Cheers to my awesome brother and boyfriend for taking part and making this such a fun video! I got inspired by an episode of Taskmaster (see description for link) and I will definitely be making this into a series so hopefully you guys like it! Have a good one and all that.
@@broodjeal-cohol5033 As a french speaking belgian I was able to understand everything he was saying the first time. He doesn't have a better dutch, accents are accents, but his is easier for non native speakers 😊
Well, they _do_ say that Dutch sounds like drunk English (or like a combo of drunk English and drunk German)... As a Dutchman I think the hardest part about Dutch is pronouncing the words correctly (especially the g/ch's and 'ui' and 'eu' sounds), and the lack of logical grammar rules in some verbs (because no, we can't explain how the word for 'to walk', 'lopen', becomes 'liepen' in past tense, and 'gelopen' in completed past tense).
UPDATE: I also got a copywrite claim on this video which is my bad to be fair. Since this video is getting quite popular it would be nice to see some revenue from it so I have muted the music in certain sections (not the audio) so the first few minutes of the video will now not have music but the audio of my brother and my boyfriend should be audible but slightly lower quality. From 2:40 this isn't an issue anymore though! It's more fun with the music but hey that's what I get for being careless whoops.
I think it's impossible to do this in reverse, You'd have to find a Dutch person of average intelligence that doesn't understand English. They are quite rare in my experience. Also I'd like to see a test of language awareness where a Brit and a Dutchman both do the same thing with an Arabic speaker or Polish speaker. I think the ability to pick up languages you don't know increases dramatically the more languages you already speak.
@@milan53057 Yeah... you are saying "can you understand me then." It would be super similar in German: "Kannst du mich verstehen dann" It sounds a bit like German with a very strong dialect:
@@Thenextphasemusic last year a friend of mine asked me to be the master of ceremony at his wedding. He married a German girl and the guests were mixed. All evening I would make all announcements with one line Dutch, one line German, without having to think once about a German word. It surprised me most since I only had German at school for two years. Talking to Germans on holliday helped me most, and what someone else also remarked: if you don't focus too much and just relax, you will suddenly use words you heard and remembered but had no idea you knew
@@ieatcatsyumyum oh okay, i am doing atheneum 5 rn and have the issue that there are 2 weeks with all assignments and tests and then 4 weeks with absolutly nothing and that on repeat.
If you understand a lot of Chaucer, you can understand a lot of Dutch, because in the middle ages Dutch and English were a lot more alike. The two countries were only separated by just a little water, and there was a lot of trade between them. In order to trade, you have to communicate well, so languages tend to merge. Like low German and high German, trade routes develop similarities in communication. Let's trade.
The reason that English is similar to Dutch, is that English came originally from northern Germany. The Angles and Saxons who migrated from Germany to England were dominant and caused the celtic languages to decline in usage. The regions were Angles and Saxons landed in the east of England have more Germanic DNA, as opposed to Wales, which is more celtic. Then the French occupation caused English to become latinized and more different from Dutch and German. Dialects like Geordie are 80% Germanic, standard English which developed in the south is only 30% germanic and more Latin/French.
Would love to trade, but you guys voted against that, sadly. Yeah, yeah, relax, I know, you voted against rules and laws you had no influence on, but they were a package deal, and you threw the baby away with the bathwater...
It’s kinda weird but cool how I understood the sentence in the thumbnail 😂😂😂 but that’s because In afrikaans that sentence is similar, we’d say “Ek het een broer”
@@MsDrientje I wouldnt say slang (slang is street talk, they are entire different words and generally not yet in the dictionary), more dialect (Different way of speaking the same language) . However it is very common to turn heeft/hebt in to het or heb when speaking fast. Just like that "Heb ik" becomes "He'k" , Dat > Da, Krijg ik> Kre''k . I don't like the Dutch harsh scrapey western g/sch and prefer the soft more breathy east south g/sch. I would even agrue that the soft g/sch is easier to learn and easier on the throat/ gentler on the ears.
Funnily enough the next language I'll be doing is German so going in the opposite direction of what you're after haha but I'll being doing quite a few other languages so I'm sure there will be some more challenging ones for you!
