I think it helps if you also speak some dialects, Limburgisch for example also uses "ich" for "ik", so if you know Limburgisch or other dialects you can more easily see the similarities I think.

Ik zweer ik snap niet hoe mensen Duits begrijpen

Ok hallo ik ben ook nederlands

​@@AnnekeOosterinkdat is waar

​@@night4118ik ook niet

This channel always mess up the flags. And the people in the videos are almost always very uneducated

lol true

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Passt schon einfach alle durch 🇪🇺 ersetzen. Wir sind eine Nation. 😊

@@VaSa-on-Tour Dann sollte man keine einzelnen Länder über andere bevorzugen, wie es der Fall bei ''PIGS'' ist (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain).

100%. I speak low german and basic danish and I do pretty well in the Netherlands and Flanders.

Pälzer!

Same goes for when you grow up with dialects in the South of the Netherlands(Limburg). Where I live for example people speak a dialect which is a mix between dutch and german. And when you go more west. For example to Maastricht, it starts to look more like belgium. But we al speak the dialect Limburgs. Just with a different twist to it depending in which city you live

Yeahr if you watch to the local dutch north-east TV and the local german North-west TV the dialect is more or less the same.

I speak swabian and understand everything in Swiss German and I also learned some Dutch. Currently I'm learning Norwegian - it's easier if you already speak german

Do you understand low-german (Plattdüütsch) dialects? I'm asking because the dialects spoken in the Dutch provinces of Groningen, Drenthe and Overijssel are also classified as Low-German/Low-Saxon dialects. They are similar to the low-German dialects spoken in northern Germany and south Denmark. I'm curious if you understand Gronings, Drents or Twents better than Dutch.

So if you read a book written in Dutch, can you understand about 70% of the total content?

@@John_Horace_Kim yes you can :)

@@John_Horace_Kim I think it depends on the level of difficulty. I think I could read a restaurant menu and understand almost everything, but I'd not be able to read whole a novel in Dutch

@@urundercoverstalker9506 As a South Korean, I can't speak Dutch at all. It's hard to find Dutch textbooks in South Korea. However, Japan, which is located right next to South Korea, has various Dutch textbooks. Because during the 264 years that the Edo Shogunate(1603~1868) ruled Japan, the only European country to trade with Japan was the Netherlands. Due to this influence, there're many words derived from Dutch in Japanese, and Dutch textbooks are easily found in Japanese bookstores.

I learned Dutch to an advanced level (over 8.000 base words) in about 3 months of focusing on Dutch, though I am learning a lot of languages at the same time, and I got to an intermediate level in German after only a few weeks because I know Dutch, and knowing Dutch definitely makes learning German super easy - Dutch / English / Norwegian are the easiest languages ever because they are the prettiest and most refined languages with the most pretty words and because they have an aspect / format that’s so easy to read, so they are the easiest to read / type / pronunciation / memorize / learn / write etc, and one tends to remember the prettier and more distinctive words faster, and all other Germanic languages are also super gorgeous!

Dutch words are just too pretty not to know, and 83 of the prettiest words in Dutch are - ver, vlinder, verloren, feest, adem, vaste, veel, verdween, heel, het, heen, voorbij, vandaan, verven, domein, verwaald, drijfzand, lief, leegte, liefde, heerst, einde, zonder, weet, avond, vult, gekomen, centrum, moment, pad, loop, overheerst, vallen, twijfel, vinden, kelde, wald, ter, geweest, vrees, grenzen, verleg, rein, van, stellen, wilde, steeds, verstreken, evenbeeld, bleef, steile, vrede, stem, wens, net, tijd, stille, verwenst, zalig, ochtend, zilverreiger, weer, overwint, heerlijk, zin, hart, beweert, vanaf, kwijt, wolken, mes, verliezen, dwaling, verlaten, rede, trek, tuinhek, brand, verdien, blikje, vertellen, verder, vertrek...

