Not a native Dutch speaker (just a low-intermediate speaker with advanced passive comprehension), but I agree!!!

Ik ook! De meeste polyglotten (in UKposts filmpjes) spreken vaak slecht Nederlands, maar dit is erg goed!

@@BobWitlox De meeste mensen die zich polyglotten noemen zijn het niet! Het ergert mij!

I honestly don’t know how people can speak Dutch. It looks so difficult!

@@eliasshakkour2904 Akkoord. Er zijn veel internet-polyglotten die heel goed kunnen praten over talen, maar eens het onderwerp verandert, zijn ze nergens meer. Ik durf niet eens zeggen dat ik goed Engels spreek. In veel contexten wel, maar zet mij in de tuin of in de keuken en het is ook huilen met de pet op.

Correct 😂

Yeah, that was so funny. He grew tired of answering that question ;)

Yes I too laughed at that. One day he will just say he speaks indo-european languages, sinetic languages etc.

@@StillAliveAndKicking_ semitic languages ?

Yes! So true!

Grammar wise Japanese is a simple language. Inflections and tenses don't make a language hard as long as they are regular, like in Japanese, Korean or Turkish. Polish as any other Slavic language on the other side, as well as Greek, Celtic languages, Icelandic etc. are extremely irregular.

@@s-dyorindyorin-s149 I was comparing its grammar to Mandarin, which does not have tenses and inflections. You are correct that Japanese is easier than slavic languages grammar-wise but that's not why Japanese is difficult. It's the writing system, extremely irregular kanji readings (onyomi/kunyomi/nanori), different structure of the language, and its reliance on context. If even a Chinese person can struggle a lot in learning this language (we are already familiar with hanzi, onyomi readings and their culture so we don't have to relearn these parts), I'm sure to a western person it will be like rewiring your whole brain.

@@s-dyorindyorin-s149 what do you mean about Polish being irregular? I'm a native Polish speaker, and I'd say this about English. In English letters and pronunciation are almost completely independent, you have to memorize it, for example in "Pacific Ocean", each "c" is pronunced diffrenttly, in Polish you can write down everything, then give it to someone to read it, and pronunciation will sound always the same

You're right, japanese is harder because of its complicated grammar, but the chinese pronunciation is harder than the Japanese one 😅 so, every language has its own difficulties and simplicity, but chinese is a FANTASTIC language and I'm learning it currently 😊 很高兴认识你☺️！

Kijk dan zeker op www.polyglotgathering.com/2023/ 😊

Inderdaad dat zie je niet vaak

@@EasyDutch ik spreek Nederlands, Fries, Duits, Engels, Afrikaans (maar niet vloeiend) en ik ben nu Frans en Spaans aan het leren. ben ik nu een polyglot?

And the Swede. I've known a few Swedes who speak Dutch like natives. Their language might be close but they have a knack for pronunciation.

The most convincing to me is the person at 1:16, they seem to have mastered the language perfectly. Very convincing Flemish, although I am not good enough with Flemish accents to place it to a specific region. The way they speak is proper standard language in Belgium.

@@ofjeworstlust69 That person is a native speaker from Belgium! 😅Were you confused, like me, by the wrong flag? The first stripe is supposed to be black, but it's blue, which would make this the flag of Romania, so I wonder if you thought they were Romanian?

@@eliasshakkour2904 Haha yes! I thought they were Romanian.

no f u

dont envy them, you dont know what their basics are. my mothertongue is Frisian, Dutch my second language. after those I learned German, English and a bit Afrikaans but I always feel like im cheating because those languages are quite the same to me. lately Im learning French and thats not a germanic language but has latin roots so for me thats harder to learn. but there are so many french words in English and Dutch! Im learning French for two months now and I can already read in French....chances are that learning Mandarin will be close to impossible to learn! to me that is. Ive never been exposed to asian sounds.

Some of them were featured in the Easy Polish video at the PG: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/iXhka6aiom6Luqs.html 😁

Great job! I'm German and I understand not even half of the Dutch language. ( * . _ .)

@@scaathreykr I also understand with my very basic German but I know Swedish. So maybe this is why it's understandable.

