German vs Dutch vs Flemish | Can they understand the German Language? 

I would not call Plattdeutsch a dialect. Plattdeutsch/Niederdeutsch is a language on its own. At least, that is, what my local Germanists said. But I have to admit that there is no clear border between a language and a dialect.

Nevertheless it would be interesting. But there are Thüringisch, Bavarian, Alemannisch and Fränkisch as german dialects, which are divided in middle and upper. And there is also a lower Fränkisch, which contains the Region of Cologne, the Netherlands, Luxemburg and Belgium. The other lower german language is lower Saxon, which again is divided into several dialects, e.g. Westfalian and the language around Hamburg. Furthermore there is the Frisian language. And the language changes from village to village with only a few real borders like between Frisian and Niederdeutsch and at some places between Niederdeutsch and, Mittel- and Oberdeutsch. So the older theory of dividing languages doesn't fit. It is better to speak of a continuum, with a few exceptions like Frisian and the more artificial languages of Niederländisch and Hochdeutsch. The last two did not evolve naturally, which means, that, where they are spoken, there is still another dialect. So, I guess, it will be complicated to work out, which dialects to compare with each other. And there are other points to consider: For example the dialect around Hamburg is very popular, but Westfalian has still a lot of words and grammar, which disapeared in other dialects, sometimes centuries ago. And should an endangered dialect be shown or one with many speakers? Well, perhaps Westfriesisch, Nordfriesisch and Saterfriesisch would be a start. (And don't forget the Slavic and Romance languages situated within the german language continuum. Those are interesting, too.) I hope, a solution will be found, since this videos are very interesting.

Mich hat immer fasziniert, dass die, die noch richtig Platt konnten, recht genau sagen konnten, woher ein Sprecher kam.

Swiss German isn't even a dialect it's just a different language xD. I can't even understand written Schweitzer düütsch.

@@johanneswestman935 Lmfao we shouldn't call it Swiss German. We should just call it Swiss language.

@@Qwerty-hy5mj the joke

@@Qwerty-hy5mj your head

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It would be interesting to have a Maghrebi Arabic speaker from Morocco or Algeria and a speaker of vernacular Arabic from the East and see if the eastern Arabic speaker can understand Maghrebi vernacular.

Yes, I'd love to see that!

as a flemish person who travelled in South Africa, I noticed if we speak slowly and articulate well we can understand each other. The issue is with some words that are completly different.

An Wilamovian!

Yeah I was just gonna say where mah Afrikaans

Dialects from Limburg! There are a mix from alle three. That would be funny! There is a Belgian , Dutch and German Limburg... I live in Dutch Limburg, so I fully understand Flemish, German, and Dutch ( obviously). Sadly nothing learned, buy still very funny tot see this video... I also speak English pretty good. This Idea never occurred to me but could I have a job as a translator?

Yes, his communication skills are abysmal. No idea how to formulate something clearly and no command over his own language. Shaming is very much in order. What a potato brain.

@@epajarjestys9981 very polite

Dose hätte ich nicht verstanden weil er meinte dass man Konserven darin lagert, aber man lagert doch keine Konserven in Dosen :D

Noo? I found him super easy to follow and Im Swedish! :D

@@vomm lol

Ich konnte Glenn auch besser verstehen als Rob, glaube aber gar nicht, dass es unbedingt am Dialekt, sondern einfach an der Spracherfahrung liegt. Glenn scheint es gewohnt zu sein, Sprachen verständlich zu machen, selbst wenn er im Dialekt spricht (durch seine Erfahrung in der Film- und Schauspielindustrie), während Rob ganz normal/alltäglich spricht (was ja auch gar nicht schlimm ist.) Ich wohne beispielsweise in Deutschland an der niederländischen Grenze und bin dadurch mit Niederländisch schon ganz gut vertraut (hatte Niederländisch auch einige Jahre als Schulfach) und sollte deshalb mit dem Flämisch deutlich mehr Probleme beim Zuhören haben. Aber das ist ja immer so, es kommt nicht nur auf die Sprache an sich, sondern auch auf die Personen an, die diese Sprache dann sprechen. Das ist Rob gegenüber jetzt natürlich auch gar nicht böse gemeint, aber Glenn hat einfach eine ganz andere, klarere Art zu Sprechen entwickelt. Das soll jetzt natürlich aber auch nicht heißen, dass du nicht trotzdem besser Flämisch als Niederländisch verstehen kannst, aber ich wollte meine Beobachtungen und Gedanken trotzdem teilen und fand, dass das unter deinem Kommentar ganz gut passte. xD

