What West Flemish sounds like/Flemish vs Dutch 

West flemisch is totaly different, even the rest of belgium hardly understand us...

it's confirmed, German is just dutch spoken by English people

West flemish always makes me smile. My dad's West Flemish, my mom's from Limburg and I'm from Antwerp!

Tbh The flemish spoken in frozen, is the standard flemish that basically no ones speaks except for maybe educators (for some reason kid shows have been getting that more compared to 10 years ago, it annoys me, it sounds unnatural) . You can hear the difference much more between Simba and Timone&Pumba in the Dutch version of the Lion King, Timone and Pumba speak flemish one would actually speak in daily life.

I'm from West-Flanders, so I understand what is being said in the 'Gerrit Callewaert' sketch (but most Flemish people out of West-Flanders don't, and that's what this sketch is about, that West-Flemish people always get subtitled on tv, and Gerrit Callewaert (played by Wim Opbrouck) is protesting against that fact, in these videos).. :P It's from a really good satiric show 'In de Gloria' (In the Gloria). One sketch (the Eric Hartman Boomerang host that laughs at his guests) got even famous in Amercia, when people over there thought it was real! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lUado9iEwLA.html

Gerrit Callewaert is the most hilarious example you could've chosen, amazing!

Love this, I am West Flemish :p

what the.... NO ONE would ever prefer standart dutch, like ever, because it sounds so forced and fake it's like the person talking that way is being sarcastic or laughing in your face

Flemish and Dutch came from the Franks(West-Germanic tribe that went to Flanders for the rich farming lands). Flemish is a very very old language. General Flemish and Dutch(Neder Frankish) are very related to old English, more then old Gothic. Angels, Saxons and Franks were Germanic family languages. The first Belgians were Celtic people and spoke Belgian Celtic languages. Their DNA is mixed now with the DNA of the Franks and Danish vikings on the sea coast. Many flemings married Brittisch soldiers during WOI.

Dutch is increasingly weird to Flemish people, Dutch people keep making their accent heavier and heavier, while Flemish has remained completely soft in tone. There is no gurgling in Flemish, while Dutch is full of it. And since the G is so common, this difference is really apparent. BTW, don't say to Flemish people that the language is "Dutch spoken in Belgium". Flemish is considered it's own language, you'll offend people if you say it is "Belgian Dutch".

The standard Dutch is not Netherlands Dutch. Standard Dutch, or AN, is taught in both countries and generally better adhered to in Flanders. Check it out on Wikipedia.

My ex bf came from the west of flanders, and spoke 'west flemish' ... I came from the east, our borders collide with each other. But our dialects are so different. So different even, the dialect spoken in my exes region is more prominent compared to the official dutch language, even teachers speak dialect to their students. It took me 4 years to understand him in his dialect (apparantly he had the most difficult one), and after 9 I still couldn't understand lots of parts ... west flemish has different dialects as well, each city has it's own dialect basicly and specific words, and some words don't even contain one similar letter to the orignal Dutch word. I can understand more west flemish dialects, but my ex bfs the least XD.

YOU: Flemish:"ge/gij", Dutch: "je/jij" YOUR: Flemish:"uw", Dutch:"jouw" YOU ARE: Flemish: "gij zijt", Dutch: "jij bent"

Flemish is not a dialact, it is our language, we call it like that to make a difference between the dutch from netherland and the dutch from belgium. It sounds completely different. Belgiums have a softer tone

Other flemish people hardly understand West-flemish :P

West Flemish isn't standard flemish either , I don''t like how that one is used as the best example for flemish ? Even we flemish speakers don't understand what they're talking about and most of the time they'll have subtitles for that exact reason :l it's not representative for our language :l

"Ek vèn mezèlf bès wèl hue teh festoan"

im flemish and i didn't understand the west-flanders accent its so different😂

im learning dutch because i need to so i could study here in belgium. it's so hard to learn.

I know many of you hate the Disney Dub, but I had to use it for fairness. Disney movies are available in both Flemish and Dutch. Therefore they would be spoken with almost the same words in almost the same voice and tone. This way people can focus on the sound of the language without other factors that may cloud their judgement.

hahahahah thanks for the entertainment ! bedankt voor het vermaak! greets from belgium (flanders, where the poppies grow)

Looks like nobody mentions how we in Flanders and the people in Netherlands are like people from Britain and America (even though this is a bigger group of accents and dialect But I'm talking about the average English and American accent). That's the best way to explain it. American English had a lot of influences because of a lot of people migrating to America back in the day. Flemish has a lot of French influences due to us being part of the French kingdom for a very long time. This was especially a problem after the French Revolution during the Congress of Vienna. King Willem wanted Flanders because it was originally part of the Dutch kingdom. But we Flemings didn't like Willem very much. And soon after in 1829-1830 we became one country along with a French region (Wallonia) and became Belgium. The French influences are very clear when you look at my dialect (Aalsters, or how we say it "Oilsjters"). Here's a song about my dialect you'd maybe like to see: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7JH1jVyVnQM.html Maybe it'd be interesting for you guys of Heritage Inmoshun to do something about Aalsters. Maybe.

