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Post by Jaga on Jul 10, 2019 7:10:00 GMT -7
We went to san jacento mountain yestetday and met many people from europe. Therenwas a nice dutchbguy, he made my picture and when i wanted to say thank you wwhich j tgough sounds like a mix between German and English he said that some people say that dutch language sound like drink German:)
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Post by pieter on Jul 10, 2019 13:59:52 GMT -7
Jaga,
That's a quite funny remark. Dutch people like to make fun of their language and Dutch accents in foreign languages like German and English. But I never heard of this one before. I know that that some people find our languauge harsh due to the tough sch.. which probably sounds in English ears like ssgghh, and our tough hard g's and and other weird sounds for foreign people from abroad. Polish people have difficulties with the Dutch hard G and often use H in Dutch words which start with a G. Dutch is also illogical in it's grammer and spelling for foreigner, because it is less logical than for instance French, Polish and German which have clear and strict grammers and spellings. English too.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on Jul 10, 2019 14:01:50 GMT -7
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Post by Jaga on Jul 11, 2019 17:04:43 GMT -7
Pieter, I did not realize that Dutch has a different hard g sounds. I always thought that the most difficult are vowels for us Slavs. Now when I think about it the Nordic languages have hard sounding consonants also. I think the most difficult are always the sounds we don't have in our own language.
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Post by pieter on Jul 12, 2019 0:13:58 GMT -7
You are absolutely right Jaga. The letters a, e, i, o, u en y are spoken differently in the Germanic and the Slavic languages. And the Dutch ij / IJ sound like a very strong and exagerated Eye.
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