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I can't believe no one mentioned "vaak" here. Due to the Dutch pronunciation of V, vaak sounds exactly like the English F word!

I'm waiting for Dutch and German false friends! ❤️

Some of the first false friends I learned were plants and animals Boom - tree in Dutch, the sound of an explosion in English Slang - snake in Dutch, colloquialism or jargon in English Spin - spider in Dutch, to turn around quickly in English

"Dapper" is also a false friend, in English it means smartly dressed, usually for men in a well fitted suit/tux similar. "The groomsmen were looking very dapper in the matching navy suits"

Haha even in Afrikaans we use "wil" in the English way even thought it still means "want to", this was really helpful. Dapper & braaf also mean brave, and raar still means rare but we can also use seldsaam 😭😭 I fear mutual intelligibility might actually make it harder to properly speak Nederlands

As an intermediate German speaker, I loved the false friends with German!

In the U.S., you can sometimes hear people say "l learned him how to do this" or "she learned me how to cook". It's considered very uneducated speech though. It's associated with rural and mountain country bumpkins, but I wonder if it's just isolated descendants of Dutch settlers, or if one time in the past you had this construction in English, too (English and Dutch being very related languages), but it fell out of favor, like thee, thy, and thou.

kim.. you are perfect teacher literally.. you should teach teachers how to teach 💙 how i love you dutch people 😍

Hoi Kim, ik geniet erg van je video's ;) Ik kom uit Polen, en we hebben ook veel false friends: 1) Pools "ja" betekent in het Nederlands "ik", Nederlands "ja" betekent in het Pools "tak" en Nederlands "tak" is een stukje van een bloem, in het Pools betekent dat "gałązka" 2) Pools "dom" betekent in het Nederlands "huis", Nederlands "dom" betekent niet zo slim, in het Pools "głupi" 3) Pools "pot" betekent in het Nederlands "zweet", Nederlands "pot" betekent een soort van schaal, in het Pools "garnek" 4) Pools "pan" betekent in het Nederlands "meneer", Nederlands "pan" betekent een soort van schaal, in het Pools "patelnia" 5) Pools "sok" betekent in het Nederlands "sap", Nederlands "sok" betekent in het Pools "skarpetka" 6) Pools "las" betekent in het Nederlands "boom", Nederlands "las" is een vorm van verleden tijd van werkwoord "lezen", in het Pools "czytałam/em" :D

Kim your advice Don't make these MISTAKES again! conflicts with that of most other language educators, they encourage students to make mistakes. I make them even for my breakfast now

Want and Even can be confusing for the first time :) Especially Even which is used in Dutch all the time and in the whole spectre of meaning.

I don't know if this counts but I found this on Duolingo and found it pretty funny: "Wees blij dat je nog haar hebt" means "Be happy that you still have hair" but if you change the word order to "Wees blij dat je haar nog hebt" it would mean "Be happy that you still have her." I could imagine making a mistake like this could be pretty funny..

Zeldzaam sounds like seldom to me, which is how I remember that. It's cute that dapper means brave. I have already explained to my kids not to ask where the coffeeshop is but instead, where you can get a cup of coffee.

English father, French mother - so I get 2 sets of false friends :-( ... all the ones you just covered plus others like «je » (which means "I" in French) and «onze » ("our" in French). And that is before you start with cadeau and acteur - direct loan words ... Edit: «onze » means "eleven" in French, of course (thanks Kim) - note to self; do not comment after midnight, wait till morning!

I’ve been learning Dutch for a few weeks, mostly learning to read. It’s amazing how similar it is to English than German. Just as I learnt with Italian, I had to study the false friends.

Haha "wie" (NL) vs "wie" (DE) Fijn dat je ook daarvan een video hebt gemaakt. Ben beniuewd!

