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Can English speakers understand the Dutch language? 🤓 Watch the video and play along to find out! 😁
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21:54 - 7. Sentence
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@Ecolinguist 2 года назад

German vs Dutch vs Flemish!! → ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5SUyI3dMASY.html

@robloxcodeguy8632 2 года назад

Cool

@themodcreatorg4731 2 года назад

ah yes me too

@nightliferoleplay5897 2 года назад

Fleming isn't a language they speqk dutch

@MrGedisoft 2 года назад

@@nightliferoleplay5897 Flemish is a distinct version of Dutch, next to "Hollands" dutch (I abreviate this to Hollands), such as American versus British versus Australian English. A lot of words are only known either in Flemish or Hollands. Hollands has a lot of English loan words, while Flemish is influenced by French, secondly Flemish uses a lot of brands in stead of the more general word. (f.e. in Flemish you write with a Bic (every day use) or a Parker (which is more fancy & expensive) while in Hollands you write with a balpen or balpoint ), other words are the same, but have a different meaning : f.e. Flemish "poepen" (=making love), Hallands "poepen" (= to poop).

@ThorWildBoar 2 года назад

Adding Platdeutsch would be interesting!

@edding8400 2 года назад

As a native Dutch speaker, I could understand all sentences.

@hesp248 2 года назад

😯😯😯

@misterkami2 2 года назад

As a native of Noord Brabant, I was very thrown off by the harsh g-sound; I couldn't understand a word ;-)

@janSimiman 2 года назад

@@misterkami2 I assume the word patat must have confused you quite a bit as wel.

@mmmmmmmmmmmmm 2 года назад

Underrated comment, I'm dying

@emmakerkhove3932 2 года назад

As a native flemish speaker i was also thrown very off guard by the harsh g sound

@britt2351 2 года назад

Me, watching as a dutch person: wow I'm really good at this

@lun4zhere 2 года назад

same- but i mostly speak english

@SusanneTrijntje 2 года назад

Me too! I have all the answers right

@inehagens9581 2 года назад

Me too

@esthervanwaart4329 2 года назад

Me too all correct Het is geweldig!

@s.arnold2583 2 года назад

As German it is also not too difficult3

@urphakeandgey6308 8 месяцев назад

I think this video really shows how much English is, in fact, a Germanic language no matter how much it tries to be a Romantic Language.

@Arabzene 5 месяцев назад

Romance language

@blazednlovinit 5 месяцев назад

It's Germanic, but it has words from loads of languages. English isn't trying to be a romance language, it's the most like Frisian than any other language.

@MRAPEXPREDATOR1 4 месяца назад

Mix of both

@KibyNykraft 3 месяца назад

@@blazednlovinit I guess the point was supposed to be that english, norwegian etc have too much influence from Latin (which only icelandic avoided)

@christian4609 3 месяца назад

Like germanic languages can't be romantic...😶

@Ruthlessleader Год назад

The fact that Simon didn't flex on others for knowing old English is commendable.

@martelkapo Год назад

He is a very humble lad!

@JanBruunAndersen 10 месяцев назад

But is it Old English, or is it actually Danish?

@lourier3 10 месяцев назад

And also that gives him an advantage that I feel the viewers should be aware of. Definitely not an average British English speaker

@peterfireflylund 8 месяцев назад

@@lourier3none of them is normal. Norbert knows some German + Hungarian and Spanish in addition to his Polish and English. The way Matt attacked the Japanese language is definitely also not normal. They all know a lot more about linguistics than normal people and they are all more intelligent than average.

@basboerboom9328 7 месяцев назад

@JanBruunAndersen It's Old English derived from West Germanic languages, but it indeed has a lot of Old Norse (derived from North Germanic languages) influences. In the end they are both Proto-Germanic languages.

@ballinbadger8635 2 года назад

Prediction: Simon, with his knowledge of old english, is going to knock this out of the park.

@AndrewPeverells 2 года назад

Aaaaaand you were absolutely right

@jonathanemslander6896 2 года назад

Ja ich habe das auch gedacht!

@mynameisgiovannigiorgio1027 2 года назад

and he was the only one with headphones :-)

@mistakenmeme 2 года назад

I know it

@milosbulatovic2578 2 года назад

Im learning German and I'm surprised i could understand almost all written Dutsch.

@Nostalgia_Realm 2 года назад

In this video: Old English turns out to be a gateway drug into learning other Germanic languages

@gijsbertdevries9445 2 года назад

That isn't exactly strange, considering English is part-way founded from Dutch.Then again Dutch is from old German(Germanic), with many similar sounding words and verbs. So old English is based on the Dutch language. The Dutch people has invaded England in 1688-1991 or something. So all considered it isn't that strange.

@Niosus 2 года назад

I'd say that old English is actually closer to modern Dutch than English from my extremely limited experience. In the Dutch courses near the end of high school we went into the history of the languages a bit and had to "read" some old stories in their original language. I found it incredibly hard to read, but when someone else was reading out loud it sounded a bit like a very strange Dutch dialect and I could understand most of it after adjusting to it for a few minutes (like with any strong dialect, really). I guess the combination of being a native Dutch speaker who's also fluent in English gives your brain most of the information you need to just intuitively translate much of that language.

@gijsbertdevries9445 2 года назад

@@Niosus that would mean I can read it pretty easily. I'm quite fluent in English and I'm Dutch. I haven't read any old English, but hearing it from Simon it really sounded quite Dutch. I have a harder time understanding the dialects of Limburg and northern Brabant, than old English.

@jonathanodude6660 2 года назад

@@gijsbertdevries9445 english was already middle/modern by those times with the french influences on top of the germanic base.

@evadoornewaard6559 2 года назад

Well they all used to look/sound a lot like each other, but languages like for example Dutch and German were influenced by languages like Latin and Greek because of the Romans, but there are still similarities. So if you know those old Germanic languages, it makes it much easier to guess. (I'm not sure if everything I said is correct, this is what my German teacher told me😅)

@tobyetc Год назад

As an English speaker (age 80) who lived one year in Groningen when I was 11, I was happily surprised to understand all the sentences! Shows the power of early learning.

@teresasijpkens859 10 месяцев назад

That’s amazing!

@autumnphillips151 10 месяцев назад

I’m 23 and afraid that I’ve missed out on my chance to take advantage of that “early learning power”. Unfortunately, I didn’t become passionate about languages until this past year. My grandmother wanted me to learn Spanish when I was a young child, and I tried to learn Latin when I was a teenager, but I couldn’t stick with either of them because I had no passion for them. What’s attracted me to linguistics now is the concept of language families-specifically, learning about which languages are most closely related to English. It gives me this really pleasant rush of a feeling of connection when I discover cognates and other things that English has in common with the other Germanic languages, and I wish that I’d been introduced to them when I was a child, instead of the Italic languages. I’ve been learning Swedish for two months now, because it’s the one that really attracted me, and my knowledge of Swedish helped me with guessing some things in this video that my knowledge of English didn’t help with, but I’m still afraid that it’s too late for me to develop the skills to really be fluent in other languages.

