Hey, welcome to thr boards. I am pretty new too, joined a week ago, but could only post when I had my validation emial which took 4 days to arrive! Hope you enjoy your stay here, and carry on speaking dutch I find it fascinating.. Isn't dutch also closely related to german, I do notice some words used in boht languages.
Yep, some German words look a lot like Dutch words. Jep, enkele Duitse woorden lijken veel op Nederlandse woorden.