Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book...
by netbioserror on Monday December 18, 2023 @08:41AM
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I'm American and concur with this. Aside from some slightly accented tweaks here and there, the Dutch speak a remarkably clear and rhotic English that feels quite comfortable to listen to.
It's odd because Dutch itself, being a Germanic language, has a lot of pronunciation commonality with the most conservative of all English accents, Scottish. You can hear it in this video, where a sentence composed of common Germanic words is spoken in every Germanic language:
Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book...
by devilbunny on Monday December 18, 2023 @08:48AM
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The Dutch accent is closest to the American; if you didn't know English or Dutch, you would be hard pressed to tell the two apart. They sound a lot alike from a distance.
If it weren't for Trainspotting, which I adore, I'd be utterly useless at understanding Scots accents. As it is, I can just barely manage.
There is no question that a Scottish accent is the most difficult accent to understand.
"Introduced" the Scottish accent via Youtube to some Mexican co-workers who were fluent English speakers and they freaked out. Will never forget one saying "WTF is this?"