Understand spoken Dutch

"The Princess and the Pea" Practice Dutch lesson

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And yet she said she was a true princess.,
But good heavens!,
But she said nothing, went to the bedroom, lifted up all the bedding up, and laid down a pea on the bed base; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty more feather-down quilts on the mattresses.,
Heaven knows what there was in the bed!,
I have been lying on something hard, so that I look bruised all over my body!,
I haven’t slept almost all night!,
It is terrible!,
It was a princess who stood outside in front of the gate.,
No one else could be so sensitive than a true princess.,
Now he traveled all over the world to find such a one, but all he saw lacked something.,
Now the prince took her to be his wife; because now he knew that he had a real princess, and the pea was placed in the cabinet of rarities, in which it can still be seen, if at least no one has stolen it.,
Now they realized that she was a real princess, because she had felt the pea through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather-down quilts.,
Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but it had to be a real princess.,
One evening a strong thunderstorm came; there was thunder and lighting, the rain was pouring down, it was terrible weather!,
See, that is true history!,
So he came home again and was sad, because he really wanted to have a real princess.,
The next morning they asked her how she had slept.,
The princess now had to lie there all night.,
The water dripped from her hair and clothes; it went in at the toes of her shoes and went out again at the heels.,
There was a knock at the city gate, and the old king went to open it.
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