@@EliseAcrossTheChannel I'm looking forward to both a German and a non-German version nonetheless. I'd offer help for German but assume you already got that covered.
I realize that while English is technically a Germanic language, it is still far too divergent and it Latinized far too much for us to naturally have any comprehension of any other Germanic language--perhaps if you consider Scots, Geordie or Shetlandic/Orcadian languages, then we might be able to understand other 'Germanic languages'. But the intelligibility between, say, Dutch or Frisian and English, is not remotely strong enough to understand full sentences. You have to go out of your way to point out the Frisian word 'tsiis' for cheese, but you would never understand spoken Frisian or Dutch except if you had studied German first, or vice versa. Or perhaps you might catch 'låt oss gå ut' in Swedish 'let's go out', but that's about it.
Yeah I study german studies and as part of this, we had to have a look at the germanic languages family. My professors told us that english actually has more romanic words than germanic, but there is still a reason they count it to germanic. Languages adapt over time and words are very easy to add to a language. But some parts are rarly touched by those changes and one of those is grammar. So the reason that english is still germanic, even tho it has far more romanic words, is that its grammar is still germanic. Also I learn dutch in university as well. When I started I thought it would be easy, but I quickly learned that there are a lot of false friends. Still love the language and hope to one day understand it well. Nederlands is heel leuk!
As a german it was pretty hard to understand everything and there were some parrs i didn't get, but i understood most of what he said (or at least enough words per sentence to get a general idea). The hardest part actually was like "turning off" thinking in english. I tried to think of english words that sound similar since that was what the other guy was trying to do, which obviously didn't work. Once i started thinking in german i started to understand. I think it was even harder because i checked the subtitles to see if i was right, like "novel writer" didn't sound even remotely close and i never would've guessed that, but he basically said "Romanschreiber" and "schreiben von Büchern" in a wierd accent, which i can understand.
A video about Afrikaans and English or even easier, Afrikaans and Dutch. That would be cool to. 🇿🇦 Nederlands en Afrikaans syn twee tale die onderling baie goed verstaanbaar is. Soms syn daar sinne in die Afrikaanse taal waarby jy nie kan sê nie of die sin Afrikaans of Nederlands is nie. 🇳🇱 Nederlands en Afrikaans zijn twee talen die onderling enorm goed verstaanbaar zijn. Soms zijn er zinnen waarbij je niet kan zeggen of die zin Nederlands of Afrikaans is. 🇬🇧 Dutch and Afrikaans are two languages whom are very well understood between speakers. Sometimes there are sentences where you can't tell if it's Dutch or Afrikaans.
Dutch and English share a lot of words but with a small twist, the hardest challenge are idioms and sayings though because some make no sense when translated, anyway might make a fun episode: a Dutch idiom or saying, guess the English "brother" of that phrase/word and what it actually means
Schreiben-schrijven (to write) is from latin scribere, English in many aspect is more conservative than Dutch and German, the english word short is from Proto Germanic Skurtaz, Dutch kort, German Kurz are from Latin curtus, English is the only german language that hold the original germanic sound uu in letter w, in all other german tongues the sound shifted in v
I'm surprised by how much I can understand. I don't think Dutch sounds that similar to English but it is sooooo similar to German, which I do speak. Brb, just goind to learn some Dutch now
That Dutch guy- he is an actor right? A few days ago he was at my school, this is creepy, I already thought that something was off when I saw him at my school, I recognized him lmao Anyway, ik vind je een goede acteur!!
And than to think that English an Dutch are extremely closely related.... only surpassed by Frisian (Fries) , a language also spoken in the Netherlands.
Two languages so familiar and so close and quite often the English guy doesn't have a clue. I'm wondering is it maybe a sort of lack of mental training, a simply not-paying attention when it is not english, a sort of intellectual lazyness of the lingua franca speaker ,,,,
Still most of the words are completely different. My native language is Dutch and I remember listening to English songs or tv and didn't understand anything. Maybe a few words but that's it.
