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Just classic “mens erger je niet” but there’s a single knife just laying on the table
How do you know as a non native speaker which are meaningless in the context? Individually they have meaning, and they add subtle nuance to a sentence, but ultimately, for the message it tries to convey they are just padding.
Most of the students are not native English, I didn’t mention English specifically, just generally.
I think this is a good resource for information on the difficulty https://www.onlinedutchforexpats.nl/post/dutch-the-toughest-language-to-learn-really
Except we don’t. There’s a very distinct length in the “oe” sounds. Short is fucking, long is pooping. It’s like the difference between “e” and “ee”.
Try to pronounce it with these e sounds, then replace them with the oe sounds. That’s the difference.
I was told dutch is one of the hardest languages to learn. Lots of meaningless words are often used to pad a sentence which in essence can be left out.
Zou het misschien een beetje mogelijk zijn om iets te doen?
Zou het mogelijk zijn om iets te doen?
Same thing
Was made aware of this by a dutch teacher and never looked the same at how we construct sentences. The words are added for a perceived kindness, but confuse non native speakers.
Flemish sounds funny?
Jullie klinken alsof je constant rochelt terwijl je praat.
Flemish is so much softer, and quite a bit of vocabulary is different, which could lead to confusing situations.
While “met betrekking tot” is pretty archaic in and of itself, the shorter “betreffende” sounds even more archaic. I think a more commonly used word in daily speech would be “over”.
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