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| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4495 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes  Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 441 of 568 04 January 2014 at 4:25am | IP Logged | |||||
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So here's that video of me speaking Dutch for the January TAC challenge. As my brother would say: be honest, but not too honest, posting something like this makes me hella nervous. :-) Video Here's a transcript:
Aaand an English translation:
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| Suzie Diglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4021 days ago 155 posts - 226 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Dutch | Message 442 of 568 04 January 2014 at 10:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi Hekje, Just went through your log and love it! And your Dutch is really great, from what I see! If my level was like yours, I would already be happy and satisfied :-))
Wish you that you can achieve your targets for 2014! Let's have a great time at Team Oranje this year! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4499 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 443 of 568 04 January 2014 at 11:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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One or two minor mistakes (more things that are about idiom than grammar), and I can
tell you're anglophone from the video, but that's all. From the viewpoint of the lexicon and such I have no complaints, really. In fact it's clear that you are speaking Dutch and you are 99% getting the point across. You can walk and run. At this point you should probably not focus so much on grammar, you know it well. The biggest stumbling block I can see for you is that people zoom in on your "coda r" (r at the end of a syllable) because it's very American. In Dutch, you do have an "English r" at the end of a syllable, but we don't colour the sentence with it like in American English, it works more like in Swedish or British English where you hear the r but it sort of disappears. Other than that, you aspirate your "t" quite strongly. T is never aspirated in Dutch. You have to pronounce all stops without puffs of air. In Dutch, everything is supposed to sound egalitarian :D 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4495 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 445 of 568 06 January 2014 at 7:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Suzie - I'm very glad you enjoy the log! Thanks for your kind words. I'm sure that with your mastery of German and
English, your level of Dutch will quickly become even better than it is now. Yay Team Oranje! :-D Tarvos - Thanks very much for your analysis. I definitely see what you mean about the "coda r" and the aspirated "t". I'm going to make a conscious effort to not drag those out from now on. As a side note, it's interesting to me to see how the feedback you leave here has changed over time. In a way, it's encouraging that your current feedback is about polishing pronunciation, since I remember struggling in this log with much more fundamental things before. /musings DamedesLangues - Thanks for your recommendation! I just made an account and took a placement test. Seems fun. :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4495 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 447 of 568 06 January 2014 at 9:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yes, that's me.
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| NMW Newbie Netherlands Joined 4279 days ago 36 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch | Message 448 of 568 07 January 2014 at 6:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Ik vind je Nederlands accent mooi! Ik denk dat ik nooit zo dapper zou zijn om een video te maken :P
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