Twój niemiecki lepszy niż mój polski! :o

@@aht8548 Genau. Das genau wie ich es sehe (als Niederländer, aufgewachsen in Umgebung Rotterdam). Es ist unabhängig vom Dialekt. Glenn gibt sich einfach mehr Mühe, seine Sprache (seinen flämischen Dialekt) deutlich und nicht zu schell auszusprechen. Ohne aber die Merkmale seines Dialektes zu verlieren.

Ik als Nederlander vind Glenn ook veel duidelijker Nederlands spreken, Glenn articuleert zeer goed en zijn taalgebruik is beter dan die van veel Nederlanders.

@@UltimateSeduction how do Flemish and (Holland) Dutch differ?

That would be a good video. I remember Simon Roper’s knowledge of Old English helped him understand Dutch pretty well; I wonder if it’s also the case in reverse where knowing Dutch helps with OE

I could contribute a North Frisian perspective

Calm down, enjoy and appreciate THIS first!

@@amjan I do

@@amjan you think i didn't before typing this comment?

austrian here, loving slavic languages! greetings to you :)

Here is slav from Netherlands, interesting to see :)

As a germanic person im in love learning and listening to slavic languages and romance languages:-)

im german and i am in love with slavic languages :D

@FichDich InDemArsch There is no complex, when it comes to slavs from Balkans( at least serbs), we only respect german organization, working culture, and consistently etc. But in terms of socialization, intelligence, workarounds, bravery, physical appearance, physical strength, and know how to function in difficult circumstances we think about ourselves as way more superior. I am not fully sure for other slavic nations though. We also consider lack of internal national harmony as our main weakness.

I had trouble with the description of Kartoffelbrei too. In fact, for the first half I really thought he was talking about Linsen(suppe), then realized it was not the case and had to think harder.

I had no trouble understanding exactly what was described. So I had "aardappelpuree" specifically (didn't know the german word "Kartoffelbrei", did know "Kartoffel"), and I had "geneeskunde" for Medizin. In Dutch, we also sometimes say someone studied "medicijnen", which would be studied at a university, not a hogeschool. And then "haai" of course was very easy, I was expecting either "Hai" or "Haifisch", is there a difference between the two? And then I had either "put" or "putdeksel", but I thought that a manhole cover was a bit too specific, and that it probably had to be the manhole. And then finally "blik" was very easy again. I think they both needed to hear "Konserven" to properly understand.

@@CheatahX Then you did very well! But you obviously have some exposure to German, which helps. And in my experience that''s the case with many Dutch speakers. Even if they haven't studied German, they know a lot of German words. Which makes mutual intelligibility quite asymetrical: Dutch speakers usually know more about the other's language than vice versa. "Haifisch" also exists and it can be used interchangeably with "Hai", but I'd say "Haisfisch" sounds a bit oldfashioned and less educated. Be careful, "Hochschule" is a false friend. I think it's a typical example where rather than helping Glenn and Rob, it rather confused them.

As someone from Belgium, I first thought that the first word was Sauerkraut lmao, because I don't immediately think of potatoes as a vegetable, more as a tuber (which is also a plant of course, but just not my first association personally). But when he said it was easy to eat for someone without teeth or someone old, I knew he meant Kartoffelbrei. Those little clarifications after the first description really helped me guessing all of the words right in the end.

I totally agree, most of the initial descriptions given by the german guy where too general. The flemish and dutch guy had to keep questioning the german guy to get the necesairy details to actually come to the awnser. There definatly have been better hosts on this show that were better at explaining things.

There's subtitles in English, in case you didn't know.

@@fragilemaileagle my subtitle isn't coming up but it's a good thing I am studying German xD

@@shannimonet Press C on your keyboard.