I'm from Antwerp and i DONT understand it

I love this video but it kinda bugs me that everyone thinks dutch is from the netherlands and that flemish is just a dialect, because there are different dialects in flemish too depending on the area that it’s spoken in .... It’s really offending to me when people say that flemish is a dialect form of dutch spoken in belgium. It’s as different as dutch and german are, they’re totally different languages in my opinion (it’s just really offending, stop it...) I’m from antwerp btw so I speak a dialect we call “antwaarps” and I mostly can’t understand west-flemish, it’s totally different .... Toch bedankt voor het entertainment!

I too, speak Belgianese

He shows them West vloams haha :p

I am west flemish, but yet nobody in the country understands us lmao

Dear uploader, i do like your video, i'm just sorry for all the offended and chauvinistic people in the comment section. don't take them serious, the main problem is that both nations both aren't confortable with the other's accents. unfortunatly, this leads to some formes of slight hate against eachother. If any belgians or dutch people are reading this. Please stop giving a sh*t, it's JUST a language, none of the accents is better than the other. There are much more things to worry about in our lifes than if our flemish is considered a "language" or "dutch with an accent", or which accent is "the best". All this patriotism leads to nothing more than discrimination and hate against eachother, so there's no need to defend anyting. sincerely. a half belgian/half dutch guy.

da West-Vloams is kei grappig

As an Afrikaans speaking South African, I can understand we'll enought :)

West flemish is the hardest dialect to understand. I'm from 'limburg' in the very east of the country and our dialect is more understandable but sounds a lot more like german. I'd say dialects more close to standard flemish would be the ones between these two regions. Many people in our country make jokes about those 2 regions 'cuz of their dialect and accents.

Wait, at 1:34, did that guy really think it was Belgium. That doesn't even exist. Belgium has 3 languages. Dutch in the North. French in the South and German to to east.

''Dutch seems to have higher tones'' she says... It 's a fucking disney song!!! lol :D

Gerrit Callewaert wereldberoemd

West Flemish is ideal if you want to communicate with flemish people when you don't want the dutch people to understand you (french mostly works as well :P) the most known example of west flemish: watch?v=yjUiY0fGY1Y

I love the thing they let us hear, its where the guy complains about west flemish people always having subtitles when they come on television and other people in belgium dont get subtitles. Its so funny! I'm dying laughing

ahahahahaah helairious as a west-flemish person ahahah

Flemish is NOT a Dutch dialect, sorry... Dutch is the main language in Holland, Flemish the main language in Flanders, Belgium. West Flemish, however, is a Flemish dialect. Got it?

the west flemish you use in the beginning of your clip (with the guy speaking) is actually a dialect which is only spoken at the coastal area in flanders (West-Vlaanderen). Lots of other flemish people don't even understand the West-Vlaams; especially not people that live in the Limburg province; they have a slower articulation and go up and down all the time; we actually say "they're singing instead of talking" I live in Antwerp; the biggest city of Flanders (most central city too, and second city of the country); the whole flemish population understands our dialect because it's so popularized on tv; it's the only dialect that's almost never subtitled.

They say were like french but when they try to speak they sound more like German. XD

Problem was that West Flemish is not what you hear in the Disney movies. You hear standard Flemish. Wear Flemish people are subtitled in Belgium and most definitely in the Netherlands. Afterwards, you should have also showed German. It's much softer that the way people stereotype it. All because of Hitler, who used shouting and a rougher manner of speech to cover up for his own linguistic complex

this is flemish :)

Yes americans ... even are own flemish people don't understand us when we speak in West flemish dialect 😂

IK denk dat het Gerrit Callewaert van Bavikhove is?

lol i'm from harelbeke :')

2:01 I don't want to be rude, but yeah, I can see you're not afraid of offending the Dutch. We're liberal, you're wearing that poor excuse for a T-shirt.

hearing the Gerrit Callewaert clip being played is just too funny

You show the ugliest of Flemisch to foreigners :( now they think we all talk like that..

lol I am from the East Flanders... and I don't understand a word of West Flemish

haha the poor non-West-Flemish people can't understand us the fools

i don't even fucking know what they're saying and i'm belgian

Da moe ier nu nekjir gedoan zin met oes te ondertieteln, me zin wider vrjee goe te verstoan

Wukke zèver is da iere!

There's alot of distinct Flemish dialects. I have difficulty understanding coworkers who live only 50 miles away from me. As soon as they start talking amongst eachother.

