How Similar are German and Dutch?
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День томуIn this video I compare two closely related languages: German and Dutch, including vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar. * Learners of German, visit GermanPod101: ► (bit.ly/Germanpod101) ◄. And for Dutch visit DutchPod101: ► (bit.ly/Dutchpod101)
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@Langfocus 4 роки тому
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@TremereTT 4 роки тому
I'm from Westphalia historically my region spoke Lower German, but after 2nd world war the Lower German dialect was lost, thanks to the influence of evicted Germans from places that are now parts of Poland, Russia and Czechia. It created an amalgam of a dialect. So I never learned Lower German, yet I can understand it. I can also pretty well understand some Dutch people but not others. The weird thing is that I can have a conversation with Dutch people even if I don't understand every word because it's no problem to rephrase sentences in order to make them easier to understand. So if there is realtime communication Dutch and German are mutually intelligeble. Maybe also because in that situation you learn very fast how to be understood! And with every rephrasing you learn what the original phrase or word meant. There are still weird words that you never learn by rephrasing but you have to expirience. "Let op! Drempels!" You read that big sign with yellow background at the entrance to a settlement in Maasluis. You think about it. It must be an easy one... "Attention! Dremples!"...wtf is dremples? So while you think about it your car suddenly makes a jump just like David Hasselhofs car would have made. Just, learned a new word. "Let op! Dremples!" apparently translates into "Attention! Sleeping policemen!"
@BETOETE 3 роки тому
something noteworthy: In the pronunciation, Dutch doesn't agree with German in the ei , as in kle, and Dutch, being cognate with low german, doesn't have a lot of umlauts (or are much softer) that today's standard german than make it sound a little like turkish.
@dennislangedijk2255 3 роки тому
he man I saw that your Frisian as a dialect but it is a real language
@dennislangedijk2255 3 роки тому
Dennis Groenendal zo scherp als een mes
@teaser6089 3 роки тому
So is Dutch more like Older forms of German, in terms of how it sounds?
@Lethal_Equo 3 роки тому
I'm Dutch but the hardest part about learning German is that a lot of words sound similar but have totally different meanings.
@HesseJamez 3 роки тому
Germans have the same trouble with English
@wennick4859 3 роки тому
@@HesseJamez English speakers have the same problem with German but not as much
@Meftu 3 роки тому
Or they are just "glued together" like in: rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
@albertolopez8859 3 роки тому
@@HesseJamez for example Gift and Gift ....hehe gift is in german "Poison "
@albertolopez8859 3 роки тому
@Pennsylvanian Amish Mennonite do you speak Amish ?? i speak the dialekt in the modern way ...speak slowly and separate in syllables ..first ....thats importante mittag.....essen or abend...essen... i speak that that dialekt from where den pennslvanian dutch is ...the regions name is Pfalz ...do you like to hear it in a song but they sing the song very fast .....sorry my english is not very good ,,,its because i dont speak since many years ...i speak much more spanish
@DDFFan 4 роки тому
when i was 6 years old i was on a vacation in italy. i met a 6-7 year old dutch boy there and we both got really close friends in the 2 weeks we both stayed. the thing was that he just spoke dutch to me and i answered in my german dialect (luxembourgish). until i was a teenager i never knew that he spoke another language, i just thought hes a little bit "stupid" in talking. he probably thought the same about me. somehow both of us could communicate and always get what the other one wants to do right now. nice memories!
@sunriselg 4 роки тому
Are you from Northern Germany or Southern Germany /Austria?
@DDFFan 4 роки тому
@@sunriselg im from luxembourg
@sunriselg 4 роки тому
@@DDFFan oh, the clue is in the username
@Airborne637 4 роки тому
Im From The Netherlands I love Luxemburg, :) Benelux Brothers
@DDFFan 4 роки тому
@@Airborne637 ik kan ook nederlands sprekken maar shrijwen is zeer moelijk, ik heb vrienden en nederland :)
@FLIPPYNMADZ 2 роки тому
English speaker who's learnt German. When I was in the Netherlands I found it so easy to read. But as soon as someone spoke to me I was lost
@meneeryarno22 2 роки тому
Haha, I'm Dutch and I don't struggle with English. I can easily read, speak and understand it. I probably only fail to understand when someone with a very very strong accent starts to talk English to me
@lalu2707 2 роки тому
Were you able to understand the written dutch because of your german knowledge or would you have understood it without it too?
@FLIPPYNMADZ 2 роки тому
@@lalu2707 I don't know cause I've never tried before I learnt German. I was also there 10 years ago so I don't know how I'd do now
@ici_marmotte 2 роки тому
Haha, the same with me. Reading Dutch as a German is not a problem, but when they begin to speak, I'm totally lost.
@sxammy7313 2 роки тому
@@ici_marmotte true iam German and i think to read dutch is easy but to ask dutch is sooo hard i mean the "g" is an "ch" in German soo hard i try It
@ostaroryan4719 2 роки тому
As a South Afrikan, Dutch is intelligible and sounds like just another dialect of Afrikaans
@Schroefdoppie 2 роки тому
And vice versa 👍
@ostaroryan4719 2 роки тому
@@Schroefdoppie are you even south african
@mariadebake5483 2 роки тому
Afrikaans is a daughter language of dutch
@ostaroryan4719 2 роки тому
@@mariadebake5483 Or a Dutch dialec, depending on who jou ask
@ostaroryan4719 2 роки тому
@@Kleermaker1000 Ja nee to an ekstent but still relatively close
@desmorgens3120 4 роки тому
German: Was ist das? Dutch: Wat is dat? English: What is that?
@Ecuarositayf1 4 роки тому
ja dat klopt
@desmorgens3120 4 роки тому
@@thomasmoersch5862 Low German = Niederdeutsch = Nederduytsch 17th Century English terms: Low German = Low Dutch = Niederländisch High German = High Dutch = (Hoch)deutsch
@aragorn1780 4 роки тому
Swedish: vad är det där 😁😁😁
@IVortUa 4 роки тому
Icelandic: Hvað er það?
@JessyDesjardins 4 роки тому
And here come the french with their "Qu'est-ce que c'est que ça?"
@nientjew 3 роки тому
Dutch: "Wat hangt er aan de waslijn?" Germans: "Was?!" Dutch: In case you haven't noticed you've fallen right into my trap
@isapookie 3 роки тому
OH 💀
@xx_skullgamer_xx2754 3 роки тому
Can someone explain pls?
@isapookie 3 роки тому
@@xx_skullgamer_xx2754 Was means laundry in Dutch and was means What? in German🚶♂️
@hollaxow3331 3 роки тому
@@xx_skullgamer_xx2754 Dutch: "What hangs of the washing line?" German: "Was?" ("Laundry" in Dutch, but "What" in German)
@norasmith4939 3 роки тому
It was a joke. Dutch people asked in German can I ask you a question? Darf ich Sie etwas fragen. German said sure. Then Dutch asked wat hangt er aan de waslijn? German people Was?! Not understanding question
@throughthewindowpane 2 роки тому
I am Dutch. At my first class of German, my teacher said: “German is an easy language, because it is so similar to Dutch. But German is also very difficult because there are so many differences with Dutch”. Now, I sometimes work with German people. The Dutch speak Dutch and the Germans speak German and we understand each other. Talking eachothers language is too hard to have a proper discussion…
@ajs41 2 роки тому
Can most of them speak English as well? That's probably a stupid question. I'm English and it still surprises me how most Europeans can speak English so well. I shouldn't be surprised by it, but I am. I know it's more to do with American culture than British culture a lot of the time.
@throughthewindowpane 2 роки тому
@@ajs41 Most Dutch people are better in English than in German. And I have noticed that (in general) the Dutch are better in English than the Germans.
@DieZockerZone1 2 роки тому
@Andrew JS well in germany we learn British english, american english is not well seen her, i guess, im 11 years out of middle school most germans have this school form (start with age 7) 1-4 Basic school 5-10(12) middle school. and then the 12ers can study in the university and we learn english at the age 8 or even younger. every day in school at least 45min. and the most of the internet is in english, thats why we are used to the english language the german internet is not that big and i assume the dutch part is even smaller, if you wanna find some you have to learn/use english
@JROCKNROLL_ 2 роки тому
@@throughthewindowpane That's because in Netherlands everything is focused on learning and using English. Also lot's of things aren't translated in Dutch at all. So, you learn already on a young age to understand English, because well, there wasn't a translation around anyway so you had to learn it. for example games are 90% in English only some are also in Dutch but most of them only have English, French, Spanish and/or German as extra language. Also many TV shows aren't dubbed but all with subtitles, which also helps to get used to the sound of a language which is helpful when you start learning. While in Germany almost everything is translated and back in the days English wasn't a subject you had to learn, after 2 years or so you could drop that language at school and focus on English was just soso.. But nowadays the younger generation in Germany(age 12~25), they seem to be pretty good in English too. But most 30+ people don't really speak English well, because they didn't had to learn it back in the days.
@gangmemberofthepapus5517 Рік тому
@@ajs41 Dutch children have to study and graduate the subject English from age 12-18 (often also when youger) one of the basic subjects in school just like math.
@flyingviking5281 2 роки тому
As a Norwegian who moved to Germany as a teenager, I now realise that it would probably have been easier for me to learn Dutch than German. There are also a lot more similar words in Dutch (to Norwegian) than in German.
@alwaysuseless 2 роки тому
Lol. Easier but useless, since you were in Germany. :-)
@niekflikweert7778 2 роки тому
That could be Dutch fisherman sometimes land their fish in Denmark (Hirsthals/Thyboron) and told me that the Danes can understand Dutch dialects better then Standard Ducth.. I'm not sure if that;s really the case...
