There's a difference in pronounciation between Dutch and German. It's hard to explain though, especially since I do not know how to write in phonetic .
But... maybe you shouldn't learn German, but Dutch!
There's a difference in pronounciation between Dutch and German. It's hard to explain though, especially since I do not know how to write in phonetic .
But... maybe you shouldn't learn German, but Dutch!
I get that, I could even pick the Dutch accent when they spoke German when I was in the Netherlands. Thing is, I haven't spent that much of my life listening to the Dutch language, or Dutch people speaking (in English or Dutch for that matter). After nearly 14 years of listening to Rammstein, I'm dumbfounded as to how I managed to repeat some stuff in the wrong accent
Probably due to your own native Australian accent. Nothing to worry about. I can perfectly understand Dutch!
I don't know. I just know that, if you don't practice accents, you'll always have an accent of your native language. (e.g. my French with Dutch accent, as many still say)
If you want more of a German accent, you'll need to watch (in original version, or dubbed in German) many German programms, shows, series etc. And really LISTEN to the accent, learn its intonations etc. It's not something you'll do in 4, 5 days, it'll take some time to master it.
IT took me abut 4 years to get my English accent.
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Thank goodness, it's over.
Now.. up to the New Year's Eve. Something I do like.
(New Year's Day however... but that may have to do with hangovers and stuff like that!
Some of my relatives have thought otherwise in the past 
Isn't that what the New Year's Day holiday is for?
We had the weirdest power/internet outage last night. Stuff like the TV came on and off, the lights flickered, my computer stayed on the entire time, and only Skype worked...
