LL-L "Events" 2008.04.06 (02) [E]

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From: Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Events"

Beste Roger,

You wrote:

  A curious thing for me is when I hear people from *Holland *learning
French, I often hear them pronouncing similarely. (*sj *in Dutch is
pronounced like *ch *in French)

Belgians (as well Walloons as Northerners) are more easily recognized by the
way they pronounce the *W*.
Wallon is pronounced rather *Vallon* by the French
but rather in the direction of "*Ouallon*" by the Belgians (*Ou* standing
for the Dutch *oe* or the German *u*)


Same (but worse) happens when Lowlanders start learning Chinese sibilants.
Whatever is written as "x", "j", "q" and "zh" in Pinyin, gets pronounced
more or less the same. Mind you, not only by Lowlanders I guess :-D .
Typically as well, many Chinese and Japanese mix up "r" and "l", but I think
this is mainly due to English itself where a rolling r has almost vanished
(otherwise, the phonetic distance between r and l would be much more obvious
for foreigners).

   I tried some food in an African bar-restaurant called "Beverly Hills" at
the corner of the Waverse steenweg and the Anoulstraat. It was very good.
I got *tilapia* fried with a tasty crusty skin, presented under a cover of
strips of sweet paprikas, some strips of hot pepper and little onion parts,
it all served with black-fried slices of banana.


I had lunch with my fellow teachers earlier this year, in the "Horloge du
Sud", roughly 200 m from "Beverly Hills" (corner of Waverse Steenweg and
Troonstraat). Recommendable experience as well.

Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx

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