@lydiaparishinta5201 2 роки тому
For example?
@katjawalta 2 роки тому
@@lydiaparishinta5201 I've heart that's the case with Frisian.
@dan74695 Рік тому
Most of the loanwords in Scandinavian are from Low German.
@wietzzzz4 3 роки тому
English man: "What do u do for a living?" Dutch man: "I fok horses" English man: "Pardon?" Dutch man: "Yeah paarden"
@hyruleemblemier 3 роки тому
nice
@thijskupers806 3 роки тому
That is well a goeie
@mirianakoleva7870 3 роки тому
Can someone explain this joke please?
@hyruleemblemier 3 роки тому
@@mirianakoleva7870 put the dutch phrases in google translate and see what happens :)
@pelinyldrm6508 3 роки тому
That needs to be on top
@donovanmic 5 років тому
I can see why Dutch people speak English so well. Their language seems to be half way between English and German.
@LORDMEHMOODPASHA 5 років тому
There's a saying that "If German and English were two landmasses separated by a river, Dutch would be the bridge connecting the two landmasses" or something similar to that.
@djmuscovy7525 5 років тому
After all the Netherlands sits half way between Germany and U.K. just kidding
@TheRavenir 5 років тому
Actually, Frisian is even more similar to English than Dutch is in some respects. It's the language that's closest related to English, other than Scots.
@octaviano1296 5 років тому
Yes. And the other reason is that the Dutchmen consider their own language as a very small one. Even though more people speak Dutch than all speakers of Northern Germanic languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian etc.) combined.
@germanikolaas 5 років тому
English is a German language.
@nicz7694 2 роки тому
As a German, Dutch sounds like a crazy mix between German and English when you hear it :D It's an interesting language indeed and when I'm finished with the work we have currently in our company, I might start to learn it.
@andybar1406 2 роки тому
Agree
@omerfarukturk7412 2 роки тому
100%
@Shareenear 2 роки тому
And Klingon
@sigjuget3443 2 роки тому
I mean man is man is is is Ik is I to be honest an english speaker can learn dutch in a short matter of time
@TechieindahHood Рік тому
As a native English speaker who was/is learning German, my first time in Amsterdam hearing Dutch, I though it sounded like bastardized German LOL
@EvAlGi Рік тому
Living in Germany as a Dutchman I am very used to both langueses. easy to say, most Dutch understand German, but only a few German understand Dutch. May be also education, there in the Netherlands, German is the third languages that is educated.
@dasbose4962 Рік тому
Agree, I am Berliner and I dont understand shit of Dutch xD...some words only.
@campo8777 Рік тому
Yeah I feel like you guys learn German at school way more often. In Germany you cannot study dutch at all. Except for a few regions along the dutch border maybe.
@campo8777 Рік тому
I don't know why it is like that. My theory is that in general the dutch people are way worse at playing football. Just a theory 💁
@tommooren681 Рік тому
German and/or French are the third language
@romanr.301 Рік тому
*German is the third most commonly taught language Also, the discrepancy might be that German phonology is simpler and more phonetic than Dutch is. Asymmetric intelligibility appears with Spanish and Portuguese also; Portuguese speakers are more likely to understand spoken Spanish than the other way around. Whereas Spanish phonology is rather straightforward and simple, that of Portuguese is less so and more complex.
@aureliar.4233 3 роки тому
Wow. I'm a native German speaker and I just realised how COMPLICATED it would be to learn german.
@patolt1628 3 роки тому
Oh yes !
@uweinhamburg 3 роки тому
LOL.... That's why hardly anybody is able to write proper German 🤣
@nico3064 2 роки тому
@@uweinhamburg Stimmt. Die Autokorrektur rettet mir regelmäßig den Arsch XD
@alwaysuseless 2 роки тому
As a native English-speaker, I'd say German is harder than Spanish or French, but not all that hard, especially if you take an instant liking to the language, as I did. The 4x4 table (4 cases x 3 genders & the plural) takes a while to internalize, but I found word order not to be a problem. Now that I speak German at about the B2 level, I would find learning Dutch very confusing, because of all the real and misleading similarities, even though, overall, Dutch appears to be grammatically simpler.
@nehxx 2 роки тому
@@alwaysuseless german is the nicer language though XD. English is my native language but I live in Austria and German is hard DONT worry
@lindaschreiber5932 3 роки тому
I'm a retired teacher of French and Italian, and have studied a great deal of Dutch I find your videos superb: clear, scholarly but very easy to follow. Wonderful work.
@Langfocus 3 роки тому
Thank you, Linda!
@denirexd 3 роки тому
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@africancouscous 3 роки тому
@@denirexd wow dude I care so much!
@denirexd 3 роки тому
@@africancouscous i wasnt talking to u
@Dai_Abdurrahman 3 роки тому
Yeah learn and understand the old high german sound shifting and you speak 95% Dutch. more about that soon xd^^ canal
@theyakmaster9984 2 роки тому
Ik this won't get read and I'm several years late, but I'm a native speaker of Dutch. I have a friend who speaks Geman, and I sometimes hear him having conversations with his family. I can understand some words or the concept of what's being discussed, but not fully understand it. It would take me a little bit of time to understand a piece of written German.
@hanswurst2355 2 роки тому
For me as a german it's the other way 😄 I understand Dutch partially, it's really fun to hear because it sounds like a mix of english and german. For example 'water' is written like it's in english but pronounced in a german way. And day -dag -tag is another formidable example of a mix, but pronounced in a dutch only way 😂 cheers buddy
@kippokappa9150 2 роки тому
Yeah it’s The same Vice versa I really need a couple of minutes to understand Dutch but I really like the Netherlands but Deutsch is a good starting point to learn Netherlands
@itsmelissa5788 2 роки тому
I'm a native speaker of German and I can't really understand much if someone speaks Dutch. Maybe a few words, but that's it. For me, understanding written Dutch is easier than understanding spoken Dutch. So if I have a Dutch text in front of me I can at least figure out what it is about and understand a little bit.
@angiew4544 2 роки тому
For me it's reversed. I can understand some spoken Dutch and piece it together but understand more when I'm reading it.
@peterbreis5407 Рік тому
I'm in Australia and heard a schoolgirl having a phone conversation with her mother on the bus and was puzzled what German dialect she was speaking, possibly Swiss, West German or an extreme Austrian dialect. At the outside guess, Dutch or Danish (v unlikely). We got off at the same stop and I asked her which German dialect she was speaking, turns out it was Afrikaans. I was surprised I could understand as much as I did, given how remote from Central Europe Afrikaans is.
@sarihoffman-dachelet4491 2 роки тому
As a native English speaker, who learned German as something between a native language and a second language (I basically can't translate german to english for love nor money, because i didn't learn it in an academic setting, but from my mom/family in germany, just... not as a baby/small child, but as a young teenager) I find Dutch FASCINATING because i can understand it SO WELL. It helps that my Opa spoke Platt and my family is all firmly in the low german dialectical areas of germany, but Dutch is WAY easier to understand than any of the high german or alemannic dialects to me.
@peterpwn255 2 роки тому
That's the point :D the west/norther german/platt went over to GB with the people, that's why its even called "England" - "Land der Angeln, or Angelland". Over hundreds of years with some influence of french, scandinavians and even romans, the language got easier with the grammar and sometimes vowels are pronounced another way, but it stood the same in building a sentence.
@ici_marmotte 2 роки тому
Yes, you're totally right. Frisian Platt is very similar to Dutch. To be honest, Dutch is another form of the Frisian language.
@JannekeBruines 2 роки тому
@@ici_marmotte you are absolutely right, but that is a very unpopular opinion outside Frisian borders ;)
@LeeNashMusic 4 роки тому
My Favorite false cognate is "Ik/Ich komm klar". In german its "i`m fine/i can deal with it (by myself)" in dutch it is "i have an orgasm"
@davarus 4 роки тому
Alter als ob😂😂
@walterross9057 4 роки тому
"Ich komme" can mean the same!
@schwammi 4 роки тому
@@rajapeter2543 in Germany it also means horny, we also use it as great but it very much means horny
@ls200076 4 роки тому
@Your Mom's Creepy Uncle klaar komen
@Jan-cr8cl 4 роки тому
Martin Lienesch ich komm is in german: I have an orgasm
@shahedzakhil7594 5 років тому
Dutch and German are two closed brothers where English is their cousin whose father got married to half french and half Latin woman 😄
@Leiake2604 5 років тому
That's probably a very good explanation for why I as a native Flemish person have the feeling my language is about as similar to English as it is to German.
@maxonite 5 років тому
Mh well it's not like German and Dutch aren't heavily influenced by Latin
@Leiake2604 5 років тому
@@maxonite Very true. The English seem to think the influence of Latin and French is unique to their language. Evidently Flemish has a very heavy French influence going on.
@AndreaAlison 5 років тому
Trueee
@mr.tusetsky7737 5 років тому
@@Leiake2604 Actually Anglo-Saxons with their Germanic old-English were raped and killed and used by the French-Norman invaders, that is why so much French vocabulary got into English. All their nobles were solely French speaking for centuries . So it's not like marriage, it was a rape and forced living under French-Norman rule.
@uubwillemse-jacobson5577 2 роки тому
Being Dutch, I thought I didn't speak German and often resorted to speaking English with Germans. I would tell them to speak German back to me though because I understood enough and it was better for my German. Then a couple of weeks ago I went to Germany again and all of a sudden I found myself talking German with Germans. I made lots of mistakes of course (like talking about church-cake instead of cherry-cake), but I was profoundly surprised to hear myself talking German nonetheless. But the main difficulty with learning German is actually the similarity to Dutch. That, and when you struggle with a language people tend to switch to English, a language that comes very naturally to most Dutch people due to our high consumption of English media.