@@fragilemaileagle vielen dank ❤️

@@shannimonet for some reason the subtitle switches to german at the end

It made it to Armenian as well. They say կարտոֆիլ "kartofil"

I thought you would say "patates" and "patates püresi" such as in Turkish but "kartof" sounds way funnier

@@Kaan._G Some people still use Kartof in Northeast Anatolia. In Kars and Ardahan regions :D

Mashed potatoes are even completely "german" in your language, the german word is Kartoffelpüree. And in Austrian German it is called Erdäpfelpüree which is similar to the Dutch aardappelpuree (or however it is spelled exactly).

püresi. .... cute 😂😂😂

I found the description of potatoes as "yellow-brown" confusing, but got there in the end. And I expected "Büchse" for the last one, but that's just a different word for the same thing.

Er hat einfach mal richtig mies erklärt bzw auch viele Ambiguitäten

I found his explanations pretty obvious. I guess, he was sometimes just concerned not to mention the term by accident they are looking for.

A German friend has told me that Germans often struggle to understand other Germans if the dialects are different enough.

@@elimalinsky7069 his dialect was standard Hochdeutsch, it's just that the way he spoke was a bit confusing.

Me too... Because It has subtitles lol

Der Haifisch is a pretty good Rammstein song

Hai. Wakarimasu.

I've been speaking Dutch for about 5 years and did fairly well (just listening, not reading subtitles), considering I've never studied German at all: 1. Mayonnaise (similiar logic as Glenn, 'bij' een hoofdgerecht, then Rob joking that they eat a lot of it in Belgium). 2. Medicijn (not being fluent in Dutch actually helped me closer to the german word here, I didn't know 'geneeskunde' was the Dutch word for 'medicine' as a discipline, so I used 'medicijn' which refers to medication) 3. Haai ("a group of fish that people are afraid of" gave it to me) 4. Goot (Dutch for 'gutter.' Pretty close, arguably correct, didn't know 'riool' was also the word for 'sewer' - domestically it just means the drain). 5. Blik (something made of metal to do with food and water, 'lagen' was a bit of a giveaway because I know lager refers to beer that is stored and aged)

There’s a Persian (?) guy who does sorta the same thing but with much less charm.

@@peterfireflylund I've watched that channel before and I do appreciate it for what it is, but there is no sustained communication: it's mostly just a few words or short sentences. Norbert's channel is truly unique because of the sustained multilingual communication with minimal English interjected, and Norbert pairs genetically similar languages so it's a more interesting experiment than "oh, I see these two languages both borrowed the word coffee from Arabic."

For vowels, you mean 🙂 and consonants are “medeklinkers” which is like “co-vowels” or “fellow vowels”

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@@SilverSkySE mede-klinkers are con-sonants (the prefix "con" means "with", or "mede" in Dutch), so an English word recronstructed from Dutch could have been sonants instead of vowels. Sonants & consonants - klinkers & medeklinkers Also, the English verb "to sound" is "klinken" in Dutch.

@@AmedeeVanGasse Danish has a similar pair of home brewed words: selvlyde and medlyde. Selv = self, med = with, lyde = sounds. Thankfully, they have gone out of fashion in favour of “vokaler” and “konsonanter”.

@@SilverSkySE Oh, "medeklinkers" is lovely as well 😉 In German we have "Selbstlaute" (self-sounds) for vowels and "Mitlaute" (co-sounds) for consonants. But that kind of vocabulary is mostly used in elementary school, and then switched for more latin-based expressions.

Especially people in Limbrug, their dialect sounds German itself.

ikr for me it sounds like dutch with a far east accent :PP

And of course we can watch German television (also English, Italian, Spanish, Flemisch, French etc...)

@@amosamwig8394 For us german speakers it sounds like a western dialect, while standard dutch sounds more foreign and is harder to understand for us :)

Being from the Netherlands myself I can tell that we're not nearly exposed to Germany or Germans as much as other countries mught think. The biggest connection between the Netherlands and Germany I would say is import export because obviously Germany doesn't really have a lot of coast so all big ships go through the Netherlands to enter Germany. Anyway I hope everyone learned something from this video :)

Probably a result of the Flemish being such close contact with German speakers in their own country as it is a third national language in Flaams.