When I was first learning Dutch, I expected to be able to identify a lot right away, due to the closeness to English. But actually it sounded like a pleasant wall of *complete gibberish* for the first week or three, until I'd put in many many hours listening to broadcasts, and given myself a crash course in common vocab words. Before doing that, it was very hard, among other things, for me to distinguish where words even began and ended in sentences (one early sentence transcription I sent a friend was "De varheit? vardgeit? vaardeidt? wargdijht? is...uhhhhhh...detektemargtepormufrijterlant?") And my brain had to get used to distinguishing the common patterns of soundshifting between Dutch and English cognates, before I could hear even obvious things like "melk" and "deur" and when they showed up in the middle of chatter. So I don't think its not paying attention -- acclimating to the patterns of an unfamiliar language takes time, even one that's close enough to English that I (wrongly) assumed my starting point would be better than the almost-zero-comprehension it actually was.
@@marieerichsen We Dutch get in touch with other languages at an early age, in school, in music, in media, so we develop a feeling for that language. English, Dutch and German are very alike when you get the sound shifts. Most dialects within a language are based on sound shifts, different pronunciation of the same word.
@@dutchman7623 Yes, maybe that is it, to develop an ear for those shifts. Because I agree with the expressed experience of starting a new language and having everything sound as gibberish until, one faithful morning all of a sudden stuff makes sense and you understand parts. It's a fascinating process. I notice that the plder I get the easier French (6 years of high school proficiency) seems to become, tough I never practice.
If the English had more knowledge of old English and learned German instead of romance languages, then they would definitely find it easy to learn Dutch or other germanic languages
Before i watch this video i was like ah i think i can get some of the words because bahasa indonesia have so many loan words from dutch. But then....zero, i understand nothing lol. Even if he said the exact same word (in indonesian and dutch) with that accent and pronunciation there is no way i will understand haha
Also see the link between between the words 'ruimte' (space) and 'room'. Or 'ruim' (spacious) and 'room'. The 'r' and the 'm' are still there. It's just the vowels that changed when they crossed the channel.
Really depends on the words. I felt this man was quite soft/southern spoken. There were multiple occasions where it hindered translation (skating, scribing and Japan could've helped with a little more of the harsher accent).
Around 26% of Modern English words are Germanic. The Norman invasion ensured that French had a seismic effect, and also the Roman invasion, which left a legacy on the native Britons who were pushed to the outer fringes of Britain by the Angles, Saxons and Jutes from what is now mostly Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Denmark. Modern English is a conglomerate of all the above. And for the record, I'm Irish, which is a whole other story... But we have even contributed to the cultural stew that is the English language, with words such as galore, clock, dig (as in 'understand'), shenanigans, slogan, slew. Linguistics is an endless stream of joy and discovery, and it's part and parcel of the human experience.
Als je vliegt kan je neerstorten, maar wel normaal ademen. Als je in de ruimte bent kan je 'eeuwig' rondzweven maar niet ademen. Als je niet te hoog vliegt bevries je niet, en in de ruimte maakt hoogte niet uit, binnen tien seconden ben je diepgevroren (misschien een tikkie langer) Dus ja, ik snap wel waarom hij t ene wil en t andere niet
Why it's almost the same words in English. And angst, rather than Greek anxiety, and despite being a German import , is a fashionable word in modern English parlance.
Only in Belgium it is called 'schoonbroer', Dutch use the word 'zwager' and there is no brother (broer) in that. All other 'in-laws' however do have the Dutch 'schoon' in front of it. Like 'schoonmoeder', mother in law.
I am very sorry to say this. I am a Dutch language coach. I am quite disappointed in the student here. All of my students will understand all of it within six months. They make grammar mistakes, of course, but they know what the word "schrijven" means. Come on, it's linked to the word "scribe".
He is a regular person just like usual and I. No! Just like you and ME! Shit, why do people always say that? It really triggers the f*** out of me and I REFUSE to keep watching. There. I feel a lot better now Noe voel ik heel beter.
Well dutch is way closer to German than it is to English so obviously he doesn`t understand much. I as a German understand about 40-50% of spoken dutch.
Cheers to my awesome brother and boyfriend for taking part and making this such a fun video! I got inspired by an episode of Taskmaster (see description for link) and I will definitely be making this into a series so hopefully you guys like it! Have a good one and all that.
