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by tripzilch 2376 days ago
Can you make the ö in FÖHN? Because if you go from the "ah" in AFTER to the ö in FÖHN, right on the transition you'll do a good "ui" for AFSLUITDIJK.

Using the MOUTH vowel in that word would reveal an English speaker immediately ;-) (Germans mess it up differently ;-) )
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tripzilch 2376 days ago
Thinking about it some more, you can get more easily away with the "eh" in MEH (not the /ə/ but the /ɛ/). That way you'll sound like someone speaking with a The Hague accent, and if you're otherwise speaking English, this will most probably slip by completely unnoticed to most Dutch listeners (unlike OU or OI would).
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