There should also be videos comparing Dutch / German / Luxembourgish / Afrikaans / Limburgish, and the three Frisian languages (namely West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian) and, Norwegian / Icelandic / Danish / Faroese / Swedish, and Old Norse / Gothic with Modern Icelandic if speakers can be found that also know (have also learned) these pretty ancient languages, and the 6 Celtic languages Welsh / Breton / Cornish and Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic, and Gallo / French / Guernsey / Walloon, and Brazilian Portuguese / Galician / Portuguese from Portugal, and Aranese / Catalan / Occitan, and the Italian and the many Italian-based languages such as Sicilian / Venetian / Neapolitan / Corsican / Friulian etc - these are all gorgeous languages!

Some of the prettiest Welsh words are derwen / nest / afon / talar / adeilad / helygen / afal / hyd / lolfa / enaid / bedwen / neithiwr / ynys / nos / sydd / noswaith / ers / mynd / rhosyn / eistedd / gwych / tân / fawr / telyn or delyn / ynddyn / llaw or dwylo / doeth / fewn or mewn / gwar / bys / ffynnon / swrn / tew / blin / mynydd / braich etc, and Welsh reminds of Dutch (Dutch / English / Norwegian are the prettiest and most refined languages ever with the most pretty words) because they have a similar intonation / vibe and they both have the soft CH (H-like K-controlled) sound and many of the words have similar types of letter combinations - Welsh is a category 1 language, and Breton / Cornish are also category 1 languages, just like Dutch and English and Norwegian etc, so they are very easy to learn, and have mostly pretty words, and I am beginner level in Welsh and in the other 5 Celtic languages!

Same with written Swedish or Danish. An educated German will figure out the bulk of the text, but never be able to follow an oral conversation.

Yeah, The Netherlands tend to speak slower and stronger, while Belgium speak fast and lighter.

I also think it’s her personality, she has a very warm way of using her voice, which makes the language sound even softer … but I would agree that Flemish as a whole sounds softer than Dutch.

I agree. She almost sings it a little bit. It's almost like listening to an Irish person speaking English vs. an American like me.

​​​@@AtBananaXiangJiao In Belgium, French is the official language along with Flemish, so wasn't it influenced by French in Belgium? Is it possible to say that Flemish's pronunciation has become softer than Dutch because of the influence of French?

@@John_Horace_KimI know I'm talking about how they tend to speak Dutch.

I mean, Afrikaans is basically Dutch with a few words replaced. ;) I’ve been to SA a couple of times and could easily have a conversation.

Its such a shame afrikaans is a dying language.

Nee mang

Please stop using english in South Afrika. Only Afrikaans.

the languages dont reall influence each other tbh

No not really

@@WombatGamesChannel Portemonnaie, Pneu, Velo etc are French words and not used German but in Swiss German. Stämpfel, Föhn is (Swiss) German but used in French speaking Switzerland, French say “tampon” and “sèche cheveux” The grammer and pronunciation in Swiss German is heavily influenced by French (avoir qc and not to be qc in certain sentences)… One Idiom of Romanic is even almost extinct because people mix in so many Swiss German sentence structures and words.

I’d give you some Italian examples too but I don’t live close to Ticino, I know though that people from Grison and Uri do have similar features in their dialect.

@@MrsStrawhatberry That's not true, the grammar and pronunciation in Swiss German isn't heavily influenced by French, the grammar and pronounciation is similar to the other alemmanic dialects like Swabian. Where French really influenced Swiss German is in the vocabulary, 8.5% of Swiss-German words have French roots, that is significant but as much as some people want to believe, it's far from the level of impact French had for example on English.