Haha that reminds me of this video:
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That German bf is so just doing it as a favour for his gf 🤣
I was suprised I understood everything.
But then I remembered Dutch is my native language.
Lol
Same...
me2
Lol same
I go there to school
I am surprised he didn't get Japan. I think it's sounds really similar in English and Dutch, but maybe that is just me.
Maybe it's because the first letters are different in pronunciation. Compare 'Ia-pan' to 'tje-pen'
That's because you and me speak both languages. The pronounciation is quite alien to someone who barely hears, let alone understands, Dutch.
Spelling is the same. Pronounciation is a whole other story.
@@psychwolf7590 That’s exactly what I meant to say
As a native English speaker, they sound very alike and obvious to me as well.
this guy has the best dutch pronunciation ive ever heard from a dutch native lol
eehh wollah kga je kaulo hrd klappen ewa
What do you mean, it just sounds very unnatural because he pronounces the 'n' at the end of words like helpen, only people in the east do that.
Yeah it always sounds weird to me bc pretty much all flemish people have a dialect
@@broodjeal-cohol5033 As a french speaking belgian I was able to understand everything he was saying the first time. He doesn't have a better dutch, accents are accents, but his is easier for non native speakers 😊
@@maiavanwaes7590 dont wanna be that guy but belgian isnt a language
Him: Japan
*IS THAT IN EUROPE?*
*IS THAT IN AMERICA?*
And then O okay then it's Singapore hahaha
ARE YOU FROM THE NORTH?
@@bishplis7226 south
Well, Americans are notoriously bad at geography
How did he just learned Dutch for 3 years and sounds like a native, that's really impressive 🌸
He is a native. The girl learned dutch for three years.
Was about to say, he looks hella dutch too :P
@Smart Idiot Username checks out :D
@@Tenenwasser he is dutch
he is a native, its the girl that learned dutch
Well, they _do_ say that Dutch sounds like drunk English (or like a combo of drunk English and drunk German)... As a Dutchman I think the hardest part about Dutch is pronouncing the words correctly (especially the g/ch's and 'ui' and 'eu' sounds), and the lack of logical grammar rules in some verbs (because no, we can't explain how the word for 'to walk', 'lopen', becomes 'liepen' in past tense, and 'gelopen' in completed past tense).
in German it’s laufen, liefen, gelaufen
For Brits, the eu sound is pretty similar to the o sound in "know" though for instance
@@B-Meister no it's not? That's just an o. It's more 'ou' in journey, but even that isn't very close.
TH-camr *puts Dutch in the titel*
Every Dutch person "ive been sumond"
This was a fun idea! Would love to see more videos like these
UPDATE: I also got a copywrite claim on this video which is my bad to be fair. Since this video is getting quite popular it would be nice to see some revenue from it so I have muted the music in certain sections (not the audio) so the first few minutes of the video will now not have music but the audio of my brother and my boyfriend should be audible but slightly lower quality. From 2:40 this isn't an issue anymore though! It's more fun with the music but hey that's what I get for being careless whoops.
"schaatsen" other person: "is that something you do in the house?" Lol, that had me laughing as a Dutch person!
"Het geeft me existentiële angst."
"Is it something that only happens in horror films?"
"... Nee."
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I think it's impossible to do this in reverse, You'd have to find a Dutch person of average intelligence that doesn't understand English. They are quite rare in my experience. Also I'd like to see a test of language awareness where a Brit and a Dutchman both do the same thing with an Arabic speaker or Polish speaker. I think the ability to pick up languages you don't know increases dramatically the more languages you already speak.
It's crazy how similar Dutch is to German. I could understand 95% of everything he said.
Kun je me verstaan dan
@@milan53057 Yeah... you are saying "can you understand me then." It would be super similar in German: "Kannst du mich verstehen dann" It sounds a bit like German with a very strong dialect:
@@milan53057 Ik ben duits en ja;)
Wajooo
@@Thenextphasemusic last year a friend of mine asked me to be the master of ceremony at his wedding. He married a German girl and the guests were mixed.
