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Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4704 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian
| Message 465 of 568 25 January 2014 at 8:30pm | IP Logged |
I made a recording of my Indonesian text! Comments are appreciated. I know everything is extremely rough around the edges.
Audio Recording - Indonesian Introduction
Text is here: Clicky
Also, I've completed Assimil Indonesian up to lesson 24. I've been really good about Assimil this week! Part of the change is that I put the audio on my work computer, so I can listen to the lessons while doing other things.
French has been chugging along at a slower pace. I've finished up through lesson 15 in Assimil. It's really 90% revision, which is what I wanted, so I'm happy.
For Dutch, it has been the uge - reading.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 466 of 568 25 January 2014 at 8:42pm | IP Logged |
I don't speak Indonesian, but the moments you throw in the little American toponyms, I
have to smile at your accent :) (I am not sure if the rest has an accent or not, but the
bla bla bla Maryland is just... awww.)
Edited by tarvos on 25 January 2014 at 8:43pm
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| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4704 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian
| Message 467 of 568 26 January 2014 at 10:43pm | IP Logged |
Hahah, aw, well, thanks. As I get to know Indonesian better I'll learn how to make those
place names fit in more. Lord knows Maryland isn't important enough to have its own
Indonesian pronunciation already. :-P
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 468 of 568 26 January 2014 at 11:01pm | IP Logged |
That being said, I think Dutch people should study Indonesian more often, you know...
take an interest in your colony.
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| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4704 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian
| Message 469 of 568 26 January 2014 at 11:13pm | IP Logged |
That's a really nice thought. I wonder though whether few Dutch people do because the
country has changed so radically since independence. As in, there are relatively few
traces of the Dutch presence.
Edited by Hekje on 26 January 2014 at 11:14pm
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 470 of 568 26 January 2014 at 11:26pm | IP Logged |
I think that is a part of it - besides that, Dutch-Indonesians that spoke Dutch generally
already live here.
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| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4704 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian
| Message 471 of 568 27 January 2014 at 1:20am | IP Logged |
Yeah, and as a corollary to that, I imagine most Indonesian speakers living in the Netherlands already speak
excellent Dutch.
Pity though. Not only is the language of cultural interest, it should be exceptionally easy for Dutch speakers to
learn - even above the language's general easiness - because it was a Dutchman who set up the modern
alphabet.
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| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4689 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian
| Message 472 of 568 27 January 2014 at 4:26pm | IP Logged |
Hekje wrote:
Hahah, aw, well, thanks. As I get to know Indonesian better I'll learn how
to make those
place names fit in more. Lord knows Maryland isn't important enough to have its own
Indonesian pronunciation already. :-P |
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Well, it is important enough to have its own Indonesian
wikipedia page at least.
So you're from Merry-land, not from Myrrh-uh-lynne, I see...
Edited by geoffw on 27 January 2014 at 4:26pm
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