goedemorgen, the first dutch word I learnt in my first dutch class yesterday! Yup folks, I joined a dutch for beginner's class yesterday and the first thing I learnt is greetings. goedemorgen, goedemidag, yes sir, I know how to greet good morning and good afternoon in dutch. I also know numbers 0 to 10, nul, een, twee etc in dutch. Learning a foreign language brings its own set of challenges and fun. The way my dutch instructor wished us "doei doei" was so funny and I felt a bit awkward to say it back to him, but then thats how the language is and how much ever funny it may sound, I need to embrace it and have fun while learning.
Its true but hard to believe that there is only one dutch language instructor available for service in the whole of Bangalore. My searches in google for a dutch language institute or instructor lead te always to Mr.Sayed Jafrid. With no choice left I joined his class and Vikas, my fellow RSM MBA admit, the braveheart from Delhi who booked his flight tickets the moment I told him that dutch class is available in Bangalore, has flown down here and has joined class with me.
My first class was all about greetings, numbers and days of the week and we also learnt 20 words for the day, a scheme devised by the instructor to introduce dutch vocabs to us.Today was my second class and we shifted gears to more numbers, irregular verbs and stuff like that. My classes are for 40 hours, spread across weekends.
The pronounciations is the most peculiar aspect of the dutch language. The way 'g' is pronounced in goedmorgen, with emphasis to the 'gha' sound for the mor'g'en part of it is quite different from what english is. And the way 'V' is pronounced as 'f' and 'J' as 'Ya' are all things I need to learn and remember.
I'd be happy if I can find someone here in bangalore who can speak in dutch with me, but I guess thats a wish list. Finding an instructor itself was a big task here. Anyways I plan to learn atleast the basics of dutch so that Ican practice it when I'm in NL next year. Dooi!
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