All evening I would make all announcements with one line Dutch, one line German, without having to think once about a German word. It surprised me most since I only had German at school for two years. Talking to Germans on holliday helped me most, and what someone else also remarked: if you don't focus too much and just relax, you will suddenly use words you heard and remembered but had no idea you knew
i have the fealing this man did Gynasium :D
als je latijn als vak hebt ja dan heeft hij dat gedaan
I’m also doing Gymnasium right now and it’s so hard. Like literally, i can’t sleep because of the goddamn homework
@@ieatcatsyumyum oh okay, i am doing atheneum 5 rn and have the issue that there are 2 weeks with all assignments and tests and then 4 weeks with absolutly nothing and that on repeat.
If you understand a lot of Chaucer, you can understand a lot of Dutch, because in the middle ages Dutch and English were a lot more alike. The two countries were only separated by just a little water, and there was a lot of trade between them. In order to trade, you have to communicate well, so languages tend to merge. Like low German and high German, trade routes develop similarities in communication. Let's trade.
The reason that English is similar to Dutch, is that English came originally from northern Germany. The Angles and Saxons who migrated from Germany to England were dominant and caused the celtic languages to decline in usage.
The regions were Angles and Saxons landed in the east of England have more Germanic DNA, as opposed to Wales, which is more celtic.
Then the French occupation caused English to become latinized and more different from Dutch and German.
Dialects like Geordie are 80% Germanic, standard English which developed in the south is only 30% germanic and more Latin/French.
Would love to trade, but you guys voted against that, sadly.
Yeah, yeah, relax, I know, you voted against rules and laws you had no influence on, but they were a package deal, and you threw the baby away with the bathwater...
Haha, doet me denken aan die Zweedse knul van Taskmaster
Haha this was actually really fun to watch. Thank you! Your boyfriend made it really possible for him to get to the answers. I loved the genuine vibe.
It’s kinda weird but cool
how I understood the sentence in the thumbnail 😂😂😂 but that’s because In afrikaans that sentence is similar, we’d say “Ek het een broer”
That sounds just very slang dutch.
Hij het een broer. Het≠heeft.
@@MsDrientje I wouldnt say slang (slang is street talk, they are entire different words and generally not yet in the dictionary), more dialect (Different way of speaking the same language) . However it is very common to turn heeft/hebt in to het or heb when speaking fast. Just like that "Heb ik" becomes "He'k" , Dat > Da, Krijg ik> Kre''k .
I don't like the Dutch harsh scrapey western g/sch and prefer the soft more breathy east south g/sch. I would even agrue that the soft g/sch is easier to learn and easier on the throat/ gentler on the ears.
Well. These two do look like brothers. 😊
Funny to find that, as an Spaniard, I understand better Dutch than a Brit! Uk people really suck at foreign languages.
They really do. There’s so much mental resistance there.
@@evvie0803 I think its something that native English people face alot
With a name like Karl Krogerus you're probably Dutch? And if you were Spanish you'd know the Spanish are just as bad at foreign languages.
Blame Blair he took modern european languages off the school mandate ..In the 70s and 80 French and German was taught well to some kids.
Leuk voor je man kun je me verstaan dan.
This was so wholesome! I think it is interesting how Dutch sounds quite different from English, even if the word would be more or less similar.
Amazing idea. Though i'd love it with a language I don't partly understand :D
Funnily enough the next language I'll be doing is German so going in the opposite direction of what you're after haha but I'll being doing quite a few other languages so I'm sure there will be some more challenging ones for you!
@@EliseAcrossTheChannel I'm looking forward to both a German and a non-German version nonetheless. I'd offer help for German but assume you already got that covered.
I realize that while English is technically a Germanic language, it is still far too divergent and it Latinized far too much for us to naturally have any comprehension of any other Germanic language--perhaps if you consider Scots, Geordie or Shetlandic/Orcadian languages, then we might be able to understand other 'Germanic languages'. But the intelligibility between, say, Dutch or Frisian and English, is not remotely strong enough to understand full sentences. You have to go out of your way to point out the Frisian word 'tsiis' for cheese, but you would never understand spoken Frisian or Dutch except if you had studied German first, or vice versa. Or perhaps you might catch 'låt oss gå ut' in Swedish 'let's go out', but that's about it.
