EMBARRASSING misunderstandings when speaking DUTCH ... 

Mijn vrouw is hongaarse. Ze heeft geleerd dat kippenpoten ook wel "kluifjes" genoemd worden. Op een dag na hard gewerkt te hebben komt ze thuis, zakt op haar stoel met de woorden "Ik heb veel gelopen, mijn kluifjes doen er zeer van". Ik pieste bijna in mn broek.

i'm dutch and every time i see those video's i do laugh way to hard

Actually most Dutch people also speak English as second language. But as an immigrant to the Netherlands in 1970 I was not aware of this. I was looking for work. So I went to an employment agency and asked if they had any 'dodelijke werk' for me (I meant to say 'tijdelijk' which means 'temporary'). They smiled and sent me to sweep the floor in a local factory.

just realized how we make fun of other languages where you pronounce one syllable slightly different and it becomes a totally different word, and then i hear that the words ''geslacht' and ''geslaagd' sound almost exactly the same when pronounced by a foreigner. I understand the confusion...

In the bakkerij, don't ask for "besneden" brood.

Mijn buurjongetje zei als baby ‘ dada’, wat elk kind doet. Maar zijn Turkse grootvader was beretrots en vertelde tegen iedereen, dat zijn eerste woordje ‘ dada’ was, wat opa betekent in het Turks. En wij hem maar complimentjes geven...

One of my friends (a moslim) thought he needed to pay a ‘terrorists tax’ at his hotel and felt really offended. It was a ‘tax for tourists’: de toeristenbelasting 😂 And once he called the police to say that he had molested a woman (aangerand), but he meant to say that they had a car accident (aangereden)... 😂

I had a guy friend (a good friend of mine) who asked me, "Vertrouw je me?" I looked at him weirdly bc I thought he was asking to MARRY me 🤣🤣

The fact these people are able to speak english, their mother tongue and switch to dutch as wepl is very fascinating and awesome to me

In Korean, opa means an older brother or an attractive older man so I call my Dutch husband “opa” often and it can go weird in the Netherlands as opa means ‘grandfather’ lol I'm glad that I am not the only one making so many mistakes due to so many similar words in Dutch (at least in my eyes 😂)

Haha I’m from Brazil and every time that I say KOE I want to laugh hahahaha I can’t take this word seriously 😂🤭

I instantly thought of “najib amhali - huursubsidie”

Not all of these are embarrassing.... the man calling the old woman with the walking aid "schoonheid" (beauty) might just have given her the nicest day of the last decade (as long as she didn't take it to be vile sarcasm, which might be possible but which I doubt).

Mijn Japanse man en ik wonen in de UK. We gaan binnenkort terug naar Nederland. Mijn man is Nederlands aan het leren. Staan we in de rij voor iets te wachten bij de kassa en ik zie mn man iets googlen. Komt er opeens een diepe zucht uit mn man terwijl hij zegt "Troege TRUT!" Ik zo, wattes? Hij zo "Die trut is troeg". moest bijna kotsen van het lachen. Eerste Nederlandse woorden van mn man was een poging om trage trut te zeggen.

I gave Dutch lessons to asylum seekers. Came a man from Sierra Leone, he asked: "What is that, they are shaking their heads and mutter Tonga, Tonga, Tonga". After long thinking I asked did it sound like Tsjonge, Tsjonge, Tsjonge? Yes, he said. The next mission was try to explain the meaning of that.

I once had an Irish co-worker, who I did not know had Dutch lessons, say "Ik moet mijn hoer betalen". I just turned around and started laughing so hard. He meant huur.

I absolutely love this channel! These videos always brighten my day!

The Dutch have such a beautiful language, disagree if you want I do not care, I think it’s beautiful !

hahahah.... me wife is Chilean. When her Dutch was not so good one day we went to the supermarket and she saw strawberry's (aardbeien). In her best Dutch she asked me 'zullen we aambeien kopen'. I started laughing... aambeien are hemorrhoids. She never made the same mistake.

Ik woon in Zwitserland in een klein dorpje dat 'Kloten' heet, no joke😂😂

You made that old womans day i'm sure of it!

