An Irishman's Difficulties With The Dutch Language by Cuey-Na-Gael; (Rev. J Irwin Brown) - 1980

Rotterdam: H W Blok Uitgeverij B V. Very Good. 1980. Reprint; Fourteenth Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . H W Blok Uiigeverij edition, 1980. ; 136 pages; Originally published in 1908 the humorous account of an Irishman, Jack O'Neill of Trinity College Dublin, discovering the pitfalls of trying to learn another language without formal lessons through total immersion on a trip to The Hague armed only with a grammar and a dictionary, each nearly a hundred years old, that he picks up from a bookstall whilst in the city. Each chapter contains a short story, in which O'Neill misunderstands a certain Dutch phrase or word, leading him into a comical situation. In addition evokes the character of the Netherlands in the early years of the twentieth century. .