luisterpaal
I rediscovered 3voor12’s luisterpaal. Every week they present a couple of cd’s which you can fully listen online in great quality.
While browsing through their albums i saw that the West-Flemish hip hop group “‘t hof van commerce” has a new cd: “ezoa en niet anders”. Apart from hearing a reasonably good hiphop album, it is great to hear back the language which the family of my father speaks. I let it hear to some native Dutch people but they couldn’t understand a thing. I guess West-flemish is to Flemish as Fries is to Dutch. If you want to try to understand some things, i can recommend this short course in West-Flemish. It is written down as you would speak it - which can give some hilarious reading out loud moments
Note the West-Flamish language has two extra verbs: ja (yes) and no (nee). Their full conjugation goes like this:
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