Agreed

I disagree, not all of Southern Holland has got that Flamish sound to it. It does get quite complex with the different regions. Brabands is a lot more like the general dutch sounding accent. When you go more towards the south east of holland is where you get the flamish dutch sound. The middle southern parts don't sound flamish at all. I am from a small village close to Breda and can confirm this ;)

@@tjeuvreeburg2347 holland ≠ the Netherlands

I disagree with the level of difficulty, unlike the (north)eastern and limburg dialects the vocabulary of brabants is pretty similar to standard dutch

Oh that's so funny because I am learning Dutch and I found his accent to be the most familiar and understandable! Shows who I've been watching I guess

I learned Dutch to an advanced level (over 8.000 base words) in about 3 months of focusing on Dutch, though I am learning a lot of languages at the same time, and I got to an intermediate level in German after only a few weeks because I know Dutch, and knowing Dutch definitely makes learning German super easy - Dutch / English / Norwegian are the easiest languages ever because they are the prettiest and most refined languages with the most pretty words and because they have an aspect / format that’s so easy to read, so they are the easiest to read / type / pronunciation / memorize / learn / write etc, and one tends to remember the prettier and more distinctive words faster, and all other Germanic languages are also super gorgeous!

Dutch words are just too pretty not to know, and 83 of the prettiest words in Dutch are - ver, vlinder, verloren, feest, adem, vaste, veel, verdween, heel, het, heen, voorbij, vandaan, verven, domein, verwaald, drijfzand, lief, leegte, liefde, heerst, einde, zonder, weet, avond, vult, gekomen, centrum, moment, pad, loop, overheerst, vallen, twijfel, vinden, kelde, wald, ter, geweest, vrees, grenzen, verleg, rein, van, stellen, wilde, steeds, verstreken, evenbeeld, bleef, steile, vrede, stem, wens, net, tijd, stille, verwenst, zalig, ochtend, zilverreiger, weer, overwint, heerlijk, zin, hart, beweert, vanaf, kwijt, wolken, mes, verliezen, dwaling, verlaten, rede, trek, tuinhek, brand, verdien, blikje, vertellen, verder, vertrek...

There should also be videos comparing Dutch / German / Luxembourgish / Afrikaans / Limburgish, and the three Frisian languages (namely West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian) and, Norwegian / Icelandic / Danish / Faroese / Swedish, and Old Norse / Gothic with Modern Icelandic if speakers can be found that also know (have also learned) these pretty ancient languages, and the 6 Celtic languages Welsh / Breton / Cornish and Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic, and Gallo / French / Guernsey / Walloon, and Brazilian Portuguese / Galician / Portuguese from Portugal, and Aranese / Catalan / Occitan, and the Italian and the many Italian-based languages such as Sicilian / Venetian / Neapolitan / Corsican / Friulian etc - these are all gorgeous languages!

Some of the prettiest Welsh words are derwen / nest / afon / talar / adeilad / helygen / afal / hyd / lolfa / enaid / bedwen / neithiwr / ynys / nos / sydd / noswaith / ers / mynd / rhosyn / eistedd / gwych / tân / fawr / telyn or delyn / ynddyn / llaw or dwylo / doeth / fewn or mewn / gwar / bys / ffynnon / swrn / tew / blin / mynydd / braich etc, and Welsh reminds of Dutch (Dutch / English / Norwegian are the prettiest and most refined languages ever with the most pretty words) because they have a similar intonation / vibe and they both have the soft CH (H-like K-controlled) sound and many of the words have similar types of letter combinations - Welsh is a category 1 language, and Breton / Cornish are also category 1 languages, just like Dutch and English and Norwegian etc, so they are very easy to learn, and have mostly pretty words, and I am beginner level in Welsh and in the other 5 Celtic languages!

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I can assure you (as a Dutch person) that when people start to talk Swiss German to you out of the blue, you won't understand a single thing they're saying. Once you know it, you'll understand it better. Nut by surprise, it'll sound otherworldly. I have worked in a hotel for a few years as a front office employee and we had Swiss guests every few weeks. Every time they came I struggled to understand them. Even if they were trying to speak common German (which I do speak and understand), which they horrible failed at (in mu opinion).