Yeah I study german studies and as part of this, we had to have a look at the germanic languages family. My professors told us that english actually has more romanic words than germanic, but there is still a reason they count it to germanic. Languages adapt over time and words are very easy to add to a language. But some parts are rarly touched by those changes and one of those is grammar. So the reason that english is still germanic, even tho it has far more romanic words, is that its grammar is still germanic.
Also I learn dutch in university as well. When I started I thought it would be easy, but I quickly learned that there are a lot of false friends. Still love the language and hope to one day understand it well. Nederlands is heel leuk!
Yes, you are right...you have de-Normanize the language to make other Teutonic languages easier. But conversely that gives you a head start in French.
What's interesting is that old english is actually very easy to comprehend for a Dutch speaker, while for an English speaker it can be less so
As a german it was pretty hard to understand everything and there were some parrs i didn't get, but i understood most of what he said (or at least enough words per sentence to get a general idea).
The hardest part actually was like "turning off" thinking in english. I tried to think of english words that sound similar since that was what the other guy was trying to do, which obviously didn't work. Once i started thinking in german i started to understand. I think it was even harder because i checked the subtitles to see if i was right, like "novel writer" didn't sound even remotely close and i never would've guessed that, but he basically said "Romanschreiber" and "schreiben von Büchern" in a wierd accent, which i can understand.
Lol, the English always think their language is somehow more "French". Mental!
I speak Dutch and I know it’s not easy
Just imagine if Britain hadn't been invaded by the Normands, and still spoke anglosaxon!
Or hadn't been invaded by either and still spoke Brythonic
Just imagine if we hadn't been invaded by the Saxons or Vikings also we would probably be speaking welsh or Gaelic or something close to it anyway
A video about Afrikaans and English or even easier, Afrikaans and Dutch. That would be cool to.
🇿🇦 Nederlands en Afrikaans syn twee tale die onderling baie goed verstaanbaar is. Soms syn daar sinne in die Afrikaanse taal waarby jy nie kan sê nie of die sin Afrikaans of Nederlands is nie.
🇳🇱 Nederlands en Afrikaans zijn twee talen die onderling enorm goed verstaanbaar zijn. Soms zijn er zinnen waarbij je niet kan zeggen of die zin Nederlands of Afrikaans is.
🇬🇧 Dutch and Afrikaans are two languages whom are very well understood between speakers. Sometimes there are sentences where you can't tell if it's Dutch or Afrikaans.
ja leuk he
Het is zo grappig voor mensen die een andere taal spreken met elkaar bezig zijn
Dit is hilarisch bra
Één gaar programma trouwens, kijken naar het schrijven van boeken😂
I understood most with my eyes closed, the only one I didn’t was space
Hahahahaha I can't believe I'm only just seeing this video - loved it! Especially the outro lolllll
2:12 i am dutch and would respond the same way
Dit is lowkey wel grappig man.
His dutch is perfect
omdat hij nederlands is
Dutch and English share a lot of words but with a small twist, the hardest challenge are idioms and sayings though because some make no sense when translated, anyway might make a fun episode: a Dutch idiom or saying, guess the English "brother" of that phrase/word and what it actually means
I speak Afrikaans and I can even understand most of this stuff.
Wait what?
Biggest anxiety: big open space...
What superpower... flying.
Where do you think that flying thing takes place ? Hahaha
its outer-space, it gives him existential anxiety. But i thought the same thing hahah
Space is empty, the air you fly in is not. You can breathe (to an extent) while flying, not so much in space.
Also freezing
@@sjonnieplayfull5859 so if you have enough room you don't call that enough space? Duh🤦♂️
I now know where I can find enough space. Hahaha
@@bartholvangent3225 In Dutch, there is one difference to identify outer space: DE ruimte. So there you go.
@@sjonnieplayfull5859 ja in de ruimte heb je de ruimte, zo ook op een leeg plein. Snap je?
Door het woord "outer" erbij te halen verander je de zaak.