@AlexandraVioletta 2 роки тому
As a Dutch you ARE speaking German. 😉 Please don't hate me. Last time I told this some Dutch people they were going MAD at me.
@minka0705 2 роки тому
Mixing up cherry and church is iconic, even Germans do that xD. My little sister still can't pronounce the 'ch' correctly, and everytime she says church I'm like cherries are out of season you can't have them now xD
@thedam271 2 роки тому
@@AlexandraVioletta Als het dezelfde taal is, kan je dan even met mijn voormalige leraar duits praten van de middelbare school. Misschien is hij bereid om na al die jaren mij toch een hoger cijfer te geven aangezien ik dus blijkbaar vloeiend duits kan schrijven.
@heinrich.hitzinger 2 роки тому
Der Kirchenkuchen hergestellt im Vatikan: 👁👄👁
@Erik-cw8gl Рік тому
@@AlexandraVioletta Luh, he speaks a Germanic language, not German language
@kaidrache2395 2 роки тому
As a German I find it pretty easy to understand written Dutch. Or at least the general gist of it. A bunch of words are close enough that I'm at least capable of understanding the meaning. Doesn't work always as both languages share a bunch of false friends - words that sound very, very similar, but have a total different meaning. Spoken Dutch is a completely different animal though. Usually I can't follow a conversation except some odd words that are clear enough to understand. A colleague of mine who was born in the Netherlands has been in Germany for more than 30 years and he experienced the same vice versa. The solution is quite simple - both Dutch and Germans usually just switch to English ;) Tot ziens!
@randomstuffs7648 2 роки тому
Me too
@angiew4544 2 роки тому
I agree
@kas-lw7xz 4 роки тому
In the Netherlands, almost every 10 minutes of driving you get another dialect lol
@thearchivist8143 4 роки тому
Same in Flanders aswell lol
@blasterxpro9026 4 роки тому
Je bedoelt elk half uur , bijna alle steden zijn een half uur van elkaar verwijdert
@jonathanjansen5990 4 роки тому
Nee gewoon een ander accent niet een ander dialect
@bram3152 4 роки тому
Gewoon niet tenzij je in het westen woont maar ik woon in het oosten
@henkhenksen1699 4 роки тому
toevallig uit het liedje van 'het land van'?
@PatrickOstfront 4 роки тому
When I am in the Netherlands I feel like a dog. I can understand everything but can not talk. 😉 🐩
@keats5791 4 роки тому
Hahaha
@sehabel 4 роки тому
I'm from the south of germany (Baden-Württemberg) and it's very hard for me to understand dutch people at all. But this is also the case for north germans, so I don't fell ashamed for that. 😂 At least I'm able to talk with bavarians, swiss and austrians.
@Tyler-zz2ny 4 роки тому
@@sehabel I am from Hamburg and have no problem in understanding most dutch dialects.
@MrAbagaz 4 роки тому
@@sehabel So you cant understand north germans easily?
@sehabel 4 роки тому
@@MrAbagaz Most germans speak standard German, and when north germans speak standard German, I can understand them flawlessly. The problem here is, that every German dialect has some crucial words which are very hard to understand. For example the different words for "sprechen", which means "to speak": North German: schnacken Swabian (my dialect): schwätzen Standard German: sprechen And the pronunciation is also very different, so when they speak very fast it's a bit overwhelming
@kathryncarter6143 2 роки тому
Excelente intro. The information here is enough to blow anyone away. I find all of your videos to have serious quality. You have so much knowledge to share.
@EdgarHernandez-dq4vj 2 роки тому
Contrary to stereotypes, I actually think German sounds quite soft and soothing to the ear. Dutch sounds a lot harsher in comparison
@GamingLife076 2 роки тому
depends, in the south we dont use those ridiculous hard G's and R's , just the morons up north, they sound like they have a pube down their throat.
@simondavidras4738 7 місяців тому
I'm dutch and I have to say, German isn't as aggressive sounding as dutch, we have a hard G
@EdgarHernandez-dq4vj 7 місяців тому
@@simondavidras4738 And the trilled R
@dirk2518 6 місяців тому
@@EdgarHernandez-dq4vj80 years agoo german and dutch had the same rolling R. Flemish still uses the rolling R
@JJFlashBang 3 місяці тому
@@dirk2518incorrect, German has had a harsher R sound for centuries. The trilled R is around now, and has been for decades, but mostly in southern Germany and Austria. This is theorized to be because of the proximity to Romance and Slavic languages over hundreds of years.
@nientjew 4 роки тому
Hey! I am a Dutch girl that moved to Germany when I was 14. Funny enough, in my first period in Germany (when I did not speek the language at all) I would actually most of the time just speak Dutch with a German accent and the majority actually understood it pretty well. I would consider my German to be pretty good. It's been 4 years now and I fully comprehend everything and definitely speak the language fluently. Just the grammar is a pain sometimes. A funny language difference I wanted to point out: The German expression: "Kommst du klar?" (which literally translates to "are you coming clear?") makes use of the verb "Klar kommen" and is used to ask someone if everything is alright/ if they understand everything (it is kind of a mix between the two of them, I really like this expression) But in Dutch we also have a verb called "klaar komen" which is pronounced basically the same but means "to get an orgasm" you can understand my confusion when in my second week in Germany one of my teachers approached me and said: "und Nina? Kommst du klar?"
@vincent5880 4 роки тому
Dat noemen ze nsb-er
@robdewit5819 4 роки тому
@@vincent5880 hahahah lekker
@tobi-98-31 4 роки тому
Geiler Scheiß :'D
@RaserballKP 4 роки тому
Man muss Fremdsprachen einfach lieben xD
@ronaldvairfields4348 4 роки тому
@@vincent5880 jij was zeker ook verzetsheld in de laatste twee weken van de oorlog?
@daytona1212 3 роки тому
I'm Dutch and I have never learned German in school, but I do understand German 100%. I learned german just by watching a lot of German tv in my childhood.
@derschwarzekanal200 3 роки тому
I.m lerning Dutch using Duolingo.
@daytona1212 3 роки тому
@@derschwarzekanal200 Why not. Good luck and maybe we see each other here in the Netherlands one day.
@jeanforest8060 2 роки тому
Which to me sounds like the right way to solve the problem... A classroom or kit turning out in most cases to be a dead end.
@vijf 2 роки тому
best way to learn a language
@freiheitstattzwang8218 2 роки тому
Geil Alter, Respekt. Gute Lernleistung
@matthieuthouvenot7647 2 роки тому
This is nice you asked for the similarity. As a French and French native speaker, English was my second language. But I learned German at school as a third language. Every time I was on vacation in southern France, I often met Dutch people. The language sounds like German when they speak on a natural pace, but I wasn't able to understand a lot. Reading the text is much more easier as the spelling is a kind of mix between English and German (even though the pronunciation is strange for me). I love the germanic languages, and ending phrases by the verb seems logic to me now (despite we don't use this syntax neither in French nor English). Thanks to your video I discovered the differences between the German I know and Swiss German and Dutch. Both are very similar to german for a European ear, but still, we cannot understand them well. Thanks to your videos that I watch often because languages intrigue me! Continue!
@Nattfridur 2 роки тому
Late comment: The word "peinlich" (embarassing) did in Middle High German also mean "painful". It was especially related to bodily punishment and comes from the word "Pein" (Torment). Nowadays, one more meaning of "peinlich" can be "painstaking", being as carefully attentive to details that it hurts. You see, there is the pain again! ;)
@LibraryofAcousticMagic3240 2 роки тому
thanks for pointing that out
@joachimwulff8022 7 місяців тому
Also in Dutch "pijnlijk" can mean embarassing. "Een pijnlijke vergissing" means "An embarassing mistake". We also use "pijnlijk" to mean painstaking: "pijnlijk nauwgezet" that is "painstakingly meticulous".
@natasjateerling3622 4 роки тому
My uncle told me he didn't know the word for mirror (Dutch: spiegel) in German, which is also Spiegel, so he invented a word for it: zurück-gucker, terugkijker, meaning something that looks back... Lol!!!!
@YuBeace 4 роки тому
Natasja Teerling real clever!!!!
@gabor6259 4 роки тому
zurück-gucker 😂😂😂
@Tunkert 4 роки тому
the trick is to use Dutch words in your German when you don't know something
@trevorjames7490 3 роки тому
The heckk
@madgadgetss 3 роки тому
that is funny but also kinda spooky sounding at the same time xD
@marcellec787 4 роки тому
As an Afrikaans speaker I enjoy the fact that I can understand both these languages fairly easily 🙂
@Ruhrpottshark 4 роки тому
I'm German but life 40km away from the Dutch border. I can also understand a little bit Afrikaans. When you work many time in other Contries you see so many things we have together.
