Am I the only one who finds it more charming that she could speak Dutch than that she could speak French? I know she spoke around six languages, but I feel like French is expected of her. Dutch is lovely being spoken by her. (And I say this as someone who has studied French for the last ten years.)
+Agoraphobication Apparently, French was her first language and Dutch was her second. Then English and so forth. rareaudreyhepburn.com/post/97844284739/audrey-hepburn-interviewed-by-william-leymergie
I don't speak a single word of the dutch language n yet I m watching the whole interview n smiling as if I understand what she is saying...I bet the interviewer is falling for her too:) .
It's the oddest thing about Dutch, you don;t really get it with German, it sounds like, as the writer Bill Bryson said, "a weird version of English". Some things, simple things like "and" and "I have" come through perfectly (apologies to Dutch people, it just sounds like that) and others are so close that you can guess them, and yet others are close enough to German that you can guess them too (I haven't studied German for 30 years but some things come back to me). I think Frisian is even closer as a language, I remember the great comedian Eddie Izzard doing a documentary about the language, and it was considerably closer to English than even Dutch.
Classy, elegant, kind and charming woman :) thank you for posting this and for the captions. She even sounds beautiful in a language I don't understand.
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Rare Audrey Hepburn I see you've realized the translation nicely, thank you, it's great! I hope that there is still such a fine cooperation in the future.
Omg her Dutch sounds so royal. I’m so shocked that she spoke Dutch. It’s so refined. Kinda cool she has a Dutch accent instead of a Flemish one. I bet that’d sound lovely as well 😊
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Oddly painful to watch, as a Dutchman. I didn't know, or didn't care. Hits hard to hear her in Dutch suddenly, perhaps as I know the nuances of the language better.
It's interesting how accents and dialects change over time. I find her Dutch remarkably easy to understand! Much easier than the Dutch that is spoken today in both the Netherlands and Flanders. I wonder how that happened.
I don't think accents or dialects have changed, it's just that nowadays the television interviews, programs,... no longer are this formal. Back then it was not done to speak dialect on television. The same applies for english interviews I think, in the '50's, 60's interviews were a lot more formal as well, and sound different than when you watch celebrities being interviewed on talkshows today.
EstrellaVespertina02 correct, now it's more banal, less formal. She speaks a kind of Highborn Dutch. I prefer this formal polite way, they use a lot more formal words and sentence constructions.
@@CosmicGirl02 It’s the same in Turkey. I was astonished to stumble on a Turkish news broadcast from 1964, I realized that everyone back then, even villagers from rural areas, used a more formal and polite form of speaking. Nowadays when you open the news, the language itself with its words is just dumbed down to the core 😫
beautiful amazing splended duch is so perfect and more perfect in Audrey's tongue. nice interview took us to the beautiful period of late 1950s in which even though i didn't live i love evrrything about those years
Just insert the translation of Dutch & English! Pros: welcome: I'm not a Registrar, but my first question! where were you born ? Audrey: Here in Brussels. Pros: You speak Dutch very well with a tad Dutch accent, why is that ? Audrey: My mother was a Dutch and I have lived in Holland during the war, 8 years long have I been there Pros: 8 years! And then you come back to Belgium ? Audrey: No, I'm still been there few times .... but I happy to be here today. Pros 0.40: You are a film career started, have you play!. Do you have a training for certification? Audrey: I started as a Ballet student in Holland and after that, I went to London as a Ballet student, that was in 1948. And gradually, came from the one the other ...I have played smaller roles in the film. And then also the opportunity to play Gigi in the theater in New York. And when that same year I also have a test done for Roman Holliday (1952). ............... a good year for me (laughs well) Pros 1.25: When those tests were done was the star of the Roman Holliday not yet referred to? There are several actresses who have been offered for the movie! Or was that role really only aimed at you? Audrey: No, that was not meant for me, no. Pros 1.42: You have worked in London, in New York, danced in Hollywood! How is that better than expected, how is that? Or is it as you read in the newspapers, how can you say that in a few words? Audrey: No, in the daily newspapers become always more beautiful suggested either the opposite!............ I have to say that I very much love to work there, I have lots of friends and ... as you well know, the film industry in Hollywood for a long time and there is a very high provisional level! (ask, I don't know if I got that right say) Pros 2.34: And there is a good spirit among the actors! Audrey: O, Yes, there is a very serious spirit, it is a pity that this is not more often reads! The people are very early in the studio with hundreds and they all stand ready to very seriously to work all day long to be, there's a very serious atmosphere! Pros 3.10: Do you have a particular preference of Director? Such as Billy Wilder? Audrey: Actually not! I was really very lucky (as you know) with the directors with whom I have worked, and that's the only thing I can say. Pros 3.32: Paris has played a very important role in a lot of movies from you .... Audrey: Yes, strange isn't it! because all the way in my career, also in the theater because "Gigi" as you well know is of the French story submitted by Colette. And the second piece what I've played New York with my husband Mel Ferrer was "Ondine" of Jean Giraudoux! And with the story of "Sabrina" I come from Paris and with "Funny Face" I go to Paris .... and thats often been such a thing, it has brought me good luck. Pros 4.10: You have not met your man in Paris (joke of the reporter) ..... but Audrey: No (Laughs) Pros 4.15: but that's also been a great luck! Do you like musical movies? Audrey: Yes, very much, because it is wonderful to work with music with everything around you what one actually does. Pros 4.26: And the reason you are now actually here is The movie "The Nun's Story", which is in part turned in Belgium and in the Belgian Congo! Belgium is obviously not strange for you. But how did it go in the Belgian Congo? Do you have difficulties encountered, issue of temperature, atmosphere? Audrey 4.47: Not at all.............(funny) I would love to be interesting and oh, it's so hot and I passed out.......... but it was so not, it was very warm, that's been nice to be able to say (laughs)…. but it was very nice, I would love to want to go back! My husband knew it yet and we want to even go back together .... I loved it! Pros 5.10: And the role in the film, how is that bad for you? Audrey: It's a very difficult role, and I worked hard (like everyone else) and we have done our best and I hope the public will experience this ... and it was a serious issue and I hope we have done justice to! Pros 5.39: And, one last question, a classic question during an interview, what are the plans? Audrey: At the moment, very little for me! My husband is going to direct another movie and tomorrow morning we go to Los Angèles and he is going to work and I do (laughs), the household as other women do!.
Very charming person! Even without the subtitles, Dutch uses more vowels than we do - and pronounce their 'Gs' like 'Hs,' I could make out what Audrey and the interviewer were saying pretty well... I wish I could see her perform as "Ondine" and I was glad that she said complimentary things about working in the Congo --- in spite of all the horrific things the Belgians had done in that African country (See Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS, et al)
@@LuLu-nw6bi No, she has a really weird accent and I can clearly hear the French and English simmer through. Her sentences are constructed using English grammar and her choice of words is poor. E.g: someone saying “studenten” instead of “leerlingen”.
Audrey,mi ricordi la mia Mammina.sono nato Nel 1960 ,pensa...il dopo Guerra..in 🇮🇹 una mamma distrutta.......dal dolore ⁉️⁉️⁉️ Ti Comprendo (Audrey ❤️).
If grace count be measured, she breaks the scale. It's one thing to express it in the (from a Dutch perspective) simple language, but she just plays the Dutch language like a soloist the violin. Perhaps not lyrically, but for sure intonally.
Most of the time people use 'The Netherlands' and 'Holland' interchangeably. I think it goes back to the 1700's when the Netherlands were important sea merchants and a lot of countries traded with them. These merchants were almost always from the provinces North or South-Holland. Dutch people like me though, who are not from the provinces North or South Holland, don't like it when people call the Netherlands 'Holland', since it excludes most of the country :)
@@verawa8992 het boeit echt bijna niemand hier wat als je Holland of the Netherlands zegt. Misschien 10% vindt het vervelend de rest kan er wel mee leven.
As someone who speaks Dutch It’s so weird to hear a celebrity like Audrey speak It. She sounds very natural
Ik vind het geweldig!
Oh course she sounds natural it’s her mother language. It’s so cool to have a celebrity’s mother tongue be Dutch.
@@brodypenn especially one as big as Audrey
Een van de mooiste vrouwen op het witte doek
the fact that she speaks dutch makes her even more perfect 💗💗
Strange but true. To me she feels that much more approachable.
Nobody is perfect. The word you were looking for is "likeable"
This is her mother language,so it's very normal
Am I the only one who finds it more charming that she could speak Dutch than that she could speak French? I know she spoke around six languages, but I feel like French is expected of her. Dutch is lovely being spoken by her. (And I say this as someone who has studied French for the last ten years.)
+Agoraphobication Apparently, French was her first language and Dutch was her second. Then English and so forth. rareaudreyhepburn.com/post/97844284739/audrey-hepburn-interviewed-by-william-leymergie
no, I think other way around--her mother was a dutch baroness
she makes a silly-sounding language sound elegant, not an easy task
I remember watching a TH-cam in Swiss German. When I tried to arrange a translation, TH-cam kept telling me they thought it was Dutch!
