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 Message 9 of 25
03 May 2010 at 6:41am | IP Logged 
Bookends wrote:
I found a video through wikipedia where he speaks Dutch:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/uk-politics-video/ 7603906/Nick-Clegg-gives-interview-in-fluent-Dutch.html

Anyone with any knowledge of Dutch who can judge him?



I would like to judge him, but the link doesn't work. As I understand the comment of the newspaper the video has been removed.

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 Message 10 of 25
03 May 2010 at 11:11am | IP Logged 
The video works fine here - did you remove the space in the link?

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 Message 11 of 25
03 May 2010 at 9:08pm | IP Logged 
WARNING: There is a virus on the website with the Dutch video of Nick Clegg. My anti-virus-software has detected such a virus and I chose "deny access" to the site.

Yes, I hadn't removed the space, buy I wouldn't recommend anyone to visit such a website with a virus on it. Maybe not everyone here has such a good anti-virus-software as I have, so this can be harmful.

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Edited by Fasulye on 03 May 2010 at 9:57pm

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 Message 12 of 25
03 May 2010 at 9:37pm | IP Logged 
That sounds very strange, especially considering The Telegraph being a reputable national
newspaper in the UK. I would assume the virus alert came from one of their automated
advertisements on the site. In any case, I have a very good anti-virus and it doesn't
detect anything there (and my laptop isn't toast yet). I wouldn't deter anyone from
visiting the site (unless you don't have an anti-virus, but if you don't you frankly
shouldn't be on the internet at all).

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 Message 13 of 25
03 May 2010 at 9:45pm | IP Logged 
mrhenrik wrote:
That sounds very strange, especially considering The Telegraph being a reputable national
newspaper in the UK. I would assume the virus alert came from one of their automated
advertisements on the site. In any case, I have a very good anti-virus and it doesn't
detect anything there (and my laptop isn't toast yet). I wouldn't deter anyone from
visiting the site (unless you don't have an anti-virus, but if you don't you frankly
shouldn't be on the internet at all).

- Henrik


What I did, is that I filled in the link to Nick Clegg's video in my address line and I pressed on the Enter-button - then my antivirus-program (Anti-Vir with daily updates) reported the detection. So I hadn't clicked on anything on the site. I would find it unfair not to give a warning to others in such a case.

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Edited by Fasulye on 04 May 2010 at 7:33am

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 Message 14 of 25
03 May 2010 at 11:01pm | IP Logged 
Whilst I think we all appreciate a heads up on their being a potential virus on this
site. I have just used the site myself and have had no problem at all. Perhaps
fasulye has restrictive settings for her antivirus that are causing her problems.
Indeed, as expressed above, the telegraph is a reputable national paper and I believe
any such problems would have led to the video being removed quickly.

Anyway, back to Clegg, I don't speak dutch so can't vouch for Clegg's fluency but based
on the speed of his speech and his apparent ease with the language he does seem to have
a good command of the language.

I have found a video from youtube that contains a short segment of the same interview
contained in the telegrpah video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7O-sLNx0oM
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 Message 15 of 25
04 May 2010 at 7:45am | IP Logged 
Magictom, thanks for posting this alternative video featuring Nick Clegg! The Dutch interview is very short because it's cut off, but the several words he says sound natural. I cannot hear a foreign accent there.

Fasulye


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 Message 16 of 25
04 May 2010 at 10:25am | IP Logged 
Smart wrote:
Interesting. though not interested in a leader of a liberal party personally.


Smart, probably as a polyglot you are aware that a liberal in Europe is a different kind of animal that a liberal in the United States. Language is so rich!

By the way and totally off-topic, I am not sure if the second "that" of my message should not be a "than". Glups! Back to the basics I go...


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