That was a great video! I'm French and "brave" means the same than Dutch "braaf". "File" also means "queue" so I can see how it relates to the traffic jam (maybe the Dutch word also comes from French?) We also use the verb "apprendre" to mean both "learn" and "teach", although we have a specific word for "teach" ("enseigner"), so I've made the mistake "I'm learning x to other people" in English before :)

Hoi Kim, Ik ben duits in Spanje. Dakjewel voor jouw videos. Ik heb veel gelert door jouw videos. Ik hebb nooit een tal gelert dat is zo soortgelijk als Duits et zo anders met de "false friends"

Absolutely I find false friends. 'want' Want: voegwoord in Nederlands (omdat, doordat) Want: to desire, would like in English - Ik ben thuis want ik ben ziek. - You are at home end you desire to be sick. 😅🤔🤷‍♀️

Spin. In Dutch it is "spider", and in English is "turning around"

For me, an English speaker that took French for three years, "je" is hard for me because I think it's "I" and not 'you".

For me, beamer was a false friend. Native English speakers tried to understand why I needed to rent a BMW to have a business presentation. But I meant an LCD-projector. This one was particularly tricky because it sounds like a loan-word from English (to beam).

My language (Indonesian) uses "map" meaning "file folder" because it is adopted from Dutch 😄..

I've told to my Dutch friend that I find him very rare (in English). At the first moment I didn't realize why is he offended. Luckily, I already knew the Dutch word "rare", so the misunderstanding was solved.

You have a wonderful personality!Very helpful and enjoyable lessons!

There's this funny coincidence. In Japanese, the English derived word スマート (sumaato), other than its regular meaning that's the same in English, has the other meaning of "slim" as in body type. The thing is, Russian also uses the same word for learning and teaching; учить (uchit'). I have found another similarity between Dutch and Russian that, the position of the thing is important. Something is standing and lying, not merely "being" as in English. "De lamp staat" and "лампа стоит" And in German there is "Wo" (where) that when you learn German after English, you almost always confuse it with "who".

In Scots these would be, Hou's het gaan? = Hoe gaat het? Whae is het? = Wie is het? Het's gaan guid? = Het gaat goed? Which = whilk What = wit, quhit, fit, vit Who = whae, wae, whaim, fa, vae

I really missed the "ample / amper" antonyms (the first being an English synonym for something more than adequate and the latter being the Dutch word for barely enough)

Hi Kim, I'm really looking forward to the video about false friends between German and Dutch. There seem to be so many. And I also have coma across one or another where is seems that in the Flemish dialects they do or can have the same meaning like in German ( like "schoon") so it's really confusing at times. For all the similarities it is what I'm most afraid of, apart from inventing non-existing words.

In German we say "seltsam" for something that is "vreemd" or "merkwaardig" which could also be "raar" I guess. "Rare" is "selten" in German. Seltsam...

The false friend she used in English. Leren is actually used in the United States as an insult masked as a joke. Saying "I will learn you." Which actually is a rude insult of the Pennsylvania dutch when they first settled. It carries connotation of someone being an uneducated farmer/laborer. The English teased the Dutch and vice versa in the beginning of the USA. However USA English has borrowed many things in old (pre-internet) slang as well as our pronunciation of the 'straight r'.

Hoi! bedankt voor de geweldige filmpje! I wish it was more in Dutch than in English though :)) 08:24 a trick that may help people remember this difference is the expression "single file" in English, which means one behind another/a line of people or things aligned one behind another

The Dutch word that got me is "alstublieft". It sounds a lot like the Afrikaans word "asseblief", meaning "please". I learned that it means more than just "please".

You are the best dutch teacher! 😍

Lenen doesn't mean to lend but to borrow. I've heard so many Dutchies making this mistake when they speak English.

I thought "map" in English was just "kaart" in Dutch. I didn't even know about "plattegrond". I tried to look it up a bit, but I'm still not sure. Wouldn't "kaart" be more appropriate in the context of Google Maps?

