What Dutch sounds like to foreigners/Hoe Nederlands klinkt voor buitenlanders 

saying that dutch or german sounds like a hitler speech is the same as saying that every male american talks like donald trump

How to trigger a dutch person 101: Dutch sounds like German

"dutch is similar to german" *dutch people triggered*

LOL haha, lijkt meer op Zweeds dan Nederlands als ze het nadoen.

"German is harsh. Have you heard Hitler speak? So agressive," Yes, Hitler's speeches were TOTALLY representative for the everage German conversation :P

they sound german when they try to speak dutch

People that try to compare Dutch with German makes me cry. It's a common misconception

Ther imitations all use the 'SH' sound, we hardly ever use that in Dutch.. They do in German..

Dutch doesn't sound like German, and we don't have the "Sh"

Dont compare us with Germans, the are exaclty the other side of us. If English people try to talk Dutch is sounds more like Polish or Swedish.

Het klonk meer op Duits dan op Nederlands!😂

NEDERLANDERS LAAT JE HOOORRREEEEN!!!!!!

"german is harsh have you seen hitler speak" pleeaaaaaseeee

Dat ben ik die Duits probeert te spreken lmao

Oh man, Dutch doesn't sound like German at all. I'm Dutch, and the Dutch language is actually really soft compared with German.

Ik word misselijk hoeveel mensen duits zeggen

Het is best wel irritant dat mensen Nederlands met Duits vergelijken

The key to sounding Dutch is the hard G coming from your throat. The last girl was doing a pretty good job.

lol that sounded nothing like us XD

Do this with people that don't speak English please!

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Probably the biggest insult for the Dutch is when you say it's like German, all those people said it's like German lol. Actually their imitations sounded more German to me then Dutch :p anyway my experience with foreigners is usually that they feel like Dutch people talk really fast, like Spanish people, and that it sounds like weird rattling with a harsh G

I am Dutch. German and Dutch are heavily linked languages (same language family) . Not very strange that most foreigners compare these to languages. German however is "softer" in most of its sounds. I deal a lot with British people. In general they compare Dutch with a "throat disease" which clarifies a lot.

We have very similar vocabulary but DUTCH DOES NOT SOUND LIKE GERMAN AT ALL

if you live in the Netherlands you laugh about this...!!!

ze klinken echt fucking hard duits

As an American who is learning Dutch, the language can sound fairly different depending on what is being said and by who. However to me it sounds like heavily accented English when being spoken clearly and slowly. Conversational Dutch sort of sounds like a more thought out Swedish chef. It sounds most like old English, but that comparison seemed cheap because old English and Dutch are objectively similar. Sometimes it can sound like Spanish or French, but the more I get used to it the more it just sounds like Dutch.

if they are imitating it sounds like Swedish

Dutch people don't like it when you compare them to German. Even though Dutch is part of the Germanic language(indo-european). Ironicly I myself am Kurdish and they always compare us with Turkish people even though our language is more related to Dutch than to Turkish. PS: Ik houd van Nederland

Wauw I'm dutch and this sounds just so funny

I'm dutch and i think german is so hard to learn 😂 i actually don't get why people think dutch sounds like german

I grew up in the Reformed Church In America which the latest name of the Dutch Reformed Church which came here in 1628. after the war we had some immigrants coming in so you heard it spoken at times. What you don't hear anymore is Jersey Dutch, A dialect that developed here mixing Dutch with English, some French from the Huguenots and Leni Lenape Indian. The syntax is English though. It died out two generations ago but can still be heard in the Ramapos in Northern New Jersey and lower New York. It developed the same way as Afrikaans did. Separated from the Fatherland for centuries it picked up all the words from the host country, mixed them in and developed a new pronunciation of the Dutch words. New Yorkers use some of the Dutch pronunciations without realizing it. The word "whore" is not pronounced as "hor" but "hu-er which is Dutch. We don't have front steps in front of the house but a "Stoop" (stoep). The Reformed Church has done everything it can to destroy any link to the Fatherland and especially its language. The idea was to grow by picking up non-Dutch descendants. Instead it drove us out as it became weak in theological and doctrinal beliefs in trying to appeal to the outsiders. Most of us who left the NY/NJ area became Presbyterians, a theological and doctrinal sister although with a different Confession and Catechism. In return we have introduced them to the Canons of the Synod of Dort and the singing of Psalms in addition to their hymns. The people trying to separate us used the saying, "If you're only Dutch you're out touch". We responded with " If you aren't Dutch you aren't much". The RCA is another mainline church that is dying like the rest and eventually will be part of the merger that must take place soon before they're all dead. Then they'll be like the United Church of Canada which despite the merger there is still dying. To hear Dutch still spoken go to Western Michigan in particular Grand Rapids and Holland. The people there speak Dutch and many can still speak Frisian which most are. The names like Eddinga, Palsma are more Frisian than Dutch names with the Patronymics and van something or other. They've only been here since the 19th century whereas families like mine date to the early 1600s.

It's so weird people think we sound German! Haha I know our language is complicated but it doesn't sound like German... I think German sounds more aggressive lol😂😜 sorry German people.

Dutch doesn't really sound like German. Dutch has the hard 'g', German hasn't, that's more shhhh. Like 'school' and 'Schule'.

Gaaaaf leuk om te zien!!!

We are a Dutch production team and we loved this, it cracked us up.

we don't sound like germans?! wtf we even need to learn how to use a german accent at school because we don't use it in our language?!