Idk man as an afrikaans speaker I can’t really see his point at all, sounded more German to me

@@panadocoughsyrup That's because it is German.. But with a very weird accent. And a lot of people say that about Afrikaans as well.. they say it Dutch but with a weird accent.. So I think that's what was going on in his head. And most of all.. I've noticed that this channel has a great talent for selecting people with zero language feeling and knowledge xD

@@bike-tyson-oakI know what you mean about swiss people fail at talking german😂 even if everything is german here in switzerland, when it comes to the talking some of our dialects really come in the way and the mix sounds horrible… and not to be mean but mostly older people have problems by hiding their dialect speaking german

one example is frau and vrouw its spoken the exact same

i would said, hoch Deutsch zu reden, ist immer besser, but try to go to Bavaria, good luck. Many people speak bayerisch in Sounth. Oh my poor me🤣

It also helps, in my opinion anyway, if Dutch speakers know a dialect of Dutch. The southern dialects get closer to Swiss than Standard Dutch I think, and while the pronunciation in the northern dialects is different, many of the words are quite similar. But the northern dialects are probably a bit closer to German than Swiss. I know my grandmother was able to speak the Achterhoek dialect and have no trouble getting around in Germany on holiday, or shopping, but people in the west of the Netherlands asked if she was Danish. 😅

As a French-speaking Belgian, Flemish (or Belgian Dutch) is much easier to understand due to certain similarities of sounds with French and the fact that it is softer to listen to than Dutch from the Netherlands which is harder to listen to (especially the pronunciation of the letter G) and harder to understand.

@@yahia2909 I think for me the fact that dutch sounds harder and has to my ear a clearer pronunciation made it easier for me to understand.

do all people in Switzerland speak more than one language? I´m wondering as a german

@@celinac6743 depends on where you are. We do learn at least 1 additional national language (mandatory) and usually it is: - French for German speaking part (with occasionally Italian being offered as an extra curriculum) - German or Italian for French speaking part (with occasionally Italian/German being offered as an extra curriculum) - German or Fernch for Italian speaking part (with occasionally German/Italian being offered as an extra curriculum) plus English. But in all honesty, not everyone can speak the "at school learned 2nd language". I am fluent in French (from German speaking part of CH) only because I decided to do an exchange and work a little in Neuchâtel... Else I would say that I am more versed in Germanic languages and not Romance languages... by default. For the Swiss-Italians, I'd say it depends on what they pick if they want to study in the German speaking part or Italian speaking part of Switzerland. The real MVPs here is Luxembourg! At my university, they have a small community and student's association for Luxembourgish people and I am flabbergasted at how many of them are completely fluent in German, French, English and Luxembourgish. But I am biased since those are students, thus a different social group in society. And of course, just like Germany, Switzerland has a lot of individuals with immigration backgrounds and this adds at least 1 other language next to English, so I'd say basic to a lot of exposure to 4 different languages for a lot of us. AND THEN you have the bilingual or even trilingual regions where the languages slowly starts to shift. Sadly, Romansh as our fourth national language is a dying language in Switzerland. And also: just like Germany but in a more extreme case: our dialects/accents change drastically every 10-20 km. So I dare to claim that Swiss-German speakers are fairly trained to a certain degree in guessing languages likes Dutch because we do brain gymnastics a lot with different variation of the same word among ourselves.

@@lolhcd Thank you so so much. I think this is super interesting because here in Germany we obviously only have one official language and it's amazing how countries with 3 to 4 official languages work. I mean here we usually also always learn a second foreign language next to English, but those who learned Latin/French/Spanish or even Dutch/Italian are mostly not fluent because in school we all know you don't learn that much and you have to work on a language yourself in private. But also true that in Luxembourg actually many are bilingual or even multilingual... I was there recently and they can switch from French to English to German just like that haha. Thanks again for explaining!🩷

as a Dutch guy german is also easy:)

@@Niels.o1 Yeah...to understand, but the grammar is a bit more complicated, all those cases 😭

@@Tweeteketje Mwah, i had no issues learning those differents.

