egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5696 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 25 of 172 01 December 2010 at 4:37am | IP Logged |
Ooh, mag ik ook meedoen? Eigenlijk neem ik nu een cursus Nederlands op school, maar
waarschijnlijk kan ik het niet doorgaan(?), omdat ik geen tijd ervoor heb. Ik wil graag
met jullie oefenen.
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Raye Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5154 days ago 37 posts - 51 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: DutchB1
| Message 26 of 172 01 December 2010 at 5:15am | IP Logged |
Ik ben Skypeloos.
But I'll be interested to hear how it turns out.
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Romanist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5282 days ago 261 posts - 366 votes Studies: Italian
| Message 27 of 172 01 December 2010 at 1:18pm | IP Logged |
Okay, I've decided what I'm going to do.
By going after Afrikaans, I would be screwing up the Dutch challenge for other learners, I think. Therefore I'm going to do my own completely separate solo-challenge in Afrikaans!
I will start in mid December and finish a the end of January - roughly 6 weeks.
I'll be starting a log sometime soon explaining my intended methods. Given my background in English and German, I may well go straight for the jugular and use the ultra-hardcore Schliemann method. (OlafP is currently using this for Russian, but I reckon it would be even more effective with Afrikaans - given the very simple grammar.)
This is going to be FUN! :-D
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Romanist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5282 days ago 261 posts - 366 votes Studies: Italian
| Message 28 of 172 01 December 2010 at 2:16pm | IP Logged |
QUESTION FOR DUTCH NATIVE SPEAKERS
Can you guys understand Afrikaans without any problems?
For example, I found a Youtube clip where the author Deon Meyer is talking in Afrikaans about his work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB58Is4vy2I&NR=1
Can you guys follow something like this without any problems?
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ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5335 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French
| Message 29 of 172 01 December 2010 at 3:58pm | IP Logged |
We've been having a discussion about this subject for the last couple of days on this thread. I watched the clip and could understand the gist of it. Sometimes I could understand an entire sentence effortlessly and sometimes a whole sentence would go completely over my head.
If you guys are going to try to communicate in Dutch and Afrikaans, I'm not sure if it's going to work. Writing won't be a problem I think but speaking could go either way. It might not work at all but on the other hand, not being so used to the sounds of Dutch might actually make is easier to tune into Afrikaans. I think it could be a very interesting experiment.
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 30 of 172 01 December 2010 at 6:07pm | IP Logged |
I've got to think about this. I was actually considering doing a month of Dutch sometime over the summer, but this is a little sudden. However, I like the challenge. I'd have to continue with Japanese though, so I don't know if it would spread my efforts too thin.
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mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
| Message 31 of 172 01 December 2010 at 10:01pm | IP Logged |
Ek dink dit is 'n uitstekend idee! Ek sal graag die nederlandse taal leer.
Ek kan nie Skype gebruik nie (Ek het nie 'n webcam nie) maar ek sal nederlands boodskappes hier skryf. Ek hoop ek sal nie nederlands en afrikaans uitspraak verwar nie.
I think this is an excellent idea! I will definitely learn Dutch.
I don't have Skype or a webcam, but I will write messages in Dutch. Hopefully I won't confuse Dutch and Afrikaans pronunciation.
EDIT: I meant pronunciation not spelling, so I changed it.
Edited by mick33 on 02 December 2010 at 7:20pm
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noriyuki_nomura Bilingual Octoglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5340 days ago 304 posts - 465 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Japanese, FrenchC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, SpanishB2, DutchB1 Studies: TurkishA1, Korean
| Message 32 of 172 01 December 2010 at 10:31pm | IP Logged |
Jullie spreeken goed nederlands, waar komen jullie vandaan?
Trouwens, mag ik je even voorstellen. Ik heet Noriyuki,
Ik woon in Zurich, maar ik wil Duits leren. Ik vind het Duits een leuke taal.
Sorry, il spreek niet goed nederlands.
ps: oh my, I think that's the best Dutch that I can muster to write here in this forum so far, it's definitely still at a very raw awkward stage. :(
Edited by noriyuki_nomura on 01 December 2010 at 10:34pm
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