Blij dat je 't leuk vindt David.
We were talking about a belgian comic book by Hergé, who was born 100 years ago. He created Tintin (or Kuifje in dutch). When Leslie was here in April I gave her a copy of 'Tintin in America' in dutch. I was translating some of the pictures for her, although her dutch is pretty good by now.
Rembember Leslie? Dagsoep? Fazant?
Ah yes, dagsoep! My Dutch is pretty good (!) both from reading "Kuifje in Amerika" and also from studying "Haar Penisboek." The latter has been a great source of new words.
We used to read Tintin in French, in French class, but only on Fridays. It was a "fun" thing and the rest of the days we had to learn "serious" French. Of course, I learned more on the Tintin days than on any other day of the week.
I also remember watching Tintin cartoons. They would start with the announcer saying in sonorous tones, "Herge's adventures of Tin.....tin.....!" Since the introduction was in English, I imagine the cartoons were in English, but we were watching them in French class.
Leslie