I learned Dutch to an advanced level (over 8.000 base words) in about 3 months of focusing on Dutch, though I am learning a lot of languages at the same time, and I got to an intermediate level in German after only a few weeks because I know Dutch, and knowing Dutch definitely makes learning German super easy - Dutch / English / Norwegian are the easiest languages ever because they are the prettiest and most refined languages with the most pretty words and because they have an aspect / format that’s so easy to read, so they are the easiest to read / type / pronunciation / memorize / learn / write etc, and one tends to remember the prettier and more distinctive words faster, and all other Germanic languages are also super gorgeous!

Dutch words are just too pretty not to know, and 83 of the prettiest words in Dutch are - ver, vlinder, verloren, feest, adem, vaste, veel, verdween, heel, het, heen, voorbij, vandaan, verven, domein, verwaald, drijfzand, lief, leegte, liefde, heerst, einde, zonder, weet, avond, vult, gekomen, centrum, moment, pad, loop, overheerst, vallen, twijfel, vinden, kelde, wald, ter, geweest, vrees, grenzen, verleg, rein, van, stellen, wilde, steeds, verstreken, evenbeeld, bleef, steile, vrede, stem, wens, net, tijd, stille, verwenst, zalig, ochtend, zilverreiger, weer, overwint, heerlijk, zin, hart, beweert, vanaf, kwijt, wolken, mes, verliezen, dwaling, verlaten, rede, trek, tuinhek, brand, verdien, blikje, vertellen, verder, vertrek...

mate, girls are super shy and they were speaking in low voice.

As always on this channel.

​@@herrbonk3635the sound is bad. I know when you are watching this you are curious if you would get it yourself. But the sound is so low.

@@mirovoy-okean Yeah, so either they should speak louder, or they should do something with the mic.

The subtitles are off in a couple of places. E.g. why put a comma between the components of "Swiss German"?

afrikaans is more similar to dutch and english than german, but all of them similar languages

@@armando5994 yes they’re all germanic languages hence the similarities. was just pointing out that the language is afrikaans not african :)

I am Dutch and I also understood basically nothing😅 even though the German was easy for me

Ben nederlands en verstond amper😭

I'm Dutch and I'm fluent in German as well (I grew up bilingual, family from northern Germany). I have no problem understanding southern German dialects, but Swiss German, forget it. When they're speaking slowly, sure, but at their normal conversational speed, I basically don't understand anything.

I suspect he also speaks dialect. Many dialects in the Netherlands are very close to German, some closer to German than Standard Dutch even. And someone who speaks only Standard Dutch is pretty unlikely to understand most dialects. My grandmother had no trouble getting around in Germany on holiday or shopping speaking Achterhoeks, but in the western part of the Netherlands they asked her if she was Danish when they overheard her.

@@AnnekeOosterinki speak fries, which is very close to German, but still nothing

Have you learned some besic German anywhere? Because I learn Dansk right now and I think it's hard to understand it without having Danish basic knowledge. I'm German btw

It sure is a possible variation and would be recognized, but i dont think anyone would get that "wis" is for math.

I mean, that's quite a leap, to go from wissen=knowing to maths. Wissenkunde could just as easily refer to all science.

The term 'wiskunde' is a product of Simon Stevin. Interesting person, his wiki is worth a read. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Stevin

She is from Africa , probably immigrated to Europe

​@@levent.a.7280spoiler alert, we're all from africa

No shit bro. she has a belguim nationality and if u ever been to belguim most of the ppl here are from african descent ,so she is belgian @@levent.a.7280

Spoiler alert, you don't know where she was born. If she has a passport of Belgium, that makes her Belgian. @@levent.a.7280

Compliment a girl too otherwise you sound like a gay

I got a friend who's a very straight alpha male and he likes to point out who the handsome guys are so he could be (or wish) to be like them

@@JosephOccenoBFH Watch out, because he may end up in a bedroom with one of them.