Hallo Kim, alles goed? Bedankt voor de les. Ik geniet ervan. Nederlands is echt een moeilijke taal om te leren, maar ik hou ervan. Doei 🙋‍♂️

Another one (don't know if it has been mentionted yet) Smart (ENG) = Slim (NL) Smart (NL) = Sadness (ENG)

While rare/raar is a false friend, rare is also synonymous with seldom, which sounds like a cognate with zeldzaam.

Just as coffeeshop is code for smoking weed for Dutch the code words for marijuana in Canada is double pepperoni pizza. So the pizza delivery man brings some pot for you along with the pizza. In one instance theFile in Dutch has similarity with British use of lineup which is called a file. Students are asked to make a file there not a line. Laren in Dutch got upside down because of similarity to Lehrerin.

Very nice. Thank you Kim

Raar is like Spanish "raro" which means "weird". But raro can also means not common, unusual.

I love the beginning. It was a perfect opening for this topic! 💖

'of' - I think I am getting used to it, but it's such a simple word that in English it's almost a throwaway, so it doesn't usually command much attention. Therefore when I would mistake it in Dutch, I often didn't notice until later. Also, Hat = Hoed, and Hood = Kap? Messes with my head. Willen was one for a while, but it's come up so often that I think I'm good with it now.

Heel leuk video!! 👍👍👍

I do love a good cognate. We have a lot in Spanish and Dutch. We say raro for weird, sounds almost the same!

😂😂😂 I'm studying at the Flemish conservatory in Brussels and all the teachers, when they speak English, say "learn" when they mean "teach" 😄

I really like your videos - the more dutch I hear, the easier I can understand it. This video is good in its own way, but might steer me in a wrong direction, as I also pick up on the wrong use of your wonderful language. Either way, it´s helpful to know about the pitfalls. Dankje :)

The question words conundrum: German 'where' is English who, English 'who' is Dutch how. And then there's wie: if you ask a German it's how, if you ask a Dutch it's who, but if an English asks that to a French it might be a yes. 🤣

Map in dutch is same with Map in Bahasa Indonesia, same pronunciation and same meaning as well, I think Bahasa absorb a lot from dutch

And the Oscar goes too.... ;) Great video Kim, great acting, makes it really lively and fun!

I often get confused when I hear Dutch people use the word "villa". It usually seems to be pronounced as if it were spelled "ville". Because of this, I'll think that the person meant "traffic jam," because the Dutch word "villa" sounds like the Dutch word "file" to me. One false friend that I often have trouble with is "toe". I'll hear "toe" at the end of a sentence and think the person said "too" (also). A few seconds later, I'll realize that the person said the Dutch word "toe" and not the English word "too".

Jij bent dapper en slim. Dank u!

Fyi, map in nederlands has the same meaning in Indonesian..

Very good teacher, also very pretty. Even the viewer here are nice, thumbs up!

Hoi! Geweldig filmpje zoals gewoonlijk :) Dank je Kim :) Ik heb een grappig één van Pools. Jullie gebruiken woord "samen" om te zeggen "together", maar in Pools we hebben woord "samemu" wat "alleen" betekent, het klinkt bijna hetzelfde en is het tegenovergestelde :D PS. 1) Hoe te zeggen "Good job" in Nederlands? Ik denk dat "goed werk" verkeerd is. Misschien "goed gedaan"? 2) Sorry voor mijn Nederlands, ik maak veel fouten nog :)

I was mixing alot of things .. like beer, bier and bear .. also deer,dier,herd and hert 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Is "file" just used for traffic? In Spanish we have the word "fila" which means any kind of line you have to wait in like in the bank or in the store, is there a different word for that in Dutch?

German false friend for high school called gymnasium is as crazy as Portuguese false friend Academy for gym.A totally absurd and embarassing one is Italian word Janitori for parents. Spanish molestar does not imply sexual assault but mere annoyance.

Reminds me of caldo as hot in italian. In german kalt means cold.