@@lepetitchat123 silly? Really? What is your language? Maybe I could give you my opinion of your mothertongue as well...
So much grace.. her inner beauty shines through. She seemed fragile and strong at the same time. One of a kind.
The most beautiful smile I've ever seen.
I don't speak a single word of the dutch language n yet I m watching the whole interview n smiling as if I understand what she is saying...I bet the interviewer is falling for her too:)
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there are subtitles :)
ItsyaG look at the year when did he commented
she makes a silly-sounding language sound elegant, true that
It's the oddest thing about Dutch, you don;t really get it with German, it sounds like, as the writer Bill Bryson said, "a weird version of English". Some things, simple things like "and" and "I have" come through perfectly (apologies to Dutch people, it just sounds like that) and others are so close that you can guess them, and yet others are close enough to German that you can guess them too (I haven't studied German for 30 years but some things come back to me). I think Frisian is even closer as a language, I remember the great comedian Eddie Izzard doing a documentary about the language, and it was considerably closer to English than even Dutch.
audrey's dutch is perfect, she sounds very natural
The tone of her voice in any language feels like softly dancing over flower petals.
Wonderfully said...she's pure class, her mother of Dutch aristocracy....Miss Hepburn..born in Belgium...
Three official languages in Belgium..Flemish which is Dutch, Wallon, which is better French, than in France, AND German !
Classy, elegant, kind and charming woman :) thank you for posting this and for the captions. She even sounds beautiful in a language I don't understand.
Who knew doing subtitles on youtube could take ALL DAY! Lol. Thank you oneballerina and thefayef for your help translating the video! Enjoy everyone!
The efforts are truly appreciated, thank you, such a lovely interview!!
FlickosBizarros Aww, thank you. I truly appreciate it. I love watching new and rare interviews of Audrey. She is always so charming and eloquent. Happy new year!
Rare Audrey Hepburn I follow your blog via RSS and it makes me smile every time you post, which thankfully is most days :) I wish you a wonderful New Year and hope your dreams for 2015 come true!!
FlickosBizarros This is the loveliest thing I've read all day! Thank you! I wish you the very best for 2015 too. Thank you for following my blog; I truly appreciate it. Xo
Rare Audrey Hepburn I see you've realized the translation nicely, thank you, it's great! I hope that there is still such a fine cooperation in the future.
Een heel bijzondere vrouw, charmant, intelligent en zonder kapsones
She was soooo beautiful.
Omg her Dutch sounds so royal. I’m so shocked that she spoke Dutch. It’s so refined. Kinda cool she has a Dutch accent instead of a Flemish one. I bet that’d sound lovely as well 😊
it reminds me of Queen Maxima so much!!
She's half Dutch, why would she have a Flemish accent growing up with a Dutch mother in the Netherlands?
@@PhoenIXPhantasies She was born in Belguim that’s why I assumed she would have a Flemish accent
@@PhoenIXPhantasies She was born in Belguim that’s why I assumed she’d have a Flemish accent haha
@@fortyoranges1607 Ja precies! best wel deftig haha
Oh, what a beautiful and inimitable person she was!
it's very dutch of her to say 'Uh' whenever she's thinking I love this so much,, she also speaks so proper, it's beautiful
I also think she lived in Limburg from what I can hear
@@fortyoranges1607 Arnhem
i have 30 years old and is very dificult see a woman like her, so class and charming you don´t find so easly
This Woman was every ray that comes from the sun. Absolutely divine.
LOVE your channel an the effort you take to keep the Eternal Angel breathing life into out souls.
Thank you.
Number1AudreyHepburnFan well said
Oddly painful to watch, as a Dutchman. I didn't know, or didn't care. Hits hard to hear her in Dutch suddenly, perhaps as I know the nuances of the language better.
Such a beautiful woman! Missing her so much. Thank you for the video.
I don't speak dutch; I've learned German and Afrikaans in school and thanks to those two, I followed and understood most of what was said.
Likewise my friend, i speak dutch and german and I can understand a whole lot of afrikaans :)
Charlize Theron was interviewed by a dutch reporter years ago... she spoke Afrikaans and he dutch. Both talked perfectly well.
@@renan.csmaia I think the interviewer spoke Flemish if we're talking about the same interview.
@@Bellasie1 He was Belgian and spoke Standard Dutch with a Flemish accent.
