Hey there Elliana, thank you so much for your generous contribution. It's very much appreciated. With regards to the "g" letter, it's a tough one. So yes, I personally prefer the "hard g" due to a number of reasons: personally, growing up, I was exposed to quite a lot of Dutch culture and got used to pronouncing the hard g. When it comes to teaching, I also prefer the hard g for a number of reasons. First of all, the scraping throat sound is easier for me to make since as you said, I'm from West-Flanders and the "pallatal fricative" g (in the mouth that is), is not something that comes easy or natural to me. Also, adding to that, is the fact that I prefer to teach the throat-g because in terms of the physical location, it's quite easy to distinguish. Putting it differently, I have some students who are struggling to tell the "r" and the "g" apart and if I point out to them that one is pronounced with the tongue and the other with the throat, it's easier to "feel" it for them than creating that vague friction with the soft "g". Does that make sense? Pronunciation is a difficult thing to teach and I do find it works best contrastively where you compare the position and movement of mouth, tongue, lips of one vowel or consonant to another. Let me know if that answers your question and if you have any others! Groetjes en dankjewel!!