Dutch language

Tulips and a windmill

Damn coronavirus! How the Dutch use diseases as curse words.

Language

What to do with pent up anxiety? Some say profanities help relieve stress. But while English swear words and phrases are often linked to sex, in the Dutch language, many profanities and expletives are derived from disease.

A Belgium fan shouts before the 2014 World Cup Group H soccer match between Belgium and Algeria at the Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte

If you like your soccer relationships complicated, then support Belgium during this World Cup

Sports
Children at a township school in Atteridgevile, South Africa. In post-apartheid South Africa, children are no longer required to learn the Afrikaans language.

From Afrikaans to Zulu, South Africa’s languages have stories to tell

Arts, Culture & Media

Engineering a man-made mountain in Holland

Environment
The World

Driving Dutch in France

The World

Afrikaans lit

Arts, Culture & Media

Few authors who write in Afrikaans are read as widely outside South Africa than Marlene Van Niekerk. Van Niekerk explains how moral ambiguities pervade everything about South Africa. From Studio 360.