It's interesting how accents and dialects change over time. I find her Dutch remarkably easy to understand! Much easier than the Dutch that is spoken today in both the Netherlands and Flanders. I wonder how that happened.
I don't think accents or dialects have changed, it's just that nowadays the television interviews, programs,... no longer are this formal. Back then it was not done to speak dialect on television. The same applies for english interviews I think, in the '50's, 60's interviews were a lot more formal as well, and sound different than when you watch celebrities being interviewed on talkshows today.
EstrellaVespertina02 correct, now it's more banal, less formal. She speaks a kind of Highborn Dutch. I prefer this formal polite way, they use a lot more formal words and sentence constructions.
@@CosmicGirl02 It’s the same in Turkey.
I was astonished to stumble on a Turkish news broadcast from 1964, I realized that everyone back then, even villagers from rural areas, used a more formal and polite form of speaking.
Nowadays when you open the news, the language itself with its words is just dumbed down to the core 😫
Because it's always easier to understand people with a lesser command or who doesn't speak it all the time.
@@baronmeduse Not necessarily. But anyway, would you say she had "a lesser command" in Dutch?
I always felt that her voice had a Relaxing Quality ..I could listen to her speak all day.
I just adore her.... she is so perfect, thank god my mother in law is so similar to her.
beautiful amazing splended duch is so perfect and more perfect in Audrey's tongue. nice interview took us to the beautiful period of late 1950s in which even though i didn't live i love evrrything about those years
A true lady. Beautiful in and out.
Just insert the translation of Dutch & English!
Pros: welcome: I'm not a Registrar, but my first question! where were you born ?
Audrey: Here in Brussels.
Pros: You speak Dutch very well with a tad Dutch accent, why is that ?
Audrey: My mother was a Dutch and I have lived in Holland during the war, 8 years long have I been there
Pros: 8 years! And then you come back to Belgium ?
Audrey: No, I'm still been there few times .... but I happy to be here today.
Pros 0.40: You are a film career started, have you play!.
Do you have a training for certification?
Audrey: I started as a Ballet student in Holland and after that, I went to London as a Ballet student, that was in 1948. And gradually, came from the one the other ...I have played smaller roles in the film. And then also the opportunity to play Gigi in the theater in New York. And when that same year I also have a test done for Roman Holliday (1952). ............... a good year for me (laughs well)
Pros 1.25: When those tests were done was the star of the Roman Holliday not yet referred to? There are several actresses who have been offered for the movie! Or was that role really only aimed at you?
Audrey: No, that was not meant for me, no.
Pros 1.42: You have worked in London, in New York, danced in Hollywood! How is that better than expected, how is that? Or is it as you read in the newspapers, how can you say that in a few words?
Audrey: No, in the daily newspapers become always more beautiful suggested either the opposite!............ I have to say that I very much love to work there, I have lots of friends and ... as you well know, the film industry in Hollywood for a long time and there is a very high provisional level! (ask, I don't know if I got that right say)
Pros 2.34: And there is a good spirit among the actors!
Audrey: O, Yes, there is a very serious spirit, it is a pity that this is not more often reads! The people are very early in the studio with hundreds and they all stand ready to very seriously to work all day long to be, there's a very serious atmosphere!
Pros 3.10: Do you have a particular preference of Director? Such as Billy Wilder?
Audrey: Actually not! I was really very lucky (as you know) with the directors with whom I have worked, and that's the only thing I can say.
Pros 3.32: Paris has played a very important role in a lot of movies from you ....
Audrey: Yes, strange isn't it! because all the way in my career, also in the theater because "Gigi" as you well know is of the French story submitted by Colette. And the second piece what I've played New York with my husband Mel Ferrer was "Ondine" of Jean Giraudoux! And with the story of "Sabrina" I come from Paris and with "Funny Face" I go to Paris .... and thats often been such a thing, it has brought me good luck.
Pros 4.10: You have not met your man in Paris (joke of the reporter) ..... but
Audrey: No (Laughs)
Pros 4.15: but that's also been a great luck!
Do you like musical movies?
Audrey: Yes, very much, because it is wonderful to work with music with everything around you what one actually does.
Pros 4.26: And the reason you are now actually here is The movie "The Nun's Story", which is in part turned in Belgium and in the Belgian Congo!
Belgium is obviously not strange for you. But how did it go in the Belgian Congo? Do you have difficulties encountered, issue of temperature, atmosphere?
