I've been a student of Dutch for years -- even then I have trouble with the accent, but I can make sense of it. I have two bear friends who live on either side of the Oer Sound, and when I went to visit them I bought a tape so I could try to do some tourist Scandanavian, but I'll be f***ed if I can make head nor tails of the accent. There's like letters that don't seem to even be pronounced, or in a way that I can't imagine.
My mother, who used to sing in Swedish, said that they speak with their mouths almost closed, cause it's so cold there that their breath would freeze.
How do you manage? Are you planning on moving there?
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Date: 2006-08-20 04:03 pm (UTC)I've been a student of Dutch for years -- even then I have trouble with the accent, but I can make sense of it. I have two bear friends who live on either side of the Oer Sound, and when I went to visit them I bought a tape so I could try to do some tourist Scandanavian, but I'll be f***ed if I can make head nor tails of the accent. There's like letters that don't seem to even be pronounced, or in a way that I can't imagine.
My mother, who used to sing in Swedish, said that they speak with their mouths almost closed, cause it's so cold there that their breath would freeze.
How do you manage? Are you planning on moving there?