@@agatastaniak7459 The few words I do understand is only due to sounding somewhat similar to Norwegian.

@@mary.739 So true. It's only a few words one understands, that might give you some idea what they are talking about. Also due to the context - we know it's some kind of polyglot-meeting and in the interview they are probably talking about what languages they have learned and to which degree and what other languages they intend to learn in the future and why.

@@scaathreykr I agree that Dutch and German are very different when it comes to vocabulary. But I also think how easily a person can understand a new language depends on how many languages they already know or how much they are exposed to a certain language. I'm Dutch and I only had a bit more exposure to German during the past years by visiting Germany a couple of times per year. I haven't been actively learning the language, I've just been listening. I feel I can already understand about 70% (when it's spoken in a clear accent) without being able to say much. On the other hand I know many Germans who don't understand the simplest sentence in Dutch. But those people mostly only speak German and it's like their brains don't even expect to hear another language.

How is it cheating? For a native English speaker to learn Dutch is still a lot of hard work. If it wasn't then every native English speaker would speak Dutch. There is no such things as easy in language learning.

@@keithprice1950 I didn't say it's cheating, I said it's a little bit of cheating. I appreciate their effort, learning any language is a big challenge. I'm just saying there is an easier way of learning multiple languages and a harder way. For example, my native language is Russian. Learning another 4 slavic languages - let's say Ukrainian, Belorussian, Serbian and Bulgarian will take approximately the same amount of time as learning Chinese alone (maybe even less). Adding English which isn't my native language, and - voilà - I'm a polyglot. While speaking Chinese won't make me a polyglot. You know what I mean?

@@keithprice1950 How about reversing that statement ? After all, he is speaking from the perspective of Dutch native-speakers, not from the perspective of English native-speakers. For a Germanic family native-speaker, learning English is not so difficult. In fact, you could describe it as a step-down, whereas for a native English-speaker, learning a Germanic language (such as Dutch, for example) is a step-up. Within the Germanic family, English is the least difficult language to learn, because firstly, it does not have declensions and secondly, verb conjugation is almost non-existent in comparison to other Germanic languages.

@@IAmLookingForwardToDeath I'm not sure about English being the least difficult language to learn. English grammar, pronunciation and spelling isn't easy at all. It's just that most of the world is exposed to a lot of English which results in many people speaking it. But many people also have very heavy accents and mess up grammar and spelling. Also modern English has become influenced by French to a point where it could be seen as half Roman half Germanic (even though it's officially still a Germanic language). I do think the Roman sentence structure is more simple compared to Germanic languages. For Dutch and German people English grammar should technically be harder than for French or Spanish speaking people. Also French vocabulary is often closer to modern English than Dutch and germanic English vocabulary are close to eachother. Still Dutch are the best non-native English speakers. Again I think this has a lot to do with exposure. I think this is also the reason why many Dutch people speak English, but not a lot of English speak Dutch. The past years I've been a bit more exposed to German and I can already understand about 70% of the language. Speaking would require more practice. But I definitely think German is easier to learn compared to English. Of course if you compare it to mandarin yes than English might be easier. But it's all relative and depending on the person. If one knows English, all the roman languages become very easy to learn aswell. Anyway why should @keithprice1950 reverse his statement. The original commenter did mention English native speakers aswel. Keith just made a point that people in Europe still need to work on learning languages even when languages are similar. It takes effort and time, so the word cheating feels misplaced. After that the original commenter explained himself better.

@@keithprice1950 If there is no such thing as an easy language, then surely there is such a thing as a hard language. I hope you do not mean to claim that all languages are equally easy/hard to learn? So, although not cheating, mastering three more difficult unrelated languages can be more - let's say - impressive than learning six easier related languages.

The actual bulgarian language is turkish because Bulgarians were turkmongols. You speak the language of Kyrilos and Methodios made when translated the holly bible to the slavic language which was spoken in villages around Thessaloniki city.

