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Hello everybody, welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression.

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Today is a very important lesson.

You know, it's what, 2015, September already, my goodness.

And the world, thanks to the Internet and satellite communications, the world is a very small place.

And when we meet people from around the world,

we have to remember that sometimes people are very sensitive about who they are,

where they're from, what language they speak, what country they're from, and we need to pay attention. We cannot assume that everybody is the same in each country. Even in a country like America, people who are from New York are often very different

from people in California and people in Texas and people in Minnesota. People are all different

and they have pride in their backgrounds in their culture and i think

it's a good thing so today's expression we're going to focus on three words and in america

these three words are considered the same thing but actually they're very different.

Dutch, Holland, and Netherlands.

Dutch, D-U-T-C-H, Holland, H-O-L-L-A-N-D, Netherlands.

N-E-T-H-E-R-A-N-D-S.

So we know of the country.

I think the modern name is the Netherlands.

Many of us call it Holland.

The people from Holland or the Netherlands, we call them Dutch.

The language they speak is Dutch.

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