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| orion Senior Member United States Joined 6803 days ago 622 posts - 678 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 9 of 17 03 December 2005 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | ||
That is very interesting. Someone once said that if English had not had the French influence a thousand years ago that Dutch and English would be mutually intelligible today. I did see that Swedish and Dutch profiles are under construction. I look forward to the day they are launched. Its too bad that these fascinating languages are often overlooked by English speakers shopping for another language. I think part of it is that we feel a bit embarassed that Dutch and Swedish people speak English as good (if not better) than we do! Most of these folks sound completely native. Sometimes the only tip-off is an unusual sentence construction or word choice. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sir Nigel Senior Member United States Joined 6886 days ago 1126 posts - 1102 votes 2 sounds | Message 10 of 17 03 December 2005 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | ||
I've noticed that quite a bit. It seems the fact that not too many (at least not that I'm aware of) people speak Dutch and Scandinavian languages outside of their respective country. Also, with the English speakers in the States, being close to Canada and Mexico with French and Spanish spoken, that likely contributes to them being overlooked somewhat as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Susanka Newbie Finland Joined 6707 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes | Message 11 of 17 09 December 2005 at 11:15am | IP Logged | ||
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I am fluent in Swedish, and I used to do a bit of Dutch, which I found very easy.. it's also a very interesting language I must say :)
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| orion Senior Member United States Joined 6803 days ago 622 posts - 678 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 12 of 17 09 December 2005 at 4:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Do you see very many Swedish people in Finland that speak Finnish? What about Russians? Everything I have read says Finnish is quite difficult.
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| Eddard Tetraglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 6536 days ago 13 posts - 14 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC1, German, Swedish Studies: French, Italian | Message 13 of 17 19 June 2006 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm Dutch and I have taught myself Swedish. I had a five years-experience with German at school, but this wasn't really an advantage, while learning Swedish. Some words in Swedish look like some German words, but the difference is just too big; the vocabulary is quite different and the German grammar is far more complicated (cases, many rules and just as many exceptions), than Swedish grammar, which is quite easy for speakers of any other Germanic language.
It's not posible for a Dutch person to understand any written or spoken Swedish, without having a basic knowledge of the vocabulary. However, knowing the basis will make you able to guess many Swedish words that you haven't seen before in the coursebook. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Pibende Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6507 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Dutch | Message 14 of 17 27 June 2006 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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A few Dutch words are more similar to their Danish (and presumably Nordic - I haven't studied the other two) counterparts than to the equivalent German:
English: always, entire, shall (3rd person singular) Dutch: altijd, hele, zal German: immer, ganz, wird Danish: altid, hele, skal 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Eddard Tetraglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 6536 days ago 13 posts - 14 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC1, German, Swedish Studies: French, Italian | Message 15 of 17 28 June 2006 at 9:36am | IP Logged | ||
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But on the other hand:
English important Dutch belangrijk German wichtig Swedish viktig English glad Dutch blij German froh Swedish glad English disappear Dutch verdwijnen German verschwinden Swedish försvinna English tends to use Latin vocabulary far more often than the other Germanic languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Darobat Diglot Senior Member Joined 6970 days ago 754 posts - 770 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin | Message 16 of 17 28 June 2006 at 1:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Does Dutch have regular, predictable stress, or does its location need to be memorized along with the word like in English?
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