@@antimimoniakos That's absolutely not true?? Bulgarian language is a Slavic language and when it comes to grammar rules it's COMPLETELY different from Turkish. We use a lot of Turkish words because years ago Bulgaria used to be in the Ottoman Empire but apart from that the 2 languages have nothing in common. Also I can't argue if Bulgarians are turkmongols or not because our origin is kind of unclear but our language is definitely a Slavic one. Also yea, the Bible was translated from Greek to many other languages. So what? Kiril and Methodi (as we call them) gave us an ALPHABET, not a whole new language! It's very different.

@@loraivanova8635 I am astonished that you took the time to answer to a short-brained nationalist. I teach Ancient and Modern Greek and I have been learning Turkish for ages, although I lived in Turkey for years. It's quite a hard language for me to learn. Greek is intimidating for most, but the mechanism is easy to be understood. Living in Northern Greece, I can understand some Bulgarian as well.

@@tyxeri48 Haha I know, right. Maybe I shouldn't explain myself to stupid people. I was just annoyed by the way this person mixed true facts with total lies haha. Anyways. It's awesome to meet a person who speaks my favorite languages. 😀

Polish is very hard!!!

Yes, Polish is very difficult, mostly because of grammar and pronunciation. As a Pole myself I admire people who learn Polish ❤

Why did you try Welsh, out of curiosity?

I can imagine, isolated idiom so...

The writing is beautiful

Georgian is known for its extremely complex grammar which is no way helped by the language being extremely agglutinative.

Navajo, Taa, and some other languages has their own difficulties you can't imagine too.

@@januszlepionko I have heard that too. I bow deep before a person who has achieved to learn Navajo ...

I agree. Most of the time I can make a quick breakthrough by sheer memory and imitation, but in Mandarin I got stuck at even the first sentence.

its still an easy language, because as you said grammar is a joke and if you just want to communicate, you can learn pinjin.

True! He's also featured in the Easy Polish video that was shot on the Polyglot Gathering! You can find it here: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/iXhka6aiom6Luqs.html 😄

@@EasyDutch thank you yes I am aware Luca inspires me 😄

Dankjewel nog een keer! 😊🙏

I always count English, as the first language one has learned should always be counted - I am writer level in Modern English + normal Scots dialect + Middle English (over 60.000 to 100.000 words in the three combined, maybe even more) and advanced level in Dutch (over 8.000 base words) and native speaker level in Spanish (over 10.000 base words to 15.000 words, maybe more, and I learned it 100% passively by watching lots of movies and TV series in Spanish and listening to a lot of songs with lyrics in Spanish) and intermediate level in Norwegian / German / Swedish and Portuguese (anywhere from 3.000 to 3.800 words, maybe more, and I can actually understand over 95% of the words I see in Portuguese because I know Spanish) and beginner level in Welsh / Icelandic / Breton / Frisian / Hungarian / Faroese / Occitan / Gallo / Aranese / French / Burgundian / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Italian / Galician / Catalan / Danish / Cornish / Luxembourgish / Guernsey / Limburgish / Norn / Gothic / Old Norse / Old English / Old Dutch / Vandałic / Slovenian / Afrikaans (by Frisian, I meant all three Frisian languages, namely West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian, and I am also learning all languages based on these languages that are referred to as dialects, but they are in fact different languages, especially the Italian-based languages and the German-based languages and the West-Vlaamse Dutch-based languages and the French-based language that’s spoken in Wallonia / Belgium and Yolo and the Scots Doric language etc) and the other pretty languages that are on my list of languages I want to learn and improve, which is extremely overwhelming!

Trouwens... Bijna twee dagen geleden ben ik begonnen met het leren van Hongaars en Sloveens, en dezen twee talen zijn niet zo moeilijk! Irish and Scottish Gaelic and Hungarian are category 3 languages, while Manx (probably, but not sure) and Icelandic / Faroese and Slovenian and Old Norse / Gothic / Old English etc are category 2 languages, but all other Germanic / Nordic languages and the Latin languages and Welsh / Breton / Cornish are category 1 languages, so they can be learned very fast, and category 2 / category 3 languages aren’t really that hard, to be honest, they’re just a bit harder to read and they take a bit longer to get used to, because they have many different letters with accents and certain diphthongs and certain letter combinations that make certain words harder to learn, so they may take at least 2 years or more to learn to an advanced level or to a native speaker level, but aren’t extremely hard tho - French also has lots of accents, so it’s closer to the easiest category 2 language than it is to the easiest category 1 languages (Dutch / English / Norwegian and Italian / Spanish / Esperanto and Welsh / Breton / Cornish are the easiest languages ever) on the language difficulty spectrum, and it’s ‘the hardest’ Latin language, but it’s mostly the spelling and the pronunciation that are a bit harder, because the words themselves are very easy to learn and read.

