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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4494 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 521 of 522 28 December 2014 at 11:27pm | IP Logged |
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It's confusing because the pronunciation really differs markedly, so people have the idea
they're dealing with something entirely different. But the pronunciation differences in the Netherlands are equally huge and the southern part of the Netherlands sounds more like the Belgians than like the Amsterdam people. In the Netherlands and Belgium there's simply a big discrepancy between what you say and what you write. The written language is 99,999% the same, the various dialects can differ but they differ between all regions, even within the country. In Belgian (and Dutch) Limburg they speak a more German-esque dialect. Someone from the far east of Belgium and the far west of Belgium basically need to speak this standardised Dutch to understand each other because they sure as hell don't understand each other's dialect. Not to mention someone from Groningen or Friesland... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4370 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 522 of 522 31 December 2014 at 7:01pm | IP Logged |
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Wow it's busy around here! I didn't update my log for a few days because I'm in
Belgium and it's taken me five minutes to locate it just now :D Thank you for the explanations, tarvos :) We are really enjoying watching Salamander and listening to the Dutch. In fact watching the programme is making me sad that it is a language I will probably never have time to learn. We found a shop selling comics in Brussels yesterday and bought an Asterix book in Dutch so at some point I will at least have fun trying to read some of it and see how much I can understand :) I have bought several Croatian books with me on holiday and have been busy studying my new verbs tables in my downtime. I'm still practising my Cyrillic handwriting (it looks slightly better on squared paper I've found!). I've also brought my Hippocrene Beginner's Croatian book with me and I plan to start the year by rereading it, writing out all the exercises and putting the vocabulary on Memrise for revision. Talking about Memrise, they are holding a competition in January to see who can learn the most new vocab in a language in January. I guess I should probably start a new log tomorrow! Edited by Radioclare on 31 December 2014 at 7:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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