You've summoned the dutchies. No way british people are watching this XD
West Gerrmans understand most of what he says.- dutch: schrijven - German: schreiben
Schreiben-schrijven (to write) is from latin scribere, English in many aspect is more conservative than Dutch and German, the english word short is from Proto Germanic Skurtaz, Dutch kort, German Kurz are from Latin curtus, English is the only german language that hold the original germanic sound uu in letter w, in all other german tongues the sound shifted in v
Neil's Bohr haha
I'm surprised by how much I can understand. I don't think Dutch sounds that similar to English but it is sooooo similar to German, which I do speak. Brb, just goind to learn some Dutch now
That Dutch guy- he is an actor right? A few days ago he was at my school, this is creepy, I already thought that something was off when I saw him at my school, I recognized him lmao
Anyway, ik vind je een goede acteur!!
Your brother and boyfriend look alike. They look like brothers.
Nose, mouth, shape of head. Are they related, wtf.
Yaay I understand most of the Dutch replies. The studying of Dutch thru app pays off
Which app do you use?
@CrazyCaptain its Duolingo app
Space is from espace French
Groot pret, baie dankie……It was fun, thanks awfully ….
Yes, it is fun when you understand both and see the confusion!
And than to think that English an Dutch are extremely closely related.... only surpassed by Frisian (Fries) , a language also spoken in the Netherlands.
A just listened to this video instead of reading subs, I thought that he said Yemen, not Japan 😂
Nice. Made me smile.
Fun video, but I wonder what the success rate would be with random sentences, i.e. no context. 😋
To me Dutch is a mix between Danish,English,German!
Binnenhuisarchitect: oh nice hahahahahahahahhah
Ausstrahlung in German means Radiate charisma or radiation
I think I understood a lot more than the average Brit because I speak German. It made me realise Dutch is far more German based than English based.
Dutch is shifting more towards English, since a few decades. So it won't stay that similar
Wauw hij spreekt beter engels dan ik had verwacht
Two languages so familiar and so close and quite often the English guy doesn't have a clue. I'm wondering is it maybe a sort of lack of mental training, a simply not-paying attention when it is not english, a sort of intellectual lazyness of the lingua franca speaker ,,,,
Still most of the words are completely different. My native language is Dutch and I remember listening to English songs or tv and didn't understand anything. Maybe a few words but that's it.
When I was first learning Dutch, I expected to be able to identify a lot right away, due to the closeness to English. But actually it sounded like a pleasant wall of *complete gibberish* for the first week or three, until I'd put in many many hours listening to broadcasts, and given myself a crash course in common vocab words. Before doing that, it was very hard, among other things, for me to distinguish where words even began and ended in sentences (one early sentence transcription I sent a friend was "De varheit? vardgeit? vaardeidt? wargdijht? is...uhhhhhh...detektemargtepormufrijterlant?") And my brain had to get used to distinguishing the common patterns of soundshifting between Dutch and English cognates, before I could hear even obvious things like "melk" and "deur" and when they showed up in the middle of chatter. So I don't think its not paying attention -- acclimating to the patterns of an unfamiliar language takes time, even one that's close enough to English that I (wrongly) assumed my starting point would be better than the almost-zero-comprehension it actually was.
@@marieerichsen if you want to learn Dutch by speaking with native speakers... don't come the the West-Flanders 😅
@@marieerichsen We Dutch get in touch with other languages at an early age, in school, in music, in media, so we develop a feeling for that language. English, Dutch and German are very alike when you get the sound shifts.
Most dialects within a language are based on sound shifts, different pronunciation of the same word.
@@dutchman7623 Yes, maybe that is it, to develop an ear for those shifts. Because I agree with the expressed experience of starting a new language and having everything sound as gibberish until, one faithful morning all of a sudden stuff makes sense and you understand parts.
It's a fascinating process. I notice that the plder I get the easier French (6 years of high school proficiency) seems to become, tough I never practice.
Size comparision needed
The only way I got this is, I learnt German growing up but forgot it😭
Writer sounds like scribe so makes sense
If the English had more knowledge of old English and learned German instead of romance languages, then they would definitely find it easy to learn Dutch or other germanic languages
Tell your brother to put aside his mobile?
Im dutch and the one wit the black is dutch to
if the dutch dude see this can u under stand this: hello ek praat afrikaans en ek maak wapens
Well done!
Dit is geweldig!