@@thetrueoneandonlyladyprinc8038Beheers je de dualis al?

Wat is een dualis?

According to Luke Ranieri from the Polymathy channel, modern Greek and ancient Greek are more distant from each other than Sardinian from Latin. It's true that Sardinian is the closest "living" language to Latin, but nobody calls it a modern form of Latin.

and I know it shouldn't be this way, but I'm particularly impressed by the American and British people speaking Dutch. Just cos we're usually so rubbish at learning other languages

On the other hand it is incredibly regular and predictable compared to the Slavonic languages. It has a regular stress. Adjectives have only two possible forms. There are no genders. And most of the suffixes replace prepositions which are hard to use in most languages and in a lot of languages you have to learn the preposition plus what case ending to use with it but in Hungarian the preposition IS the case ending.

I think no one from this group has tried Arabic. It's usually really tough for westerners. Steve Kaufmann is trying to learn it currently alongside Farsi and struggling with both like he has never struggled with any other language before in his life

hello.. have you heard of the hungarian novelist Attila Bartis??? i like him...

I’m Dutch (and I’m fluent/proficient in some other languages), but now living in Hungary and the language here is the most challenging for me….😅

@@robborrel6786 but why living in a poor state and left netherlands?? netherland has a more boosting economy.l and education is at its highst level..

@@robborrel6786 but why living in a poor state and left netherlands?? netherland has a more boosting economy.l and education is at its highst level..

@@robborrel6786 Well, hats off to you that you are trying to learn/understand this very unique language! :) and if you think sometimes that it doesn't make sense, remember what I am writing now: learning Hungarian improves logical skills 😄

I loved the film but the novel was so much richer, yes.

English “Coffee or tea?” might be translated to Polish in at least three ways. So, yes, Polish have less words…

Actually Turkey is not in Europe. As far for the vocabulary many languages including Spanish, English and French have thousands of Greeks words. Are you sure it's easy to learn Greek grammatik?

@@antimimoniakos A few remarks (from an interested layman, I am not (!) an expert): 1.) Turkey is partly in Europe, but I agree that most of Turkey is in Asia. So that would mean that we would have to delete Turkish from the list and whe would be left with Finnish and Hungarian as most difficult languages in Europe 2.) It is certainly true that (derivatives of) Greek words are found in many European languages, also in Dutch by the way, so that would mean that Greek is a bit less difficult for us 3.) Word connections are not the same as grammatics, that is a different subject 4.) When I look it up on Google / Wikipedia I see that Greek actually an Indo European language, but in another subfamily then the Germanic and Romanic languages. So I would gather that Greek is quite a bit more difficult to learn for most European's compared to other Germanic or Romanic languages... Also the fact that Greek has its own Cyrillic alphabet doesn't make it any easier, of course.

Ja, wij zijn ook onder de indruk van hun kennis van het Nederlands! 😊 En ja, de Polyglot Gathering vindt elk jaar plaats! Je kunt meer info vinden op: polyglotgathering.com/

@@EasyDutch dank je wel!

Echt he! Ik zou denken dat hij een Nederlander was

Yeah his Dutch sounds extremely natural.

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As a Georgian, I can say Chinese was hardest I have ever come across. Ni Hao 😂

​@@user-qx5ei3rq5vAre you talking about Arabic dialects or standard Arabic?