Thank you so much 👍🌹

I’ve learned some new words near the end Kim! 😃😃😃 I gotta watch the videos a few times though! XD

Prima, dank je wel ❤

AWESOME! 😃😃😃👏👏👏🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱 Sorry about them nasty false friends I mentioned Kim! :(

I love your helemaal lessons all are useful ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

brave = dapper, maar ook moedig, veel moed hebben. Moedig is misschien enkel een woord in Nederlandstalig België (Vlaanderen)

you are sooo prety !! and i am luky with your video...i learn easy Dutch thaaaank you !! Bedankt !!

Bedroom and Badkamer for me

"Smal" means "narrow".

In Indonesian, "map" means file folder, too. 🙏🙏😂

Right now I can think of End and Eend

U bent echt perfecte leerkracht.😘😘😘😘😘

I like it thank you

Geen probleem voor mijn. Mijn Engels is heel slecht dus begrijp ik vaak niets. Ervoor heb ik genoeg last met de foute vrinden NL/ DE. De leukste zijn huren en poppen (meervoud van pop). 😉

Tuin/Town gets me sometimes. The funniest one to me is uitmaken/making out in a romantic context. Breaking up is very different from kissing!

Mki erg mooi docnt met omdat erg belangrijk is met mij heel gaat goed ik ben veel begennen preets en een de n Nederlands ik ben hoe hoe ik hou van jouw mevruw

Can you please explain how we use (zo'n) and ( men) in sentences

Happy birthday Kim! 😃😃😃🎂🎂🎂

Goed heel.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Me, trying to learn Dutch through my knowledge of English (it's not my native language) having a tendency to translate "literally" 😊 Me, realizing some of the words in English and Dutch are false friends ☠️

What about mentioning a word “vaak”?

You are super awesome! I have a question. How do you say " i learn dutch hard" in dutch? What verb do you use with "hard" such as "hard werken"? Alvast bedankt!

HEy, have you thought of making a book to teach basic Dutch in a fun way? :D

In welk instituut leer je ? Ik wil bij jou

Wow mooie🎉🎉

Hij neemt een plant mee. Neemt hij een fabriek mee?

Hello, I am new in Netherlands. I live in Rotterdam. Can you advise me on getting a good language school? Thank you so much for your lesson

Zij klinkt meer op Claire uit de VS !!! 🇺🇸 😂😂😂

Zeldzaam => zelden = seldom => rare

Ik gebruik willen altijd in plaats voor zullen

Phew, voor mej het is altijd wil en wil (in engels). Ook jij/je as "they"

Ik zeg "ik ben nog even maar de wc, kom er zo aan" Zegt hij "I will see you so"

Even vs. even. NL = bijv....mag ik even een broodje - niet meer en niet minder or in English "May I just have a sandwich"?? whereas in English - "Even" as an adverb - We use even to refer to something surprising, unexpected, unusual or extreme: for example - "He didn't even have enough money to pay the rent." - not sure about this translation - but here goes... "Hij had niet eens genoeg geld om de huur te betalen" Well vs. wel = As a native Englishman when I read "Well" e.g. He is doing well. is confusing when read in Dutch. bijv. "Hij gaat wel" is not "He's going well/fine/good" right? - "hij gaat maar ik wel niet" doesn't mean he's fine but I am not doing so well. Further poor English grammar when native speakers don't know how to use good (adjective) vs. well (adverb) - but that's a different story.

I know one word "storing" which means fault😅

False friends : eens, even

hoe is it? who is it? and wie is it? sounds like wie ist das? in German and it means how is it?

I think 'Hi!' in English end 'Haai' in Dutch are false friends. ☺️ Of course when someone sees his/her friends, doesn't say 'Shark' 🙋‍♀️😂 -Hi, Hoe gaat het? -Ik ben slecht want je zegt tegen me 'haai' -🤦‍♀️

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Kim is mooi (en ook raar) 😋