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  • Dutch uses the standard Latin alphabet plus "ij". Because of the large amount of double vowels and vowel chains, the diaeresis is used to mark the beginning of a new syllable when it would otherwise be ambiguous (ex: bedoeïen, geëerd). The acute accent indicates a stressed vowel (ex: één meaning "one" vs. een meaning "a"). A full pronunciation guide can be found here: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/dutch.htm
  • Here's the alphabet, looks just like the English one. Aa- like All or tunA Bb- like B or at the end of a word P Cc- like S or K Dd- like D or at the end of word T Ee- like in bEt, or liek in dAY, or like UH Ff- like a normal F Gg- like a hard H, sort of like the German CH Hh- like a normal H Ii- like the "i" in sIt, or like EE in sEE Jj- like Y Kk- like a normal K Ll- like the english hard L or the spanish soft L Mm- like M Nn- like N Oo- like the A in All and O in bOne Pp- like normal P Qq- like KUH Rr- same as German R, Flemy hard R before vowel, and light R when after or in between vowels Ss- like normal S Tt- like a spanish T, sort of sharp Uu- like UH or EW in nEW but tighter, like German Ü Vv- like normal V, though it could also be a F sound I believe Ww- sort of like english W ecept with the lips a bit closer together closer to a V sound, or just a V sound, either one is fine I believe Xx- like a normal X - KS Yy- EE, normal Y, or AY Zz- like normal Z And the dipthongs are: aai- like IGH in hIGH au- like the OW in cOW ch- like a hard H, same as German CH eeuw- like EW only the E is like the E in bEt only a bit longer ei- like AY in dAY eu- like the EW in nEW only more tightenned like the German Ü with an added E at the beginning ie- like EE in sEE ieuw- like EW ij- like UH or AY depending on placement ng- like in siNG oe- like OO in bOOt ooi- like OY in annOY ou- like OW in cOW sch- like a SH with a hard H right after sj- like a SH ui- like UH and then Y right after That's pretty much it. :)

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