The person from the Netherlands is actually speaking in the dialect of Limburg. Maybe that's why.

Dutch and Flemish is actually the same language, only as used in different countries. Differences are for example found in the pronunciation (typical example is the Dutch "hard" G against the Flemish "soft" G°), legal and administrative terminology and some other words which mostly can be understood in the other country. Unless the Flemish speaker uses an extreme dialect (such as West-Flemish) then not even one province further anybody can understand him/her.

@@flitsertheo In Noord-Brabant and Limburg we have a soft g as well and we definitly don't speak Flemish! So it's not like the hard g is the only really Dutch g. The soft g is just as Dutch

The hard G is more typical for the part of the Netherlands above the Moerdijk.

@@flitsertheo Yes that's what I meant. For the rest of the country therefore it isn't

I'm looking for the G E K O L O N I S E E R D comments... ;-)

Haha the flemish guy barely used full sentences, so if u understand most of the 3/4 words he says at a time you're already there

Im learning it as well, if you estimate your level to be around C1, I’m curious how long did it take you to get to that level roughly? Just to get the gist of how long it would take to be there.

@@XxMUKALIENxX I started when I was like 11 or 12, but I think I started to do it seriously/every day when I was 13, and I’m now almost 17. So seriously using/learning German for (almost) everyday for 4~5 years. To give more info about my assessment: I understand most youtube videos - documentaries, vloggers, political satire shows - without any big problems, but some subtle things I might miss. I can read the newspaper with some few look-ups of terms, I can read books, though depending on the book, that still takes effort, not super smooth, a lot of new words potentially. I watched a film version of few plays like “Der Besuch der alten Dame” and “Die Physiker”, which were hard with a lot of new words but I could get the gist of the story first time through. And in terms of speaking/writing, because I’ve never been in Germany and I don’t have a community of Germans near me, those might be my weakest skills, but I can still speak/write okay I would say, I’ve had conversations in text and in voice messages/calls in German before. you might be able to do it faster than me though, 13-year-old me didn’t know how to really study a language lmao

Same with me! Started at 14 but have stopped since I was ~20, so a couple years ago. Getting rusty though! Never stop practicing!!

Do not call it Flemish because you suggest it is a different language .... They are the same language Just another accent. Same writing system. Call it 'Belgian Dutch' instead! Saying Flemish is a kind of like calling the language of Austria Austrian instead of German......

The English subtitles are fixed now. :)

@@Ecolinguist Thanks so much! \^0^/ I'll watch the rest of this this evening!

There were some parts in the conversation where more precise words were required. The German description of the thing that is in the curb ("stoeprand" in Dutch, "Randstein" in German) or the "round thing in the pavement" as the alternative German description translated, is actually not the "rioolput" but merely the lid or cover ("putdeksel" in Dutch) (manhole cover when it is large). The "rioolput" is what is under that cover, but that was not what was described in German.

Rigsdansk or sønderjysk? I wonder which is easier to understand for the Germans. Sønderjysk has more German loanwords and it has articles. Not sure how much that would help.

@@peterfireflylund Now that does sound interesting.

I think danish and german are too different. I can’t really see them understanding eachother at all without prior knowledge of eachothers languages

As a German native I don't really understand any Danish. It would be interesting to watch such a video nontheless and try to guess what some words mean

Once the writing is revealed, the Germans would likely understand it as well as Swedish - perhaps even slightly better. But before any writing, with just Danish pronunciation, I think they'd be pretty lost.

Oder Siechtum - sagt man auch heute noch manchmal. Oder auf englisch "sick" oder "sickness"

es gibt noch das modernev Wort "Seuche"

"dahinsiechen" ist eigentlich heute auch noch geläufig.

Danke für den Input! Daran hatte ich gar nicht gedacht!

Sehr spannend! Im Schweizerdeutschen wird der Begriff „Siech“ noch verwendet, jedoch in anderen Zusammenhängen. Ein paar Beispiele: „Du bisch en geile Siech!“ = Du bist ein cooler Typ! „De het en Siech!“ = Der ist betrunken. „Das isch en Siebesiech!“ = Der kann etwas besonders gut. „Huere Siech“ = ein Fluchwort, Schimpfwort Vielleicht ist die Herkunft in diesem Fall eine andere, das weiss ich nicht. Liebe Grüsse 🇨🇭

He sometimes uses very specific words like Bordstein instead of Bürgersteig/Gehsteig. I reckon this makes it difficult.