@douloureux. 4 роки тому
Thats because its a daughter language of dutch
@aaronwassen4140 4 роки тому
Carcharodon Carcharias i live around 5km off the border
@ahmetseckind8866 4 роки тому
Imagine knowing German and English and Afrikaans and Dutch
@iliasvanbrabandt153 4 роки тому
Als een Belg versta ik : Duits, Frans, Engels, Nederlands, Afrikaans, Latijn (nog aan het leren) dus ik zit goed
@dominik6375 2 роки тому
I’m German, but I currently live in the Netherlands and thus I’m learning Dutch. I actually live right next to that place you use as a background at 12:53 which is kinda cool haha. For me the biggest challenge when it comes to learning Dutch definitely is pronunciation bc the vowels and consonants are pronounced slightly different, the g works fine, but as opposed to English or French I feel like I have to focus a lot more on pronunciation of single letters to not sound foreign. On a brighter note I can almost always guess the meaning of Dutch words because they relate to an old German or less commonly used form of a German word, so I agree with the 84% similaritz although I think that it’s easier this way around than for Dutch people to guess German words. For me Dutch feels like it lies somewhere between English and German and hence it’s easier for me to guess words bc I know the two extreme ends if that makes sense. Like for example the Dutch “ik ben bang” relates to German “mir ist bange” which to me sounds really old fashioned or idiomatic so you’d say “ich habe Angst” where Angst means fear, also in Dutch. Whereas it might be a bit more difficult for a Dutch person to guess a words meaning like “excuus” in Dutch is really close to the English excuse, so easily understandable for me if I’m confronted with it whereas in German it means “Entschuldigung” which might not be as easily distinguishable for Dutch speakers as the word excuse. But in the meantime I think it makes learning Dutch for me more difficult bc I am less motivated to actually learn the vocabulary bc I know that I understand most of it without memorising it but when I need to come up with the word myself I can’t bc it is still different to the German word and idk how so. So my laziness makes me guess words 90% of the time I speak Dutch.
@realdanksta2237 Рік тому
Entschuldigung is similar to verontschuldiging, which means apology. That's one way to decipher it.
@ronald3836 2 місяці тому
I had a German colleague living in NL and speaking Dutch quite well complain to me that the waiter in a restaurant had pretended not to understand him when he had asked for a "vater". I had no idea what he was talking about: vater??, vader?? So he meant "water" and it turned out he was unable to hear a difference between "vater" and "water", whereas the difference to my ears is as clear as... water!
@RubentLam 11 місяців тому
I am Dutch. I have had two years of standard German in Grammar School. However, in the sixty’s when I was some 5 years old I had already started to pick up German during holidays with my parents. During one holiday in Czechoslovakia, I talked a lot with elderly locals who could still speak some German dialect. All contact was in the spoken dialect. I even obtained some feeling for using the right genders and the right cases. I still use this experience for loose conservation with German people, but German people have been asking me if I were Russian.
@norbertderiro9458 4 роки тому
When I was in the Netherlands for the first time, I saw a sign that read "Videorecorder huren" and I thought there were porn movies to rent.
@reptilesceptile1035 3 роки тому
Norbert de Riro lol
@wrtlpfmpf 3 роки тому
Yeah, one of those wonderful false cognates.
@erikvandoorn1674 3 роки тому
How did you find out they weren't?????
@leprof6491 3 роки тому
@@erikvandoorn1674 Nice question
@SeverityOne 3 роки тому
You need to rent a VCR first, before you can rent those videos.
@MinecraftPony155 5 років тому
I'm from northern germany and dutch sounds more like german to me than what they speak in switzerland.
@nathnlturner68 5 років тому
My friends are bothered by Swiss slang for "Schokolade," which is "Schoggi" (I don't remember if I spelled it correctly)
@azhadial7396 5 років тому
*German guy:* Hallo! *Swiss guy:* Bonjour! *German guy:* Warum? Ich verstehe nicht. _Oh wait... wrong kind of swiss! My bad..._
@americanexcursions3542 5 років тому
Because Plat Deutsch is closer to Dutch than to Allemanic in Switzerland and Lichtenstein. Do you understand Dutch better than Bavarian or Austrian? I love reading about differences between dialects of German.
@DreHill1 5 років тому
I'm from Nothern Netherlands and I can speak Dutch/Platdeutsch dialact in Northern Germany and a lot of people understand me over there right across the border.
@lenavonpreuen4869 5 років тому
Same
@drunkenmmamaster419 Рік тому
I absolutely love this channel man !!!! You make things like this alot easier to understand and aren't in your face about it
@Bonky-wonky 2 роки тому
Funny story (for me at least), I rode bmx for a while before switching to mountainbiking. The owner of the shop where I usually bought my stuff had a lot of German contacts, both clients and suppliers. I once heard him have a conversation with some German client and he literally spoke Dutch to the guy but with a German-ish accent. No regard whatsoever for grammar, lingual differences etc but apparently they could understand each other well enough to do business..
@robertfinch4937 3 роки тому
As an Englishman fluent in German, and having taken some basic Dutch classes. I will say that Dutch was very easy to pick up. I feel that it is a half way house between English and German, with some unique vocabulary and a very different pronunciation. So I find it often quite difficult to understand spoken Dutch, but written down I can understand the vast majority.
@JackAkaJCK 3 роки тому
Me to but I am the other way around, I live in Germany and am fluent in English and I heard there is also a bit of French in it
@seaofseeof 2 роки тому
@@JackAkaJCK yes, you can definitely thank Napoleon for the influx of French loan words
@JackAkaJCK 2 роки тому
@@seaofseeof and the Roman's for the latein words in every west Europe language, 4example exit (latein for a door) or lot of words only people use who work in a state owned business and are forced to speak so
@UTopia-eg7gm 2 роки тому
‘Half way house’ the funny thing is, as shown in this video partly, that Dutch is more original then German. And English. For English what I regret is that they ‘mispronounce’ a lot of letters. E.g. the ‘A’ should be like in Alfa or in car, but not as in care or date. E as in echo or in never, not as in be or he or she etc.
@stehkloscheier2805 2 роки тому
Ist die Sprache also Niederländisch schwer zu lernen? Oder geht es klar?
@Me1le 5 років тому
I remember a joke image with a mystery language, and the question below it asking what language it was. All the Germans said it was Dutch and the Dutch said it was German. Turned out it was a fake language carefully created to be somewhere between Dutch and German just to rile us all up. (I myself thought it was Luxembourgish :P )
@rhbb8796 5 років тому
Why go through the hassle of making up some mystery intermediate language when they simply could've used Kölsch
@SimonS44 5 років тому
Do you have a link to that?
@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus 5 років тому
Can you link it? This sounds very interesting! :D
@rhbb8796 5 років тому
Just enter it in the UKposts search bar, there should be plenty of examples. General information on the greater dialect group is here:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripuarian_language
@mikeyking3670 5 років тому
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@Paulfighteronline 2 роки тому
I'm Dutch and I studied German in high school and during my exchange semester in Berlin (passed the Goethe C1 exam there). The high lexical similarity mentioned in the video definitely helps when learning German as a Dutch person. Before I moved to Germany for 6-7 months I had trouble improving my German speaking skills. Reading, listening and writing were much easier. Having to take into account the cases when speaking German was something I struggled with. Once I was immersed in a German speaking environment, the cases suddenly became clear, it just clicked
@mark9294 2 роки тому
Another great video from Flula thanks for sharing
@gabrielcrutchfield3718 5 років тому
My knowledge of Dutch definitely helped me when I studied German.
@kokofan50 5 років тому
I haven’t studied Dutch, but knowing some German has helped me when I’ve run across Dutch.
@piwithatsme 5 років тому
For me it was both a blessing and a curse. Sure they are similar, but you can never completely trust similar sounding words. I got laughed at a few time for messing up, haha
@xavierzamora6455 5 років тому
I am doing the opposite
@colinclarke4285 5 років тому
Odd you should say that...I speak Dutch with a reasonable amount of fluency and I can understand SOME spoken German... although I read German better than hearing it spoken
@joelniv6718 5 років тому
Ich lerne auch Deutsch. Ist dir die Sprache schwer gefallen?
@nephilimcrt 5 років тому
I'm Dutch and I had a German girlfriend for about 5 years, so my German is pretty good. Reading and speaking it is not really a problem for me, but the 'den/der/diese/dieser/dieses' part I was never able to master. The trick is to just pronounce them quickly and as if you know what you're doing. Just always say 'de' or 'diese' and Germans will just fill in the blanks and not notice (or be polite enough not to let you know they've noticed).
@saltydagger6635 5 років тому
nephilimcrt Wow. Never thought of that. Good Job 👍
@alexanderholzer7392 5 років тому
They almost always notice. I'm a non-native speaker of German who spent dozens of hours pounding the case system into his own head, and now that I have a thorough understanding of it, even I hear incorrect gender and case instantaneously, given that I know the noun being spoken (which Germans 99.9% of the time will.)
@twitertaker 5 років тому
Be sure we notice even minimal differences like "den" and "dem". It's our mother language after all. But most likely we will not correct a small error like that.
@MrFliffi 5 років тому
@@twitertaker exactly. esspecially if you're fluent in it.
@jmitterii2 5 років тому
@@twitertaker Standard German is a contrived language, surprises me that Germans of various regions really do notice. There's only a few things in English that really stand out for even the country hilly billy rustic folks... not changing good to well when describing something "You play the piano good." Bad English... sometimes bad grammar in English is done on purpose to sound humble, exaggerate or emphasis, or just sound "cute".
@brianmaphar9685 2 роки тому
As Dutchy, we used to learn the German language in HighSchool/Secondary school. We had it (mandatory) for 2 years, after which you could decide to have it as a graduating subject. If you were following the HAVO stream, you would have German for 3 more years and as VWO/Atheneum you would have German for 4 more years. In my time (80s-90s), both Dutch and English language were mandatory to have classes in and to graduate with. German/French were both mandatory for 1 or 2 years in HS, after which you could decide to have them on your graduation list. Other languages (Latin/Ancient Greek) were for Gymnasium stream and not for VWO Atheneum/ HAVO, and were mandatory if you followed that stream; while other languages: Spanish/ Frisian were optional to graduate in. You see, Dutchies had to learn a lot of languages in HS. Therefore most are proficient in at least 2 (Dutch/English) and quit possibly more than 5. For me, I graduated with Dutch/English and German on my list, so it wasn't that hard to understand and speak/write German. I now live in Canada, working at an international school, where I can use my German HS language to speak to native German speaking students.
