Talk:Matroesjka's

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This article was originally translated from the Dutch-language article on this topic, accessed 18 Sep 2006.

[edit] My Testament

So I speak German, and always knew it would be easy to learn Dutch if I wanted to. Indeed, simply because of the German, I can read Dutch with only moderate difficulty. Earlier this summer, I realized an easy way to practice and learn would be to translate random Dutch Wikipedia articles into English, perhaps later translating random English Wikipedia articles into Dutch. I mean, why not? Spread the love. So I went and looked at the Wikipedia community forums for translation projects. In the Dutch section, I saw all these people talking about "Russian Dolls". So I politely mentioned that there was already an article on "Matryoshka Dolls". I did not look at the Dutch article. As I am currently writing my masters thesis, I decided to put the Dutch translation project on hold and promptly forgot about the whole thing.

Two months later, I received an ever-so-polite message on my talk page (User talk:Zweifel) from an young man from Croatia of questionable motives (note the subject of this TV series). I firmly intend to preserve that message for posterity, and I encourage you to go read it. Instead of fighting fire with fire, I decided to undertake my very first Dutch-English translation, though to be sure, I have little intention of translating the episode synopses from the Dutch article. Anyone interested in doing so can find the Dutch article [here], as well as through the link on the article page.

So thank you, Luka Jačov. You prompted me to do my very first Dutch-English translation. As I had hoped to translate "random Dutch Wikipedia articles", an article on a Belgian TV series about the trafficking of Eastern European sex-slaves in Flanders has exceeded my wildest expectations. Hands down!

And now, back to work.

Zweifel 17:28, 18 September 2006 (UTC)