Re: Rating Languages

On Friday 28 September 2001 19:23, you wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:59:53 +0200, Irina Rempt-Drijfhout
>
> <irina@...> wrote:
> >There are no aspirated stops in Dutch.
>
> So, you do feel that Dutch is different from English (or, say,
> German) in this respect, without any instrumental phonetics?
Well, yes; this is one of the hard parts of learning German or
English for Dutch high-school students. And also the other way round;
part of an English accent in Dutch consists in aspirating initial
voiceless stops.

   Irina

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