I speak German and Dutch and he had me confused. Not linguistically, it was that his descriptions were amazingly hard to understand.

@@mynamename5172 I also speak German and his descriptions were very clear to me.

@@hannofranz7973 The Flemish word for Bordstein is boordsteen 😉

​@@hannofranz7973 I never saw a Gully in a Bürgersteig or in a Bordstein anyway.

I've really never heard that being used though? In which part of the Netherlands/Flanders do they use 'medicijnen'? To me it sounds like too directly (and wrongfully) translated from English.

@@girljustDIYit I've heard my mother use it, she's from the haarlem area

@@girljustDIYit maybe it's a bit old-fashioned

@@RusNad That's interesting, maybe it is an old-fashioned and/or regional thing then! I am from the Zwolle area but have lived in de Randstad for many years now and haven't heard it yet. Gotta love linguistics :D

The only time I heard it was by the mother of my aunt, she's from Breda, in Flanders I never heard it. Living near the Dutch border we have a bit of a Flemish-Dutch family.

Well, Austro-Bavarian is what people generally mean by Austrian, it's a different language, a dialect that is distinct enough to be a language. Whereas Dutch and Flemish have almost no difference, just the accent and some different words.

As someone from Flanders, I thought you could hear Glenn's accent of Mechelen pretty clearly as well. I myself am from the Belgian Limburg, so we share similar sounds with the Dutch Limburgish accent, but without the Dutch sounds of course. But I definitely agree with the rest.

@@Turbo_Tina yeah at first I was afraid to hear those typical Dutch sounds that make it harder for me to understand the language, but overall, both guys sounded Flemish to me

@@Omnatten9 I can definitely see why'd you hear Rob's accent as a Flemish one. I think it maybe has something to do with the 'soft g' sound in the Dutch Limburgish accent (and Dutch Brabant as well), which is shared with almost all the Flemish accents (apart from the accent of West-Flanders, but that's a whole different story). I've also heard that the harder g sound, common when you go higher up north, can be quite jarring to listen to for foreigners.

Well, we like to think we speak different languages. And there are signs that Flemish and Dutch are seperating. The 2 languages are getting less and less mutualy intelligible. If you compare the news from the 60ies and today for both Flemish and Dutch, you'll notice the difference. The Dutch are undergoing vowel shifts for example: e -> eu "zeven" -> "zeuven", the "n" at the end of the word is getting unpronounced etc. While Flemish doesn't change much. Give it another 200 years and we might see 2 different languages.

Da freu ich mich schon drauf. Sacklzement!

jo freili kena mia des aa 😉 ! Eingli miassat des hoass'n: Kenan de Bayern aa Leid vo Hamburg oda vo Ostfriesland vasteh 🙂

Nicht wahr, die Bayern können auch französisch sprechen: Si dans de fils d' avec, si laquel si d' ami cher!

@@brittakriep2938 Das ist sicherlich noch ein Überbleibsel aus der napoleonischen Zeit. Da hab ich aber ein bisschen gebraucht, bis ich das "Französische" verstanden habe. 😂😂😂

Yes, that would be very interesting too. Although the words are different, the word order in all of the languages is very similar.

@@CheatahX True, I've been doing some Swedish and Norwegian on Duolingo and some words and sentences are very easy to read, while others are complete gibberish to me xD

@Kurocoon Föräldrar is weird to me, because "voorvaderen" in Dutch means ancestors, but föräldrar is just 'parents' in Swedish.

@@Roozyj Its pretty funny because voorvaderen translates in swedish: "voor" = för and "vaderen" =fäder, so it's förfäder which is ancestors :) same with jordgubbe, for a swedish person i think it's a wierd name :D But the same goes for aardappel. aard=jord :P

@@Roozyj I guess the second part of 'för-äldrar' is similar to German 'Eltern' (allowing for language unique plural endings). What is 'föräldrar' in Dutch?