I can't take the word “douche” seriously in Dutch because of the meaning in English 😂😂

I had a co worker who was on a trip to America. She was at a store there and asked a question. The staff told her to wait a minute to check if they had that product. She simply replied in Dutch with JA HOOR . Well... For us it means yes sure or offcourse /no problem. But in English.... 😅

When I was with my italian guy i said ‘heb je je fietslampje bij je?’ To which he replied, fietslampje? Like the loempia? The chinese spring roll? And I was laughing so much 😂

Dutch "oe" (the "oo" sound in English) and "uu" ("ü" in German - think "über") are very different. The problem is like "l" and "r" in Chinese: they don't have the "r" in Chinese words, so when we pronounce an "r" they hear an "l". When you face this difficulty, you a) need to learn to hear the difference and b) train how to pronounce (go to a "logopedist" or speech therapist for a couple lessons). Of course, the mix ups make for great sitcom.

I appreciate every single foreigner or tourists that come here or stay here and actually try to learn dutch! Damn chapeau people, dutch is designed to be spoken by natives and nobody else its so hard, so if i ever see or hear you having trouble finding ur way with dutch and you live near arnhem, please reply i’d love to help!

You guys are hilarious! Keep learning and have fun! Respect!

This is so funny when you speak Dutch

"De huur is te duur" :')

Het is wel belangrijk om op de uitspraak op te letten! :D

When you want to pick up a girl the opening line should be: "Ik heet , hoe heet ben jij? That literally translates as: "My name is how hot are you? It should have been "Ik heet hoe heet jij? The "ben" changes the meaning completely. Now it is: "My name is.... What is your name?"

"waaroem waaroem? die hoer is doer" hahaha. Het is een feit dat Nederlands 1 van de moeilijkste talen ter wereld is om goed te leren. Niet zozeer alleen qua woorden maar vooral met grammatica. En dat zoveel woorden bij ons meerdere betekenissen kunnen hebben. Maar toch blijven dit soort filmpjes mega hilarisch! :D

We're Dutch and once we were in England. My girlfriend name is Esther butt I call her Es........ Now that's kind a weird calling your girl in a store from the back to the front Es.... Es....! Why is everybody watching us!!....... Oooohhhhh 😂

Het is echt geweldig om te kijken als je Nederlands bent

benign misunderstandings are a great source of pissing your pants with laughter :D

I find it very interesting over your explaination about talking in dutch that bring other meaning😃😃...and i also loving dutch taal and still learning.....ik hoop jullie veel success in cursus doen....welke land komt jullie leer dutch taal?

Ik wil nu wel eens weten hoe het verdergaat met Martin, Marieke, Xing en Guanluca.

Rainy day was funny one😂🤣👌🏼

I worked at a tattoo shop and the owner is Colombian and he used to say the Huur/H*er thing as well! I still had trouble understanding him and I had known him for years

Thank you for such a nice video! Really enjoyed it haha

damn it! I'm trying to secretly watch this at work, but I keep awkwardly laughing at my screen..

I was studing Dutch and an American girl said she couldn't say "Ja hoor" because in America "whore" is pronounced "hoor" and means prostitute. The teacher said to look for a synonym if she needed to use the American word.

The geen idee and rainy day part made me laugh

I loved watching this

my sister said she made love instead of fell in love in her english lessons in a letter she had to write I still laugh at that

Funny stuff, love it

For all Slavic people I think by far the funniest thing is when they come to see Netherlands and people say "goedemorgen" with the typical dutch pronanciation. Dutch people manage to pronounce it in the way which makes it sound like a "dick morning" xD even after years and years we still use it as a joke ;)

I once went to Ansterdam with a couple of friends and we ended up asking for directions to a pair of Amsterdamers. I don't remember why but the Amsterdamers started off talking to us in English and seeing as they were struggling to give us directions I went: "Probeer dat maar in het Nederlands". They looked both surprised and happy. Being a Walloon exposed to Flemish more than Dutch proper I often struggle with the Dutch accent and I try and find proper Germanic words for things in my mothertongue when the Flemish say it exactly the way we do. (Ça va? Ça va. Allez, Salukkes ze). The Dutch do it as well (cadeautje instead of geschenk), but not as much. And the accent's just so thick.

I wouldn't worry too much. It is the same when you learn other languages. A friend asked in Spain at a butchers shop for a "beso" (kiss) instead of a "hueso" (bone). It is sometimes the other way around: "Rabo" as in Rabobank means "tail" in Spanish.

I am just watching the struggles people have. And we don't have to English is fine too. But I am still learning while you are learning.

The last one🤣🔥

Not embarrassing at all. But funny and endearing.