Its fun to speak dutch can Any one Read this
Ik ben Nederlands
Why does he sound like the Duolingo guy 😂
this dude spits dutch words even dutch people dont use them
I speak Afrikaans so I understand a lot of it
Mooore thaan jou dink we caan, brouer
Before i watch this video i was like ah i think i can get some of the words because bahasa indonesia have so many loan words from dutch. But then....zero, i understand nothing lol. Even if he said the exact same word (in indonesian and dutch) with that accent and pronunciation there is no way i will understand haha
Also see the link between between the words 'ruimte' (space) and 'room'. Or 'ruim' (spacious) and 'room'. The 'r' and the 'm' are still there. It's just the vowels that changed when they crossed the channel.
I think that if he spoke Flemish it would have been easier. My husband is British and he understands quite a bit because Flemish is not as throaty
Really depends on the words. I felt this man was quite soft/southern spoken. There were multiple occasions where it hindered translation (skating, scribing and Japan could've helped with a little more of the harsher accent).
Ay another leo let's gooooo and on the same day as well niceeeeeeee
Around 26% of Modern English words are Germanic. The Norman invasion ensured that French had a seismic effect, and also the Roman invasion, which left a legacy on the native Britons who were pushed to the outer fringes of Britain by the Angles, Saxons and Jutes from what is now mostly Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Denmark. Modern English is a conglomerate of all the above.
And for the record, I'm Irish, which is a whole other story...
But we have even contributed to the cultural stew that is the English language, with words such as galore, clock, dig (as in 'understand'), shenanigans, slogan, slew.
Linguistics is an endless stream of joy and discovery, and it's part and parcel of the human experience.
This was hilarious to watch, because i am Dutch!!!
Yup, I know some of these words. 😂
Goed gedaan😁
I’m actully Dutch NL
my birthday is on 6th birthday aswell
Goede combi! Angst voor de ruimte maar wel willen vliegen
Als je vliegt kan je neerstorten, maar wel normaal ademen. Als je in de ruimte bent kan je 'eeuwig' rondzweven maar niet ademen. Als je niet te hoog vliegt bevries je niet, en in de ruimte maakt hoogte niet uit, binnen tien seconden ben je diepgevroren (misschien een tikkie langer)
Dus ja, ik snap wel waarom hij t ene wil en t andere niet
Me understanding way too much as a german (who speaks also english)
I spoke Scots in Amsterdam and was told it was like Frisian. Strange ,their exit above doors was like Scots uit gang
.gang awa
Ik kom zelf uit nederland
0:45 Should be "you and me".
"Existentiële angst" thats just mean
Why it's almost the same words in English. And angst, rather than Greek anxiety, and despite being a German import , is a fashionable word in modern English parlance.
dit is cool i am Nederlandse
He was right about the two brothers: His brother Niels and his brother-in-law!
Only in Belgium it is called 'schoonbroer', Dutch use the word 'zwager' and there is no brother (broer) in that.
All other 'in-laws' however do have the Dutch 'schoon' in front of it. Like 'schoonmoeder', mother in law.
@@dutchman7623 I know some ‘Noord-Brabanders’ who also use ‘schoonbroer’
@@Mazil_5 It isn't wrong, and me too come from that province, but zwager is more common.
wrm was deze guys lievelingsvak latijn dat was voor mij alleen maar janken
I am very sorry to say this. I am a Dutch language coach. I am quite disappointed in the student here. All of my students will understand all of it within six months. They make grammar mistakes, of course, but they know what the word "schrijven" means. Come on, it's linked to the word "scribe".
Leuk!
His dutch is better than mine and I'm a native speaker
He's just Dutch apparently.
Dus hij heeft een 6 of niet?
Haha, like your brother.
Dutch mooi
He is a regular person just like usual and I.
No! Just like you and ME!
Shit, why do people always say that? It really triggers the f*** out of me and I REFUSE to keep watching.
There. I feel a lot better now
Noe voel ik heel beter.
I would say very very very little, maybe not a word. A German would understand Dutch words better, or, the other way around, than a British.
Well dutch is way closer to German than it is to English so obviously he doesn`t understand much. I as a German understand about 40-50% of spoken dutch.
Beautiful me too ahahah
yoo a latin scholar