those three Dutch words are simply perfect

Through no fault of my own. That's just one of those ``this phrase equal that phrase'' things. I couldn't even begin to examine the grammar involved. And I'd probably butcher the pronunciation.

Which reminds me of my German teacher. It was at least a year before I figured out the word he used to get us to repeat what he said, ``alluhtuhssambituh'', was, in fact, the phrase``Alle zusammen, bitte'' (``All together, please'').

I often wonder about how well native speakers of languages other than English actually use their languages, if they are as poor at them as most native English speakers are, and if that has anything to do with how ``difficult'' the language is to begin with.