Deutsch ist zwar nicht meine Muttersprache, aber ich habe sehr fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse und mir geht‘s in etwa genauso wie Dir! 😅 Ich glaube, wenn man schon Deutsch kann ist es ziemlich leicht in die Falle zu tappen, deutsche Wörter einfach zu „verniederländischen“. 😂 Dabei gibt es eigentlich sehr viele Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Sprachen! Deutsch hilft zwar beim *Lernen* der Sprache, aber nicht so sehr beim Erraten unbekannter Wörter!

@@eliasshakkour2904 Ja, das stimmt. Improvisieren in einer verwandten Sprache und diese Sprache beherrschen, ist nicht das Gleiche.

​@@eliasshakkour2904Fallen und Falsche Freude zwischen Niederländisch und Deutsch gibt's zwar viele aber das ändert nichts an der Tatsache, dass die extrem vielen Ähnlichkeiten und die grundlegenden syntaktischen Gemeinsamkeiten auf jeden Fall dabei helfen, Wörter, Strukturen usw. zu raten mit einer relativ hohen Wahrscheinlichkeit richtig zu liegen.

​@@ihsahnakerfeldt9280Ja, das ist wahr.

Ik denk dat AI een heel handig hulpmiddel is voor het leren van talen!

I started learning languages on my own about eight months ago, and I use the best and most effective / efficient language learning methods and techniques, namely spaced repetition (memorizing as many thousands of words as possible as fast as possible by watching all sorts of vocab videos multiple times, but over a period of time, not on the same day, but one should watch them at least twice or thrice on the first day and a few days later, and then they can be watched on maximum speed to save time at least once or twice a week or every other week etc, but one must be very focused on each word and on the English translation and visualize each word and each letter of each word in one’s mind, otherwise one won’t learn anything) and then observing how others use them in sentences and using them the same way, and also watching all sorts of videos on grammar / prepositions / verbs / pronunciation / conjunctions etc and videos with Dutch sub + English sub and videos about idioms and expressions etc, and one should try learning as many song lyrics (in the target language) as possible, and after learning at least 5.000 words, one should start watching more videos with both Dutch and English subs hardcoded, so that both subs are shown at the same time, because that’s how one can easily pick up new words in context and get used to the sentence structure etc, and it’s also a good idea to watch most videos at least twice or thrice, and revise them after a while, and always revise the words that have already been learned until all words can be remembered automatically, and even though it’s good to learn all the pronunciation rules at the beginning because it gives an inkling of what the words words sound like, one should always learn each word with its pronunciation and spelling, in Dutch and other languages, and once one gets to a really advanced level where one understands almost every word, one should start watching mostly videos with Dutch sub (or sub in another target language) and reading eBooks in the target language etc, as that’s how an automatic mode in a new language is developed! Besides, I naturally have great observational skills and great pattern recognition skills and great analytical skills, which makes it even easier for me to learn languages fast! I am writer level in Modern English + normal Scots dialect + Middle English (over 60.000 to 100.000 words in the three combined, maybe even more) and advanced level in Dutch (over 8.000 base words) and native speaker level in Spanish (over 10.000 base words to 15.000 words, maybe more, and I learned it 100% passively by watching lots of movies and TV series in Spanish and listening to a lot of songs with lyrics in Spanish) and intermediate level in Norwegian / German / Swedish and Portuguese (anywhere from 3.000 to 3.800 words, maybe more, and I can actually understand over 95% of the words I see in Portuguese because I know Spanish) and beginner level in Welsh / Icelandic / Breton / Frisian / Hungarian / Faroese / Occitan / Gallo / Aranese / French / Burgundian / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Italian / Galician / Catalan / Danish / Cornish / Luxembourgish / Guernsey / Limburgish / Aranese / Norn / Gothic / Old Norse / Old English / Old Dutch / Vandałic / Slovenian / Afrikaans (by Frisian, I meant all three Frisian languages, namely West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian, and I am also learning all languages based on these languages that are referred to as dialects, but they are in fact different languages, especially the Italian-based languages and the German-based languages and the West-Vlaamse Dutch-based languages and the French-based language that’s spoken in Wallonia / Belgium and Yolo and the Scots Doric language etc) and the other pretty languages that are on my list of languages I want to learn and improve, which is extremely overwhelming!

