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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5253 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 9 of 28 30 March 2011 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Looking forward to following your progress in de nederlandse taal over the next couple of months. I'm curious to see how much of an advantage you'll have with your German and English. My bet is that you will progress quite rapidly! I'm sure you'll also beat the "switch to English" scenario too, although this may be your toughest challenge in that regard. Sounds like a fun two months- in Amsterdam- you dawg! Boa sorte!
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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5326 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 10 of 28 30 March 2011 at 9:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Benny, I look forward to reading your log and following your progress. I live in Amsterdam so if there's anything I can help you with, just let me know. Veel succes!
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| RogerK Triglot Groupie Austria Joined 5066 days ago 92 posts - 181 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian Studies: Portuguese | Message 11 of 28 30 March 2011 at 9:25pm | IP Logged | ||
In that case it will be easy for you. Have fun. I will look forward to following your progess. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tbone Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4982 days ago 92 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 12 of 28 30 March 2011 at 11:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Having just gone thru your blog, I think this will be fun to watch. Could you keep note on any confusion you
experience? I imagine there will be moments where you go, "Hold it, are we speaking German or Dutch right now?" 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| irishpolyglot Nonaglot Senior Member Ireland fluentin3months Joined 5624 days ago 285 posts - 892 votes Speaks: Irish, English*, French, Esperanto, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Sign Language Studies: Mandarin | Message 13 of 28 30 March 2011 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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@tbone I've already gone through this confusion between Spanish / Portuguese, French / Italian etc. and I have my ways of not mixing up similar languages :)
But one side goal of this project will be to be able to confidently switch between German and Dutch at the end of the two months. I don't want one to replace the other. @Renee Actually you could indeed help me! Perhaps even with that initial conversation I mentioned that I'd like to record. If you get the chance, please use the contact me form on my website so we can e-mail properly :) @iguanom Yes, I expect it to be a bit trickier in Amsterdam than it was in Berlin. Luckily my English R doesn't come through at all, so I might have people guessing where I'm from before they default to English! ;) I'll maintain speaking in Dutch as I've done in other languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5684 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 14 of 28 01 April 2011 at 1:42am | IP Logged | ||
You might actually find that the English (or to be more precise: Irish & American English) R comes in handy in your studies of Dutch! I've only studied Dutch briefly myself, but one of my main problems was not pronouncing the R in an "American enough" way (I'm from the US, but have trouble saying the American R). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5551 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 15 of 28 01 April 2011 at 4:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Excellent choice of Dutch. Lovely language (so far).
A video would be useful of course, but I'd just be interested to see a written log of what you actually do on a daily basis (you know, x hrs reading grammar book, y hrs reading dictionary, z hrs conversation, and then a summary of what you learned). I won't bother wishing you luck. I don't think you'll be needing it. Edited by schoenewaelder on 01 April 2011 at 4:35pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| irishpolyglot Nonaglot Senior Member Ireland fluentin3months Joined 5624 days ago 285 posts - 892 votes Speaks: Irish, English*, French, Esperanto, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Sign Language Studies: Mandarin | Message 16 of 28 05 April 2011 at 6:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Arrived!! I had arranged for accommodation, but she ditched me at the last minute. Hopefully I'll find something soon so I can get my teeth into the language :)
No progress at all up to now - I didn't get any sleep on my red-eye flight from the states, so right now I'm too loopy to be able to focus on reading or studying anything. Couldn't even take in some simple vocab. Sleep deprivation is definitely not a good way to start the mission :P So I'm calling this day 0, since I wasn't even in the country for the first half of the day. Day 1 will be tomorrow! I'll be flat-hunting, but also getting started on speaking :) A more detailed account of my first week will be explained on the blog in a week. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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