@AltIng9154 9 месяцев назад

If you lived in Emden... you know the city mentioned by Shakespeare... you would be happily surprised also. 😊

@AltIng9154 9 месяцев назад

@@autumnphillips151 I am 63... and still interested,... although missed early learning also.😄

@KibyNykraft 3 месяца назад

@@teresasijpkens859 The first sentence is too easy for everyone from Norway / Sweden / Denmark / Germany + the englishspeaking countries. But I guess a soft start :) Today we say "bord" in norwegian for table, but in classic norwegian "tafl". We also have "tavle" meaning the blackboard the teacher writes on ("tavla"= "the" blackboard). We ofc anyway know the english "table".

@samuelli-a-sam Год назад

Simon was fantastic in this one. Old English is definitely quite similar to Dutch as we have a lot of influences from the English. Fun fact: Frisian is very similar to Old English

@tpower1912 Год назад

Would love to see Simon try talking with a Frisian speaker

@samuelli-a-sam Год назад

@@tpower1912 Samee

@onecupofconsciousnessplease Год назад

There's probably some influence, but I think it's just that old English simply used to be more similar to the other Germanic languages, but then diverged (it lost some words we Dutch-speakers still use in some form)

@christophercolumbus8944 Год назад

sounds like dutch has hardly evolved lol

@Ashitaka255 Год назад

Frisian is closer to old English than it is to Dutch IIRC. Dutch seems to be influenced by High German whereas English and Frisian stick to their ingevonic roots. Dutch pronounciations are an absolute killer for English speakers, I can only understand it when it's written.

@FeanaroNoldoran 2 года назад

I'm a little disappointed Simon didn't introduce himself as: Speaker of Old English

@Sebbir 2 года назад

Yeah

@glasit00 2 года назад

Simon is, apparently, not a man of many words.

@xMithras 2 года назад

Also TIL Old English is pretty much just Dutch with a funny accent

@KianSheik 2 года назад

Yeah definitely, he's op not a standard speaker. Too humble

@ajx2956 2 года назад

He definitely had an upper hand.

@potman4581 2 года назад

"I think the Old English has helped me more than I realized it would." Absolute fucking King.

@LogiForce86 2 года назад

If he also knew the Lower Saxon language he'd be doing this with two fingers up the nose.

@TheEvertw 2 года назад

Olde English still has a lot of the original Anglo-Saxon languages in it, and as Dutch is a direct descendant of those languages, it figures that would help ;-)

@potman4581 2 года назад

@@TheEvertw Old English is Anglo-Saxon. Those are the same thing. Old English was a group of related dialects from the West Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. Dutch is also a West Germanic language and hence shares many features with English. At the end of the Old English period, English underwent two major changes that made it distinctly different from other Germanic languages: 1. a massive simplification of its grammar; 2. Latinization (through Norman French) of most of its lexicon. This smudged away a lot of English's obvious similarities and parallels with its sister languages after the Old English period. Old English is hence the most similar among the stages of English to other Germanic languages, the rest of which did not undergo the same languages English did. Dutch is not, however, an "Anglo-Saxon" language. The Anglo-Saxons was the name used to refer, very roughly, to the Germanic tribes that migrated to the British Isles after the Romans left. The ancestors of Dutch speakers, however, never left mainland Europe, and hence are not Anglo-Saxon. English's closest relative on the mainland is Frisian, which, together with English, forms the Anglo-Frisian branch of the West Germanic languages. Dutch is more distantly related to English than Frisian is. Simon is a descendant of the Anglo-Saxons and speaks their language, giving him a better understanding of the Germanic languages of his distant cousins than the rest of us English speakers. Hope this clears things up.

@barbarawright5306 2 года назад

@@LogiForce86 Is that an expression meaning "easily"? Very colourful!

@LogiForce86 2 года назад

@@barbarawright5306 Yup, if there is one thing odd about the Dutch language it's our proverbs and sayings. Also we like to swear or more like curse with horrible diseases. Like cancer, plague, cholera, tyfus, and more. When we curse we do it properly. 😅 I think once you dive into that part of our language you'll be amazed at how colorful it is.

@headrush3794 Год назад

As a German with English knowledge I understand almost all. Especially if you hear the sentence and see the written from. Some sentences I understand immediately. Like "Mijn vriend doet kaas op zijn brood." Means in German "Mein Freund tut Käse auf sein Brot" Acutally "tut" is mostly interchanged with "macht"(makes) in case, but in some regions of Germany tut is also used.

@pilzz03 Год назад

As a native german that is almost fluent in dutch and currently at uni to become a Dutch teacher in the future, I actually got every sentence! No, I‘m actually so impressed by Simon. I knew that old English is quite similar to modern Dutch and German but to be able to put the sentences together like that is seriously impressive.

@oOIIIMIIIOo 10 месяцев назад

Old englisch and dutch is more like german dialects spoken. As I know the dialects spoken near the border to belgium and the netherlands, I understand it pretty well.

@AltIng9154 9 месяцев назад

@@oOIIIMIIIOo I think Low Lands German is not a German dialect. If it would be true... Old English and Dutch are German dialects. Shall ick di vertellen dat je Anglisk prat wer ick bün to Hus?😁

@bos3489 2 года назад

I felt really smart during this test, then I remembered I am Dutch.

@tatafelizardo8532 2 года назад

Oh please! Hahaha

@Mika-_. 2 года назад

Same bro

@MrTimurLP 2 года назад

i felt really smart too, as a german speaker

@applejuices 2 года назад

@@MrTimurLP that’s more impressive than if you’re dutch

@margjehagenauw8352 2 года назад

Same

@MrWennerstrom 2 года назад

"will be representing a British English speaker" (who speaks Old English fluently)

@axellfonzie9067 2 года назад

that is the interesting part of it

@Ruthavecflute 2 года назад

Yeah, not exactly a typical English speaker is he

@russellbartholomew9996 2 года назад

Honestly, a typical monolingual English speaker without knowledge of OE would kill a project like this. We just aren't used to listening to unfamiliar languages to try and make partial meaning out of them. Even in this video, they aren't solving riddles like the Romance languages videos do. Any videos for Germanic languages including English need either someone who is knowledgeable with OE or another Germanic language like Simon, Cefin from Leornende, and Dr. Jackson Crawford (specialist in ON), or maybe someone who is bi-dialectal and speaks a regional variation of English or Scots.

@YukiTheOkami 2 года назад

old englsich was verry close to old german and dutsch and danisch so he kinda cheated

@nunya5136 2 года назад

😂😂😂

@charlotteanna 11 месяцев назад

simon was very good, didn't know how helpful old english can be. as an english speaking german I had no problem understanding.

@sovagsova7413 4 месяца назад

impressive how Simon was able to understand everything by decoding the meanings with the solid knowledge of how language logic has developed trough time

@raymondwhatley9954 2 года назад

My knowledge of German seems to have given me an unfair advantage while I was playing along at home.

@angycucumber4319 2 года назад

If you know German and English, Dutch is easy

@mr_heffy2576 2 года назад

@@angycucumber4319 are you sure? Dutch is a hard language, I am dutch and I sometimes struggle with the language

@angycucumber4319 2 года назад

@@mr_heffy2576 No, I'm not saying it's easy to speak, I'm just saying that dutch is a mix of german and english, so it's really easy to understand.

