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gogglehead
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 Message 33 of 40
10 October 2008 at 5:26am | IP Logged 
I personally think that Dutch is an amazingly interesting and beautiful language
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JW
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 Message 34 of 40
10 October 2008 at 1:00pm | IP Logged 
gogglehead wrote:
I personally think that Dutch is an amazingly interesting and beautiful language


I fully agree.
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Babylonia
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 Message 35 of 40
11 October 2008 at 7:41am | IP Logged 
JW wrote:
gogglehead wrote:
I personally think that Dutch is an amazingly interesting and beautiful language


I fully agree.


I personnally like the sound of Standaardnederlands very much. Besides this it was my free descision to learn this interesting language, so as you see, this language does have a fan-club!!!
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ReneeMona
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 Message 36 of 40
03 May 2010 at 12:17am | IP Logged 
Personally, I´ve grown immune to people calling Dutch ugly so I'm not offended by it, but aren´t these profiles supposed to give prospective language learners an honest and objective overview of a language? If they are, I don't think it should state that Dutch is not beautiful as if it is a fact. It may be regarded as such by a majority of people but it is still just an opinion, albeit a popular one.

And about the regional variants of Dutch: Every region and many cities, towns and villages as well have their own dialect/accent. The majority are still easily understood by all Dutch speakers but the differences are certainly there so it's often easy to pinpoint quite exactly where a speaker is from, or from what province at least.

Edited by ReneeMona on 03 May 2010 at 12:19am
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Fasulye
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 Message 37 of 40
06 July 2010 at 3:31pm | IP Logged 
ReneeMona wrote:
Personally, I´ve grown immune to people calling Dutch ugly so I'm not offended by it, but aren´t these profiles supposed to give prospective language learners an honest and objective overview of a language? If they are, I don't think it should state that Dutch is not beautiful as if it is a fact. It may be regarded as such by a majority of people but it is still just an opinion, albeit a popular one.

And about the regional variants of Dutch: Every region and many cities, towns and villages as well have their own dialect/accent. The majority are still easily understood by all Dutch speakers but the differences are certainly there so it's often easy to pinpoint quite exactly where a speaker is from, or from what province at least.


Please have a look at my thread "Better Dutch Profile" because this first Dutch Profile was written by a person who apparently is not very familiar with the Dutch language and culture. If such a profile gets published on the forum website it should be a qualified profile. I took my time to write this "Better Dutch Profile" myself but there are still some categories left out, so if you could add some infos, this will be very much appreciated.

Fasulye

Edited by Fasulye on 06 July 2010 at 3:34pm
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ReneeMona
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 Message 38 of 40
06 July 2010 at 4:30pm | IP Logged 
Fasulye wrote:
ReneeMona wrote:
Personally, I´ve grown immune to people calling Dutch ugly so I'm not offended by it, but aren´t these profiles supposed to give prospective language learners an honest and objective overview of a language? If they are, I don't think it should state that Dutch is not beautiful as if it is a fact. It may be regarded as such by a majority of people but it is still just an opinion, albeit a popular one.

And about the regional variants of Dutch: Every region and many cities, towns and villages as well have their own dialect/accent. The majority are still easily understood by all Dutch speakers but the differences are certainly there so it's often easy to pinpoint quite exactly where a speaker is from, or from what province at least.


Please have a look at my thread "Better Dutch Profile" because this first Dutch Profile was written by a person who apparently is not very familiar with the Dutch language and culture. If such a profile gets published on the forum website it should be a qualified profile. I took my time to write this "Better Dutch Profile" myself but there are still some categories left out, so if you could add some infos, this will be very much appreciated.

Fasulye


Thanks, Fasulye, I will have a look at it and offer corrections or additions where I can.
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Fasulye
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 Message 39 of 40
06 July 2010 at 4:44pm | IP Logged 
ReneeMona wrote:
Fasulye wrote:
ReneeMona wrote:
Personally, I´ve grown immune to people calling Dutch ugly so I'm not offended by it, but aren´t these profiles supposed to give prospective language learners an honest and objective overview of a language? If they are, I don't think it should state that Dutch is not beautiful as if it is a fact. It may be regarded as such by a majority of people but it is still just an opinion, albeit a popular one.

And about the regional variants of Dutch: Every region and many cities, towns and villages as well have their own dialect/accent. The majority are still easily understood by all Dutch speakers but the differences are certainly there so it's often easy to pinpoint quite exactly where a speaker is from, or from what province at least.


Please have a look at my thread "Better Dutch Profile" because this first Dutch Profile was written by a person who apparently is not very familiar with the Dutch language and culture. If such a profile gets published on the forum website it should be a qualified profile. I took my time to write this "Better Dutch Profile" myself but there are still some categories left out, so if you could add some infos, this will be very much appreciated.

Fasulye


Thanks, Fasulye, I will have a look at it and offer corrections or additions where I can.


Excellent, because this will give us the chance to make my profile complete or - if necessary - to change something.

Fasulye

Edited by Fasulye on 06 July 2010 at 4:48pm
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Fasulye
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 Message 40 of 40
07 July 2010 at 1:40pm | IP Logged 
This first Dutch profile discussion thread can be closed now - please have a look at our Dutch profile teamwork in the "Better Dutch Profile" thread.

Fasulye


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