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Random US accents question......
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Well put..and I meant to type "hear" not "her" on that original post, cry your pardon sir....stop up, I'm always in good voice fer dat!.....
Hihihi, my Utrecht friends tell me the same thing!They also giggle incessantly when I say "druilerig" in my heavy American accent.
I have an idea how that will sound. I often watch a game show on the BBC, called Pointless, in which a question was asked once about foreign movie titles that the contestants had to translate back to English. The game show host always reads out the entire question and was therefore forced to say 'negenendertig', when he reached the movie title 'Het complot van 39 stappen'. Hilarious!
Ik hoop dat je een fijne dag hebt in West-Friesland.
Groetjes uit druilerig Pennsylvania
Dank je wel! Insgelijks en groetjes terug. Voor iemand die geen Nederlands spreekt schrijf je het erg goed
I used to have a work colleague who is originally from Congo and therefore grew up speaking French. She speaks Dutch with a strong accent, which she will never lose, but there are also traces of a West-Frisian accent.
I have an idea how that will sound. I often watch a game show on the BBC, called Pointless, in which a question was asked once about foreign movie titles that the contestants had to translate back to English. The game show host always reads out the entire question and was therefore forced to say 'negenendertig', when he reached the movie title 'Het complot van 39 stappen'. Hilarious!
Dank je wel! Insgelijks en groetjes terug. Voor iemand die geen Nederlands spreekt schrijf je het erg goed
haha, I just tried to say aloud "negenendertig" and made myself laugh. I have such a difficult time to make my mouth and tongue do what they have to do to speak Dutch. French and Spanish are so much easier for me!
Voor iemand die geen Nederlands spreekt schrijf je het erg goed
^ Bedankt!
zeg, zeg... I must confess that I have an entire notebook filled with notes, words and phrases that I started several years ago when my Dutch friends tried to teach me some simple phrases.
Trouwens, I still keep my notebook and your Dutch words have been added.
I also have a notebook with Irish words and phrases... language is interesting!
It's ok, n_n. Not all in the world are limited to speaking only English.So very confused.
Thanks for info, but I do not only speak English.
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Did I mention you rock today DJ? No? Well you do. Thank you ma'am.
I lived for awhile in the same place as two dutch girls when i was in germany. We could not understand eachother but had a good time anyway. Turned out we all liked beer. After that it was no problem. Talking is overrated.
We have the midwest accent, which I guess means none.
My husband's best friend is from North Dakota, and when they first started hanging out, I would laugh when Scott came home, because he would pick up the ND accent. I have noticed myself doing it too, though, after we are all together.
Always makes me think I know what morgan sounds like!
Ah, yes. The universal language. My dad, who only speaks english, shared a nice afternoon and a few beers with a nun, who didn't speak english, while he and my mom were on a trip to Italy. Mom was shopping so dad hung out at at cafe and the nun joined him.
Especially the 'g', presumably? And from your example 'druilerig' also the 'ui'-sound?
It is! Sadly I'm not very good at it
jep, and I have trouble with stressing the correct syllable while I'm trying to remember how to make Dutch vowel sounds.Especially the 'g', presumably? And from your example 'druilerig' also the 'ui'-sound?
It is! Sadly I'm not very good at it
I think you are being modest. I have yet to meet a European who isn't good with languages... at least, better than are most Americans.
I'm not good at languages. I struggle, but I try.
I'm prettig good at English now, but that's because of tv and internet. At school I barely scraped a 6 (5 and lower is a fail). As for the other two languages I was taught, I pretty much forgot everything about French and currently I'm struggling with refreshening my German, which takes a lot of looking up in online dictionaries when I need to send an e-mail or while talking on the phone.
About other Europeans being good at foreign languages... Ever met a German or a Frenchman?
About other Europeans being good at foreign languages... Ever met a German or a Frenchman?
I'd hear more of your tale involving Dutch girls and beer sai Kurben, so I would
actually, this is kind of cute.
I'd hear more of your tale involving Dutch girls and beer sai Kurben, so I would
Me too, Kurb! You do great Calla speak, Sai ghost.