German is a fake language 🤣 Anyone who have seen the Arjen Lubach Trump imitation video understands hahaha

And with the German word "See", it's exactly the other way round 😀

@@NantokaNejako You're half right. Der See does mean the lake. But die See does mean the sea.

@@NobbiMD : Both an english lake and a german Lache are filled with water, but different in size :-)

Very North-German indeed. Plus him pronouncing as "Tschüpps" (and not "Tschipps) betrays him as a Northerner too. That being said, unless the Swiss-Germans, Germans are less aware of their own accents and dialects.

For me as an Austrian, it sounded just like normal German. I heard "moin" even by Bavarians and Franconians, so I guess it became somewhat mainstream within Germany during the last decades. And the g, at the end being pronounced like a ch is even part of the federal german standard pronounciation, like in "König" > /Könich/ (At least the Duden says so). The Austrian German dictionary tells us that the word is pronounced with a /k/ sound.

@@Leo-uu8du g being pronounced as /ch/ at the end is standard after i, but certainly not after a. You'll never hear a News-Anchor or a "Rundfunksprecher" say "tach" or "gesacht". it's definitely considered regional and colloquial.

@@cedrickrummes3876 I'd say that South Germans are aware of their accent, it's the Northeners who don't. In that respect, Eric is the quintessential Northener ;-) That's why I found it so funny.

@@Leo-uu8du "moin" used to be Northern German in the sense of close-to-the-sea German. No longer. I notice "moin" is certainly written in online interactions. My own theory is because you can write it with your right hand on the right side of the keyboard.

afrikaans should have taken the place of flemish, that would be way more interesting to watch.

I think it would be hard for an Afrikaans speaker to understand German. With Dutch he shouldn't have much trouble. Dutch: "We are not going to the Beach. " Afrikaans: "Ours aren't going to the Beach not." (If you would read the Afrikaans sentence in Dutch)

In the US we also commonly call a tin a cylinder or receptacle

Same

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I volunteer as tribute!

They did a video with Lexembourgish

@@shannimonet not with Dutch

@@chanpasadopolska oh yeah, true, they should do it

As a Luxie, my Dutch is limited to French-Dutch food labels. So if it's not tomato soup with meatballs, I don't know.

@@shannimonet The Luxembourg with Swiss, German and Austrian video was very good.

i can tell you the outcome.. no one understands hungarian. estonians and finns get along

injecting hungrian in a Baltic-finnic language round would be like having a romance language round and letting russian also participate because it's related in the bigger indo-european language picture.

That's an easy one! Estonians understand Finnish better than Finns understand Estonian. Hungarians hardly understand either Finnish or Estonian and Finns and viceversa. Other Finno-ugric languages that are closer to Finnish and Estonian would be Karelian, Saami, etc.

Just yesterday, a youtuber called Daiki Yoshikawa uploaded a video where he talks about Finnish and Estonian mutual intelligibility with a guest from Estonia. He himself seems to be Japanese and he speaks Finnish as a second language.

Hungarians could be put together with Manshi/Chanti/etc people from Russia. We do have common vocabulary with them. But precisely zero (and by zero I mean zero) mutual understanding between Finnish and Hungarian. Yes, the grammar and the sounds are similar, and that's it. Edit: even with chanti people the common vocab are stuff like "add ide, vidd oda, a tóban van", but nothing more complex.

Dat makt nit :-)

Yes you are right ridiculous the title says they are different languages. I will do a report on YT.

@@yt-nx1qm its clearly said „ CAN THEY understand german language“ no one was saying that they are single languages

I'm from Germany, can maybe understand like 35% of dutch

@@danikopter_lp The German speaker tried harder to speak more slowly and articulate then the Dutch speaker

You'll find the volunteer form in the description box. :)

Fine, let's not invite Luxembourgish to that party!

@@cedrickrummes3876 I want to do Yiddish too!!!

As a German, my subjective impression of Yiddish is: It sounds like a weird south German dialect spoken with an Eastern European accent, but other than the weird pronunciation it's almost identical to German except some grammar quirks, and as such is very clear and transparent. But here and there there are unknown words thrown in (obviously the ones of Hebrew and Slavic origin) that can make understanding surprisingly difficult at times. This goes for "European" Yiddish, if you can call it that. American Yiddish as you sometimes stumble upon on youtube is a different cup of tea. It's quite hard for me, I guess because of the American accent and some more unusual vocabulary.

