30th October 2011 - New Resource and Today's Words 1

Today, I was linked to the site http://www.pronunciator.com/ by +Jaana Nyström. It has voice recognition software and checks your pronunciation, recognition of the words both spoken and written, and then has a spelling test where you are given the letters and have to put them in the right order. I found the beeping of the spelling test a bit annoying but the rest is good and well worth using from my first contact with it.

These are the words from the first unit of the first lesson, although I've given the singular when the plural was presented for bes (bessen), graan (granen) and druif (druiven).

Type	Dutch	English	Comment
noun	appel	apple
noun	banaan	banana
noun	bes	berry
noun	boon	bean
noun	citroen	lemon
noun	druif	grape
noun	ei	egg
noun	fruit	fruit	This is a collective noun so you don't get 'een fruit' but 'een stuk fruit'.
noun	gerst	barley
noun	graan	grain
noun	hooi	hay
noun	knoflook	garlic
noun	limoen	lime
noun	maïs	corn
noun	meloen	melon
noun	noot	nut
noun	paddestoel	mushroom	This is the general word for mushroom. The most commonly eaten white variety is champignon.
noun	sinaasappel	orange
noun	tuin	garden
noun	ui	onion