@hirsch4155 2 роки тому
German was commonly taught in Canadian high schools as an optional subject until the 80s/90s. Sadly hardly any school offers it now. Was one of my favourite subjects. The way it was taught was much more fun than French and we had a native German teacher which helped. Good times .
@petruckchristoph1944 7 місяців тому
I'm German and I'm currently reading my second full fledged novel in Dutch. I've never had any actual Dutch lessons, but being familiar with the linguistic background that you've explained so excellently, I enjoy the thrill of 'reading a foreign langue that I've never studied'. Of course I use the dictionary every now and again and I try to memorize as many new words as poss, but I'm now able to read consecutive pages without the dictionary. So, yes, Dutch and German are still close enough for you to embark on such a venture. I hope you don't mind one insignificant correction: at one point you mistake a subordinate object clause for a relative clause. But the statement you make about the syntax is still absolutely correct. Your presentations are splendid!!!! Herzliche Grüße, Christoph
@stefanreichenberger5091 5 років тому
Awesome as always, Paul! As a German native speaker I might add: "ich möchte" does not mean "I want", but "I would like". "I want" is "ich will" in German.
@davidgo2019 5 років тому
You're wrong 😅
@SchmulKrieger 5 років тому
Stefan Reichenberger, das kommt darauf an, was du sagen willst. Ich möchte ist eigentlich ein Präteritoprasens von machen. Ich mag/möchte die Kuh schlachten = I want to slaughter the cow. Mag ist ursprünglich das englische >may< und möchte das ursprüngliche >might
@studiosnch 5 років тому
Rewboss explain this quite well in explanation for his translation of Maroon 5's "She Will Be Loved," here he used "Sie will geliebt werden" since there is a desired intention from the singer to love her. "Ich möchte" has a subjunctive tone into it (like, "If given the chance, I will love her.")
@michaeljuliano8839 5 років тому
@@studiosnch With that passive construction, I understand "Sie will geliebt werden" to be like "she wants to be loved" rather than having anything to do with the singer's intention. My inclination would have been to translate it, "Sie wird geliebt werden," which is, as I understand it, more literal. You may have more experience with German than I do, so I'm curious what you think of that.
@gusjohnnson9641 5 років тому
I've been learning German, and I was thinking the same thing.
@tommywolfman 5 років тому
I am a Dutch speaking Belgium guy who is living in Germany for about ten years. So I know what I am talking about. And THIS VIDEO is amazingly precise! Very well done! Good job!!!!
@DrWhom 5 років тому
Erm no, he gets the meaning of "false cognate" the wrong way around. They are true cognates, but false friends in the sense that the meanings have diverged.
@rikrutten5924 5 років тому
Ah, but can you understand the Limburg dialects?
@MBeckers 5 років тому
@@rikrutten5924 nobody understands Limburgs
@pimpinmagicianofprophecy 5 років тому
So your basically a german.
@jaaptendijk7192 5 років тому
Darf ich Sie frage wieso du nach Deutschland bist umgezogen? Stimmt mein Satz? Btw just a Dutch guy speakig german to the best of my abilities. My sentence was "May I ask you why you moved to Germany"😅
@agrippaminor771 2 роки тому
Another stunning piece by Paul, just the right level to keep us breathless but never too hard to follow and always informative and perceptive. My take-away from this is an insight into the murkiness of English pronunciation. As native speakers we do not notice it, but for outsiders English is to German as Spanish is to Italian, the former full of murky sounds, the latter crystal clear. In this video Paul shows that Dutch is a kind of half-way-house. Of course this is a subjective comment, but I hope it helps English speakers hear English as learners do.
@marchauchler1622 2 роки тому
We are very similar. It took less than 6 months to be fully fluent in Dutch. I also studied French and Spanish and it took years to master the French language and to get by in Spanish. Groetjes to my Dutch neighbours.
@wwijsman 5 років тому
I'm a Dutch guy who taught himself German with some apps. When I reached A1 level (after a couple of months, I was a bit slow) with Grammar, vocabulary and speaking, I started watching German TV. I was able to understand most of it, depending on the subject. Now a year later, I only sometimes have to look up a word. It is relatively easy for a Dutch person to learn to understand German. Speaking and writing are harder, though.
@Holloaway 4 роки тому
As a german myself, I understand 75% of dutch writing. Understanding Dutch Speak is completely out of my range tho.
@christopherhellmann7754 4 роки тому
Same experience, just the other way around :) Managed to learn Dutch to conversational level in just a year and back then already I managed to understand almost anything but slang which I was much less exposed to :)
@liamsal9968 4 роки тому
I stopped learning german, because I’m not a huge fan of learning languages except english, because i was always someone who likes to play video games and back in the old days, there where no games in dutch so I had to learn english to understand what I was doing in one of those games, right now I understand Every word of english that has been thrown out to me ( the most!), and also with the help of UKposts 😉. I’m more of a science type of Guy though, and by the way, I can aldus learn a other language later on. Besides school may be irritating, but it is for me the best way to learn things about science like the structure of molecules, their weight showen in units and setting that weight over to kilograms. Something like this Will be harder to learn then languages in my opinion later on. Because you have to invest more into this, at least that is what I think.
@michielvdvlies3315 4 роки тому
ik vind het makkelijker om duits te leren in oostenrijk, ze spreken daar wat langzamer en articuleren beter
@michielvdvlies3315 4 роки тому
@@christopherhellmann7754 there is a way to learn dutch slang a little bit easier. there is this "torrie van mattie" in dutch slang its the gospel of matthew in dutch slang! ukposts.info/have/v-deo/oH5lm2mHrJyV24E.html
@worldwideweekend24 4 роки тому
Another funny difference: "verkocht" wich means sold in dutch and overcooked in german.
@jolly3807 4 роки тому
"Zerkocht" means overcooked. Not "verkocht".
@Scaramiy1a 4 роки тому
Tartarus both versions are correct “verbraten” “zerkocht” “verkocht” -> all mean overcooked
@semira4161 4 роки тому
Verkauft means verkocht
@MrAhmedUA 4 роки тому
@@Scaramiy1a yeah sometimes ver ~= done zer ~= overly done
@geheimnisvollerundbelanglo9396 3 роки тому
verkocht means "cooked away", it doesn't have a negative conotation
@bobbouwer90 2 роки тому
Good explanation! Interesting video.
@Noor_Jacobs03 2 роки тому
Afrikaans is my second language, and it's much easier for me to get an understanding of what a Dutch person is saying as apposed to a German dude. I sometimes have conversations with Dutchmen and I can understand nearly every single word, mostly in written form.
@adriaanperrels9269 2 роки тому
Indeed I am Dutch and Afrikaans has this special position for quite some Dutchmen that it is a language one can by and large understand (both spoken and written), but cannot speak or write. Afrikaans is rooted in 17th century Dutch. Because of the very troubled history with which Afrikaans can be identified, I hear it may get spoken less in South-Africa.
@Noor_Jacobs03 2 роки тому
Which language may get spoken less here? I didn't quite understand that part. I'm South African by the way.
@cmyk8964 2 роки тому
Well to be fair Afrikaans is Dutch on easy mode /j
@knotwilg3596 5 років тому
Being a Flemish (Belgian Dutch) speaker with very little practice of the German language (Flanders has no border with Germany, unlike the Netherlands), I have made embarrasing mistakes using "false friends". One day I was in the German speaking part of Belgium (we have that too) and was looking for a house that my friends had rented. I went to the village pub and said "Ich suche meine freunden. Sie verheiraten ein haus hier". "Verheiraten" somehow came to mind because "to rent" is "huren" in Dutch. But "verheiraten" means to marry. The locals were pretty sure my friends were not marrying a house, but what could I be looking for? Fortunately we all spoke French ...
@wilfriedwachter2458 5 років тому
"Ich suche meine Freunde (without n), sie haben hier ein Haus gemietet." Rent = mieten (ich miete, du mietest, er/sie/es mietet, wir mieten, ihr mietet, sie mieten; sie haben gemietet, sie mieteten, sie hatten gemietet).
@anonimouse4678 5 років тому
@@wilfriedwachter2458 you guys are pretty smart I speak only English
@Dear_Mr._Isaiah_Deringer 5 років тому
@@anonimouse4678 well that would be third big West Germanic language. And the only Germanic language left using the word german, thou(gh) luckily unpretentiously 😉 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages Still a little odd usage when in some technical understanding it would self-include English in middle English at least _thou, thee, thy, thyself, thine, ye, you, your, yourself or yours_ not sure about correct pronoun here it's a bit too Shakespearean for mine English 😋 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany _ On the plus side though, once you can tell apart the root of a Germanic from Romance word you're basically halfway polyglot vocabulary wise 🤗 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
@lambertlambert7076 5 років тому
La Belgique, comme l'Afrique, parle français pour communiquer entre communauté :D
@pentasigil 5 років тому
@@lambertlambert7076 a defaut de
@michaeltucker8113 5 років тому
My personal favorite false cognate? Bellen. In Dutch, it’s the verb to make a telephone call. In German, it’s a dog barking. 😂😂🍽
@danan2721 5 років тому
Bel (borrowed from Dutch bellen) is used in traditional Betawi (an original tribe from Greater Area Jakarta, Indonesia) dialect, too.
@FeuerblutRM 5 років тому
Maybe it was also a shift? Because "bellen" (Dutch) sounds at least similar to "wählen" (Deutsch) Whereas "bellen" (Deutsch) literally is a dog's call ;)
@iceomistar4302 5 років тому
In English, we have the word Bellow which is a cognate.