The girl at 2:08 and not her alone it's like Jiddish or even Hebrew

Wtf is Flanders? You do not translate a name^^ we don't say nieuw york of verloren engelen(ik weet het ik maak gewoon een punt!!), that's just not how it works. The name is Vlaanderen. And i have 1 simple fact why Vlaams (flemish) schould be considered better than Nederlands(dutch), simply every Vlaming(someone living in Vlaanderen) can speak and understand Nederlands but Nederlanders(people living in nederland) can't speak nor understand Vlaams therefore Vlaams is the superior language both in a normal as in a strategic point of view, we own them in their own game, I rest my case^^

Flemish speaking Belgian from Antwerp here. I have to concentrate REALLLLY hard to keep up with West Flemish, and I still don't understand everything when they speak fast. I love it though, it's really fun tot try and do the accent.

that shit is not flemish its like its own languwitsh or something

That video you’re playing, it’s from that guy who asks to not subtitle him and that everyone can understand him. There are like 3 video’s of it. 😂

Fact: flemisch people hate it when someone doesnt speak portly in the netherlands 75% doesnt speak portly AN N we can beter speak AN then the ducht take that! ( AN = general ducht )

It is not a language. It is sounds. Weuk.

Is that gerrit calleweart uit bavikhove deelgemeente van harelbeke?

ey gastn ka kik nekje klapn int Westvlams e! Wel knsape kik da wok nie we waarom daze ondertitelinge zettn onder ons? awe klappn ip den tv! that was West Flemish ;D

Gerrit Callewaert! Haha zalig! :D

People who want to learn dutch, and are afraid because this sounds so much different than standard dutch or other dialects: No worries, the rest of us also need subtitles to understand these guys ;)

I learned Dutch as a child and it is Dutch.

I never understand a word of Limburgs haha like tdso when they did regi haha

Kiek e .... da is nu ki echt smietn zi. Kliggen der plat van 😂

All Dutch dialects of Flanders do cross the border with The Netherlands. The West Vlaams dialect is a continuum with Zeeuws (spoken in Zeeland, NL), as well as the Brabant and the Limburg dialect in Belgium and the Netherlands. I guess maybe Brussels Dutch, spoken originally by a majority of the people in Brussels, has a very distinct own sound that doesn’t have a counterpart in the Netherlands. In the North of the Netherlands there are more dialects that do not exist in Belgium, like the “Nedersaksisch” (Nether Saxon) dialect spoken in the North East of the Netherlands.

West-Flemings are softer, more gentle then in Holland but absurd(this was funny). I am a Fleming of Vlaams-Brabant, we speak the most general Flemish when we don't speak dialect. Limburg is also very gentle and soft(they sing more). Vlaams-Brabant is Bourgondic, Antwerps is more like the Americans.

If you want to see me do any other dialects(and/or languages) in my future videos, please leave me a link to the video you would like me to use as the sample and tell me the name of the dialect. Thank you!

The secn on was from Nederland

WEST flemish, that's very important. Normal flemish people don't understand a thing they say :p And we're from the same country :p

hey bro, do you even speak dutch ?? west-flemish (west-vlaams) is nothing like flemish... i'm flemish by the way so i know ;)

its noth in the north it is in the west

Woar zien die west vlomingen

hahaha awsome I'm from 'west vlaanderen', but I want to say.. Dutch and Flamisch are not completely different languages! It's almost exactly the same, just some pronunciation differences.. and West Flamisch is a dialect

Nobody understands west flemish but the west flemish. The frozen peace was like more AN with a flemish prononciation almost tussentaal-ish

its not german mate!

I'm curious as to how English speakers perceive Afrikaans in relation to Dutch, but the Dutch dialects are truly fascinating.

Do East-Flemish... its even better then Dutch it self xD its more gentle and grammatical correct

even we, everyone other than people from the province eastern flanders, laugh with it because we can't understand

oh, please please please do not make West Flemish represent all of Flanders. The rest of Flanders doesn't even understand West-Flemish.

man if you compare all the dialects they all sounds soooo different. like i am from Aalst which has its own dialect and no one can hardly understand us. but also Ghent, Antwerp have their own dialects too

i am dutch but i understand most dialects/accents... exept Frisian Dammit!! XD Its so different

As a guy from Antwerp, I can't understand west flemish either..

Ik ik spreek Nederlands het is easy

WTF???

Da hek nie gere.

wie hier is van belgie?

That one girl did pronounce Harelbeke in a way I could understand it.

that's more like it and thanks for the video now we don't sound like people from Russia

The frozen flemish version of anna singing is a really great singer and great teaher (singing teacher) and an amazing person to be around

Ge hebt geen geheugen.

Elk zenne gndag.

There is not a standard flemish, every region has its own dialect.

Is Da eihn kweek

i speak west flemisch. and it's really funny to see people react to the language XD

Neutral Flemish of today is Brabantian

Where did you take the video?