@mr_heffy2576 2 года назад

@@angycucumber4319 some words from German are used yes, but that is almost none, and yes, we use a lot of English words, but that can't help you with the spelling (dutch words)

@angycucumber4319 2 года назад

@@mr_heffy2576 Oh ok

@Foodgeek 2 года назад

As a Danish, German and English speaker. Reading Dutch almost always makes perfect sense :)

@0799qwertzuiop 2 года назад

As a German, Dutch and English speaker written Danish makes a lot of sense to me. It's probbably closest to Dutch. Altough when it's spoken I only understand very little ^^

@fuckpolicestate 2 года назад

Native Russian and German Speaker, almost native in English, with a slight accent. Almost all spot on, but the spoken language throws me off when spoken fast or heavily slurred. Written it's a breeze.

@stephaniewilson7352 2 года назад

@@0799qwertzuiop Same, written Dutch makes sense knowing German. Spoken Dutch is harder.

@kassandraglueck2794 2 года назад

I speak English and German, and I got 7 of 8 right! (I got the supermarket one half right). A lot of them sound so similar,and the spelling is sooo close too!

@enju4013 2 года назад

As a German, Swedish and English speaker Dutch is easier to listen to than Danish

@stefaniac2095 11 месяцев назад

I am Italian, I speak only basic German and I understood every sentence right away. So proud of myself

@AltIng9154 9 месяцев назад

Great, you are talented. 😊 I guess you speak almost perfect German but you are "bescheiden", right?😊

@stefaniac2095 8 месяцев назад

@@AltIng9154 not at all, I speak German like a 4 year old at best , I can just guess the etymology of Germanic words from my English

@AltIng9154 8 месяцев назад

@@stefaniac2095 .... some 4 years old kids are quite good, don't worry!🤗

@nichderjeniche 4 месяца назад

I doubt that you understood every single word correctly

@user-wn8cp3qf1x 2 месяца назад

Bravissimo!!!

@usayeed727 Год назад

I’m native level in speaking English and never studied Dutch before. I understood almost all the sentences once they were transcribed because like Simon I love studying the history of English and that allows an easier comprehension. Seeing the roots of languages is so interesting and helpful!

@Jollofmuncher2000 Год назад

Alot of these sentences will be a bit similar in English because in modern English they use 100 % germanic words as the sentences

@flyingfoxes4630 2 года назад

"My friend makes cash with his blood." - Norbert, 2021

@InfiniteGreninja 2 года назад

19:51

@PhilippeLarcher 2 года назад

outside the supermarket with a dog

@EmilPetrov42 2 года назад

Norbert rules 😄😆😎

@thehighwayman78 2 года назад

Yeah that was hilarious 😂😂😂

@jamesrogers5277 2 года назад

If Norbert were Transylvanian this translation would seem perfectly reasonable.

@CrashExhibition 2 года назад

"We have the word aardappel" Simon immediately: Like earth-apple, ground-apple. The lad would have Dutch down in days :D

@al424242 2 года назад

Like the French Pomme de Terre "apple of the ground"

@DieFlabbergast 2 года назад

That's a pretty obvious one, really. If you're even half-educated, you should know that Aardvaark is Dutch for "earth-pig."

@PetraStaal 2 года назад

@@DieFlabbergast aardvark is an Afrikaans word.

@RedDevil2557 2 года назад

@@PetraStaal Afrikaans is a Germanic language derived from Dutch. So it kinda makes sense that it has similarities.

@csreiter 2 года назад

I knew what this meant too, but I couldn’t remember why I knew that “aard” was earth.

@Bartkonig 7 месяцев назад

Maybe I'm just a linguistic geek, but I love watching these videos. And It's very interesting to see how much these people do or do not understand Dutch. Keep it up😉 (Dutchie here!)

@eliseivanica Год назад

i’m australian so a native english speaker with a VERY small amount of swedish knowledge, i can’t even speak complete sentences however that small amount of knowledge helped me get so much?! i’m impressed 😭

@kikidee23 Год назад

Same, native English speaker with a small amount of German, and it helped me too!

@jjgg3963 2 года назад

Simon's analytic skills are really impressive in the way he disconnects from his own linguistic background

@mctbaggins2084 2 года назад

The fact that he found "squirrel" from "eekhoorn" while everyone saw "acorn" was very impressive.

@timoloef 2 года назад

from Simon's videos I already noticed how close old English is to dutch, certainly if you understand local dutch dialects

@j.s.c.4355 2 года назад

Simon’s analytic skills are that good because he speaks old English, So he knows all the cognates and isn’t confused by non-cognate words like the others are. For example, he recognized DAG as day right away because it’s the same in old English. He also knew that dog is not an old English word and that HUND is the Germanic word.

@knispler666 2 года назад

@@mctbaggins2084 I am German and I fell for it. Even though we also say "Eichhörnchen" which means small eekhorn.

@Dwg256 2 года назад

@18booma 2 года назад

As an Afrikaans person I felt like i was almost cheating. The patat got me though.

@marktegrotenhuis 2 года назад

Afrikaans lijkt heel veel op Nederlands. So I see why it would feel like cheating. 😉

@V3loCiTy123 2 года назад

Patat is a sweet potato in Afrikaans

@jasonmuller1199 2 года назад

Yeah the patat got me as well, i thought it would be weird eating sweet potato with mayonaise but hey you never know what Europeans get up to

@gabzie1668 2 года назад

Afrikaans is my 2nd language... and I haven't needed to use it since leaving school but I understood about 80% of what she was saying. 😎

@Isochest 2 года назад

@@jasonmuller1199 Chips with Mayonnaise. I only see that in Great Yarmouth in the UK. But then again that is close to Den Helder in the Netherands where you see fish and chip shops like in the UK

@RooibaardBoerseun Год назад

As an Afrikaner who speaks Afrikaans I too could understand and make out the meaning of all of the sentences. Very interesting video. Thanks. Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦

@thinkpolish Год назад

I think it really helps to speak at least some German on top of English. My German is really basic, but almost all the correct answers I got were with the help of German. As an English teacher, I also have some knowledge of Old English but I never thought of it, just my elementary German. And by the way, I'm Polish, so cześć Norbert! (and hi guys 😊)

@georgthesecond Год назад

I know English quite well, but I feel like my basic knowledge of German helped me a lot more here.

@lukezenon 11 месяцев назад

I have the same observations. Też jako Polak👍

@Whiskey11Gaming 10 месяцев назад

Made the same observation. I had the basic structure and verbs down but the nouns required me to dig deep into my limited German vocabulary. I think I did OK with a real basic German understanding and my native English. I imagine the Dutch and Germans would be better on soaking to each other than trying to read each other's words due to how similar everything sounds but how differently it looks.

@AltIng9154 9 месяцев назад

I always admire the language skills of slavic people. You learn Germanic language with almost no problems and we are still the "

@AltIng9154 9 месяцев назад

who are the tribes incable to speak at all,... as you call us... name us... "Nemek"... right? 😁

@cheeveka3 2 года назад

There needs to be a video of Old English, German, and Dutch.😌

@jonathanemslander6896 2 года назад

💯

@eli_7295 2 года назад

Absolutely!

@haroldgodwinson3410 2 года назад

and frisian

@cheeveka3 2 года назад

@@haroldgodwinson3410 That would amazing as well but I have feeling Norbet won’t do it 🥲 I wish he more open to doing more Germanic languages

@oidualclaudi0 2 года назад

That’s what we’ve been asking for

@eljuano28 2 года назад

The "false friends" words are strong with this language.