@aimeenoawaning5402 5 років тому
Don't forget klarkommen xD
@latifhajjari5132 4 роки тому
Mij favoriete is poepen. In dutch it means taking a shit In belgium IT means having sexy Hahahaha
@paterpoei 5 місяців тому
Thanks for a good explanation I am from the Netherlands bedankt voor deze video en de goede uitleg tot de volgende
@FrancoisFranciis 2 роки тому
Suprisingly insightful for a Dutchman learning German, thanks!
@darioasencio7458 5 років тому
Wow. Now I understand where words like 'tedesco' ('German' in Italian) or 'Tyskland' ('Germany' in Swedish) come from, the protogermanic 'theudisk'
@ImaginatorJoren 5 років тому
Darío Asencio Ojeda WHOA I wonder how that word is pronounced?
@ImaginatorJoren 5 років тому
Overweight Grandma theudisk
@babygamingyt4556 5 років тому
Tedesco????? Schalke 04 head Coach???????
@ruralsquirrel5158 5 років тому
Wow...I always wondered about that. Thanks for the info!
@cho1810pin 5 років тому
Also in French : teuton (German, pejorative), or thiois (refers to the Flemish dialect)
@Nyerguds 4 роки тому
-Was sagen Sie? -Plankjes, meneer. Plankjes.
@Nathlyyyy 3 роки тому
Waarom moest ik hierom lachen
@LycanthropiesSpell 3 роки тому
-Achtung !!!! -Ken dr mo zeevn...
@sakurablossom1645 3 роки тому
HAHAHA
@fizzbee5137 3 роки тому
Wahah p l a n k j e s. Ik ben Nederlands maar het klinkt gwn raar.
@SandsOfArrakis 3 роки тому
Brandhout.
@oskarsyren 2 роки тому
Good video. I like your videos. You ask relevant questions.
@luisvasquez812 Рік тому
This explanation was majestic !
@Marco_Onyxheart 5 років тому
In Dutch, "pijnlijk" can also mean "embarassing", but it is often imagined to be physically painful. Like when you "burn" someone with words, you diss them, then that burn is painful. Other than that, everything seemed very accurate to me. You did your research well.
@lukasfeldmann6646 5 років тому
And likewise, "peinlich" in German also can mean "painful" (there is also the noun "die Pein", meaning "the pain"), but in this sence, the word is almost only used in rather archaic contexts. For example there is "die peinliche Befragung", literally "the painful interview", meaning (historic) torture (e.g. by the inquisition).
@simplynotedible 5 років тому
As a Dutch speaker, I remember my time in CustServ when I had a conversation with a German speaker on the phone. For legal reasons, I wasn't allowed to speak any other language than Dutch (contractual legalese stuff), and my German isn't anywhere near good enough anyway to know all the legal subtleties, but we managed to have a good conversation with me speaking Dutch and him speaking German. A couple of clarifications were needed here and there, and we both took our time double-checking if both parties were on the same page, but it was perfectly doable.
@sjappiyah4071 5 років тому
simplynotedible that’s awesome haha
@neillester6457 5 років тому
I never knew the order in which the words are said can be quite different to English. My mind was blown. It's weird as the way you guys say it seems incredibly alien to me as English as my only real language.
@andypre1667 5 років тому
@@neillester6457 Read what Mark Twain said about the German language... ;-)
@dogechallenger4994 5 років тому
@james c Many germans can.
@nowvoyager8438 5 років тому
@james c Yes, you can say that Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are practically one language, only with different dialects. They are North Germanic languages and belong to the East Nordic Group. Islandic is a North Germanic language too but belongs to the West Nordic Group and due to its isolation (Iceland is an island after all) the language did not develop very much and is so somehow different compared to the others.
@kob8224 2 роки тому
Cooles und interessantes Video! Danke 👍
@maartjewaterman1193 2 роки тому
When I was a child and I often stayed with my grandparents who lived close to the German border, and every household there had the German TV on all day long on sundays, which was not the case in the Netherlands. In those days we only had TV in de evening. Without realizing it, I picked up so much German that I not just kind of 'feel' when to use the proper case but my pronounciation was and still is, so good that Germans often think that I am a native German speaker. When they do notice a slight accent, they assume that's due to a German dialect they are not familiar with. I am not claiming that therefor my German is perfect, far from that, but I can say that I am quite fluent in the language without having it ever been taught at school. But then again, foreign langages come easy to me and are one of my interests coz even though I was in my thirties when I started taking Italian classes, Italians also think I am a native speaker with a slight accent coming from a dialect they don't know. The same is the case with French and English speakers from the UK often think that I am an American and vice versa. Too bad I when I was young I was not aware of that given talent coz looking back I would have loved to study linguistics,
@Ned-Ryerson 2 роки тому
Reverse for me, to some extent. I lived in Limburg for 3 years, but went to the NATO school in Brunssum, so was only ever surrounded by German speakers socially. My Dutch came exclusively from television, and there, often from Belgian channels. Nevertheless, my pronunciation is limburgs. These days, I have forgotten most, but every time I am back, a LOT of it will come back to me.
@Daelaron 5 років тому
I'm German, and I can understand a lot of Dutch, but definitely not all. Not even close. I come from OWL (East Westphalia), so I'm probably more exposed to our lovely neighbours than some others. For example I'd say Tag as "Tach", like dutch, but with a sharp T. Makes me sound like a Klingon. ;) If they speak slowly, it becomes rather easy, and actually fun to find so many similarities. In a heated conversation I'd get overwhelmed, flustered and lose the topic fast. On the other hand, I can barely speak any of it. The dialect and pronunciation is easy to imitate, but the vocab is really strange sometimes. I'm interested in medieval stuff, so I actually really recognize a LOT of common ground when I think about the roots. Archaic words that nobody really uses in that sense colloquially anymore. But we'd still know what they mean, if we aren't 15 years old and somewhat educated. ;) For example I could tell you that "peinlich" and "pijnlijk" aren't false cognates. "Pein" means "pain". Peinlich / Peinvoll (painful) are somewhat archaic, but in some rare cases still used. The word "Schmerz" just took over. "Peinlich" started to mean "embarrassing" due to medieval torture. It was called "peinliche Befragung", or "painful questioning". If you feel uncomfortable with a topic, it could be painful to answer. Or "a pain" to answer. Pain-like. Peinlich. Pijnlijk... :)
@dontxtalk 5 років тому
I struggled so much with German in high school, your grammar is... well... pijnlijk. French was easier! But I can read it though, when words are similar enough :)
@ookiemand 5 років тому
That is the way I attempt to speak to my neighbours, I use old Dutch :) Actually I use Old Dutch here too, and despise the increasing mixing and displacement of my language by English. Here nearly everybody is replacing Dutch words with English words almost every other sentence. Some folk don't even recall the Dutch words for ordinary things any more. I thought we're supposed to embrace diversity, but if everyone starts to speak English all the time, where is the diversity then? I'm always looking forward to going to another country to see and hear the local culture and language, but with Mc Donalds etc everywhere everything start to look and feel the same and very boring.
@Daelaron 5 років тому
Haha, yeah I feel the same. Globalization is mostly a good thing in my opinion. But of course it has its dark sides as well. We should all just treasure our heritage in a healthy manner, preserving some traditions and the language. I have no problems with English, other than that it is obviously inferior to proper German grammar and pronunciation... haha ;) ...but jokes aside, I do think that every language has its merits and should be preserved. Losing them would mean losing SO MUCH culture and history. If I could turn back time, I'd learn Plattdeutsch from my grandma...
@noahmyg 5 років тому
yooo ich komm auch aus owl
@Daelaron 5 років тому
@@noahmyg Coole Sache :D
@sjaakdewinter6258 5 років тому
One day my mother wants to rent a room for German tourists. She makes a signal>>Zimmers zu Huren (kamers te huur, rooms for rent) But she don t know the word for to rent is in German vermieten. Huren means Hookers in Germany. Nobody cames to sleep there.
@Magrat_Knoblauch 5 років тому
@Sjaak De Winter xD xD
@androlsaibot 5 років тому
Sometimes, vehicles of the Dutch rental service Boels are used on German building sites. Some of them have the Dutch slogan "verhuurt bijna alles" translated to German, some don't. This looks funny for Germans.
@peterpiper7441 5 років тому
We need more hookers anyway, so it was nice of your mother to rent rooms to them. :)
@fanolade 5 років тому
Haha lol
@holz6661 5 років тому
In German there is a cognate: heuern. Means zu hire (an English cognate) people...,e.g. hire sailors...
@mickdunne981 2 роки тому
They are both very interesting languages 😊 Thanks for explaining 😊
@bloeddorstigbeest 2 роки тому
Great vid! the Dutch native has a particular pronunciation of the phoneme r. Many Dutch speakers actually use a rolling or a guttural r, but many thanks for the vid!
@deldarel 5 років тому
Back when I was little and we just got our first DVD player, I wanted to watch Asterix and Obelix on a saturday morning. I was confused why a DVD sold in the Netherlands would only have French and German on it. That's how I found out that Nederlands in English is Dutch.
@Thindorama 5 років тому
Pixie Panda Plush But he wouldn’t have learnt what he learnt.
@sion8 5 років тому
@@pixiepandaplush I agree wholeheartedly! Here in North America (or maybe the whole of the Americas) the menus are in English, however I've noticed with Disney made DVDs and Blu-Rays and pretty much no one else that after the FBI warning, but before anything plays they'll ask the language written in the native form [English, _française,_ and _español,_ sometimes also _português_ ] and then the trailers play in that language (dubbed and/or subtitled). I'm glad this happens for people that don't know much English, but I'm not sure if this happens in Europe. Although if it does, which languages would it ask over there? I'm sure at least English, French, and German.
