Re: Dutch on UK radio

"Seán O'Leathlóbhair" <jwlawler@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Try Scandinavians, particularly the Danes but the Finns can be
> pretty good as well. The Danes, and the Dutch, have a bit of a head
> start due to the greater similarity of their languages to English
> but the Finns manage to compete nonetheless.

Common errors made by Danes include merging the vowels in 'not' and
'nut', having problems distinguishing /s/ and /z/, and failing to
reduce enough vowels to schwa.

People with stronger accents can have many more Danish features,
including final devoicing, merger of /v/ and /w/, absence of lax
vowels, and /S/ > /s/ in final position.

/Thomas (a Dane myself)
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