Graeme... I just met you in the Mudcat-TheWorld-thread, hope you enjoyed the beer (coffee is supposed to be pretty bad at the Mudcat´s). What Liederjan-Song do you learn, maybe I can write you down the words (or do you have them?).

Jerry... I´m not an expert but as far as I know it: Dutch of course is the official language of the Netherlands, it has a lot of similarities to German, especially to Plattdeutsch, but it certainly is a language of its own.

Flemish is spoken in northern Belgium and I´d say it´s a Dutch dialect. Southern Belgians speak French, this little country is divided into two quite different cultures.

Frisian: Frisia is an aerea by the North Sea, it´s eastern part belonging to Germany, the western part to the Netherlands, so Frisian are Dutch and German (Plattdeutsch) dialects.

Plattdeutsch: are all the different Northern German dialects (plattdeutsch="flat-German", in fact Northern Germany is quite flat), not the same as but strongly related to Dutch.

Oops, maybe I AM an expert...

Daniel