Haha that reminds me of this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pb15qqR8q7LJc30.html That German bf is so just doing it as a favour for his gf 🤣

Lol

Same...

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Lol same

I go there to school

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.

fr tho, of all the subjects one could choose, why Latin??

@@fischtochter did you have it? It's very interesting! I had a great teacher too, that really helps

@@Pietra430 It's useless unless you want to get into history, linguistics, catholicism or medicine

@@orvvro No, it actually gives you a very extensive knowledge of what a language is, the technical aspects. Apart from that, you also learn a lot about Roman culture and history, which are the base of our culture and should be known by any sophisticated person. I'm currently studying law and knowledge of Latin has proven more useful than geography, chemistry, physics, biology and of course certainly "art classes". I'd say Latin was one of the most enriching experiences I had, a combination of linguistics, history and philosophy.

@@Pietra430 It’s great you had a good experience in Latin class, but I think most of us had really shitty Latin teachers. I had four different Latin teachers in the five years I had to take Latin and only one of them was even a somewhat decent teacher, making Latin class not something you dread having three times a week for 90min, but something that’s approaching tolerable. I too loved the historical aspect of Latin class, but for students who don’t care much for Roman history, it really is just translating texts and praying the sentences makes sense at the end.

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

MeToo!

Same *because I'm Dutch*

Da zal poep jong

@@milan53057 Worden we wild?

English has some Frisian influence, so it's quite possible.

And then O okay then it's Singapore hahaha

ARE YOU FROM THE NORTH?

@@bishplis7226 south

Well, Americans are notoriously bad at geography

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

Old Dutch and Old English were waaaay more similar than Dutch and English are now. We still have a lot of words that are written exactly the same, only pronounced differently

Currently reading Chaucer right now! Love Middle English. For me, Dutch is very strange, because it sounds like my language of Afrikaans, but with a very strange accent.

@@RubenTheCartographer Things like ey/eyren (in Dutch ei/eieren) which are old English for egg/eggs respectively. And the Dutch word 'herfst' seems to be derived from 'harvest'. I'm not a linguistics expert but I just noticed these

Dutch schools: Chaucer English schools: Kes.

@@barnbersonol Belgian schools.

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.

As a Dutch man, I once watched a Swedish film and was surprised how much I understood. all Germanic/Frankish languages are extremely closely related. So yes I think if we try most of us can learn eachothers languages. Having gone to school in Britian I know that the Brits lag behind in learning languages.

No

@Nordin no

@Nordin pretty sure I'm from 27 kilometers up from Amsterdam 💀👍

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

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.

Welke liedje? Ik denk meteen aan 'Ze lijkt een mix van. Doutzen Edsilia en Anouk'. Weet jij welke liedje dat is? Ik denk niet dat je die bedoelt.

@@jarasimonson4040 Het liedje heet letterlijk "Frans Duits". Het is een liedje van Donnie en Frans Duijts.

O! Dankje :) ik bedoelde 'Praat Nederlands met me' van Kenny B

@@jarasimonson4040 Geen probleem:)) Praat Nederlands met me is ook een leuk liedje!

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...

Funny enough Germans cannot pronounce the Dutch SCH, they turn it into SJ. Dutch SCH is usually associated with the English SK, of school... (skole). So 'schaatsen' is skating, and we do it on ice. Like hockey in Canada, is always on ice, while in England it's on grass. You connected the word with 'Schätzen' to cherish or appreciate. From the German word 'Schatz' meaning treasure.

@@dutchman7623Yeah, I did. The German word for skating is Schlittschuhlaufen, literally to run/go on skates. You can say skäten, too, but that is just stolen from English Skate.

@@hoathanatos6179 If someone would say 'skäten' in Dutch, I'd interpret it as farting. Lol

@@hoathanatos6179 Eisschnelllaufen?

yes, he is british.

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!

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.

ja leuk he

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.

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.

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

omdat hij nederlands is

prima marco hey

Which app do you use?

@CrazyCaptain its Duolingo app

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

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

Vlaams is mooier, zachter, liever. U mag me de hele dag in het Vlaams uitschelden en ik zal het nog schoon vinden 😁

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.

Nose, mouth, shape of head. Are they related, wtf.

Sounds like an episode of 'the twilight zone'