasty... Hmmmm... Delicious!

I'm very happy you like my "avatar".

 

[sanny]

We also have our Bakers, our Cooks, our Coopers, our Fishers, and our Farmers. I once knew a fellow whose last name was Carpenter. "Smith" is the most common name in the US. ("Smith" is a name for an occupation that we don't hear much about nowadays. Paul Revere, for example, was a silver smith.)

We have pancakes here too--usually for breakfast. I like the blueberry pancakes at IHOP. (IHOP = International House of Pancakes, where they serve pancakes but other things too.)

Around here (St. Louis) spring is the rainiest month of the year. We have a saying: "April showers bring May flowers."

For breakfast you eat pancakes? That would be very unusual in Holland. Because you have to bake pancakes and most of the people in Holland don't have the time to bake pancakes in the early morning!

Smith (in Holland called Smid or Smidt) is also very common here! :wink:

 

[sanny]

Hi Beeuurkes,

what kind of language do you speak actually?
Can you speak both French and Flemish very well?

 

[RonBee]

We also have our Bakers, our Cooks, our Coopers, our Fishers, and our Farmers. I once knew a fellow whose last name was Carpenter. "Smith" is the most common name in the US. ("Smith" is a name for an occupation that we don't hear much about nowadays. Paul Revere, for example, was a silver smith.)

We have pancakes here too--usually for breakfast. I like the blueberry pancakes at IHOP. (IHOP = International House of Pancakes, where they serve pancakes but other things too.)

Around here (St. Louis) spring is the rainiest month of the year. We have a saying: "April showers bring May flowers."

For breakfast you eat pancakes? That would be very unusual in Holland. Because you have to bake pancakes and most of the people in Holland don't have the time to bake pancakes in the early morning!

Smith (in Holland called Smid or Smidt) is also very common here! :wink:

We make our pancakes in a pan--a frying pan.

:wink:

 

[Tdol]

Same in the UK.;-)