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Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: IT on November 01, 2009, 04:22:55 pm --- we have almost the exact same word: gemytlig. I bet it comes from German.
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In Swedish, Danish and most of all Flemish there are many words who look like German words written in a funny way (to me ;)). If you hear people talking, you can't understand a word, but you understand much of a written text.
Sason:
--- Quote from: belbbmfan on November 01, 2009, 02:47:25 pm ---
Anyway, no scary food pic from me. But we do have a black cat, Ollie, who was willing to pose for us.
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Aawwwwww...... Ollie is cute! and a really beautiful cat!!!
Sason:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on November 01, 2009, 04:29:23 pm ---In Swedish, Danish and most of all Flemish there are many words who look like German words written in a funny way (to me ;)). If you hear people talking, you can't understand a word, but you understand much of a written text.
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True. Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German and Dutch are pretty closely related.
I'm able to understand quite a lot of written Dutch, not so much when I hear it spoken.
Monika:
--- Quote from: Sason on November 01, 2009, 05:04:29 pm ---True. Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German and Dutch are pretty closely related.
I'm able to understand quite a lot of written Dutch, not so much when I hear it spoken.
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Yeah same here. And that´s usually the case with most languages. Easier to read than to heat it spoken.
Btw - how I identify that someone is speaking Dutch is what when a language sounds like German, but I don´t understand anything. That´s how I know it must be Dutch :D
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: IT on November 01, 2009, 05:24:29 pm ---Btw - how I identify that someone is speaking Dutch is what when a language sounds like German, but I don´t understand anything. That´s how I know it must be Dutch :D
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He he. To me Dutch sounds like a mixture between German and English. I can understand a good deal fo Dutch, even when it's spoken. As long as it's spoken clearly. On the telly for example. News in Dutch are ok to understand, at least I get the gist of it. But people in everyday life is different of course.
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