Over 90% of Germans speak English. What foreign language do you speak?

[BlueCaliDem]

265. Friesland! Holland's rebel province. I have family there to this day.

Frieslanders are so rogue that they even developed their own language! It was a dialect once upon a time, but it's grown into a full language. Redbeard is rumored to come from Friesland. There still are a LOT of redheads there today.

To this day, I have family in Friesland and Gelderland. Most extended family migrated to Gelderland, but Friesland was the first province my family were sent to when the Dutch were forced to leave Indonesia after WWII. Friesland was where my late paternal grandparents were first relocated, and many of my cousins who share my maiden name still live there.

It's amazing that you can still understand, read, and write Dutch although you're so many generations separated from the original family members who came to this country. Pretty cool, JD.

The only reason why my father decided to immigrate to the U.S. in 1961 was because he couldn't stand the cold Dutch weather. He and my mother both lived most of their lives in tropical and warm Indonesia.

Both of my brothers still live in Gelderland. The only family I have here are my children, my husband, and a younger sister in Tennessee - who I'm going to visit in April. My husband, a huge Elvis Presley fan, wants to see Graceland.