Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5850 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
| 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?
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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.
Fasulye
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mrhenrik Triglot Moderator Norway Joined 6082 days ago 482 posts - 658 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Personal Language Map
| 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?
- Henrik
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Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5850 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
| 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.
Fasulye
Edited by Fasulye on 03 May 2010 at 9:57pm
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mrhenrik Triglot Moderator Norway Joined 6082 days ago 482 posts - 658 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Personal Language Map
| 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).
- Henrik
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Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5850 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
| 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).
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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.
Fasulye
Edited by Fasulye on 04 May 2010 at 7:33am
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magictom123 Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5596 days ago 272 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French
| 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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Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5850 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
| 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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Mafouz Diglot Groupie Spain Joined 5328 days ago 56 posts - 64 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: German, Japanese, French
| 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. |
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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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