@makkiewakkie9267 2 года назад

What’s false friends?

@nicko9046 2 года назад

@@makkiewakkie9267 When a word sounds like something in your language so you assume it's the same meaning, but is often totally or amusingly different.

@eli_7295 2 года назад

Yeah, as German native speaker I fell into a few traps^^ But aardappel (or so) is the same Word as the Austrian german word Erdapfel which means potato, it was funny to see that this word turns up in both the northern and southern "border regions" of the german language.

@user-yp6yr9te7l 2 года назад

@@eli_7295 Same thing in English. Potatoes used to be called earth apples. And in French they're pommes de terre. Apples of Earth. In Chinese they are earth bean "土豆 (tudou)." Basically they are all called earth + some type of crop in most languages.

@OntarioTrafficMan 2 года назад

The neat thing about Dutch false friends is that the correct translation is usually close by as well. Dutch "door" has nothing to do with the English word 'door' despite being pronounced and spelt exactly the same, but the correct translation "deur" still looks and sounds pretty similar to the English one. Some more examples: Dutch "beer" does not mean 'beer'. Beer in Dutch is "bier", pronounced exactly the same as in English. "Beer" is pronounced like 'bear' (the animal) and that's what it means. Dutch "heel" (16:30) has nothing to do with the English word 'heel'. The Dutch for a heel is 'hiel' which is pronounced exactly the same as in English. Dutch "wil" means 'want', not 'will'. However, it historically meant that in English too, and you still see that meaning in expressions like 'if you will', or in old literature ('You may speak as you will'). To say that you are going to do something in Dutch, you can say "Ik zal __" (literally 'I shall __') or "Ik ga __" (literally 'I go ___'). Dutch "fijn" sounds like English 'fine', but it actually means very nice, not just okay. It used to mean that in English too, which is why we have things like 'fine wine', which actually means 'very nice wine', not just 'okay wine'.

@lukezenon 11 месяцев назад

Im not a linguist, but i know english and also remember a bit of german from school, so it helped me to guess almost all sentences. This is great channel and great idea! Pozdrowienia z Polski😊

@stacycurrie3438 Год назад

Loved this segment. As a Dutch learner, I found the discussion to be quite informative. And very fun!

@markdelange3638 2 года назад

Funny how Simon was able to understand a lot of it through his command of Old English - when I studied English in university, I aced my Old English classes by reading everything as though it were Dutch.

@oliveranderson7264 2 года назад

As a native English speaker who had to learn Dutch in school, I had the same experience in reverse lol I was surprised at how much Old English I could understand without having ever studied it

@einaradame8132 2 года назад

In my case, as a native Spanish speaker, what helps me with the understanding of Portuguese or Italian is my knowledge of Old Spanish. :D

@hemiolaguy 2 года назад

It would have helped a lot if the guys knew some basic German. For example: ik = ich liggen = liegen dag = Tag Wij willen = Wir wollen kopen = kaufen brood = Brot

@markdelange3638 2 года назад

@@einaradame8132 what helps me with both Spanish and Italian, is my high school French and a rudimentary knowledge of Latin.

@3334001 2 года назад

@@hemiolaguy also the cheese was recognisable spelt but pronounced differently

@fishfingersandlauren 2 года назад

"Dutch use patat and the Flemish use friet" half of the Netherlands just became honorary Belgians I guess lol

@nurailidepaepe2783 2 года назад

well in flanders you'd say "frieten" or "frietjes" not "friet"

@daanmani409 2 года назад

patat is literally wrong it is literally friet

@matthijsoudkerk8859 2 года назад

@@daanmani409 patat is gewoon goed. Patat verwijst naar de aardappel terwijl friet verwijst naar het feit dat het gefrituurd is. We zouden eigenlijk zoals de Duitser aardappel frieten moeten zeggen.

@LycanthropiesSpell 2 года назад

@@matthijsoudkerk8859 De Duitsers hebben het van de Fransen, vandaar dat ze ' Pommes ' zeggen...wat dan weer appel betekend...dus ' gefrituurde appels '.

@matthijsoudkerk8859 2 года назад

@@LycanthropiesSpell ik weet het. Misschien moeten we gewoon gefrituurde aardappel zeggen

@k.s.8064 7 месяцев назад

The eekhorn was the only word which got me. Thought it was kind of a bird sitting in the tree. All the other sentences I was right. As a German I can understand good, but after reading/seeing the sentences it became much more clear for me. I just love these kind of vids!!! Please go on with that!!!

@martinkobil 13 дней назад

Me, too. First I was thinking what kind of animal can sit on a tree? Maybe it is the english word air..., so its a bird. As I saw the word horn writen, I was thiking Eichhorn and then Eichhörnchen.

@b.a.johnson5820 Год назад

I loved this video! Please make more like this and your guest host (Kim) does a great job.

@lukasdinkel384 2 года назад

As a native German and as an english speaker, I could understand nearly everything.

@l0lhiliviahere681 2 года назад

same lol. Also as a native german and as an english speaker

@peppy5121 2 года назад

Dutch an german are very alike, im a native dutch speaker and i can understand german without having learnt it.

@thfc7492 2 года назад

Goed dat je een beetje Nederlands kan dat is toch een veel leukere taal dan Duits

@tommi7554 2 года назад

As a non-germanic language speaker, i still understood pretty much everything. Many of those words are somewhat close to english, just have to think for a while.

@l1l14n8 2 года назад

same, but for many only with the transcript

@JYHRO0 2 года назад

It proves the proximity of old Germanic languages. Simon had the advantage with old English

@JamesJones-zt2yx 2 года назад

Yes! I bet he'd recognize the Dutch past participle prefix from words like "yclept" (called). Did earlier English have that "I have Uncle Jan a pen bought" word order?

@jan237 2 года назад

@@JamesJones-zt2yx Maybe, but German definitely has it

@JYHRO0 2 года назад

@@JamesJones-zt2yx no need for sarcasm. I do not know Dutch and I know that it is its own language that developed its own quirks. I also know that at the time of old English all Germanic languages were still very close to one another having barely split apart for only a few centuries.

@eskolini Год назад

I am a native German speaker, I speak fluent Afrikaans and English. I understand Dutch perfectly when spoken slowly.

@valhoundmom Год назад

These videos are so much fun. Thank you for them.

@kasane1337 2 года назад

I like how I, as a German, immediately read "Begreift ihr, was hier steht?" And yes, yes, ich begreife das, bzw. verstehe ich das.

@kebman 2 года назад

Norwegian: Begriper, forstår, fatter. :)

@NakulGanapathy 2 года назад

The direct English translation would be “do you grip what stands here” 😂

@herr_k69 2 года назад

@@NakulGanapathy Almost! "Greifen" without "Be-" means to grasp/grip, like in English we say "Did you grasp what he said". They're closely related :)

@Lissanuddin 2 года назад

Except that 'begreifen' in German signifies an understanding of the thought (if any...) expressed in an utterance, not merely linguistic understanding. The Dutch 'begrijpen' means the latter, though.

@NakulGanapathy 2 года назад

@@herr_k69 yeah the direct translation would be do you grasp what I’m saying but I feel like that’s a very posh way to say do you understand what I’m saying which in German would be “verstehst du, was ich sage”

@Syarikat 2 года назад

No, Simon was the only one to get the first sentence right, becoause it was “boeken” (plural), Matt made it singular.

