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Lesson Transcript

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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