Finally a teacher who is being very specific about how to pronounce things in Dutch correctly!! Thank you! Can you please also cover connected speech? When words are mashed up in sentences, it sounds different. I wanna practice it :)

@CatsDutchClasses

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting idea, I'll add it to my list 😊

I've been self-studying for some time now, and what confused me a week ago is when one of my native Dutch friends told me that the word 'bedrijf' should be pronounced like bedrAIf, and not bedrEIf. Another friend (he grew up in the Netherlands) told me the same - that it's better to pronounce 'ij' as AI, and not as EI. What's the trick here, why do some Dutch people advise pronouncing 'ij' as starting with A?

@CatsDutchClasses

Жыл бұрын

Interesting, the only reason I can think of for them to do so, is that perhaps you're still mispronouncing the sound. It's a fine balance, as a lot of my students use the ay sound (as in stay), instead of the ea sound (as in egg). Maybe your Dutch friend are so used to foreigners pronouncing the sound as ai, it's easier for them to listen to, as opposed to ayei. But I can't be sure =)

@raphaelG_

Жыл бұрын

@@CatsDutchClasses That's probably the reason yeah haha Dutch sounds can be very tricky. I'm Brazilian and I was having a hard time trying to pronounce 'Fruit', both in English and Portuguese I couldn't find a similar sound nor could even hear the difference, my Dutch girlfriend prob noticed my pronunciation and told me to try and pronounce it like "frauijt" and it worked like a charm LMAO

So, the right pronounciation of Dutch footballer Virgil Van Dijk's name is "Van De-eak" (similar to "break" but with an open "e") instead of "Van Dike" (similar to "bike"), right?

Thank you!

@CatsDutchClasses

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

The ij in some words such as Nijmegen sounds more like an /ai/ to me than in for instance in hij where it is clearly an /ei/😅

Goed lerares duche Goed les dach dank je wel

Is the 'ei/ij' sound easier or more difficult than the 'ui' sound?

@mmuu9744

2 ай бұрын

much easier for me

I always hear people pronouncing Heineken (beer) and Eindhoven (city) like the German EI and I always think that's wrong, because those words are in Dutch, therefore, they must be pronounced by using the sounds of Dutch and not German.

@CatsDutchClasses

Жыл бұрын

You mean non-natives? It is a very difficult sound to pronounce, especially for my German and English-native students. I've had some of them cry during lessons, because they just couldn't get the pronunciation of "ei/ij" or "ui" right. These videos and pronunciation advice during my classes are meant as a guideline, if the entire thing is too difficult or stressful, it's usually better to just let it go and not to judge. Everybody is different.

@joadsonmatias2610

Жыл бұрын

@@CatsDutchClasses I mean non-native. I'm from Brazil, Portuguese is my native language and whenever someone tries to pronounce a Dutch word either it sounds like an English word (for example: blind is "blaind") or a German word (for example: Eindhoven is "aindhoven). I guess that who speaks like that thinks they'll be understood because the three languages have a certain linguistic approach, but it doesn't work exactly like this!

Dear teacher, thank you for the lessons. Could you please clarify what is the right way to pronounce "Terwijde" (locatie in Utrecht)? Dank je wel!

@CatsDutchClasses

Жыл бұрын

Hi, the vowels are: Ter, the e as in "bed" (check my video on the Dutch r sound) Wij, the ij as mentioned in the video (check my video on the Dutch w, v, and f) De, the e as in "fallen" (the schwa sound)

just started learning Nederlands with Duolingo😁, and there I have " WE" for we instead of wij. Now I wonder which one to use😵‍💫

@CatsDutchClasses

Жыл бұрын

It doesn't matter, They're the same thing 😊

@aminzakaiefar3393

Жыл бұрын

@@CatsDutchClasses Ah Oké, bedankt😊🙌

@collectioneur

8 ай бұрын

Not exactly the same. Usually use "we", unless you want to stress it's "wij" instead of other people (same for "je" and "jij" and to a lesser extent "ze" and "zij")

@aminzakaiefar3393

8 ай бұрын

@@collectioneur Oh thanks for clarification, I went to search for it online and I found the same thing as you say. I think to master that, I need to live between dutch people. That's the only way😁👍.

@collectioneur

8 ай бұрын

For example: WIJ hebben er zin in = WE feel like it (they don't), JIJ bent aan de beurt = it's YOUR turn, ZIJ heeft dat gezegd = it's HER who said that

Btw i'm still confused, what about to say (moeilijk, makkelijk and lelijk) i heard them like (muilik / muilék and lelék) sometimes and it was not like (mulaik or lelaik)

@CatsDutchClasses

2 жыл бұрын

Good question. Words that end in -lijk are an exception that sound more like lick. This partly because it's the unstressed syllable.

@fiqivanbaker

2 жыл бұрын

@@CatsDutchClasses Thank you for the answer 🙏🏻 and i'm also sometimes still confused with (ee) cuz sometimes (ee) becomes (é) for example if i say (weet or iedereen) and sometimes it can be like (ie) if I say (veel or meer)

@CatsDutchClasses

2 жыл бұрын

@@fiqivanbaker that's because when a long or open sound is followed by an r or l, it shortens the sound 😊

@fiqivanbaker

2 жыл бұрын

@@CatsDutchClasses dank je wel ❤️

@gerhard6105

2 жыл бұрын

Lelijk. The ...lijk is said with the same sound as the e in "the". But in "gelijk" (equal), you do say the ij sound.