I am Afrikaans and could understand at least 85% of everything.. It felt like German is the more formal language, and Dutch 'n Flemish much easier for me to comprehend 98%..

North German "Moin" is NOT related to the morning time, but a short version of "Moien Dag", coming from Dutch (and northern "low" German "mooi" (pretty, nice, beautiful). Therefore, it's a standard greeting throughout the day. But even most Germans are not aware of that and have the misconception about odd Northerners saying "Good morning" all day long. They don't!

@@gerohubner5101 ah, learned something new ^_^ thanks for sharing Gero Hübner

That makes more sense. In Dutch: "Geul" or "Goot" Kanaldeckel "Putdeksel"

@@d0minarix ​ yep, I was wondering when Eric was describing it as he said both "where the water flows out" (in English it would be the drain or storm drain) or something like that as well as "it is round" (which would be more like the manhole cover) so I was not sure which one he means... Not that I would know either in Dutch :-D

@@gligeti Totally agree!

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Bordstein is in het Nederlands trouwens "boordsteen". ;) In het Belgisch dialect "borduur".

Ook best wel verwarrend voor Nederlandstaligen: "Dose" is "blik" maar als je er voor "steck" zet, dus "(in)stoppen", dan krijg je "Steckdose" en dat betekent "stopcontact".

Austrian (or better Bavarian, you are speaking Bavarian in Austria) is Hochdeutsch. You are confusing Standarddeutsch with Hochdeutsch here. Standarddeutsch is the standardized version of Modern High German. Dialects like Bavarian are Modern High German. In contrast to that there also is Plattdeutsch which is Low German. High German/Hochdeutsch is from the Highlands and Low German/Plattdeutsch is from the flatlands/lowlands/Flachland (norddeutsche Tiefebene).

@@johannes3153 Bavarian isn't even close to most Austrian dialects wtf and there's vast differences even within Austria. I've also never heard the term "Standarddeutsch", but that might just be a difference in labelling as "Hochdeutsch" is the standardized version of German taught in Austria. The "Hochdeutsch" taught in Austria is also not 100% equal to the "Hochdeutsch"/"Standarddeutsch" taught in Germany, as we even have our own "Duden" an example would be "Jänner" which is a valid word for January, whereas in Germany, it's only used in a few dialects.

@@forsti3716 Mir ist klar, dass es verschiedene österreichische Dialekte gibt, allerdings gehören die alle zum Boarischen. Und nur, weil alle in Österreich zu Standarddeutsch Hochdeutsch sagen, heißt das noch längst nicht, dass das richtig ist. Ich komme außem Norden und hier sagen auch alle Hochdeutsch zu Standarddeutsch. Die Muttersprache meiner Großeltern ist Platt und deshalb haben sie wahrscheinlich Standarddeutsch immer Hochdeutsch genannt, weil es eben das einzige Hochdeutsch war, das sie kannten. Und so hat sich das vermutlich auf ganz Deutschland übertragen. Jedenfalls sprecht ihr in Österreich Boarisch, was Hochdeutsch ist. Falls du mir nicht glaubst, schau dir das Video "Sind Österreicher Deutsche?" auf dem RU-vidkanal Dr. Ludwig an, da wird auch eine schöne Karte der Deutschen Dialekte und ihrer Verbreitung gezeigt.

@@johannes3153 Boarisch ist nichtmal irgendwie vergleichbar mit den Dialekten die hier gesprochen werden und schon gar nicht mit jenen in Vorarlberg und Tirol. Warum ist Hochdeutsch jetzt falsch wenn es der in Österreich verwendete Begriff für Standarddeutsch ist? Ich hab hier einen österreichischen Duden vor mir liegen, in dem kommt das Wort Standarddeutsch nichteinmal vor. Alleine, dass du sagst österreichische Dialekte sind mit Boarisch vergleichbar zeigt wie wenig Ahnung du hast.