@Oldoldold2023 2 года назад

My thoughts exactly lol

@angycucumber4319 2 года назад

Yea because I just assumed that boeken was plural because I think german and dutch grammar are similar

@GamingCat580 2 года назад

@@angycucumber4319 yeah they are

@roggae1981 Год назад

Thanks Norbert! Your very creative answers were so entertaining for my German and English speaking self!

@cony.ceroni Год назад

Loved your video. I am from chile but interested in dutch language, i know that teacher so the video got my eye and i watched... So cool!!! Thanks for making it and sharing.

@Tvngsten 2 года назад

As someone who learnt a bit of german and swedish, i can understand dutch fairly well actually

@tytanowykarol 2 года назад

Yeah swedish seems so similar.

@watermeloenislekker 2 года назад

As a native Dutch speaker, we can understand German pretty well (and vice versa) but Swedish, except from some words, is hard to understand.

@philomelodia 2 года назад

I studied German and learned a little bit of old English. It helped a lot.

@bogdanjasovic9930 2 года назад

Same, I know English and I'm learning German at the moment.

@jonathanpetruska7726 2 года назад

Same with me. Only “naar” threw me off. Heard it as Svenska “när”, so I just went with English “near”. I studied Swedish much more than German, though.

@decekfrokfr3mdx 2 года назад

English speaker here: Dutch is the ONLY language where if I can hear people speaking 10-20 metres away, I think it's English, but 10 seconds later when they're closer to me, I realise it's not.

@DieFlabbergast 2 года назад

You are ONLY the five millionth person to make that observation :)

@RockSolitude 2 года назад

I would add Flemish to that as well.

@decekfrokfr3mdx 2 года назад

@@RockSolitude Flemish is basically Dutch. I've never heard Frisian but I believe it's also close to English in that way.

@decekfrokfr3mdx 2 года назад

@TwinTurbo Ray Yes, I agree. I said Flemish is basically the same, not Frisian.

@xXTheoLinuxXx 2 года назад

@@decekfrokfr3mdx Frisian and Old-English are indeed close related.

@latoyalatty9299 Год назад

I really enjoyed this, a part two would be good!

@stevekockel4233 Год назад

Really liked the video. Keep up the good work :)

@tonycasey3183 2 года назад

I really like these "can X language speakers understand Y language speakers" videos. I also really like how laid back and quietly confident Simon Roper is.

@EASYTIGER10 2 года назад

I'm a Brit who speaks a little German and understood each sentence. Speaking that combination really helps with Dutch. Wherever English has adopted a Norman/French word that stops you understanding its Dutch version, knowing its Germanic equivalent fills in the gaps.

@mrtech2259 2 года назад

Except for quite a few words like "slim" for "smart" or "Er" for "there".

@kremepye3613 2 года назад

As an english speaker with a reasonable level of norwegian i understood everything (once i saw it written at least)

@guangvandenbosch1402 2 года назад

I would kind of agree with you, but the languages: German and Dutch are different from my opinion. For example: I'm speaking Dutch because I'm from Holland (the Netherlands), but I almost can't understand anything from German people

@vsabadazh 2 года назад

@@guangvandenbosch1402 even in written form?

@rdeloges7957 2 года назад

That is really interesting to hear. I know as an English/Spanish speaker, I see so many cognates and similarities between Spanish and French (obviously) but also with English...especially if you know what letters typically replace each other. E.g. caballero, chevalier, cavalry(man) (i.e. cavalier, the original "gentleman" horseman, landed "gentry"). The "V" is often pronounced like a "B" in Spanish, not only in written form, but even with native Spanish speakers, who pronounce Veronica "Beronica" etc. You can see the Norman influence on English for sure and thus the related Spanish word back to the root Latin, at least relating to words that are not Germanic.

@artdewerk2192 Год назад

This is a fun and entertaining way to learn Dutch! Thanks!

@janaemad9734 Год назад

Knowing German definitely helped tons with this! I'm a non-native English speaker, and I found myself using more of my German knowledge than my English one for this. I'll say that the one sentence with 'slim' in it definitely tripped me up!!

@Lauren-hinrichsen 2 года назад

Me, an English teacher who speaks Dutch: *my time has come*

@Ruthavecflute 2 года назад

How well did you do?

@alindaniel1385 2 года назад

*Seen by Lauren*

@JulianGuba 2 года назад

Simon knowing basically everything was so satisfying, as me as a German speaker I could understand every sentence and was just hoping they would catch on 😂

@brittakriep2938 2 года назад

In swabian Baum is also Boom.

@Jaworr96 2 года назад

Simon is Germanic equivalent of Vit and his knowledge about Slavic languages 😜

@dj1rst 2 года назад

Whenever someone is fluent in old English than its Simon. I like him very much. He is such a nerd in what he is doing but that made him even more likeable.

@audrey9561 2 года назад

German is my 3rd language so it was pretty easy to make out most of what she said

@szinga 2 года назад

as a person who also comes from poland as norbert, I thought he would catch on much more than he did! german is often offered as a second foreign language in polish middle/high schools, so most people I know had some contact with that language, as small it might've been. I learnt german for 3 years in middle school, and even though I remember nothing of it (lol), the basic understanding of how it works helped me immensely with dutch.

@alastairstaunton7081 11 месяцев назад

Really enjoyed the comparison of languages! Here in Ireland, I could (almost) understand everything. A little German and some knowledge of older English forms helped a lot. Please do more of these. Delighted to find your channel!

@oOIIIMIIIOo 10 месяцев назад

I once metvs guy frome Ireland I dpoke to for a longer time in general english when I asked him to speak his hometown dialect and I was surprised, that itt was a mix of german, german dialect, dutch and normal englisch and maybe some svandinavian I am thinking of at the moment. When you are young, you don't know much aboutvthevworld. Today I can see the common roots in different languages. 😄

@alisonadams5555 Год назад

Really fun! I speak English and have studied German and so happy that I got almost all of them correct! So learning Dutch doesn’t seem like such a stretch for me!

@ukishnzer Год назад

I feel like Simon is the smart kid sitting quietly in the back of the class.

@AltIng9154 9 месяцев назад

As it is already mentioned, Simon is not an ordinary English guy. His hobby is Old English... that means no wonder he understands Dutch and Low Lands German. 😊

@just_callme_bee 2 года назад

Me as a Dutch person watching this, impressed by Simon’s impressive translations. Like for real, he did good!

@94FBN 2 года назад

Armyyyyy 🤭

@Corony 2 года назад

Yes indeed he did. Amazing how the antique Englisch has simularities with modern Dutch.

@meganoob12 2 года назад

well, that is because he id fluent in old english. old english is the original anglo-saxon origin of english, which means it is purely germanic with influences from Northern Germany/the Netherlands and Scandinavia. This was English before the vowel shift and before the Normans and French influenced the language to create modern English. Old-English is a pure germanic language and thus he knows alot of cognates and is used to the grammar. He also knoes some German.

@TronFnknBlow Год назад

Check out some of the videos featuring Simon speaking old english, and you'll find that goes both ways.

@abeedhal6519 Год назад

@@meganoob12 Right it clearly doesn't really show wether an english speaker would understand dutch. He has knowledge of a dead langugae and knows all those details about sound shifts ect. Also if he knows German then he should be able to read most of the dutch sentences anyways.