@deldarel 5 років тому
@Cáca Milis sa Seomra Spraoi Yup, but usually you can choose between Nederlands and Français rather than Dutch and French. I still think it's odd that they gave the language select screen a different language (English) than either of the languages that the movie was available in. 10-year-old me who didn't speak English yet thought 'Dutch' meant 'German' because we call it Duits.
@TheRubinho96 5 років тому
I remember in my first English class ever in primary school, one of the first questions the teacher asked (in Dutch) was: "does anyone know what's the English translation of 'Nederlands' (Dutch)?" Some kid in my class answered "Dutch" and I was thinking like "what an idiot, Dutch obviously means Duits (German)". But the teacher said he was correct, and I was so shocked and confused as to why Dutch was English for "Nederlands" instead of "Duits"
@BarnOwl61 4 роки тому
For most Dutch, like myself, understanding German isn't difficult. When both participants are a little patient, they understand each other just fine. Growing up I visited German speaking countries a lot, that made it even better. The big shock came learning to write proper German in high school. Writing German was, and still is, complicated. In many things the Dutch and Germans are alike. I always feel very "at home" in German speaking countries. As you explained we decent from Germanic origin.
@AndrewAddisonUniqueDrewski980 4 роки тому
I like Dutch way better than German. German are still good people. German/Dutch are similar, but not at all the same. Germanic is not German. Germanic is a branch of other countries/languages under which most people fail to realize.
@goebelmasse 4 роки тому
Writing German is complicated for many Germans too, and most Germans aren't able to do it. It is an overcomplicated orthography, and to make learning how to write German more painful, there are incredible unintuitive rules for the capitalization of a word, hard to explain and hard to learn. We write substantives capitalized, as in "die Sonne scheint". And a verb can be used in substantive form, as in "das Scheinen der Sonne". As I was young, I hoped for an orthographic reform eliminating these complex capitalization rules at least, but I will die and that insanity will persist. And after the reform of the reform of the reformed orthographic reform most Germany aren't able to spell anymore. To a German, Dutch sometimes looks like German without all the bullsh*t and with a much more regular and easy to learn orthography. That little source of confusion with "ij" and "ei", and these strange vocalic polytongs like "eeuw" are nothing compared to the infernal chaos of German orthography.
@BassBoostingBrony 4 роки тому
@@goebelmasse Wahre Worte! Echte woorden mijn vriend
@heikevieth8229 4 роки тому
@@goebelmasse it's quite simple actually. If you can put an article before the word, it's a noun and capitalised. The "verb" you gave as a counterexample is actually a noun (gerund to be precise) as indicated by the article. Names, things or objects (physical or abstract) are always capitalised. I've never had a problem with it.
@azuregriffin1116 4 роки тому
@@goebelmasse I study German, and that is one of the least awkward things about it.
@ILOVEDAVIDCAVAZIS 2 роки тому
This video is amazing! I’ve been watching some videos about the Netherlands and since I already speak some German, I thought it would be pretty interesting to take a look at the Dutch language
@stjohn738 Рік тому
Thanks so much, I have friends in family in Germany and the Netherlands, so learning both right now
@ldblokland463 5 років тому
As a native Dutch speaker, I can understand German when read and spoken, but can't say stuff back.
@0799qwertzuiop 5 років тому
Just talk back with a slow pace in Dutch they msot liely get what you mean ... or just speak English with them.
@LaWendeltreppe 5 років тому
I have got it the same way, only that I as a German can understand dutch when I read it, but I cannot say a word, except for god dag and tot ziens.
@ewoudvanaalst4089 5 років тому
Precies dat
@headmgCREW 5 років тому
Same for me , im german
@headmgCREW 5 років тому
@Thatshow ED yeah ( sorry for replying in english then , but everybody understands it like this ) its actually quiet funny that we understand each other , but cant do a “full“ conversation with speaking this language :D
@kenbray5682 4 роки тому
I'm American and speak German, and when I hear someone speaking Dutch I instantly know it's Dutch and only understand bits and pieces.... Love both languages ! and both countries as well ! 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇳🇱
@PierreDole 4 роки тому
Try Low German, its sounds and looks like a "missing link" beween German and English. :)
@kenbray5682 4 роки тому
Pierre Dole Thanks my friend for the advice ! But how do I look it up ? On Google Translate or just google to define it for me ? You have a great day a friend from the United States , I learned German while I was stationed there in the military, I was able to pick it up fast ! I also speak Spanish and Italian...... Ciao Amico... Italian Auf Wiedersehen Mein feund... German I'm sure you knew that Adios Amigo Spanish lol..... Ciao
@AndrewAddisonUniqueDrewski980 4 роки тому
@@kenbray5682 I like Dutch way better than German. German are still good people. German/Dutch are similar, but not at all the same. Germanic is not German. Germanic is a branch of other countries languages which are Netherlands/Germany being a few and a few others which most people fail to realize.
@libra4648 4 роки тому
Ken Bray I think people like me that grew up close to the dutch border will easily able to Unterstand dutch while people from Bavaria or Eastern Germany will have much more difficulties. So for you as "non native“ speaker it will hard as well i guess. But that is not a shame haha:)
@HafdirTasare 4 роки тому
@@PierreDole And has also many similaritys with Dutch. Also many armish communitys in the US speak Plattdeutsch.
@sterre10 2 роки тому
I am Dutch, and I am learning German in school. In our first lesson, we had to read a tekst, wich I tought was going to be very hard, but is wasn't. Wen we red it I was able to understand it. So reading isn't that hard. But there are German words wich sound really simulair to Dutch words, but mean something really different wich can be really confusing. And noun cases are also very hard.
@tmshrp 2 роки тому
I was completely speechless the first time I heard the dutch word for renting something, "iets huren". "Huren" in german means "whores". ;D
@petersmyczek2297 2 роки тому
Oh how I love that video in particular, being a German passionate visitor to our beloved friends on the northern sea. How often I lost myself in conversations where and how, but also why Dutch and German are so similar but yet so different to a good extent. You gave me now some great amount of food for thoughts for exactly these convos over a Heineken beer with a fellow Dutch person :) Haha, especially your starting point of "Deutsch" and "Dutch", that strikes almost everybody by surprise, as mostly neiter the Dutch people nor German people are really aware of that. Another funfact to that, in the beautiful national anthem of the Netherlands, they even sing about "ben ik, van Duitsen bloed," (more or less: I am of german / deutschen blood) Something where I found a lot of dutch people struggling to explain, how this can be a part of their anthem. Thank you so much Paul. Dankeschön, and Hartelijk bedankt
@gitmoholliday5764 4 роки тому
one mysterious difference is the Germans say "fahren" if they mean "drive" the Dutch only say "varen" if they mean traveling by a ship.. but the Dutch also use "drijven" if they point out something floating on water.
@Quimoth 3 роки тому
@@naturbursche5540 Aandrijven = antreiben. Bedrijven = betreiben. They are simply not the same words, adding a prefix shifts the entire meaning. Sturen = to steer (a car). Versturen = to send (a mail). Aansturen = to control or to head (to lead someone or a group). Some words even shift meaning with context. Aankomen = gaining weight or arriving depending on context. Komen = to come.
@herrbonk3635 3 роки тому
Swedish use fara/resa/åka (go by), and gå/vandra/promenera (walk by foot). Like the dutch, we use driva/driver for things on the water, but also for driving technical things like generators, loudspeakers, transistors, just like the english. Swedes also driver companies, businesses, developments, even jokes. But we never drive a vehicle. We *kör* it. :D
@stevenbodum3405 3 роки тому
@I Love Memes drijven is driften in german, but means the same.
@stevenbodum3405 3 роки тому
@I Love Memes i would say that its origin is germanic, its seams to be a very old word, to old for an anglicism. a ship "driftet" in german.
@gitmoholliday5764 3 роки тому
@I Love Memes The English use "drift-wood" and "drift" ashore.
@isaacadkins2344 5 років тому
I've been waiting for this video !
@klyanadkmorr 5 років тому
Das Ist Gut
@isaacadkins2344 5 років тому
@@klyanadkmorr Ja :)
@drunkenstein6669 5 років тому
me too!!! :oo
@seanacameron8940 2 роки тому
Thank you ever so for the informative video. I lived in Germany with my husband many years ago. Loved it so. Had a wee problem with one word. Eyes. I should have remembered. Ei is egg. So I kept telling his Mutter Ella she had beautiful blue eyes. She would then walk to the fridge... In time.... Later on, back in Canada picked up a book and was able to understand parts of it, but was confused as to why only PARTS of it. Helmut hugged me and explained it was a Dutch book. I took up Gaelic... LOL Best to you, and find both languages wonderful. (P.S. Spanish is rather easy, as well)
@austrakaiser4793 2 роки тому
As an Aussie with Nederland heritage I've always wanted to learn the language, and I've wondered if it were the middle-ground between English and Deutsch. You are only helping me learn it.
@OW79 2 місяці тому
*Dutch heritage ;-)
@pascalf9602 5 років тому
I'm from Cologne and understand dutch 90% of the time i hear it. Eventough i never learned it. Grüße liebe Holländer :D
@storrho 5 років тому
Man cologne, what a weird place. What is it, French? Dutch? German? nobody knows.
@pascalf9602 5 років тому
@@storrho NA?
@oXSimonXo 5 років тому
@@storrho Cologne is a German city with a long former Roman history located in an area close to the Netherlands and Belgium - therefore similar dialects across both languages and good accessibility for intercultural tourism.
@xomina7646 5 років тому
It’s a german city :)
@frogeater9585 5 років тому
Ahahhaha Grüße liebe Holländer is German
@deldarel 5 років тому
Native Dutchman hier. I studied German in high school. Because I was taught Latin and Greek before that, I didn't have trouble with the noun cases at all. The biggest trouble I had was with word order or false friends. I can understand about 40% of german spoken at a reasonable pace. Too bad German is never spoken at a reasonable pace. I think I would have liked the language a lot more if I had a halfway decent teacher. Now I'm relearning the language on Duolingo. Die Eule hat Hunger.
