Portal in English & Translation
Uit Mechelen Mapt, het vrije naslagwerk over Mechelen
This page is part of the totallity of guidelines on Mechelen Mapt.
Hello, welcome to Mechelen Mapt !
On this website you will find articles concerning the city of Mechelen in Belgium. It's a town between Antwerp and Brussels and about 80,000 inhabitants have their home there. Once, Mechelen was the capital of the Low Countries in the 16th century. Therefore a lot of items in the city remind us of its inhabitants' great past. However, the city is not a big museum of ancient things only: it is a nice mix of new and old.
Mechelen is a city in the region of Flanders in Belgium. Flanders is a region north of Brussels and people over there speak and write Dutch (Nederlands). The region south of Brussels is called Wallonia where people speak French. Therefore, all articles on Mechelen Mapt are written in Dutch.
Perhaps, you might have been surfing at the Internet and suddenly got stuck at Mechelen Mapt. You did find a photo and were getting interested, but you could not understand the words?
Mechelen Mapt gives you the opportunity to read some articles in English. These pages have a green button with "this page in English" in the right corner, next to the article title. The information given in these short articles is not complete, but it's enough to understand the most of it.
We suggest using translation websites, while reading Dutch articles. Here under you can find some instructions. If you want to understand how the wiki-software works, in order to edit, please create an account. When you're logged in, go to your "preferences" (mijn voorkeuren in Dutch) and consult the dropdown with nl - Nederlands under Gebruikersinstellingen > Taalinstellingen, so you can select your native language. Don't forget to save afterwards! (Button Opslaan beneeth the page).
Using the Translationwebsite
- Define your word or text for translation
- Copy your word or text in the article : CtrlC (For PC) - AppleC (For Macintosh)
- Paste your word or text in the translation box : CtrlV (For PC) - AppleV (For Macintosh)
- Van : From which language (In this case it is Dutch or Nederlands)
- Naar : To which language (Your language, if available)
- Vertaal : Make the translation !
Translationwebsites
Just for the record
- Fries are not French !
- To put a smile on a Belgian face, serve him fries with mayonnaise...