I have an aunt called 'Joke'. She always has a lot to explain in a foreign country! 😂

I’m impressed with their Dutch!

Geel vs geil? 😁 Example: Die vogel is geel!

Yes, we have a koophuis, but behind us are a row of huurhuizen. I told my wife's relatives that they were hoerhuizen.

These mistakes are sooo funny, but still respect to you all! Because Dutch is a very difficult language to learn. Think about us dutch people learning your language...enough misstakes to be made!

Who from the netherlands also thought of Ali Osram, huursubsidie

Lol brilliant!

None of this is bad or offending though! I think rather than emberassing yourself with most of these mispronounciations you'll just make people laugh - which is not a bad thing at all!

The last one 🤣

Echt geweldig om te kijken als je nl bent hahaha

Respect to these people who have to speak (learn) English before they can study Dutch. 👌

I've worked as a receptionist for a year with this company. Customers call us to talk with our sales reps, but sometimes the sales rep go on to take another job, within or out of the company. I'd heard a colleague say a phrase in this case, "Deze sales is niet meer werkzaam bij ons" meaning they're not working with us anymore. At the time, I misunderstood or forgot and used the phrase "De persoon is niet meer werkbaar bij ons". After months, finally a customer corrected me saying "Oh hij is niet meer werkZAAM bij jullie?" so I wondered how big of a mistake that had been... I sent an email to my teacher and we talked about it the next lesson... BIG MISTAKE and she told me she got a good laugh about it, told her boyfriend, etc... Later on she thought about it again and laughed to herself... de SCHAAM hahahaha "niet meer werkbaar" means it's not working anymore, like there is a big issue and the situation was just so horrible they had to fire people or something ... OOPS

Dit is leuk xd ik kom zelf uit Nederland

geweldig😂

In Afrikaans we also have the word hoer, one with the umlaut and one without. The one with the umlaut means high and the without means whore. Really awkward when they refer to all girls school as a hoerskool and forget the umlaut.

I’m Dutch this was so funny

How to tell the different pronounce of 'geslacht' and 'geslaagd'?

Ledikant laten uitspreken door een engelstalige is ook leuk

Ik zei vaak dat ik een "geile" auto had ipv "geel". In de revalidatiecentrum waar ik werkte vroeg ik als iemand wilde "een kus of aai" ipv " een kussen of een ei"

2:01 - 2:20 It's beautiful and I think it could have made her day

1:39 bergen om zam?? het is eigenlijk bergen op zoom :D

My Brazilian ex-wife once went to the local butcher and wanted to have "hondevlees", but she ment to say "rundervlees". But now for me the roles are reversed. I live in Thailand and when I try to speak Thai, it is extremely difficult to say the right thing, as pronounciation is very, very important. One single word can have total different meanings, all depending on how you pronounce it.

Vrijen with your aubergine? Hmmm okay, interesting advice from a lady! :D

Just ask what a shower is called in Dutch

Bij ons op het werk had iemand een sticker op zijn stoel geplakt met: "APBELAFEN!" Je mag zelf raden wat hij daarmee bedoelde. Hint: spreek het hardop uit... ;) :P

Hi Bart. This video was awesome. Fortunately, I haven't made any mistakes, but it's because I haven't spoken Dutch yet. I have just written it so far. If only I make mistakes. It would mean that I have Dutch friends to practice it. Anyway, if someone wants to learn a bit of Spanish, I'm here to help and we could exchange our knowledge of Dutch-Spanish. Well, the case is that I really loved some of the misunderstandings. The Italian woman who said "vrijen" instead of "fry" is so funny. It's completely understandable due to the similarity of both words. I knew the difference thanks to another video of learndutch.org where "vrijen" is mentioned. If not, I would have mistaken it too. 😅The girl who said to a Dutch girl that "hij is lekker" reminds me of a embarrassing situation I lived myself. I tried to flirt with a Dutch boy, but I got nervous and I could just say "I like you". The poor boy handled it well, but he already had a girlfriend. Fortunately, I didn't said that he's delicious. 🤣And finally, it's interesting that two people mention the same difference between "hoer" and "huur" like the Spanish girl, and "hoerhuis" and "huurhuis" like the boy. This confusion is very common for people whose mother languages don't distinguish these sounds. In Spanish, we don't use the "uu" sound, so it's difficult for us to learn it. In my case, I started studying French when I was 12, so I already knew these sounds and how to pronounce them. When I began the Dutch course on Bart's website and I heard the alphabet for the first time, I thought "oh, great. This is like French. I can do it" and I was very happy. Then I realized that Dutch wouldn't be so hard to learn. I never gave up and I'm still improving my Dutch in order to avoid embarrassing situations, although they might still happen to me in a far future. Congratulations for this video. Liefs, Cristina. (Misschien mag ik schrijven "Kristina" in het Nederlands). 🤩😍