@@forsti3716 @Forsti 37 Lol, es ist halt einfach ne Tatsache, dass in Österreich Boarisch gesprochen wird. Nur, weil es sich vom Nordboarisch in Bayern unterscheidet, heißt das noch längst nicht, dass es kein Boarisch ist. Im Münsterland wird auch anderes Platt gesprochen, als in Ostfriesland. Ist trotzdem alles Platt. Guck dir doch das Video an, das ich dir genannt habe. Ich habe meine Behauptungen mit diesem Video belegt und fundiert. Du hingegen belegst nichts, sondern behauptest nur irgendetwas ins Blaue hinein. Und zum Duden: Im Duden steht nicht einfach die korrekte Rechtschreibung und schon gar nicht die Bedeutung., sondern auch das, was umgangsprachlich ist oder gerade im Trend. Es stehen im Duden auch etliche grammatikalisch falsche Dinge wie "Gästin" (Gast), einfach nur, weil es die breite Masse heutzutage einem gestörten "Gender"wahn aufsitzt. Österreicher sprechen Boarisch und Boarisch ist Hochdeutsch. Guck dir halt das Video an, das ich dir genannt habe. "Sind Österreicher Deutsche?" von Dr. Ludwig. Nach zwei Minuten oder so kommt die Sprachenkarte zu Österreich. Es besteht ein Sprachkontinuum zwischen Bayern und Österreich. Sind Österreicher ja auch einfach Baiern, die nach Süden/Südosten gewandert sind.

Heilkunde sounds practically medieval.

@@cedrickrummes3876 what's worse, it sounds like "alternative medicine", like something a "Heilpraktiker" would do. Which is one reason why I wouldn't necressarily recommend using it if you mean actual medicine. But that doesn't change what I said. If you want an original German word for medicine not derived from Latin or Greek - then "Heilkunde" (or "Heilkunst") it is.

In Dutch that would be "Heelkunde" and I think that is indeed quite old fashioned. "Geneeskunde" is probably much more common. And when they were discussing "profitieren" I was thinking of "baten" or "baat hebben" or "gebaat zijn bij", or it being beneficial or having benefit but not in a monetary fashion.

@@CheatahX Tandheelkunde

In that case the English word should be "halecraft". "Healthcraft" might be more modern but "health" replaced "hale" about the same time we stopped using "-craft" to make new words. Would "halecraft" make immediate sense to a German speaker? (Ed: I was wrong. There are more modern words with -craft. They are often Romance/Germanic blends like "statecraft".)

He could have also said "Kartoffelpüree" instead of "-brei".

When i was a child in Canada (1960s) a tin would always refer to solids (a tin of fish). Beverages were always in a can, but "can" could be used for either. Now I think we have completely lost "tin" in everyday speech. In British English would you say a "tin of beer"?

And a Bri'ish tin used to made out of tin. A blik made from blik.

You're not supposed to reveal the secret that Flemish is a Dutch dialect. It could cause Belgium to slide into the sea.

@@DougWinfield Lmao, funny thing is if you listen to Dutch recordings during 1940 it sounds almost exactly like the current Flemish accent. It seems to be like the American vs British accent, where the American accent is the old British accent, while the current British accent evolved from the London accent at that time (with the current Dutch accent being inspired from the accents of both of the Hollands). The Flemish accent just evolved a lot slower.

And hate immigration, let me guess?

@@L-mo no, i want to immigrate to Germany or Nordway

@@L-mo Just for interest: What lead you to that conclusion?

@@NantokaNejako about immigration?

@@contanta5191 yes

The Dutch dialect in the province of Limburg sounds quite German-like :-) maybe that's why. (Otherwise the two languages are very much alike, i think.)

They are the same language just different accents. It’s annoying that he is calling Flemish a language; just as absurd as saying someone is speaking “Austrian” if they are an Austrian speaking Standard German. By the way the “Dutch” guy has a stronger regional accent than the “Flemish” guy who speaks with a very standard Belgian accent in Dutch, such as you would hear on the VRT Flemish (=from Flanders) news programs.

@Gad Headhunter Just like the Flemish guy was speaking standard Dutch with a slight Flemish accent.

*Amerikaner :)