​@@NeutralDice😆

@@JosephOccenoBFH "very straight" Bro either you are straight or not everything besides that makes you bi or homo. Or whatever pan means. That "alpha male" calling is ultimate cringe...

I think her parents are from the Congo.

@@JosephOccenoBFHPlausible guess since Congo was German African colony back in ww1

@@JosephOccenoBFH Okay. Her parents have good genes cause she's like the perfect chocolate pastry just sitting inside the glass counter at a bakery. 🍩😋😍 lol

@@HelxAlKatuz It was actually privately owned by the Belgian king Leopold II, before it was absorbed by the Belgian state after the atrocities (which maybe helped a little but still, not a great place to live under Belgian rule in the Congo as a non-white person).

Aber bro, die einzige Person die echt germanisch war war die Schweizerin, die anderen haben Immigrationshintergrund (Deutsche war Albanerin, andere war Afrikanisch ect.)

@@fjkfkfkfja und? Volltrottel

@@fjkfkfkfBro, der Kommentar meinte höchstwahrscheinlich den linguistischen Hintergrund; nicht den Kulturellen

Me and my Chinese roommate were watching "Tokyo Pop" on VHS where the main character was walking the streets of Tokyo. All of a sudden, he was pointing out to me the meanings of the signages and billboards and that he as a Chinese can understand Japanese characters. 😃

Minus the Hirigana they could .

In the dutch part of Belgium French is taught in high school. I don't know if English is taught in all schools but I had both French and English classes in high school. Not sure about German tbh. But if it is taught in some schools it would still be less than in the Netherlands indeed.

german is also learned here but its optional

les néerlandais apprennent le français à l'école?

While German education is emphasized in the Netherlands, is French education emphasized in the Flemish Region of Belgium?

In Belgium, there is a small part that speaks German, so in Belgium there are three official languages. However, since a major part speaks French, the Belgians most of the time speak French very well.

dutch is like a mix of english and german.

​@@uschil228and French, plus some shared vocabulary with the Scandinavian languages

Luxembourgish lies somewhere between High German and Dutch. But of course, Luxembourgish has quite a few French loanwords. The Dutch and "Belgian language" are one and the same, they're just different dialects of the same language. Same with someone from Germany and someone from Austria.

@@marktg98 Oh I didn't know that "belgian" and Dutch is the same language thx for that xD

Us Fribourger cha i nit ämau t‘Wallisör vörstah

I hope they don't change anything in De Wallen; they have plans of relocating the district.

Why though?

​@@JosephOccenoBFHI hope they will, coming from a Dutch person

​@@EdwardRock1In the Netherlands, a coffeeshop is an establishment where you can legally do soft drugs. Buying and smoking weed are the main activities in these places.

I totally agree...some of the girls really speak so softly, especially the German and Swiss girl. The Dutch guy also mentions it at 3:25.

Thats so cool how old are u if I may ask?

Low Saxon and Limburgish is basically just german.

they’re in korea or smth so it’s probably hard for them to find

Isnt Tirolerisch similar?

@@Gabriellho no, maybe for the Swiss people around the border towards Austria. But the many dialects that changes every 10-20km cannot be generalized into one big "Swiss-German". My university group chat is hilarious bc everyone just freestyles their own dialect/accent and even I have to re-read some words to get what people mean sometimes. It's not an intense focus, but a "huh, didn't know that variation of the word. Interesting." and then move on

Wich province are you from?

