Examples of using "Buitenlander" in a sentence and their english translations:
- I am a foreigner.
- I'm a foreigner.
- I am a foreigner.
- I'm a foreigner.
- I am a foreigner.
- I'm a foreigner.
The foreigner didn't know Japanese at all.
The foreigner speaks Japanese fairly well.
She is married to a foreigner.
How fluently that foreigner speaks Japanese!
His accent suggests he is a foreigner.
His accent suggests he is a foreigner.
The foreigner comes from Scotland.
The Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg has a population of 563,000 of which 46% are foreigners.
When an English speaker realises that a foreign person they are speaking to doesn't understand one of their sentences, they repeat it, the same way, but louder, as though the person were deaf. At no point does it come to their mind that their vocabulary might be complicated or that their expression might most probably be ambiguous to a foreigner and that they could reword it in a simpler way. The result is that not only does the person still not understand, but they get irritated at being considered deaf.