Saturday, March 10, 2012

How do you pronounce the Dutch East India Company's name? "Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie"?

I'm a history teacher and we're going to be talking about the Dutch East India Company and I'd like to be able to use the Dutch name without completely butchering it.How do you pronounce the Dutch East India Company's name? "Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie"?
haha, you will mess it up, there is a rolling R and a hard G in there, so no way you can pronanounce it if you arent Dutch ;-)



Check out below link, its from Dutch Educational TV

(for kids)



Its in Dutch, the lady says ''de VOC (the VOC) - and then 'De Verenigde Oostindiche Compagnie' so you can hear it, and practice





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so1a57zV8鈥?/a>

No comments:

Post a Comment