@-moses-6898 Год назад

Loved this video !

@theonetheonlyjoey 7 месяцев назад

I'm a native British English speaker and I could understand certain words when they were spoken but when it was written down, it became much easier to understand

@enidan_ 2 года назад

As a native german speaker, I always find Dutch sounds kinda cute, and a bit like a mixture of German and English. I'm also happy, that I understood quite a lot of it :)

@thenonexistinghero 2 года назад

The Dutch in this video is a bit different from usual though. The pacing's a lot slower since otherwise it sounds like a single word to people who can't speak it. And the pronunciation is slightly different as well for many of the words to what you'd hear in the language for real... I'm assuming that's done to make it easier for non-Dutch speakers to understand.

@annacluckers1698 2 года назад

I understand why you're saying Dutch sounds like English a bit but maybe only so in the Netherlands.. In Flanders the 'r' is spoken more like the french one, from the throat (okay weird explanation) and in the Netherlands it sounds more like 'are', like in English. We in Belgium also think German is cute :) or me at least

@empyrionin 2 года назад

@@annacluckers1698 this question will sound ignorant... So then tap/trill "r" is not used in dutch? If i want to pick up at least a mildly dutch accent I will have to use basically the English "r"? I'm Romanian, but I can do all three "r"s (and a few others like the Czech one), just want to know which sounds more authentic.

@FatiFleur-jn7ky Год назад

@@annacluckers1698 The r sound really depends on what part of the country someone is from. We're a small country but there are strong regional differences. An Achterhoeker sounds very different from a Hollander and also sounds very different from a Limburger.

@camrendavis6650 2 года назад

Finally!!! More Germanic languages!!!

@JelMain 10 месяцев назад

If Simon is interested, the Brabantse Yeesten are written at roughly the point the two languages diverged. The key is to read it in a Geordie accent

@samilsam Год назад

I would never miss a class with a teacher like that

@yannschonfeld5847 2 года назад

I lived in Brittany for 35 years. Once, 20 years ago, a friend asked me to interpret with three Friesian farmers and a Breton farmer to negotiate their manure spreading quotas. I don't speak Dutch or Friesian. The farmers understood my English and I understood their Friesian.. Another time in 1988 in the Netherlands, in a campground, a young man asked me " Is het water koud?" (Which it was) so I simply answered in English. There are enough dialects in England to steer a person to a fairly close understanding of either Nederlands or Friesian or even Plat Dütch which has amongst the older generation a close sounding language to certain dialects in England or more precisely in Kent or Essex.

@amjan 2 года назад

Intetesting, thanks!

@katarinawikholm5873 2 года назад

I’m Swedish and spent some time in and around Hamburg/Lübeck as a kid. At the time I got along just adapting my ear to the local dialect and moulding what I said, so I could buy icecream or ask simple questions like directions. Sadly it all went away when studying formal German in school bc High German pronounciation is so different.

@dj1rst 2 года назад

You know there is Essex, Sussex, Wessex and Northex where you ken(t) speak some Saxon.

@generalgrafx 2 года назад

Very impressed by Simon and how Old English helps him to understand Dutch.

@Amghannam 2 года назад

Yeah, as a Dutch speaker, I also noticed I understand Old English better than native English speakers who only speak English.

@bernarddelafontaine4825 2 года назад

Your being impressed could be avoided by the most basic knowledge of the languages spoken in your own tiny backyard.

@generalgrafx 2 года назад

@@bernarddelafontaine4825 ¿Que?

@bernarddelafontaine4825 2 года назад

@@generalgrafx That's what I was afraid of.

@Sweepout Год назад

It’s so fascinating to me the roots in old and Middle English and how close it shows English is to other Germanic languages like Dutch.

@phillipnash9461 6 месяцев назад

Well done Simon ,i very much enjoyed this as i speak many languages and am particularly fascinated by Old English and Frisian .

@Piratenbraut 2 года назад

As a native German and also a fluid English speaker this was surprisingly easy

@arianam9977 2 года назад

I'm Spanish but started learning German some months ago and I also found it pretty easy thanks to knowing the basics of German!

@catblues8645 2 года назад

Same here! Native German, fluent English - - I feel like if it's slow and I can read along, I understand 90% of Dutch. If it's in a normal spoken context, i.e. watching a film in Dutch, it's a bit more difficult but I'd say I understand enough to get the idea most of the time

@MoonieLovegood 2 года назад

@@catblues8645 same with german. I just have difficulties with the grammar. -your dutch neighbor

@scottlarson1548 2 года назад

I'm the opposite with the two languages, and I made the mistake of leaning to a German possible translation instead of an English one. For example I never thought "elke" could be "every" since I was expecting something similar to "jeder".

@ThePrinceofParthia 2 года назад

@@scottlarson1548 to be fair, there's no real way to connect "each" and "elke" without going through the Old English like Simon did. Elke just seems to be something you have to know (or have a great command of Old English) to know.

@braaierman 2 года назад

I'm Afrikaans and could follow with ease. I'm surprised by the similarities between Old English and Dutch. Super cool! In Afrikaans: 1) Die boeke lê op die tafel. 2) Ek gaan elke dag supermark toe. 3) Ons wil 'n nuwe kar koop. (some people might use "motor" instead of "kar") 4) Ek eet aartappelskyfies met mayonaise. 5) Norbert is baie slim. 6) My vriend sit kaas op sy brood. 7) Daar sit 'n eekhoring in die boom. 8) Ons maak 'n video / Ons is besig om 'n video te maak.

@ashwinnmyburgh9364 2 года назад

ek was net besig om die selfde ding te dink.

@AndreaAvila78 2 года назад

@@nilsvn2052 I find it so cool that I can understand some Dutch by knowing some English ! I love it! But Spanish is my mother tongue. Afrikaans sounds so cool !

@AndreaAvila78 2 года назад

@@nilsvn2052 Yes indeed! Leaning languages make me happy!

@bazooka93 2 года назад

I wonder if I could understand almost everything from the fact that I learned some German back in the days, or from Afrikaans I've heard playing Metal Gear Solid 5 way too much.

@lisaniemand5593 2 года назад

"Norbert is heel slim" would be a correct Afrikaans sentence as well although a bit archaic.

@michelletilleman5805 Год назад

I was born in America, but raised in the family that immigrated from the Netherlands, my father being Dutch, my mother American, and I understood the meaning of the sentences, but not Word for Word put together, but it was fun. I look forward to more of these.

@butterflyguy65 Месяц назад

I’d love to take part. I understood most of the sentences but was really impressed with the old English words , I thought acorn but squirrel ! Come on 😂! Loved this.

@jacoolckers6465 2 года назад

As an Afrikaans speaker I enjoyed this. Learned something new.

@2eme_voltigeur652 2 года назад

As a Dutch native speaker I find Afrikaans a very beautiful and poetic language. Greeting from the Netherlands to our Afrikaans language brothers in South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe!

@jacoolckers6465 2 года назад

@@2eme_voltigeur652 Yes Afrikaans is a poetic language, Just like Dutch. I love singers like Stef Bos that sings not only in Dutch but also in Afrikaans. You must listen to singers like Jo Black and Juanita Du Plessis.

@thegoodlydragon7452 2 года назад

Sorry you have to live in South Africa. Stay safe, my dude.