@@gerriekipkerrie6736 I don't think the province is precise enough. I am from Amstelveen, so I have a hard 'g' and a natural almost non rolling 'r'. Because I utterly hate the accent of Amstelveen, I correct my 'r' into a rolling 'r'. Someone pointed out that my local accents has a very nostril 'oo'. I cannot seem to correct that one. Sometimes I have something which sounds similar to an Amsterdam accent (obviously not talking about the posh one eugh, hate that one), but it is not an actual Amsterdams accent. Don't know how that happens.. So I myself have different pronounciations during the day -. -

@@ashleyftcash Ohh vandaar ik spreek zelf met een erg sterk fries accent haha maar probeer het zo abn mogelijk te maken. Maar ja na een paar pilsies komt het er wel weer hard uit.

@@gerriekipkerrie6736 I really like accents. But I sometimes do need help with Friesk hahah But Liburgs and Brabants, it sounds easy but my head tunes out. I need more help with those accents. If you start talking in Friesk langues though, you will lose me entirely. Prefer Friesk (official) langues above (not actual/official) langues of Brabands and Liburgs.

@@ashleyftcash tiege dank 🫡 i mean i can barely understand ook from the south so ig i understand

Yes and no. Yes, it's the same language and they definitely understood each other, but also, how well you can understand another accent/dialect also depends on familiarity. A Londoner would probably have a harder time understanding someone from say, Louisiana if they have a strong accent, or a New Yorker might not understand a Scot. It's pretty likely a random American and Brit can understand each other, especially if they've watched movies or shows from each other's countries. It's fairly rare for Dutch and Flemish movies/TV shows to be exchanged, it doesn't happen super often, and of course then there are local accents and dialects that can be very unfamiliar.

If they're the same language then how come the Dutch could understand the Swiss and the Flemish lady couldn't?

@eyeluv2dance My guess is, because generally, Dutch schools put more emphasis on learning German, which resembles Swiss a little bit, whereas Flemish schools focus more on French, because of the French speaking south side of Belgium (Flanders in the north, Wallonia in the south). There's only a small minority of German speakers in Belgium, in the east, so German is taught in schools, but there's much more focus on French and English. Most Dutch schools don't really teach any French unless you specifically choose it as a subject. So there are many more hours to spend on German. Also, some Dutch dialects are very closely related to German and therefore also might resemble Swiss a little bit more than Flemish does. The Netherlands shares a much longer border with Germany than Belgium does, which might explain the dialects and the preference for learning German. The difference between Flemish and Dutch is very similar to the difference between British and American English. The main difference is the accent, and some words might also be different, like, for example, how Americans say sidewalk, where Brits say pavement. But in the end, it's not a different language, and they can just understand each other. I grew up in Belgium, and my husband grew up in the Netherlands, both relatively close to the German border. Apart from a word here and there, we've never had any trouble communicating. He still sounds Dutch, I still sound Flemish... Although, since he moved to Belgium, he did slowly start to sound a little less Dutch than before. Us Flemish still hear how Dutch he sounds, but his fellow Dutchies can totally tell he lives across the border now 😆

39 year old German here. I am on the same page as you, having to watch our dialects slowly vanish into the abyss makes me incredibly sad. Considering that the participants of these videos are language students I am shocked they show such poor listening skills. High German truly is the death to culture and tradition.

No we are not loosing any connection, in fact the connection just grows steadily since more and more people can speak english and we can have very deep and detailed conversations with everyone. One universal language that everyone speaks is just so much more helpful than having hundreds of different dialects/similar languages

Hi there, hallo daar, Dutchie here, same gen. Wholeheartedly agree. I consider dialects to be our true "mother tongues" vs. the official languages being tools of top-down unification to align languages with artificial borders. Actual nations (as in "natives", comparable to kin or family writ large), have a much deeper common culture than officials can ever understand/appreciate, and dialects bear the traces of a shared history. When I say something like "plat proat'n" (spelled phonetically here), many ppl in the provinces of Groningen/Drenthe/Overijssel/Twente/Gelderland will recognize this as the dialect they learned at home, besides official Dutch taught at school. Many speakers of Plattdeutsch will recognize it as well and even some in e.g. Denmark. When we resort to speaking our official languages, the gap widens. Ironically, "Nedersaksisch" (Niedersächsisch, Plattdeutsch) is an officially recognized language in both Germany and The Netherlands. As if we needed a political stamp of approval ;) Cheers/Groeten from Amsterdam!