@dianawoo7653 5 років тому
Die Eule hat Hunger HHahahah Danke Duolingo!
@Emile.gorgonZola 5 років тому
If you're Dutch why is your English terrible? I don't get it
@ichverrateeuchmeinennamenn7898 5 років тому
Aber ich habe keine Eule
@googleaccount3112 5 років тому
Niederländisch wird auch nie in einem angenehmen Tempo gesprochen
@LuisAldamiz 5 років тому
@@Emile.gorgonZola - His English is perfect as far as I can discern.
@KennyAMT 2 роки тому
Dutch sentence: So yeah, the words come like this, and there you go. German sentence: uhm, well in this case you should use the dative because it's actually indirect object, yeah and in this case since it is also neutral you should just decline as masculine, then you change the order and in this specific word you dont need a suffix, due to the gender. Then goes the acusative, yeah I know the word order is weird, ok... wait you didn't decline this one, yeah, it is masculine so you should decline it, uhum, and the verb in infinitive form. And there you go, easy right?
@IDaiszy 2 роки тому
This channel is so dang good
@codebeat4192 5 років тому
Wow, blown away by the effort to create such video's, well done, very interesting.
@Langfocus 5 років тому
Thank you!
@sierraclub26 5 років тому
@@Langfocus Happy new year and congratulations for this video and all previous ones. I learnt in the comments that even dutch or flemish people had eventually some difficulties to learn german and that there's not 70 % of dutch people totally fluent. I gave this information to my french-speaking nephew that is learning german in order to reassure him but he already knew it. By the way, you should take a look to a channel called "masaman". The subject is about different ethnicities in the world and difference of skin color inside the same country like India for example. It's very complementary from your channel.
@dimitris779 5 років тому
My thoughts exactly fantastic
@ericwood3709 5 років тому
Plurals don't take apostrophes.
@JuiCeBoX19 5 років тому
My Dutch friends! German here. Your language is so cute! Most of the words are familiar. But then you put a funny little affix on them like -tje oder -lijk. Go for it!
@DailyDiscountNL 5 років тому
Autootje Bootje Kusje Knoopje Huisje Patatje Flesje Lichtje Mandje
@xMrAngelZx 5 років тому
Did you know that the word “cookie” is derived from the Dutch word “koekje”? A lot of American English words have a Dutch origin.
@smashculturalmarxism6320 5 років тому
@@DailyDiscountNL kutje
@smashculturalmarxism6320 5 років тому
Snapje
@rubenb8653 5 років тому
@@DailyDiscountNL Butje
@learnarabicforforeigners2316 Рік тому
extremely helpful now I have specific goal ! more and more to improve with you my skill language german to learn thanks
@franciscoobrequedote911 2 роки тому
Great video, as always! it would also be interesting to see.a video comparing Dutch and Swedish - they are not so obviously similar as German and Dutch, but they share some common features, for instance, they both have a somewhat simpler grammar than German, with two grammatical genders and less declensions.
@divakorkmaz5690 2 роки тому
For me i understand the difference between dutch and german but sometimes swedish confuses me and i think it’s dutch then i realize it’s swedish. German pronunciation is distinctable with the sounds but swedish pronunciation comes very close to dutch to my ear
@franciscoobrequedote911 2 роки тому
@@divakorkmaz5690 among the scandinavian languages, I think Danish is the one which sounds most similar to Dutch - to my ear at least.
@picobello99 5 років тому
You missed one of the most obvious differences: in German all nouns are written with a capital. While in Dutch we don't even write names of months and days of the week with a capital.
@celinameelker1631 5 років тому
I mean, its not grammatically correct to write names and months without a capital letter, but who cares about dutch grammar am i right
@MartijnCoppoolse 5 років тому
@@celinameelker1631 Wrong. In Dutch it’s actually grammatically incorrect to write the names of days and months *with* a capital letter - except at the start of a sentence.
@celinameelker1631 5 років тому
@@MartijnCoppoolse i must have missed some dutch lessons then XD i never use capital letter anyway, even though im dutch
@AndreasAntoniusMaria 4 роки тому
@@celinameelker1631 VMBO klant?
@celinameelker1631 4 роки тому
@@AndreasAntoniusMaria havo*
@iamtheusualguy2611 5 років тому
As a German speaker, I was surprised at how much of written Dutch I could understand when I was there a couple of months ago. I was never really exposed to or had any formal education in the Dutch language, but I could go through the country just by reading Dutch. I visited an exchange student from Germany who went over for a year or so; we could easily have a fluent conversation where he spoke Dutch with a German accent and I spoke German back to him. In a lot of instances, you can also use your knowledge of English combined with German to get the meaning of a Dutch sentence. Natively spoken Dutch is much less recognizable though, especially if you include slang. While I'd say I could understand at least 80% of written Dutch, it drops to about 50% in spoken Dutch. And when there is a lot of noise in the background, it drops even further.
@aswnl4428 5 років тому
Important when you come to Holland and want to read signs: eu=ö, ou=au, ij=ei, oe=u. And ui only sound as ü in northern and eastern parts of NL, but very different in central, western and southern parts of NL. It's a sound I haven't found in German. Just like you mix the German ü with the English i. Alltogether, when you pronounce words well, recognition of the word in the other language is often not that difficult anymore.
@blorkpovud1576 5 років тому
"you can also use your knowledge of English combined with German to get the meaning of a Dutch sentence." Ha ha that's awesome :-)
@javier6489 Рік тому
Interesting videos. Thank you
@holgerschneider5 2 роки тому
I´m a Bavarian so far away in Germany from the Netherlands. When I was a guest there for the first time not having an idea from the dutch language it needed only a few days to understand waht they meant - not everything but the main meaning of what was spoken in dutch. I felt that it was a kind of mix of german and english. Sure it helped that all these languages have same roots and weren´t too much influenced by the romans like Italy, France and so on.
@bertdejonghe3303 3 роки тому
As being Flemish living in Germany, my experience is that it is easier for a Flemish to understand German than the other way around.
@Frank-dv7ji 3 роки тому
Maybe because you live there and hear it all the time. That is not my experience when I meet Germans speaking Plattdeutsch, by chance let's say in France or Brussels.
@HesseJamez 3 роки тому
I'm German and felt the same vice versa
@billyadams2651 3 роки тому
@@HesseJamez your language is german but what dialect of german is your language
@HesseJamez 3 роки тому
@@billyadams2651 Northern Hessian/Thuringian (pretty rare)
@billyadams2651 3 роки тому
@@HesseJamez do you speak standard german hochdeutsch
@ahmedrisha 5 років тому
When I'm hearing the language : Oh it's English , no it's German ,Um not it's English or German Ahhh it's Dutch language
@ralphgreenjr.2466 2 роки тому
This was a GREAT video! I grew up with German as a second language. When I was stationed at Rheindahlen I had occasion to go the netherlands and could always communicate. The video is correct, I could understand better when I was reading Dutch than hearing it.
@llililillilliilli905 Рік тому
I often watch dash cam videos and since a few weeks I get a bunch of dutch dash cam videos where pretty much only dutch people comment. you can pretty much understand most comments if you understand german and english. these are only easy to understand comments, but it's still pretty cool how similar a lot of words are
@Leemo521 4 роки тому
After seeing this video im quite happy that german is my birth language. I would go insane learning it
@IMHGfk 4 роки тому
Absolutely agree. Which makes me think: It would be very interesting to have a study whether German kids take longer to learn to speak, than British kids for example.
@starrider1683 4 роки тому
Ne-e, für mich war es gar kein Problem. Nur kann es Schwierigkeiten mit Konjunktiv geben, aber ich benutze es ganz selten.
@angelikussupericus 4 роки тому
@@IMHGfk youre right, do kids learn to speak faster in "easier" languages?
@maximilianmustermann5763 4 роки тому
@@IMHGfk I don't think it takes noticeably longer for kids to learn to speak. Generally, languages will become more complex over time when they are very isolated (like Icelandic or Finnish). I think it's because to the native speakers some added complexity doesn't really matter at all. They don't even notice.
@lachesarborisov9531 4 роки тому
Nein, es ist nicht so schwer Deutsch zu lernen. Es ist immer ein Problem für Anfänger (wie ich) auf dem Grammatik zu achten, aber das ist nicht das schwerigste Teil der Sprache (natürlich muss man auf dem Grammatik achten, um verstanden zu sein, aber ohne Vokabeln kann man sich nicht vollpreis expressieren.
@krupam0 5 років тому
"German cases make the language difficult to learn" *laughs in Slav*
@Doppelgalgen 5 років тому
Minus the Bulgarians
@patrickbatemaninwalkmani 5 років тому
What do you mean
@blackoutunit6276 5 років тому
Krupam i dont understand
@eckstravirgine9083 5 років тому
We have 6 cases (at least in Russian, I'm not sure about other's)
@Doppelgalgen 5 років тому
@@eckstravirgine9083 Some (like Czech) have even seven.
@linovinn7011 2 роки тому
Thank you very much for this very, very detailed analysis. It is marvellous!!! Period! Whenever I go to the Netherlands for holiday I am able to understand the written form better than the spoken form (e.g. menu card in a restaurant). But whenever Netherland people speak I don't understand so much as I am not Frisian but from middle Germany :-) ... As I said Austrians, Saxionians, Schwaben, Hessen, Schleswig-Holsteins no problem, Switzerland, a little hard to decipher but very much better than Dutch for me .... :-)
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