@ashsol2657 2 года назад

@@thegoodlydragon7452 what's wrong with living in south Africa ? I live here, life's good here.

@ashsol2657 2 года назад

@@jacoolckers6465 Ek het afrikaans en engels grootgeword. Praat altwee.

@blzb1219 2 года назад

For someone, who's a russian native speaker, who can also speak English and German, I was pretty proud of myself, that I could understand Dutch and also translate into all of the languages I speak. Thanks for raising my self-esteem, I guess :3

@CrippleX89 2 года назад

That's pretty awesome! I'm trying to learn a little Russian myself but in my experience it's quite difficult to learn a language that's not really in the same family of your native language (or distant at best). It helps that some words are similar but it's reaaally hard to read a Russian sentence (and the Cyrillic alphabet doesn't help either :D), I try to pick out the words that I recognize and interpret the rest from there. It only makes me respect people who learn English more, I always thought that at least basic English was pretty easy but I’m just lucky that my native language is closely related…

@boston_octopus 2 года назад

Молодец!

@atriyakoller136 2 года назад

Same!

@antoniousai1989 2 года назад

Knowledge of common German words helped me too, even though the only Germanic language I know is English. It was interesting.

@blzb1219 2 года назад

@@CrippleX89 it will only get easier, don't worry) Although that will take quite some time (I used to learn Japanese before, so I know how it feels to basically start learning to read anew), you will succeed, I'm sure of it! Good luck on your journey, luv! Удачи и всего наилучшего!

@kauansoares1668 Год назад

I am brazilian and I`ve been learning german since I moved to Germany 6 months ago, I`m really glad that I could understand almost everything in the video, indeed the two languages are really similar. 🙃

@chubbymoth5810 Год назад

It was interesting how much Simon managed to get right from his knowledge of Old English. He will greatly enjoy the relation between the English word "Town" and the Dutch word for garden being "Tuin".

@degeneriert 2 года назад

As a German who had 3 years of exposure to belgian flemish in his childhood, I understood everything perfectly and was pretty amused by some guesses, especially by Norbert ;)

@wkostowski 2 года назад

As a Pole who also knows German, I could understand much more than Norbert and Matt. But anyway, I think both of them could have performed better in this test. If you see a written 'brood', how can you even think about 'blood'? Simon's performance and analytical thinking was simply great. And Norbert's ideas for videos are great as well!!

@gaborodriguez1346 2 года назад

@@wkostowski Well, I thought in Swedish "Bröd", and Danish/Norwegian "Brød"

@gaborodriguez1346 2 года назад

@Mariusz Krawiec exactly

@johnnorthtribe 2 года назад

For me as a Swede, this was surprisingly easy to understand when reading it.

@criwall 2 года назад

Yeah, a bit of German also helps.

@PeakApex 2 года назад

@@criwall can confirm

@maximilianoadl 2 года назад

1rst: boeken (böker), op (på) 2nd: "dag" (dag), ga (gå) 3rd: "Wij" (Vi), willen (vill), kopen (köpa) Learning svenska here

@angycucumber4319 2 года назад

It was easy for me too, being someone in the UK doing German at school

@PeakApex 2 года назад

@@angycucumber4319 3 Germanic languages

@winstonsmith09 Год назад

This was great Norbert!

@clivegchesterman 10 месяцев назад

Fascinating stuff👍, I'm (arrogant) English so only speak that language! After many happy holidays many years ago in Belgium I taught myself a bit of Flemish and so I got the gist of most, if not all after seeing the sentences written down. My love of a lot of Dutch music certainly helps too!!

@linda3060 2 года назад

I understood quite a lot as a native German speaker. Simon rocked it though.

@lesROKnoobz 2 года назад

Don't y'all have it easy talking to Scandinavians and shit? Basically same languages

@mobaray8784 2 года назад

@@lesROKnoobz the languages are really different when spoken. Most of the similarities become visible when you write the words/sentences. Although once you learn the pronounciation it is pretty easy to learn the language. Pardon my spelling, I hope you understand what I am trying to say

@ninchan3 2 года назад

@@lesROKnoobz I'm German and I could understand these easy sentences. Dutch is very close German, Low German, and Frisian. So we can communicate ;) I can also read recipes in Danish and cook the dish, but hearing Danish spoken sounds totally different to my ears XD (could also be Chinese) Never tried with Swedish and Norwegian.

@Jiivaatmaa 2 года назад

It's a lot easier to understand either oral or written Dutch when one knows at least basic German or Norwegian / Danish. It's easy to find out references like "au" (kaufen) "o" (kopen) "ø" (kjøpe) etc. That's why Simon is a little bit privileged here. 😅

@hawks__ 2 года назад

Swedish also apples to this equation

@megwyn1611 2 года назад

I find as an English native speaker and a mid level German speaker I can understand the gist of Dutch when I see it. The pronunciation kills me though

@hrotha 2 года назад

English is enough in this case, you just need to know about the palatalization of k before front vowels and about the evolution of *au to ea and apply that to "cheap" and ok no this is pretty complicated

@simplyshama 2 года назад

I understood these because I used to watch the Norwegian show Skam. I know zero Dutch and French is my only foreign language so it was definitely the native English/very basic Norweigan

@styrbjornulfhamr9404 2 года назад

I think Scandinavians have an advantage with Dutch due to the influence of Old Norse on the language. English speakers have some Old Norse & Anglo-Saxon influences that help also. I’d like to see more videos that explore the common ancestry between English, German & Scandinavian languages with an emphasis upon words that are essentially unchanged, …like ‘egg’.

@geertclaeys6209 Год назад

Simon is absolutely great with his knowledge of old English 👍👍👍

@veronicaaa1186 Год назад

Because I only started learning Dutch for 1 month, but at the same time I spend 3 months already in de Nederland. Surprisingly I can understand all 8 sentences in the first attempt. Thank you so much for sharing, as I know for English speakers is also frustrating to learn Dutch, which I strongly resonate LOL...

@KenNakajima07 2 года назад

Dutch was one of the first "foreign" languages studied by the japanese, this was such a cool video.

@Random-sq2cy 2 года назад

Thats right, the Dutch were actually one of the first to trade with the Japanese during the era in which they traded with countries all around the world. This era is called the "Gouden Eeuw' or "Golden Century"

@scarletdragon1019 2 года назад

I didn't know that 😮 I'm studying Japanese, and I've been feeling more and more interested about Dutch as well

@ChuckD99 2 года назад

@@David-um8tb "It’s Europe. No, they’re not here to take over, they just wanna sell some shit, like clocks, and guns, and JESUS" -Bill Wurtz

@Random-sq2cy 2 года назад

@@David-um8tb lol true

@lozdubya 2 года назад

As an English person who did a German gcse about 30 years ago, this was quite easy. The Germanic languages are quite similar it seems!

@BlackAdder665 2 года назад

Yupp. As a German this was comparatively easy. But there are pitfalls. Like in the last sentence "er zit" I was quite sure it meant "he sees" because "er sieht" = "he sees" in German and the pronounciation is similar.

@PaulRees 2 года назад

I agree. I am a native English speaker (Australian) with a limited knowlege of German. I found both the written and spoken Dutch had German "hints".

