Ah yes this is a classic phrase to teach foreigners, bit out of fashion nowadays though
How is it pronounced?
What would you teach foreigners today?
Last year I met an older British couple on vacation and they said the only phrase their Dutch friend taught them was "Ik ben moe" (I'm tired) and that really resonated with me.
Itâs hard to explain without a similar sound existing in English.
The âeuâ part in âneukenâ and âkeukenâ is pronounced like the French word for 2: deux.
The â-kenâ end of both words is almost exactly pronounced as the word âcuntâ without the t.
âdeâ is pronounced like âtheâ but with a âdâ sound, like âduhâ but not in the exaggerated way youâd do it when youâre mocking someone. And âinâ is the same pronunciation as the English one.
So putting that all together, Iâd write it out as follows if Iâd like to make it pronounceable for an English speaker: âneuxcun in duh keuxcunâ
Ah yes this is a classic phrase to teach foreigners, bit out of fashion nowadays though
How is it pronounced?
What would you teach foreigners today?
Last year I met an older British couple on vacation and they said the only phrase their Dutch friend taught them was "Ik ben moe" (I'm tired) and that really resonated with me.
Itâs hard to explain without a similar sound existing in English.
The âeuâ part in âneukenâ and âkeukenâ is pronounced like the French word for 2: deux.
The â-kenâ end of both words is almost exactly pronounced as the word âcuntâ without the t.
âdeâ is pronounced like âtheâ but with a âdâ sound, like âduhâ but not in the exaggerated way youâd do it when youâre mocking someone. And âinâ is the same pronunciation as the English one.
So putting that all together, Iâd write it out as follows if Iâd like to make it pronounceable for an English speaker: âneuxcun in duh keuxcunâ