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| tracker465 Senior Member United States Joined 5350 days ago 355 posts - 496 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 17 of 34 03 July 2010 at 8:14am | IP Logged | ||
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I remember one of my German professors always made fun of Dutch and didn't like it, due to the constant use of diminutives. She said Dutch just sounded silly to her because of this.
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| staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5695 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 18 of 34 03 July 2010 at 12:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6270 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 19 of 34 03 July 2010 at 2:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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A softer language than German, though I am not keen on the g sound. I prefer the accent of Dutch-speaking Belgium to the one in the Netherlands.
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| Oz_Andy Diglot Newbie Australia Joined 5316 days ago 7 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, German | Message 20 of 34 03 July 2010 at 5:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hmm I think we should be careful here, as this is a slippery slope...I mean, if we all of a sudden label Dutch a beautiful language, what next? Do the tones of Mandarin go from being comical to being musical? Might we even go so far as to consider the guttural sounds of Arabic a pleasing attribute, rather than simply passing the language off as harsh and angry, and then getting on with our day? Just how many uninformed generalisations must we part with before you're satisfied? Well?!
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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5333 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 21 of 34 03 July 2010 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | ||
Well, I'm probably biased since my native language includes harsh guttural sounds, but I actually really love the sound of them. In French I don't miss them because you have the -r which is kind of throaty, but when I speak English I miss using the back of my throat. I love the sound of German, Arabic, Hebrew etc, because I think the harsh sounds give it something extra. It makes them kind of hardcore. ;-) Awesome thread by the way. It's always interesting to hear what your native language sounds like to others and it's nice to read some a bit more varied opinions on Dutch than the usual "it sounds ugly". 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5836 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 22 of 34 03 July 2010 at 9:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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I love the sound of Dutch.
Don't want to learn it, but I just really enjoy hearing it and seeing it written. It's just an allround pleasant language. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Metamucil Groupie United States Joined 5873 days ago 43 posts - 51 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 23 of 34 06 July 2010 at 3:57am | IP Logged | ||
great post, so many think German is a language that's spoken in the throat with all these strange sounds but except for a few dialects it really isn't pronounced that way. Dutch has more of these sounds. However, I second what so many others have said, dutch is still quite beutiful in its own way. I enjoy listening to it, also to see how much I can understand knowing German. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5521 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 24 of 34 06 July 2010 at 4:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Dutch, Low German, and Arabic have taken the places for my favourite-sounding languages, though I'm still susceptible to Finnish's hypnotic rhythms...
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