@alisg1 2 года назад

I do agree. As a German from the northern lowlands, 90% didn't even need a translation. It is still possible to communicate with ppl speaking Dutch, lowland German, Flamish and southafrican Afrikaans both in spoken or written words.

@NightKnightJoR 2 года назад

Hi, I'm from South Africa and in schools students learn a language called Afrikaans. I found certain aspects quite similar to Afrikaans as well, I got thrown off here and there but most of it was pretty easy😂 (my years of Afrikaans finally came in handy😂)

@AK-lx1cr 2 года назад

@@NightKnightJoR Yeah, I'm a native Dutch and English speaker and occasionally ask my friends who are South African to talk in Afrikaans and I can understand about 90% of the words, manage to piece together the remainder through conversational context.

@sosijiz1971 Год назад

Just look at how serious Simon is. LOVE him.

@Volvith Год назад

It's really interesting how well i could understand the language. I think there's a couple factors contributing to this, mostly being able to speak German, English and French of course. Though, i do think the fact that my native language is Dutch really helps me along quite a ways here. :P De groeten uit Brabant. ;)

@timmeyer4595 2 года назад

Simon is lucky to know Old English))))) it allows him to understand other germanic languages more easily))

@roceb5009 2 года назад

I mean, luck has very little to do with it. He's worked hard studying it for years.

@user-lb4lm9zq6d 2 года назад

I thought that it will be too easy for Simon when I saw him in the start of video.

@glottalstop2080 2 года назад

по скобкам вижу, что русский))

@mauritsponnette 2 года назад

He also just has a very strong 'talenknobbel' (Dutch word for describing someone who has a talent for learning and understanding languages) 😊

@timmeyer4595 2 года назад

@@mauritsponnette , I don't think one needs a talent) everyone can learn new languages.

@OurHourglass 2 года назад

Simon: I run a channel in historical linguistics and I will be representing British English speakers. Me: And you're semi-fluent in Old English, so you're kind of a ringer in this game...

@arturama8581 2 года назад

Yeah, European languages - and certainly the Germanic ones - are all the same if you go a few hundred yrs back. Why don't we all learn 'old European' ;)

@arturama8581 2 года назад

@Essen sie mit Brötchen Just need to go back further bro. Eventually we'll get to the source 😁 Germans and humor..... And thats only a tease btw.

@vanpallandt5799 2 года назад

@@arturama8581 Welsh?

@FonsBraspenning1 2 года назад

@@vanpallandt5799 Celtic would be the one I guess.

@salto6 2 года назад

@Essen sie mit Brötchen return to proto-indo-european

@michaeljohnsonracing180 Год назад

As a native speaker of English and German, this was almost easy. I got caught up a little on the spoken, but once written, everything was clear. I'd love to do one of these with you.

@onetwoBias Год назад

It was very fascinating following this as a native danish speaker - many cognates between danish, german and dutch that were very helpful. I think it has a very similar effect to knowing old english, since actually old english also has some cognates with norse as well.

2 года назад

Genuinely enjoyed this video, was a lot of fun to guess along with you guys

@mmcharchuta 2 года назад

Same!

@potman4581 2 года назад

yoooooo it's my man Tom, how you doing!

@justinrhodes1745 2 года назад

This man is why I learned Italian. Thank you Tom

@Ecolinguist 2 года назад

Thank you, Tom!

@argamnex 2 года назад

same too!

@tomellingsen 2 года назад

As a native Norwegian, and having learned German in school a lifetime ago, most of these were surprisingly easy. Some threw me off, but in general I understood the meaning of all the sentenced. Fascinating stuff.

@AzIgaziMakk 2 года назад

Well Dutch is really similar to german so it helps a lot.

@DidrickNamtvedt 2 года назад

Same here, Norwegian native with a very basic German knowledge but I felt it came in handy when trying to understand the Dutch phrases. In some cases, I was spot on and I was way off in others. But I did find it really enjoyable and interesting to see how closely related our languages are.

@Serenoj69 2 года назад

@@AzIgaziMakk It is partially a help. In fact on quite a few occasions Dutch and NOrwegian are more similar than either is to German. So simply knowing Norwegian helps a lot.

@Nabium 2 года назад

Yes as a Norwegian I sometimes got help from the basic German I had back in school, some from English, and some from the influence Low German has had on Norwegian. As far as I know Low German is closer to Dutch than other German dialects are close to Dutch, so might be why many Danes and Norwegians find they can read some Dutch.

@EtherealSunset 7 месяцев назад

I found it really interesting that I got most of these, or at the very least, the majority of the sentence. As an English native English speaker, who doesn't know any Dutch, I was amazed I could get so many, or the main jist of the sentence. It probably helped that I know a bit of German. This was a great video. I really enjoyed it.

@manuelbrun6882 Год назад

As a Swiss, it is pretty easy :) thanks for the content!

@clymtc 2 года назад

fascinating that "liggen" is the verb for to lie/to lay; my uncle was a farmer, in Yorkshire, and if he wanted his dog to lie down he would say "lig thi dahn"

@Smitology 2 года назад

I good rule of thumb is that g in a continental germanic language = y or i in English. Eg dag->day, lig->liy~lay, etc

@TheEvertw 2 года назад

Makes you wonder where the "dahn" comes from. Lig and Thi are pure Dutch, though thi is archaic (Dij, Dijn compare with mij, mijn).

@clymtc 2 года назад

@@TheEvertw I would like to think that there is more to it but perhaps it is nothing more complicated than simply being the Yorkshire pronunciation of 'down'?

@DieFlabbergast 2 года назад

@@clymtc That's exactly what it is.

@Solinvictus5 2 года назад

He said this: "ligt ie dan" "dan/dahn" means does. "ie" is short for hij / he (like you / ya') It is like a question without asking it, more affirmative? I think the best English translation is There he lies/lays. In the question form, it would be Does he lie?

@learndutchwithkim 2 года назад

Thanks everyone for the nice comments. I see a lot of questions about where I am from. I am from Alphen aan den Rijn, which is a city in Zuid-Holland in the Netherlands. I was born and raised here and then moved around, so I picked up a bit from different parts of the Netherlands and maybe also a bit of English in my accent 😍

@by_gomel 2 года назад

Sub + Ring. I liked you, someday I'm gonna learn Dutch... using your channel =) Best luck 2U

@hapkido1695 2 года назад

Linguistically speaking, non-native speakers of a language speak with accents while native speakers of a language speak dialects. For instance, N. America, England, and Africa are all dialects of English while someone learning English will speak English with an accent. A small part of dialects is accents but native speakers speak dialects.

@Njx063 2 года назад

Heyy daar wonen ook vrienden van me! K ga dr elk nieuw jaar heen :)

@chevysolo2141 2 года назад

So glad to see you here since I’ve been following your Dutch lesson the beginning of this year and also attending Dutch lesson in Belgium (level 2.2 completed). Thoroughly enjoyed the video and of course, I got everything right! Bedankt 🙏

@miaow262 2 года назад

hey daar woon ik ook

@FuchsHund Год назад

As a native Spanish speaker, who thinks every now and then of learning Dutch for quite a long time now, this video totally boosted my confidence‼️I mean, I'm a Bolivian who's been learning English for the past 14 years and German for almost the past 10. I got almost all of them correctly. I only failed the sentence about Norbert being smart and not slim or bad. Thanks, I think this gave my the final little push I needed in order to totally go for it 👍‼️