Klopt inderdaad. 😄

@@mariotedesco Ik wist niet dat je zo in het polyglotten zit! Leuk gespreksonderwerp voor bij de boodschappen, alleen ben je niet meer in die winkel!

@@weiareinboud6990 Nee, klopt, ik werk daar niet meer! 😊

Depende del tiempo que dediques al aprendizaje y de los idiomas que ya conoces! 😄

Aliaj homoj, kiuj estis ĉe la evento, lernis ĝin, sed ĉi tiuj ne!

Ik heb ook iets Turks geleerd en het is inderdaad heel erg moeilijk!!! Wat is je moedertaal?

@@eliasshakkour2904 Italiaans. En jouw moedertaal? Wat is jouw Turks niveau? (not sure if this sentece is correct)

@@gloria5334 Ti rispondo in italiano perché è più facile per me! La mia prima lingua è l’arabo e sono andato a una scuola americana (statunitense) quindi sono cresciuto bilingue e parlo entrambe le lingue a livello di madrelingua. Purtroppo sia l’arabo che l’inglese sono ben diversi dal turco, quindi tranne nel lessico (il turco ha un sacco di parole di origine araba) non ho avuto molti vantaggi nel mio apprendimento del turco! Per me la cosa più difficile è la grammatica, cioè la morfologia e la sintassi. Le parole e le frasi si costruiscono di una maniera totalmente diversa dall’arabo, l’inglese, l’italiano… Tutto è indietro! 😅 Esempio: “Per essere sani bisogna fare esercizio” diventa “Sağlık (sani) olmak (essere) için (per) spor (esercizio) yapmak (fare) lazım (bisogna)”! 😱 Per quanto riguarda il mio livello: Ho studiato la lingua per due anni, quindi con il tempo e le risorse sufficienti posso scrivere abbastanza bene, e posso anche scrivere e capire messaggi semplici, ma parlare e capire quanto detto è un’altra storia completamente! Purtroppo il mio cervello non può lavorare così velocemente da poter costruire e capire con facilità delle frase in una conversazione parlata! Mi manca anche molto vocabolario. E tu? Come ti va? [Se ho fatto errori in italiano e li vuoi correggere, fai pure!]

@@eliasshakkour2904 Ma dai, non dovrebbe essere più facile per te imparare l'arabo? Penso che a livello grammaticale fossero molto simili. Come mai stai imparando l'italiano? Per me ci sono altre lingue più belle. Come sta andando con turco intendi con "come ti va"? Insomma... non molto bene, sono molto frustrata. Il livello beginner non è mai divertente, ma spero in un anno di migliorare. :)

​​@@eliasshakkour2904 Hello, I'm a Bulgarian who has been learning Turkish for years (with some breaks). I just wanted to say that I understand your pain. 😅😅😅 The structure of Turkish sentences is really confusing but I really LOVE Turkish language, music and series/movies. So I'm determined to keep improving my skills.

No, from Belgium!

I first thought she was from Romania as well and was surprised she apparently learned Dutch with a Flemish accent.😅

@@EasyDutch Haha, that first stripe is blue, not black! 😂

and austronesian ones too because there are that few native speakers of it

Old and Proto-Austronesian are retired, sleeper, academical langs they're pretty but today, we have few speakers on the world to multiply this easy and pretty idiom 💜🥂🫂💙🍻🥂

Faroese and Icelandic peolpe don't give resources and don share this langs with many countries, they're acessible but the giverments hidden the resources and links ti all learn it.

There are a few more things now like Íslenska fyrir Alla. But yes, you're right. Finding resources is hard.

Sounds absolutely fascinating. Where can we learn about that?

@@markbr5898 I'm a polyglot and I've noticed this over time,being a polyglot can lead to an identity crisis this is my personal experience,I'm sure that linguists have noticed this and have studied it but I can't recommend a specific linguist or a specific book.

@@user-ry2qs7xf9k I have heard people say that their personality changes according to the language they are speaking. Is that what you are referring to?

@@markbr5898 that's part of it.

​@@user-ry2qs7xf9k Is it bad or positive