Lol, yes our nounces arent the hardest, but those double nounce are. On top of that the many meanings of some words. Nounces for example, they are called (klinkers), whe have many roads filled with those. just because (klinkers) also are cobblestones. Yeah yeah, I make things complicated. Oh reminds me complicated translated is ingewikkeld, but ingewikkeld also means wrapped. You know mummies are realy wrapped (Mummies zijn echt ingewikkeld).

One time i was serving a couple in our restaurant and i mixed up the english with dutch I was offering a center cut steak in Dutch but I spelled out center kut that means kut is vagina 🤣🤣 and the husband look at his wife and tell her if she wants a center kut steak and then both of them look at me and tell me to repeat the word then i realize what i just was offering as dinner 🤣🤣. Then i offered the right one the center cut steak.

OMG! there is a woman from the Czech republic!!!

Thats why i love people who come to the netherlands 🤣🤣

‘Je moet eerst de aubergine vrijen’

when they ask how to order a beer in belgium its quit easy just put your pinky up when you are at a bar theyll know

Funny mistakes of my Italian wife: In a supermarket she asked where she could find the "Suikerkontjes" (sugar-buds 😂) in stead of "suikerklontjes" (sugar-lumps) She also asked me what is Boerenmetworst (farmers-with-sausages) was made of.😛 and she read the word "Vloei" (paper to make cigarettes with) as "Vlo-Ei" (fleas-egg 😵)

Ben Brits maar hier opgegroeid weet nog goed dat er een engels jeugd voetbal team hier was en we stonden voor de basisschool ,ze vroegen zitten jullie op deze school en wij zeiden ja .en ze begonnen me toch te lachen .😳 toen viel het het kwartje het is ook een gekke naam NUTS SCHOOL 🤣

We Belgian people learn 4 languages: Dutch, French, English And Deutsch. We can also choose Spanish at school.

Kunnen we hier alsjeblieft Nederlandse ondertitels aan toevoegen? Ik versta niet goed Engels. Kann man dies bitte mit niederländischen Untertiteln versehen? Englisch verstehe ich leider nicht so gut.

"Ik woon in een hoerhuis" Dat heb ik ook, makker! XP

Als vlaming is dit hilarisch maar ik leer hoe makelijk is om een gesprek te verprusten in mijn taal

Great video's, but the background "music" is so loud and irritating, I can't watch the whole video.

When I was in class learning finnish the book said: mun perheessä on.... (In my family there is...) But somebody read: mun perseessä on.... (In my ass is...) I think in every language there will be those kind of funny mistakes when people are learning them.

Don't ask for 'aambeien' at the grocerystore.

The sounds 'uu' and 'oe' aren't similair. You might have some difficulty with the pronounciation, but they're not the same.

If you pass your butchery exam... is that "geslaagd" or "geslacht"? If you pass your exam enduring pain... is that "geslaagd" or "geslagen"? Or did you get a "geslaagd pak slaag" XD And eh, take a baseball bat in your car... It helps with "linksaf / rechtsaf slaan" Oh yeah, striking lettuce would be "sla slaan", which is nice to say "ik sla sla" Don't confuse "slaan" with "slaap", "slaaf", "slaak", or else we will "slaan" :P Of course "dit slaat helemaal nergens op", oh yeah, "mijn klok slaat nu bijna 2 uur"

When I took my new Baby Daughter to meet her Dutch Great Grandparents, the first thing the Great Grandfather said was "Joden". I have always wondered what he meant?

Toen mijn zoon zegt ik wil tanden poetsen ik was heel erg bos . In mijn taal ( poetsen ) vrouwe geslacht .

Ik lach me kapoott😂😂

G E K O L O N I S E E R D Sorry maar het moest gewoon

Mijn vader zocht een vouwfiets. Op marktplaats een advertentie gevonden, meteen naar die mensen gegaan staat er een gewone damesfiets. Ja vrouwfiets zei die man