It wasn't a newsreader Hahah it was our kings speech

ja hier kan ik dus helemaal niks uit halen 2:10

GENIAAL😂😂😂 ik ga stuk hiero😂😂😂

I'm Dutch and couldn't understand a thing. Their attempts sounded somewhat German even! :p

From a Dutch persons point of view, it sounded like they were talking Swedish xD

Awesome video. I love it! It is always so funny to hear what foreigners think about the Dutch language! Keep up the good work!

Dit is zo grappig :D Ik heb respect voor mensen die het tenminste proberen. Lachte me helemaal kapot :D

Im Dutch and I don't know why people are getting so triggered by people saying it sounds like German

The Indian dude is crazy annoying. Fuckin kneus. -_-

Very cool to hear what your language sounds like to other people! I really enjoyed the video :)

dit is echt geniaal!!

Finally... people from other countries think VERY often that German is the same as Dutch. My boyfriend in LA even wanted to buy a Dutch lesson book, and the owner of the shop sold him a German lesson book. So my bf said, that is not Dutch, but German, but he said it WAS Dutch. So I am happy to hear that the girl in the beginning said 'I know how German sound like' basically saying the knows it are 2 diffrent languages.

Like if u dutch #nederlandthebest

this is great :D - dit is geweldig :D

prachtig, te leuk voor woorden

All joking aside: go back and ask the people in this video how they feel about the fact that they don't even know what Dutch sounds like, while most Dutch people speak English. And many speak German. And a slightly smaller part of the population also speaks French. Then ask them how they feel about the fact that many Dutch people master the English language better than the average US citizen.

Haha this is so funny! I never would have thought non-Dutchies would hear us like that xD This makes me love my country and it's language even more!

Wow echt geweldig dit

wat een leuke video

Do you know how Hitlers speaks, thats German and harsh, ofc if someone screams it's harsh...bruh

:) That sounds hilarious! They really made it sound like the way I made English sound when I was about five or six years old.

Ha ha very funny! Great vid!

Geweldig

Love my country.

2:12 she started pretty good

Lol ik ga dood. Heerlijk deze videos.

Geen een kwam in de buurt van een gedegen uitspraak van het Nederlands. Wel leuk om terug te horen hoe onze taal overkomt op mensen uit een ander land. Zoiets als de swedish chef ofzo!

i gues it sounds a little bit like german (right in the feels)

I think it's remarkable that they use the 'sh'-sound a LOT when they try to imitate it.. That sound is hardly used in Dutch. It's fun to watch though!

Het is een belangrijke en goude spraak 😉

"it's actually more complicated than I thought."...perhaps because it's a language...

Hahahaha! Nice video. I guess it was more of a newsreader dutch. Its not hard to find dutch videos here. But we have different dialects. In the south they speak much softer. In the north and like in Amsterdam the speak with a harder 'G' sound :). Im a dutch person from the south. But most dutch can do several dialects. Except 'fries' that is from an whole other level. Good video

dit is geweldig

Haha geniaal dit

Wooww I left when that guy started comparing our language with how Hitler's speaks...

omg! I'm Dutch and I'm laughing my ass off, because of those impressions!! No offence, but as a native speaker this is just super funny

de kat krapt de krullen van de trap, het wordt echt heel mooi uitgesproken, love it

Heel schattig

this is exactly what we, the Dutch sound like after a crate of Heineken :-)

As a Canadian living in the Netherlands who has to learn Dutch, I'm fucked.

beste imitaties ooit!

Dit is echt hilarisch

Like als je Nederlands bent

Im from The Netherlands ^.^ :D you guys don't even come close 1:27 you don't even come close.

that was fun to watch very entertaining

ik ga helemaal stuk

1:48 HAHHAHAHAH I CAN'T HOLD MY BREATH LMFAOOOO

Wanneer hun Nederlands proberen te praten klinkt het bijna alsof er een audiotrack achterstevoren afgespeeld wordt 😂 *TRANSLATION* When they try to speak Dutch it sounds more like an audiotrack playing in reverse 😂

Hahaha, geweldig!

Ik ga stuk😂

It's so funny how much people think German sound exactly the same as Dutch. While our language came from them (with some other languages bound to it). it's actually totally not German. Otherwise I would speak fluently German xD Why is it so that for English Dutch is so hard, while most of them, if they believe German is the same, speak way better German then Dutch? From Holland myself (Do know, Holland is only South and North Holland of the Netherlands, not the other 10 provinces).

If Dutch sounds like German,then why don't most Germans understand Dutch?

The voice on the audio sound the voice of King of Nederland Willem Alexander, nederland taal is echt mooi.

Props to the guy at 1:42. You can see how clearly uncomfortable he was speaking gibberish, but he did it anyway and actually properly tried to imitate the sounds he heard

that moment when you have lived your whole life in the netherland's, and hearing the german's speak and it sounds completly different from our language, and now i find out were actually germans too ... as a dutcher i find it one of the most expanded and complex language out there if you would understand it you would hear all them words we have .-.

Hitler's way of speech was harsh because he was Hitler; not because he was German. ;)

ik ga stuk😂

hahahaha this is so funny/dit is zo grappig :D

Damned Americans! we do not sound German! We share alot of our vocabulary, but we dont sound like it!

They're all like: "Nib, schnib, mib sep, behaheaghe"

ik ga stuk😂😂😂😂

Funny video! Its actually very hard for foreigners

HAHAHAHHA het klinkt als Chinees ofzo als ze het uitspreken😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