Audrey 4.47: Not at all.............(funny) I would love to be interesting and oh, it's so hot and I passed out.......... but it was so not, it was very warm, that's been nice to be able to say (laughs)…. but it was very nice, I would love to want to go back! My husband knew it yet and we want to even go back together .... I loved it!
Pros 5.10: And the role in the film, how is that bad for you?
Audrey: It's a very difficult role, and I worked hard (like everyone else) and we have done our best and I hope the public will experience this ... and it was a serious issue and I hope we have done justice to!
Pros 5.39: And, one last question, a classic question during an interview, what are the plans?
Audrey: At the moment, very little for me! My husband is going to direct another movie and tomorrow morning we go to Los Angèles and he is going to work and I do (laughs), the household as other women do!.
There are already English translations/captions for this video. But thank you for taking the time to translate this video.
Wat een mooi en fijne glimlach toch Supper aantrekelijk
Very charming person! Even without the subtitles, Dutch uses more vowels than we do - and pronounce their 'Gs' like 'Hs,' I could make out what Audrey and the interviewer were saying pretty well... I wish I could see her perform as "Ondine" and I was glad that she said complimentary things about working in the Congo --- in spite of all the horrific things the Belgians had done in that African country (See Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS, et al)
wow deze zag ik echt niet aankomen
Ik ook niet haha
So pretty 🌺
Quelle classe!
how many idioms she know it
wait
wait
she is soo perfect¡ so pretty so her¡ 😍😍😍😍😍😍✨✨my idol
I’m so glad I’m Dutch
As a Dutch person, what do you think about her Dutch? Does she sound like a native speaker?
@@LuLu-nw6bi yes she sounds native but sometimes she doesn’t pronounce the words right
@@anoniemiemand5790 Thanks. She sounds lovely in Dutch too.
@@LuLu-nw6bi No, she has a really weird accent and I can clearly hear the French and English simmer through.
Her sentences are constructed using English grammar and her choice of words is poor.
E.g: someone saying “studenten” instead of “leerlingen”.
@@yentl Thanks. She sounds softer, less harsh than the other Dutch people I've heard, so I was wondering.
Mine language dutch so wonderful
Strange to watch this given she had such difficulty learning Dutch after starting school in England, it sounds completely natural to her
beautiful, rich, young, intelligent...
"Mrs. Ferrer"...That was another time. Thankfully.
hartstikke mooi ❤️
"My mother is Dutch" should be.
Prachtige vrouw
💕💕💕💕💖
Audrey komt van onder de rivieren 😮
Hij begint met ‘u’ en eindigt met ‘je’.. Heeft ze hem helemaal ingepakt
It sounds like Dutch is her first language. In English she has a slight Dutch accent.
Grew up in Belgium and spent the War in the Netherlands, hiding under the name 'Edda van Heemstra' so her native-level Dutch is understandable.
@@faresrizk7725 Why did she need to hide? She wasn't Jewish. In fact, her mother was a supporter of the Nazis.
Audrey,mi ricordi la mia
Mammina.sono nato
Nel 1960 ,pensa...il dopo
Guerra..in 🇮🇹 una mamma
distrutta.......dal dolore ⁉️⁉️⁉️
Ti Comprendo (Audrey ❤️).
If grace count be measured, she breaks the scale. It's one thing to express it in the (from a Dutch perspective) simple language, but she just plays the Dutch language like a soloist the violin. Perhaps not lyrically, but for sure intonally.
You can tell she is based by the “enne”
it sounds like swiss german😂
Ja finde ich auch ;)
Why is she talking about "Holland" and not "Nederland"... was that the terminology back then?
Most of the time people use 'The Netherlands' and 'Holland' interchangeably. I think it goes back to the 1700's when the Netherlands were important sea merchants and a lot of countries traded with them. These merchants were almost always from the provinces North or South-Holland. Dutch people like me though, who are not from the provinces North or South Holland, don't like it when people call the Netherlands 'Holland', since it excludes most of the country :)
@@verawa8992 het boeit echt bijna niemand hier wat als je Holland of the Netherlands zegt. Misschien 10% vindt het vervelend de rest kan er wel mee leven.
Maybe because her Dutch isn’t that good and she’s saying “Holland”, because it’s also “Holland” in English.
@@yentlHer Dutch is better than that of most natives nowadays. But yeah “it’s not that good”. 😂
@@yentlher Dutch is very good and her accent is upper class. You can tell she comes from an upperclass family.
I think I want to learn Dutch now....
polygot things lol
Natalie Portman should play her.
Dutch women do it better 🏆🏆🏆