About intonation and stress-timed languages
Does anyone know what the Dutch, Swedish or Norwegian intonation is like? I mean the word stress, the words that are stressed and unstressed in a sentence . And how different and regular is it compared to English intonation?

If you speak any other stress-timed language your opinion is welcome too, please!!

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About intonation and stress-timed languages
Does anyone know what the Dutch, Swedish or Norwegian intonation is like? I mean the word stress, the words that are stressed and unstressed  in a sentence . And how different and regular is it compared to English intonation?

If you speak any other stress-timed language your opinion is welcome too, please!!

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i recommend you watch videos in those languages to evaluate that.

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Hi,
On the blog Dutch Idiom you can listen to some short Dutch spoken texts. Listen and decide for yourself :)
http://www.dutchidiom.com

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There are no rules about, or patterns of, stress in Dutch. You have to learn the stress patterns for each word, but that comes naturally after a while.  Note that much intonation, for example, rising cadence at the end of a sentence to indicate a question, is similar to English.

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