Yes I would love to see an all Dutch video featuring Karijn, Yannick, Naya plus an Afrikaner comparing their dialects. 😃

@@JosephOccenoBFH And throw in swiss because I am curious now as a swiss what dialect in dutch I understand. It really depends on the region I noticed, some are very easy for me to understand if I pay attention while others, no matter how hard I try, i understand nothing

There have been a couple of people from South Africa on this channel, but I am not sure if any of them spoke Afrikaans.

German would probably be more involved in WW3 so if you looking for a job as a spy I would say german is the way to go.

I think it depends on where you life

brandon: if you go by numbers and economy then much more ppl speak Standard German, not just because Germany has the biggest population and it is the biggest native language in Europe (both after Russia) but also because every one from Austria or Switzerland will understand you (all use basically the same schoolbooks, media, German speaking internet sources etc.). others like ppl from Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Belgium-Flamish, Luxembourgh, some French regions, etc. might understand you as well, in many cases also ppl in some parts of Spain (Mallorca or Ibiza) or in Eastern Europe. German is also one of the most 'worth' language to learn for 'economic' reasons, due to being among the first 4 economic powers in the world ( 3rd together with Austria/Switzerland, after the US and China). Apart from such rational aspects its just up to your taste what flavor of a Germanic language do you like ...

@@publicminx to be honest if you go to switzerland you will have to learn (at least understanding) swiss german. Standard german is used in media, books ect. But people speak dialect with one another only basic standard german limits you extremly. when people tell you just learn german and you can live in austria, germany or switzerland you can be 100% sure those people never have been to switzerland.

@@Slithermotion i was often in Switzerland and have no problem to understand most dialects and the standard. And if one learns German then - thats the point - basically everyone from Austria and German speaking Switzerland will understand you. And btw: you have anyway in both countries discussions due to the fact that 'Standard German' (similar to English) became more and more common also in those countries. More and more of the youngsters (but also older ones) use due the fact that media are shared and people meet each other permanently the standard german and all the dialects change more and more to a kind of just a slightly different conotation but not anymore like a true dialect/language difference. btw, same ist true for all the dialects in germany as well. they slowly get more and more homogenized. and to Switzerland: no, in Zurich and other cities you dont need to learn schwyzerduetsch. of course many ppl would like to make you think that (like overall) but the reality is, its not necessary. it is just an option. but apart from that, my main argument was that you have with standard german in one way or another just much more access to more ppl and more stuff. so, was said: from a rational point of view it should be Standard German. this might change for individual preferences.

Not the first time

They did it already with Quebec girl.

I miss her; she's also one of the most beautiful girls in WF after Karijn, Ana (from Brazil) & Christina. 😃😍💘💓😘

Denis and her long and beautiful legs

@@Aiel-Necromancer Germans need less, almost all of Europe watches German channels and learns German.

@@Aiel-Necromancer However, if you know English and German, you can quickly connect Dutch words.

Learning it at school doesn't make you speak you actually speak a language unless you also have to use it often. Lots of Dutch students drop German at school and only English is necessary anyway in the Netherlands, next to Dutch. Most of Dutch students drop French. In the end most Dutch people forget almost all of the French and German dropped to just basics of understanding it.

@@dutchgamer842 After this clip, I looked a little on the Internet and saw that sometimes part of the northern Netherlands spoke Low German, which was almost lost in Germany as well. It said that it was practically its own language and not a German dialect, probably similar to Ukrainian and Russian, but they merged into one.