... You're right Laila. It should be "beter dan", but I always say "beter als" (influence thing again), so in English I make the same mistake. I am aware of...
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edo_bou@...
Oct 2, 2000 11:36 am
hi everybody I just arrived today on this group. Looks great ... My question is : I'm living in Amsterdam, and looking for a course of conversation starting in...
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zooks
zooks@...
Oct 2, 2000 1:59 pm
After going through some cassette tapes and cd-roms listening to Dutch pronunciation I was finally getting to the point where I feel a little comfortable with...
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Julian & Sjoekie Wilson
sjoe.smit@...
Oct 2, 2000 2:10 pm
Hi zooks, please see below for my answers to your questions. ... As far as I am aware, this practice is predominant in the west of the Netherlands, especially...
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Henry Pijffers
hpijffers@...
Oct 2, 2000 2:17 pm
... I think we talked about this before, and indeed it's true, some pronounce the final -n (and often swallow the -e- before that in the process) and others...
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Henry Pijffers
hpijffers@...
Oct 2, 2000 2:17 pm
... I forgot to mention the areas in my last message: it's the west of the Netherlands where the -n is dropped and the east (from Groningen all the way down to...
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Gustavo Eulalio
gustavoeulalio@...
Oct 2, 2000 4:30 pm
... By dropping the 'n', is the 'e' still nasalized? This may sound a little weird, but in other languages, like Portuguese (my native lang), we make just...
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Laila Rosenberg
e.rosenberg@...
Oct 2, 2000 5:11 pm
... It's true, we talked about this before. But there are always new members who weren't there at the time. What you're saying about the west and the east is...
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Henry Pijffers
hpijffers@...
Oct 2, 2000 8:55 pm
... I can't answer this, I use a lot of nasalized vowels myself, but as I usually drop the -n, instead of the -e-, I can't say much about this. Is there anyone...
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Alfred Brothers
alfredb@...
Oct 2, 2000 9:52 pm
... I'm not a native Dutch speaker, but I hear no nasalization when final -en is pronounced as -e. I do speak a German dialect, though, which also drops final...
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Dallas Van Koll
dallas@...
Oct 2, 2000 11:25 pm
Hi! I'm Dallas and a new member of this group. I was trying to find out more information about Venlo and the search engine gave me this site. I want to learn...
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jaydh55@...
Oct 3, 2000 5:38 am
Hello, My name is Janice and I'm a new member of your group - I'm english and hoping to come and live and work in the Netherlands in the not too distant...
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Scott Hartog
hartog@...
Oct 3, 2000 4:26 pm
Hi, I am currently trying to learn Dutch from a text/cassette course called "Colloquial Dutch" by Bruce Donaldson. This course claims to be for beginners, but...
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Ian James Parsley
parsleyij@...
Oct 4, 2000 6:03 pm
Laila, If you are interested in having another go at Danish, I can strongly recommend the following: Elsworth, B., 1994. Danish - A Complete Course for...
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lakota
lakota85usa@...
Oct 5, 2000 2:05 am
Hallo, Iedereen. I hope that this post finds everyone well and doing fine in their studies. Today while I was practicing, I came across the words "wonderbaar...
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Julian & Sjoekie Wilson
sjoe.smit@...
Oct 5, 2000 6:24 am
Hi lakota, I have no idea about the two "wonder-" words, but I guess that the first means miraculous and the second means miraculously. Again may a native...
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Jan Prygoda
j.prygoda@...
Oct 5, 2000 6:50 am
Wonderbaar en wonderbaarlijk are words close in meaning that sound to me a bit oldfashioned. The word Nou in Nou, het gaat wel does not mean Now (at the...
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xchre
xchre@...
Oct 5, 2000 7:58 am
Hi Lakota, Here a native speaker.... Wonderbaar and wonderbaarlijk means miraculous and miraculously, it also means marvellous or wonderful. You won't hear it...
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lakota
lakota85usa@...
Oct 7, 2000 11:51 pm
Hello iedereen. I am working on making a vocabulary list of the 100 Words that you should know in the language that you are learning. Some of them are very...
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Henry Pijffers
hpijffers@...
Oct 8, 2000 8:29 am
Hi Lakota, I suggest using the most common word only for 1 meaning. If the word has more than 1 meaning, maybe take 1 word for each. As for "often", "vaak" is...
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zooks
zooks@...
Oct 8, 2000 9:16 am
Lakota On the Dutch Language Now cd-rom this is already done for you. They have the 100 most frequently used words in Dutch and 3 sentences for each,...
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milennium_guy@...
Oct 9, 2000 1:03 pm
i need to learn dutch by december!!! Can anyone recommend a good cheap crash course thanx...
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lakota
lakota85usa@...
Oct 9, 2000 4:35 pm
There is a free online crash course for learning Dutch at; http://www.learndutch.org/ It should help you to at least get a start on learning Dutch by December....
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mecs76@...
Oct 11, 2000 9:58 pm
Hello, My name is Michael, I am from colorado and have meet a wonderful women from belgium, She speaks english, but I have become in love with her native...
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mecs76@...
Oct 11, 2000 9:58 pm
Hello, My name is Michael, I am from colorado and have meet a wonderful women from belgium, She speaks english, but I have become in love with her native...
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mecs76@...
Oct 11, 2000 9:58 pm
Hello, My name is Michael, I am from colorado and have meet a wonderful women from belgium, She speaks english, but I have become in love with her native...
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lakota
lakota85usa@...
Oct 11, 2000 10:49 pm
Hallo iedereen. I hope that this fines everyone well and doing fine. I am reading a childrens article and came upon a sentence that I think I know the meaning,...
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Evie Fieseler
EMFieseler@...
Oct 11, 2000 11:00 pm
Lakota, I think it may mean that they have a lot in common, but I'm not sure. Evie...
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lakota
lakota85usa@...
Oct 11, 2000 11:13 pm
Hallo Michael, Welcome to this study group and congratulations on your attempt in learning Dutch. It is not always easy, living in America, to find someone...
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lakota
lakota85usa@...
Oct 11, 2000 11:24 pm
Hallo Evie, Je vertalen maakt meer zin dan mijn vertalen. (Your translation makes more sense than mijn translation.) I am also glad to hear that I am not the...
