I recently saw a Dutch documentary from a few years back, called Ni Hao Holland (https://www.2doc.nl/documentaires/series/teledoc/2015/ni-hao-holland.html), in the hope of picking up some Mandarin. It's hard to find Mandarin spoken movies and documentaries in the Netherlands, apart from YouTube beginner stuff and ChinesePod. But that's not what I wanted to write about.
In this documentary, two Chinese girls visited Giethoorn, a small town in the Netherlands. At the beginning of the documentary, one of the girls said, that for years, she was dreaming of going to Giethoorn. On the way there they were reading a brochure. It described Giethoorn as an authentic Dutch town where life is as it was 100 years ago. Where life is quiet, where there are no roads with traffic, where everything is most authentic in the Netherlands, and where you use small boats to get around. I immediately felt sorry for them, because I find Giethoorn far from authentic anymore.
Out of curiosity, any Chinese people out there on iTalki who have visited Giethoorn? Or are thinking of going there? What was your experience? Or what are your expectations?
To anyone who is listed as a professional teacher and who offers 'Professional Lessons' and 'Informal Tutoring": what is the difference? I come across quite a few profiles where this distinction is made. But none of them explain what the difference is (apart from pricing).
Could someone explain this to me?
