Learn how to give your email address to someone
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| Hi everyone |
| I'm Thomas |
| hallo dai, ik ben Tomas. |
| Welcome to the Dutch Whiteboard Lessons. |
| In this lesson you'll learn how to give your email in Dutch. |
| Let's get started. |
| Okay, let's look at the vocabulary. |
| I'm going to run you through the alphabet in Dutch. |
| As you can see, I've added a little pronunciation guide. |
| So let's start at the top. |
| A - ah |
| B - bay |
| C - say |
| D - day |
| E - ay |
| F - ef |
| G - hay |
| H - hah |
| I - ee |
| J - yay |
| K - kah |
| L - el |
| M - em |
| N - en |
| O - o |
| P - pay |
| Q - ku |
| R - ehr |
| S - s |
| T - tay |
| U - oo |
| V - vay |
| W - way |
| X - ix |
| Y - aai |
| Z - zet |
| Let's look at the dialogue. |
| When I read, I want you to pay attention to the email address. |
| Find the letters and see how they're used in the dialogue. |
| Uw e-mailadres, alstublieft. |
| Your email address, please. |
| Mijn e-mailadres is |
| My email address is |
| thomas@innolang.com |
| thomas@innolang.com |
| One more time slowly. |
| Uw e-mailadres, alstublieft. |
| Mijn e-mailadres is thomas.innolang.com |
| thomas.innolang.com |
| Now let's look at the sentence pattern. |
| This pattern is the structure that our dialogue follows. |
| Mijn e-mailadres |
| email address. |
| Which means in English |
| my email address is |
| email address. |
| Now there's a few small things I'd like to point out. |
| In Dutch |
| My is written ""Mijn"". |
| If you look at this bit here |
| it's an ""I"" and a ""J"" put together to create the ""I"" sound. |
| Same as in the alphabet when we use the Y. |
| However, in handwriting |
| a lot of people connect these two where it looks like a Y with two dots on it. |
| However, when you type write |
| it is always the combination of I and J. |
| Keep that in mind. |
| Also, it may look like the word my in English |
| but the Dutch word ""may"" is actually ""me"" in English. |
| Also |
| when you talk about your email address |
| inevitably this comes into play. |
| Now this little sign in Dutch officially is called aapenstaartje |
| which literally means a monkey's tail. |
| Fun little fact, but a bit long as a word. |
| So these days, most Dutch people |
| just simply when they spell out their email address say ""at"" just like in English. |
| Finally, the word email in Dutch is written with a dash. |
| Whereas in English, it's a single word. |
| Now |
| if you were to write this as a single word in Dutch |
| it actually becomes a completely different word with a different meaning. |
| Don't write it like this because this word means enamel in Dutch. |
| Remember the nice little metal plates that they use for advertising enamel. |
| So it's a completely different word. |
| Always write it with a dash. |
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